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SUSUNIA ROCK INSCRIPTION OF CHANDRAVARMAN.
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No.9.-THE SUSUNIA ROCK INSCRIPTION OF CHANDRAVARMAN.
BY MAHAMAHOPADHYAYA PANDIT HARAPRASAD SHASTRI, CALCUTTA. Susuniã is the name of a hill in the Bankurā District of Bengal, situated about 12 miles north-west of the towa of Binkurā. The existence of an ancient inscription on the Susuna hill was brought to the notice of my friend Baba Nagöndra Nath Vasa, who published a short note on it nineteen years ago. As he had to rely on an eye copy made by a friend who had very little experience in copying inscriptions, his transcript is not very correct. Ho recog. nized the importance and antiquity of the record and tried to obtain a bettor and more faithful impression or estampage. Subsequently he obtained some more impressions and editel the inscription in the Journal of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad with a crude facsimile.
The inked impressions which accompany this paper were made by my pupil Babu Rakhāl Dās Bancrji, at present an Assistant Superintendent in the Archeological Survey, who paid a visit to the plane two or three years ago. He described the place as being by the sido of a hill-stroam and below a small water-fall, which had caused the destruction of a cave, on the back wall of which the inscription was incised.
The record consists of three lines, two of which are incised below a big wheel with flaming rim and hub, measuring 2' 3' an: 22 respectively, while the third line to the right of the wheel measures 2'6' in length. The height of the lotters varies from 1 to 4".
The language of the inscription is Sanskrit and the characters belong to the eastern variety of the Northern alphabet of the 4th century A.D. There are some mistakes due to the carelessness of the mason, e.g. -adhipatēr= for -adhipatērs, A1.1; disagran-atisrishtah for dāsäyrēūtisrishtah, in B. A consonant with a superscript r has always been doubled, and the only orthographical peculiarity is the spelling of the name Sinhavarman, A 1.1, whero we find * in the place of the annsvāra. The historical significance of this record has already b-en denlt with in my paper on the Mandasor inscription of the time of Naravarman. I edit the inscriptions from the impressions supplied to me by Rākhāl Dās :
TEXT.
A (1) goturuagarrit1*]azifaga : (2) AETTIS T : fa:
B TETAA: 78[*]a(a) [*]fah:
TRANSLATION.
The work of the illustrious Maharāja Chandravarmman, the son of the illustrious Mahārāja Sinhavarmman, the lord of Pushkarana.
Dedicated by the chief of the slaves of the wielder of the discus (i.e. Vishnu).
Proe. 4. 8. B., 1895, pp. 177 ff. Above, Vol. XII, pp. 815 ff.
* Bangiya Sahitya Parishad Patrika, Vol. III, pp. 268 f. . From the ink-impressions. Read orga
