Indian Epigraphy c12.15

c12.15

The order addressed to the inhabitants of a locality is simpler in passages like the following : (1) *śrī-Skandavarmaṇo vacanena Kudrāhāra-Kompare grāmeyakā vaktavyāḥ*;⁶ (2) °*grāme* sarva-samavetān=kuṭumbinaḥ samājñāpayati;¹ (3) Goṣṭhavāda-nivāsinaḥ kuṭumbinaḥ samājñāpayati;² (4) Sunikāyāṁ prativāsinaḥ samājñāpayati;³ (5) Prastaravāṭa-vāsinaḥ sarva-samavetān=kuṭumbinaḥ samājñāpayati;⁴ (6) Reyūru-grāme grāmeyakān=ittham=ājñāpayati;⁵ (7) Pherava-grāme yathā-nivāsi-janapadaṁ samājñāpayati;⁶ (8) Āndoreppa-grāme sarva-samanvāgatān=kuṭumbinas=samājñāpayati;⁷ (9) Pratiṣṭhāpura-nivāsinaḥ sarva-samupetān=kuṭumbinaḥ samājñāpayati;⁸ etc. But slight elaboration is noticed in such passages as follows : (1) Brāhmaṇa-purogān=grāmān=carīr-ādi-kuśalaṁ pṛṣṭvā likhati;⁹ (2) Kontinīka-grāme Brāhmaṇān=sampūjya prativāsinaḥ samājñāpayati;¹⁰ (3) Keśavake Brāhmaṇa-purassarān=prativāsi-kuṭumbinas=samājñāpayati;¹¹ (4) uktavāṁś=ca rājā tad-grāma-nivāsino mahattama-jānapadān;¹² (5) Keselaka-grāme Brāhmaṇa-ottarān=kuṭumbinaś=śīrṣakañ=c=ājñāpayati;¹³ (6) sarva-samavetān=kuṭumbino bhojakāṁś=ca samājñāpayati;¹⁴ (7) Gudravāra-viṣaya-nivāsino rāṣṭrakūṭa-pramukhān=kuṭumbinas=samāhūy=ettham=ājñāpayati;¹⁵ (8) viṣaye Vardhamānake grāmakūṭa-droṇāgraka-nāyaka-devavārika-gaṇḍaka-pramukhān=sarvān=eva yathā-prativāsinaḥ samājñāpayati;¹⁶ (9) Mehāra-grāma-nivāsi-yathā-pradhāna-janapadān=mahattarāṁś=ca samādiśanti;¹⁷ etc.