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SOLANKI DYNASTY. place giving emancipation (Mukti). This mount Âbu has become a sacred place also giving the (fruits) advantages of both those places. If it were not so, how would Sri Adineminâtba will enter himself there?
(Sopie lines after this cannot be deciphered.)
XIII. Slone-Inscription in the temple of Harasidki at Verdval.
Dated Samvat 1320.
Though this inscription-stone is found built up in a wall of the temple of larasiddhi mata (goddess), it does not in any way relate to it. This temple is at Verával, a small sea-port town on the south-west coast of Kathiával and is in the territory of the Nawih of Junagad. The stonc is built up in the wall to the right of the entrance-door and measures 31 in. by 17 in. There are fortytwo lines closely cut into it in Devanagari character, mentioning the building of a muajid (mosque) by Khoja Nur-ud-din Firuz, a great sea-faring man, who was an inhabitant of the island of Ormuz in the Persian gulf. He appears to bave acquired a great deal of influence over tlie leading inhabitants of the town as they have agreed not ouly to sel apart a piece of land for the purpose but also to make provision for its maintenance. It is also very useful in one respect, vis that it gives the years 1320,945,151, and 662 of four different eras :-- the Vikrania, the Valabhi, the Simha and the Hijari respectively, when Arjunadeva of the Waghela branch was king of Gujarat.
TRANSLITERATION.
१ इनमः श्रीविश्वनाथाय ॥ नमस्ते विश्वनाथाय विश्वरूप नमोस्तु ते ॥ नमस्ते सन्यरूपाय २ लक्षा(क्ष्या)लक्ष(क्ष्य) नमोस्तु ते ॥१॥ श्रीविश्वनाथप्रतिबद्धता जनानां बोधकरसुलमहंमदसंबत्६६२त ३ था श्रीनृपविक्रमसंवत् १३२० तथा श्रीमद्वल्लभीस९४५ तथा श्रीसिंहसंवत् १५१वर्षे आषाढदि १३र ४ वावद्येह श्रीमदणहिलपाटकाधिष्ठितसमस्तराजावलिसमलंकृतपरमेश्वरपरमभट्टारक ५ श्रीउमापतिवरलब्धप्रौढप्रतापनिःशंकमलअरिराय(ज)हदयशल्यश्रीचौलक्यचक्रवत्तिम १ हाराजाधिराजश्रीमत् अर्जुनदेवप्रवर्द्धमानकल्याणविजयराज्ये तत्पादपनोपजीविनि ७ महामात्यराणकश्रीमालदेवे श्रीश्रीकरणादिसमस्तमुद्राव्यापारानू परिपंथयतीत्येवं का ८ ले प्रबर्तमान इह श्रीसोमनात(थोदेवपत्तने परमपाशुपताचार्यमहापंडितमहत्तरधर्ममा ९ गंडभी परवीरभद्रपारि०महं श्रीअभ(योसिंहप्रभृतिपंचकुलप्रतिपत्तौ तथाहर्मुजवेला १० कुले अमीरश्रीरकनदीनराज्ये परिपंथयति सति कार्यबत(तया) श्रीसोमनाथदेवनगरस ११ मायातहुर्मुजदेशीयखोजानौ० अब्राहिमसुतनाव नोरदीनपिरोजेन श्री १२ सोमनाथदेव द्रोणीप्रतिबद्धमहायणां(जना)तःपातिप्रत्ययवृहत्पुरुषठ श्रीरामदेवबृहत्पुरुषठ श्रीपलुगिदेव
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