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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[AUGUST, 1888.
43 dattam para-dattam và yê harêt(ta) vasu[indha]ram sa vishyâ(shthâ)yam
ksimir-bhůtvå pit;ibhiḥ saha majjati | Gâm=ékám svarnnam-êkam 44 mu(nu) bhûmêr=apy=êkam=amgalam haran-narakam=âyâti yâvad-khûtasamplavam ||
Rajyam" yêna sisôreakâri nripatêh praudham ya45 60 nirmalan yo v dharma-katha-ratêr anudinam visrama-bhůmih param(rå)
kayasthasya vibhůtayaḥ pratidinam yasy=Arthi. nê nirmitâ[8*?] tên=akári va(bu)dhêna tâmyra(mra)kam=idam fri
Muktasimhêna vai || Likhitam" Mâlâdharên=aitan(t)-tamvra-(mra)kam pu47 nya-parddhanam sukha-santâna-siddhyartham śubham Sripati-sununâ II Somalla
prapantrêņa pautrêņa Ma48 hîpatêh! putrêņa Sripatês-tâmvra(mra) likhitam Maladharêņa vai || Utkir nam
silpinâ A. 49 jayasimhêna Pratâpasimhên=api II Upârjjitá râuta-Sávantēna II
Second plate ; second side. 50 Rauta-Sâvantasy& visua[5] 1 2 51 Rauta-Sâmgêkasya visuâ 31 [2] 52 Rauta-Sühadakasya visuâ 3 1 2 53 Rauta-Mahaitakasya visnâ 312 54 Rauta-Ramasihakasya visuâ 3 2 55 Rauta-Vijhûkasya visu 1 2
D.-Copper-Plate Grant of the contains a rather large number of mistakes of Maharanaka Harirajadeva.
grammar and orthography. The (Vikrama) year 1298.
As the inscription, down to line 28, in the This inscription, again, is on two plates, of introductory verses and the epithets applied to which the first is inscribed on one side only the town Kakarêdika and to the several chiefs and the second on both sides. The arrangement mentioned, and also in the imprecatory verses, of the plates is the same as in the case of from line 36 to line 45, agrees very closely grant C. The first plate measures about 11 with the inscription C., it would be useless by 7"; and the edges of it are turned up all to publish its full text. The extracts which round into a rim about "high, within which will be given below, contain everything which lies the second plate, measuring about 111" by may be at all important. 71". In addition to this, thin strips of copper Beginning with the words “Om, success!" about " broad are fastened by rivets all and the same verses in honour of Brahman, round the edges on the front side of the second Purushottama, and Tryambaka, which occur plate. The inscription is well preserved ; and at the beginning of the inscription C., followed there are only a few letters the actual read by the word svasti, the inscription refers itself, ing of which is at all doubtful in the impres- in lines 4 and 5, to "the reign of victory of sion.-There is a ring-hole in the lower part the Mahárája, the illustrious Trailokyamalla, of the first plate ; and another in the upper endowed with the three kingly titles compart of the second. But the ring, with any mencing with paramabhattaraka" (i.e. paraseal that may have been attached to it, is not mabhaftáraka mahárdjádhiraja paramešvara)"; now forthcoming.-The weight of the two and the inscription is dated, in line 36, "in plates is 174tolas. --The average size of the the month Magha, the year 1298," expressed letters is about ". The characters are Déva- by decimal figures only, and corresponding, nîgarî; and the language is Sangkrit. Both as a year of the Vikrama era, to A.D. 1240-41. the writer and the engraver have done their As this date is only one year later than work carelessly, and the inscription therefore that of the inscription C., I follow Sir A.
Metre, ArdulavikrAdita. * Metro, $10ks (Anushtubb); and of the following verse. Both verses offend against the metre.
* See Mr. Fleet's note in Journal Bombay Branch Roy. 18. Soc., Vol. XVI. p. 115; and Archaeol. Survey of India, Vol. XI. plate IIxviii, inscription from the pillar at Belkhara.
