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bheshaja, P. P. 26; hunu = chunnam, older sunu, H fort in his = tuchchha, cf. chuchchha, chhuchAmb. B, 47, cf. watsunu = udsachunnam, Ab. cha, Hem. I. 204, older sis, Ab. 698, Gipsy chucho 306; dissimilation of s8 in watsika, Amb. B, 7, - || Mikl. II. cf. vihatti-vitasti, Bhag. 265, Hem. I. 214. PAli wassika; ham - charman, Mald. ham, Gray I fort through influence of a preceding dh in 20; hitinaud, siținawd = chitth, comp. siti, Amb. duhanga - dhutanga, Kdvy. X. 129. A, 27, 29; hindae, etc. V sad. handanawd =
H for rsh in kahapana, inscript, at Mihintale V sddh; hata = sapta, cf. hattari, Anuyog. 926;
last line (Páli kahapana or karis@pana), kahahira, ira, = súrya; has = sasya, Páli sassa, Amb.
wunu, Niss. Malla's inscr. at Polonn. A. 18. A, 26, 27; harurudu, Amb. A, 4, 36; himi = 810 ami, older hami, J. C. 4. S. 1879, p. 18, Amb.
In some cases we find h used for aspirates, A, 11 ; hila = chidra; handa - chandra; kahi
perhaps already softened to h before the = akdrshit, J. C. A. S. 1879, p. 7, cf. kahiti = emigration from India. The only certain inkarshyati, Bhag. 306, kdhi, Hem. III. 162, da. stance I am acquainted with is bihiri deaf,' hanti and kachchhanti, Delhi Pillar IV, Cunn. 111; mihiru, 'sweet,' cf. Páli ruhira, Ját. II. 276 pahan = prasanna, Gutt. 39, R. D. 16; pahan (poetical muhuna, K. J. 82, is made by the - pdshana, Galgirk. Wadig. (contracted in Pandits); for other consonants in kehel panwaesa); pirihuna from piriwenawd, Gp.
plantain' = Skt. kadali, H. kell, etc. Beames C. 10; pahura = pachchart; wihida = vidrna,
I. 142; h for an aspirate in the old corrupted Nám. 114, Gutt. 66, Kavy. IX. 71, wihidae, P. P. 18, but wisuruwd, Gp. A. 7; hikmun = sikmun, S. S.
tatsama hinganawa=bhiksh, further corrupted 22; paha - prdsdda, K. J. 44, Amb. B, 26; hiku =
into singanawd, Kavy. X. 78, P. P. 26. Quite bushka, 8. 8. 22; haedaerum - sajjhdyana, S.S.
irregular is humbaha, 'ant hill,' older tumbasa 22; haeta = shashți; haya = chaka.
in literature.
AN ABU INSCRIPTION OF THE REIGN OF BHIMADEVA II., DATED
SAMVAT 1265.
BY W. CARTELLIERI, VIENNA. An imperfect translation of the sabjoined was the superior of the Chandikásrama. He was inscription has been given by Prof. H. H. followed by VAkalarasi, Jyeshtajarasi. YAgek. Wilson in the As. Res. vol. XVI, pp. 299-301. vararási, Maunirasi, Yâgesvari a female ascetic, The transcript now published has been prepar. Durvasarási, and finally by Kedararasi. ed, with the assistance of Prof. G. Bühler, Ph.D., | The constructions made by the latter for the according to a facsimile taken by Dr. Burgess. deities of Kanakhala are, according to the in
The preservation of the inscription is very scription, very considerable. Firstly, he regood; there is only a small abrasion at the end novated the temple of Kotesvara at Kanakhala; of the first and second line, and the last letters secondly, he paved the interior of the whole of the inscription have been lost. The charac- Tirtha with large stone-slabs and surrounded ters are the common Jaina-Devanagari of the it with high walls; thirdly, he renovated the 12th and 13th centuries.
temple of Atulanktha; fourthly, he built two new The inscription was caused to be incised by temples of Sûlapâņi and embellished the temple Kedârarasi, who seems to have been the superior of Kanakhalasambhu by erecting in its Mandaof a Saiva monastery at Ujjain, belonging to the pa & row of pillars of black stone. His sister Chapala or Chapaliya sect, and its object is to Môksheśvari built also a temple of Siva. record his building operations at the Tirtha of Interesting as these details may be for the Kanakhala in Achalgadh. It begins with an antiquarian, the chief historical value of the invocation of Siva, the Lord of the holy Mount inscription lies in the postscript which mentions A bu, and after a glorification of Ujjain, the Bhima dê va II. of Anhilvadas lord paramount spiritual ancestors of Kedårarási are enumer. of Åbu, and shows that the Mandalika of Chanated, just as kings in their grants give their dråvati, Dhårå varsha, acknowledged his genealogical tree. The first ascetic named is supremacy Samvat, i.e. Vikrama-Samvat 1265, Tåpasa who came from the Natana-matha and or 1208-9 A. D.
See also Ind. Ant., vol. VI, pp. 187-88.
