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MATHURA PRASASTI OF THE REIGN OF VIJAYAPALA.
289 26." At each engine a pali shall be taken, a ... from the flower-garland-maker, and the fourth part from the mapaka, whoever may be the mapaka."
Verse 27 contains the usual imprecation against those who resume endowments or do not give what they ought to give according to the preceding verses.
The last verse states that this Prasasti was composed by two wise' men, Pala and Kuladd hara (?), who ask (not without good reason) the pardon of the learned for mistakes which they may have committed. The colophon in prose finally informs us that the Prasasti was incised by the mason somala in Samvat 1207, on the full-moon day of Karttika, during the victorious reign of his glorious majesty, the supreme king of great kings, Vijayapala. The latter name is unfortunately not quite certain. Though I believe that the lower portion of the syllable doi is faintly recognisable before the very distinct jayapala, the possibility that the king's name was Ajayapala (értmadajaya. páladeva) is not absolutely excluded. But whether he bore the former or the latter name, it seems to me that we have here a ruler of a dynasty hitherto not traced in the inscriptions. None of the Ajayapalas or Vijayapalas, mentioned in other epigraphic documents, can be identified with this king, who in all probability ruled about the middle of the twelfth century A, D.; for usually Samvat means in the documents of this period Vikrama Samvat, and the date therefore corresponds to 1149-51 A. D. This king certainly was the ruler of Mathura at this period, and Jajja was one of his Vassals. This much is absolutely certain, and the inscription settles also the date of at least one of the temples buried under the Kebava mound.
TRANSCRIPT. L. 1. to read THI
femme
a ucu
- ferent forretter (0] faforma farfura - - -
----------\ [ ] 2. [at] merantforceferent [a] f-:-:
ANT[fof] eta EHWAIT FTAT ergutaurert i uu-vu-u-uu -- - -
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T
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asfalfesta hamil anferitfaina jarrera. [2]
u-u-searcha HYTTUU-v-uv -v - - u
The engines intended were probably the oil-mills, by saob of wbieb a small quantity of oil bad to be furnished.
. Mpaka means literally '8 mensuror.' It must have here a teohnioal meaning. Possibly the mdpdrf may be meant, i..., the official who had to measure the grain brought into the market; H. H. Wilson, Glossary of Judicial Thrma, end voce. This man may have had to lovy a mall tax on the dealers in grain.
• Metro, Upajati; restore in the first balf two wifeft.
7 Metre, Sardalavikuidite. Restore in the first pada fare: TT The dha of eft is imporfectly formed and looks like da.
