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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF CHANDRAVATI
NĀNĀ STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF DHĀRĀVARSHA
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First Plate
Second Plate
[ Metre ; Verses 1-3 Anushṭubh]
No. 69 : PLATE LXXI
NĀṆĀ STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF DHĀRĀVARSHA
[Vikrama] Year 123[7]
...THE village Nāṇā is situated in the Bālī tehsīl of the Pālī District in the southwestern
region of Rājasthān and is about 3 kms. from the railway station of the same name on the
Ahmedabad-Ajmer line of the Western Railway, The record dealt with here is inscribed on
a door-jamb of the Nīlakaṇṭha Mahādēva temple at that place. The inscription has neither _________________________________________
From Shastri’s transcript in Ind. Ant., Vol. XLIII. p. 194.
[2] Denoted by a symbol.
[3] The intended reading appears to be -कमलोद्योतन-. Udyōtana The Sun.
[4] In his transcript Shastri corrected का to का. But in his List of Inscrs, of N. Ind., D.R. Bhandarkar retains the name काविद whereas D. C. Ganguly takes the name to be Kōvidāsa (see H. P. D., p. 305). We have no means to ascertain the reading.
[5] It is possible that the sign of anusvāra may not have been engraved deeply or may not have come out in the impression with Shastri, There are similar other examples also.
[6] For placing stone images of the cow by way of marking land or a field, cf. above, No. 64, 1. 13 and n.
[7]
Read श्रेष्ठि-.
[8]
Read श्र्पन्योत्र.The letter ह tempts one to suggest the reading झन्य इह but it would not suit the metre.
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