3861.] A Donative Inscription of the Tenth Century. 197 
Fortune. He was successor to Sfvaka, who followed Vairisinha, 
and he, Krishnaraja.* In the year of Vikramaditya 1031, cor- 
responding to A. D. 974, in the month Bhadrapada, on the four- 
teenth day of its light fortnight, Vakpatiraja, at the instance of 
Kanhapaika, probably his chief counsellor, affixed, at Ujjayim, his 
signature to the grant which forms the subject of the inscription. 
But the object of grant, the vadaraf of Pipparika, is unintelligi- 
ble. Pipparika was situated in, and appertained to, the Ihoga of 
Gardabhapaniya, which skirted the Narmada. Its boundaries were 
as follows : on the east, Agaravahala ; on the north, Chikhillika ; oil 
the west, the Gardabha streamlet ; and, on the south, Pis'achadeva, 
a place of religious resort. The donee, who, it should seem, had 
immigrated from Ahichchhatra,J was Yasanta Acharya, son of 
* An inscription very like that I am now dealing with, naming the same 
kings, emanating likewise from Vakpatiraja, and dated only four years later, in 
A. V. 1036, has appeared in this Journal, for 1850, pp. 475 — 480. Another in- 
scription, from Nagpoor, which speaks of Vairisinha and of Sfyaka— misread 
Bhimaka, — will be found in the Journal of the Bombay -Branch of the Boyal 
Asiatic Society, No. VI., pp. 259 — 286. It has since been deciphered and trans- 
lated anew by Professor Lassen, and, no doubt, with much greater fidelity than 
was observed by the dilettante who first published it. 
t Or — as the original does not graphically characterize v from b — badara, pos- 
sibly. And yet this does not help us to a meaning, on the supposition that the 
word is Sanskrit. It occurs in our instrument thrice. Though apparently 
denoting some division of land, grammar is against referring it to the etymon 
vandj dividere. 
Equally strange is the word bhoga, presumably cognate, in import, with 
vadara. 
Pipparika is derived, unquestionably, from pippala, the holy fig-tree. Analo- 
gously, many villages are, to this day, called Bamori, from bamv/r, corrupted 
lrom barbura , the acacia-tree ; Bansa and Bansf, from vans' a, the bamboo ; 
Chirola, from chirol, a tree missed by our botanists and lexicographers ; Ima- 
liya, lrom amlilcd , the tamarind-tree ; Kanjiya, from Icanji , a tree in the same 
predicament with the chirol ; Khajuriya, from Icharjuri, the wild-date ; &c. &c. 
For Maua, vulgarly written Mow, see this Journal, for 1858, p. 228, foot-note. 
Pippariya, the modernized form of Pipparika, still denominates scores of 
places throughout Central India. A story goes, that, not many generations ago, 
a native prince in this quarter of the country gave a mendicant, on his asking, a 
warrant lor a rupee, addressed to the head-man of Pippariya. The holy rogue 
levied his imposition from Pippariya No. I., and so on to and including Pippa- 
riya No. CL. ; for Pippariyas, what with towns, villages, and hamlets, so called, 
turned out to be scattered to that extent over his royal master’s dominions. 
I A region of this name is placed in the north of India by the scholiast on the 
llaima-lcos' a, IV., 28. Also see the Indische Alterthumskimde, Vol. I., p. 602, 
first foot-note ; and Voyages des Pblerins Bouddhistes, passim. Professor Wil- 
son —in his Translation of the Vishna-purana, p. 187, twentieth foot-note — -3ays, 
that “ Abiehchatra [read Aliichchhatra] seems to have been applied to more than 
one city but he does not give his grounds for so thinking. Vasanta’s country 
only is named. It was, probably, one with what is called, in a manuscript con- 
nected with the Atharva-veda , Ahichatra ; which, as is inferrible from the con- 
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