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Plate D; Second Side. 15 tha kandāt-kāņd [a ]t=prarohanti yo saténa pratanoshi || ovam rāl cha sasa16 něna pratipădita | evam vadhāh (buddhvā) parāvahma(parārdham cha) parato
våmsakārēnah 17 thayāyasmād-anura dharmma-(Igauravā na tő(kö)na vi (ID) anyēpa (alpāpi) vādhaḥ ka18 rapiya || tasyagēkows[t]i dharmmavēta || säsēdā pådhama hina dā. 19 tā savi(vi)jam sasyamēdini yavat=surya-katha lloke tavat-sargė mada20 yata || vēdavākamayā ja (ji)hvā vadanti | yā dēvatāḥ || bh[@]mi-datta tatha21 nye cha ahal moha(hö)na mā hara yathāyam patitaḥ Sakral tena vēvșiti 22 sapati 1 ēvam bhumikțita dānal sase (babyē) sasē (sasyö) prarohīti || Aditya23 VaruņoVishņu Vrahmi Soma-Hutāśanah Sa(Sa) lapāņis-tu bhagavān(a) a24 bhinandanti bhumidar astayamti pitaraḥ || pavalganti pitamabah || 25 bhumidata kule jata || sa to dātā bhavishyati || vahubhi vasudhā datta 26 rajảna Sagarādibhih || mā rõdhahpalatanka ya paradatta prapālita 27 yasya yasya (ya"]da bb[]mi I tasya tadā palam tasmanvaya na hata vyam | sā28 évatio=gatim=āp[nu]yāt | svadattā paradattām=vå yo harēti vasundhara.
No. 30.-DANTEWARA SANSKRIT AND HINDI INSCRIPTIONS OF DIKPALADEVA:
SAMVAT 1760.
BY RAI BABADUR HIRA LAL, B.A., NAGPUR. The two steatite slabs on which the above inscriptions are engraved, are found in the temple of the goddess Dantēśvari of Dantēwārā, a village situated on the junction of the Sankhini and Dankini rivers-about 60 miles south west of Jagdalpur, the present capital of the Bastar State, under the administration of the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces. They were first brought to light by Colonel Glasfurd, Deputy Commissioner of the now defunct Upper Godāvari District in which Bastar was formerly included. About the year 1862 Colonel Glasfurd wrote a detailed report on this Dependency, which was published as Selection No. 39 from the Records of the Government of India in the Foreign Departmert. In this report, on pp. 99 and 100, an eye copy of these inscriptions is given, apparently as read by a Marātba clerk, for at the end of one of them there is a note in Marathi, stating that the remaining 5 lines were not decipherable.' The transcripts of both the Sanskrit and Hindi inscriptions are very defective, as already remarked by me on a former occasion, where I have given the substance of the records. I now edit the two inscriptions from excellent impressions taken by Mr. Venkoba Rao of the Madras Archaeological Department.
The inscriptions are engraved on 2 loose slabs each about 21" x 15' The Sanskrit Yecord covers a space about 14" square and contains 23 lines. The average size of letters in the first 5 lines is % and in the rest 1 The Hindi inscription, which is surmounted by a figure of a dragon usually found profusely carved on the temples locally known as Hemådpanthi, niso contains 23 lines ouvering & space 14" x 13}", the average size of letters being ". In both, the characters used are Nāgari, the notable orthographical peculiarities being the representation
· This rå seems to have been cancelled.
The a-stroke is written at the begivning of the following line. * See above, VoL IX, pp. 164 ff.
