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RADHANPUR PLATES OF GOVINDA JII.
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152 नु पक्कंड्रचात मूलवीसालु 153 [इप्पिंचि श्रीमन्महाप्रथान सा154 कुवतिम्मसय्यगारिकिनि वारि दे. 155 वुलु लक्ष्मम्गारिकिबि पुण्यसु156 [ग]ानु नादिंडगोपसय्यंगा157 रु समर्पिचनु । ई धर्मानकु पो. 158 डेराजुलु तेलंगुराजुलु 159 त[पिरा' गंग्गलोनु गोवत्य चेशि160 न दोषान बोवुवार [*] तुरुकरा161 जुलु तप्पिरा पंहि दि[व] दोषा162 न 'बोउवार ॥ एकैव] भगिनी लोके 163 सर्वेषामे [व]' भूभुजां [1] न भोज्य[7] 164 [न] करग्रांद्या देवदत्ता वसंध165 रा ॥ [३२] दानपालनयोर्मध्ये दाना166 छयोनुपालनं॥
No. 23.-RADHANPUR PLATES OF GOVINDA III. ;
SAKA-SAMVAT 730. BY F. KIELHORN, PH.D., LL.D., C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN. This inscription has already been edited, with a translation and a photo-lithograph, in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. VI. p. 59 ff., by the late Professor Bühler, to whom the original plates were lent by the authorities of Radhanpur, & Native State under the supervision of the Political Superintendent of Palanpur, in the Bombay Presidency. As it is considered desirable to issue a true facsimile of this record, I now re-edit it from ink-impressions placed at my disposal by Dr. Fleet, who obtained the original plates on loan from the Political Superintendent of Palanpur in 1884. There is no information as to whom the plates may actually belong to.
The inscription is on two copper-plates the first of which is engraved on one side only. It is incomplete ; the third plate that would have completed it is lost; and so are the ring and seal which probably accompanied the plates. Either plate measures about 114" by 7". Their edges were fashioned thicker than the inscribed surfaces, so as to serve as rims to protect the writing; but the surfaces are a good deal corroded by rust- a fact which was altogether obscured by the manipulated photo-lithograph issued with Professor Bühler's paper in 1877--and some letters, in
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1 Read 'प्रधान. - Read चेन.
- Read पी • Read सप्पिरा. - Read गोहत्य.
• Read बीवु.. * Ther of or is expressed both by the full and the secondary sign. • Read करवाचा. • Ther of 'पालनयीमध्ये is expressed both by the full and the secondary sigu.
