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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI
AHĀR STATUE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF PARAMARDIDĒVA
of Lalitpur in the Jhānsī District and about 90 kms. south-southeast of Jhānsī itself.1 Vasuhāṭikā where the family resided (l. 2), cannot be identified. It may, however, be pointed out that a
village of the name of Hāṭa lies about 45 kms. due east of Bāṇapur. Similarly, we have no
definite clue to identify Ānandapura (v. 3) ; and last of all, Madanēśasāgarapura (v. 3), as already
mentioned above, is Ahār itself, where the inscription was found.2
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[Metres : Verse 1 Āryā ; vv. 2, 4 and 5 Vasantatilakā ; v. 3 Śārdūlavikrīḍita ; v. 6 Rathōddhatā ; v. 7 Anushṭubh].
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1 I am indebted to Shri B. C. Jain for the information that this place contains an old temple which may
probably be identified with the Sahasrakūṭa of the inscription.
2 Traditionally, the place is still so called as I came to know in my visit to it.
3 From an impression.
4 Denoted by a symbol.
5 The sign of the mātrā of this akshara resembles the subscript n and the preceding akshara is deformed
by an additional wrong stroke of the chisel.
6 Both these aksharas, which are now lost, have been conjecturally restored from the context.
7 Owing to a wrong stroke of the chisel, the bracketed aksharas look more like 
8 The first of the aksharas in the brackets is damaged and the sign of mātrā on the second is not distinct
on the impression. It may have been clear on the original.
9 The letter in the brackets was originally engraved with the sign of visarga, which was later on changed
to the mātrā.
10 The first akshara of the name was originally omitted in writing and was later on inserted just above its
proper place, in a smaller size. The pada-chhēda shows that possibly the name may also have been
Udayachandra, but to accept it would involve a literary error
(Vidhēyāvimarsha). 11 These letters indicate the end of recording the main purpose.
12 These four aksharas have been restored from the traces left.
13 The whole of this line which has faintly and partly come out in the impression, has been restored
from the traces left, and the reading
has been finalised with the help of the brochure referred to above.
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