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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE CHANDELLAS OF JEJAKABHUKTI TEXT[1]
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, corrected to 
, but the curve above the akshara is distinct in the impression before me. 
. From 
up to 
the portion reads like a half of verse in Anushṭubh, of course, without the elision of a for the sake of metre. 
later on altered to 
. 
:. 
:. The visarga was inserted later on, and the vertical stroke above the loop of the
second of these aksharas, and also the stroke representing the medial ā and a daṇḍa after 
, appear to
have been struck off subsequently. 
. The consonant of the second of these akshara was originally incised as 
but later
on changed to 
. 
-. It appears that an anusvāra was originally engraved on 
and also on the preceding
, but both these signs were later on struck off. 
-, as suggested by Hiralal. The sign of the visarga that follows is only one dot. 
, with the sign for medial ī chiselled off later on. 
. 
-. 
. The sense requires the use of 
or some such word before this.