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BENARES COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF KARNADEVA.
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1. His younger brother Jayasimhadeva. Inscriptions of his are dated in A.D.
1175 and 1177. His wife's name was Gosaladevi. 15. His son Vijayasimhadeva. Inscriptions of his are dated in A.D. 1180 and
1196; one of them mentions his son, the prince Ajayasiṁhadeva. These fifteen princes, who may be taken to have ruled from about A.D. 875 to about A.D. 1200, represent twelve successive gencrations, which gives to each generation • an average of about twenty-seven years.
TEXT.
First Plate. L. 1. ओं' [] ओं नमः सि(शि)वाय ॥
निर्गुणं व्यापकं नित्यं सि(शि)वं परमकारण (ण) । भावग्राह्यं परं ज्योतिस्तस्मै सद्द(इ)ह्मणे नमः ॥"-[1]. यद्देधस्थितमव्य[यं] प
रमपि जो(ज्यो)तिमि (श्चि)दंमु(शु)प्रभं । सूर्याख्यस्य च [भा] स्वरप्रभृतयो” यस्य स्फुरत्यमय: [1] सर्बज्ञान[म ]यो व(ब)भूव भगवांस्तस्मान्मनुनिसो यस्मात्सृष्टिरभूदि[य] [ग]
णवती स्त्रीपुनिमित्ता तत: (1)68 -[2]. देवः श्रीकार्तवीर्य: क्षितिपतिरभवद्भषण (ण) भूतधाब्या ___ हेलोत्क्षिप्ताद्रिवि(बि)भ्यत्तुहिनगिरिसुतास्ने(ने)षसन्तोषितेस(श)म [1*)
दोर्दण्डा1. काण्डसेतुप्रतिगमितमहापूररवाप्रवाह.
व्याधीतत्यक्षपूजागुरुजनितरुषं रावणं यो ववम्ब" (1) -[3]. यम्य भ्रभ[ङ्ग' भीता ददति नृपतयः क्लि[ष्ट]
मावे प्रति आ के(कै)लास(सा)त्महेलं हरवृषभसमुत्खातसं(9)गाग्रभित्तेः । आ च" प्राच: समुद्रात्सुरसरिदतुलस्थलमुक्तावलीका. दाम्भोधेईक्षिणाञ्च [स्फु]
- रदतुलमणे: सेतुसीमन्तभाजः ।(1)-[4]. ..तन्मप्रभवा नरेंद्रपतयः ख्याता[:] क्षितौ हैहया
स्तेषामनु(न्व)यभूषण(णं) रिपुमनोविन्यस्ततापानल: । धर्माध्यानध
3.
6.
- From an impression, received in 1862 by Sir A. Cun- not sure that the reading is correct. Perhaps the right read ninghain from Mr. Griffith, then Principal of the Benares iny may be run fera College, and now given to me by Dr. F. E. Hall.
* This sign of punctuation is superfluous. Expressed by a symbol.
The akshara in brackets looks in the impression like a1. A.Metre : Sloka (Anushtulih). The verse also oceurs at! in Metre: Bardiilarikrilita. the commencement of the Rewal copper-plate grant of the Read Ta.- Compare ante, vol. I, page 263, verse 9. Maharanaka Salakhanavurmaleva; Indian Antiquary, vol. 7 Metre of verses 3 and 4: Sragihara.
Real दधति नृपतयः क्लिष्टमारे प्रतिष्ठाम् (१). This is what is offered by the rubbing. Lut, as I do
Read च. not quite understand the first two lines of the verse, I am
Read तब
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