North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA

UDAIPUR STONE INSCRIPTIONS OF THE TIME OF DEVAPALA

denoted the town or village (pattana) after the temple of Śiva, i.e., Nīlakaṇṭhēśvara at Udaipur itself. Thus we have to take the same place denoted by two names, which is rather curious. The village Kharahī (1.9) may have been either Khiriyā, or Khaḍākhēḍī, both situated side by side at a distance of about 6 kms. and north-west of Udaipur ; and Umarata (1. 7) is obviously the modern village Umarathā, in the vicinity. The two other villages mentioned in the record cannot be identified owing to their names being mutilated.

TEXT [1]

[1] From an inked impression.
[2] Expressed by symbol.
[3] After this numeral there are some faint traces leading us to doubt whether the tithi was intended to be 30. but on that tithi there was a Tuesday and not Thursday, as mentioned in the inscription.
[4] The impression shows this akshara preceded by another which appears to belong to another inscription, incised on its left. In the next line also we have the same case.
[5] The last akshara in this line is indistinct and so are the last two aksharas of the next line, which are all represented here by equal number of dots.
[6] The letter in the brackets looks like pa, but I take it as ma as shown by the name of the village. The vowel उ is followed by a horizontal stroke as also the akshara in 1.3. above. Read –taḥ.
[7] It is not known if the mātrā of this akshara is scored off in the original.
[8] Part of this akshara along with the sign of visarga, if cut at all, has disappeared. From traces left, the lost letters in this line may have been महाद्वादशकमंडले. Also see Ind. Ant., Vol. XVIII. p. 344.
[9] In my examination of the original. I read the first letter of the name as sha for kha, and thus the whole name is खरेही, as also in the preceding inscription. The reading मध्ये is also uncertain. and more likely पथके appears to have been engraved here.
[10] Possibly what is intended is देवधर्मपुर्यां. The third akshara of this name is distorted.
[11] The backeted akshara has an unnecessary vertical stroke on either side.
[12] This and the following line, which are the last two lines of the record, are indistinct.

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