North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF CHANDRAVATI

ACHALAGAḌH STONE INSCRIPTION OF YASODHAVALA

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No. 65 ; PLATE LXVIII
ACHALAGAḌH STONE INSCRIPTION OF YAŚŌDHAVALA
[Vikrama] Year 1207

... THIS inscription has been referred to by F. Kielhorn in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. IX, p. 149, as No. 1951 of Cousen’s List prepared in the cold season of 1900-01. It was thereafter included by D.R. Bhandarkar in his List of Inscriptions of N. India (No. 280), and subsequently, also by the Government (now Chief) Epigraphist in his Annual Report on Indian Epigraphy,1961-62. But it remained unedited so far. It is edited here for the first time from an inked impression kindly placed at my disposal by the Chief Epigraphist. [11]

...The record is incised on a stone in the temple Achalēśvara, about 5-6 kms. north by east of Mount Ābū. It contains 16 lines of writing which covers a space between 22 and 22.5 cms. broad by 43 cms. high, but of which only the first five lines extend over the full breadth of the
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[1] From impressions.
[2] Expressed by a symbol, which is damaged.
[3] Originally vē, later on corrected to lē, without scrapping off the original. The traces indicate that the name of the maṇḍala was Arvv(bb)uda.
[4] In the first of the gaps in this line the object may have been shown, and in the second, the name of the donee.
[5] The reading is from the traces left.
[6] The upper curve of the medial i is not engraved and what follows is a daṇḍa.
[7] In this and the preceding line the reading is mostly from the traces left.
[8] The reading of the second akshara of the name is not certain.
[9] This refers to the local custom of marking boundary by stone images of cow. Cf. No. 68, 11. 12-13, below.
[10] These letters are in a separate line and not in continuation, as read by Halder. It begins at about the middle of the other lines.
[11] It is his No. B-178 of 1961-62. Subsequently. I had an opportunity to compare my reading from the original stone which I found set up on a platform to our left as we enter the puranā darvāzā of the Śiva temple at the place. Below the inscription the stone shows the figure of a donkey (about 25 by 20 cms.) facing left.

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