Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c14.s8.38

c14.s8.38

Lines 14–16: “That king caused to be constructed . . .”: I mostly follow the corrections of Fleet’s translation suggested by Bhandarkar, taking *kīrttanam* as ‘temple’ and reading verses 12 and 13 together as a *yugalaka*, with *yad* and *yasya* referring to *kīrttanam*. Unlike Bhandarkar, however, I take *nāma* not as an adverb (‘verily’), but as a noun referring to the temple which, it seems to be implied, was named after Elāpura (or perhaps after the architect?).