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DAULATPURA PLATE OF BHOJADEVA I.
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line connecting them, we have, from west to east, the R&jörgadh (in Alwar) inscription of the reign of the Maharajadhirija Vijayapaladêva, No. 39 of my List, the Gwalior inscriptions of the reign of the Maharajadhirija Bhojndêva, ibid. Nos. 15 and 16, the Asni inscription of the reign of the Maharajadhvirája Mahipaladêva, ibid. No. 25, and the Jhûsî plate of the Maharajadhiraja Trilochanapâladova, ibid. No. 60. Since of the reign of the Maharajadhiraja Bhojadeva we besides have an inscription at Pehevå (Pehoa) in the north, ibid. No. 546, and another at Déôgadh in the south, ibid. No. 14, the kingdom, in his time, in either direction may have been far more extensive than under the Maharajas; but that they also ruled over part of the more northern country, is shown by the Dighwi-Dubault plate of Mahôndrapala which, like the Madhuban plate of Harsha, records & grant in the Śrêvasts-bhukti, and future discoveries may shew that their rule extended farther to the north and south than we know at present.
Regarding the connection of the Mahärdjas of Mahôdaya with any of the earlier rulers of Kananj, and particularly concerning their relation to the great king Harsha, I am unable to give any information. I can only draw attention to the fact that the manner in which their genealogy is given in their plates, and especially the way in which each of them is described as the devotee of a particular deity, remind one of, and apparently are adopted from, the corresponding portions of Harsha's own grants.
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The Plate. 1 Om svasti [11*] Śri-Mahôdaya-samâvâsit-&nêka-nan-hasty-asva-ratha-patti-sampanna
skandhåvåråt=para mavaishna2 y maharaja-sri-Dévasaktidévas-tasya puttras-tatpâdanudhyataḥ sri.
Bhūyik&dévyam-utpannaḥ parama3 máhêsvarê mahârâja-śrs-Vatsarajadêvas-tasya puttras-tatpâdânudhyâtah srl
Sundaridêvyâm-utpannaḥ 4 Sparambhagavatih haktô maharaja-sri-Nagabhatadêvas-tasya puttras=batpådânudhyâtaḥ
srîmad-Isatadê5 vyam-utpannah paramadityabhaktô maharaja-sri-Ramabhadradêvas-tasya puttrags
tatpadanudhyâtah Sri6 mad-Appådôvyam-atpannaḥ "paranbhagavatibhaktô mahår&ja-sri-Bhôjadevah |
Gurjjarattra-bhūmau ? Dåndvåna7 ks-vishaya-samva(mba)ddha-Sivagram-[Algrahere
samupagstån=sarvvån-êva yathasthana-niyaktân=prativasinagacha 8 samajñ&payati Bhatta-Harshakena(pa) vijñapital Uparilikhit-Agrabårag=
sarvvậya-samêta A-chandr-Arkka
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1 Perhaps also the Karri inscription of the Maldrajddhirdja Yafabpila, who probably was a king of Kanauj. No. 68 of my List.
· The same may be said of the genealogy in the Dad-Barspårk inscription of the Maldnajddhiraja Jlvitaguptadêvs II. of the family of the Guptas of Magadhs, Gupta Inscr. p. 216.
From impressions supplied by Munsiff Debiprasad and Dr. Führer. • Expressed by a symbol.
Read paramablaga'. • Rend dépb, and omit the following sign of ponctuation. 1 This sign of punctuation is superfluous.
• This clearly is the reading of the plate, but the forms of the consonants of the four akshara: Sivdgrama appear to be more modern than the forms of the same letters, elsewhere employed in this inscription. The difference is particularly striking in the case of the end ; but the grof grd also does not agree with the gr of the following graldrd, and the of a differs somewhat from the in eg. the word bhagavart of the precoding line. At the same time, I see nothing in the impression which could lead me to think that another name hud been previously engraved.
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