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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI KĀLAÑJAR ROCK INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF PARAMARDIDĒVA
No. 135 ; PLATE CXXII KĀLANJAR ROCK INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF PARAMARDIDĒVA [Vikrama] Year 1240 THIS inscription was brought to notice by F. Kielhorn, who discussed its date, from a rubbing supplied to him by Burgess, in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XIX, p. 37 (No. 67), and also included in his List of Inscriptions of North India.6 It is incised on a rock between the fourth and the fifth gate, locally known as Budh Budr (Būḍhī Bhadrā) and Hanumān Darvāzā, respectively, in the fort of Kālañjar, in the Narainī Tehsīl of the Bāndā District in Uttar Pradesh. It does not appear to have been noticed by Lieut. Maisey or General Cunningham who visited the place in the last century. It is edited here for the first time from an inked impression which I owe to the kindness of the Chief Epigraphist. It is a short inscription consisting of 5 lines of writing, which covers a space 24∙5 cms. broad by 22 cms, high. The writing is well preserved except that it has lost two aksharas in the middle of l. 1, which, however, can be made out from the context. The height of the individual letters, excluding the top-mātrās, is about 3∙5 cms. The alphabet is Nāgarī. The letter dh has developed a horn on its left limb, and r is denoted by a vertical with a stroke attached to its middle on the left, both these examples to be seen in Yaśōdhara, l. 3. The language is Sanskrit, which is generally correct ; and the record is in prose. The orthography calls for no special remarks. The inscription refers itself to the victorious reign of the illustrious Paramardidēva ; and
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. In kē that follows the sign of the pṛishṭha-mātrā is separated from the letter,
as some others in this inscription.