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

THE GUPTA INSCRIPTIONS; No. 56, PLATE XXXV. 243
Kaśyapa (gôtra); Mahēśvarârya, (and) Mātṛârya. Rudrârya, of the Kauṇḍinya (gôtra);
(and) Sômârya, (and) Hariśarmârya. Kumāraśarmârya, of the Bhāradvāja (gôtra).
Mātṛiśarman, of the Kauṇḍinya (gôtra); (and) Varaśarman, Gōṇḍaśarman, (and) Nāga-
śarman. Śāntiśarman, of the Bhāradvāja (gôtra); (and) Rudraśarman. Bhōjakadēvârya,
of the Vātsya (gôtra); (and) Maghaśarman, (and) Dēvaśarman. Mōkshaśarman, of the
Bhāradvāja (gôtra); (and) Nāgaśarman, Rēvatiśarman, (and) Dharmârya. Śarmârya, of
the Bhāradvāja (gôtra); (and) Nandanârya, Mūlaśarman, Īśvaraśarman, (and) Varaśar-
man. Skandârya, of the Vātsya (gôtra). Bappârya, of the Bhāradvāja (gôtra); (and)
Dharmârya. Skandârya, of the Âtrêya (gôtra). Sômaśarmârya, of the Gautama (gôtra);
(and) Bhartṛiśarman, Rudraśarmârya, Maghârya, Mātṛiśarmârya, (and) Īśvaraśarmârya.
Mātṛiśarmârya, of the Gautama gôtra. Dēvaśarmârya, of the Kauṇḍinya (gôtra);
(and) Varaśarmârya, (and) Rōhârya. Svāmidēvârya, of the Gautama gôtra; (and)
Rēvatiśarmârya, (and) Jyēshṭhaśarmârya. Kumāraśarmârya, of the Śāṇḍilya (gôtra);
(and) Svātiśarmârya. (And) Kaṇḍârya, of the Śāṭyāyana (gôtra); and so forth.
(L. 59.)—(This) charter has been written, while Chitravarman is the Sênâpati, in
the eighteenth year, (or in figures) 10 (and) 8, on the thirteenth lunar day of the bright
fortnight of the month Jyēshṭha.

No. 56; PLATE XXXV.
SIWANI COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF THE
MAHARAJA PRAVARASENA II.

THIS inscription was first brought to notice in 1836, in the Jour. Beng. As. Soc.
Vol. V. p. 726 ff., where, the original plates having been forwarded by Mr. D. M.
McLeod, Mr. James Prinsep published his reading of the text, and a translation of it,
accompanied by a lithograph (id. Plate xxxiii. Nos. 1 and 2).
The inscription is on some copper-plates which were obtained by me for examin-
ation from the possession of a Zamîndâr or land-holder named Hazari Gond Malguzar,
living at the village of Piṇḍarāî, in the Siwanî Tahsîl or Sub-Division of the Siwanî-
Chhapārā District¹ in the Central Provinces. I have no information as to where the
plates were originally found; and, as they have always been known as the Siwanî grant,
it seems desirable to continue that name; though, of course, in the absence of any local
identification of the places mentioned in the inscription, this name indicates only in a
general way the part of the country to which the grant belongs.
The plates, of which the first and last are inscribed on one side only, are five in
number, each measuring about 8⅛" by 4⅜" at the ends and somewhat less in the middle.
They are quite smooth, the edges of them having been neither fashioned thicker, nor
raised into rims. The inscription is in a state of perfect preservation throughout. The
plates are rather thin, and the letters shew through on the reverse sides, so clearly that
many of them can be read there; in a very exceptional manner, this is noticeable even
on the intermediate plates; though, of course, not to such an extent as to make the
letters of one side of a plate legible on the other in the lithograph. The engraving is very

¹ The chief town is Siwanî; the ‘Seoni and Seonee’ of maps, &c. Indian Atlas, Sheet No. 79.
Lat. 22° 5′ N.; Long. 79° 35′ E.
2 H 2.