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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF CHANDRAVATI
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No. 77 ; PLATE LXXXIX
DHĀNTĀ IMAGE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF SŌMASIṀHA
[Vikrama] Year 1277
...THIS inscription was discovered by C. L. Suri, then Technical Assistant in the office of the
Chief Epigraphist,
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at Dhāntā, a village about 10 kms. south-southwest of Sirōhī, the headquarters of a tehsīl and district of the same name in south-west Rājasthān. Mentioning some
other images found at the place, the same scholar concluded that it is an ancient site where a
temple of Śiva and another of Vishṇu stood side by side at one time. He also edited the inscrip-
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From facsimile facing p. 137 of Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXII.
[2] By wrong strokes of the chisel, the consonant of the preceding letter appears as त्र
[3] This quarter of the verse is metrically defective as the second akshara is short instead of long, as required.
[4] The sign of anusvāra appears more on the preceding letter.
[5] The intended reading appears to be काकलदेवोभूत्.
[6] This pāda of the verse is again metrically defective.
[7] Buy wrong carving the medial ā which is a component of the mātrā attached to his letter appears as the sign off visarga; and the pṛishṭha-mātrā of the following [Sanskrit] appears as a daṇḍa.
[8] The superscript of the bracketed letter has come out only in the form of traces, as also the sign of the mātrā of the first akshara.
[9] The intended reading may have been From the other inscription we know that Dhārāvarsha’s queen was श्रृंगारदेवी. See Nos. 70 and No, v. 3.
[10] As stated above, this line was engraved later and has no connection with the main record.
Now a Superintending Archaeologist, in the Archaeological Survey of India.
..................CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
VOL.VII ......................................................................PLATE LXXVIII
COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF THE PARAMARAS OF CHANDRAVATI:
................(FRAGMENTARY AND UNDATED)

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