INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI
ḌUBKUṆD STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF VIKRAMASIṀHA

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1 The bracketed akshara was originally omitted and was later on written below the line, with a mark
above, to draw attention.
2 The daṇḍa is redundant or, it may have been a kāka-pada sign.
3 The mātrā of the preceding akshara has partially come out.
4 The sign of anusvāra is struck off on the original.
5 The daṇḍa appears to have been inserted subsequently.
6 is clear on the original. Kielhorn read it as nya. 7 Taking the preceding cha with these two letters, Kielhorn remarks in op. cit., p. 236, that Chaḍōbha is evidently the place now called Ḍubkuṇḍ. But failing to see any similarity between the two
names, I interpret the expression so as to take cha separately, and thus it is easy to explain Ḍōbha connected with Ḍubkuṇḍ or Ḍōbkuṇḍ, the latter of which also appears in maps, as seen above.
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