North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA

No. 26 ; PLATES XXVIII-XXIX
THE DHĀR INSCRIPTIONS

...THESE inscriptions, which are two in number and called here as A and B, were first brought to light by Ernest Barnes in his article on Dhār and Mānḍū, published in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. XXI (1900-02), pp. 339 ff., with a photolithograph between pp. 350 and 351, in which he also incorporated a note on them by K.K. Lele, Superintendent of Archaeology in the former State of Dhār. Lele also prepared two official notes on the records [7] ; and a description of the inscriptions appeared also in his work entitled Dhār and Mānḍū, on pp. 29-30, along with that on the preceding one, as already stated. Subsequently the inscriptions were noticed briefly in Annual Reports of the Western Circle of the Survey, for 1904-05, p. 8 (No. 2081) and again for 1912-13, pp. 21 and 55 (No. 2601) ; and finally, they were edited by K. N. Sastri, without facsimiles, in the Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXXI, p. 29 f., along with the one that precedes and the other that follows. The inscriptions are edited here from my personal examination of the originals and from an excellent impression of one of them (B) which I owe to the Chief Epigraphist of the Archaeological Survey of India.

...The inscriptions are on two separate pillars near the tomb of Kamāl Maulā mosque in the monument known as Bhōja-śālā, in the south-west part of Dhār, the principal town of a district of the same name in Madhya Pradesh. The pillars are of grey lime stone and are among those that support the dome of the prayer hall, one on each side of the raised pulpit. Each of
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[1] For the idea expressed in the third pāda of this verse, compare the well known saying Vishṇōśch hṛidayē Śivaḥ. The consonant t before the third letter and the sign of anusvāra on the ninth are engraved faintly and they were consequently not read by Sastri. They are distinct on the stone. [2] Here also is the sign of kāka-pada in the end.
[3] This and the following letters are on the right side where the same line is continued.
[4] Owing to a redundant stroke of the chisel, this akshara appears as स. It may also be noted that the sub- total is not given after ह.
[5] The number of verses which are not marked here have been taken by us in continuation of those of the preceding verses.
[6] This akshara, with some others in the lines that follow, are altogether lost and they have been restored from those appearing in the inscription at Dhār which is the counterpart of the present one.
[7] One of these notes was written in May, 1902, for presentation to Lord Curzon on the occasion of his visit to Dhār : and the other, in 1929. I am indebted to Shri A. W. Wakankar of Dhār, for lending me the only copies of these notes with him, for utilising them in this article.

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VOL.VII ...........................................................................PLATE XXVII
MAHAKALAESVARA TEMPLE SARPA-BANDHA INSCRIPTION (UJJAIN): (UNDATED)

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