North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA

is mentioned in the present record as the name of the village group in the which Gaṇaürā lay (1.3), is not traceable. However, it may be suggested that this name may have been applied to the village-group situated close by and bearing a combination of two names, as we have instances even today, viz., Bōrdā and Sirālyā, which are in the same locality, the intervening distance being about 8 kms., and Ganōrā lies between them both, about 5 kms. north-west of the former and 3 kms. south-east of the latter. All these places are now included in the khātēgāon parganā of the Dēwās District of Madhya Pradesh. This also shows that the Vindhya-maṇḍala of the present inscription was then the region in which Nēmāwar was situated, and thus it also appears to have been conterminous with the Nīlagiri-maṇḍala of the preceding inscription, to its east.

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[Metres : Verses 1-2 and 4-11 Anushṭubh ; vv. 3 and 14 Vasantatilakā ; v. 12 Indravajrā ; v. 13 Śālinī ; v. 15 Pushpitāgrā].

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[1] From facsimiles accompanying Fleet’s article in Ind. Ant., Vol. XVI.
[2] Expressed by a symbol.
[3] The correction as in the brackets and some others of this type have not been made by Fleet in his transcript.
[4] As stated above, almost all the lines have a single or double daṇḍa at the end ; they are not noted separately.
[5] In place of this and the preceding letters some other letters appear to have been engraved originally.
[6] The parts of this letter appear to be disconnected.
[7] This mark of punctuation is unnecessary, as also observed by Fleet.
[8] The engraver first seems to have cut दा, and then erased the mātrā.
[9] The last three letters in this name appear to have been corrected later.
[10] This letter is so formed as to show a combination of the palatal and dental sibilants.
[11] The daṇḍas are redundant.
[12] Read देचऋषि or देवर्षि. Sandhi is optional here, according to the commentary in Pāṇini VI, i, 128, as also noted by Fleet.
[13] The punctuation marks are superfluous.
[14] One of the circles forming this letter was omitted in the process of engraving.

.....................CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM
VOL.VII .......................................................................PLATE XLVI
BHOPAL COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF MAHAKUMARA UDAYAVARMAN: (VIKRAMA) YEAR 1256

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