Nekkontha grant of Viṣṇuvardhana III Encoding Dániel Balogh intellectual authorship of edition Dániel Balogh DHARMA Berlin DHARMA_INSVengiCalukya00058

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Halantas. Only final M occurs, used only in line 10 (twice). Shaped like a tick mark or an U with the left arm much shorter.

Original punctuation marks.

Other palaeographic observations. Anusvāra is normally to the right of the character to which it belongs, but often placed on top of the next character: l1. ṁgi; l6 ṁgi and ṁbha; l8 ṁga.

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bhilaṣita-kāryya-vijaya-siddheḥ śrī-maṁgi-yuvarājasya priya-tanayaḥ svāsi-dhārā-namita-ripu-nr̥pati-makuṭa-taṭa-ghaṭita-maṇi-kirīṇa-yugalaḥ sva-vikramākrānta-mahī-maṇḍalaḥ vara-yuvati-jana-makara-dhvajaḥ parama-brahmaṇyo mātā-pitr̥-pādānudhyātaḥ śrī-viṣṇuvarddhana-mahārājaḥ sarvvān ittham ājñāpayati

viditam astu vaḥ vaṁgipaṟu-vastavyāya hārītia-gotrāya Āpastaṁbha-sūtrāya veda-vide śaṁkaraśarmmaṇaḥ pautrāya revaśarmmaṇaḥ putrāya veda-vedāṁga-pāragāya tri-veda-vide vr̥ddhaśarmmaṇe Uttarāyaṇa-nimitte dvādaśa-kkhaṇḍika-kodrava-vāpabījāvāpa-mātraṁ kṣetraṁ sarvvakara-parihāraṁ kr̥tvā Uñccha-sahitaM dattaM

kṣetrasya sīmāni. pūrvataḥ nekkontha-sīmāvadhiḥ sīmaā. dakṣiṇataḥ Ātukūri sīmāvadhiḥ sīmaā. paścimataḥ boddamāri reṇḍuvaddi. Uttarataḥ kariyaṭa

-siddheḥ -siddhiḥ -kirīṇa- kiraṇa The reading is confident in spite of some weathering, and indicates a major scribal omission. The intendet text may have been kiraṇa-rāga-raṁjita-caraṇa (as found for instance in the Nutulapaṟu grant of Maṅgi Yuvarāja), but an even longer omitted chunk is also possible. The word kirīṭa does not occur in a similar context in any related grant that I am aware of, but may also have been intended here; in this case, however, the omission cannot be attributed to eyeskip. -nimitte The last character of this word is distorted because of the adjacent binding hole. Above the hole there is a mark resembling a Roman capital T, which is probably nothing but a museum marking in ink (perhaps a Roman numeral I?). The plate was evidently inked before taking the photograph from which I edit it, but this mark seems to be in ink alone, not accompanied by any engraved strokes. -kkhaṇḍika- -kaṇṭika- nekkontha- nekkonṟa- The subscript component is not quite identical to that of ittham in line 5, but it is very unlikely to be ṟ, as it has a round and convex outline both on the top and the bottom. kariyaṭa kariya-U The i of the second character is faint and very small; perhaps a is to be read here. MDS's U cannot be ruled out, but the last character resembles the instances of ṭa in line 2 more than it does the U earlier in the present line.

the dear son of Maṅgi Yuvarāja, who prevailed in victory vijaya-siddhi in whatever goal he desired; His Majesty the supremely pious King mahārāja Viṣṇuvardhana III, who was deliberately appointed as heir by his mother and father and whose pair OMITTEDof feet were tinted by the hues of the rays fromThe text omitted by the scribe is restored in this translation; see the apparatus to line 2. the gems fitted to the surfaces of the crowns of enemy kings bowed down by the blade of his sword; who has by his own valour conquered the circle of the earth; and who is a crocodile-bannered god of love to choice young ladies—this Viṣṇuvardhana III commands everyone as follows.

Let it be known to you that on the occasion of the winter solstice a field of a measure sufficient for sowing twelve khaṇḍikas of kodrava seed has been given, rendered exempt of all taxes and together with the dues for gleanings uñcha, to the grandson of Śaṅkaraśarman, son of Revaśarman, namely Vr̥ddhaśarman, a resident of Vaṁgipaṟu of the Hārīta gotra, adherent of the Āpastaṁba sūtra, a knower of the Veda who is thoroughly versed in the Vedas and Vedāṅgas and knows the three Vedas.The qualifications “knower of the Veda” and “knows the three Vedas” (veda-vide and tri-veda-vide) are rather redundant. The former may have been intended, along with the specification of the residence, gotra and sūtra, to qualify the donor’s grandfather. This would be implied by proximity, but is ruled out by the syntax of the text as composed.

The boundaries of the field are as follows. To the east, the border is the extent of the border of Nekkontha. To the south, the border is the extent of the border of Ātukūri. To the west, Boddamāri and Reṇḍuvaddi. To the north, kariyaṭa

Single extant medial plate of a set, probably the second of three.

Reported in 6A/1932-337. Edited by M. D. Sampath () without reference to the ARIE report. Edited here by Dániel Balogh from public photographs from the National Museum, New Delhi,http://museumsofindia.gov.in/repository/record/nat_del-56-121-7-17122, subsequently collated with Sampath's edition.

6A/1932-337