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THREE INSCRIPTIONS FROM NORTHERN INDIA.
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1876, p. 111, but its date was misread and, in consequence, curiously misunderstood. I re-edit it from & rabbing supplied to me some years ago by Dr. Burgess. The inscription contains four lines of well preserved writing which covers a space of about 5' broad by 8" high. The size of the letters is between l' and 14". The characters, which seem to be somewhat rudely engraved, are Någari. The language is Sanskrit, and the whole is in verse. In line 2 the word Yadana is spelt Javana; and in line 4 we have the word kanda, in the sense of 'water.'
The inscription records that, when the year of Shasanks (... Vikramaditya) bore the number made up of 9, the chief munis (7), and the lords of the days (19), i.e. in Vikrama-Samvat 1279, in the month of Chaitra which inaugurates the march of conquest of the god of love, on a Sunday, the first of the bright ball, while the illustrious king Pratâpa was whitening (dhavalayati) the earth with the great fame of having in mere sport cat ap the Yavanas (or Muhammadans),- a certain Madhava made a well or tank on the rock, apparently near the spot where the inscription is engraved.
The date regularly corresponds, for the Karttikadi Vikrams year 1279 expired, to Sunday, the 5th March A.D. 1998, when the first tithi of the bright half of Chaitra ended 0 h. 38 m. after mean sunrise. The king' Pratâpa, in whose reign this date falls, is, I have no doubt, a descendant and successor of the Japiliya Nayaka or Mahåndyaka Pratápadhavala, whose well-known Târâchapdi rock inscription is dated in Vikrama-Samvat 1225;6 of whom there is another short inscription of the same year, recording the construction of a road by him, at Phulwariya';? and whose name is given, with a date which I would read Samvat 1214 Jyaishtha-vadi 4 Basa)nau,& in a short inscription on the rock near the Tatrahi falls. From a slightly damaged undated inscription at Phulwariya' it appears that the family to which these chiefs belonged was called the Khayaravalalo vanta.
TEXT.U 1. Om ôm [ll] 13Navabhir-atha munin drair-väsaranam-adhisaiḥ parikalayati
samkhyan vatsara sahasamke | Madana-vijayayatri-mangalê mási Chaitre pratipadi sita-kântau visarels Bhaskarasya | 1 [ll]
1 Dr. Rajendralal's translation of the date is: 'In the Sat's śAks year of ninety (90), and (9), and the sages (7), and the Indras (14), and the lords of the days (12), all added up (132), on the day of the festival of the conquest of Capid (Madana-vijaya) in the auspicious month of Chaitra, the eleventh of the moon, when the sun, Venus and Jupiter were in Pisces.'
. Compare Sdhasankasya Datsard in the date of Vikrama-Samvat 1240 from Mahoba, given by me in Ind. Ant. Vol. XIX. p. 179, No. 127.
. I know of no other data from an inscription, in which unendra la omployed Instead of the simple muni.
• The use of this word seems to suggest in this particular case) that the fuller name of the chief was Pratdpadhavala; see below.
. Por the exact dato and further references see Ind. Ant. Vol. XIX. p. 184, No. 143. . See ibid. p. 179, No. 126.
+ This, or Phulwari, is the name of a part of Rohtasgadh; see M. Martin's (Buchanan Hanilton's) Eastern India, Vol. I. p. 450.
• This date, for the Karttikddi Vikrama year 1914 expired and the puleimanta Jyaishths, would regularly correspond to Saturday, the 19th April A.D. 1158.-- It may be pointed out that in the four dates mentioned in the above, which are all from the ShAhAbed district in South Behar,- the date of the year 1914, the two dates of the year 1925, and the date of the year 1279,- the years are all expired Kartlikddi years, and that in the three of them whicb quote days in dark fortnights, the months are purnimdata months.
These falls are five miles west of the village of Tilothu in the ShabAbad district; see the Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1... Tilothu.
10 This name seeing to survive in that of the tribe of Kharawars, who still occupy the table land on which Reataegar (Baht&sgadh) is situated, with many fastnesses of the south, (and who) claim a descent from the family of the Sun;' see M. Martin's Eastern India, Vol. I. p. 405. From & rubbing supplied by Dr. Burgess.
12 Expreased by a symbol. 1 Metre: Malint ; also of the next verso. » Originally odré was engraved, but rd is altered to sa and another is added above the line.
