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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE YAJVAPALAS OF NARWAR
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[1] Here too the reading is from the traces left.
[2] The sign of visarga is almost mingled with the letter that follows.
[3] This akshara appears as  .
[4] Most of the aksharas in the latter half of this verse have now disappeared, leaving only traces.
[5] The reading of bracketed letters at both the places in this half of this verse is uncertain ; and according
to Dr. Sircar, they are Hastināpura and Vīsvala, respectively. Sircar also suggested that the latter
denotes the Chāhamāna king Vigraharāja IV, whose known dates are 1153 and 1164 A.C. ; and since
Vijayadēva’s grandson, the hero of the present record, was a later contemporary of the Imperial
Chāhmāna king of Ajmer and Delhi, and probably also an officer under the Gāhaḍavāla monarch
Vijayachandra (c. 1255-70 A.C.), who is reported to have come into conflict with the king of Delhi,
his grandfather (Vijayadēva) may be taken to have been a minister under Āsalla, son of Nṛivarman,
who also defeated Vīravarman, in battle with Gōpāla and thus he continued for two generations. For
this suggestion of Sircar, see Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXIII, p. 37. But this is merely a conjecture, unsupported
by any other evidence and also involving a number of probabilities, besides that it is based on the
uncertain reading of both the names, viz., Hastināpura and Vīsvala, which may also be read as Vimvala.
[6] Engraved  , subsequently changed to  , with the mark of the mātrā still visible.
[7] The upper curve of the mātrā of the preceding letter is extremely faint on the original.
[8] Sircar read  .
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