North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA

MANDHATA COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF DEVAPALA

No. 51 ; PLATES XLIX-L
MĀNDHĀTĀ COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF DĒVAPĀLA
[Vikrama] Year 1282

THE plates on which this inscription is engraved were discovered in 1905 by the late Shri K. K. Lele, then Director of Education in the former State of Dhār, now integrated with Madhya Pradesh ; and a brief notice thereof was made by the same scholar in an issue of Jñāna Prakāsh (a local paper from Poona) and in Subōdha-Sindhu (published from Khaṇḍwā),
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[1] This is following Kielhorn and as the name appears in the other sources mentioned above. The consonant of the akshara in the impression before me is definitely ल.
[2] This letter is badly engraved and also has a chisel mark above.
[3] The right-hand curve of this latter appears to have been originally omitted and was engraved subsequently.The daṇḍas at the beginning of this line are superfluous
[4] Read वत्सरे. The first of these letters is damaged.
[5] A subsequent attempt was made to correct this akshara.
[6] A curve resembling u-mātrā appears to have been attached to sa.
[7] Probably by a superfluous chisel mark the tri appears as vi.
[8] The daṇḍas are redundant and the first and the tenth letter of the first foot of this verse are damaged in the very process of engraving.
[9] This sign of visarga is evidently superfluous.
[10] Read निकेतनं. The following sa is so formed as to look like sha.
[11] The first two aksharas of this word have each an anusvāra over it. and the last two aksharas appear to have been corrected subscquently. The consonant of vē is engraved as d.
[12] Kielhorn read pushyatā. but the impression before me clearly shows the word as I have taken here.
[13] Kielhorn read maṇḍanaṁ. which I do not find in the impression before me.
[14]The superscript of this akshara is engraved as m, as in some other cases also, which are not noted separately.
[15] A redundant superscript r was at first wrongly engraved on this letter and an attempt seems to have been made to score it off later.
[16] The daṇḍas are redundant. The first. third, fourth and the seventh aksharas of this pāda are all wrongly engraved. As suggested by Kielhorn, read [तद्दासं] मां भूत [ले] सुप्रसिद्धं.
[17] Read प्रशस्तिरियं, but it would not suit the metre and hence I follow Kielhorn in reading प्रशंसेयं.
[18] The slanting stroke of the preceding akshara is omitted and hence the letter appears as pa.

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