Epigraphia Indica Vol 10

Author(s): Sten Konow, V Venkayya
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

Page 30

No. 3.]
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BIJAPUR INSCRIPTION OF DHAVALA OF HASTIKUNDI.
31 र (त) मरि [व] सतिविजयस्वा (स्क) धावारे
माण्ड (डिगो
महाष्ट (ष्ट ) मोदिय चाय अवस्थावि (मि) न पोचाय [३]षयी (दी) चि
32 तपुत्रा [य] 'नारचतुर्व्वपायकात्रण विपुण अपरोत्तरदिशि तालितटाहारविषये
toutमा [वि]
33 निरूळण्यास [:] चतु[:] सीमान्तसर्व्ववाधापरिहारो दतः (सः) तदागाम (मि) - (त्तः) भिरारी (न्) राजबिरायुरे
व
34 श्वर्य्यादीनां विलसितमचिरांशुचञ्चलमवर्ग [च्छद्धि]राचन्द्रार्कधरार्णवस्ति (स्थि) तिसमकालं [] (खि) भि[:"] .
35 दति (ति) निर्विशेषं
पालनीयमुख (क) च भग[व]ता वेदव्यासेन व्यासंग [ ॥"]
बहुभिर्व्वसुधा [भु* ]क्ता राजभिस्वगरादिभिर्य्यस्य
36 यस्य यपदा) भूमिस्तस्य तस्य दुः [ख] मनाय्य (ख) पावनं [1] 37 [नाच्] योनुपालनं [1] खदतां (सां) *] [] सहभा (सा) चि
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38 निरवद्यपुण्यवल्लभेन लिखितमिदं
17
तदा [फ] []
दानं
[ख]न्दातुं समव
च [1] पाज (ल) नं पति [दा]परदतां (तो) वा यी हरेत वसु [व] रा (त्तां) विपा (ठा) यां था [यते] क्रिमि[:] [0"] [ष]r (शा) (स ) नं © [*]
No. 3.-BIJAPUR INSCRIPTION OF DHAVALA OF HASTIKUNDI;
VIKRAMA-SAMVAT 1053.
BY PANDIT RAM KARNA; JODHPUR.
A short paper on this inscription has already been written by the late Professor Kielhorn, But as the full text of the inscription was not published by him, I was induced by Mr. D. R. Bhandarkar to prepare a fresh transcript, as far as practicable, with the help of the original stone which has now been sent to the Ajmer Museum by the kind permission of His Highness the Maharaja of Jodhpur.
The inscription was originally discovered by Captain Burt "in the interior of a gateway leading to Mandir, distant one kos from Beejapoor, on the route from Odeypore to Sirohi near Mount ābā. "3 But, according to local report, the stone was originally fixed in the wall of a solitary Jaina temple situated about 2 miles from the village of Bijapur in the Bāli (Goḍwar) District of the Jodhpur State. It was subsequently removed to the dharmaśālā belonging to the Jaina mahajans of Bijapur, whence it was brought to the Historical Department of the State and is now kept in the Ajmer Museum.
There are 32 lines of writing in this inscription covering a space of nearly 2' 8" broad by 1'4" high. The record is, on the whole, in a fair state of preservation; a considerable portion of it has, however, suffered from the effects of the weather. The first and second lines are very much worn out. There are, besides, a few letters here and there which have peeled off. The size of the letters is about " and the characters are Nagari (of the northern class of alphabets)
4 [The donoo's name has to be looked for in this compound perhaps नाथेरचतुर्वेदिने is meant. - Bd.]
* Jonr. of the As. Soc. of Bengal, Vol. LXII. Part I, No. 4, pp. 209-14. AIbid, Vol. I. p. 821.