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Inscriptions of the Chandellas of Jejakabhukti
An Inscription of the Dynasty of Vijayapala
Inscriptions of the Yajvapalas of Narwar
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Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2	Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
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Early Gupta Inscriptions
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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI

It will be seen that in a few cases (Nos. 3, 5-7 and 10), only the names of the donees are mentioned without any further details, and in three of the instances (Nos. 1, 4 and 12), the surnames are also mentioned along with the gōtras.

The record is of considerable historical interest as it reveals the existence of an altogether new Kachchhapaghāta house reigning at Narwar which was its capital, as a paramount sovereign.

Of the geographical names figuring in the inscription, Nalapura, the capital of the house, is evidently identical with Narwar in the Shivpurī District of Madhya Pradesh. Babāḍō, the donated village, cannot be identified for want of the required data. It is not known if it is represented by the modern village Barod, the name of which sounds somewhat similar to it and which is situated about 28 kms. south of Narwar.

TEXT¹

[ Metre : Verses 1-7 Anushṭubh ]

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¹ From Hall’s transcript in J. A. O. S., Vol. VI (1858-60), pp. 542 f. The lines here are as given by Hall, who does not appear to have followed the lines of the original.
² It is not known whether this sign of avagraha, as some others below, is actually engraved in the original or inserted by Hall in the transcript. The same remark may be made here about the use of the anusvāra and parasavarṇa, about doubling the consonant after r and about the correct use of sibilants etc. While calculating the corresponding Christian date in the Ind. Ant., Vol. XIX, Kielhorn also remarked that Hall has changed the original amāvāsyāṁ to amāvāsyāyāṁ unnecessarily (p. 167, n). It is true that we get the loc. sing. form amāvāsyāṁ from the word amāvāsī, but in the absence of an
³ The use of the word pitṛi before mātṛi may be justified by Pāṇini sūtra Alpāchtaram (II, ii, 34).
⁴ As Hall remarked, the letters are repeated in the original and are left unerased.
⁵ In the original, appears instead of as stated by Hall.

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