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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
[VOL.XXVI
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First Plate । प्रोम् ।। स्वस्त्यशेषक्षिति (ती)शविद्याभ्यासविशेषासावितमहनीयविनयस
2 म्पत्सं (त्स)म्पादितसकलविजिगीषुगुणो गुणवः (व)त्समाश्रयप्रकृष्टत3 रशौर्यप्रज्ञाप्रभावसम्भावितमहाभ्युदयः कार्ति (ति) केय इव कृत्तिवा4 ससो [रा][:*] [शि] (श्री) हर्षदेवस्य सूनुः सोमवश सम्भव[:*] परममाहेश्वरी मा5 तापितृपादानुध्यातः शी(श्री) महाशिवगुप्तराजः कुशली ॥ कोशीरनन्द6 पुरविषयीयवटपरके ब्राह्मणां (णान्) सम्पूज्य सप्रधानां (नान्) प्रतिवासिनो 7. यथाकालाध्यासिनस्समाहर्तृसन्निधातृप्रमुखानषिकारिणस्स8 करणानन्याश्च (न्यांश्चा)स्मत्पादोपजीविनः (न) सर्वराजपुरुषां (पान्) समाज्ञा
Second Plate ; First Side 9 पयति [*] विदितमस्तु भवतां यथास्माभिरयं प्रामस्सनिधिः सोपनिधिः 10 सदशापराधः सर्वकरसमेतः सर्वपि (पी) डावर्जितः प्रतिषिद्धll चाट भटप्रवेशः च्छा (शश्छा) बनाटासीमनी (नि) वी (वि)ष्टच्छान्दोगच्छात्र नारायणो12 पाध्याय । त्रैलोक्यहन्सो (हंसो)पाध्याय । विद्याधरहङ्सो (हंसो)पाध्याय । परम13 हङ्सो (हंसो)पाध्याय । नक्षत्ररूप । सलोणविद्याधर । विदग्धासुर । पृ14 थिवि (वी)रूप । दुर्गकलश । पोववराह । तालरूप । मध्याह्नरूपेभ्यो द्वा
1 From the original plates. - Expressed by a symbol. • Read वंश. • The dandas are superfluous.
• The word chala has been usually translated as 'irregular troopa'. But etymology would, I think, help us in arriving at a better and more correct meaning of the term. Chåfa, according to lexicographers, means & rouge, cheat, swindler', etc. This, however, cannot be applied with any propriety to the military or police force, constituting the irregular section'. The word chhatra is substituted for chata in some earlier inscriptions in & similar context. For instance, the Rithpur plates of Queen Prabhāvati-Gupta has the term abhata-chhatra-prastiyaa (J.P.A.S. B.,N.S., Vol.XX, P,59, textl. 18). After addressing the bhatasand chhatras among the royal officers, the Chammak copper plate record of the same king introduces the phrase a-bhafa-chchhatra. pravèsyal (C.I.I., Vol. III, No. 55, 11. 22 and 26). Thus we may be justified in equating chafa with chhatra. The word chhatra seems to have been originally derived from the root chhad=concesl, hide. It would hence mean one who is concealed or disguised', in other words' a member of the secret service'. If chdta is a variant of chhatra, it would also mean the same. For a different view expressed by Prof. Vogel, seo above, Vol. XXIV, p. 134.
• The word chhatra seems to have been substituted here for the usual expression sabrahmacharin,
