20. Terаsiкghа plates.
EI, Vol. XXX, No.45 (D.C. Sircar), IO, II, II, 81-85 with tr. (S. Rajaguru); Satyanarayan Rajaguru, JKHRS 2: 107 ff.

The village of Terаsiкghа (sometimes also called Tersinga) lies on the southern bank of the river Tel in the Madanpur-Rampur Zamindary of the old Kalahandi State, the present Kalahandi District of Orissa. The set of copper plates, which forms the subject of the present article, was discovered near the bank of the Tel by some cowherd boys of Terаsiкghа in the latter half of the year 1947. The plates are now in the possession of the Maharaja of Kalahandi.
Mr. Satyanаrаyaнa Rаjaguru secured the plates for examination in October 1947 and published his reading and interpretation of the inscription in the Journal of the Kalinga Historical Research Society, Vol. II, Nos. 2-3, 1947, pp. 107 ff. and Plates. Unfortunately Mr. Rajaguru's treatment of the epigraph is not quite satisfactory. In April 1948, the office of the Government Epigraphist for India received a set of impressions of the plates from Mr. K. N. Mahаpаtra of Kalahandi and, in the month of December of the same year, secured the original plates for examination through the Superintendent, Department of Archaeology, Eastern Circle, Calcutta. Besides the excellent impressions of the plates then prepared and now preserved in the office of the Government Epigraphist for India,
I had, in 1952, an opportunity of examining also the original record through the kindness of the Maharaja of Kalahandi.
This is a set of three small and thin plates each measuring 5.9 inches by 1.6 inches. The plates are strung together on a rather thin ring to which, however, the seal is not soldered in the usual fashion. The purpose of the seal has been served by flattening a portion of the ring into a small rectangle which bears the legend щrи-Tuштikаraх. The three plates together weigh 12 1/2 tolas while the weight of the ring is only 1 1/2 tolas.
The characters belong to the Kalinga variety of the Southern Alphabet and the epigraph may be assigned, on palaeographlc grounds, to the first half of the sixth century A.D. The alphabet resembles closely that of the early charters of the Gaкga kings of Kaliкganagara and Dantapura (DS)

TEXT

First Plate, First Side

1 Svi(sva)sti [|*] Parvvatadvаrakаd=bha[ga]vatyа Stasbhеniryyа-pаda-bha[kta]-
2 щrи-Sоbhокnаrаja-[ja]nanyа Kasthubhasayya Dаya-Jvar-Оla[k-а]-
3 di-bhоgaka-kшеtra[м*] Kащyapasyagаtra-Bra(Brа)hmaнa-Dонasvа[m]i-
4 nasya а-chandr-аrkka-kаlаya dattayi(m=i)ti ||

First Plate, Second Side

1 Svasti [|*] Tarabhramarakаt Stamhbещvarи-pаda-bhaktaх mаtа-pitр-pаd-аnuddhyаtaх щrи-[ma]-
2 hаrаja-Tuштikаraх Prastaravатaka-vаsinaх sarvva-samavеtаn=kuтumbinaх sa[mа]-
3 jгаpayati asty=ешa vатakо=ёsmаbhiх puнy-аyur-bbala-yaщо-vivрddhayе
4 [а]-chandra-tаrak-аrkka-pratiштham=aggrahаraм kрtvа Kащyapa-sag[о]ttra(ttrа)ya Аryya-Drонa-

Second Plate, First Side

5 щa[r*]mmaне saмpradattaх [|*] tad=еvaм jгаtvа bhavadbhiх pу[r]vv-оchita-maryyаd-оpas[th]аnaм ka[r*]ttavya[m] [|*]
6 api ch=аtra Vyаsa-gиtах щlоkа bhavanti [|] bhaviшyataщ=cha rаjго vijгаpayati [|*] yasya
7 yasya yasya yadа bhуmis=tasya tadа phalam [||1*] Sva-dattам para-dattам vа yatna(tnа)d=ra-
8 kшa Yudhiштhiraх(ra |) mahи[м*] mahimatам щrештha dаnаch=chhrеyо=ёnupаlana[m] [||2*] Шaштim=vaшшa-

Second Plate, Second Side

9 sahasrанi svarggе vasati [bhуmidaх |*] аchchhai(chchhе)ttа ch=аnumantа cha tаny=еva narakе vasеt [||3*] Sva-da-
10 ttа[м*] para-dattаm=vа yо harеta vasundharа[m] [||*6] sa viштhаyа[м*] kрmir=bhуtvа pitрbhis=sa-
11 ha pachyatе [||4*] Bahubhir=vvasudhа dattа rаjabhis=Sаgara(r-а)dibhi(bhiх |) yasya yasya yadа bhуmi-
12 s=tasya tasya tadа phalaм(lam ||5) Agniштоmmasthibhi=yyajгaiх bahubhir=v[v]ipula-dakшaнех [|*]

Third Plate, First Side

13 yaшто(шта) bhavati ra(rа)jеndraх ya(yо) dadаti vasundharаm [||6*] Аdityа Vasа(sa)vо Rudrах
14 purоgamа [|*] Щуlapанiщ=cha bhagavаn=abhinandanti bhуmidam [||*7] Rаhasi-
15 ka-Subandhоr=v[v]iditaм Sadgаmakеna likhitam=iti || щunya-ghеttram
16 prasthara-kшеtra-pramуkhaм [|*]

Third Plate, Second Side

17 Siddham [Svasti Parvatadvаrakаd=bhagavatyа Stambhещvaryyах] ......