South Indian Inscriptions

Contents
Index
Introduction
Contents
List of Plates
Additions and Corrections
Images
Authors
Contents
D. R. Bhat
P. B. Desai
Krishna Deva
G. S. Gai
B R. Gopal & Shrinivas Ritti
V. B. Kolte
D. G. Koparkar
K. G. Krishnan
H. K. Narasimhaswami & K. G. Krishana
K. A. Nilakanta Sastri & T. N. Subramaniam
Sadhu Ram
S. Sankaranarayanan
P. Seshadri Sastri
M. Somasekhara Sarma
D. C. Sircar
D. C. Sircar & K. G. Krishnan
D. C. Sircar & P. Seshadri Sastri
K. D. Swaminathan
N. Venkataramanayya & M. Somasekhara Sarma
Index
Other South-Indian Inscriptions
Volume 1	Volume 2
Volume 3	Vol. 4 - 8
Volume 9	Volume 10
Volume 11	Volume 12
Volume 13	Volume 14
Volume 15	Volume 16
Volume 17	Volume 18
Volume 19	Volume 20
Volume 22 Part 1	Volume 22 Part 2
Volume 23	Volume 24
Volume 26	Volume 27
Tiruvarur	Darasuram
Konerirajapuram	Tanjavur
Annual Reports 1935-1944	Annual Reports 1945- 1947
Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 2, Part 2	Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum Volume 7, Part 3
Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 1	Kalachuri-Chedi Era Part 2
Epigraphica Indica	Epigraphia Indica Volume 3
Epigraphia Indica Volume 4	Epigraphia Indica Volume 6
Epigraphia Indica Volume 7	Epigraphia Indica Volume 8
Epigraphia Indica Volume 27	Epigraphia Indica Volume 29
Epigraphia Indica Volume 30	Epigraphia Indica Volume 31
Epigraphia Indica Volume 32	Paramaras Volume 7, Part 2
Śilāhāras Volume 6, Part 2	Vākāṭakas Volume 5
Early Gupta Inscriptions
Archaeological Links
Archaeological-Survey of India
Pudukkottai

EPIGRAPHIA INDICA

The only geographical name mentioned in the inscription is Kānyakubja, modern Kanoj in the Farrukhabad District, Uttar Pradesh. In the present state of our knowledge, it is not possible to determine who the Kānyakubja contemporary of Ḍiṇḍirāja Karka was. But he may have been an ancestor of the great Yaśōvarman who ruled from Kanoj in the first half of the eighth century A. D.

TEXT^[1]

[Metres : verses 1, 5 Anushṭubh ; verses 2-4 Śārdūlavikrīḍita]

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^[1] From impressions. I am indebted for a few suggestions to Dr. B. Ch. Chhabra. At the left upper end of the inscribed stone, there are four aksharas which appear to be preceded by a damaged Siddham symbol and to read Ya[du]-ra(rā)jy[ē]. As already noted above, these characters are slightly later than those of the record under study and are probably not a part of it.
^[2]There are traces here of an akshara which may be jyē. It is difficult to determine its significance and to say whether the passage incised above this part and referred to in note 1 above was written at a later date in imitation of the one that had been engraved here.
^[3]Expressed by symbol.
^[4]The lost syllables may be conjecturally restored as Vishṇuvē namaḥ.
^[5] An expression like mahātmanē would suit the context.
^[6]The remnant of this vowel-mark suggests that it was of the ornamental type found in śrī in line 3.
^[7]We may suggest the restoration of a word like balī or jayi here.
^[8]The lost aksharas may be conjecturally restored as Tad=vaṁśē=bhavaº. The letter read as dā should not be confused with ndā. Cf. ndra in line 4 and dinaṁ in line 13.
^[9]The intended word is no doubt ºātmajaḥ.
^[10]The lost syllables may be conjecturally restored as sūnus=tasya.
^[11]The expression may be conjecturally restored as pratāp-āśrayaḥ.
^[12]The words may be conjecturally restored as tan=nirdahya.
^[13]The intended word is most probably ºchchhittayē.
^[14]The akshara before rēḥ looks like śau ; but the lower part of the right limb of ś is not ornaments 1 as found elsewhere in the epigraph.
^[15]The intended expression may be mālākāra-nikāya, i.e. a guild of the florists.
^[16]The word intended here may have been asau.

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