INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA
JHĀLRĀPĀṬAN STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF UDAYĀDITYA
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No. 22 ; PLATE XXIII
JHĀLRĀPĀṬAN STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF UDAYĀDITYA
[Vikrama ] Year 1143
THIS inscription is engraved on a slab of stone which was found lying, some time in the opening years of the present century, by the late Pandit Gaurishankar Ojha, then Curator of the
Rājputānā Museum, Ajmer, in a palace locally known as Sarvasukhiyā kōṭhī, at the town of
Jhālrāpaṭān, the capital of the former State of that name and now the chief town of a
District in Rājasthān. The record was first brought to notice by D. R. Bhandarkar in the Progress Report of the Archaeological Survey of India, Western Circle, for 1905-06, p. 56 (No. 2094) ;
and, form an impression prepared and supplied by Ojha, it was edited by Bishweshwar Nath
Shastri, giving his transcript thereof, both in Nāgarī and Roman characters, with a translation
and facsimile (Pl. XXII), in the Journal of the Asistic Society of Bengal (N.S.), Volume X (1914),
pp. 241 ff. The inscription was again noticed in the Annual Report of Indian Epigraphy for
1953-53, No. 419, and the stone bearing it is now exhibited in the Museum at Jhālāwāḍ near
Jhālrāpāṭan. It is edited here from an excellent impression supplied to me by the Chief Epigraphist of the Archaeological Survey of India. Unifortunately, nothing is known about the original find-spot of this stone or about the circumstances in which it was found.
...The inscribed portion covers a space measuring about 20.5 cms. broad by 15 cms. high,
and contains ten lines of writing. It is in an excellent state of preservation, with the exception
of one letter each at the end of lines 3, 4 and 9, where portions of the stone have slightly peeled
off. –The size of the letters in the first seven lines varies from about 1 to 1.5 cms, and in the
rest of the lines it is about half of it, so that whereas each of the first seven lines contains about
twenty aksharas, their number in lines 8 and 9 is about 30 in each. The last line, which too
contains letters of equally small size, is engraved in the middle of the surface and measures 14
cms. in breadth.
...The characters are the normal Nāgarī of the eleventh century to which the record belongs,
sharing the general peculiarity that the verticals of letters and the pṛishṭha-mātrās show a sudden
bend to the right at their lowest extremity. The initial i is formed of two circles placed side by
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[1] From an impression.
[2] Some symbol may have been engraved before this word as shown by a vacant space with some faint traces.
[3] Here are two indistinct letters, as also at the commencement of the next line. From the traces left the
reading may conjecturally be restored as ––समीपस्थ––. In the impression which was later on provided by
the Chief Epigraphist, I find traces of सम (स्त)राजावलीमालाल(लं)कृतपरम–––.
[4] sandhi is not performed here.
[5] The reading of the bracketed aksharas is conjectural.
[6] The reading is conjectural as required by the sense.
[7] As above, Conjecturally, the three aksharas may be restored as पुत्रेण.
[8] The decimal figure is somewhat indistinct due to over-writing, but the reading is certain.
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