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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA. This main part of the inscription closes with the date, the (Vikrama) year 1161 = A. D. 1104-5. The additional line 41 (vv. 57 and 58) appeals to the reader to study carefully and with impartiality and to appreciate properly the poem, here set before
him.
The history of the earlier Paramaras of Mâlava, down to Udayaditya, has been fully treated of by Professor Bühler, ante, vol. I, pp. 223-233. The names of the later rulers of the same dynasty I have given from their copper-plate grants in Indian Antiquary, vol. XIX, pp. 346-347. All these later records make Naravarman the immediate successor of Udayaditya, and so does the inscription from Madhukargadh, the substance of which is given in the Transactions Roy. A8, Soc., vol. I, p. 226. But from the present inscription it is clear that Udayaditya was succeeded by his son Lakshmadeva, and he by his brother Naravarman; and the dates available show that Lakshmadeva's reign falls between the years A. D. 1080 and 1104.
TEXT.. L. 1. प्रों [*] भों नमो भारत्यै ।
प्रसादौदार्यमाधुर्यसमाधिसमतादयः । युवयोर्ये गुणा: सन्ति वाग्देव्यौ तेपि सन्तु नः ॥"-[1]. एक एव भुवनवयपि स श्रीपतिर्भवतु वो विभूतये । यस्य मध्यमपदश्चितीप्यमी भास्करप्रभृतयश्चकासति ॥"-[2]. जातिं वृत्तञ्च विधाणा]" गु
णालंकारचारवः । सरसाश्च प्रसीदन्तु सूक्तयः सूरयश्च नः ॥ -[3]. दुईरारिपुरभङ्गभीषणो भूरिभूतिसविशे[षभूषण:] [राजराजकृतसत्कियः क्रियाइहिवंशसदृशः शिवः शिवं ॥"-[4]. जाता महार्णवोत्पचे व्र(ब)याण्डशक्तिसंपुटे । महेश[स्थाचि]
____ता मुक्ता जयन्त्यम्भोजयोनयः ।"-[5]. वैराग्यं च सरागतां च नृशिरोमालां च माल्यानि च
व्याघ्रानेकपचर्मणी च वसने चाहींसहारादि च । यतिं च विलेपनं च भजते भीमं च भव्यंचत
हिश्याद्रूपमुमारमारमणयोभुक्तिं च मुक्तिं च वः ॥"-[6]. वेश्वरूप्यं सम[भ्य]
समीनाबाबतिवेतवात् । स्वाभिवनिर्मिताशेषवियो विशुः पुनातु वः ॥ -[7]. • From impressions supplied to me by Dr. Fleet and | Metre, Sloka (Anushtubh). Dr. Bargess.
The akaharas in these brackets are almost entirely 10 Expressed by aaymbol.
| illegible. 11 Metre, Sloka (Anushtabb).
"Metre, Rathoddbata. "Metre, Rathoddhata.
1 Metre, Sloka (Anushtabh). - Read विधाणा. The akakarsain brackets are much |
- Metro, Sard Olavikridita. damaged, but I believe the reading to be correct. There is
19 Metro, Sloks (Anushtubh). no doubt about the words for
4.
