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No. 18.] TWO INSCRIPTIONS OF RAJASIMHA-NARASIMHAVARMAN II.
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A.D. 700. Prof. Dubreuil ascribes it to between 700 and 710. The Shore Temple inscription at Mahabalipuram should be slightly earlier, while the scripts of the Kailasanūtha-Atyantakama group might be based on a script about 50 years earlier (i.e., A.D. 650), but engraved a few years before 700.
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1 .. . . .. . . 'नोदपादि प्रथितभुजबलो द्रोणि रंशः' पुरारी: M[१] अश्वत्था. 2 बोथ तस्माविचितगुरुतपोनिर्म3 लादाविरासीदाबायादंगविद्याविसर इव महीवज[भः पक्ष'] वाख्यः [1] 4 यस्मादेष[:] ... पथि विहितपदात्यावने' माननीयो मन्दाकिन्या'] प्रवा6 : शशिन व महानन्वयः पक्षवानाम् m [२] समाजामश्वमेधावभू. 6 थविरजसा भूभुजां पजवानामस्म7 टापलवानां विमलसरभरहाजवंशोडवानाम् [*] केतो8 रत्षो बाहुद्रविणहतमहोचविख्यातकीर्यो देवा9 देकमज्ञाहुए इव पर मादीश्वगदात्तजन्मा'] MN] 10 . . . . . . भुज"विशावभासी सत्वो-५ 11 र्जित: समरदृष्ट"महाप्रभावः [1] यो राजसिंह इति विव
1 From the plato published in Ep. Rep. for 1916, opp. p. 114.
* This is the 4th quarter of a stanza in the Sragdharà metre. Tho first three sylla blou (which should be throw gurua) are wanting.
• Read द्रौषि. • Prof. Kristinaswami Aiyangar wrongly reads it as aleta.
. There is an unwritten space of one foot here, capable of holding these three letters, which are found in the Kaichipuram inscription. See S. I. I., Vol. I, No. 24, line 11 (veme 3).
• The space (about a foot) is unwritten. The three syllablos which are necessary for the motre may be nea: or port, which will be the predicate of you.
Prof. Krishnaswami Asyangar corrects are into grant (300 Pallava Antiquitier, p. 13); but this is absolutely unnecessary as 979 is plainly the adjective of afy.
• Read चौ.
The stone on which the inscription is engraved is broken here and the passage inserted has toen taken from ३.I. I., Vol. I, No. 24, verses.
10 As the metre of this verso in Tarantatilata, the first six syllables (a tagapa and a bha-gana -u-uu) are wanting. An expression like futa will do.
u Read & - Resd सली.
Prof. Krishnaswami Aiyanger wrongly roads it as 8 Ho also confounds with and suggests thu wrong rending सुभाष in plaoo of प्रमा. Soo Pallava Antiquities, L, p. 13.
