North Indian Inscriptions

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Index
Introduction
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EDITION AND TEXTS
Inscriptions of the Chandellas of Jejakabhukti
An Inscription of the Dynasty of Vijayapala
Inscriptions of the Yajvapalas of Narwar
Supplementary-Inscriptions
Index
Other South-Indian Inscriptions
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Volume 19	Volume 20
Volume 22 Part 1	Volume 22 Part 2
Volume 23	Volume 24
Volume 26	Volume 27
Tiruvarur	Darasuram
Konerirajapuram	Tanjavur
Annual Reports 1935-1944	Annual Reports 1945- 1947
Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2	Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1	Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2
Epigraphica Indica	Epigraphia Indica Volume 3
Epigraphia Indica Volume 4	Epigraphia Indica Volume 6
Epigraphia Indica Volume 7	Epigraphia Indica Volume 8
Epigraphia Indica Volume 27	Epigraphia Indica Volume 29
Epigraphia Indica Volume 30	Epigraphia Indica Volume 31
Epigraphia Indica Volume 32	Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2
Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2	Vākāṭakas Volume 5
Early Gupta Inscriptions
Archaeological Links
Archaeological-Survey of India
Pudukkottai

SUPPLEMENTARY INSCRIPTIONS

Connecting the present inscription with the one found at Dhār and now in the British Museum,^[1] we note that Māṇḍū, where it was discovered, must also have been a place of learning in the 11-12th centuries A.C.

TEXT^[2]

No. 185 ; PLATE CLXI
A FRAGMENTARY STONE INSCRIPTION FROM MĀṆḌU
A
(Date lost ?)

THE stone bearing this inscription was discovered ‘in the debris of fallen houses, in Māṇḍū’ and brought over to Dhār by Pt. Varman Shastri Islampurkar towards the close of the last century. It is said to have been found broken in more than half of the earlier portion which was lost. The extant fragment is stated to have measured about 9” (i.e., 22∙86 cms.) in height and about 26” (i.e., 66 cms.) in length. The inscription was first deciphered and pub-

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^[1] Above, No. 14.
^[2] From the original and also from the facsimile accompanying Lele’s article.
^[3] Two indistinct letters, probably to be read as , are partly visible before this word.
^[4] The letter in brackets is partly rubbed out and the reading is therefore uncertain.
^[5] The mātrā of short i is visible after this akshara.
^[6] The first three aksharas are indistinct and the reading is not certain. It is adopted here from Lele’s reading.
^[7] The aksharas in this line read like a foot of Vasantatilakā.
^[8] One letter in the beginning of this line is indistinct. It may have been .
^[9] To be split up as done here and not to be taken as one word as taken by Lele, as charaṇē.

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