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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI TRANSLATION OM ! (V. 3) I fancy that the great river, of which the waves are the enemies . . . . . (Lines 6-7) (This record has been) written by Gunanivāsa (and) incised by Bhāka
NO. 41 THIS inscription was, like the preceding three records, discovered in 1938 by Dr. N.P. Chakravarti, then Government Epigraphist for India. It is still unpublished. It is edited here from an estampage kindly supplied by him. The inscription is incised on a rock at the back of Śēshaśāyī image to the south-west of Gopālpur, a village, one mile to the north of Bāndhōgarh in the State of Vindhya Pradesh. It consists of three lines of bold and deeply incised letters, but owing to the constant trickling down of water on them, many aksharas especially in lines 2 and 3 have now become illegible. The lines are 4' 8" long. The average size of the letters is 6". The characters are of the Nāgarī alphabet closely, resembling those of the three preceding epigraphs. The language is Sanskrit and the record is entirely in prose. The orthography does not call for any remark The object of the inscription was apparently similar to that of the last three
epigraphs, viz., to record that an image (of Haladhara ?7 ) was caused to be carved by the
illustrious Gōllāka, the son of the illustrious Bhānu, who was a minister of the illustrious Yuvarājadeva (I). 1From an inked estampage.
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