North Indian Inscriptions

AN INSCRIPTION OF THE DYNASTY OF VIJAYAPALA

TEXT^[1]
[Metres : Verse 1 Indravajrā ; vv. 2-3 and 5-6 Anushṭubh ; v. 4 Vasantatilaka]

^[1] From a photograph.
^[2] Denoted by a symbol.
^[3] Kirtane omitted these three aksharas in his transcript.
^[4] Kirtane read , here, and also in l. 7, but the reading as taken above is quite certain. This name occurs also in No. 30, 1, 6, above.

^[5], The cursive stroke at the bottom shows this letter to be a dda,, probably intended for da, as also read by Kirtane. It is in the sense of rank or dignity.. In his List of Inscriptions, No. 229. D. R. Bhandakar took the whole word bhartṛi-paṭṭa to a denote a title. He evidently followed G. H. Ojha who read the same in an inscription noticed by him in A. R., Rājputānā Museum, 1915-16, p. 3.
^[6] An arow-mark appears here to indicate that the word is continued in the next line.
^[7] Kirtane read the five letters in this line as and took the expression to mean an “officer who keeps time”. The consonants of the first of these letters can also be taken as th, but that of the third is definitely as taken here, for which, cf, Gadēlāka in the same line and .Iṅgaṇa- in l. 1, above, and 7, below. The .akshara n in the fourth one appears as if omitted at first and inserted later on, by a small scratch. Thus here we have the name of the royal-preceptor whose presence is shown while making a grant, which is not the case with the time-keeper.
^[8] Kirtane read the first akshara of the name as , but in the translation as . The following daṇḍa is superfluous.
^[9] This is a contraction of śrēshṭhin. The names appearing in 11. 5-6 are all without any case-ending and often the sandhi-rules also not observed.
^[10] Read .
^[11] On ksha there is a redundant anusvāra or a fault of the stone.
^[12] Perhaps originally mai, with the sign of mātrā erased later on. The dātī appears to have been wrongly engraved for datti, which means a
    gift. See C. I. I., Vol. IV, p. 617, n. 5.
^[13] Read Kirtane took the following daṇḍa as a medial ä, which is evidently wrong.
^[14] Read The following two aksharas are redundant.
^[15] Read :
^[16] Read
^[17] The akshara stands for . Or better read .