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JHANSI INSCRIPTION OF SALLAKSHANASIMHA.
rulers of Kanyakubja themselves, or to certain chiefs who owed allegiance to them. According to line 4, the moon begat a son named Jayanta. Lines 5 and 6 appear to mention two chiefs-Sidhuka and Mamaka (?)-of whom the elder one became king. Other chiefs, who kept the Bhillas (line 7) in order, are spoken of in the following lines which appear to record the building of a tank, the establishment of a grove-called (line 8) Kanhapadi (?),-and the erection of a temple, and contain the name of the village Dugdhakupya (line 10). In line 15 three chiefs appear to be spoken of, the second of whom is called Lakkhata and the third Rajaḥpåla. Line 18 records that somebody married two wives who somehow or other are brought in connection with the Chaulukya family, and one of whom bore the name Rajaladevi. In line 20 we meet with the prince Kirtivarman who is protected from somebody (the Chedi king Karna (?)); and line 21 speaks of three kings, one of whom appears to be again Kirtivarman. Line 23 mentions the son of the illustrious Satyavati, who perhaps defeated a certain Ganapala (P), and did something to the rule of Udayaditya, the lord of Avanti. Line 25 perhaps contains the name Nrisimha, and line 26 that of the illustrious Hira or Hiramsu; and line 27 mentions, in a manner as if he had been living at the time, the illustrious Sallakshanasimha, who probably was engaged in fight with the troops of the Yavanas (line 30) or Muhammadans.
Other inscriptions may yet be discovered which will throw light on this one: for the present, I can only say that, of the princes mentioned here, Kirti varman probably is the Chandella 'king of that name, the contemporary of the Chedi king Karnadeva; and Udayaditya the ruler of Malava, who is spoken of in two Chedi inscriptions of the period; but that I see no cogent reason for identifying Sallakshanasimha with the Chandella king Sallakshanavarman, or for assigning this inscription to the Chandella rulers.
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[श्यामो] नुगतचुच्चुकोत्पलदल
'हेतुं कन्याकुम (म) प्रतिष्ठां सुरसरितमपि प्रीति [मा]....
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• 'छंदः पारदृशां तताध्वरजुषां विनायिनां नित्य [ शो?]....
'न जयन्तनामा तेनेन्दुनाजनि ततः प्रयतेन सूनुः ॥ 'गुद्दिरदतुरगक्रीडयाम् जिगीषू यात्राकाले कचिदपि वहिवेलतुबर[?].... •*[?]"Iyanatuanfafa aðì vûvererdiqu: "'uâfcaufa va: सुकृती यशो .[]वाधिक व (ब) लपतीशीरदेवखितान् । भानुतरंहसः करल[ग]त्कोदण्डगर्व्वेटा [नु]
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I hope soon to have an opportunity to treat fully of the history of the Chandella and Chedi rulers. For Udayaditya of Malava also an absolutely certain date is now available. The impression shows that the line here numbered 1, was preceded by one or more other lines.
Metre, Sardalavikriḍita. Metre, Sragdhara.
Metre, Sardalavikriḍita.
Metre, Vasantatilaka.
7 Metre, Mandakranta. Metre, Sardalavikriḍita. Metro, Vasantatilaka. 1 Metre, Sardalavikriḍita.
