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

132 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
(Line 5.)—His son, who meditates on his feet, the Mahârâja Śarvanâtha,—begotten
on the Mahâdêvî **Muruṇḍasvâminî,*¹—being in good health, issues a command to the
cultivators, beginning with the Brâhmaṇs, and to the artisans, in half of (the village of)
Dhavashaṇḍikâ in the Vôṭa santika—
(L. 8.)—“Be it known to you that this half village is, by (this) copper-plate charter,
given to Chhôḍugômika, [to be enjoyed] by the succession of him and (his) sons,
sons’ sons, sons of the latter, &c.,—to endure for the same time with the moon and
the sun; with the udraṅga and the uparikara; (with the privilege that it is) not to be
entered by the irregular or the regular troops; with remission of all the taxes; (and) with such
tribute as may accrue. And it is agreed by him (and) by me, that it is granted for the
purpose of the repairs, by the above-mentioned succession (of him and his descendants), of
whatever may become broken or torn, belonging to the divine goddess Pishṭapurikâdêvî,
and for the maintenance of the bali, charu, and sattra.
(L. 13.)—“You yourselves shall render to these persons the offering of the tribute of
the customary royalties, taxes, gold, &c., and shall be obedient to (their) commands.
(L. 15.)—“And those kings who shall be born in Our lineage,—by them this grant
should not be confiscated, (but) should be assented to.”
(The rest of this inscription, on the second plate, is not forthcoming.)

No. 30; PLATE XIX B.

KHOH COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF THE

MAHARAJA SARVANATHA.

THE YEAR 197.

THIS inscription,—which was first brought to notice by General Cunningham, in 1879,
in the Archæol. Surv. Ind. Vol. IX. p. 14, No. 6, where he published a partial translation
of it,² with a lithograph of the passage containing the date (id. Pl. iv. No. 7),—is on
another copper-plate, the only one forthcoming of an original set of two,³ that appears to
have been found somewhere in the valley near the village of **Khôh,**⁴ in the Nâgaudh State
in the Bâghêlkhaṇḍ division of Central India. I obtained the original plate, for examin-

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¹In No. 28 above, line 6, page 127, she is called Muruṇḍadêvî. In No. 31 below, line 6, page
136, the termination of her name is svâminî as here.
² But he wrongly treated it as the continuation of the first plate of the grant of the year 214,
No. 31 below, Plate xx.
³ The grant of the year 214, No. 31 below, Plate xx., furnishes another instance, similar to that
of the grant, the date of which is lost, No. 29 above, page 129, in which the last line of the first
plate is left half blank. And, so far as the context goes, this inscription might be taken as the
continuation of No. 29. But the edges of this plate are rounded off more; the copper is of a totally
different quality, thickness, and weight; and the characters, though of just the same period, differ
very much in details of execution,—notably in the visarga, e.g. in grâhyâḥ, line 2, guptâḥ, line 13,
and dâtavyaḥ, line 14, as contrasted with nâthâḥ in line 6, s[ô*]draṅgaḥ in line 8, and samêtaḥ in
line 10, of No. 29, Plate xixA. And there can, on the whole, be no doubt that in Plate xixA. and B.
we have the first and second plates of two separate grants; not one entire grant.
⁴ See page 93 above, and note 5.