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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI
MAHŌBĀ COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF PARAMARDIDĒVA
TEXT1
[Metres : Verses 1-2 Anushṭubh ; v. 3 Mālinī].
First Plate
Second Plate
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1 From plate facing p. 12 in Ep. Ind., Vol. XVI.
2 Denoted by a symbol.
3 As Hiralal has already noted, this syllable in the brackets is ornamentally formed.
4 A kāka-pāda sign is engraved here.
5 In place of the superscript r, the sign of anusvāra is engraved on rbhā.
6 This letter looks like a ya.
7 What looks like the sign of anusvāra, above this letter may be a redundant stroke of the chisel, as there
are some others below.
8 The superscript r of rdi is so mixed with the mātrā of the following letter as to form a graceful curve.
9 The vertical stroke of va is omitted in the process of engraving, and thus the letter looks like ta.
10 The first of these letters is apparently concealed under the protecting band, and the slanting stroke of sh is omitted, making the letter look like pa.
11 The daṇḍa is redundant.
12 Hiralal read the consonant of this akshara as dh and took the word vāpa to mean a measure of land.
But in all the three instances in
which this word appears in this and the next lines, this akshara is indistinct and my reading of is in view of my note on it in the corresponding
portion in No. 118, above.
Hiralal also observed that mōraḷa “is a kind of plant with sweet juice and flourishes in a kind of soil
to which
it has given its name, now corrupt into mōraṇḍa”. In Mālwā it is known as mōra-dhana
(dhānya).
13 Drāṇa and prastha are measures of capacity. Hiralal observed in this connection that they indicate the
seed capacity whereas vādha (pa)
the area of land granted.
14 The bracketed akshara is formed as nu.
15 The punctuation mark is redundant.
16 Here shṇa is carved as pṇ. the slanting stroke distinguishing sh from p being omitted.
17 The rēpha is indistinct, but it is there.
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