गुप्त अभिलेख संग्रह (जे. एफ. फ्लीट - गुप्त सम्राटों एवं परवर्ती नरेशों के ऐतिहासिक पाषाण व ताम्रलेख)

126 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
utpadyamânaka, line 18 f., the affix ka, which I have commented on at page 69 above.—
In respect of orthography, we have to notice (1) the use of the upadhmânîya, in
saḥ=pañchabhir, line 21; (2) the use of the dental nasal, instead of the anusvâra, before ś,
in kârâns-cha, line 8; ansa, in various forms, in lines 10 to 12; and vansa, line 18; (3) the
constant doubling of k and t, in conjunction with a following r, e.g. in anukkrama, line 13;
kkrama, line 14; puttra, line 1; sattra, line 16; and kshattriya, line 31; (4) the doub-
ling of g, under the same circumstances, in viggrahika, line 31; (5) the doubling of dh, in
conjunction with a following y, in anuddhyâta, lines 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6; (6) the occasional
use of b for v, in bâ (for vâ), line 8; bâ (for vâ) line 23; and sambatsara, line 29; and (7)
the use of v for b, in vali, line 16; and valâdhikṛita, line 31.
The first plate of this grant is a quasi-palimpsest. On the outer side of it there
are traces of sixteen lines of writing, containing an inscription of the same Mahârâja
Śarvanâtha, in the same characters as those of the extant inscription. They have been so
carefully beaten in that no impression of them is possible; and only detached words can
be read here and there. But I could distinguish the names of Râmadêvî, in line 4;
Ajjhitadêvî, in line 5; Jayanâtha, in line 6; and Śarvanâtha in line 7. And this inscription
seems to have been cancelled because of the omission of the words Tamasâ-nadyâ uttara-
pârê, between mahârâja-Śarvanâthaḥ kuśalî and brâhmaṇ-âdîn=kuṭumbinaḥ, in line 7.
The extant inscription is one of the Mahârâja Śarvanâtha; and the charter
recorded in it is issued from the city or hill called Uchchakalpa. The date of the
writing of the charter is given, in words, as the year one hundred and ninety-three
(A. D. 512-13), and the tenth day, without any specification of the fortnight, of the month
Chaitra (March-April). It is partly Vaishṇava, and partly of solar worship; the object
of it being to record the grant, by the Mahârâja Śarvanâtha, of the village of Âśramaka
on the north bank of the river Tamasâ, on the agreement between him and the grantees
that it was to be applied to, amongst other things, the purposes of a shrine of Vishṇu under
the title of Bhagavat or the Divine One, and of a shrine of a god the name of which, as
written, must be a mistake for Âditya, the Sun.
I have not been able to identify the village of Âśramaka. But the river Tamasâ
is, of course, the modern 'Tamas' and 'Tons' of maps, &c., which rises in the Mahiyar
State, on the south of Nâgaudh, and, running through the north part of Rewah
(properly Rîwâṁ, or sometimes Rîmâṁ) flows into the Ganges about eighteen miles to the
south-east of Allahâbâd. And the mention of it, under circumstances which shew that
Śarvanâtha had territorial ownership over at any rate a certain village on its northern
bank, is of importance, as giving evidence that the Mahârâjas of Uchchakalpa did belong
to the part of the country in which their grants are found. The only other definite proof
of this is, as noted above, page 111, the existence of the inscription mentioning both
Hastin and Śarvanâtha on the stone-pillar at Bhumarâ.
**TEXT.**¹
First Plate.
1 Ôm Svasty=Uchchakalpât(n)=mahârâj-Aughadêvas-tasya puttras=tat-pâd-
ânuddhyâtô mahâdêvyâ[m*]
¹ From the original plates.