________________
No. 1.]
INDIA OFFICE PLATE OF LAKSHMANASENA.
then no difficulty in accepting the tradition that it was in fact this Lakshmanasēna, and no other, whose overthrow by Muhammad Bakhtiyār is related in the T'abagāt- - Väsiri, an event variously dated from 1194 to 1207 A.D.
TEXT.
Obverse. 1 Siddham [l*) Om namo Nārāyanāya | Yasyrankė sarad ambud-orasi tadil-lēkh=ēva
Gauri priyā dēh-ārddhēna Harim samā]sritam=a[ bhū]d=yasy=āti. 2 chitram vapuh | dīpt-ārkka-dyuti-lochana-traya-rucha ghoram dadhāno mukham dēvas
tvāṁ sa nirasta-dänava-gajah pushṇātu Panchananah !! [1*] Svar-gGa3 ngā-jala-puņdarikam=amrita-prāvāra-dhārā-griham śpingāra-druma-pushpam-Isvara-sikh
alankāra-muktā-maņih kehir-ambhõnidhi-ji4 vitam kumudini-vřind-aika vaihäsiko jiyan-Manmatha rajya? paushtika-mahā sānti
dvijas-chandramāḥ il 2*]* Tribhuvana-jaya-sambhri. 5 t-arthao-kļiptaih kratubhir=avārita1o-sattriņā="marāņām a janishata tad-anvayē dharitri
valaya-visrinkhala-kirttayo narēndrāḥ 1 [3*]" 6 Paurānibhiḥ kathābih prathita-guna-gaņē Virasēnasya varsē Karpņāța-kshatri-]
yāņām-ajani kua siro-clāma 7 Sämantasēnaḥ kṣitvá nirviram=urvvi-talam=a dhika]tarám2 tripyatā nāka-nadya
m nirņpilkto yēna (yudhyad-ripu-rudhira)-kana. 8 kir[wn]a-dhāraḥ kṣipāṇaḥ!! [4*]ia Virāņām=adhidaivatamiripu-[chamū]-már-ā[oka
ma]lla-vratas-tasmā[d]=vismayaniya [saurya-mash]i[ma] 9 Hēmanta sēno='bhavat 1 kshirõd-adhalr]a-válsaső Vasumati-dēvyā yadiyam yaso
ratnasy=ēva Su]mēru-mauli-mi10 litan) kshauma-sriyan pushyati | 15*] Ajani Vijayasēnas=tējas[7]m rābir=asmāt
samara-vil srima]rānsām] bhūbhritām=. 11 ka-sēshah 11*1 iha jagati xishēhē vēna ramsasya pūrvvaḥ purusha iti sudhāmsau
kēvalam] raja-sav(b)dahi! 6*1 Bhū-chakrar
See Raverty's translation (Bibliotheca Indica, Work No. 78, published in 1881), pages 554-568. Raverty (footnote, p. 359) argues for the date 1194. From the side of Sēna chronology a date near 1198 would seem to be indicated
+ Square brackets are used to indicate what is illegible but has been supplied. Round brackets indicate & Decessary emendation. A single dot enclosed within square brackets indicates an illegible element in an akshara. * Represented by a symbol.
Metre : Sārdūlarikridita. "The Madhāinagar plate has prādara.. I find no authority for either word. [Probably we have to take pra-tri here in the sense of 'to fill'. See Monjer-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary under pri-eri.-Ed. • Madhāinagarmihasako.
:Madhainagar.raja. Metre : Sārdalurikridita.
This is the reading also in Madhāinagar. 10 Madhxinagar vidhitit.. [Reading in M. adeo seems to be c rita.Ed.] 11 Metre: Pushpitāgrā.
12 [Reading both here and in Madbainagar is clearly -n pi na tarine tripyata, 1.c., not being fully satisfied even after, etc.-Ed.) 1 Metre : Sragdhara.
1 Metre : Sardalavikridita. Metre: Malini.
