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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XIII.
TEXT. 1 Om Srimad-Udyotakēgaridēvasya pravarddhamāno vijaya-rājvo Samvat 2 sri-Arya-samgha-prativaddha-Graha-ku'a-vinirggata-dēśigana-āchārya-sri-Kulachandra3 bhattārakasya tasya sishya-Subha-chandrasya
18
TRANSLATION. The year 18 of the increasing and victorious reign of the illustrious U[]dyötakzgariDēva. (The work of) Subhachandra, the disciple of the lord the illustrious acharya Kulachandra, (who belonged to the Graha Kula, of the illustrious Arya congregation (and belonged to the Dosigana. (Rather'ürhārya of the Dabi gana derived from the Graha kula, belonging to the illustrious Arya sangha.'-F. W. T.]
XV.-Second Inscription in the Navamuni Cave. This record consists of two parts and is incised on the partition between the two inner chambers in the cave. The characters belong to the same period as those of No. XIV. It consists of two parts. The first part is incomplete, as it contains only au incomplete sentence :
"Sridhara chhātra, i.e., the student Sridhara." The second part consists of three lines and runs as follows:
1 Om śri-acharya-Kulachandrasya tasya 2 sislıya-Kballa-Subhachaudrasya
chhātra Vijo
TRANSLATION " (The work of) Vijo (Vidyā or Vilya), the pupil of Khalla Subhachandra, (who was) the disciple of the illustrious Acharya Kulachandra."
XVI.-Inscription of Udyotakesari in Lalatendu-Kesari's Cave. This inscription was discovered in the cave called Lalātondakosari's cave or Lion gate by Mr. S. Ganguli, photographer of the Archoslogical Survey, in October 1913. It is incised on the back wall of the cave, at a height of about thirty or forty feet from the floor of the cave above a group of Jain images of the Digambara sect. It is not in a good state of preservation. The record consints of five lines of characters of tho same datu as those used in Nos. XIV and XV. The lauguage used is very incorrect Sanskrit.
TEXT. 1 Om sri-Udyotakēsari-vijaya-rajya-samyat 5 2 fri-Kumaraparv vata-(1)sthāno jirona vari(2) jirnes Irana (3) 3 ulotita (4) tasmina thinë chaturvinsati tirtha[m]knra 4 sthāpita pratishthā (kā]lo Ha[ri]-opa(1) Jaguandika 5 kna(?) da(?) ti(?) drathā(?) Sri Pärasya nithasya karmma-khayaḥ
NOTES. (1) We learn from lino 2 th :t the ancieni name of Khandagiri is Kumiraparvata. The Hathigumphā inscription of Kbäravõla mentions Kumāriparvata as the ancient name of Udayagiri. The twin hills seem to Lave been known as the Kumāra-Kumāri-parvata up to the tenth or eleventh century A.D.
1 Espress.d by a symbol. : 'l bere are signs of interpuection at the end of 1. 2.
? Expressed by a symbol. • Expressed by a symbol.
