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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI TRANSLATION (Line 1) Success ! Om ! May there be adoration to Druhiņa, Upēndra and Rudra ! The four castes . . . . . . . L. 2) The world consisting only of . . . . . May Druhiņa quickly destroy . . . . . ! (L. 3) May (they) who obstructed the eyes of the creator. . . protect . . . . . from Madhusūdana. (L. 4) On whose broad forehead, (the Gangā) rolling down from the matted hair . . . . . (L. 5) . . . . . would teach (his) little sons, (thinking) that the course (of teaching ?) is the best . . . . . (L. 6) (They), whose sins had diminished, were born ; by whom . . . . . . always down to their descendants. (L.7) The course of conduct (consisting of ?) strength, wealth, gaity, liberality (and) courtesy . . . . . (L. 8) (He)1 who was a thunderbolt to the great mountains that were powerful kings, destroyed . . . . . (while) . . . . . (was) resounding . . . . . (L. 9) . . . . . after a long time. When Nāgabhata (II) was routed. (L. 10) The roar of the Boar that rends rocks . . . . . . (L. 11-12) . . . . . . of holy deeds, whose mind was intent on (observing the rules of) conduct laid down in the Śrutis (Vēdas) and Smriti . . . . . (and) whose feet [this] illustrious Amōghavarsha2 salutes. (L. 13) . . . . . . like a second. . . . . . By him (has been) constructed (this temple) resembling a hill . . . . . . (L. 14) Success ! (In) the year 593, while the king, the illustrious Lakshmaņarājadēva (I) is reigning, this (praśasti) was composed by the illustrious Prasannāditya of the Ghata family.
No. 38 ; PLATE XXX B THIS inscription was discovered in 1938 by Dr. N.P. Chakravarti, Government Epigraphist for India. It is still unpublished. It is edited here from an excellent estampage kindly supplied by him. The inscription is incised on the inside of the western wall of the Fish temple in the fort of Bāndhōgarh which lies about 65 miles south by west of Rewa, the chief town of Vindhya Pradesh. The record is in a state of good preservation. It consists of only two lines of bold and deeply incised letters. The first line is 4’ 5” and the second 4' 9” long. The average size of the letters is 4.5â. The characters belong to the Nāgari alphabet of about the tenth century A.C. As
regards individual letters we may note that the lingual d is round-backed in Gaud-, 1.2 ;
the right-hand up-stroke of the subscript y is not brought down, see -āmātyasya, I.1 and the
left limb of the plates ś is not separated from the right-hand vertical, see śrī-, in. I. 1 The
language is Sanskrit and the record is entirely in prose. It consists of only a single sentence.
The orthography does not call for any remark except that the conjunct tsya has been
written as chchhya in machchhya-, 1.2. 1 This was probably Gōvinda III of the Rāsţrakuţa dynasty, see above, p. 180. VOL. IV.
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