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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(VOL. XVII.
As regards the identification of the localities mentioned in the grant it is to be said that Sthåpvisvara is no doubt the Thånesar of modern times situated in the Karnal District of the Punjab. The Nyayapadra (subdivision of the grant may be the town Nápad in the Kaira District a little to the south-west of Indore ; and the gift village Nålatadäga is probably represented by the modern När (Näl) in the same district. Satrāți approaches very easily to our Saptadasaka meaning's group of seventeen villages which expression may have been afterwards wrongly construed to denoto & village. The only difficulty in this identification is that this place is at a long distance from Betmå where the grant was discovered. The remaining places I am unable to identify at present.
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First Plate. 1 पों' [] ज[य]ति व्योमकेशोसो' यः सर्गाय 'विमति तां । ऐंदवीं
सिरसा लेखा जगहोजाकुराकतिम् [१] तन्वन्तु वः 2 स्मरारात: कल्याणमनिशं जठाः [1] कल्पान्तसमयोहामतडिहलयपिंगलाः [२]
परमभट्टारकमहा3 राजाधिराजपरमेश्वरबोसीयकदेवपादानुध्यातपरमभट्टारकमहाराजाधिराजपरमेश्वर4 श्रीवाक्पतिराजदेवपादानुध्यातपरमभट्टारकमहाराजाधिराजपरमेश्वरयोसिंधुराजदेवपा5 दानुध्यातपरमभधारकमहाराजाधिराजपरमेश्वरबीभोजदेवः कुशली । न्याय
पद्रसम8 दशकान्तःपातिनालतडागे समुपगतासमस्तराजपुरुषान्वा प्रणोत्तरान्प्रतिनिवासि
पट्टकिलजनपदादों7 च समादिशत्यस्तु वः संविदितम् ॥ यथास्माभिः सात्वा चराचरगुरु
भगवन्तं भवानीपति समभ्यय 8 संसारस्यामारतां दृष्ट्वा वातावविधममिदं वसुधाधिपत्यमापातमात्रमधुगे
विषयोपभोगः ॥ 9 प्राणास्ति'णाग्रजलविंदुसमा नराणां (0) धर्मः सखा परमहो परलोकयाने [३]
भ्रमत्संसारचक्रान10 धाराधारामिमां श्रियं । प्राप्य ये न ददुस्तेषां पश्चात्तापः परं फलम् ॥॥80
इति जगतो विनश्वरं 1 From the original plates.
? Expressed by a symbol. If we compare this grant with the obber of the same year and with the third of V. S. 1078 we shall find that the priththamatrds are used anywhere the writer liked.
• Bond विभर्ति - Read बिरसा. • Read जगहौजाकुरा'.
The left hand portion of the letter ka is expressed here only by point separated from the body of the letter. Cf. similar forms in 11. 2 and 7 of the Banswara grant. • Rend प्राणों
• Read तृणाय...... बिंदु
