North Indian Inscriptions

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EDITION AND TEXTS
Inscriptions of the Chandellas of Jejakabhukti
An Inscription of the Dynasty of Vijayapala
Inscriptions of the Yajvapalas of Narwar
Supplementary-Inscriptions
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Annual Reports 1935-1944	Annual Reports 1945- 1947
Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2	Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1	Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2
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Epigraphia Indica Volume 30	Epigraphia Indica Volume 31
Epigraphia Indica Volume 32	Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2
Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2	Vākāṭakas Volume 5
Early Gupta Inscriptions
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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI

GWALIOR STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF MAHĪPĀLA

TEXT¹

[Metres : Verses 1 and 12, Drutavilambita ; vv. 2, 3, 9 and 24 Anushṭubh ; v. 4 (first half), Indravajrā ; vv. 5 and 6 Bhujaṅgaprayāta ; V. 7, Āryā ; vv. 8, 11, 13 and 19 Vasantatilakā ; vv. 10 (first half) and 16 (second half) Upēndravajrā ; vv. 14, 18 and 21 Upajāti ; V. 15 Vaṁśastha ; vv 17 and 22 Atitōṭaka ; V. 20 Pṛithvī ; V. 23 Mandākrāntā]

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¹ From inked estampages.
² Parts of , as of some other aksharas in this line, are visible in the impression, but the sense cannot be made out.
³ Here the missing letters may have been
⁴ Here and below, the dots represent the numbers of the aksharas which are lost.
⁵ It may here be noted that whereas the stanza in the Kumāra-Saṁbhava (I. 43) describes the face of Pārvātī, it is utilised here to glorify a male face.
⁶ Though correct according to the sandhi-rules, the metre requires this word to be read as in the brackets.
⁷ Read ─
⁸ This daṇḍa is redundant.
⁹ This verse compares the king to the Sun, by the double meanings of (i) a foot and (ii) a ray; (i) a king and (ii) a mountain; a vice, and a night; and (i) a lord and (ii) the Sun.
¹⁰ Here is an eight-spoked wheel between double daṇḍas. Somewhat similar signs of inter-punctuation also occur in the Dubkuṇḍ inscription, and, as noted by Hultzsch , at the end of the Kōṭā Buddhist inscription of the Sāmanta Dēvadatta (Ind. Ant., Vol. XIV, p. 46) and in a Gwālior inscription of Bhōjadēva (Journ. of the German Ori. Soc, Vol. XL, p. 35).
¹¹ This word goes with the word that follows and hence in plural.
¹² This is, even Bṛihaspati is laghu, i.e., unable.

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