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TWO BHUVANESVAR INSCRIPTIONS.
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No. 2166 a Ms. of the Tautátimatatilaka, a gloss on Kumarila's Tantravárttika,' by the same author.- What is the exact meaning of the surname BAlavalabhibhujanga, and why Bhavadêva Was so called, is not apparent.
Oar inscription is not dated. It has indeed been stated that line 24, part of which is effaced, ends with sarvat 32; but this by itself would be of no value, and besides it seems more probable to me that the line really ended with sankhya 33, a statement which I should take to refer to the number of verses of this prasasti. On palæographical grounds I do not hesitate to assign this record, like the preceding one, to about A.D. 1200.
The villages Siddhala and Hastinibhitta which are mentioned in the inscription, and the king or chief Harivarmadeva, who was a contemporary of Bhatta Bhavadôva, I am unable to identify
TEXT. 1 Om o namo bhagavató Vasudev[&]ya 11 Gadhôpagadha-Kamala-kucha
kumbha-pattra-mudr-&nkitêna vapush& pariripsamâna[b] | må lupyatâm=abhinava Vanamålik-eti Vågdêvat-Ôpahasito-stu Hariḥ sriyê vah || [1] Va (bk) lyât=
prabhrity=nhar-ahar-yyad-upasit-Asi Vágde2 vatê tad=adhuna phalatu prasida vaktaami Bhatta-Bhavadêve-kula-prasasti
sûktáksharani rasan-&gram-adhirayêthaḥ 11 [2] Såvarpņasya7 munêrmmahiyasi kulê yê jajñire Srôtriyas=tëshảm sâsana-bhūmayo janigriha-grâmah
satan santu tê 1 Aryåvartta-bh våm=vi3 bhûshanam=iha khyatas-tu saryv-&grimo gråmaḥ Siddhala dva kevalam-alankáros
sti Rådhå-sriyah || [3*) 10Sat-pallavaḥ sthitimayo dridhava(ba)ddha-mula 1 skhågra-lagna-mukhara-dvija-silita-srih ne granthilo na kațilaḥ saralah
suparvvå sarvv-Onnatab sakham-iha prasasiravamsab || [4] 4 11Tadvatal-Ottasa-maņeh kalasyadât=&pils tâpana-pratimah | Bhava iva vidya
tattva-prabhavaḥ p rava(ba) bhůva Bhavadevaḥ [6] Agraj-anujayôrmmadhye Mahadev-åttah&sayohl & jajid Yajāapurusho Virinchi-Hara yör=
iva || [6] Sat6 sâsanam Gaude-nfipid-avd5 pa ri-Hastinibhiţtam-abhishta-bh mi ashtan sutan-ashta-Mahesa-murtti
prakhyan vijajõe-tha Rath&iga-mukhyan || [7*) 7 Rathangad-Atyangah samajani janAnanda-jananaḥ sas=iva kehirdd&d=avikala-kala-k@li-nilayaḥ sphurat
prajāajyotih Sphurita iti namna di6 fi diši prakás-bhQt-saumya-graha iva Vu(ba)dha-tasya tanayaḥ || [8]
18 Tasmd=abhad-abhijan-Abhyuday-aikavijam=bvykja-paurusha-mahataru-mülakandah !
See Jour. Beng. 41. Soo. Vol. VI. p. 98, note, where Mr. Prinsep says: “the missing sentence consists of nothing more than the month (illegible) and the year “Samoat 82" distinctly visible."
. From impressions prepared by Mr. Krishna Sastri. * Expressed by & symbol. • Originally ddaya was engraved.
Metre of verses 1 and 2: Vasantatilakt. • Originally.dakit) and in the place of na vapushd something else (nava-vadhis?) seems to have been engraved. * Metre: Bårdúlavikridita. • Originally janigrihas was engraved, but the sign of a nurodra bas been apparently struck out Read kuodis ois
» Metre : Vasantatilaki. 11 Metre : Arya
11 Read -mani. 1 The akaharas ddtdpi are quite clear in the impressions ; the three preceding akaharas, in which some correction has been made, look like kalabya or kilalya. I can only suggest the reading kal-dvaddto-pi. 14 Metre: bloka (Anushtabh).
* Metre : Upajati. 14 The editio princeps reads here frl-Hastinidishamahlahtabhimi, but the reading given by me is perfectly clear in the impressions. With the ending Bhitta of the name Rastinkthitta I would compare hit in the game Champdbits, which occurs in line 44 of the Maushali plate of the Pala Madanapala, Jour. Beng. 41. Soc. Vol. LXIX. Part I. p. 78. 27 Metre: sikhariņt.
1Metre: Vasantatilaka.
