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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI
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1 The reading is certain, but Kielhorn read sva-charitairu-, which is not possible besides that it also offends against the metre.
2 This is as read by Kielhorn; but both these letters are distorted and it is possible that -dhvajaṁ may
have been the intended reading.
3 Read  .
4 Both these aksharas are damaged beyond recognition and I have adopted Kielhorn’s reading here.
5 The sense requires here something like vidhātu-, which also suits the metre.
6 Kielhorn read these two letters as girā, which cannot be construed. The first of the letters is indistinct but r is certain.
7 The nine aksharas ending with stra are distorted and are adopted here from Kielhorn’s reading. It Is,
however, not known why such a place needed a protection as mentioned here.
8 Originally trē, perhaps altered to tra, as Kielhorn observed.
9 The anusvāra is faintly visible on the impression.
10 Originally mai.
11 The first two letters in this line were read by Kielhorn as mahā, but I am confident about my reading
which is also applicable here.
12 The bracketed aksharas are now totally lost and I have adopted them from Kielhorn’s reading.
13 The letters sudhā are repeated here and the first combination of them is probably struck off in the
original. Moreover, the first akshara we have to read as sā. This quarter, though of the anushṭubh class, offends against the metre ślōka which requires the sixth letter to be long.
14 Read Rāüta, or Rāṇaka.
15 Kielhorn me, however shows only eight and they appear as  The line is complete,
without space for any other letter.
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