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[1] Inventory no. EIAD: 159
[2] Raghunath no.:
[3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.:
[4] Tsukamoto no.:
[5] Lüders no.:
[6] Support : 4 copper plates
[7] (Faces:) Lines: 3 to 4 lines per face
[8] H:
[9] W:
[10] D:
[11] H:
[12] W:
[13] Language(s): MIA + Sanskrit (imprecations only)
[14] Original locality: Lying in the office of Head Assistant Collector of Narsapur
[15] Present locality: CGM (acc. to Ayyangar 2000 [1918]: 36)
[16] Primary bibliography: Hultzsch 1907-08
[17] Secondary bibliography: ARIE 1906, G.O. 492: 65-6 (§55), A.33. — DLCPI 1887-1969: no. 863. — Krishnan & Sundaram 1989: 13-15 (no. 8).
[18] Visual documentation: Hultzsch
[19] Substance of inscription: Gift of land to 1 Brahmin
[20] Remarks:
[21] : SA1 Elūra Plates
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<text xml:space="preserve"><body><div type="edition"><ab xml:lang="pra-Latn"><pb n="1b"/><fw place="marginleft"><g type="dextrorotatory-spiral"/></fw><lb n="1"/>sirīvijayaveṅgīpurā <space quantity="1" unit="character"/>bhagavato <lb n="2"/><space type="binding-hole"/>cittarathasāmipādānu<lb n="3" break="no"/>jjhātassa <space quantity="1" unit="character"/>bappabhaṭṭārakapādabhattassa <pb n="2a"/><fw place="marginleft"><num value="2">2</num></fw><lb n="4"/>paramamāhessarassa <space quantity="1" unit="character"/>sālaṅkāyanassa <lb n="5"/><space type="binding-hole"/>°assamedhayājino <lb n="6"/>mahārājasirīvijayadevavammassa <pb n="2b"/><fw place="marginleft"><num value="3">3</num></fw><lb n="7"/>vayaṇena <space quantity="1" unit="character"/>°elūre mududapamu<unclear>kho</unclear> <lb n="8"/><space type="binding-hole"/>gāmo bhāṇitavvo <space quantity="1" unit="character"/>°etassa <lb n="9"/>babhurasagottassa <space quantity="1" unit="character"/>gaṇasammassa <pb n="3a"/><fw place="marginleft"><num value="4">4</num></fw><lb n="10"/>sundarapadesamhi <space quantity="1" unit="character"/>bhūminiyattaṇān<unclear>i</unclear> <lb n="11"/><space type="binding-hole"/>vīsaṁ <num value="20">20</num>gharaṭṭhānaṁ <space quantity="1" unit="character"/>°addhiyamanussāṇaṁ <lb n="12"/>duvaggāṇa ya gharaṭṭhānaṁ <space quantity="1" unit="character"/>parihārarakkhaṇaṁ <pb n="3b"/><fw place="marginleft"><num value="5">5</num></fw><lb n="13"/>samāṇattaṁ <space quantity="1" unit="character"/>°evaṁ savvaparihārehi parihari<lb n="14" break="no"/><space type="binding-hole"/>tavvo ya <space quantity="1" unit="character"/>vijayasaṁvvaccharāṇi <lb n="15"/>terasa <num value="10">10</num><num value="3">3</num><space quantity="1" unit="character"/>pauṣakālapakkhadasamī<unclear>ya</unclear> </ab><lg met="Anuṣṭubh" n="1"><l n="a"><pb n="4a"/><fw place="marginleft"><num value="6">6</num></fw><lb n="16"/>ṣaṣṭiṁ varṣasahasrāṇi <space quantity="1" unit="character"/></l><l n="b">svargge krīḍati bhūmidaḥ </l><l n="c"><lb n="17"/><space type="binding-hole"/>°ācchettā cānumantā ca <space quantity="1" unit="character"/></l><l n="d">tāny eva narak<unclear>e</unclear> vaset· </l></lg><lg met="Anuṣṭubh" n="2"><l n="a"><lb n="18"/>bahubhir vasudhā dattā <space quantity="1" unit="character"/></l><l n="b">bahubhiś cānupālitā </l><l n="c"><lb n="19"/>yasya yasya yadā bhūmiḥ </l><l n="d">tasya tasya tadā phala<unclear>m·</unclear> </l></lg></div><div type="apparatus"><listApp><app loc="1b, LM"><lem><g type="dextrorotatory-spiral"/></lem><note>This symbol represents <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">oṁ</foreign>
according to <bibl><ptr target="bib:Hultzschf"/>:
<citedRange>58</citedRange></bibl>. The recent consensus however
is that it represents <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">siddham</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="7"><lem>mududa-</lem><rdg source="bib:Hultzschf">muḷuḍa-</rdg><note>Alternative readings <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">mu[d/ḍ]u[d/ḍa]-</foreign> are possible.</note></app><app loc="7"><lem>-pamu<unclear>kho</unclear></lem><rdg source="bib:Hultzschf">-pamukho</rdg></app><app loc="9"><lem>babhura-</lem><rdg source="bib:Hultzschf">ba<unclear>bhura</unclear>-</rdg></app><app loc="12"><lem source="bib:Hultzschf">duvaggāṇa</lem><note>Emend <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">duvaggāṇaṁ</foreign></note></app><app loc="15"><lem>-dasamī<unclear>ya</unclear></lem><rdg source="bib:Hultzschf">-dasamī <unclear>10?</unclear></rdg><note>But reading <foreign>-ya</foreign> here is supported by EIAD
<ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00160.xml">160</ref>, l. 13.</note></app><app loc="17"><lem>narak<unclear>e</unclear></lem><note><bibl><ptr target="bib:Hultzschf"/>:
<citedRange>59</citedRange></bibl> notes: <quote>This word looks almost like <hi rend="italic">narakô</hi></quote>.</note></app><app loc="17-19"><note>Hultzsch reads a double daṇḍa
at the end of each of these stanzas, but there seem not to be such
punctuation, only miniature final consonants (double daṇḍa might be Hultzsch’s way of rendering such miniature final consonants).</note></app><app loc="19"><lem>bhūmiḥ</lem><note><bibl><ptr target="bib:Hultzschf"/>:
<citedRange>59</citedRange></bibl> notes: <quote>Read <hi rend="italic">bhûmis</hi>=</quote>. But inscriptions from the same general area and period often
show the reading <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">bhūmiḥ</foreign> here, so
no correction is necessary.</note></app></listApp></div><div type="translation"><p n="1–8"> From the illustrious and victorious Veṅgīpura, by the order of the
illustrious and victorious great king Devavarman, who is favored by the feet of
Lord Citrarathasvāmin, devoted to the feet of his lord father, supreme devotee
of Maheśvara, the Śālaṅkāyana, sacrificer of the Aśvamedha, in Elūra, the
village headed by (its) headmen is to be addressed:</p><p n="8–14"> ‘To this Gaṇaśarman of the <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">gotra</foreign> of the Babhrus, in (this) charming place
(i.e. Elūra), are ordered (to be given): twenty 20 <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">nivartana</foreign>s of land, a house site,
a house site for those who receive half the crop and the doorkeepers, along with exemption and
protection. And so (it) has to exempted with all exemptions.’</p><p n="14–15"> In the victorious year (being) thirteen 13, on the tenth 10 (day) of the dark fortnight
of Pauṣa.</p><p n="1" rend="stanza">The giver of land revels sixty thousand years in heaven; the one
who confiscates [land] as well as the one who allows [the confiscation] will
reside as many [years] in hell.</p><p n="2" rend="stanza">By many land has been given; and by many it has been protected. Whoever holds land at
a given moment, to him does the fruit then belong.</p></div><div type="commentary"><p n="1"><term>bhagavato</term><note>Hultzsch notes: <cit><quote>The genitive bhagavato refers to Chittarathasâmi, the
first member of the following compound. This is of course a grammatical
blunder of the officer who drafted the inscription</quote><bibl><ptr target="bib:Hultzschf"/>: <citedRange>59</citedRange></bibl></cit>. The same “blunder”
is found in EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00162.xml">162</ref>, also formulated in MIA, which makes one wonder if
it is really an error; the Śālaṅkāyana plates formulated in Sanskrit
plates show <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">bhagavad-</foreign>.</note></p><p n="7"><term>°elūre</term><note><cit><quote>Êlûra, to whose inhabitants the subjoined edict
was addressed, is no doubt the modern town of Êlûru (Ellore), 7 miles
from Pedda-Vêgi</quote><bibl><ptr target="bib:Hultzschf"/>: <citedRange>58</citedRange></bibl></cit>.</note></p><p n="7"><term>mududa</term><note>This word, which appears in several other Śālaṅkāyana grants in
various forms, is taken to mean “headman (of village)” (see <bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircar1966"/>:
<citedRange>207</citedRange></bibl>). In fact the reading <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">muḍuḍa</foreign> is also possible. For parallels, see
<foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">mududa</foreign> (EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00160.xml">160</ref>, l. 5) and <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">mutuḍa</foreign> (EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00161.xml">161</ref>, l. 4; <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00163.xml">163</ref>, l. 5;
<ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00165.xml">165</ref>, l. 4; <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00166.xml">166</ref>, l. 8).</note></p><p n="8"><term>gāmo bhāṇitavvo</term><note>Sircar (on EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00160.xml">160</ref>) translates <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">gāmo</foreign> as ‘villagers’
and explains: <cit><quote><hi rend="italic">gāma</hi>=Sanskrit <hi rend="italic">grāma</hi>, literally ‘a village’, used here in
the sense of <hi rend="italic">grāmeyaka</hi></quote><bibl><ptr target="bib:Sircark"/>: <citedRange>146–7</citedRange></bibl></cit>. The same usage of singular <foreign xml:lang="pra-Latn">gāma</foreign> is observed in
EIAD <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00160.xml">160</ref> and <ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00161.xml">161</ref>. In none of these contexts do we feel that translation
as a plural is absolutely necessary.</note></p><p n="8"><term>°etassa</term><note>Hultzsch notes: <cit><quote>The pronoun ‘this’ evidently had been uttered by the
king in the presence of the donee, just as <hi rend="italic">êtêshâm</hi> in the plates of
Vijaya-Nandivarman, l. 5</quote><bibl><ptr target="bib:Hultzschf"/>: <citedRange>59</citedRange></bibl></cit>, i.e. the Vidētūrapallikā Grant (EIAD
<ref target="DHARMA_INSEIAD00165.xml">165</ref>).</note></p><p n="9"><term>babhura-</term><note>Hultzsch notes: <cit><quote>Prof. Kielhorn suggests to me that this doubtful word
may be meant for Babhru</quote><bibl><ptr target="bib:Hultzschf"/>: <citedRange>59</citedRange></bibl></cit>.</note></p><p n="11"><term>°addhiya-</term><note>Hultzsch notes: <cit><quote>On <hi rend="italic">ârdhika</hi> or <hi rend="italic">ardhasîrin</hi> see the Mitâksharâ on
Yâjñavalkya, I. 166. The Prâkṛit form <hi rend="italic">addhika</hi> occurs in Ep. Ind. Vol. I.
p. 6, text line 39</quote><bibl><ptr target="bib:Hultzschf"/>: <citedRange>59</citedRange></bibl></cit>.</note></p><p n="12"><term>duvaggāṇa</term><note>Hultzsch notes: <cit><quote>The Sanskṛit original of <hi rend="italic">duvagga</hi> seems to be <hi rend="italic">dvârga</hi>,
which may be taken in the sense of <hi rend="italic">dvâstha</hi></quote><bibl><ptr target="bib:Hultzschf"/>: <citedRange>59</citedRange></bibl></cit>.</note></p></div><div type="bibliography"><p>First described and edited by <bibl><ptr target="bib:Hultzschf"/></bibl>.
Re-edited here from Hultzsch’s facsimiles.</p><listBibl type="primary"><bibl/></listBibl><listBibl type="secondary"><bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE"/><citedRange>1906: 65–6 (§55), no. A.33</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:Srinivasa_Ayyangar1918"/>: <citedRange>36</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:Gopalan1928"/>: <citedRange>73</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:Gai1969"/>: <citedRange>no. 863</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:Krishnan1989a"/>: <citedRange>13–5 (no. 8)</citedRange></bibl></listBibl></div></body></text>
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