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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA
Second Plate
No. 14 ; PLATE XVI-A
BRITISH MUSEUM SARASVATĪ IMAGE INSCRIPTION
[Vikrama] Year 1091
...THIS inscription was first brought to notice by K.N. Dikshit who published its transcript in
the January Number of the Rūpam (1924), a quarterly Journal of Calcutta. It was again
transcribed by some other scholars also.
[2]
It is incised on the pedestal of an image of
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[1] Read संवृतं I am not definite but the whole phrase possibly means ‘from the ordinary (level) land of
the village, prastha (a kind of measure) consisting of thirty-four shares and worthy to be tilled by
four ploughs’. The use of संवृत्तं is not quite clear. Should we take the word derived from vṛit, to
turn (to plough?).
This and some of the following daṇḍas are redundant.
[3] Following भो, a letter appears to have been originally formed but left uncarved. The sign-manual need
not break the continuity of the writing.
[4] The visarga is redundant.
[5] Ojha : चद्रा(चंद्रा); but the sign for न् is faintly visible.
[6] Originally चि was engraved and subsequently the ūrdhva-mātrā was also carved without scoring off the
unnecessary parts.
[7] Originally प, later on corrected to फ.
[8] The visarga is not dropped here.
[9] For example, by V.S. Wakankar of Ujjain. who visited the British Museum in August. 1961. and who read
an article on the image in the Bhōja Seminar held in 1970 at Ujjain. The article is still unpublished but
the writer favoured me with a type-script of it, for which I am thankful to him. The dimensions of the slab
bearing the inscription are as given in his article.
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VOL.VII .....................................................................................PLATE XV
DEPALPUR COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF BHOJADEVA: VIKRAMA) YEAR 1079

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