Guṇḍugolanu grant of Amma II

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⁵ -pavitrīkr̥ta- ◇ -pavitr¿i?⟨ī⟩kr̥ta- JFF
⁸ °viṁśati(M|) ◇ °viṁśati⟨M⟩| JFF
^13–14 -nanda⟨⟨na⟩⟩/ś • Though Fleet does not remark on this, the na is very narrow and is squeezed into the space above the subscript part of nda, so I assume that it was added subsequently.
¹⁴ -tanaya⟨ḥ⟩ ⟨⟨ṣa⟩⟩ṇ- • As Fleet also observes, ṣa has been added below the line. Moreover, not noted by Fleet, the characters naya are very narrow, occupying about one standard character width (less than a regular ya would take up on its own). It seems likely that these too are a correction over a previously inscribed single character, but I see no trace of this in the scan.
¹⁶ -pitr̥vy¿āṁ?⟨a⟩- ◇ -pitr̥vy¿āṁ?⟨o⟩ JFF
¹⁸ dvādaśa • The characters daśa are narrow and crowded and may be a correction from a single original character.
²² Ittha◯m • I accept Fleet’s reading, but in the scan this looks more like ittam. — ^22–23 saronā/tha(ḥ) ◇ saronā/(tha?)¿ṁ?⟨ḥ⟩ JFF • I am not sure why Fleet shows tha as unclear and doubtful. What he sees as an anusvāra is above tha, not a position where anusvāra normally occurs in this text and thus probably a spot of damage. There seem to be two faint dots after tha in the scan, hence my reading of an unclear visarga. But these dots may be just noise or a vestigial punctuation mark.
²⁶ -v¿a?⟨ā⟩ma⟨⟨na⟩⟩ • In addition to na added below the line, vama is quite crowded and may be a correction from a single earlier character. — ^26–27 vāmanaśa/rmmaṇe ◇ vāmanaśārmmaṇe JFF • Probably a typo in Fleet’s edition.
²⁷ -kh¿o?⟨a⟩ṇḍi⟨⟨(ka)⟩⟩- ◇ -khoṇḍi- JFF • Fleet was probably not, at this time, familiar with the standard expression found here and did not interpret this word. (This is also implied by his tentative emendation of the following word into uddrava.) He makes no mention of the addition below the line, which he may have taken for an extra stroke or two in the repha of rvva below. I myself am uncertain of this, and a photo of the plate should be checked for this when available.
²⁹ -kr̥¡tt!ya ◇ -kr̥tya JFF — ²⁹ āvadhayaḥ ◇ āvadhayāḥ JFF • Typo in Fleet’s edition.
³⁵ rakṣakā⟨ḥ⟩ syur u⟨ru⟩-hasty JFF • I adopt Fleet’s tentative emendations. — ³⁵ -dvitaye| • The first two characters of this word are wholly indiscernible in my scan. I wonder if it is possible to read -patayo instead. However, with -dvitaye and with Fleet’s emendation of the preceding text, we actually have an āryā hemistich here, which would be spoiled by reading -patayo. — ³⁵ kalvapākṣī° • According to Fleet’s note, kṣī is very faint and may have been deleted. It is also quite narrow and crowded next to the margin, so it may instead be a subsequent addition.
³⁶ °vumācepu- • Fleet offers a tentative alternative reading (or emendation?) for pu as ṣu. The character is definitely pu as engraved; Fleet may have reasoned that the word iṣupati may be present.
³⁷ ¿nāmnātaṁ? • Fleet emends to nāmnedaṁ, but this strikes me as an unlikely scribal error. I wonder if perhaps nāmnāttaṁ was intended.

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^1-13Greetings. Satyāśraya Vallabhendra (Pulakeśin II) was eager to adorn the lineage of the majestic Calukyas—who are of the Mānavya gotra which is praised by the entire world, who are sons of Hārītī, who attained kingship by the grace of Kauśikī’s boon, who are protected by the band of Mothers, who were deliberately appointed (to kingship) by Lord Mahāsena, to whom enemy territories instantaneously submit at the [mere] sight of the superior Boar emblem they have acquired by the grace of the divine Nārāyaṇa, and whose bodies have been hallowed through washing in the purificatory ablutions (avabhr̥tha) of the Aśvamedha sacrifice. His brother Kubja Viṣṇuvardhana [reigned] for eighteen years. His son Jayasiṁha (I), for thirty-three. His younger brother Indrarāja’s (Indra Bhaṭṭāraka’s) son Viṣṇuvardhana (II), for nine. His son Maṅgi Yuvarāja, for twenty-five. His son Jayasiṁha (II), for thirteen. His [brother] of inferior birth, Kokkili, for six months. After dethroning him, his eldest brother Viṣṇuvardhana (III), for thirty-seven. His son Vijayāditya (I) Bhaṭṭāraka, for eighteen. His son Viṣṇuvardhana (IV), for thirty-six. His son Vijayāditya (II) Narendramr̥garāja, for eight and forty. His son Kali-Viṣṇuvardhana (V), for a year and a half. His son Guṇaga Vijayāditya (III), for forty-four.

1 The son of his brother the heir-apparent (yuvarāja) Prince (bhūbhuj) Vikramāditya, the love god of purity (śauca-kandarpa), for thirty years as King (rāj) Bhīma.

^14-17His son Kollabigaṇḍa the Sun (bhāskara) (Vijayāditya IV), for six months. His firstborn son Ambarāja (Amma I) for seven years. His firstborn son the child Vijayāditya (V) for a fortnight. After assaulting and imprisoning him, King (nr̥pa) Tāla, son of Yuddhamalla [who was] the paternal uncle of Cālukya-Bhīma, for one month. After him, Vikramāditya (II) for a year.

Bhīma (II), [also] named Kaṟayilladāta, the son of Kollabigaṇḍa (Vijayāditya IV), was Lord of Veṅgī for twelve years after dispelling the darkness of enemies who were his kinsmen.

A son was born to him from Lokamahādevī: Ammarāja, who was [like] Arjuna in valour and [like] a second Dharma King (Yudhiṣṭhira) in justice (dharma).

^20-22That shelter of the entire universe (samasta-bhuvanāśraya), His Majesty Vijayāditya (Amma II) the supremely pious Supreme Lord (parameśvara) of Emperors (mahārājādhirāja) and Supreme Sovereign (parama-bhaṭṭāraka), commands the householders (kuṭumbin)—including foremost the territorial overseers (rāṣṭrakūṭa)—who reside in Veṅgīnāṇḍu district (viṣaya) as follows:

Nr̥pakāma, Lord of the Lake, is the homeland of honesty, the sole residence of valour and virtue, whom honest people serve and who worships the lotus feet of Īśa (Śiva).

His wife is the lotus-petal-eyed Nāyamāmbā, whose chief characteristics are beauty, charm, conjugal felicity, honesty and dutifulness (dharma).

^25-29Having been requested by these two, our (Amma II’s) father-in-law and mother-in-law, on the occasion of the winter solstice we have given a field (sufficient) for sowing twelve khaṇḍikās of kodrava seed by the royal measure in the eastern direction of the village named Guṇḍugolanu to Vāmanaśarman, grandson of the Vājasaneya Vāmanabhaṭṭa of the Bhāradvāja gotra, a resident of the village Kallūru and son of Śivvanabhaṭṭa, [the donation being] sanctified by (a libation of) water. Let this be known to you. Substantiated as a (copperplate) charter with a remission of all taxes.

^29-32The boundaries of this [field are as follows]. To the east, Tepalamupariya. To the south, Punnīsvaramma-nagaruvu. To the west, the pannasa^↓1 of Bhaṭāri. To the north, Guṇḍiyabhaṭlaveṟuvu. Let no-one pose an obstacle (to his enjoyment of his rights) over it. He who does so shall be conjoined with the five great sins. So too Vyāsa has said:

Many (kings) have granted land, and many have preserved it (as formerly granted). Whosoever at any time owns the land, the fruit {reward} (accrued of granting it) belongs to him at that time.

He who would seize land, whether given by himself or by another, shall be born as a worm in faeces for sixty thousand years.

^35-36The executor (ājñapti) is the castellan (kaṭaka-rāja). The guardians of this (charter) shall be ¿the lords Kalvapa, Akṣī and Umācepu, who are ¿soldiers of the marches? (velā-bhaṭa)^↓2 [entitled to] crane feather fans (balāka-piṁccha) and parasols, and who possess a great force of elephants and two thousands of both [kinds of] troops?.^↓3 The poetry is Potana Bhaṭṭa’s.

This excellent charter, handed out by Rājamahendra (Amma II), was written (likhita) by the one named Koṇḍācārya, who is comparable to Viśvakarman.

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^1-13Om ! Prospérité ! Kubja Viṣṇuvardhana, frère de Satyāśraya Vallabhendra, qui orne la dynastie des Cālukya, illustres, du même gotra que les descendants de Manu, loués dans l’univers entier, fils de Hārīti, ayant reçu leur royaume par l’excellente faveur de Kauśikī, protégés par les Mères réunies, méditant aux pieds du seigneur Mahāsena, eux dont les cercles ennemis ont été soumis en un instant à la vue du signe de l’excellent sanglier, faveur octroyée par le bienheureux Nārāyaṇa, eux dont les corps ont été purifiés grâce aux bains consécutifs au sacrifice du cheval, pendant dix huit années. Son fils Jayasiṁha pendant trente-trois ans ; Le fils d’Indrarāja, son frère cadet, Viṣṇuvardhana, pendant neuf ans ; Le fils de celui-ci, Maṁgi, le prince héritier, pendant vingt-cinq ans ; Son fils Jayasiṁha pendant treize ans ; Le frère cadet de ce dernier, Kokkili, pendant six mois ; Son frère aîné Viṣṇuvardhana, après l’avoir chassé, pendant trente-sept ans ; Le fils de celui-ci, Vijayāditya, l’illustre seigneur, pendant dix-huit ans ; Son fils Viṣṇuvardhana pendant trente-six ans ; Son fils, le roi Vijayāditya Mr̥garāja pendant quarante-huit ans ; Le fils de ce dernier, Kali Viṣṇuvardhana, pendant un an et demi ; Son fils Guṇaga Vijayāditya pendant quarante-quatre ans ;

Le fils du roi Vikramāditya, prince héritier, frère de ce dernier,^↓4 le pur Kandarpa, le roi Bhīma pendant trente ans ;

^14-17Son fils Kollabhigaṇḍa Bhāskara pendant six mois ; Le fils aîné de celui-ci, Ammarāja, pendant sept ans ; Son fils aîné Vijayāditya, qui était enfant, quinze jours ; Après l’avoir vaincu et mis en prison, le fils de Yuddhamalla, oncle de Cālukya Bhīma, le roi Tāla, pendant un mois ; Puis Vikramāditya pendant un an ;

Le fils de Kollabhigaṇḍa, Bhīma fut nommé Kaṟayilla, il fut le seigneur de Veṅgī pendant douze ans, après avoir repoussé les ténèbres qu’étaient les armées ennemies de ses prétendants ;

un fils naquit de celui-ci et de Lokamahādevī : Ammarāja ; quant à la vaillance, il était pareil à Arjuna, quant au dharma à Dharmarāja ;

^20-22Celui-ci, refuge de l’univers entier, l’illustre Vijayāditya, souverain suprême des grands rois, premier seigneur, illustre seigneur, très pieux, ayant convoqué tous les chefs de familles de la circonscription de Veṅgī, les rāṣṭrakūṭa en tête, ordonne ceci :

Lieu de naissance de la vérité, vénéré par son peuple, splendide seigneur, séjour de l’unique vertu qu’est le courage, le roi Kāma, qui révère les lotus que sont les pieds d’Īśa,

et celle qui possède la beauté, le charme, la splendeur et la franchise, dévouée au bien, Nāyāṁbā et la cour de ce dernier, elle dont l’éclat du regard augmente la splendeur,

^25-29il nous a été demandé par notre beau-père et notre belle-mère de donner à Vāmanaśārman, petit-fils de Vājasaneya Vāmanabhaṭṭa, du gotra de Bhāradvāja, qui habitait le village de Kallūru, fils de Śivvanabhaṭṭa, un terrain dont les semences et les graines de kodrava rapportent douze khaṇḍika,^↓5 à l’est du village nommé Guṇḍugolanu, à l’occasion du solstice d’hiver, après l’aspersion rituelle. Que ceci soit connu de vous ! L’édit prescrit que cette donation est exempte de toutes taxes.

^29-32Les limites de ce terrain sont : à l’est Tepalamupariya, au sud Punnīsvaramma-nagaruvu, à l’ouest le pannasa de Bhaṭāri, au nord Guṇḍiyabhaṭlaveṟuvu, Aucune charge ne doit lui être imposée, celui qui en impose est lié aux cinq grands crimes. Ainsi a parlé le bienheureux Vyāsa :

beaucoup ont donné une terre, beaucoup l’ont protégée, celui qui possède la terre en possède le fruit.

Qu’elle soit donnée par lui ou par un autre, celui qui prend une terre renaît ver de terre dans des excréments pendant soixante mille ans.

^35-36L’exécuteur est le kaṭakarāja. Que les chefs de Kalvapākṣīvumācepu et les * * *^↓6 Balāka et Velābhaṭā protègent ce poème de Mādhavabhaṭṭa, eux qui possèdent deux milliers de grands éléphants dans l’une et l’autre des armées.

Ce splendide édit a été gravé par le nommé Koṇḍācārya, pareil à Viśvakarman, fils de Dattandrāja-Mahendra.