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SRIDHARA'S DEVAPATTANA PRASASTI.
437 built, through the grace of the Lord, by) Muhammad 'All Bultant. On the first of the blessed month Ramazan,-May its blessings be general |--A. 724 (22nd August, 1324)."
This inscription is the second as yet published of Tughluq Shah's reign (see Blochmann, Proo. As. Soc. B., for August 1873, p. 187; A.H, 722, at Mahoba).
Perhaps the mosque was repaired in Båbar's time; there is at least an inscription over the central archway (measuring 1' 10" by 1' 1") outside, that seems to mention such a fact, but it is too much injured to allow a decisive judgment. The first line is nearly altogether gone, also the beginning of the second and the whole third of the line are illegible; almost all dots are missing.
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"This mosque............in the time of............His Majesty Zahir uddin Muham. mad Babar, Badishah-i Ghazi...............Ramazan......98." • The date, of course, must be between 932 and 937.
XXXV.-SRIDHARA'S DEVAPATTANA PRASASTI.
BY DR. G. BÜHLER AND VAJESHANKAR G. OZHA. The subjoined inscription is the same as that noticed by Colonel Tod in his Travels in Western India, p. 513 f. and by Mr. Postans in the Journal Bo. Br. Roy. As. Soc., vol. II, p. 16 f. According to both these authors it was found at Devapattana or Somnathpatan near Verával on a pillar near the Qazi's house. At present the slab on which it is incised is built into the wall of the fort, to the right of the great gate of the town. Both Colonel Tod and Mr. Postans give what is said to be a translation of the document, prepared, "with the assistance of a learned Jain priest," by Mr. Wathen, according to an eye-copy made by Råmdatt Krishpadatt Puråņi. Mr. Wathen's translation teems with the most extraordinary statements regarding the Chauluky& kings of Anhilvåd, which, however, fortunately have received little attention. The present edition has been prepared according to a rubbing by the late Pandit Girja. shankar Såmaljt, which Mr. V. G. Ozbå forwarded for publication to the first-named editor, together with a transcript,' a Gujarati translation and some explanatory notes in the same language.
The slab measures according to the rubbing 30 inches in breadth and 27 in length, a space of 5 inches having been left blank at the lower end. At the upper left-hand corner a piece has been broken off. To the right considerable portions of a good many
This transcript seems to have been done According to the original on the stone, as it contains moob that is not mad able in the rubbing. All this, as well as a number of misreadings, has been given in the footaotes to the edition with the sigorture V. G. 0.-[G. B.)
