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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF RATANPUR SHEORINARAYAN PLATES OF RATNADEVA II : YEAR 878 No. 78
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No. 82 ; PLATE LXVI THESE plates were found in the possession of Pandit Ramachandra Trivedi, the head priest of the main temple at Shēorinārāyaṇ, well-known place of pilgrimage on the left bank of the Mahānadī, 38 miles south-east of Bilaspur in the Jānjgir tahsil of the Bilaspur District in Madhya Pradesh. They were first brought to notice by Pandit Lochan Prasad Pandeya of Balpur, who has edited them with lithographs, but without a translation, in the Indian Historical Quarterly, Vol. IV, pp. 31-34. I edit the record here from the original plates which were kindly procured for me by the Curator or the Central Museum, Nagpur. They are a set of two copper-plates held together by a ring. 3” thick, the central portion of which is flattened into a round seal, 2.4” in diameter. The ring was not cut when the plates reached me. The seal contains the legend Mahārāṇaka-śrīmad Ratnadēvaḥ, inscribed in two lines. Each plate measures 9.5” broad, 5.9” high and .I” thick and is inscribed on one side only. There are twenty-six lines in all, thirteen being inscribed on each plate. The letters are deeply engraved, but not well-formed. Their size They are a set of two copper-plates held together by a ring. 3” thick, the central portion of which is flattened into a round seal, 2.4” in diameter. The ring was not cut when the plates reached me. The seal contains the legend Mahārāṇaka-śrīmad-Ratnadēvaḥ, inscribed in two lines. Each plate measures 9.5” broad, 5.9” high and .I” thick and is inscribed on one side only. There are twenty-six lines in all, thirteen being inscribed on each plate. The letters are deeply engraved, but not well-formed. Their size is .25.â
The characters are Nāgarī. The letters a, ṇ, bh, ś and s show transitional forms; see,
e. g., a in api, 1.23 and āsīt=, 1.6; ṇ in -pūrṇa-pāṇiḥ, 1.19; bh in =bhūbhṛitām=, 1.4 and bhuvaḥ,
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श्रीमज्जाजल्लदेवकीर्त्तय इमा: ।
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