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TWO INSCRIPTIONS OF THE TIME OF NARASIMA ADEVA.
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almost the whole of which is covered with big letters averaging 2". There are altogether 18 lines. Between lines 16 and 17 the imprecatory figures of a pig followed by an ass are inserted.
On the top of the inscription there are the figures of the sun and the moon together with 7 small circles in a row apparently representing the remaining 7 planets. The meaning of these is clear. The top figures denote that the grant is to last as long as the navagrahas or the 9 planets endure, while the bottom figures represent a curse on the transgressor of the gift declaring his father an 888 and the mother & pig. The language is corrupt Sanskrit prose. The object is to record a grant of land made by one Kämă Nayaka to one Rāhila Pāņdē. Kama Nayaka appears to be a subordinate of a chief named Sõmerāja ander Mahārāja Narasimhadēva. The mention of the mother Gangadēvi after the king's name is not clear. The date given is the Saka year 1140 without specifying any other details. It corresponde to 1218 A.D. In this year there was an eclipse of the sun and the month of Jyēshtha was intercalary. So it was doubly meritorious to make a gift in that year.
Narasimhadöva apparently belonged to the Nāgavamsa dynasty. So ne other longer inscriptions of this king have also been found in the Bastar State. Before these are published it will be premature to make any remarks about him.
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First Face. 1 Svasti érimatu 842 masta-praśasta-1 3 ssahitam śrima[i*74 Jagadēkabhusha5 ņa-mahārāju. 6 l-ains srima[n]-NA7 rasihya(simba)dē[va) 8 maharāju. 9 la rajya
09 deye
. 23 devi . 24 na o(a)dla . 25 [ga]ma 26 li am[dya) . 27 [m]du poda. 28 maru dipa. 29 [m]unaku .
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Second Face. 10 bhivriddhi prava[rddha)11 manamuga12 n-i-chat drårkka13 mugå svasti 14 Saka-varusha15 mbulu 114[7] 16 md-avun-ērnţi
17 Jyēshtha-ma. 18 samuna be
19 ba(hu)la-dasami
Fourth Face. . . . . akha
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• ng tamma . . a[k]una [cham*]drärkka. .dapanga
diniki . . la mara . kundu padi . ti-niyakumd[u] dapa nāyaku[th]
du matha-pati. . sēna[b]oda (va) [Re).
Third Face. . . .
20 [ka] 21 kom
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No. 245 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1908.
* Read prahasti-sahitan. This phrase also oocars in the Tsan lavôlu inscription of Buddharijn. See above, Vol. VI. p. 272.
* Read maharajula.
