INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF RAIPUR

1 Read सर्वजिन्नाम
2 Read फाल्गुनशुद्धाष्टम्यां
3 Read तस्मिन् समये.
4 Read नायकश्रीहाजिराजदेवेन हाटकेश्वरस्य प्रासादः कृत: ।
5 Read वसन्त्यश्चित्ते कुबेरनगरीमवधीरयन्ति ॥ Metre: Vasantatilakā.
6 Read लक्ष्मीदेवो
7 Read तस्य पुत्रोऽभवर्त्सिह:.
8 Metre: Anushṭubh.
9 Read सदृशमणि-.
10 Read -पुजितद्विजमंडल:.
11 Read कलितरिपुकुलनिखिल-The akshara following ल has been cancelled. 12 This verse appears to be in the Hindi metre Gītikā.
13 I propose to read कालाकारकृपाणमंदरमहीष्वालोडितप्रोद्रटा वेलाभग्नमहाम्बुराशिजनितक्षौमोत्तरीयावृता।लीलातामरसस्त्रगञ्चितकरा त्यक्तान्यसङ्गान्तरा वीरश्रीर्भुवि रायव्रह्मनृपतेरत्रैवमुत्कण्ठते ॥but I am not sure about the
sense of the first half of this verse. The akshara ह्म of रायब्रह्म which was omitted at first, is written above
the line. Kielhorn seems to have wrongly read हरिरायव्रह्मनृपते in 11. 16-17. See Ep, Ind., Vol. II,
p. 230 and Ind. Ant., Vol. XXII, p.83. The akshara are clearly as given above. Metre: Śārdūlavikrīḍita.
14 Read के
15 Read वदेत्
16 Read तस्य पुत्रोभवद् हाजिर्घर्मशास्त्रविशारद: Metre: Anushṭubh. This verse has six quarters as in
epic poetry.
17 Read समस्तशास्त्राथंविचारणैक
18 Read श्रुत्यर्थशास्त्रश्रवणैकशक्त:.
19 Read प्रसिद्धोऽपि.
20 The correct reading would be श्रीमान् विराजोभवद् , but this would not suit the metre Indravairā.
21 Read हाजिराजस्य कीर्त्यर्थ हाटकेश्वरकीर्त्त्नम्.
CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
VOL. IV. PLATE LXXXVIII.
RAIPUR STONE INSCRIPTION OF BRAHMADEVA : (VIKRAMA) YEAR 1458
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