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The language is Sanskrit and the record is written in two stanzas. The extant part of the record does not bear any date. But it can be referred to a date about the middle of the eleventh century A.D.
1006
The object of the inscription is to record the installation of an image of Santi-jina, i.e. the Jaina Tirthankara Santinatha, the ceremony of installing the image was performed by a Jain monk named Nemichandra-süri. Although it is a Jain epigraph the invocation of Chandrardhamauli or Siva in verse 1 seems to suggest that the author of the two stanzas, in which the record was composed, was a Šaiva.
The importance of the inscription lies in the fact that it associates Paramara Bhoja I with Bhojpur or Bhojapara, "the city of Bhoja". It appears that Bhojopur was named after the said Paramara King.
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2. Bhojpur Inscription of the time of Naravarman, Vikrama 1157.
This small inscription is engraved on the pedestal of an image of the Jain. Tirthankara Pärivanätha installed in the Jain temple at the village of Bhojpur, in the Goharganj Tahsil of the Raisen District of Madhya Pradesh.
The characters of the inscription are Nagari of the eleventh or twelfth century. Its language is Sanskrit. The inscription refers itself to the reign of Naravarman, no doubt the Paramāra king of that name, whose known dates range between Vikrama 1151 (1094 A.D.) and 11 (1131 A.D.). It is dated in Vikrama 1157 (1100-01 A.D.). Next is mentioned the Vemak-anvaya (i.e. the Vemaka family). It is stated that two Jina (i.e. Tirthankara) images were installed by a person named Chillana who was the son of Sreshthin Rama and the grandson of
Nemichandra,
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A. C. BURNELL-Elements of South-Indian Palaeography. Second London, 1878.
P. 41. Review on the Jaina form of writing grantha in use in the provinces of Arcot and Madras.
P. 47, note 6. Notes and documents relating to the identification of the Nirgranthas with the Jains..
Jain Education International
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G. BÜHLER.-Indische Palasographie. (Grundriss der Indoarischen Philologil and Altertumskande, Band I, Heft 2). Strassburg 1896,
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