Indian Antiquary Vol 20

Author(s): John Faithfull Fleet, Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JANUARY, 1891.
miles in a north-westerly direction from Chîpurupalle. There can, however, be no doubt that, as was suggested by the Collector of Vizagapatam in his letter to Mr. Foulkes, the name of the vishaya has been preserved in the modern village of Dimile, in the Sarvasiddhi Taluka of the same District, fourteen miles towards the south-west from Chipurupalle. And this identification is of importance; because it shows that, at the date of this grant, the sphere of the sovereignty of Vishnuvardhana I. included, if it did not lie only in, territory considerably to the north-east of the Vengi country, which is always referred to, in the later records, as being specially the locality of the rule of the Eastern Chalukya kings.
From line 14 we learn, that the grant was made on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon in the month Sravana. And at the end of the record there are given, in numerical symbols, the details of "the year 18, the month 4, and the (civil) day 15." The year denotes the regnal year of Vishnuvardhana I. And, coupling these details with those in line 14, the corresponding English date is the 7th July, A. D. 632, corresponding to the fullmoon tithi of Sravana of Saka-Samvat 555 current; on this day there was an eclipse of the moon, visible all over India (see page 4 above). From the later records of this dynasty, we know that Vishnuvardhana I. reigned over the Vengî kingdom for just about eighteen years.
TEXT.3
First Plate.
Srimach-[Ch*]alukya(kya)-kula-jalanidhi-samuditô nṛipati-nisa karah sva
1 Svastiḥ 2 bhrûlata-bhang-[*]namita-r[i]panṛipati-makuta-mani-prabhâ-vichchhurita-charaniravinda3 dvayah Satyasraya-śrivallabha-maharajah [*] Tasya priy-ânujah
sthala-jala
4 vana-giri-vishama-durggêshu labdha siddhitvid-Vishamasiddhiḥ din-ânâtha-dvija
vasu-vṛishţi.
5 pravarshanataya kamadhenuh yuvatishu Madanayamâna-châru-artratvan-Makaradavaja[b]
Second Plate; First Side.
parimagna-Kali-prabhavaḥ aneka-samara-vijaya-samudi[ta].
6 ava-dan-garan()shu
7 vimala-yaso-visêsha-vibhushita-sakala-dinmandalah Mannriva vinays-jab
Prithu
8 riva prithu-ki(ki)rttih Gurar-iva matimân paramabrahmanyah ri(éri)Vishnuvarddhana-mahar[*]jah
9 Dimila-vishayê Kalvakonda-grâm-ádhivasinah kuṭumbinas samavétân-imam-artthand10 jñâpayati yatha [1] Adhi(dhit-Avagata-vida-vêdaigasya Brahmasarm manal
pautrabhyam adhi
Second Plate; Second Side.
11 gata-sva-sakhi-chôdita-sva-karmm-ânushthana-tatparasya
12 damg-tihasa-purana-dharmmasâstr-Ady-anak-agama-fat[t]va-vidbhyam
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14 gramam-adhivasataḥ Sravana-mase chandra-grahana-nimitte sarvva-kara-pariharê 15 -[a]graharikritya sva-pany-ayur-arôgya-yaáô-bhivriddhayê grimo-yam dattah [11] Asya
Da[
patri
bhya[m] vêda-ve
Gamtama(ma).
gôtrabbyâm
Taittirikcharagibhylth Vishpuía[r*]mma-Madhavalarmmabbyish Pa(k)-vishayt Cherupura
From the pablished lithograph.
Read avasti I; the appearance of the visarga is probably only due to a mark of punctuation, imperfectly aleared out.
Read taittirtya; or perhaps taittiriyaka.
Beed adhivasata (mayd); or adhivasadbhik (asmábhik).