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

218 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
...... Râjaputras,¹ Râjâmâtyas, ............ Mahâdaṇḍanâyakas, Mahâpratîhâras,²
................................... Kumârâmâtyas, Râjasthânîyas, Uparikas,
................ Chaurôddharaṇikas,³ Dâṇḍikas,⁴ Daṇḍapâśikas, ............
.... of the village of Vâruṇikâ, which lies in the .. ............................
............ in the Nagara bhukti,⁵ (and) .. ............ belonging to the
Vâlavî vishaya, (and) to................... the village of Kiśôravâṭaka (?), which
was laid out by ....................,
and to those who subsist on the favour of Our feet, and to the neighbours, headed by the
Brâhmaṇs, (and) to the Mahattaras, ............................................
(L. 12.)—By the Bhôjaka⁶ Sûryamitra, belonging to (the establishment of) the divine
(god) the holy and sacred Varuṇavâsin, who was requested................... the
above-mentioned [village] .................... together with ...............and the
village, &c., was formerly bestowed by the Paramêśvara, the glorious Bâlâdityadêva, by
(his) own charter, ................ the divine (god) the holy and sacred Varuṇavâsin,
............ by restoration to the Bhôjaka Haṁsamitra, and by those who presided at
different times, viz. the Paramêśvara, the glorious Śarvavarman ..................
[to] the Bhôjaka Ṛishimitra......... by the Paramêśvara Avantivarman. In accord-
ance with this practice⁷ ................................. assent to its enjoyment by the
Bhôjaka Durdharamitra was giaen, by the grant of a charter, by the Mahârâjâdhirâja and
Paramêśvara.................; and it is now enjoyed by him.
(L. 17.)—“Therefore I [now announce] that it is assented to ....................
......; such is (my) command to all people. ................................
...... the altar of (the god) Varuṇavâsin; after that, there is given .................
............................. with the udraṅga and the uparikara, with (the proceeds of
fines for) the ten offences, the five.......................................
¹ Râjaputra means literally ‘a king’s son, a prince;’ but, as used in such passages as the pre-
sent, it evidently has some technical official meaning, differing from this. In the modern Prâkṛits we
have, in Marâṭhî, râut or râût, and in Gujarâtî, râwat, in the sense of ‘a horse-soldier, a trooper.’
And these words would seem to be derived from râjaputra, and so to indicate its technical meaning;
rather than, as given by Molesworth and Candy in their Marâṭhî Dictionary, from râva-dûta, ‘a
king’s messenger.’
² Mahâpratîhâra, lit. ‘a great door-keeper,’ was the technical title of the officer next in grade
above the Pratîhâras (see page 190 above, note 1).
³ Chaurôddharaṇika, lit. ‘one who is entrusted with the extermination of thieves,’ is evidently
the technical title of a certain class of police officers.
⁴ Dâṇḍika, lit. ‘a chastiser, a punisher,’ may denote either a judicial functionary, from daṇḍa in
the sense of ‘a fine;’ or a police officer, from the same word in the sense of ‘a rod (of punishment).’
⁵ bhukti, lit. ‘enjoyment,’ is a technical territorial term.—From the arrangement of the text
here, as also from the mention of “the village of Pânîyaka, in the Śrâvastî bhukti, and belonging to
the Vâlayikâ vishaya which lay in the Śrâvastî maṇḍala,” in the Dighwâ-Dubaulî grant of the Mahâ-
râja Mahêndrapâla (Ind. Ant. Vol. XV. p. 112, line 7 f.), and the mention of “the village of Ṭikkarikâ,
in the Pratishṭhâna bhukti, and attached to the Kâśîpâra pathaka which belonged to the Vârâṇasî
vishaya,” in the Bengal Asiatic Society’s grant of the Mahârâja Vinâyakapâla (id. Vol. XV p. 141,
line 9 f.), the term bhukti seems to have denoted a larger extent of territory than a vishaya.
⁶ Bhôjaka is explained by Monier Williams, in his Saṅskṛit Dictionary, as denoting ‘a class of
priests, or sun-worshippers, supposed to be descended from the Magas by intermarriage with women
of the Bhôja race.’—Childers, in his Pâli Dictionary, gives the same word as meaning ‘a village-head-
man.’
⁷ The construction of the original is Bâlâdityadêvêna ......... pûrva-dattakam=avalambya,
“having relied on (i.e. having adapted himself to) the former grant that was made by Bâlâdityadêva
(and the others mentioned).” I have broken up the construction for convenience of translation.