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Rasesh Jamindar
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missing letters could easily be made up. Nevertheless, fortunately indeed first five lines of this epigraph offer us the historio-genealogical information, though the opening few words of the record are missing Many letters of the last four lines are illegible and damaged too The spacing between the last three lines and the inconsistent arrangement of the last the lines as well as the incision of letters of the last line result in controversy raising doubts about its bonafides
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१ अस्य यहो अन्नपस्य] [जय] २ पास पौत्रस्य राज्ञो महिाक्षत्र ३ पस्य स्वामि रुद्रदाम पुत्रस्य १ शो महाक्षत्रपस्य स्वामि रुद्रसि
Red 2001+J&•[+18 814 (11) ६ शुक्ष द्वादशिय मिति] प्रतिष्ठा पे ७ आमीरी पुरा < 1? l?j (g) sla) ९ दूपे नि कस गोत्रसि] [१]
१. नंदक हस्तेि उथापित The object of the epigraph is to record the memory of somebody, whose name is lost in illegibility, by setting up of a pas ji as a funeral monument. The donee of the epigraph may be one Abhir whose pame is also difficult to spell out. This record was issued in the year 114 during the reign of the king Mahakshatrapa Swāmı Rudrasimha.
As regards orthography it may be mentioned here that the letters of this epigraph are not marked by a horizontal bead-line. The letters here have rounder shapes and are not angular except for the letter ma in mu in line five Elsewhere the letter ma has circular shape at the base and its two ends have been extended further like crescent shape The medial u is marked by à curved line open to the left.
