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SEPTEMBER, 1889.]
BAGUMRA GRANT OF NIKUMBHALLASAKTI.
Nikumbhallaśakti, indicate their being vassals of some great power. It may further be urged that the possessions of the last chief lay exactly in those districts which we know to have been included in the Chalukya possessions. A connection of these three personages with the Southern Sendrakas of Harivarman's and Vikramaditya's inscriptions is, I think, indicated by the not very common termination sakti, which occurs in both sets of names. If this conjecture is to stand, it is, of course, necessary to refer the year 406, in which our grant is dated, to the Chêdi era, and to take it as equivalent to A.D. 654-5. The characters of the inscription too may be adduced in support of this view. They cannot, I believe, be assumed to belong to an earlier period. The specification of the date, "the full-moon-day of the month of Bhadrapada," without any such details as the week-day, does not permit us to test its exact equivalent by calculation.
In conclusion, I will add that, when I sent my German paper on this inscription to the late Dr. Bhagwânlal, he informed me that he possessed several sets of Sendraka plates from southern Gujarat. It is advisable that they should be looked for and published. They will probably bring us certainty regarding the points which at present are merely conjectures.
TEXT.
First Plate.
1 O[*]
Prathama-dik-sarasi-pri(pri)thu-pamkajam gagana-vâridhi-vidruma-pallava m [*] tridasa-raktalo-japâ-kusumam navam
2 disatu vo vijayam ravi-mamdalam II Svasti
Mêra-mahidhara-vijara-sthira
rachita-samunnatê vikasi
naika-chinn(tu)rddanta-gaja-għat
3 ta-mahati-yasasi11 Sêmdraka-rajñam-anvayê
4 bdha-vijayo vijit-âśêsha-ripu-gaṇaḥ
5 sha-samanta-siro-muku[ta]-nighṛishta-pada-pamkajah
dama-day-din-da
6 kshinya-sri-sampad-upêtô narapatiḥ śrimad-Bhanusaktiḥ tasya putras-tat-pâdânudhyâtô (tah) sarad-ama
oha-samada-sanghaṭṭa-la
pranat-âsê
jala18-jaladhara
y[*] para-20
12 parama-gabhîrô
7 la-saśâmka-mamdal-âmala-yasasaḥ13
cha kalpa-lu(dru)
8 mam=iv15-abhivâmchbit-âśêshajan-ôpabhujyamâna-vibhavo
Janârddanam-iv16-ipa
hri(hri)tam-aśêsha17-Bal[i*]
9 rajya[*] para-chakr-ânurakta-lakshmikaḥ
śrîman-[n*]arapatiḥ Adityasaktiḥ
tasya putras-tat-pad-ânudhyâta[b*]
10 śrîmân dakshina-gur[u]-bahu-damdaḥ (da)-pri(pri)thivi-pâlana-kshamô vyapagata-sajala.
11 patala-dbya(vyo)ma-tala-gata-sarad-inda-kirana-dhavalatama-yaso-visânala1-vitûnô
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âśêsha-sam
ava-bhuja-bala-vikkram-âkrânta12-mahi-mamḍalaḥ
15 Read kalpa-druma iv°.
18 Dele this word.
21 Read guru.
naya-vinaya-satya-sauch-âchâra
savitiram-iv-dayavantaṁanurakta-math(Jalah(6)
Bhava-sunur-iva pra
13 tihat-ârâtih Sattir-iv-opâtta-rajyaḥ
samada-dvirada-vara-salila-gatir-Arjuna
14 grâma-vijayi anavarata-vikkram-a(o)tsûha-sakta-shapanaḥ22 Kama iva samâna-yuvati
ja(ja)na
s Expressed by the Valabhi symbol for 9.
Metro, Drutavilambita.
11 If the text stands thus, then read maha-yasasi; but the syllables mahati-yasa are doubtful.
12 Possibly ékkranta.
13 Read yasi.
16 Read janirddana iv3. 19 Dele this word.
22 Read satru-mardanah.
di(de)va-dvijât[i]-taval-jana-b[*]mdhav-(0) pabhujyamâna-vibhavô
10 rakta is doubtful.
dhi
14 Read savit-v-dayavan. 17 Read opakrit-ajêsha. 20 Dele these two syllables.
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