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frequently doubled, e.g., in Svetatapattrdyitan, line 1; nettrad - Altrer=ddharittri., line 3; Dattattreya, line 5, eto. ;--and, on the other hand, a single consonant has been employed instead of a double consonant in njvalima, line 3; ujsalam, lines 28 and 30;lasadyuo (for "lasad-dyu), line 1; dsidvishad° (for dsid-dvishad') and prochchhalajválao (for prochchhalaj-jráldo), line 4. Lastly, the syllable ri has been used instead of the vowel si in dripta, line 12, and in satyádritaa, line 14. As instances of wrong grammatical forms, I may point out akrita, used in a passive sense (for akári) in verse 54, and the masculine Osrakchandanádín in verse 62, wrongly employed instead of the neuter "srakchandanddini.
The inscription may possibly have contained a date at the end of the last line; but, if such was the case, it has become entirely effaced, and is no longer legible. I have already stated that the inscription has been composed by two different authors; and I have no doubt that, what is now its first portion, from verse 1 to 45, originally was, or formed part of, an independent prasasti, and that this original prasasti was renewed and enlarged by the addition of the verses 46-86 of the present inscription, two or three generations after the composition of the first part.
The object of the first part (verses 1-45) is, to record that the queen Nohala, the wife of the Chedi ruler) Keyaravarsha, erected a temple of Siva at which the in. scription may be supposed to have been put up; that she endowed this temple with (the revenues of) the villages Dhangatapataka, Pondi, Nagabala, Khailapataka, Vida, Sajjahali and Goshthapali; and that she also gave the villages of Nipaniya and Ambipațaka to the sage Isvarasiva, a disciple of Sabdasiva, who again was a disciple of Pavanasiva (verses 40-45). Nohald was a daughter of Avanivarman, & son of Sadhanva and grandson of Siṁhavarman, of the clan of the Chaulu. kyas (verses 83-87). And her husband Keyuravarsha was a son of the prince Mugdhatunga (verse 18), who was a son of Kokkalladeva (verse 12), described as a descendant of Arjuna (Kartavirya, verse 8), of the tribe of the Haihayas (verse 7), who belonged to the lunar race. Of Kokkalladeva it is recorded (verse 17) that he set up two unprecedented columns of his fame,' which I understand to mean that he was allied with, and supported the rule of, Krishṇaraja in the south and Bhojadeva in the north: and Mugdhatunga is eulogised as having conquered the lines of country by the shore of the eastern sea and wrested Pali from the lord of Kosala.
The second part of the inscription in verse 46) opens with the statement that Nohald's son by Yuvarajadeva was Lakshmaṇaraja,- from which it is clear that the prince Keyaravarsha, who is spoken of in the preceding, was surnamed Yuvarajadeva. Lakshmanaraja, called the moon of the Chedis' (verse 56) and the powerful Chedi lord' (verse 19), made over the sacred building, which had been founded by Nohald to certain sages whose spiritual lineage is detailed in verses 48–58. On his warlike expedi. tions he is said to have reached the shores of the western ocean, where he worshipped Bive at the famous temple of someb varat or Somanatha in Gujarat; and he also is reported to have defeated the ruler of Kosala, and to have despoiled him of a valuable effigy of KAliya which had been obtained from the lord of Odra, and which subsequently
• The same story is told of Yavarhjadora, the father of Kokalla, in the Karanbel inscription of Jayasimbadova. Sve Indian Antiquary, vol XVIII p. 316.
