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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
15 [1]ra [|*] tina madhye |[2] chāri va(ba)ḍā ite(ti) [||*]
16 [3]likhitaṁ jo[4] Rāmadāsa[5] [|*]
17 [6]Vāi[k]ī lāgati
18 ṭaṁ[7] 1001 [sa]hasra eka a[ṁ*]ke [|*] Mevā[ḍy]ai[8] nāṇai ṭhaṁka 6106[9] ṭaṁ 1
19 vāikal nimi[tta*] lāgā [|*] śubhaṁ bhavatu [|*] Rāma Rāma Rāma [||8]
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[1] This line is incised below line 14.
[2] The daṇḍa is unnecessary.
[3] This line looks like the first half of line 14.
[4] This is a contraction of joshī, joisī or jois (Sanskrit jyotishin).
[5] In Sanskrit ºdāsena.
[6] This line looks like the first half of line 15.
[7] I.e. ṭanka.
[8] The letter may also be read as ḍau.
[9] The reading may also be ṭhakaḍa 106, although the other reading is preferable as the Mewār coins could
hardly have greater value than the Delhi ṭaṅkas. A century later, during the reign of Rājasiṁha (1652-80
A. D.), the Dhabbuka or Dhebua coins were the popular currency of Mewār (cf. above, Appendix (Rājapraśasti),
p. 114). The Gadhaiya Paisās of both silver and copper were also current in Mewār. See W. W. Webb, The
Currencies o′ the Hindu States of Rājputāna, 1893, pp. 5-6. Webb speaks of coins (mostly copper ‘black taṅka’
weighing 80 Ratis) issued by some of the Rāṇās (op. cit., pp. 6 ff.).
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