North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA

BHOJPUR IMAGE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF NARAVARMAN

TEXT[1]
[Metres : Verses 1-2 and 4 Anushṭubh; v. 3 Vasantatilakā ].

No. 32 ; PLATE XXXIV B
BHOJPUR IMAGE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF NARAVARMAN
[Vikrama] Year 1157

...THIS inscription is engraved on the pedestal of an image of the Jaina Tīrthaṅkara Pārśvanātha in an old Jaina temple at the village of Bhōjpur[13] in the Goharganj tālukā of the Raisen District in Madhya Pradesh. It was discovered by Dr. D. C. Sircar, then
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[1] From the original plate.
[2] Expressed by a symbol.
[3] The palatal sibilant, wherever it occurs in this inscription, has its loop so curved as to appear as the midstroke of the dental, and the distinction between the two letters can be noted only in a close study.
[4] Sandhi has not been performed here and also in 1. 10 below, where the expression again occurs.
[5] Here and in some other cases below, which have not been pointed out separately, the letter व् is engraved as च्.
[6] The first letter of this name is somewhat like व् or भ् or त् : but I take it as च. The reading is doubtful. Near the confluence of the two rivers there was a village of the name of Chamaradaha, suggesting its identification with Chāmaṭikā.
[7] Better read रेवाकुविलारानद्यो:.
[8] This verse and the following one are put by way of a parenthesis and the sentence is continued with इति जगतः in 1. 14.
[9] As the vacant space shows, this daṇḍa was originally engraved but has disappeared in the process of cutting the plate. The त्र in मात्र was originally engraved with three horizontal strokes and later on one of them was rubbed off.
[10] As stated above in n. 6. this and the preceding व् look like च्.
[11] The slanting bar of the member of the conjunct consonant is not engraved and thus it looks like प्
[12] Sandhi is not performed in all the instances in this and the preceding lines. though compulsory; and the top-stroke showing the mātrā of pau is so engraved as to appear as the sign of the long medial ī.
[13]For another inscription from the same place, see above, No. 17.

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