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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[AUGUST, 1889.
the dense darkness of ignorance, may confiscate (this grant) or assent to its confiscation, he shall become invested with the guilt of the five great sins."
(L. 26.). - And it has been said by the venerable Vyâsa, the arranger of the Vedas :- The earth has been enjoyed by many kings, commencing with Sagara; whosoever at any time possesses the earth, to him belongs, at that time, the reward (of this grant that is now made, if he continue it)! The giver of land abides in heaven for sixty-thousand years; (but) the confiscator (of a grant), and he who assents (to an act of confiscation), shall dwell for the same number of years in hell !
(L. 29.). - This charter, written by the Sárdhivigrahika Ndula, has been written in six centuries of years, increased by the thirty-first (year), of the Saka era.
CHANDELLA INSCRIPTIONS.
BY PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN. I odit these inscriptions from rubbings which were received from General Sir A. Cunningham and supplied to me by Mr. Fleet.
A. - Dudahi Stone Inscriptions of Dovalabdhi,
& grandson of Yasovarman. These six short inscriptions are in a temple of the village of 'Dudahi' or Doodhai,' in the Lalitpur District of the North-West Provinces, Indian Atlas, quarter-sheet No. 70 N. W., Long. 78° 27' E., Lat. 24° 25' N.; and an account of them, accompanied by photozincographs of five of them, was given by Sir A. Cunningbam, in Archæol, Survey of India, Vol. X. pp. 94-95, and Plate xxxii., 1-2, and 4-6.
The inscription &. contains eleven lines, which cover a space of 3" broad by 10" high, b., ten lines, which cover 3" broad by 8} high ; c., five lines, which cover 6%" broad by 4% high; d., three lines, which cover 6%" broad by 3'' high; e, consists of a single line, 6 long; and f. also consists of a single line, 4 long. The average size of the letters of 8, and b, is " to *; of c., d., and e., " to "'; and of f., one inch. The characters of all are Nagari, of about the 11th century A.D.; their language is Sanskrit, and all are in prose. As regards orthography, the consonant b of the name Dévalabdhi is throughout denoted by the sign for v.
The inscription f. contains only the name - 'the illustrious Dévalabdhi ;' and a. to o. record that this personage erected the temple (kirtana), at which the inscriptions are. In d., D&valabdhi is described as belonging to the Chandrella family, and as the son of the illustrious Krishnaps and the lady Åsarva ;' and &, to c. besides state that he was the grandson of the Mahúrájádhiraja Yasovarman. This Yasovarmap undoubtedly is the Chandella (or Chandratrêya) king Yaśôvarman, of whom we have a long inscription, of the Vikrama year 1011, at Khajurih 0,and who is mentioned as the immediate predecessor of Dhangadēva, in Dhanga's copper-plate grant of the Vikrama year 1055, published by me, ante, Vol. XVI., p. 202; and our inscriptions, though not dated, may therefore be referred with certainty to about the first half of the 11th century A.D.
The main interest of these inscriptions will probably be considered to lie in this, that they furnish an older form of the name of the royal family which we are here concerned with, Chandrolle, instead of the later Chandella. This spelling, Chandrélla, is quite distinct and certain in the rubbings of b.; and the rubbings of 8., c., and d., too, clearly show that the consonant of the second akshara of this name is not simply d or nd, but has another consonant attached to it, which might possibly be read as v, if we did not know from b. that it must be r.
1 This somewhat unusual name we moet again, denoting another lady, in line 19 of the Mau inscription of the Chandella Madanavarmadeva; Epigraphia Ind., Vol. I. pp. 204, 200.
ib. Vol. I. p. 129.-Another Yaðvarman is mentioned in the Baplóvar inscription of Paramardiders of the Vikrama year 1252, as the son of Madanavarman and father of Paramardin; but his name is omitted in other Accounts of the Chandella kings. See ib., Vol. I. p. 211.
