Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c12.s2: Plate XXV. West (Kalyāṇa) Cālukya, 690-1 A. D.
Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c12.s2
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Plate XXV. West (Kalyāṇa) Cālukya, 690-1 A. D.
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(This is from an inscription somewhat later than that [*d*. 609] from which the alphabet on pl. iii. is taken, and the first page of which I gave as a specimen in the first edition; but as it is far better preserved and more correct³ and legible, I give first leaf instead from the excellent impression in the *Indian Antiquary*, vi., p. 86.) It illustrates the earlier and better kind of genealogy. Mr. Fleet has translated and commented on it.
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³ The endless errors in this document render it almost unintelligible. It must have been dictated to a lipikāra who did not understand it. These men seem to have been mere artizans, and not scholars.
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1. svasti. jayaty āvishkṛitam Vishṇoḥ vārāham xobitārṇṇavam; daxiṇonnatadam-
shṭrāgram viçrānta-
2. bhuvanam vapuḥ⁴. Çrīmatām sakalabhuvanasamstūyamānaMānavyagotrāṇām
3. Harītiputrāṇām saptalokamātṛibhis saptamātṛibhir abhivarddhitānām Kārttikeya-
pari-
4. raxaṇaprāptakalyāṇaparamparāṇām bhagavan Nārāyaṇaprasādasamā-
5. sāditavarāha lāñchanexaṇaxaṇavaçikṛitāçeshamahībhṛitām Calukyā-
6. nām kulam alaṅkarishṇor açvamedhāvabhṛithasnāna pavitrīkṛitagātrasya çrīPu-
7. lakeçivallabhamahārājasya sūnuḥ parākramākrānta Vanasāsyādiparahṛi-
8. patimaṇḍalapraṇibaddhaviçuddhakīrttiḥ Kīrttivarmmapṛithivīvallabhamahārā-[jas
tasyā 'tmajas *etc.*]
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⁴ This is a çloka.