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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
Mânpur Parganâ under the Bhôpâwar Agency in Central India, about twelve miles south-west of Mhow. The preceding names all belong to a time anterior, or nearly so, to that of the first of the Rashtrakutas of Mâlkhêd. In a considerably later period, we have the name of the Rashtrakata Mahásámantádhipati Golhaṇadêva, a feudatory of the Kalachuri king Gayakarna, mentioned in an inscription on the pedestal of a Jain image at Bahuriband' in the Jabalpur Distriot, Central Provinces, which belongs to about the first quarter of the twelfth century A. D. And, from the syllables ári-ráshtra, which are extant in line 5, it seems likely that there was an intermediate notice of the Rashtrakuta family in the same part of the country, to be referred to the eighth or ninth century A. D., in one of the inscriptions of Sivagupta, the son of Harshagupta, at Sirpur in the Raypur District, Central Provinces.7
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First Plate.
1 Om Svasti [*] 2 shtrakut-anvayê 3 rajo 4 sêsh-ôdayai[b] yên-â(8)chchaih-padavim 5 bhasitam [*]
nṛipal
Tasya13 ári-Govindarajaḥ
6 ta-yaśaḥ
Vistirnné10 sthiti-pâlan-âpta-yasasi rammyê kshiranidhav-iv-êndur-abhavat-śrill-Durgga
lôk-âhlâdana-hêtubhiḥ
7 érimâm(n) 8v[*]mikaraja ity-anupamô 8 gråmåd-anivarttino
9 8-tasya
Second Plate; First Side.
anglyst
10 tta(nta)ḥ 11 dhaur[*]yo
12 vaidagdh-ddhata-chêtasimadhipati
19 chaloturvvêda-putraya 20 na Pipparikaya
pravitatais-tejô-vivigâhya vidhivat paksha-dvayam sûnur-âsid-anêka-samara-sâ has-ârjji
tasy-âtmaván-itmajaḥ
vijayinaḥ
bahu-mataḥ sutaḥ sata[m] kar[a]pikal kalanka-rahitaḥ
[AUGUST, 1889.
yasy=ôrjjitam
paurusham samJatasarvvatab [*] éri-Namnda rajaḥ kâkêtuḥ14 karalô dvishâm mâninâm
kriti
yberthind[h] [*]
rana-sahas-âhita-dhiyam-agrêsarô
éri-Ra
kalpa-drumô
Second Plate; Second Side.
13 Yas-cha
sa[m]sraya-visêsha-lôbhâd-iva
14 rais-cha gupair-upêtah parama-vra (bra)hmanya[b] parama-bhagavataḥ śri-Yu15 ddhasura-paranâmâ
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sarvvân-ova
16 ti-grimabhögik-ad[a]
samanubôdhayati [1] yath-Asmabhiḥ måtåpittror-itmanas-cha 18 vri[d]dhayê Kautsa-sagôttraya Mitra-chatarvvêda-pautraya Rakta1prabha-cha
17 bhavata[m]
sakalair-Abhigamikair=ita
raja-samanta-vishayapaViditamastu
pany-abhi
Third Plate; First Side.
Sriprabha-chaturvvêdâya Jalukaya[*]
Kinihivattarat-paschimêArjunagrama
at[t*]arêņa
purvvêņa
light through being in Dr. Bhau Daji's collection; but no information seems to be forthcoming as to the place where he obtained it. I notice that, within the limits of the Bombay Presidency, there are two places named Manpur in the GaikwAr's Dominions; one in the Banada or Virada State; one in Khandesh; three in the Radhanpur State; and two in the Mahi-Kantha. But I have not had the opportunity of searching the maps for the neighbourhood of these places.
Tid. Vol. XVII. Plate xix. C., line 5. Represented by a symbol.
Archeol. Surv. Ind. Vol. IX. p. 40.
From the original plates.
10 Metre, Sardalavikridita; and in the following two verses.
11 Read abhavach-chhrt. 13 As regards the occurrence of these words in prose, see the introductory remarks. 18 Read nanda.
14 Prinsep read here kalah, "a dreadful avenger on his enemies." But that is certainly not the reading of the original. The first syllable is either be or ka. And in the second syllable there seems to be undoubtedly a t; and below it there is a mark which may well be the sign for the subscript u, rather damaged. Of the visarga, the lower part is damaged.
15 I think rakta is what was intended here. The two syllables might possibly be read raja. But they certainly are not rana, for rana, as taken by Prinsep.
16 This second cha is unnecessary. The preceding cha, however, at the end of line 18, stands in the margin, as if it was inserted on a revision of the document.
