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No. 11.)
KAMAULI PLATES OF THE KINGS OF KANAUJ.
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14 parushana(n=) samajnapayati (b)va(dha)yaty-Adisa(ba)ti cha Il y atha
viditam=astu bhavatar yath=ôparilikhita-gråmaḥ sa-jala-sthalaḥ 88-18ha-lavan.
Akaraḥ sa-madhaka-chůta-vana15 våţikd-vitapa-triņa-yati-gôchara-peryatta(nta) sa-gartt-Ösharaḥ 8-rddh[v*]-adhaḥ
S[v]a-sim&-paryantas=chatur-&ghatha(ta)-visu (buddhaḥ p amcha[8]ptatyadhika
SA(sa)t-aikadesa(sa)-samvatsarê Maghê mâsi pu[rnni) mfsyam Sôms-dind ankatah samvat 1175 Magha-sudi 15 Soma-dinê
Srimad-Varanasyam Glamgayam vidhivat=snätvå mantra-deva-muni-manuja-bhQta
pitsi-ga[mm]:=tarppayitvå timira17 patala-patana-patu-mahasam=Ushqarðchisham-upasthay=Aushadhipati.sa (fa) kala
sé(68) kharam samabhyarchchya tribhuvana-tråtur=Vvasudevasya půjá[ vidh&]ya
prachura-payasons havishả hayirbhujam hutva 18 måtâpitror=&tmanag=cha punya-yabô-bhivriddhayê asmábhiḥ Vam(bam)dhulasya 6
gotrays Vam(bam)dhula-Aghamarshaņa-Visvå(sva)mitra-tripra[vark]ya Vajasan@ya
BA(SA) khinê dikshita-sri-Parasa-paatriya 19 dikshita-bri-Vilba-putraya purohita-bri-Jagukåya? sarmmand vrå (brå)hmaniya gồkarnna-kusa(a)latl-pūta-karatal-adaka-purvvam-A-chardr-arkkam
yávach chhasandkfitya pra[datta] iti matva ya20 thadiyamåna-bbágabhôgakara-pravaņikara-prabhfiti-samast-adâyân dâsyatha || chha ||
Bhavanti ch=&tra klokaḥ 118 . 24 .. .. .. Likhita[rn] karaṇika-thakkura-bri-Sahadêvêna Si(li)vam=asta II
Ma[m]galam=maha-Sriḥ chha 11
F.- PLATE OF GOVINDACHANDRA AND HIS QUEEN NAYANAKÊLIDÊVE,
OF VIKRAMA-SAMVAT 1176. This also is a single plate, which measures about 1' 3" broad by 113" high, and is engraved on one face only. In the upper part it has a ring-hole, about " in diameter. The plate contains 27 lines of well preserved writing. The size of the letters is between and " The characters are Nagari, and the language is Sanskrit. As regards orthography, the letter b is throughout denoted by the sign for v ; the dental sibilant is often employed instead of the palatal; the signs for kh and sh are several times confounded ; and the word amra is written anura, in line 15. On the whole, the writer has done his work in a somewhat slovenly manner. One of the peculiarities of the grant is, that the author, in lines 12-15, has inserted & passage on the vanity of this life and the merit resulting from donations of land, which is similar to a passage in the grant of Madanapala and Govindachandra, published in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XVIII. p. 15 ff.
This also is an inscription of the Paramabhattáraka Maharajadhiraja Paramétvara Govindachandradeva, and opens as if it were meant to record a grant made by the king himself. But in reality the king makes known here that, while he was in residence at Khayard, on Sunday, the 15th of the dark half of Jysishtha of the year 1176 (given both in words and in decimal
This sign of punctuation is superfluous, What is actually engraved, is pl, with the sign of the medial & after it, and roa; rend paurusa-. * Read = ikatah.
• Reed Esmdbhir• Read la-gótraya Bandhul-Agha.
. Compare above, B. 1. 21. * Read -Jdglarmmand; in the original the two akshara. kdyo may have been struck out. Compare above, B. 1. 21.
• Here follow the six verses commencing Bhimin yah pratigrihnati, Sankhan bhadr-duanan, Sarudeold bldpinah, Bahabhirutasudhd, Shashtin varsha-sahairdni, and Ydn=lha datidmi. . It may be mentioned that the writer's sign for kl is almost exactly like the sign for go.
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