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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA JHĀLRĀPĀṬAN STONE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF UDAYĀDITYA TEXT[1]
No. 22 ; PLATE XXIII 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
[1] From an impression.
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