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No. 14.]
TWO NOLAMBA INSCRIPTIONS FROM DHARMAPURI.
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On the date of inscription A., Professor Jacobi of Bonn, to whom I had submitted the details for verification, bas very kindly contributed the following :-" The date won't come out right. The Paridhävi year was 892. On the 1st June of that year Jupiter entered Dhanus. Åsbūdha sı. di. 5 fell on 3rd June, Saturday, not Thursday, and the nakshatra was Maghả, not Pärva-Phalguni." Inscription B. is not dated, but may be referred to the beginning of the 10th century A.D.
INSCRIPTION A.
TEXT.
West face. i srimatām jñānarūpāņa 102 kalok-ávalokipa[m] [19] $ăsa3 pasya Jinendraņā[n] bhadram 4 bhoyan-nirantaran [ll lo] Svasti Pa5 llav-anvayāys [11] Vijita-cha6 turanta-mabimandala-sri7 Pallavădhirajara magam a8 vanata-samasta-samants9 makata-malo]i-kiran-iru10 pita-charaṇa)-sarasiru11 ha-sri-[NO][lam ][b]adhiraja12 rgga[m] Svasti (Satyar* Jakya Komgu13 ņivarmma [dharmma]mahárā14 jä[dhiraja Na]n[da]giri-na15 tha Kova[ļāla)-puravare16 svars sri-R[@]chamalla-Vermma. 17 digaļgan Ma[hā]dēviyarggam 18 puţtido[?-akhi]!a-[bh]uvana tal19 Ta-ratna .. (ya]r=appa | Jāa20 bbega[m] put[t]ido[m] samadhiya21 ta-pañchamabāšabda- Pallav-&22 nyaya-sri-psithuvi-vallabha Pa23 llav[a]kulatilaka gri-Maho24 ndrădhiraja-Nolambs Mabā. 25 bali-kula-vidhvamsanam geydu 26 prithuvi-rajyam geyyattires [ll]
South face. 27 Svasti [11] Saka-ntipa-käl-ātita28 samvatsaramgal-entunürs. 29 padinaydan[@]ya Paridba30 viy-emba sa[m]vatsara pravarttise 31 Asbå[dha]māsada sukla32 pakshada panchamiyu Bți33 haspativāramu Parvva-PX-5
. From three sets of inked estampages prepared in 1901. * Bead geyguttire.
. Read śaka.. • The syllable ra is engraved below the line. . Read - Pha..