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sign, is fourteen times formed on the line, with the following consonant (or consonants) below it; e.g., in arthinal, line 8, sarsueshám, line 9, miryayu, line 10, Kuladipabirtti, line 14, Vahurúpabarmmd, line 16, &o. The language is Sanskrit, and excepting the introductory om namah, and the names in lines 18-18, the inscription is in verse. In respect of orthography, I need only note that 6 is throughout written by the sign for o; that t, in conjunction with a following r, is doubled, except where it is preceded by 8, e.g., in puttrash trays-, line 9, and chittranh traividya-, line 11; that the guttural nasal has been employed instead of the anwoodra, in wha, line 1; and that the rule of nandhi bas not been observed in - samoidhi, line 12.
The inscription records (v. 15) the erection of a building for Brahmans familiar with the three Vedas, by a personage named Harivarman, and surnamed the illustrious Mamma (vv. 4 and 18), the son of Haridatta (v. 2); and it gives (11. 18-16) the names of six Brahmans who appear to have been the first oocupants. Harivarman, we learn from vv. 18 and 14, had a son named Takshadatta who was killed in battle, and in memory of whom the building would seem to have been erected.
The inscription is not dated; but judging from the style of the characters, and from the fact that Haridatta, the father of Harivarman, (in v. 2) is said to have been raised to eminence by the illustrious Harsha, whom I take to have been the well. known ruler of Kanauj, it may be assigned with some certainty to about the latter half of the seventh century A.D.
The most interesting piece of information, furnished by this inscription, is contained in verse 18, from which it appears that the place where the inscription originally was put up, and which now bears the name of Kudarkot, at the time when the inscription was composed, was called Gavidhumat. This name has hitherto been met with only in Patañjali's Mahabhashya,' in a passage which says that Samkasya is four yojanas distant from Gavidhumat.' 8amkasya has by Sir A. Cunningham been identified with the modern 8ankisa, a village in the Farukhabad District of the North-Western Provinces, situated 86 miles dorth by west from Kudárkot, 11 miles south-south-east from Aligafij in the Āzamnagar Pargana of the Itawa distriot and 40 miles north-northeast from Itawa, in lat. 27° 193 N., long. 79* 20 E. Kudarkot (Kuttarkot P) itself is a village and ruins in the Bidhanå or Bidhauna tahsil in lat. 26° 49 N., long. 79° 877 B.
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of TAI 'सविहितनीलकण्हा नितम्व(ब)तटयोभिनी ससिहागुता। ore for ordenafcar guitarer via I -v. 1. 'पासीत्रीपरिदत्ताश्यः
According to the Imperial Gasolteor, rol. VIII, p. 329,'tradition serta that an underground passage connected Kadarkot with Kananj.' (see Gazetteer of North-Western Provinen, VOL IV, p. 866, where an attempted transcript and trauslation of this inscription is given.-J. B.)
Boo my edition, vol. I, p. 486, ac efort af amfa.
Prom an impression supplied by the Editor. * Expressed by a symbol
Motro, Arya. • Randसिषमता.
Metre, Sloka (Anushfubh).
