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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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33 टोपलक्षितं । शासनेन प्रदत्तं ॥ श्रीवटयक्षिणी घाणापलिका १ पत्र
मण्डप[पालिका]-५ महानवम्यां चैचे पुष्पचौसरा शत् १०. वणिवर्गेन'
कुंकुम पल २ पुग १ चैत्रे निवे34 दनीया' • ॥ धाडिवाहाक्षेत्र माणिवाप लौडाभिक्षप[भोज्ये?] दातव्य मास वि घोण्डावर्षिपूर्वोत्तरत: मोच्चक्षेत्र माणिवाप १. षष्ठी वरिष सहस्राणि स्वर्गे ति[ष्ठ]ति
भूमिदः [*] आच्छता" चानुमन्ता " तान्येव नरकं [वसेत्] [॥१२॥ [स]त्यसुत सिद्धपेन इयं प्रशस्ती उ"त्कीर्ममिति" ॥ संवत् १०.३ [*]
No. 14.--LAKSHMESHWAR PILLAR INSCRIPTION OF THE YUVARAJA
VIKRAMADITYA.
BY LIONEL D. BARNETT. The town of Lakshmëshwar is the head-quarters of the Lakshmëshwar taluka, which is an outlying part of the Miraj State within the limits of the Dharwar District, Bombay. It ja situated about thirty-six miles south-east of Dhārwār, and is shown in the Indian Atlas quarter-sheet 41, 3. E. (1904), in lat. 15° 8', long. 75° 31'. Its ancient name is found as Porigere in the record now published, and elsewhere as Purigero and Puligore, which forms woro sanskritized as Purikara and Pulikara : it is still preserved in the name Huligere bada of a part of the lands of the town (see Vol. XIII above, p. 179). For some facts of the early history of the place the reader may be referred to Vol. XIII above, p. 178. From this town comes the present inscription, which I edit from two ink-impressions and a plain squeeze placed at my disposal by the lato Dr. Fleet,15 which are now in the British Museum. • The insori ption is on two faces of a stone pillar which in 1892 was standing at the local Kachom, along with a large number of other inscriptions which had been collected there for safe preservation. The first face, bearing 11. 1-40, has an inscribed area of about 7 ft. 1 in. in height and 1 ft. 2 in. in width; on the second face, comprising 11. 41-55, the inscribed area is about 8 ft. 64 in. in height and 1 ft. 2 in. in width. The state of the stone is very bad : 11. 39-48 are wholly illegible, and there are many gaps and doubtful readings elsewhere.
The character is Kadarese, of a type characteristic of the early eighth century. The letters on the first face, which, though somewhat sprawling and irregular, are on the whole graceful and clean-out, average between in. and 1 in. in height; but on the second face a difference of type is noticeable, which possibly began from 1. 41, and is very obvious from 1. 46 onwards, This stroke is redundant.
- Read से. - Read तं.
• Read वषिष्वप. • Read कुडम..
• Read पग. - Read निवेदनीयानि.
• Resda. . Read fe..
» Read वर्ष 11 Read .
11 Read M Rend प्रशस्तिक
M Read ' त. The record bas been mentioned by Dr. Fleet in bia Dys. Kan. Diar. p. 874, No. 10.
