Purvitemra
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Purvitemra (पूर्वी टेमरा) is a village in Bastar tahsil of Bastar district in Chhattisgarh.
Variants
- Temara (टेमरा)
- Ṫemarā (टेमरा)
- Temara-sthana (टेमरा-स्थान)
- Ṫemarā-sthāna (टेमरा-स्थान)
Jat Gotras Namesake
- Tamara = Temara (टेमरा) or Purvitemra (पूर्वी टेमरा) is a village in Bastar tahsil of Bastar district in Chhattisgarh. On right bank of Indravati River, It was a district of Chakrakota-rashtra of Nagavanshi Jat rulers.
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Jat Gotras Namesake
History
No.8. Temara Stone Inscription of Saka Samvat 1246 (1324 A.D.)
Source - Epigraphia Indica & Record of the Archaeological Survey of India, Vol.X, 1909-10, pp.39-40
[p.39]: Temara is a small village adjoining Kuruspal in the Bastar State of the Central Provinces. The place contains some ancient remains from which the sati stone under notice was some-how removed to Kuruspal, where it was found by Rai Bahadur Baijnath among the ruins of a temple. The stone has been, however, so long there that it has got entangled amidst the roots of a Tendu (Diospyrus tomentosa) tree. Some portion of the stone is underground, hut the visible portion measures 6' 5" x 1' 7" and contains 14 lines of writing in Nagari characters covering a space 2' 4" x 1' 7".
The letters are bold averaging 1-1/2", but, owing to the roughness of the stone, some of them are not clear. The language of the inscription is Sanskrit prose. It records the immolation of the illustrious Manikyadevi3 after the death of her husband at Temara-sthana of Sairaharaja-rajya, a district of Chakrakota-rashtra, during the reign of king Harischandra, in the Saka year 1246.
In this record the place and date are important. It has been, I think, conclusively proved that Chakrakuta was situated in Bastar and the fact of Temara being included in it is a further confirmation of what has been proved before. 1 The date Saka- Samvat 1246 corresponding to 1324 A.D., is the latest yet found of the period when the interior of the Bastar country went by the name of Chakrakuta. The record being necessarily brief does not give any clue as to what family king Harischandra belonged, and until otherwise proved, it does not seem unreasonable to suppose that he was of the same dynasty as the kings of Chakrakuta of the llth and 12th centuries, viz. the Chhinda (छिंद) or Sinda family of the Naga race. This record would, in that case, supply an additional historical name to the list of five kings known from other inscriptions and would show that the Nagavamsi rule at least continued to about the middle of the 14th century A.D.
Translation
Hail! At Ṫemarā-sthāna (village) of the Sairaharaja-rajya in the Chakrakota province (rashtra), during the reign of the illustrious Harischandradeva, who spoke the truth and who
1. Abore, Vol. IX. p. 178.
2. From impressions taken by Mr. Venkoba Rao of the Madras Epigraphical Department (No. 259 of the collection for 1908).
3. Read rajya
[p.40]: was (as it were) the preceptor in truth (-speaking), through the favour (?) of inglorious (god ? ) Kalamkam Narayana, 1 residing at Mahagoshtha,-(in this village) in the Saka year 1246 the Raktāksha-samvatsara, on Saturday, the[12]th tithi of the bright half of Chaitra,- Amuna, an executive officer (? ādeshakārin) of the glorious Harischandradeva, having gone to heaven (svarga), his companion (and) chaste wife Manikya[devi] [entered] eternity by entering
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