Kolhāpur Stone Inscription of Bhoja II : Śaka Year 1104

Success!

Verse 1

Victorious is the manifested Boar-form of Viṣṇu, which agitated the ocean, and which had the earth resting on the tip of its right uplifted tusk.

Verse 2

There was formerly a Vidyādhara, Jīmūtavāhana by name, who offered his life to Garuḍa for the sake of others.

Verse 3

There is this family, called Śilāhāra, of the kings who were lords of Tagara. In that family was born king Jatiga I, the crest-jewel of princes.

Verse 4

Hail! There was a king, Nāyimma by name, who was the son of the illustrious king Jatiga. His son was Candrarāja of great fame. His son verily was Jatiga II, eulogised by the people of the whole world. His illustrious son was Goṅkalla, and that king’s son on the earth was the illustrious king Mārasiṃha.

Verse 5

His son, whose feet were fondled by the crowns of princes, was a king named the illustrious Guvala II.  His brother, king Bhojadeva I, a lion to the elephants that were his enemies, governed his kingdom here uninterruptedly, being of great fame, like the lord of Laṅkā.

Verse 6

Who, having himself captured a number of impregnable forts, defeated Govinda and Koṅgaja ………………

Verse 7

His younger brother, King Ballāladeva, of renowned power, was like him. He, the Lord of the lady of royal fortune, to whom the kings of the earth submitted, always spread his well-known power in different directions.

Verse 8

His younger brother became well-known by the name of Gaṇḍarāditya—he who was the supporter of religion on the earth; who made all people conform to their respective duties; who was the foremost among those who were in the forefront by their courage; and who gave away abundant wealth in charity.

Verse 9

He, by his anonymous gifts, is engaged day after day in giving protection to various beings who are distressed, helpless, poor, miserable, maimed and scattered. He bestows gifts such as those of skins of the black antelopes, cows, land and parturient cows; his heart is always engaged in contemplation on Brahman, and he is a veritable wish-fulfilling tree to the Brāhmaṇas.

Verse 10

He has performed the sixteen vows such as the Tulāpuruṣa gift, and by his merits he is the sole abode of the fame of Gāṅgeya (Bhīṣma) in respect of morally pure conduct.

Verse 11

Then was born his son Vijayārkadeva, a lion to the lordly elephants that were his powerful feudatories, a unique warrior in the three worlds, whose bright fame was manifested by his foot-stool rubbed by the foreheads of the hostile princes.

Verse 12

His wealth was acquired for bestowing it in charity; he fulfilled his vow of heroism by protecting the people; his pleasing speech was in keeping with the truth; his mind was engaged in the contemplation of the feet of Hari (Viṣṇu); his wealth was spent in removing the adversity of good people. What poet is able to extol the merits of that Vijayāditya with proper discernment?

Verse 13

Victorious is king Bhojadeva II, the son of Vijaya (i.e. Vijayāditya), the sun that dispels the frost in the form of his enemies, the sickle that mows the creeper in the form of ……; who is veritable Indra in respect of wealth and victories; who has destroyed a multitude of his enemies; and who is served by great kings.

Verse 14

As Rāma ……….. even so that god incarnated himself in the kingdom of Bhoja.

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Hail! The illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara, the glorious Bhojadeva II—who has obtained the five mahāśabdas, and who is adorned with all royal titles such as a scion of the great Silāra family,’ ‘Gāṅgeya in respect of moral purity’ ……….. ‘a uterin brother of others’ wives,’ ‘an adamantine cage for the protection of those that seek refuge,’ ‘Yudhiṣṭhira in the Kali Age,’ ‘he who is learned by nature (or a Vidyādhara by birth),’ ‘he who has obtained the favour of a boon from the holy Mahālakṣmī,’ and ‘the lord of Tagara, the best of towns,’ who is governing his kingdom, holding pleasant conversation for his own diversion at his camp at Valbavāḍa—has, on the holy occasion of the Uttarāyaṇa Saṅkrānti of the Sun on Tuesday, the fourth tithi of the bright fortnight of Puṣya (i.e. Pauṣa) in the current cyclic year Śubhakṛt, when 1104 years have elapsed by the era of the Śaka king, granted together with a royal charter for the augmentation of his kingdom, a house measuring twelve cubits in the south-western direction of and within the enclosure of the maṭha caused to be constructed by the Sahavāsi (Brāhmaṇa) Lokaṇa Nāyaka within the enclosure of and to the north of the western gate of the famous temple of Mahālakṣmī at Kollāpura, for the worship of Umā-Maheśvara, a form of Amṛteśvara, and for the feeding of the Brāhmaṇas, to serve as a granary of the maṭha, and four white houses situated to the south of the group of dwellings to the Brāhmaṇas such as the Sahavāsīs Ādityabhaṭṭa and Janārdanabhaṭṭa, and the Karahātakas Prabhākara Ghaisāsa and Vāsiyaṇa Ghaisāsa, who reside in that maṭha, and also a flower-garden in the east for the worship with five-fold offerings of the god, and a field measuring four hundred and fifty vaprakas in the northern direction and within the limits of the village Seleyavāḍa comprised in the Paṇaturage golla together with a house connected therewith, measuring twelve cubits, in the village Paṇḍarana by pouring water on their hands as gifts free from taxes, free from all molestation and not to be interfered with by royal servants even with a finger, and lasting as long as the moon, the sun and the earth will endure.

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And for the worship, with five offerings, of the same god, for the repairs of what may be broken and dilapidated of that maṭha, and for providing food to the Brāhmaṇas dwelling there, the same Lokaṇa Nāyaka has donated by a royal charter a field measuring two hundred and twenty-five vaprakas by the rod of Eḍenāḍa in ……………… in Eḍenāḍa and also a house measuring twelve cubits, and a field measuring ……… nivartanas as well as a house measuring twelve cubits together with āruvaṇa and together with the right to eight-fold enjoyment, after purchasing it for the purpose of the gift from Nemaṇa and Lakṣmaṇa, sons of the Mahattara Mādhavārya and grandsons of Uddhavārya of the Kāśyapa gotra—the gift being free from all taxes, free from all molestation and faultless in respect of all income and lasting as long as the moon, the sun and the stars endure.

         (Here follow six benedictory and imprecatory verses.)

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The wealth of those who will die sonless will pass over to the Sahavāsī Brāhmaṇas in this world.