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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA Third Plate
_________________________________________ No. 12.─ BRITISH MUSEUM PLATES OF CHARUDEVI. BY PROFESSOR E. HULTZSCH, PH.D. ; HALLE (SAALE). This inscription was first edited 25 years ago by Dr. Fleet in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. IX. p. 100 ff. On account of its archaic alphabet and of its language, which is not only Sanskṛit verse (plate iii. lines 12-15), but chiefly Prâkṛit prose, it has attracted much attention. Bühler succeeded in deciphering some additional portions of it,[19] and a few corrections were suggested by M. Senart and myself.[20] At my request, Dr. Fleet was good enough to send me a set of ink-impressions of the plates, with the help of which it has been possible to make out with some probability those portions of lines 3 to 7 which Bühler considered ‘ utterly unintelligible. The only item which appears to be irretrievably lost is the figure of the regnal year at the end of the first line. The original copper-plates, which were secured by Sir Walter Elliot, are now in the British Museum. For their finding-place and for a detailed description of them see the prefatory _________________________________________________________
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