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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA
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[ Metres: Verses 1-2, 4-5 and 7-9 Anushṭubh ; v. 3 Vasantatilakā ;
v. 6 Śālinī].
First Plate
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From facsimiles in Ep. Ind., Vol. XXIV, facing p. 232.
[2] Expressed by a symbol.
[3] A mark at the end of the line, as of some others not noted below, shows that the word is continued in the next line.
[4] Some other letter, probably नु. was originally engraved here.
[5] My reading shows that the line ends in a श् which is very faintly visible, and accordingly, we have the name Hariśchandra here.
[6] The name of the village can also be read a दोदरपद्र-. It appears that originally a vertical was put after the preceding द्ध and later on it was scratched off only in the middle and thus we have the two dots showing a visarga.
[7] The daṇḍas are redundant.
[8] Chakravarti remarked that the omission of visarga after र is according to the vārttika : “kharparē śari vā visarga-lōpō vaktavyaḥ”. But to me it seems equally probable that the word पुर is used to end the name of the place and thus स्थितेन is left separate. Thus the expression may be taken also in the sense of ‘while residing or encamped at ‘.
[9] Originally the letter was engraved as कि, and later on the curve of the mātrā appears to have been mixed with the preceding superscript rēpha and the vertical scored off by two small strokes faintly visible.
[10] A redundent slanting stroke makes the प appear as ष.
[11] Chakravarti corrected it to संसार [स्या*] सारतां.
[12] Chakravarti read धर्मः but I find the double म्म, in the facsimile.
[13] Here and in some cases below the sign of anusvāra on द is faintly visible.
[14] Here and below we need not change the ठि to ठी, as done by Chakravarti, as it is a compound word requiring the original from of the first word.
[15] This mark of punctuation is redundant.
[16] This is a contraction of पण्डित.
[17] The second letter of the name more likely appears to be ल्हू.
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VOL.VII ..............................................................................PLATE XLV
BHOPAL COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF MAHAKUMARA HARISCHANDRA: (VIKRAMA) YEAR 1214
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