North Indian Inscriptions

SUPPLEMENTARY INSCRIPTIONS

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No. 187 ; PLATE CLXIII
GIRVAD STONE INSCRIPTION
[Vikrama] Year 1181

THE stone slab bearing this inscription is built into a side-wall of the maṇḍapa of the Pāṭanārāyaṇa temple at Girvad^[11], a tiny hamlet about 16kms, west of Ābū Road, the principal town of a tehsīl in the Sirōhī District, Rājasthān. The record was briefly noticed by D. R. Bhandarkar in the Progress Report of the Western Circle, 1906-07, p. 27 ; ^[12] and it is edited here, for the first time, from time, from personal examination and from an impression prepared under my guidance, by N. M. Ganam, the Technical Assistance of the Western Circle of the Archaeological Survey of India.

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^[1] From the original stone. Subsequently, I have also compared my reading from facsimile facing o. 35 of Ep, Ind., Vol. XXXVIII. The inscription begins with a symbol which is partly mutilated.
^[2] Here supply or or, as suggested by Ramsharma. , but on the original it appears, as taken here, at the beginning of the third line.
^[3] The reading of the bracketed aksharas is based on those ending the name of a village which exists in the neighbourhood even to-day. The mātrā of the first of them appears to be mixed with the slanting stroke of the second. On the original the last two syllables appears as .
^[4] This akshara is followed by two hollow circles and a horizontal stroke, and the reading of them, as adopted here, is doubtful. Ramsharma read the fourth and the fifth letters in this line as .
^[5] This akshara is de-formed, and the mātrā on the preceding resembles a curve.
^[6] Two or three aksharas are lost at the end of the line and the reading is adopted here from that of Ramsharma ; but the reading is not certain, as the last of the aksharas appears as a conjunct.
^[7] Read Possibly, what is intended is .
^[8] Two or three aksharas are lost here also.
^[9] Some letters are indistinct here, and some lost at the end. Ramsharma read them as He also took engraved for but I do not find the reading certain.
^[10] Eight aksharas are lost here and they were read by Ramsharma as with some doubt from an impression prepared in 1961-62.
^[11] The temple is about 3 kms, south of the village known as Chandēla which is connected with Ābū Road by a metalled road. The present inscription just faces the one edited above under No. 82.
^[12] Also see A. S. I. P. R. W. C. 1916-17, recording some more antiquities at that place.