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The inscription opens with an invocation of Siva. Verse 5 ends with the words :From this beloved of the night (i.e., the moon) there sprang a race beloved by all,' and the next two verses seem to have treated of the kings of the lunar race. Among these there was Narayana ....:'(v. 8). Only three syllables remain of the next verse.
Verse 10 begins as follows:- Then there was that king, Jeja by name, after whom Jejabhukti was named), just as this earth (prithiot) after Prithu. His younger brother, called Vija ..... The two brothers Jeja and Vija are identical with Jejaka and Vijaka, who are mentioned in another fragmentary inscription. Professor Kielhorn has further identified both pairs of names with Jayasakti and Vijayasakti or Vijaya, the sons of Vakpati. According to verse 10 of the present inscription, Jejà (or Jejjaka) gave his name to Jejabhukti (also called Jejabhuktika or Jejakabhukti'), 'the dominion of Jejà (or Jejaka).' This old name of Bundelkhand, the country which was ruled over by the Chandellas, is the original of the vernacular form Jajahati or Jajaboti," just as the modern Tirbut is derived from Tirabhukti.
The purport of the mutilated verses 11 to 16 cannot be ascertained. Verse 17 is almost complete and runs as follows:- There appeared a blessing for the earth, called the illustrious Dhanga, who caused the destruction of his enemies and who, by the strength of his arms, equalled even the powerful Hamvira, who had proved a heavy burden for the earth.' Hamvira or Hambira is a further corruption of Hammira, the Sanskritized form of which appears on the coins of the Pathân kings of Delhi.is Professor Kielhorn has published three inscriptions of Dhanga, which are dated in Samvat 1011, 1055 and 1059, or A. D. 954, 998 and 1002. The third inscription was composed after Dhanga's death, which it mentions. Accordingly the Hambira or Amir, who is stated to have been Dhanga's contemporary, seems to be identical either with Sabuktagin (A. D. 977 to 997) or with his son Mahmud of Ghazna, whose first two expeditions to India fell in A. D. 1000 and 1001. Firishta reports that Jayapåla, the king of Lahore, was, on the occasion of his second defeat by Sabuktagin, supported with troops and money by the king of Kalañjara. As Kålanjara, after Yasovarman who conquered it,& seems to have been the capital of the Chandellas," it is not improbable that this remark refers to Dhanga, and that Ham bira has to be identified with
. Ante, p. 121. The affix ka seems to be added, in order to make the two Hindi names look like Sanekrit words. Similar masculines in & are MALA, Melhá, and Ghikà in Delhi inscription, which was published by myself in the Zeitschrift d. Deutsch. Morg. Ges. vol. XL, p. 56, and by Professor Eggeling, ante, p. 93.
7 Ante, p. 123. . Ante, p. 138. . Ante, p. 34.
Cunningham's Arch. Sur. India, vol. X, plate xxxii, No. 10; vol. XXI, p. 174.
11 Ibid. vol. II, p. 412, the same author's Ancient Geography of India, vol. I, p. 481. Alberdi's India, translated by Sacban, vol. I, p. 202. Elliot's History of India, vol. I, p. 57.
11 Indian Antiquary, vol. XV, p. 304. The form Tirahuti occurs in Taranatba's History of Buddhism in India. translated from Tibetan into German by Schiefner; see the Index.
1 See ante, p. 62, note 5, and Thomas' Chronicles of the Pathan Kings of Delhi, passim. The Hammira, who is mentioned in Kalhana's R&jatarangini (taramga vii, verses 63 and 64) as a contemporary of Sangramardja (A. D. 1003 to 1028), is probably meant for Mahmud of Ghazna.
"Ante, pp. 135 and 137; Indian Antiquary, vol. XVI, p. 202. 15 Translated by Briggs, vol. I, p.18.
Anto, p. 128, verse 31.
17 In three grants published by Professor Kielhorn (Ind. Ant. vol. XVI, p. 201), the Chandella kinga Dbang. Devararman, and Madanavarman, bear the title of Kalajarádkipari or 'lord of Kalafijara.'
