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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA,
[VOL. XXII.
. 55 ता वेदव्यासन [1] यष्टि क्सहया(सा)पि स्वर्ने तिडति भूमिदः ।
चाच्छेता(ता) चानुमंता च तान्यै(न्ये)व नर56 रके वसेत् [॥२६॥*] विंध्याटवीख(व)तोयाम शुष्ककोटरवासिनः ।*] कृष्णाहयो
हि जायते भूमिदानं ए. 57 रंति ये [॥२७॥*] अग्नेरपत्यं प्रथम सुवणं' भूइँष्णवी सूर्यसुताच गावः [१]
लोकत्रयं तेन भवे58 धि(छि) दत्तं यः काञ्चनं गाच महिनीव दद्यात् ॥२८*] ब(ब)इभिर्वसुधा
भुक्ता राजभिः समरादिभिः।"] वस्त्र व59 स्य यदा भूमिस्तस्य तस्य तदा फल(लम्) [॥२८॥*] बानीह दता(त्ता)नि
वश मरदानानि धर्मार्थयबस्वाराणि [*] मिर्ग60 ल्यवांतप्रति[मानि*] तानि को नाम साधु[*] पुनराददीत [॥३०॥ वदता(त्तां).
परदत्ता का घनाद्रच परविप [{"] [मही*] मही61 मता(ता) चेष्ठ दामाखेच्छयोपरिणा(धम) [१] इति कमलदलाबु(म्बु)
वि(बि)दुलीला (वि)यमनुचि(चि)त्य मनुष्यजीवि62 तञ्च [*] प्रतिविमल[म*]नीभिरामनौनर्ण(न) हि पुरुष परकीर्तयो विलोप्या:
[॥३२॥*] श्रीनाग63 [प]राणकदूतकं लिखितं श्रीगौडसुतेन श्रीसाव(म)तेन ॥
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THE BHOR STATE MUSEUM PLATES OF KHAMBHA II ; SAKA 4001.
The plates are three in number. The serial number of each plate in the set is engraved near the ring hole, a little away from the lines of the main record. The size of the plates, which is fairly viniform, is 7.8" X 4.2" and the thickness about 1". The edges have not been raised into rims. The plates were originally strung together by means of a ring passing through holes, about 5" in diameter, perforated at the centre of the left side, about 5" from the edge. The ends of the ring are soldered together by means of a seal which is bell-shaped, being l' in height and 1.2" in diameter. On the seal is superimposed the figure of a lion in the round crudely executed. The seal bears no inscription. At a subsequent unknown date the ring had been cut, but the seal and soldering are still intact. The weight of the plates along with the seal and the ring is 122 tolas ; the weight of the plates alone is 100 tolas.
The inscription is engraved on the inner side of the first and the last plates and on both the sides of the second. The engraving is throughout by the same hand. Each side has 11 lines of writing with the exception of the first side of the second plate, which has only 10. The last lines of the second side of the second plate and of the third plate are only about half of the normal length. The first line of the record has 33 letters including the four numerals%3; probably, discovering by computation that the space at his disposal permitted a greater spacing of letters, the mason went on gradually reducing the number of letters per line; from 1. 9 onwards we have on an average
1 This is uperfluous.
