Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c12.s4: Plate XXVII

Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c12.s4

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Plate XXVII

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This document was found near Vizagapatam in 1867, and is now (?) in the Government Office at Madras²; it is correct in form according to the law-books.

² For the lunar eclipse mentioned in pl. iii., that which occurred in 622 A. D. (July 28) appears to satisfy all the necessary conditions. See “L’art de vérifier les dates” (8° ed.) second series: vol. i., p. 309. Mr. Burgess suggests that of July 17th 623 as preferable because fully visible, but as this occurred in the evening, it seems, astrologically, inadmissible. (*Cfr.* Hemādri’s Dānakh. pp. 61-2, 79.) The only possible date is *either* 622 *or* 623.

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*Pl.* 1. *line* 1. Svastiḥ çrīm(ān)Calukyākulajalanidhisamudito nṛipatiniçākaraḥ sva-
2. bhrūlatāvajña(ā) namitar(i)punṛipatimakuṭamaṇiprabhāvicchuritacaraṇāravin-
da-
3. dvayaḥ Satyāçrayaçrīvallabhamahārājaḥ; tasya priyānujaḥ sthalajala-
4. vanagirivishamadurggeshu labdhasiddhitvād vishamasiddhiḥ dīnānāthadvija-
vasuvṛishti-
5. pravarshaṇatayā Kāmadhenuḥ yuvatishu madanāyamānacāruçarīrat(v)ān Ma-
karadhvaja(*h*)
2. 1. svadānārṇṇaveshu parimagnakaliprabhāvaḥ anekasamaravijayasamudita-
2. vimalayaçoviçeshavibhūshitasakaladiṅmaṇḍalaḥ Manur iva vinayajñaḥ Pṛithu-
3. r iva pṛithukīrttiḥ Gurur iva matimān Paramabrahmaṇyaḥ çrīVishṇuvarddha-
namahārājaḥ
4. Dimilavishaye Kalvakoṇḍa(?)grāmādhivāsina(*h*) kuṭumbinas samavetān imam
arttham ā-
5. jñāpayati yathā: adhītāvagatavedavedāṅgasya Brahmaçarmmaṇaḥ pautrā-
bhyām adhi-

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1. gatasvaçākhācoditasvakarmmānushṭhānatatparasya Du(r)gaçarmmaṇaḥ putrābhyā(*m*)vedave-
2. dāṅgetihāsapurāṇadharmmaçāstrādyanekāgamatatvadidbhyām Gautam(a)gotrābhyā(*m*)
3. Taittirikacaraṇābhyām¹ VishṇuçarmmaMādhavaçarmmabhyām Pūki(?)vishaye Ceṟupura-
4. grāmam adhivasataḥ Çrāvaṇamāse candragrahaṇanimitte sarvvakaraparihāre-
5. ṇā ’grahārīkṛitya² svapuṇyāyurārogyayaçobhivṛiddhaye, grāmo ’yam dattaḥ; asya

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¹ Should be Taittirīya; it is here correctly called a Caraṇa. Max Müller’s A. Sanskrit Literature, p. 371.

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² *i. e.* the inhabitants were constituted into an agrahāra and the village was then given to the two persons named, who had then a right to the dues formerly paid to the king.

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1. kaiçcid api na bādhā karaṇīyā | atra Vyāsagītau: bahubhir vvasudhā dattā bahu-
2. bhiç cā ’nupālitā; yasya yasya yadā bhūmiḥ tasya tasya tadā phala*m* shashṭivarsha-
3. sahasrāṇi svargge modati bhūmidaḥ āxeptā cā ’numantā ca tāny eva narake
4. vaset. çrīmatīmatsya ? liprasutaḥ svabhujabalapratāpāvanataripu-
5. r ājñaptirada(?)vidurjjayaḥ. *sam* 16; mā 4; di 15³).

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³ The reading of this date is due to Mr. Fleet; Vishṇuvardhana’s reign must, thus, have begun about 606-7 A. D.

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Vyāsagītā — Sanskrit