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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF CHANDRAVATI No. 73 ; PLATE LXXIV ...THIS inscription was found on a slab of stone built in a wall of the antechamber of a Jaina temple in the village Jhālōḍī, also known as Jhāḍōlī, situated about 3 kms. north by west of Piṇḍwāḍā, the chief town of a tehsīl of the same name in the Sirōhī District of Rājasthān, [1] The record was briefly noticed by D. R. Bhandarkar in the Annual Progress Report of the Archaeological Survey of India, Western Circle, for 1905-06, p. 48, and again in ibid, 1910-11, p. 38 ; and some fifteen years subsequently, the transcript of its text was published by Muni Jinavijaya in his Prāchīna-jaina-Lēkha-Saṁgraha, Pt. II, p. 262 f. [2] But the inscription remained unedited so far. At my request, the Superintending Archaeologist of the Western Circle, very kindly supplied me with a set of impressions, from which it is edited here. ...The inscription consists of five long lines, covering a space 120.5 cms. long by 10.5 cms. high. The average height of the letters is 1 cm., excluding the mātrās above. The record has considerably suffered due to exposure, particularly in the middle of the lines, and from the impression it is also clear that the stone was not thoroughly cleaned before the record was incised on it. The characters belong to the twelfth century. Noteworthy is the form of the vowel i in Indu-. 1. 3, appearing as two dots below a horizontal curve, the first of which shows a sharp tail. The letter k often loses its loop when it is a superscript of a conjunct or when the mātrā of u is attached to it, e.g. in sākshāt, 1. 5, and kunda-, 1. 3, respectively. The different forms of the palatal ś may be noticed in –śāradē- and śrīmat-, both in 1. 1. ... The language is Sanskrit, almost correct; and, excepting a portion of the last line giving the name of the poet and the date, the entire record is metrically composed. It contains nine verses, all of which are numbered. Pṛishṭha-mātrās are used and the anusvāra does the duty of a nasal also, even wrongly used at the end of a verse. The daṇḍa is occasionally placed so close to a syllable as to appear as the sign of mātrā, e.g., after –harshē in 1. 1.
... The inscription refers itself to the illustrious ruler Dhārāvarsha ; and though he is not endowed in it with any title, from the family name Pramāra (Paramāra) and also from the mention of Chandrāvatī eighteen hundred (v. 2), he is doubtless identical with the homonymous ruler who was the son of Yaśōdhavala and whose dates range from V. 1220 (1164 A.C.) to V. 1276 (1219 A.C.). [3] The object of the inscription is to record the restoration of the maṇḍapa of a temple by the gōshṭhikas (members of an assembly), and the donation of a piece of land for a garden by Śṛiṅgāradēvī, the chief queen of Dhārāvarsha. The inscription is dated in v. 5, the year being expressed by numerical words as cupid’s arrows, twice (i.e. 55) and the suns (i.e.12). and again in the last line, in decimal figures, with details, as Wednesday, the 7th of the bright half of Āsōya, i.e., Āśvina, of the year 1255. The year is to be taken as of the Vikrama era, and the Christian equivalent day is the 9th September, 1198 A.C. [4] ...It is a sectarian record. Opening with a verse invoking the blessings of Mahāvīra, the
second verse introduces Dhārāvarsha who was reigning at Chandrāvatī, as we have seen above,
The next verse mentions his chief queen Śriṅgāradēvī, as also recorded in the Ajaharī stone inscription of the time of the same king, dated V.S. 1240 (1183 A.C.) Her name appears also in
the Dhāntā inscription of V.S. 1277. But the present record goes to furnish an additional
information that she was the daughter of Kēlhaṇa, who was the lord of a maṇḍala. This ruler
appears to be no other than the Chāhamāna king of Nāḍōl for whom we have dates ranging
between V. 1221-1250, or 1164-1193 A.C.
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The village, which is also known as Jhaḍōlī, lies on the metalled road from Sirōhī to Piṇḍwāḍa about 22 kms. from the former place, and 4 kms. north-west of the latter.
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