INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI

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1 The form of this letter is crude and the reading may also have been –rma.
2 C. correctly observed that the consonant of the second akshara of the name may have been l.
3 The first of the bracketed letters is engraved as pa, and the daṇḍa is mingled with the letter that
follows it.
4 Some other akshara was originally engraved here.
5 C. read the first akshara of the name as sa, but the mātrā is distinct.
6 See n. 9 in line 100 above.
7 The consonant of the bracketed akshara is cut as v.
8 Originally tri-, with the consonant changed to dv.
9 As also noted by C., the bracketed letter is crudely formed and appears like tta.
10 That is, in aggregation. C., however, proposes to correct the word to samāṁśatvē, in the ‘sense of
equal share.
11 Read .
12 The akshara in the bracketed looks like ka.
13 The reading of this akshara is uncertain and the name that precedes it is rather curious. Is Badarīśa, intended ?
14 Here and below in all such cases read either –śarmmā or –śarman, as required by grammar.
15 It cannot be ascertained whether a curve of the medial long ī is above ṇa.
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