Copper plates from Kondavidu (set II) — reign of Pr̥thivīśrīmūla, year 43

Authors of digital edition: Arlo Griffiths (argr), Vincent Tournier (vito).

Language: Sanskrit (san) [Source Script (other) (source_other)].

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1. Drutavilambita
⟨1⟩ <dextrorotatory-spiral>jayati śāsanam apratimaśriyaḥ paramakāruṇikasya mahāmu-
⟨2⟩ neḥ niravaśeṣajagaddhitakāriṇi sthitam ananyasame śamavartmani
⟨3⟩ svasti śrī vijayanandivarddhanavāsakād devadvijagurucaraṇa-
⟨4⟩ samārādhanādhigataniratiśayapuṇyanicayasya saka-
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ladiṅmaṇḍalālaṁkārabhūtayaśasaḥ śrīprabhākaravikhyāta-
⟨6⟩ mahārājasya sūnuḥ mātāpitr̥pādānuddhyātaḥ śrutismr̥-
⟨7⟩ tivihitapadārtthāvabodhajanitaprajñāvivekaniravagītā-
⟨8⟩ nupālitāśeṣavarṇṇāśramadharmmaḥ parānugrahamātrapratipa-
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nnaiśvaryagurubhāro nekacaturddantasamarasaṁghaṭṭavijayī

⟨10⟩ satatagobhūmihiraṇyakanyādānādibhis saphalikr̥tajīvitopa-

⟨11⟩ bhoga(ḥ) paramamāheśvaraḥ paramabrahmaṇyaḥ śrīmān pr̥thivi-

⟨12⟩ śrīmūlārājaḥ svaviṣayavāsinaḥ sarvvān evam ājñāpayati

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⟨13⟩ yathā viditam astu bhavatām· mayātmīyapriyatanayānugrahārttham·

⟨14⟩ tāṇḍikoṇḍe tatpratiṣṭhāpitaśākyabhikṣumahāvihārani-

⟨15⟩ vāsinaḥ cāturddiśāryyavarabhikṣusaṁghasya cīvarapiṇḍapāta-

⟨16⟩ śayyāsanaglānapratyayabhaiṣajyapariṣkāropabhogāya

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⟨17⟩ tāḻupākaviṣaye tāṇḍikoṇḍacurppāḍuppuḷavelkoṇḍa-
⟨18⟩ kurikiArṭṭaluvuḷakaṁsāryyanāmadheyagrāmāṇāṁ maddhye
⟨19⟩ taṁgodunaruvakṣetraṁ Aparaśailanivāsinan navakarmmikam adhiṣṭhāya sarvvabādhapari-
⟨20⟩ hāreṇa mayā dattaṁ punaś ca tāṇḍikoṇḍe hastivāryyāḥ pūrvvadigbhāge catvariṁśat· nivartta-
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nā bhūmir ddattā punaś ca peruntoṭṭasahitā daśanivarttanā bhūmir

⟨22⟩ ddattā tatra na kena cit paribādhā karaṇīyā bhavanti cātra manu-

⟨23⟩ gītā ślokāḥ2. Anuṣṭubh nighnatām bhartr̥govipra bālayoṣittapasvinaḥ

⟨24⟩ yā gatis (s)ā bhavet tasya harataś śāsanāṁkitām·3. Anuṣṭubh tām eva rakṣato

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⟨25⟩ yatnāt· nibodha kr̥tinaḥ phalam· nekakalpasahasrāṇi divi
⟨26⟩ devais saha dīvyati4. Anuṣṭubh bhūmidānāt paran dānaṁn na bhūtan na
⟨27⟩ bhaviṣyati tasyaiva haraṇāt pāpaṁn na bhūtān na bhaviṣyati5. Anuṣṭubh
⟨28⟩ ṣaṣṭhiṁ varṣasahasāṇi svargge tiṣṭhati bhūmidaḥ Akṣeptā cānuma-
⟨29⟩ -

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ntā ca tāny eva narake vaset· ||6. Anuṣṭubh bahubhir vvasudhā dattā bahubhi

⟨30⟩ ś cānupālitā yasya yasya yadā bhūmis tasya tasya tadā phalam·

⟨31⟩ vijayasaṁvatsare 403śāsanam aṁkitam· ||7. Anuṣṭubh candrārkodadhayo yāvat·

⟨32⟩ yāvac ceyaṁ vasundharā Ājñā śrīmūlarājasya tāvat pātu mahīm imām·

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1. Drutavilambita

⟨1⟩ <dextrorotatory-spiral>jayati śāsanam apratimaśriyaḥ

paramakāruṇikasya mahāmu⟨2⟩neḥ

niravaśeṣajagaddhitakāriṇi

sthitam ananyasame śamavartmani

⟨3⟩ svasti śrī vijayanandivarddhanavāsakād devadvijagurucaraṇa⟨4⟩samārādhanādhigataniratiśayapuṇyanicayasya saka⟨5⟩⟨Page 2a⟩ladiṅmaṇḍalālaṁkārabhūtayaśasaḥ śrīprabhākaravikhyāta⟨6⟩mahārājasya sūnuḥ mātāpitr̥pādānuddhyātaḥ śrutismr̥⟨7⟩tivihitapadārtthāvabodhajanitaprajñāvivekaniravagītā⟨8⟩nupālitāśeṣavarṇṇāśramadharmmaḥ parānugrahamātrapratipa⟨9⟩ ⟨Page 2b⟩⟨marginleft: 2⟩ nnaiśvaryagurubhāro nekacaturddantasamarasaṁghaṭṭavijayī ⟨10⟩ satatagobhūmihiraṇyakanyādānādibhis saphalikr̥tajīvitopa⟨11⟩bhoga(ḥ) paramamāheśvaraḥ paramabrahmaṇyaḥ śrīmān pr̥thivi⟨12⟩śrīmūlārājaḥ svaviṣayavāsinaḥ sarvvān evam ājñāpayati ⟨Page 3a⟩ ⟨13⟩ yathā viditam astu bhavatām· mayātmīyapriyatanayānugrahārttham· ⟨14⟩ tāṇḍikoṇḍe tatpratiṣṭhāpitaśākyabhikṣumahāvihārani⟨15⟩vāsinaḥ cāturddiśāryyavarabhikṣusaṁghasya cīvarapiṇḍapāta⟨16⟩śayyāsanaglānapratyayabhaiṣajyapariṣkāropabhogāya ⟨Page 3b⟩⟨marginleft: 3⟩ ⟨17⟩ tāḻupākaviṣaye tāṇḍikoṇḍacurppāḍuppuḷavelkoṇḍa⟨18⟩kurikiArṭṭaluvuḷakaṁsāryyanāmadheyagrāmāṇāṁ maddhye ⟨19⟩ taṁgodunaruvakṣetraṁ Aparaśailanivāsinan navakarmmikam adhiṣṭhāya sarvvabādhapari⟨20⟩hāreṇa mayā dattaṁ punaś ca tāṇḍikoṇḍe hastivāryyāḥ pūrvvadigbhāge catvariṁśat· nivartta⟨21⟩ ⟨Page 4a⟩ nā bhūmir ddattā punaś ca peruntoṭṭasahitā daśanivarttanā bhūmir ⟨22⟩ ddattā tatra na kena cit paribādhā karaṇīyā bhavanti cātra manu⟨23⟩gītā ślokāḥ

2. Anuṣṭubh

nighnatām bhartr̥govipra

bālayoṣittapasvinaḥ

⟨24⟩ yā gatis (s)ā bhavet tasya

harataś śāsanāṁkitām·

3. Anuṣṭubh

tām eva rakṣato ⟨Page 4b⟩⟨marginleft: 4⟩ ⟨25⟩ yatnāt·

nibodha kr̥tinaḥ phalam·

nekakalpasahasrāṇi

divi ⟨26⟩ devais saha dīvyati

4. Anuṣṭubh

bhūmidānāt paran dānaṁn

na bhūtan na ⟨27⟩ bhaviṣyati

tasyaiva haraṇāt pāpaṁn

na bhūtān na bhaviṣyati

5. Anuṣṭubh

⟨28⟩ ṣaṣṭhiṁ varṣasahasāṇi

svargge tiṣṭhati bhūmidaḥ

Akṣeptā cānuma⟨29⟩ ⟨Page 5a⟩ ntā ca

tāny eva narake vaset· ||

6. Anuṣṭubh

bahubhir vvasudhā dattā

bahubhi⟨30⟩ś cānupālitā

yasya yasya yadā bhūmis

tasya tasya tadā phalam·

⟨31⟩ vijayasaṁvatsare 403śāsanam aṁkitam· ||

7. Anuṣṭubh

candrārkodadhayo yāvat·

⟨32⟩ yāvac ceyaṁ vasundharā

Ājñā śrīmūlarājasya

tāvat pātu mahīm imām·

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1. Drutavilambita

⟨1⟩ <dextrorotatory-spiral>jayati śāsanam apratimaśriyaḥ

paramakāruṇikasya mahāmu⟨2⟩neḥ

niravaśeṣajagaddhitakāriṇi

sthitam ananyasame śamavartmani

2. Anuṣṭubh

nighnatām bhartr̥govipra

bālayoṣittapasvinaḥ

⟨24⟩ yā gatis (s)ā bhavet tasya

harataś śāsanāṁkitām·

3. Anuṣṭubh

tām eva rakṣato ⟨Page 4b⟩⟨marginleft: 4⟩ ⟨25⟩ yatnāt·

nibodha kr̥tinaḥ phalam·

nekakalpasahasrāṇi

divi ⟨26⟩ devais saha dīvyati

4. Anuṣṭubh

bhūmidānāt paran dānaṁn

na bhūtan na ⟨27⟩ bhaviṣyati

tasyaiva haraṇāt pāpaṁn

na bhūtān na bhaviṣyati

5. Anuṣṭubh

⟨28⟩ ṣaṣṭhiṁ varṣasahasāṇi

svargge tiṣṭhati bhūmidaḥ

Akṣeptā cānuma⟨29⟩ ⟨Page 5a⟩ ntā ca

tāny eva narake vaset· ||

6. Anuṣṭubh

bahubhir vvasudhā dattā

bahubhi⟨30⟩ś cānupālitā

yasya yasya yadā bhūmis

tasya tasya tadā phalam·

⟨31⟩ vijayasaṁvatsare 403śāsanam aṁkitam· ||

7. Anuṣṭubh

candrārkodadhayo yāvat·

⟨32⟩ yāvac ceyaṁ vasundharā

Ājñā śrīmūlarājasya

tāvat pātu mahīm imām·

Apparatus

⟨8⟩ -mātraprati- • The word -prayojana- has been forgotten between -mātra and prati-.

⟨9⟩ -bhāro neka- ⬦ -bhārāneka- Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨10⟩ -dānādibhis ⬦ -dānābhis Krishna Sastry 1990. — ⟨10⟩ saphalikr̥ta- • Correct saphalīkr̥ta-, as indicated by Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨11⟩ pr̥thivi- • Correct pr̥thivī-, as indicated by Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨12⟩ -mūlārājaḥ • Correct -mūlarājaḥ, which is simply what Krishna Sastry 1990 reads, ignoring the engraver’s error.

⟨13⟩ yathā ⬦ yadhā Krishna Sastry 1990 • Krishna Sastry 1990 corrects to yathā. — ⟨13⟩ yadhā • Correct yathā. — ⟨13⟩ -grahārttham· ⬦ -grahārttam Krishna Sastry 1990 • Krishna Sastry 1990 corrects to -grahārthaṁ. The plate rather clearly shows rtth.

⟨14⟩ tāṇḍikoṇḍe ⬦ tāṇḍikoṇḍa Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨15⟩ cātur- ⬦ catur- Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨16⟩ -bhaiṣajya- ⬦ -bheṣajya- Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨17⟩ tāḻupākaviṣaye ⬦ tāḷupākaviṣaye Krishna Sastry 1990. — ⟨17⟩ -velkoṇḍa- • Has the engraver rather written -velkāṇḍa-? This seems likely, the more so as Kondavidu III, l. 18, reads -veḷkaṇḍa- for what was obviously the same toponym. — ⟨17⟩ -curppāḍuppuḷa- ⬦ -curppāṭuppuḍu- Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨18⟩ -Arṭṭaluvuḷa- ⬦ -Aṭṭaluvuḍu- Krishna Sastry 1990 • Cf. Kondavidu III, l. 19. — ⟨18⟩ -kaṁsāryya- ⬦ -kāṁsāryya- Krishna Sastry 1990. — ⟨18⟩ -maddhye ⬦ -madhya(gataḥ*) Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨19⟩ taṁgodu- ⬦ taṁgoḍu- Krishna Sastry 1990. — ⟨19⟩ -śaila- ⬦ -śila- Krishna Sastry 1990. — ⟨19⟩ -nivāsinan ⬦ -nivāsinān Krishna Sastry 1990 • With ‘correction’ to nivāsināṁ. — ⟨19⟩ -bādhapari- • According to Krishna Sastry, this must be corrected to -bādhāpari-. But the reading -bādhāpari- is not attested anywhere in these inscriptions.

⟨20⟩ tāṇḍikoṇḍe ⬦ tāṇḍikoṇḍa Krishna Sastry 1990. — ⟨20⟩ hastivāryyāḥ ⬦ hastivaryyaḥ Krishna Sastry 1990. — ⟨20⟩ catvariṁśat ⬦ catvāriṁśat Krishna Sastry 1990 • Emend catvāriṁśat.

⟨21⟩ ddattā ⬦ dattā Krishna Sastry 1990. — ⟨21⟩ peruntoṭṭasahitā ⬦ peruttoṭṭāsahita Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨23⟩ bhartr̥- ⬦ bhatru- Krishna Sastry 1990 • Krishna Sastry 1990 ‘corrected’ to bhatr̥°. — ⟨23⟩ -bāla- ⬦ -bala- Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨24⟩ gatis (s)ā ⬦ gatis sa Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨25⟩ yatnāt· ⬦ yatnād Krishna Sastry 1990. — ⟨25⟩ kr̥tinaḥ ⬦ kr̥tinaḥ Krishna Sastry 1990. — ⟨25⟩ neka- • Emend naika-, as indicated by Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨26⟩ saha • Emend sa. — ⟨26⟩ dānaṁn na ⬦ dānān va Krishna Sastry 1990 • Krishna Sastry 1990 corrects to dānaṁ na.

⟨27⟩ pāpaṁn ⬦ pāpan Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨28⟩ ṣaṣṭhiṁ ⬦ ṣaṣṭiṁ Krishna Sastry 1990 • Correct ṣaṣṭiṁ. — ⟨28⟩ Akṣeptā ⬦ Ākṣeptā Krishna Sastry 1990 • Correct Ākṣeptā.

⟨31⟩ 40 3 śāsanam ⬦ puṇyaśāsanam Krishna Sastry 1990. — ⟨31⟩ candrārkodadhayo ⬦ candrārkkodadhi yo Krishna Sastry 1990.

⟨32⟩ yāvac ceyaṁ ⬦ yāvadc chreyaṁ Krishna Sastry 1990 • Sic.

Translation

Victorious is the Doctrine of the Great Sage, whose luster is incomparable, whose compassion is supreme, that is placed on the unequalled path of tranquillization (i.e. nirvāṇa), which effects benefit for the entire world!

⟨3–13⟩ Hail! Fortune! From the victorious camp of Nandivardhana, the illustrious king Pr̥thivīśrīmūla, blessed by the feet of his parents; upholder of all laws on class and stage of life, in impeccable manner, through [his] intelligence and discrimination produced by [his] perception of the meanings of the words enjoined in revelation and tradition; who had undertaken the heavy burden of sovereignty with the sole purpose of favoring others; conqueror on numerous occasions of battle-collision with elephants; who had brought fruit to his enjoyment of life by incessant grants of cows, lands, golds and maidens, etc.; devout worshiper of Maheśvara; extremely devout; son of the celebrated great king Śrī Prabhākara, whose fame was the ornament of all quarters of space, whose unsurpassed store of merit had been obtained by the veneration of the feet of gods, brahmins and masters — he commands all residents of his (?) own district, as follows:

⟨13–23⟩ ‘Be it known to you that, in order to favor my dear son (i.e., Harivarman), having endorsed (adhiṣṭhāya) the officer in charge of constructions and renovations residing on the Aparaśaila (to oversee the gift), the field Taṁgodunaruva, in the middle of the villages Tāṇḍikoṇḍa, Curppāḍuppuḷa, Velkoṇḍa, Kuriki, Arṭṭaluvuḷ and Kaṁsāryya, in the Tāḻupāka district, has been given by me—with complete exemption of taxes—for the purpose of the requisites consisting in robe, almsfood, lodgings (lit. bed and seat), as well as medicine to cure the sick, of the community of noble excellent monks of the four quarters, residing in the mahāvihāra of śākyabhikṣus that had been established by him (i.e., my son) in Tāṇḍikoṇḍa. Moreover, at Tāṇḍikoṇḍa has been given land of forty nivartanas to the east of the elephant grove. Moreover, land of ten nivartanas has been given together with the Big Grove (peruntoṭṭam). No-one may make any trouble in this connection. And there are verses pronounced by Manu on this matter:

The destiny of those who slay their master, a cow, a brahmin, a child, a woman or an ascetic, will be the one of him who seizes [the land/livelihood] that is marked by a (royal) charter.

Hear the fruit of the virtuous man who protects it scrupulously: during numerous thousands of aeons he plays in heaven with the gods.

There is not and will not be any higher gift than the gift of land. There is not and will not be any worse sin than the theft of the same.

The giver of land stays in heaven for sixty thousand years; the one who seizes [land] as well as the one who approves (of the seizing) will reside as many [years] in hell.

By numerous [kings], 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.

⟨31⟩ The charter has been dated in the forty-third victorious year.

As long as moon, sun and oceans [last], and as long as this earth [lasts], so long may the command of Śrī Mūlarāja protect this land!

Bibliography

First described and edited by Krishna Sastry 1990, pp. 73–4, 78–80. Re-edited here from the estampages published by Krishna Sastry and after autopsy of the plates.

Secondary

Krishna Sastry, V. V. 1992. Three grants of Prithvisri Mūlarāja from Kondavidu. Epigraphical Series 20. Hyderabad: Dept. of Archaeology & Museums, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. Pages 12–9.

ARIE

Hanumantha Rao, B. S. L., N. S. Ramachandra Murthy, B. Subrahmanyam and Īmani Śivanāgireḍḍi. 1998. Buddhist inscriptions of Andhradesa. Secunderabad: Ananda Buddha Vihara Trust. Pages 213–6.

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[2] Raghunath no.:

[3] Srinivasan & Sankaranarayanan no.:

[4] Tsukamoto no.:

[5] Lüders no.:

[6] Support : 5 copper plates

[7] (Faces:) Lines: 32

[8] H: 21.5

[9] W: 6

[10] D:

[11] H:

[12] W:

[13] Language(s): Sanskrit

[14] Original locality: A rockshelter at Kondavidu Fort, Guntur Dt.

[15] Present locality: Guntur, Bauddhasiri Museum, acc. no. B.M.G. 170

[16] Primary bibliography: Krishna Sastry 1990: 73-4, 78-80.

[17] Secondary bibliography: Krishna Sastry 1992: 12-9. — ARIE 1995-96: 3, A.6. — Hanumantha Rao et al. 1998: 213-6.

[18] Visual documentation: Krishna Sastry 1990; 1992.

[19] Substance of inscription: Pr̥thivīśrīmūlarāja grants land to monastery at Tāṇḍikoṇḍa

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engraved left of the hole, I wonder if we could give

a more precise indication than "marginleft".--><lg met="Drutavilambita" n="1"><l n="a"><lb n="1"/><g type="dextrorotatory-spiral"/>jayati śāsanam apratimaśriyaḥ </l><l n="b">paramakāruṇikasya mahāmu<lb n="2" break="no"/>neḥ </l><l n="c">niravaśeṣajagaddhitakāriṇi </l><l n="d">sthitam ananyasame śamavartmani </l></lg><ab><lb n="3"/>svasti śrī vijayanandivarddhanavāsakād devadvijagurucaraṇa<lb n="4" break="no"/>samārādhanādhigataniratiśayapuṇyanicayasya saka<lb n="5" break="no"/><pb n="2a"/>ladiṅmaṇḍalālaṁkārabhūtayaśasaḥ śrīprabhākaravikhyāta<lb n="6" break="no"/>mahārājasya sūnuḥ mātāpitr̥pādānuddhyātaḥ śrutismr̥<lb n="7" break="no"/>tivihitapadārtthāvabodhajanitaprajñāvivekaniravagītā<lb n="8" break="no"/>nupālitāśeṣavarṇṇāśramadharmmaḥ parānugrahamātrapratipa<lb n="9" break="no"/><pb n="2b"/><fw place="marginleft"><num value="2">2</num></fw>nnaiśvaryagurubhāro nekacaturddantasamarasaṁghaṭṭavijayī <lb n="10"/>satatagobhūmihiraṇyakanyādānādibhis saphalikr̥tajīvitopa<lb n="11" break="no"/>bhoga<unclear>ḥ</unclear> paramamāheśvaraḥ paramabrahmaṇyaḥ śrīmān pr̥thivi<lb n="12" break="no"/>śrīmūlārājaḥ svaviṣayavāsinaḥ sarvvān evam ājñāpayati <pb n="3a"/><lb n="13"/>yathā viditam astu bhavatām· mayātmīyapriyatanayānugrahārttham· <lb n="14"/>tāṇḍikoṇḍe tatpratiṣṭhāpitaśākyabhikṣumahāvihārani<lb n="15" break="no"/>vāsinaḥ cāturddiśāryyavarabhikṣusaṁghasya cīvarapiṇḍapāta<lb n="16" break="no"/>śayyāsanaglānapratyayabhaiṣajyapariṣkāropabhogāya <pb n="3b"/><fw place="marginleft"><num value="3">3</num></fw><lb n="17"/>tāḻupākaviṣaye tāṇḍikoṇḍacurppāḍuppuḷavelkoṇḍa<lb n="18" break="no"/>kurikiArṭṭaluvuḷakaṁsāryyanāmadheyagrāmāṇāṁ maddhye <lb n="19"/>taṁgodunaruvakṣetraṁ Aparaśailanivāsinan navakarmmikam adhiṣṭhāya sarvvabādhapari<lb n="20" break="no"/>hāreṇa mayā dattaṁ punaś ca tāṇḍikoṇḍe hastivāryyāḥ pūrvvadigbhāge catvariṁśat· nivartta<lb n="21" break="no"/><pb n="4a"/>nā bhūmir ddattā punaś ca peruntoṭṭasahitā daśanivarttanā bhūmir <lb n="22"/>ddattā tatra na kena cit paribādhā karaṇīyā bhavanti cātra manu<lb n="23" break="no"/>gītā ślokāḥ </ab><lg met="Anuṣṭubh" n="2"><l n="a">nighnatām bhartr̥govipra </l><l n="b">bālayoṣittapasvinaḥ </l><l n="c"><lb n="24"/>yā gatis <unclear>s</unclear>ā bhavet tasya </l><l n="d">harataś śāsanāṁkitām· </l></lg><!-- ALTERNAVE ENCODING OF THIS STANZA:

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--><lg met="Anuṣṭubh" n="3"><l n="a">tām eva rakṣato <pb n="4b"/><fw place="marginleft"><num value="4">4</num></fw><lb n="25"/>yatnāt· </l><l n="b">nibodha kr̥tinaḥ phalam· </l><l n="c">nekakalpasahasrāṇi </l><l n="d">divi <lb n="26"/>devais saha dīvyati </l></lg><lg met="Anuṣṭubh" n="4"><l n="a">bhūmidānāt paran dānaṁn </l><l n="b">na bhūtan na <lb n="27"/>bhaviṣyati </l><l n="c">tasyaiva haraṇāt pāpaṁn </l><l n="d">na bhūtān na bhaviṣyati </l></lg><lg met="Anuṣṭubh" n="5"><l n="a"><lb n="28"/>ṣaṣṭhiṁ varṣasahasāṇi </l><l n="b">svargge tiṣṭhati bhūmidaḥ </l><l n="c">Akṣeptā cānuma<lb n="29" break="no"/><pb n="5a"/>ntā ca </l><l n="d">tāny eva narake vaset· <g type="ddanda">.</g></l></lg><lg met="Anuṣṭubh" n="6"><l n="a">bahubhir vvasudhā dattā </l><l n="b">bahubhi<lb n="30" break="no"/>ś cānupālitā </l><l n="c">yasya yasya yadā bhūmis </l><l n="d">tasya tasya tadā phalam· </l></lg><ab><lb n="31"/>vijayasaṁvatsare <num value="43"><num value="40">40</num><num value="3">3</num></num>śāsanam aṁkitam· <g type="ddanda">.</g></ab><lg met="Anuṣṭubh" n="7"><l n="a">candrārkodadhayo yāvat· </l><l n="b"><lb n="32"/>yāvac ceyaṁ vasundharā </l><l n="c">Ājñā śrīmūlarājasya </l><l n="d">tāvat pātu mahīm imām· </l></lg></div><div type="apparatus"><listApp><app loc="8"><lem>-mātraprati-</lem><note>The word <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">-prayojana-</foreign> has been

forgotten between <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">-mātra</foreign> and

<foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">prati-</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="9"><lem>-bhāro neka-</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">-bhārāneka-</rdg></app><app loc="10"><lem>-dānādibhis</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">-dānābhis</rdg></app><app loc="10"><lem>saphalikr̥ta-</lem><note>Correct <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">saphalīkr̥ta-</foreign>, as

indicated by <bibl><ptr target="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01"/></bibl>.</note></app><app loc="11"><lem>pr̥thivi-</lem><note>Correct <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">pr̥thivī-</foreign>, as indicated

by <bibl><ptr target="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01"/></bibl>.</note></app><app loc="12"><lem>-mūlārājaḥ</lem><note>Correct <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">-mūlarājaḥ</foreign>, which is

simply what <bibl><ptr target="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01"/></bibl> reads, ignoring the engraver’s error.</note></app><app loc="13"><lem>yathā</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">yadhā</rdg><note><bibl><ptr target="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01"/></bibl> corrects to

<foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">yathā</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="13"><lem>yadhā</lem><note>Correct <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">yathā</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="13"><lem>-grahārttham·</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">-grahārttam</rdg><note><bibl><ptr target="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01"/></bibl> corrects to

<foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">-grahārthaṁ</foreign>. The plate rather

clearly shows <foreign>rtth</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="14"><lem>tāṇḍikoṇḍe</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">tāṇḍikoṇḍa</rdg></app><app loc="15"><lem>cātur-</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">catur-</rdg></app><app loc="16"><lem>-bhaiṣajya-</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">-bheṣajya-</rdg></app><app loc="17"><lem>tāḻupākaviṣaye</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">tāḷupākaviṣaye</rdg></app><app loc="17"><lem>-velkoṇḍa-</lem><note>Has the engraver rather written <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">-velkāṇḍa-</foreign>? This seems likely, the more so as Kondavidu

III, l. 18, reads <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">-veḷkaṇḍa-</foreign> for

what was obviously the same toponym.</note></app><app loc="17"><lem>-curppāḍuppuḷa-</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">-curppāṭuppuḍu-</rdg></app><app loc="18"><lem>-Arṭṭaluvuḷa-</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">-Aṭṭaluvuḍu-</rdg><note>Cf. Kondavidu III, l. 19.</note></app><app loc="18"><lem>-kaṁsāryya-</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">-kāṁsāryya-</rdg></app><app loc="18"><lem>-maddhye</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">-madhya<unclear>gataḥ*</unclear></rdg></app><app loc="19"><lem>taṁgodu-</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">taṁgoḍu-</rdg></app><app loc="19"><lem>-śaila-</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">-śila-</rdg></app><app loc="19"><lem>-nivāsinan</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">-nivāsinān</rdg><note>With ‘correction’ to <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">nivāsināṁ</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="19"><lem>-bādhapari-</lem><note>According to Krishna Sastry, this must be corrected to <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">-bādhāpari-</foreign>. But the reading <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">-bādhāpari-</foreign> is not attested anywhere

in these inscriptions.</note></app><app loc="20"><lem>tāṇḍikoṇḍe</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">tāṇḍikoṇḍa</rdg></app><app loc="20"><lem>hastivāryyāḥ</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">hastivaryyaḥ</rdg></app><app loc="20"><lem>catvariṁśat</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">catvāriṁśat</rdg><note>Emend <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">catvāriṁśat</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="21"><lem>ddattā</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">dattā</rdg></app><app loc="21"><lem>peruntoṭṭasahitā</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">peruttoṭṭāsahita</rdg></app><app loc="23"><lem>bhartr̥-</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">bhatru-</rdg><note><bibl><ptr target="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01"/></bibl> ‘corrected’ to

<foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">bhatr̥°</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="23"><lem>-bāla-</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">-bala-</rdg></app><app loc="24"><lem>gatis <unclear>s</unclear>ā</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">gatis sa</rdg></app><app loc="25"><lem>yatnāt·</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">yatnād</rdg></app><app loc="25"><lem>kr̥tinaḥ</lem><!--MS: Diacritic

subscribed under h is hard to copy-paste--><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">kr̥tinaḥ</rdg></app><app loc="25"><lem>neka-</lem><note>Emend <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">naika-</foreign>, as indicated by <bibl><ptr target="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01"/></bibl>.</note></app><app loc="26"><lem>saha</lem><note>Emend <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">sa</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="26"><lem>dānaṁn na</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">dānān va</rdg><note><bibl><ptr target="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01"/></bibl> corrects to

<foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">dānaṁ na</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="27"><lem>pāpaṁn</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">pāpan</rdg></app><app loc="28"><lem>ṣaṣṭhiṁ</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">ṣaṣṭiṁ</rdg><note>Correct <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">ṣaṣṭiṁ</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="28"><lem>Akṣeptā</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">Ākṣeptā</rdg><note>Correct <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">Ākṣeptā</foreign>.</note></app><app loc="31"><lem>40 3 śāsanam</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">puṇyaśāsanam</rdg></app><app loc="31"><lem>candrārkodadhayo</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">candrārkkodadhi yo</rdg></app><app loc="32"><lem>yāvac ceyaṁ</lem><rdg source="bib:KrishnaSastry1990_01">yāvadc chreyaṁ</rdg><note>Sic.</note></app></listApp></div><div type="translation"><p n="1" rend="stanza">Victorious is the Doctrine of the Great Sage, whose luster is

incomparable, whose compassion is supreme, that is placed on the unequalled path

of tranquillization (i.e. <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">nirvāṇa</foreign>), which

effects benefit for the entire world!</p><p n="3–13"> Hail! Fortune! From the victorious camp

of Nandivardhana, the illustrious king Pr̥thivīśrīmūla, blessed by the feet of

his parents; upholder of all laws on class and stage of life, in impeccable

manner, through [his] intelligence and discrimination produced by [his]

perception of the meanings of the words enjoined in revelation and tradition;

who had undertaken the heavy burden of sovereignty with the sole purpose of

favoring others; conqueror on numerous occasions of battle-collision with

elephants; who had brought fruit to his enjoyment of life by incessant grants of

cows, lands, golds and maidens, etc.; devout worshiper of Maheśvara; extremely

devout; son of the celebrated great king Śrī Prabhākara, whose fame was the

ornament of all quarters of space, whose unsurpassed store of merit had been

obtained by the veneration of the feet of gods, brahmins and masters — he

commands all residents of his (?) own district, as follows:</p><p n="13–23"> ‘Be it known to you that, in order to

favor my dear son (i.e., Harivarman), having endorsed (<foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">adhiṣṭhāya</foreign>) the officer in charge of

constructions and renovations residing on the Aparaśaila (to oversee the gift),

the field Taṁgodunaruva, in the middle of the villages Tāṇḍikoṇḍa,

Curppāḍuppuḷa, Velkoṇḍa, Kuriki, Arṭṭaluvuḷ and Kaṁsāryya, in the Tāḻupāka

district, has been given by me—with complete exemption of taxes—for the purpose

of the requisites consisting in robe, almsfood, lodgings (lit. bed and seat), as

well as medicine to cure the sick, of the community of noble excellent monks of

the four quarters, residing in the mahāvihāra of <foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">śākyabhikṣu</foreign>s that had been established by him (i.e., my son) in

Tāṇḍikoṇḍa. Moreover, at Tāṇḍikoṇḍa has been given land of forty nivartanas to

the east of the elephant grove. Moreover, land of ten nivartanas has been given

together with the Big Grove (<foreign xml:lang="san-Latn">peruntoṭṭam</foreign>). No-one may make any trouble in this connection. And

there are verses pronounced by Manu on this matter:</p><p n="2" rend="stanza">The destiny of those who slay their master, a cow, a

brahmin, a child, a woman or an ascetic, will be the one of him who seizes [the

land/livelihood] that is marked by a (royal) charter.</p><p n="3" rend="stanza">Hear the fruit of the virtuous man who protects it

scrupulously: during numerous thousands of aeons he plays in heaven with the

gods.</p><p n="4" rend="stanza">There is not and will not be any higher gift than the gift

of land. There is not and will not be any worse sin than the theft of the

same.</p><p n="5" rend="stanza">The giver of land stays in heaven for sixty thousand years;

the one who seizes [land] as well as the one who approves (of the seizing) will

reside as many [years] in hell.</p><p n="6" rend="stanza">By numerous [kings], 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><p n="31"> The charter has been dated in the

forty-third victorious year.</p><p n="7" rend="stanza">As long as moon, sun and oceans [last], and as long as this

earth [lasts], so long may the command of Śrī Mūlarāja protect this land!</p></div><!--<div type="commentary">

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78-80</citedRange></bibl>. Re-edited here from the estampages published by Krishna Sastry and

after autopsy of the plates.</p><listBibl type="primary"><bibl/></listBibl><listBibl type="secondary"><bibl><ptr target="bib:KrishnaSastry1992_01"/>: <citedRange>12-9</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:ARIE"/><citedRange>1995-96: 3, no. A.6</citedRange></bibl><bibl><ptr target="bib:HanumanthaRao+al1998_01"/>: <citedRange>213-6</citedRange></bibl></listBibl></div></body></text>

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