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Sury. of India, vol. XIII, page 8. It is on two slabs of stone, each measuring about 3' 2" broad by 1' 4" high, and consists of 27 lines. According to Mr. Beglar it contains the date Samvat 324 Phálguna-sudi 6, the year of which Mr. Beglar proposes to alter to 1324. But the inscription is really dated Samvat 724 Phalguna-budi b, and, from the style of the writing and the locality in which the inscription was put up, this date must be referred to the Chedi era, so that the year corresponds to A.D. 972-3. Like the Ranod inscription, this one also appears to be of slight importance, and I here refer to it chiefly because in line 8 it mentions, apparently in connection with Mattamayura, the sage Purandara of the present inscription. For since Purandara, in the Chandrehe inscription, is followed by about five more generations of sages, the date of the inscription proves beyond doubt, what I have intimated above, that that sage, and with him the prince Arantivarman, cannot possibly be placed later than the end of the 9th century A.D.
TEXT.. L. 1. भी नमः शिवाय ॥
प्रावषेशनवाग्भोदलितौलित्यजिन्ति वः ।
नायकानि निधन्तु निर्विधू इशितान्यधम् ॥ -[1]. प्रसौलखिमधुर
व्यताव्यतास्वरूपभाक् । देवता वासरिजेदैमुदे स्ताहः सरस्वती। -[2]. संपूर्णानामशेषकल्मषमुषः सम्पत्रमप्यादरादुरं पादतलाव
घननमकैलासनश्यतिखति । सानन्दं युगपत्सुरासुरसभासंरभदत्तव्यचं
सभोर्मास्यपरिग्रहस्य दिशतु श्रेयान्सि' वः स्थानकम् । -[3]. चरणभरावनता
वनिविनमत्वमठोरकपराभोगा। नाबस्य धूर्जटेधुरि वरणपरिष्वष्कणी जयति । -[4]. उत्क्षिप्तो दडपादो पहगणमुडभिः साईमुत्तम्मा भूयः प्रायाद्यावत्खसीमाम
परपदभरभ्रष्टपृष्ठा व भूमिः । प्रत्यंदौथ्यपि रङ्गे गगनतलचलचारिकाचारहसे. My rubbing is so indistinot that I am unable to give an adeurate account of the contents of the inscription. But so far as I can see, it records the construction of a tank and some buildings by a mage Prasantaliva, and their restoration by the sage's disciple Prabodhafies. The spiritual Ancestors of Prasantaliva appear to be Purandara, Sikbiva (who seems to be called Madhumatt-pati, an appellation which may explain the name Madhumateya of the Bilhari inscription), and Prabharaliva. The inscription, which is in varne, wmoomposed by the poat Dhananta, the son of Jelka and Amarika, sad grandson of Mebaka, and engraved by Damodara, the son of Lakshmidbars and younger brother of Viandeva.
___Perhaps I may here draw attention to anote on page 6 of Archeol. Survey of India, vol. XIII, necording to which there is in the Asiatic Society's collection A rubbing of an inscription from Makuudpur (which is near Chandrebe), dated in (apparently Cbedi) Barhvat 779. It is very desirable that this inscription should be examined.
. From two impressions, prepared by Dr. Führer, and supplied to me by the Editor. • Read पिता". • Metre of verses 1 and 2, Sloka (Anusbtubby. 1 Read योसि. • Metre, Sardflavik Idita. • Metre, Argi.
