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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF VAGADA
ARTHŪNĀ IMAGE INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF VIJAYARĀJA
TEXT[1]
[Metres : Verse I Sragdharā; vv. 2, 6, 8-11 Anushṭubh; v. 3 Sārdūlavikrīḍita; v. 4 Gīti;
v. 5 Indravajrā ; v. 7 Mālinī].
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From the impressions.
[2] Expressed by a symbol. The syllable that follows it is denoted by the sign for the Nāgarī ū, with an anusvāra above.
[3] This daṇḍa is redundant.
[4] The language is rather obscure here, but the sense seems to that the points of the arrows (of Bharata ?) were made blunt and thus not felt by Hanumān while flying in the sky, with the mountain peak in his hands.
[5] The reading of the first and the third letter of the name is not certain. and it appears to be curious name.
[6] Reading from traces left ; but it does not convey any sense.
[7] The reading is probable, and the second letter of the name may have been da. The meaning of this word is not clear
[8] The reading of the letters in the brackets is uncertain.
[9] Both these letters are damaged and crisped into each other.
[10] This is the name of the metre. It is a rare instance to mention it along with the verse. Also, the fourth foot of the verse is metrically irregular. The musical instruments mentioned here are stringed, solid and perforated.
[11] The bracketed syllables are all mutilated and the reading is not certain.
[12] The word is used here to show that both these stanzas are to be taken together, for the sense.
[13] The correct form is dharmēṇa, which would not suit the metre.
[14] The reading of the third akshara in this word is uncertain. A double daṇḍa is also put at the end of the
line.
[15] All the bracketed letters are mutilated and the reading is from the traces left. The last akshara in the line is lost.
[16] Reading from the traces left.
[17] Though indistinct, the stich in the preceding and the following line is complete, each having eight aksharas; and thus this akshara appears to be redundant. Or, it may have some symbol (?).
18 The sign of visarga is redundant.
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