Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c14.s8.22

c14.s8.22

Line 1: *yena*: Read *dhāma*, as found in this verse in other Rāṣṭrakūṭa grants. Line 1: *samalaṁkṛtaṁ*: Read *kam alaṁkṛtam*, as in other inscriptions. Line 6: *nideśanaṁ*: The intended reading is probably *nidarśanam*, as in other Rāṣṭrakūṭa grants (e.g., EI 35, 278, l. 49). Line 9: *sadharmmā*: Fleet reads *sudharmmā*; Prinsep, correctly, has *sadharmmā*. Line 15: *kṛtrime*: Fleet corrects this to *kṛtrimam*, but the emendation does not seem necessary. Line 16: *vyavasāyahani*[r]: The intended reading may have been *-hāner*; R. G. Bhandarkar (*IA 12*, 229) so reads. Line 36: *śrīkakkarāja iti* [*saṁśritapūritāśaḥ?*]: This passage has been written over another text, by way of a correction, so that neither is clearly legible. The engraver of the plate appears to have skipped back and forth between this line and the next line in the archetype from which he was copying; traces of the phrase *prasūtir mṛtā durbhikṣam* from l. 37 seem to be visible under the revised text. The reading *saṁśritapūritāśaḥ* is confirmed by the same verse in another Rāṣṭrakūṭa grant (EI 35, 278, v. 46). Line 38: *pratāpavinatāśeṣārivarggas tathā*: Fleet corrects to *-vinato śeṣāri*-, but this is not absolutely necessary. Line 40: *tathānyam*: The *akṣara nya* was added below the *thā*. Line 40: [*anila*], [*asāram*]: These words, which are metrically necessary, are supplied from the usual form of the same verse in other Rāṣṭrakūṭa records; cf. EI 35, 279, v. 41 and n. 2. (Similarly below for *nṛpati* and *phala*, l. 56, and *bindu*, l. 65.) Line 50: *rājakīyānām*: *kī* was apparently corrected for an original *nī*. Lines 68–69: *svahasto . . . sutasya*: This portion is in a different hand, representing the king’s own signature. Lines 70–74: *ayam ca . . .*: The text from here to the end of the inscription is a later addition, written in very carelessly, so that the reading is uncertain in many places. (See also the translation notes on this portion.)