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SURYA DYNASTY. 1. This fine inscription was composed by Ekanátha son of Vishnu-bhatta of the splendid Dasapura caste.
2. Vijala had a son named Manâ, who had great merits and was famous. He had (a son) Visala who was an artist and possessed many good qualities. He caused his many servants to build the temple of Sankara with very high pinnacles and surrounded by many temples.
3. May that Visala live long who wrote the whole of this inscription in praiseworthy hand and unerring in the palace of Sriman Samadhiša Maheśvara.
4. This inscription was engraved by Visala son of Sutradhâra Manâ, an artist and son of Vidyadhara.
5. Artist Visala Frols and engraved this splendid inscription in fine letters in the palace of Samadhisa. Sam: 1485. Sakc 1350. 3rd of Magha Sukla (bright-balf).
VII.
A stone inscription of Adabadanáthaji at Nagadd near the temple of
Ekalingaji. Dated Samvat 1494.
· The temple of Adabadanåthaji is a Jain temple near the village of Någadā and op the bank of a lake called Någahșida in the neighbourbood of the temple of Ekalingaji. In this temple there is a Jain idol in the base of which this inscription is to be found engraved in a white marble stone. It is 4 ft. 4 in: by 1, containing eight lines of Sanskrit prose composition in Devanagari character. The stone is, of course, well prescrved being inside the temple. It mentions the name of king Kumbhakarna of Meywar, son of Mokalasimha, in whose time Sbê Saranga, a wealthy merchant of Sri Devakula pâtaka, caused to be made and established an idol of Sri Santi Jinavara. It is dated Samvat 1494. A. D. 1438.
chant of Sri War, son of Mokhe temple. It
TRANSLITERATION.
१ संवत १४९४ वर्षे मापशुदी ११ गुरुवारे भी २ मेदपा(ट)देशे भीदेवकुलपाटकपुरबरे नरेश्वर श्रीमोकल पुत्र २ श्रीकुंभकर्ण भूपपतिविजयराज्ये श्रीउसवसे (शे)श्रीनवलक्षशाखमंडनसा लक्ष्मी ४ धरसुत सा लाधू तत्पुत्रसाधुश्री रामदेव तद्भार्या प्रथमा मेलादे द्वितिया माल्हणदे । मेलादेकुक्षिसंभूत ५ सा श्रीसाहणपाल माल्हणदेकृविसरोजहंसोपम जिनधर्मकर्पूरवातसचीनुक सा सारंग तदंगनाहोमादे
लखमादे
Ahol Shrutgyanam
