Chikkulla plates of Vikramendravarman
Editor: Amandine Wattelier-Bricout.
Identifier: DHARMA_INSEI4_25.
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Language: Sanskrit.
Repository: BESTOW - Amandine Wattelier-Bricout's Post-doc project (BESTOW).
Version: (e32d651), last modified (15d3b0c).
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I. Anuṣṭubh
kaścid enam pālāyati
aso rudra-loke devagaṇā
b⟨Page 4v⟩ ⟨25⟩ koṭī-¡s!⟨ś⟩ata-sahasreṇa
csvarggina sukha⟨ṁ⟩ modati
dvi(ja)⟨26⟩yarājya-saṁvassaraṁbuḷ 10 māsa-pakkaṁ 8 gihmā 5
II. Anuṣṭubh
⟨27⟩ bahubhir vvasudhā datt(ā)
abahubhiś cānupalitā
byasya ⟨28⟩ yasya yadā bhūmi¿ṁ?⟨s⟩
ctasya tasya tadā phalam
dIII. Anuṣṭubh
⟨Page 5r⟩ ⟨29⟩ sva-datt⟨ā⟩ṁ para-datt⟨ā⟩ṁ vā
ayo haret¿i?⟨a⟩ vasundharām
b⟨30⟩ ṣaṣṭi-varṣa-sahasrāṇi
cnarake pacyate dhruvam
dIV. Anuṣṭubh
⟨31⟩ gāvo bhūmi tathā bhāryyā
aAkramya hara mā nayā
b⟨32⟩ śrāvayanti hi rājānāṁ
cbrahma-hatyā ca lipyati
dApparatus
Translation by Kielhorn 1896–1897
XXIV–XXV
Whoever obeys it enjoys hapiness of the inhabitants of heaven with the hundred-thousand billions hosts in Rudra’s world.
(25) In the year 10 of the reign of victory, on the 5th (day) of the 8th fornight of summer. [Here follow three benedictive and imprecatory verses.]
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Five copper-plates strung by a copper ring found during a tank exacavation in Chikkulla of the Tuni division of the Godavari district; language: incorrect sanskrit mixed with prakrit words (it seems that the writer’s mother-tongue was Telugu); content : gif of villages by Vikramendravarman II to the temple named Somagirīśvaranātha of Tryambaka; "this record is not later than the 8th century A.D."; probably linked to the Vākāṭaka family