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SIX INSCRIPTIONS IN THE LAHORE MUSEUM.
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VI. Bari Kot Inscription of the Reign of Jayapǎladova.
The original of this inscription is a rectangular slab, 10" wide by 9" high of dark grey slate stone, which was found on a hill to the north of Bari Kot in Upper Swat and is now preserved in the Lahore Museum (No. 119). The whole of the inscription is very badly obliterated and the only portions that can be read with certainty are the first two lines of the document. Elsewhere only stray words or syllables can be made out. The inscription begins with om svasti 100, followed by the words meaning " in the reign of the supreme sovereign, the superior king of great king and the supreme lord, the illustrious Jayapaladeva". We then gather that in the illustrious Vajirasthāna (Waziristan) three individuals, whose names are completely rubbed off, founded something, the nature of which cannot be determined. This inscription is the first epigraphical document which mentions the name of the Shahi king Jayapaladeva, who was the successor of Bhimadeva and contemporary of Amir Sabuktigin and Maḥmud of Ghazni. The existing portion contains no date.
ॐ स्वस्ति १००
मेवरथीजयपाल देवराज्ये चोवजोरस्याने
भरपुष श्रोपोष्य (?) मिचदेवकुलप्रभप्रार्थित
पभिखिभि[:]
कर्म
तस्य
एभिस्त्रिभि [:]
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परमभट्टारक महाराजाधिराजपर
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रथ प्रतिष्ठित
कर्म
प्रभव उद
प्रतिष्ठा
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रापितः
