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this last has been omitted by Dr. Fleet in his translation. So the real date of the Gangdbar inscription lies in the year 481 of the Malava-Vikrams era. This number is divisible by four after the dedaction of one. The year of the Bijayagadh pillar inscription is the exception. Here the number of years are not divisible by four after the subtraction of one. But most probably this also is an expired year though it is not so specified.
A Jains work, the Bhagavati Sutra, however, states that the four Yugas come in the following order: Kali, Dvapara, Tréta and Krita. It a particular year is divisible by four then it is a Krita year.
Sir R. G. Bhandarkar is of opinion that the era used in this inscription was founded by the Málava Republican body. Mr. D. R. Bhandarkar states that "the Mālavas were only in possession of a traditional usage regarding, i.e. of a mode of reckoning, tha Krita year". Dr. Fleets thioks that the Mālava Vikrama era was founded by the Kushana Emperor Kanishkn. They all proceed on the supposition that there wils no such king as Vikramaditya before Chandragupta II. of the Gupta dynasty. In this connection 1 beg to point out that a king named Vikramaditya is mentioned in Häla's Saptaśati, V. 64 (ed. Weber, nr. 464). As Hala cannot be placed later than the 1st century A.D., it must be admitted that the Vikramaditya mentioned here must have existed ia the first century BC. Tho verso runs as follows:
Sajnvahana-sulha-rasa-tosikna dentina tsha kare lalkhaji | chalanbna Vitamiichobaalhariam-anusilkkhitin tissa || I edit the inscription fron the original stone.
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1 सिद्धम् [*] सहस्रशिरसे तस्मै पुरुषायामितात्मने [*] चतुस्समुद्रपर्यङ्गतोय
निद्रालथे नमः [n १*] श्रीलिवगणनाते प्रशस्ते ततसंज्ञिते [*] 2 एकषष्ट्यधिक प्राप्त समाशतचतुष्टये] [*] प्राहकाले शुभे प्राप्ते मनस्तुष्टिकरे
नृणाम् [*] मधे(हे) प्रवृत्ते शक्रस्य कृष्णस्यानुमते तदा [॥ ३] 3 निष्पन्नव्रीहियवसा काशपुष्पैरलंकता [*] भाभिरभ्यधिक भाति मेदिनी सस्य
मालिनी [॥ ४*] दिने पाखो(वी)जशुकस्य एंचभ्यामथ सत्कृते [1] ईद कालवर रम्ये प्रशासति वसुन्धराम् [॥ ५*] प्राक्पुण्योपचयाभ्यासात्संवड़ित
मनोरथे [*] जयवर्मनरेन्द्रस्य पौत्र देवेन्द्रविक्रमे [॥ *] 5 क्षितीशे सिङ्कवणस्मिविक्रान्तगामिनि [*] सत्पुत्रे श्रीमहाराजनरवमणि
पार्थिवे [॥ ७*] तत्यालनगुणोद्देशाधर्मप्राप्त्यर्थविस्तर: [1] 6 पर्वज्ज] (जन्मान्तराभ्यासाहलादाक्षिप्तमानसः [*] खयशःपुण्य संभारविवस्ति
कृतोद्यमः [*] मृगतृष्णाजलस्वप्नविदुद्दीपशिखाचलम् [॥ *] 7 जीवलोकमिमं ज्ञात्वा शरण्यं शरणत: [*] त्रिदशोदारफलदं स्वगस्ती
चारुपशवम् [॥ १०*] विमानानेकविटपं तोयदांबुमधुसावम् [1] Ind....V.IXE.II. 2. 200.
- Loc. cit., p. 163. J. R. A. S., 1913, p. 633, Sute 2.
• Read प्रावटकाले. [I would road मेधे प्रगत -S.K.)
• Tue mark above #: is probably accideutal. * Red °ज्वीप
+ Rend 'मधुखदम्.
