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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI
AJAYAGAḌH ROCK INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF VĪRAVARMAN
TEXT1
[Metres: Verses 1, 5, 13 and 19-22 Anushṭubh; vv. 2-4, 6-12, 14-15 and 18 Upajāti; and v., 16-17 Śārdūlavikrīḍita].
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1 From an impression.
2 Expressed by a symbol.
3 The consonant of su appears more like ś.
4 Kielhorn read the preceding letter as dhi, but it has no horn on the left limb, as the other letters
in this inscription.
5 Kielhorn translated this expression as ‘a god of love to opponents’, and added in a f.n. that ‘it admits
of no other interpretation, as the word madana itself is one of the synonyms of manmatha (op. cit., p. 329, n. 26). But this sense is not applicable here and we have to take the word manmatha in its
literary meaning, manāṁsi mathnāti, i.e., wrankling (as a thorn) in the minds of (his adversaries).
In this verse, moreover, the word tasmāt has to be taken in the sense of tasmādanantaram, i.e., after
him, and not from him as we know that Pŗithvīvarman was an uncle of Jayavarman.
6 The aksharas in the brackets have now totally disappeared.
7 This letter appears as dh. The expression bāl = ōpi nētā reminds us of an analogous instance of
the Pāla king Gōpāla III, who came to the throne when he was a child. See Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXV. p. 232.
8 These three aksharas are now totally lost and Kielhorn’s reading is adopted here. But possibly mahēndrō appears to have been originally engraved here.
9 The word Vīra in the first quarter of this verse is a contracted form of the name of the king; and
following this clue, I read-varmmaḥ (varmma) here, as the first of these letters is without a horn
on its left limb, as the second in this expression.
10 Perhaps it may be read as 
11 As Kielhorn also remarked, this letter may have a mātrā or an anusvāra above. The Kshatriya caste
is fabled to have sprung from the arms of Brahmā.
12 Śivā is a synonym of Pārvatī. Kielhorn read śivēna which cannot be construed here.
13 The consonant of the first letter may also have been d; and the second letter is mutilated.
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