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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE YAJVAPALAS OF NARWAR
No. 160 ; PLATE CXXXXVII THE stone bearing this inscription was discovered by M. B. Garde, the then Director of Archaeology in the (former) Gwālior State, in 1925 A.C. It was found by him in a vegetable vendor’s (kūṅjaḍā’s) house, at Narwar, an ancient town in the Karērā tehsīl of the Siprī (Shivpurī) District of Madhya Pradesh. Garde, who removed the stone to the Archaeological Museum at Gwālior, briefly summarised the contents of the record in the Annual Report of the Department for the same year, where it is stated that the inscription was engraved during the reign of Āsalladēva of the Yajvapāla dynasty. Subsequently, the record was edited by Dr. D. C. Sircar, in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXXII, pp. 65 ff., and Plate. He has rightly shown that the epigraph did not belong to the time of Āsalladēva but to that of his son Gōpāladēva. as to be seen below. The inscription is edited here from the original stone, which I examined in the Museum, and an inked impression supplied by the Chief Epigraphist, to whom my thanks are due.
The record is inscribed on the countersunk surface of a dark pinkish stone surrounded by
a plain border, and measures 64∙5 cms. broad by 61 cms. high. It consists of eighteen lines of
writing, covering a space 48∙3 cms. broad by 34∙5 cms. high. But a noteworthy feature of it
is that it is incomplete. Its last line, which contains the concluding part of verse 22, ends with
the first six syllables of a new stanza, but the rest of the verse was not incised, even though there
is enough space below (about 10 cms. high).
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