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Rasesh Jamındar
letters for Varase in the third line is bit confusing Normally we find this word written in two letters as thus : Varse. The intention behind this is not clear Probably may be a scribe's mistake
Text 1 TTĘT! HETA (779) FECH - 9 -STT HET)--- Firoft E[a] ?20[+)? - faastas
Fif - - - - 4 lat a 4 . -ta-erria ६ केशर सिकव
This record was issued during the reign of the king Mahākshatrapa Swāmı Rudrasimha 1st, son of the king Mahākshatrapa Rudradāmā. Dated in the year probably 110 of the Saka Ela this erection was done in memory of somebody by someone whose names are not legible. The digit of the unit is absolutely missing because of corrosin, therefore nothing can be guessed the identification of gotra is also not possible. Title swami for Rudradāmā is conspicuously missing Perhaps the damaged portion in the first line before the word Rudradāmā may have bad engraved siāmi, which is not visible obviously.
We have so far come across four inscriptions of the time of Rudrasimha Ists. This record offers no new material historically either regarding the date or the king excepting the addition of one more epigraph to this king. Fragmentary Stone-inscription
First noticed by P P, Pandya, the then archaeologist of the former Saurashtra State, in 1959, this fragmentary stoneinscription was preserved in the office of Shri JM. Nanavati the then officiating Government Archaeologist of Gujarat,
4. Refer the word varse in the fifth line of the Andhau inscription of - this king (See ibid), S ibid, vol. 3, no. 2-3, pp 47 6 See figure No 2.
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