1857: Sann Sattavan ki Souryagatha
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- ISBN13: 9789348309952
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher Imprint: Research India Press
- Pages: 193
- Language: Hindi
- Item Weight: 500
- BISAC Subject(s): Archaeology
Aira Mahameghavahana Maharaja Khäravela was the greatest king of early Kalinga in the first century BCE. A singular but authentic report on this famous King of Kalinga, Kharavela was furnished by Hatigumpha (also called Hathigumpha) inscription in Udayagiri Hill of Bhubaneswar, the present capital of Odisha. It is in a mutilated form and so a clear photograph is not now available to the scholars. In 1916 KP.Jayaswal, famous Indian historian, approached His Honour, Sir Edward Gait, Lieutenant-Governor of Bihar and Orissa, to obtain an impression of the inscription for publication in the Journal of Bihar Orissa Research Society. His Honour had kindly arranged with the Archaeological Department to get the impression of the inscription. This impression was taken by R.D.Banerji in June 1917.
A facsimile of the inscription was not available till 1917, though from 1825 the inscription by eye-copy and illustration of it by hand writing was utilised by the historians starting from Andrew Stirling. But from 1917 the Chiselled history of Kharavela came to light with the publication of Hatigumpha inscription by K.P.Jayaswal in the Journal of Bihar Orissa Research Society Several historians of India and abroad starting from Rajendralal Mitra, Bhagawanlal Indraji, J.F.Fleet, R.D.Banerji, K.P.Jayaswal, B.M.Barua, K.N.Mahapatra, N.K.Sahu and others have depended on this mutilated but tantalising record for the study of early Kalinga under Khäravela. Hence many rash theories were in circulation on this famous Kalinga King Khäravela on the basis of the record. Despite all defects in the facsimile of the Hatigumpha inscription it is the only source of our study and hence the picture we have on him is very often dim and incorrect leading to many constructions and speculations. But the subject of the inscription can be analysed properly with the support of some other archaeological findings and literary texts. The author of the inscription sometimes presented the names which he could pronounce in a corrupt form for which careless interpretation appears to gain popularity. In this respect we have to study the readings of the previous historians on this inscription carefully and should have scientific and correct interpretation only after discarding all imaginative and creative notes.
A facsimile of the inscription was not available till 1917, though from 1825 the inscription by eye-copy and illustration of it by hand writing was utilised by the historians starting from Andrew Stirling. But from 1917 the Chiselled history of Kharavela came to light with the publication of Hatigumpha inscription by K.P.Jayaswal in the Journal of Bihar Orissa Research Society Several historians of India and abroad starting from Rajendralal Mitra, Bhagawanlal Indraji, J.F.Fleet, R.D.Banerji, K.P.Jayaswal, B.M.Barua, K.N.Mahapatra, N.K.Sahu and others have depended on this mutilated but tantalising record for the study of early Kalinga under Khäravela. Hence many rash theories were in circulation on this famous Kalinga King Khäravela on the basis of the record. Despite all defects in the facsimile of the Hatigumpha inscription it is the only source of our study and hence the picture we have on him is very often dim and incorrect leading to many constructions and speculations. But the subject of the inscription can be analysed properly with the support of some other archaeological findings and literary texts. The author of the inscription sometimes presented the names which he could pronounce in a corrupt form for which careless interpretation appears to gain popularity. In this respect we have to study the readings of the previous historians on this inscription carefully and should have scientific and correct interpretation only after discarding all imaginative and creative notes.
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