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This eulogy was engraved by Kadvil son of Gajadhara Kanhwa.
On Wednesday the 10th of FAlaguna Vadi (dark half) of the year 1287 of the Vikrama Samvata
III. Stone-Inscription of the time of King Kumdrapdia in the temple of Blitandika
at Jundgadh. Dated Vallabhi Samvat 850. This inscription is cut into a hard black stone measuring on its surface 20 it. by 12 ft. It is at present kept in the Siva temple of Bhutnatha built by Mr. Nrisinhaprasad Hariprasad, a respectable Nagar Brålimaga of Junagadh. It has nothing to do with the building of the temple. But it relates to the building of two Siva temples and a grant of a village for their maintenance by the wife of Dhavala probably Yasodhayala mentioned in the preceeding inscription, a minister of king Kumarapala. The inscription, however, has lost a great part of its contents in the middle, where the letters have been entirely defaced. There are in all thirty-four lines of Sanskrit written in modern Devanagari characters. The dates given therein are interesting as they mention two different eras, vix: the Valabhi and the Sinha. The year of the former era is 850 which corresponds to year 60 of the latter, both of which correspond to the year 1169 of the Christian era.
TRANSLITERATION. १ उरवस्तिजयोभ्युदयन॥अजेषुणा त्रिशूलेन कंदर्पत्रिपुरांधकान् योवधीत् सोध्वरध्वंसी धनैर्धा २ न्यैधिनोतु (वः) ॥१ प्राक् श्रीमत्यणहिलपाटकपुरे श्रीमूलराजः प्रभुश्चौलुस्योदयकृद्धभूव न ३ पतिश्चामु ..........................द्विौ नरपती भीमोनु भूमिपति: कोस्माज्जयास ४ हदेवनृपतिः ....................... 'दस्य कुमारपालनृपतिः प्रत्यक्ष लक्ष्मीपतिः ५ स्तस्मा......" .......... "गयेमुनात्र देवनगरे श्रीकीर्तिवास १ बज: म............ ..........द्विमान् ॥३ धात्र्यामेवंविधेकाले शिवा ७ लयवि............ .......... 'तारल्योभ्यते च यः॥४॥श्रीमदानंदनगरे ८य.................. ........विपश्चिता ॥५॥शुचित्वं भद्दपुत्रत्वं ये
नप्रांसू...... ........ 'लभीपतेः ॥६॥सेवार्थे धावतस्तस्य १० नमः ........ ....... "इत्तमा ॥७॥(सानुराधुः) पिता यस्या ११ राधुः........................."रिवसाजणिः सातस्या(स्मात्) सोमदेवोभू १२ तू पुत्रदेव ...................... निजानुजानथामुष्यतात. १३ राणि........................."त्रिणा।।१०।यदेवदक्षिणादेशे पित्रा १४ .....................||१शाभीसोमेशः सोमदेवो दे
Ahol Shrutgyanam
