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No. 23.) CHANDREHE INSCRIPTION OF PRABODHASIVA: KALACHURI YEAR 724. 149
monastery itself was built or completed in the Kalachuri Chēdi year 724 (=972-3 A.D.). Thus Prasantasiva's temple must have been constructed in the earlier part of the tenth century. The date of another ruin near Chandrēhe is also fixed by this inscription. From verse 7 we learn that Prasantabiva had built another asrama near the confluence of the Sons at the foot of the Bhramara hill. The place is still called Bhramarsen and is referred to by Beglar.
The data is given in the last line as (Kalachuri] Samvat 724 Paalgupa tudi 6. For want of further partioulars it is not possible to verify the exact date but it would roughly correspond to March 973 A.D. The prasasti was composed by the poet Dhamsata, son of Jēika and grandson of Mahuka. It was written by Damodars, son of Lakshmidbars and younger brother of Vasudeva and was engraved by Nilakantha at the command of stradhāra Surika.
I edit this inscription from the original in the monastery at Chandrahe which I visited twice with the help of Rai Bahadur B. N. Zutahi, President, and Ral Bahadur Pandit Janki Prasad, M.A., LLB., Home Member, of the Council of Regency, Rewah State.
TEXT. Metres : v. 1, 12 and 18 Sitharipi ; v. 2 Mandakrānta ; v. 3, 4 and 8 Sardulavikridita ; vv. 6-7, 9-11 and 18 Prithet ; vv. 14, 16 and 19 Hariņi; vv. 16 and 17 Vacantatilaka ; v. 20 Anushfubl.)
1 Om namah Sivaya || Phani-svisa-byám vanad-amara-nady-ambhasi cha yaj-jaţă.
jūt-ambhodě nayana-dikhi-vidyud-vilasati tatha chuda-chandra-dyuti3 nikara-dhår-dva kakubham kapälānām mälä tulayat sa Sarvv vijayate || [111*]
Hansa aytar hasita-mahasizh sarhatik-Sankarasys sphäri-bhūta Vadanam-abhito 3 niga-charmm-āvfitasya 1 kichit-kantha-chobhavi-kalushita megha-niryan-mpiganka
chohhāyānh svachchhinh sapadi dadhatt sampadath v dadatu || [2010] Chari-sam
charana-praviņa-charana-vyl4 pärapä-ghürmpita-kahoni-kunda-namat-phan-Isvara-phanam vidrapa-dig-viranata i dor
ddanda-bhramanidakka-chalita-brahmanda-khandazh mudē bhūyid-6 nivida. 5 kvapad-damarukath Chandi-pates-tåndavam (81) Sriman-Mattamayara-santatis
iyath Gang=dva loka-ttrayath půyåd=yattra Purandaru krita-tapā jajka
gurur-bhubhujām bishyas-ta6 sy 8th divah sikhi-samo-visbi)bhrat-tapas-tējasă dipatvath vinip&tit-Andha-tamasd
nirvv&pa-mărgge sthitab ll (410) Tato Madhumati-patah krita-mahā-tapa. . 7 s-sanchayaḥ Prabhivabiva ity=abhūt-sakala-laiva-chudamanih aneka-nfipa-vanditaḥ
sa Yuvarājadována yas-tap8-dhana-patih kritateoharapa-pata-gB-lagnikah || (611) 8 Prabkntasiva-chandramas-tad-anu tanya tiahydebhavawamabaptamnathan-ödykma-pra
katita-svarūpaḥ buchih Iva(ba)bhira punishu briyathe tunnuda-kalpa-haivishu yah
samujvalayasah-prabha-dhavalit-Alchil-Kol-mukhaḥ || [6|I*]84 Soma-nada-sangamo Bhramåte
kaila-müle-tularh priyala-vana-bankul[@] phala-mrinila-kand-Adana chaki 10 raviditath janairwmuni-sakhah prasänt-asramach 1va-pada-pada-pannkoibhih pavita
bhūtalo yah kerit [71] Dēv-8dyna-gat-Indra-sathaadi muda gandharves
vidyadharaiCunningham, 1. 8. I. R., Vol. XIII, pp. 141
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