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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI
TRANSLATION
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No. 67; PLATE LVI The stone bearing this inscription was discovered ‘in one of the small guard-rooms to the left of the main entrance to the citadel or palace enclosure’ at Rewa3 in Vindhya Pradesh. It is said to have been brought over to Rewa from the Kastarā tank in the Rewa tahsīl4. The record was first noticed by Mr. R.D.Banerji in the Progress Report of the Archaeological Survey, Western Circle for 1920-21. Subsequently he gave a transcript and a translation of it in his Haihayas of Tripuri and their Monuments5 and finally edited it, with a lithograph, but without a translation, in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XIX, pp. 295 f. It is edited here from inked estampages kindly supplied by the Superintendent of Archæological Survey, Central Circle, Patna. The record is incised on an oblong plain slab of sandstone measuring 4’ 3½” by
1’ 8½”. The writing covers a space 4’2” broad by 1’ 7” high. It contains 27 lines, of which
the last measures only 2’ 7” in length. The inscription in a state of good preservation.
The characters are Nāgarī. They are irregularly and carelessly cut and incised. The letters
ṭh, bh, ś as well as the medial i in some places present earlier forms; see, e.g., Ṭhakkurō,
1.22, -bhūt and Yaśaḥpāla, both in 1.4, =yasmiṁs=tishṭhē-, 1. 16. Attention may also be drawn
to the peculiar form of the initial i, e. g., in iti, 1. 4, and iv-, 1.5, the subscript ḷi in prakḷiptaḥ ,
1.5, and – prakḷipta -,1. 17, and th, of which the upper loop is open, in yath=ēśa-, 1. 21. In the
ligature ņņ, the superscript letter has in most cases the same form as the dental n, see, e.g.,
-purņņa-; 1.1, - Karņņa-, 1.4; but notice =Gayākarņņa, 1.4, where it appears in its usual form;
t is looped in some places, see, e.g., kṛita-girma, 1.16; b, as distinguished from v, is de 1Metre: Anusbtubh.
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