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indepondent compositions not following standard drafts, or else in additional passages which were not integral parts of standard drafts. A verse in the Waņi and Rådhanpur grants of A.D. 807 presents the name of Dhruva without the ending rája. A verse in the Nauskri grant of A.D. 817 brings forward the name of Stambha without the ending rája. Similarly, a verse in the inscription at the Dasavatára cave at Elldra, which appears to be of the period of Amghavarsha I., speaks of Dantivarman I. as simply Dantivarman. The Nausari grants of A.D.915,the first, as far as our present knowledge goes, with the exception of the Dasavatara inscription, of & series of later official compositions which departed completely from the early standard drafts, use for Dantidurga an altogether new verse which omits the raja and speaks of him as "the king, the glorious Dantidurga ;"4 the Debli grant of A.D. 940, using another new verse (which stands also in the Karhad grant of A.D. 959), mentions him as simply Dantidurga ;' and so also, in still another new verse, does the Karda grant of A.D. 972:8 the Sangli grant of A.D. 933 speaks of Indra III. as "king Indra ; '7 and the Kardå grant of A.D. 972 speaks of Kộishna II. as "king Křishņa” and of Indra III. as "king Indra.'' On the other hand, the ending deva after rája is used, in verses, in the Bagamrá grant of A.D. 866 or 867 of the feudatory prince Dhårdvarsha-Dhruvarája (the second of the name of Gujarat, in a verse which speaks of him as Dhruvarajadhva but which stands after the proper introduction of that form of the name in the formal prose passage, and in the Nausârî grants of A.D. 915, in the introductory verge which speaks of Indra III. as Indrarajadêva, 10 and in the Débli grant of A.D. 940, in a verse which speaks of Krishna III. as Krishộarajadêva, and in the Kard& grant of A.D. 972, in a verse which speaks of Krishņa III., again, as Krishnarajadêva.18 The double ending råjadeva with proper names was properly restricted to prose passages. And, just as we find it in the case of Dantidurga in his Såmångad grant, so also we find it in the formal prose passages in the Wani grant of Gôvinda III. of A.D. 807, and in the Baroda grant of A.D. 811 or 812 of the fendatory prince Suvarnavarsha-Karkaraja of Gujarat, * and in the Nagsari grant of A.D. 817 of the same prince, 15 and in the Kavi grant of A.D. 826 or 827 of the feudatory prince Prabhůtavarsha-Gôvindaraja, and in the Baroda grant of A.D. 834 or 835 of the feudatory prince Dhåråvarsha-Dhruvaråja, 17 and in the Bagumrê grant of A.D. 866 or 867 of the second feudatory
Ind. Ant. Vol. XI. p. 158, text line 26, and Vol. VI. p. 67, plate ii. a, text line 13; and see note 7 on page 172 above.
Jour. Bo. Br. R. 4.. Soo. Vol. XX. p. 189, text line 40. Regarding Stambha, who has not been mentioned in the preceding pages, see pages 196, 197, below.
• Archeol. Suro. West. Ind. Vol. V. p. 88, text line 4.
• Jour. Bo. Br. R. As. Soc. Vol. XVIII. p. 257, B., text line 8, and p. 261, A., text line 7-8. The actual expression is ért. Dastidurga-nsipalit. The composer perhape found it inconvenient to introduce the rdja bere. But he employed it, as usual, in the case of Krishna I., whom he mentions as brf-Krishnardja-nripatih, B. line 15-16, A, line 14.
Above, Vol. V. p. 193, text line 13, and Vol. IV. p. 282, text line 12. . Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 264, text line 6. 1 Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 250, text line 22,- Indra-narendra. . Loc. cit. (note 6 above), p. 265, text line 17,- Krishna-npipa, and line 19,- Indra- ripa.
Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 184, plate ii, b, text line 6. 10 Loc. cit. (note 4 above), B. text line 6, and A, text line 4.
11 Above, Vol. V. p. 194, text line 31. In this same verse As used in the Karbid grant of A.D. 959, ripart was substituted for deta (above, Vol. IV. page 284, text line 87). 1 Loc. cit. (note 6 above), p. 866, text line 84.
"Ind. Ant. Vol. XI. p. 169, text line 35. 14 Ind. Ant. Vol. XII. p. 160, text line 42. In the prose passage near the end of the grant which records the signatare, ddra is not attached to the same either of Karkardja or of his father. It appears first, In that part of a reenrd, in the Baroda grant of A.D. 834 or 885, mentioned further on, and then again in the Bagumri grant of A.D. 866 or 867.
» Jour. Bo. Br. R. 41. Soc. Vol. XX. page 139, text line 55. 16 Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 147, plate ii. b, text line 18.
"Tid. Vol. XIV. p. 199, text line 25.
