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of his general Khõlēsvara. Hēmädri, in his Vratakhanda,' mentions the name of this prince 88 Lakshmidhara. The defeat of the lord of Bhambhāgiri is also mentioned in the Paithan and Purshottampuri plates of Ramachandra. Prof. Mirashi, who has edited the Purshottampuri plates, has suggested that Bhambhägiri may possibly be Bhāmēr, four miles to the south of Nizâmpur, in the Pimpalnēr tälukā of the West Khandesh District.
Balsāņē, where the present inscription is found, is situated within a radius of ten miles from Bhămēr, being only seven miles north by east of the latter place. If Prof. Mirashi's identification of this place is accepted as correct, the king Kțishņa of our inscription, may possibly belong to the Abhira family of Bhambhāgiri. He may have therefore been an ancestor of Lakshmidēva above referred to.
No other details regarding the king Krishna having been given in the inscription, our suggestion is only tentative and provisional. Further research in the matter may prove its correctness or otherwise.
As regards the geographical names the only place referred to here is Balasāņaka, which is obviously modern Balsānē, where the inscription is found. The river mentioned in it, not by name, refers to the modern Böräi (Burray, of the maps), by the side of which the matha is situated. Cousens' statement to the effect that Kēsara was the old name of it, is obviously due to the confusion in the reading.
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1 Ibid., Vol. I, p. 64. * Sir R. G. Bhandarkar, Early History of the Deccan, Appendix, p. 171. • Ind. Ant., Vol. XIV, p. 314 ff. • Above, Vol. XXV, p. 199 ff. . Ibid., p. 203. • Mediaeval Temples of the Dakhar, p. 27.
From the original stone. • The letter vaḥ is written separately from the rest of the inscription on account of some flaw in the stone. . The reading seems to be ' sri which may be corrected into 'chchhri.-B. C. C.)
10 The word Sakë was tirst written, and subsequently restored to Sake by erasing the horizontal stroke, which has come out faintly in the estampage.
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11 Flaw in the stone. Only faint traces of the akshara in the brackets are visible. (Exclnding the numerals the rest of this date portion reads as if it were a part of the verge, in the Sardulavikridita metre, but is obviously not so. The form chandral hib is incorrect for chandraih.-B. C. C.]
