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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE MAIN BRANCH
on the broader end of its length and half-buried, leaving only the Vākāṭaka record above the ground. The left-hand portion of the earlier record was left untouched as the Vākāṭaka inscription, which was commenced at the narrow end of the slab, was finished about the middle of the stone. ...There is only one place, viz., Chikkamburi,1 mentioned in both the records. As pointed out by Hiralal, it is identical with the adjoining village Chikmārā. Chikkamburi seems to have been a flourishing city for more than six hundred years; for, both the Mahāmātra of Aśōka and the Vākāṭaka king Rudrasēna I thought it fit to incise their records there. In ancient times it must have extended to and perhaps included in its expanse the site of the modern village Dēoṭek where the inscribed slab was lying. TEXT
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(Line4) This (is) a special place of religious worship of Rājan Rudrasēna (I), born
in the family [of the Vākāṭakas].
1 The Name apperas Chikambar [i] in the earlier inscription.
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