INSCRIPTIONS OF THE YAJVAPALAS OF NARWAR

________________________________ [1] This daṇḍa is thin and was engraved subsequently.
[2] The sign of visarga was inserted subsequently.
[3] The kāka-pada sign is engraved here and also at the end of some of the lines below.
[4] As n. 3 above. Mahīdēva means a Brāhmaṇa.
[5] First rma engraved and then altered to rmma.
[6] On the original later on changed to and the mātrā of the following letter has been
scored off. But remains as before. The following letters were read by Sircar, as .
[7] This sign for visarga was first engraved and later on scored off as redundant, by standing strokes.
8 The sign of visarga was later on inserted.
[9] The superscript r is clear on the original, though not in the impression.
[10] Sircar read .
[11] Both the bracketed aksharas are mutilated and the reading is only conjectural. The idea here is that
he did not marry again (nirāśraya) after the loss (apāya) of his consort, as Rāma did not marry
another after that of Sītā. Here Sircar read : .
[12] The letters tishṭha were repeated and later on scored off by vertical strokes above the top-strokes.
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