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CHANDELLA INSCRIPTION FROM MAHOBA. L. 24. "[n]fera: Eferenta in avanti un iet (at)free[n At]of wgujratareneurrean fu
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-uu-u-uuu---u--VON---- 25. - - * [?]caforyott rafeint fee: gaiguifec afeyfucur .... ..... [+]
u stafa afarafaret: i inctu[feate] .... ....... perc tenue[fer] T aman ......
...."[]taff UTART: wat gefal[wfulutat ... 29. ..........%[w]Etnarafarer: "treifter o[fr] .............. 80. ........... yang ada ......
.... 417 ya ....... 32.............. ..........
XXVII.-A CHANDELLA INSCRIPTION FROM MAHOBA.
By E. HULTZSCH, PH.D. The stone, which bears the subjoined inscription, was discovered by General Ounningham in 1865 at Mahoba. Having been lost sight of for some time, it turned up again in the Allâhåbåd Museum, where General Cunningham saw it in 1872. His volume published in 1885 contains a facsimile of the inscription. In the same year, I took an impression of it at Allahâbåd, and published a transcript with a short abstract in German after my return to Europe. The original stone is now preserved in the Lakhnau Museum.
The stone, which bears the inscription, is broken both on the right hand and at the bottom. The preserved part ends with the first syllables of the 29th verse of a genealogical account of the Chandella dynasty. Of the preceding 28 verses, not a single one is complete, and one (13) is entirely lost. But even the few existent fragments contain some important data for the history of the Chandellas.
* Metre, Vasantatilaks. # Metre, Serdélavikridita. - Metre, Sragdhark. » Metre, Sårdúlavikridita. * Metre, Vasantatilaka. » Metre, Sragdhara.
impression supplied to me by the Editor. Brom the pablished photo-lithograph it will be seen that all lines are incomplete at the end, and all lines, except 21-24, incomplete at the beginning. The original rull length of the lines may be seen from lines 21-24 of this transcript, from which it appears that woh line originally contained about ninety aksharas.
Cunningham's Archeological Survey of India, vol. XXI, p. 71; 1slo vol. II, p. 447. • Journal of the Asiatic Society Bengal, vol. I, p. 10. • Cunningham's Arch. Sur. India, vol. XXI, p. 72. • Ibid. plate xxi.
• Zeitschrift d. Destach. Morg. Gor. vol. XL, p. 47. This paper containe mistake in line u of the transcript, wbere I read the name of one of the Chandella kings u . In two new impressions, which I owe to the kindness of Dr. A. Führer, the reading is clearly 1 , arte, pp. 191 and 199.
