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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI
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1 The punctuation sign, as some other below, is superfluous. The two letters that follow are distorted.
2 The two bracketed aksharas, which also occur below in ll. 5 and 6, were taken by Hiralal as sāhi, but
to me they appear to be as in the transcript. In each case, as we note, the immediately preceding
letter has the sign of the medial ē before it, showing that it is a change of the vowel i of the complete
word ity-ādi. Besides this we have also to note that the engraving in this plate was done in a slipshod
manner, for the sign of d, see Vēdē-, l. 9, -dēvō-, l. 7, and vadi, l. 13, where it is formed as almost
resembling h.
3 The akshara has a redundant curve attached to its vertical, and the inner slanting stroke of sh is cut
as a loop making the akshara appear as kh. The following du is also misformed.
4 A redundant sign of anusvāra above the letter vē was at first cut and may have been subsequently
struck off in the original.
5 This is as suggested by Hiralal, but he has not explained how the third case would be constructed with matiḥ that precedes. Read  : The reading of the last letter of the name that follows is
uncertain, since it can also be read as nya.
6 The first akshara of the name is indistinct and it was written after scratching off another which was
engraved originally. Its reading by Hiralal is adopted here ; in fact the space shows that not one but
two aksharas were engraved here.
7 Read  , as already suggested by Hiralal.
8 Read  . It may also be noted that nāpita and dhīvara are newly added here and dūta and
vaidya occurring in the preceding inscriptions are dropped.
9 The akshara ma is inadvertently repeated here.
10 These corrections and additions are as suggested by Hiralal ; but the word sahitaḥ should be taken at
the end of l. 12. No sandhi is made in this portion ; and the punctuation marks, as already stated
above, are all redundant.
11 This is an abbreviation of Ṭhakkura.
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