Book Title: Collection of Prakrit and Sanskrit Inscriptions
Author(s): P Piterson
Publisher: Bhavnagar Archiological Department

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________________ SOLANKI DYNASTY. 297 Lunasiņba son of Thakar Sobaña, Dharaniga Supa, Râņå Åsadhara who was entitled to perform sacrifices and others. All these were given by him as gitt From this income this Masjida of the Navigator Piroz should be maintained and managed for the welfare of the same till the moon, constellations and stars endure, and any damage or breakage should be repaired, and those who manage the income of this place of religious worship, and those who maintain it, and those who spend at the great festivals and holy days should send any balance, that may remain, to the plades of religious worship at Mecca and Medida. This income should be jointly inanaged by the communities (Jamatas) of the Nacodas, sailors, writers, oilpressers, Ahada, weavers, mussalman potters &c.; thus this place of religious worship should be maintained. Those who are donors and their instigators, and those who are the followers of their religion, always go to heaven being meritorious. He who (stops) cancels or onuses to be cancelled this place of religious worship and the income, being a man of sinful mind, is stained with the five great sins and finds his way to hell. XIV. Stone-Inscription of Chintamani Pârsvandtha at Cambay. Dated Samvai 135. The Jain temple of Chintamani Parsvanatha whero this inscription-stone is to be seen was built by a Modla Vanid named Khalla at Khazıblåt, commonly called Camlay, the chief town of a small Mahomedan principality in tlie Kheda collectorate in Gujarat. "The town is situated at the head of a gulf called after the town, The gulf of Cambay. The temple was built in the time of Ramadeo, son of Arjunadeo of the Wâghelå tribe in the year Samvat 1352, A. D. 1296. The inscription is cut into a block of hard black stone and is in a good state of preservation except a small portion of the upper left-hand corner, where a small picoc has been chopped off. The surface measures 32 in. by 19 in. and contains twenty-nine lines of Sanskțit in Devapâgari character. TRANSLITERATIOS. ......... .. ... at ara falavad liell 378664HR ATTEETAT E : : FRII Bitch the faisantafet il tarafa af EAR .: मारसंस्तुतं || Ahol Shrutgyanam

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