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INTRODUCTION
« The architect named Pithe, who is versed in the rules of Viśvakarman, constructed all this, as Pșthu did the earth. (36)
“Mabjdbara, a son of the chief of artizans Bālasimba, engraved this stone with letters in such a way that it is like the star-studded sky.
"The year 907, on Sunday, the Itb of the bright half of Mārgasirsa."
The inscription is dated at the end of the last line. Tbe author was Śaśidhara, a younger son of Dharanidbara, and a grandson of Maheśvara of the Mauna or Maunin gotra. His elder brother, Pșthvidhara, wrote this panegyric (prasasti) on stone, and it was finally engraved by Mahidhara, a son of the artizan Balasimha.
Alhaṇadevi was the queen of Gayakarņa Deva, and daughter of a Rānā of Udaypur, She was grand-daughter, through her mother, of King Udayaditya of Malwa. Hall poted (JAOS, VI, p.522) that while Udayāditya's son, Lakşmidhara, was reigning, a grant of a village was issued by his younger brother, Naravarman. This grant was dated 1104 A.D. Thus, Hall conjectured that Udayāditya might have flourished in about 1075 A.D. But the inscription we are considering is in the year 907, on Sunday, the 11th of the brigbt half of Margaśırşa, at which time Albaņadevi's son Narasimba was reigning, and Albañadevi was also alive. Thus, the year 907 cannot, as Hall rightly noted, be identified with the Vikrama era, nor can it be identified with the era of salivāhapa. Besides, the eleventh day of the bright fortnight of Mārgıśırsa, 907, was not a Sunday in the era of Vikramaditya.
Hall was himself puzzled by this chrohological difficulty and the problem of identification of the year 907. But from other sources he settled the chronology as follows; "Udayaditya ... may ... have flourished about 1075. Albana Devi ... was a granddaughter ... of Udayaditya, She may thus have been born about 1100.” (p. 501, JAOS, VI).
Hall mentioned also about another inscription, whose author was sasidbara, son of Dharanidhara. Its date was 926. Here are his comments about this inscription:
“When passing through the station of Jubulpoor, in February of last year, I found, in the Museum at that place, a somewhat weather-worn inscription, hitherto inedited, of the same class with those which precede. Unhappily, I had neither leisure nor health to take a copy of it. The date that it bears is 926: a ggfargastaroafa 82&. Its poet was Sasidhara, son of Dharaṇidhara; and it makes mention of Namadeva, son of Mahid hara. as a sutrad hara. Three of these names we have met with in the record of 907. At the foot of the stone, the ensuing benediction, in the Arya measure, is legible without difficulty;
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