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The Indian Analyst
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INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI TRANSLATION Om ! These (figures of) the Fish, the Tortoise, the primeval Boar (and) Paraśurāma (?) are of (i.e., are caused to be carved by) the illustrious Gōllāka, the son of the illustrious Bhānu . . . . . . who was a minister (amātya) of the illustrious Yuvarājadēva (I). NO. 40 ; PLATE XXXI B BANDHOGARH ROCK INSCRIPTION (NO. III) OF YUVARAJADEVA I THIS inscription, like the preceding two records, was discovered in 1938 by Dr. N. P. Chakravarti, then Government Epigraphist for India. It is still unpublished. It is edited here from a good estampage kindly sent by him.
The inscription is incised on a rock facing south-west near the rock-cut image of a Tortoise at Bāndhōgarh in the State of Vindhya Pradesh. The record consists of eight lines, of which the first seven were probably 2' 11" long while the last one measures only 9½". The epigraph has suffered very much by the peeling off of the surface of the rock. Nearly half the portion on the right-hand side of line 3-7 has been completely lost. Besides, several aksharas here and there have become illegible. The average size of the letters is 2.3". The characters belong to the Nāgarī alphabet of about the 10th century A. C. The language is Sanskrit. The record is partly in verse and partly in prose. Attention may be drawn to the expression sāhitya-vidyā-lala[nā-bhujanga] which is adopted in some later records4 for the description of Yuvarājadēva II. In the last line utkīritam has been wrongly used for utkīrinam. The orthography does not call for any remark The inscription is one of the illustrious Gōllāka, the son of Bhānu, who is known from other records to have been a minister of Yuvarājadēva I. The object of it was evidently to dedicate5 the image of the Tortoise near which it is incised, but the portion of the record where this was stated has now become illegible. In lines 4-6 the inscription seems to have contained the description of a battle, for the extant words in line 5 speak of a great river of which the waves were enemies. The record was written by Gunanivāsa, and incised by Bhaka. 1 From an inked estampage. CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
B.âBANDHOGARH ROCK INSCRIPTION (NO. III) OF YUVARAJADEVA I
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