Paragaon

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Paragaon (पारगाँव) is a village in tahsil and district Baloda Bazar in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

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Location

Paragaon is a small Village/hamlet in Baloda Bazar Tehsil in Raipur District of Chattisgarh State, India. It comes under Paragaon Panchayath. It is located 91 KM towards East from District head quarters Raipur. Paragaon is surrounded by Palari Tehsil towards South , Bhatapara Tehsil towards west , Kasdol Tehsil towards East , Pamgarh Tehsil towards East.[1]

Rivers: Lilagar River, Seonath River

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History

Paragaon Plates Of Ratnadeva II : Kalachuri Year 885 (=1134 AD)

No.122, Plate CI
Paragaon Plates Of Ratnadeva II - Kalachuri Year 885 (=1134 AD)

Source - Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1905, p.622-626

[p.622]: These plates were discovered near the village Pâragaon, about 7 miles north of Baloda Bazar in the Raipur District of the Chhattisgarh Division in Madhya Pradesh. They were sent by the Deputy Commissioner, Raipur, to the Government Epigraphist for India for decipherment. They are now in the possession of the former Malguzar of the

[p.623]: village. They are edited here from excellent ink impressions kindly supplied by the Government Epigraphist.

They are two copper-plates, each measuring 12 2" broad and 7 7" high, and are inscribed on the inner side only. .... The ring carries a detachable round seal, 25" in diameter, which has, inside a circular border of knobs, the figure of Lakshmi seated on a lotus, with an elephant on either side pouring water over her. The figures of the goddess and the elephant are beautifully executed. Below the lotus-seat of the goddess appears the legend Râja-shrimad-Ratnadeva in two lines in the Nagarî characters1 like those of the copper-plate grant. Below the legend is seen a sheathed sword as on the seal and coins of Pratapamalla2. The weight of the plates is 251-1/2 tolas and that of the ring, 21 tolas.

The record consists of thirty lines, fifteen being inscribed on the inner side of each plate. The characters are Nagari. The average size of the letters is 4". They are neatly written and carefully engraved, and resemble those of the Sarkhô plates of the same king.3 .... The language is Sanskrit, and except for Om namô Vrahmanê in the beginning and the date and mangalam mahà-shrih at the end, the whole record is metrically composed. It has twenty-one verses, all of which are numbered. The metre of verse 12 is faulty. The first eleven verses, which trace the genealogy of Ratnadeva II from Kôkalla, occur in the same order in the earlier Sarkhô plates. The verses in the formal portion are, of course, different.....

The plates refer themselves to the reign of Ratnadeva II of the Kalachuri Dynasty of Ratanpur . They record the grant, by Ratnadeva II, of the village Vodala (वोडला) (L.23, V.15), situated in Kosala, on the occasion of the solar eclipse which occurred in the month of Kârttika. The donee was Padmanâbha, the son of Harisharman and grandson of Sahadeva who had emigrated from the village Gori (गोरि) (L.20, V.12). He belonged to the Bhargava gôtra with the five pravaras Bhargava, Chyavana, Apnavana, Aurva and Jâmadgnya.

The plates are dated, in the last line, on Wednesday, the first tithi of the bright fortnight of Âshvina in the Kalachuri year 885. The tithi and the year are expressed in decimal figures only. This is one of the few dates which name the Kalachuri era specifically. According to the epoch of 247-48 A C , the date corresponds, for the expîred year 885, to Wednesday, the 19th September 1134 A.C. On that day the tithi Ashvina su. di. 1 commenced 19 h 40 m after mean sunrise. This date is important for determining the initial day of the Kalachuri year4. It shows clearly that with the epoch of 247-48 A.C. which is seen to hold good in all later dates from North India and Chhattisgarh, the year of the

1 On the seal of the earlier Sheorinarayan plates Ratnadëva II bears the title Mahârânaka^ see above, p.422

2 Above, p. 544.

3. The name of the writer is not mentioned in this grant, but he may have been Kîrtidhâra who had written the earlier grant of this king, dated K. 880, see above, p 424 and n 3.

4. For other dates of the same type, see Nos. 63 and 94, above.

[p.624]: Kaiachud eta could not have commenced in the month of Ashvina as was supposed by Prof. Kielhorn.1

The grant purports to have been made on the occasion of the solar eclipse which occurred in the month of Kârttika, evidently in the Kalachuri year 885 recorded at the end of the grant, but neither in that year (corresponding to 1133-34 A.C) nor in either of the two preceding years K. 883 and K. 884 (corresponding to 1131-32 and 1132-33 A C. respectively), was there any solar eclipse in the month of Kârttika, amânta or pûrnimànta. There was, however, a solar eclipse in the month of pùrmmânta Shravana in K. 885. It occurred on the 23rd July 1134 A.C. It would, therefore, seem that Kârttîkê màst in V.15 is a mistake for Srâvanë màss. This proposed reading would also suit the metre of V. 15 very well. Besides, this would reduce the interval between the date of the grant and the issue of the plates to about two months, which appears quite plausible.2

As for the localities mentioned in the present plates, the village Gori (गोरि) (L.20, V.12), from which the donee's grandfather had emigrated, may be Gora, 18 miles almost due south of Paragaon. Kosala is, of course, Dakshina-Kôsala, roughly corresponding to modern Chhattisgarh. Vodala (वोडला) (L.23, V.15) may be Boluda (बोलुदा), 27 miles south by east of Paragaon in the Baloda Bazar tahsil of the Raipur District.

1. If the Kalachuri year commenced on Ashvina su di 1, the date of the present plates would have to be regarded as irregular, for the month of Ashvina would, in that case, fall in 1132 A C if the year 885 was current, and in 1133 AC if it was expired. The tithi Ashvina su di 1, on which the present plates were issued, fell on Monday (the 12th September) in 1132 A C , and on Friday (the 1st September) in 1133 A C. In neither case did it fall on Wednesday as required.

2 If the reading kartikka mass is regarded as correct, the mistake will have to be attributed to the wrong calculations of the astronomers of the court of Ratnadeva II. That some of the astronomers were not follo wing then the correct methods of calculation is shown by the Sarkhô plates of this king, see above, p 424

Translation

Success I Om ! Adoration to Brahman !

(For a translation of verses 1-11, see above, pp 428-29 )

(Verse-12) There was a Brâhmana, Sahadeva (by name) of the Bhârgava gotra, with the five pravaras, Bhârgava, Chyavana, Apnavâna, Aurva and Jàmdagnya, who had emigrated from the village Gori.

(V. 13) From him was (born) Harisharman, who was conversant with the Vëdas, Smritis and Purânas (and who was) the birth-place of sacrificial knowledge and the abode of righteous conduct.

(V. 14) There was his son Padmanâbha, who was conversant with the Vëdas and Vëdângas, who maintained the sacred fire, who was devoted to righteous conduct and was pious, and who resembled (the god) Padmanâbha (Vishnu)

(V. 15) This king Ratnadeva (II), who is always devoted to religion, has donated with dévotion this village named Vodala (वोडला) (L.23, V.15), (situated) in Kosala, to that Padmanâbha, when the sun was devoured by Râhu in the month of Kârttika.

(V. 15) Who ever king or amatya there might be even in another age, he also should always preserve this gift with care.

(here follow five henedictive and imprecatory verses)

In the Kalachuri year 885, (the month) Âshvina, the bright (fortnight), the (lunar) day I, on Wednesday.

May there be happiness and great prosperity ! Shri !.

Seal The King, the illustrious Ratnadëva.

Wiki editor Notes

  • Gori (Jat clan) = Gori (गोरि) (L.20, V.12). Gori (गोरि) (L.20, V.12) is a village mentioned in Paragaon Plates Of Ratnadeva II - Kalachuri Year 885 (=1134 AD). ....The plates refer themselves to the reign of Ratnadeva II of the Kalachuri Dynasty of Ratanpur . They record the grant, by Ratnadeva II, of the village Vodala (वोडला) (L.23, V.15), situated in Kosala, on the occasion of the solar eclipse which occurred in the month of Kârttika. The donee was Padmanâbha, the son of Harisharman and grandson of Sahadeva who had emigrated from the village Gori (गोरि) (L.20, V.12). The village Gori (गोरि) (L.20, V.12), from which the donee's grandfather had emigrated, may be Gora, 18 miles almost due south of Paragaon.[2]...Paragaon is a village in tahsil and district Baloda Bazar in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

Paragaon Plates Of Prithvideva II : (Kalachuri) Year 897 (=1146 AD)

No. 123; Plate CII

Paragaon Plates Of Prithvideva II : (Kalachuri) Year 897 (=1146 AD)

Source - Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1905, p.626-631

[p.626]: This set of copper-plates was discovered together with the preceding one in 1930 near the village Pâragaon, about 7 miles north of Baloda Bazar, in the Raipur District of the

[p.627]:Chhattisgarh Division in Madhya Pradesh. The plates were sent by the Deputy Commissioner, Raipur, to the Government Epigraphist for India for decipherment. They are now in the possession of the former Malguzar of the village. They are edited here from an excellent ink impression kindly supplied by the Government Epigraphist.

The copper-plates are two in number, each measuring 12 8" broadly 7 5"high. ....The record consists of thirty-seven lines, of which nineteen are inscribed on the inner side of the first plate and the remaining eighteen, on that of the second. The characters are Nâgarî and resemble those of the preceding grant. The average size of the letters is about 4." The grant is written very carelessly and contains several mistakes. The language is Sanskrit, and except for Om namo Vrahmanë in the beginning and the name of the engraver and the date at the end, the whole record is metrically composed. There are, in all, twenty-seven verses, all of which are numbered. The first ten verses which carry the genealogy from Kôkalla to the donor's father Ratnadëva II occur in the same order as in the preceding grant, but verse 5 of the latter, eulogising Kârtavîrya, has been omitted Verse 11, eulogising the donor Prithvîdëva II, occurs also in other grants of the king. ...

The plates refer themselves to the reign of Prithvîdëva II of the Kalachuri Dynasty of Ratanpur. His genealogy is traced from Kôkalla I of Tripuri as in the preceding grant of his father Ratnadëva II. The object of this inscription is to record the grant, by Prithvîdëva II, of the village Vadada (वड़दा) (L.26), situated in Kosala (कोसल), on the occasion of his father's shrâddha. The donee was the same Bràhmana who received the preceding grant, viz, Padmanâbha, the son of Harisharman and grandson of Sahadëva who had emigrated from the village Gauri (गौरी) (L.16)1. His gôtra and pravaras also are mentioned as in the preceding grant The tâmra-praiasti, as the inscription is called in verse 26, was composed by the poet Malhana (मल्हण) (L.34),2 the son of Subhankara. It was written on the copper-plates by Sùpata,3 the son of Kîrtidhara. The engraver was Dharanidhara (धरणीधर) (L.37), the son of Lakshmidhara.

The plates are dated, in the last line, on Wednesday, the 15th tithi of the bright fortnight of Phalguna in the year 897 of an unspecified era. The tithi and the year are expressed in the decimal figures only. The date must, of course, be referred to the Kalachuri era and regularly corresponds, for the expired year 897, to Wednesday, the 27th February 1146 A.C. On that day the tithi Phâlguna su. di. 15 commenced 8 h 25 m. after mean sunrise.4 If the grant was actually made, and not merely recorded, on the aforementioned

1. The village-name occurs as Gôri in the preceding plates

2. Malhana composed also the text of the Bilaigarh plates of Prithvîdëva II, issued in the preceding year K 896 (above, No 89)

3. Sûpata appears to be the elder brother of Vatsaraja who wrote the three later grants of Prithvîdëva II, dated K 900 and 905 (above. Nos 91, 92 and 94)

4. Though the tithi was not connected civilly with Wednesday, it seems to have been cited as it was current at the time of the shrâdàha. For similar instances, see the dates of Nos. 48 and 65, above

[p.628]: date, the present insctiption would give us the tithî of Ratnadëva II's death, viz, Phâlguna su. di 15. This was, however, not the first annual shrâddha of that king; for, we have earlier inscriptions of Prithvideva II, dating from K. 8901

As for the localities mentioned in the present grant, Kosala and Gauri (plainly identical with Gôri mentioned in the preceding grant) have already been identified. Vadadâ, the village granted, is probably identical with Badrâ, 22 miles south by east of Pàragaon in the Baloda Bazar tahsil of the Raipur District.

1. See Nos 86-89, above.

Wiki editor Notes

  • Gauri (Jat clan) = Gauri (गौरी) (L.16). [Gauri]] (गौरी) (L.16) village is mentioned in Paragaon Plates Of Prithvideva II : (Kalachuri) Year 897 (=1146 AD). ....The donee was the Bràhmana Padmanâbha, the son of Harisharman and grandson of Sahadëva who had emigrated from the village Gauri (गौरी) (L.16). ...The village Gauri (गौरी) (L.16), from which the donee's grandfather had emigrated, may be Gora, 18 miles almost due south of Paragaon. [7]...Paragaon is a village in tahsil and district Baloda Bazar in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.onefivenine.com/india/villages/Raipur/Baloda-Bazar/Paragaon#google_vignette
  2. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1905, p.622-626
  3. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1905, p.622-626
  4. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1905, p.622-626
  5. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1905, p.626-631
  6. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1905, p.626-631
  7. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1905, p.626-631
  8. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1905, p.626-631
  9. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionium Indicarium Vol IV Part 2 Inscriptions of the Kalachuri-Chedi Era, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, 1905, p.626-631

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