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GOHILA DYNSTY.
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In the Samvat year 1500, after the time of the prosperous and illustrious king Vikramaditya, in the year called Praja-pati, the sun having gone to the north (of the equator), in the season of spring, on the 5th of Vaisakha Sudi, on Thursday, in the waterless region to the west of Sri Madhu-mats, for the final beatitude of his mother Jánu, (who was) a Sutter, of his father Sheth Sri Rama and of his brother Shetha Righava.-Shetba Mokala, with his brother Sånga and Limba, cunstructs, in Spingltala, by the road a well, filled with fresh water.
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Stone Inscription of Varteja, a village near Bhavnagar, of the time of Idol Dhundji Datel Sament 1654.
This is a monumcal stone-pillar raised in memory of a woman of the Kamjolia Brahmaya caste, who committed herself to flanies (ie became & Sati) on the death of her husband. The stone is situated near the Darbar's lodging. house at Varteja, a small village about six miles to the south-west of Bhivnagar. The part containing the inseription measuzres 12 in by 8 in, having eight lines of mostly incorrect Sanskrit prose in Devanagari characters. The letters in the last two lines are greatly obliterated. It is of the time of Riol Dhunaji, a Gohil chief and is datod Samvat 1674: Sake 1539; A. D. 1617.
१ | मंगलान्युदयम
२१६७४
TRANSLITERATION.
शाके १५३९र्तमा
३
मसिरे गुणश्रीम ४ ॥ शरदस्ती मांगदकार्तिकमा गुन५ ॥ पक्षे १॥ तिथी शनिवासरे ६ समये कंडोलजातीय.......
""दिने द
७ ||पावकपरिवर्तनप्रारंभ (ला) तस्याभुवना
८ ॥हस्तं (च) (रामोनाजी) पादता
९ मन नियमं कृत्वा
१० ॥ स्वर्ग ..........त्रि..........
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......३००००० • धर्षद सौ
TRANSLATION.
Hail! Wealth, glory, and joy * * * of Sri Kandolia caste on Saturday, the first of the bright half of the auspicious month Kartika in the Saradaritu
मो(बारानी) श्शु ३ शरहती
मांगल्य
वासरे
६ श
७च्चा
Aho! Shrutgyanam
