North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI

PACHHĀR COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF PARAMARDIDĒVA

by Venis, it may have been the one which is the largest and most important and what is situated about 8 kms, north-east of Chirgāon and 15 kms, north-east of Pachhār.¹ The place where the king took bath before making the grant is not mentioned, but it may have been on the banks of the Vētravatī which flows not far from the find-spot of the inscription. And finally, Mutāüsha, the original place of the donee (l. 11), I am unable to trace.

TEXT²

[Metres: Verses 1-6 and 8 Anushṭubh ; v. 7 Mālinī].

_________________________
¹ Noticing a few old remains at the place and also recording a tradition which he was informed of, Venis suggested the identification of Pachhār itself with Vilāsapura where Paramardin was encamped when he issued the grant.
² From impressions, subsequently also comparing the text from the original plate.
³ Expressed by a symbol read by Venis as ōṁ.
⁴ The preceding letter is engraved as nni.
⁵ Each of the consonants of the bracketed letters has a redundant slanting stroke, making the first of them appear as sh.
⁶ The preceding rā shows an abnormally long wedge as also in narakē l. 20, and in some other lines. below.
⁷ The pṛishṭha-mātrā of d is not joined to the horizontal stroke at the top, as also in some instances, below.
⁸ All the three aksharas in the brackets show redundant chisel strokes in their formation.
⁹ A redundant stroke of the chisel makes this letter appear as sva, and the subscript of the śrī that follows is also engraved as v.
¹⁰ The vertical stroke of the medical short i is separated from the letter as some others in this line (see dēvō) and also in some other instances, and the curve above is also not engraved in its proper place.
¹¹ The bracketed akshara is engraved as gni.
¹² This stroke is redundant.
¹³ Originally some other letter was engraved in place of the first showing the name of the village, and the mātrā attached to the second is struck off by two horizontal strokes.
¹⁴ Originally vi, with a part of the curve later on erased so as to appear as a mātrā above.
¹⁵ Read .