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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI
No. 55; PLATE XLIV THE stone bearing this inscription is fixed upside down into the plinth of a pavilion at Simrā, a village about 10 miles north-west of Murwārā, the chief town of the Murwārā tahsil of the Jabalpur District, Madhya Pradesh. It was first referred to by Rai Bahadur Hiralal in the Jubbulpore District Gazetteer, p. 185, and subsequently in his Inscriptions in the Central Provinces and Berar.6 It is edited here for the first time from inked estampages kindly supplied by the Superintendent of Archæological Survey, Central Circle, Patna. The inscription which is in a state of good preservation, contains four lines. The writing covers a space measuring 3' 5" broad by 11" high. The average size of the letters is 1.8". The characters belong to the Nāgarī alphabet of about the 11th century A.C. The language is Sanskrit. The inscription is very carelessly written. As regards orthography the vowel i is used for yi in vījaï, 1 .1, naya is written several times for the conjunct ŋya, rī for the vowel ŗi in krītam, 1.4, and I for r in Lāutī in 1.3.
The inscription refers itself to the victorious reign7 of the Bhaţţārakaprabha, the illustrious Karna, who, judging by the characters and provenance of the present inscription, seems to be identical with the well-known Kalachuri king of that name. The object of the inscription appears to be record the death of some persons who are said to have gone to the holy world. It is not stated on what occasion they lost their lives.8 The record ends with the statement that the commemorative stone was put up by Janāda (Janārdana?).
As stated above, the stone is built upside down into the plinth of a pavilion, which
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