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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA ŪN SARPABANDHA INSCRIPTION ...THIS inscription was noticed by V.S. Sukthankar in the Progress Report of the Western Circle of the Survey, for 1918-19, p. 46, and was subsequently edited by K.N. Sastri, without a facsimile, or details of dimensions, etc., in Epigraphia Indica, Vol. XXXI, p. 30. It is edited here from an impression kindly supplied by the Chief Epigraphist. [1] ...The inscription is incised on a stone-wall built on the proper right side of the innermost cell of a dilapidated temple, locally known as Chaubēra Dēra, at Ūn, a big village in the West Nēmāḍ District and connected by a metalled road with its principal town Khargone, in Madhya Pradesh. [2] The entire area occupied by the inscription is 138 cms. broad, by 90 cms. high. Un fortunately, the preservation of the rock, which is of coarse grain, as I noticed in my visit to that place, is very imperfect, and small portions of the surface have peeled off here and there ; and most of the letters have either wholly or partially disappeared or have become irrecognisable. ...The characters are of the Nāgarī alphabet, closely resembling those of the two preceding epigraphs, at Ujjain and Dhār. The height of the letters, which are slightly larger, is about 2.5 cms. In style also, the inscription is similar to those. The language is Sanskrit; and like the other two allied inscriptions, it bears no date. ...It is an alphabetical chart with some of the conjugational terminations, all engraved on the body of a single serpent, combined with a dagger-like object, and measuring 80 cms. broad by 61 cms, high. The pentagonal top of the dagger with the upper part of the serpentine loops is now lost, with letters inscribed on them ; and only the initial ē and ai are now to be seen on the head of the snake.
...The squares formed by the conventional coils of the body of the snake, each about 5 cms., contains the principal consonants consisting of the five vargas. Of these, chha is lost, and da is mutilated. The sibilants and the aspirate are engraved in the sloping limb on the proper right side, and, on the proper left, are the syllables ya, ra, la and va, which can be recognised only by the traces now left. The portions of the body between these two limbs occupy the three visargas, viz., Upadhmānīya, Jihvāmūlīya and Visarjanīya, respectively, from the left to the right. The tail of the snake is occupied by some conjugational terminations, which are now multilated and beyond recognition. ...To the proper right-side of the Sarpabandha are two short inscriptions. One of them, which is engraved at the top and measures 26cms. broad by 6 cms. high, is the same verse beginning with Udayāditya-dēvasya, etc., and found in the allied inscriptions at Ujjain an Dhār. The other inscription, which consists of four lines occupying a space 55 cms. broad by 14 cms. high, begins with the vowel a to ē, but of what follows, nothing can be made out, as it is all blurred. From the traces, however, it appears to have contained some grammatical terminations. ...Compared with the Sarpabandhas at Ujjain and Dhār, the present one is “a much smaller affair” : but an interesting feature of the present inscription is that a fish-like object, measuring 8 cms,=. by 3 cms., is incised at the top of the proper right side of the hood of the snake. The present inscription is of course contemporary with the preceding two ; and it shows that the temple in which it is incised was also used in those days as a school for young boys. No. 28 ; PLATE XXXI ...THIS inscription is incised on the architrave of the door of the garbhagṛiha of a dilapidated
temple at Ḍōṅgargāon, a village about 15 kms. from Pusad in the Yeotmāl District of
Berar in Mahārāshṭra. It was discovered in 1939 by Shri M.G. Deshmukh who was then
conducting researches under Dr. V.V. Mirashi in the Nagpur University. ON knowing the [1] His No. B-111 of 1973-74.
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