Indian Epigraphy c13.248

c13.248

¹ *Ep. Ind.*, Vol. III, p. 343; text lines 55-57; etc. Sometimes the first half becomes the second and we have *Rāmabhadraḥ* (or the name of the donor—ibid., Vol. XXVIII, p. 283, text line 35) for *Rāmacandraḥ*, *krameṇa* (ibid., Vol. XXIX, p. 9, text line 55) for *bhavadbhiḥ*, and *dattvā bhūmiṁ* (ibid., Vol. XXXII, p. 76, text line 36) for *sarvān=etān*. We have also *prārthayaty=eṣa Rāmaḥ* in the last quarter (ibid., Vol. VI, p. 62, verse 34). In some cases, we have the first half as: *Bho rājānaḥ prārthayaty=eṣa Rāmo bhūyo bhūyo prārthaniyā narendrāḥ* followed by *sāmānyo='yaṁ*, (ibid., Vol. XXXI, p. 288, text line 27) or as: *Sarvān=eva prārthayaty=eṣa Rāmo bhūyo bhūyo bhāvinaḥ pārthivendrān*, and *rakṣaṇiyaḥ for pālaniyaḥ* in the second half (*Ep. Carn.*, Vol. III, Md. No. 113). For *setur=narāṇām*, *sve sve kāle for kāle kāle*, and *bhūmi-pālān for pārthivendrān*, see Chhabra, *Antiquities of Chamba State*, II, p. 178. For *Sāmānyo='yaṁ dāna-dharmaḥ*, *sve sve kāle*, see *Ind. Ant.*, Vol. VI, pp. 195, 202. *Ep. Carn.*, Vol. V, Arsikere No. 90, gives *etān=sadyo for sarvān=etān*. In the Kalasan (Java) inscription of *Śaka* 700, the stanza reads *Sarvān=ev=āgāminaḥ pārthivendrān=bhūyo bhūyo yācate rājasimhaḥ | sāmānyo='yaṁ dharma-setur=narāṇām*, etc. (Chatterjee and Chakravarti, *India and Java*, p. 46). The *Skanda Purāṇa*, op. cit., verse 40, has it as: *Dattvā bhūmiṁ bhāvinaḥ pārthiveśān=bhūyo bhūyo yācate Rāmacandraḥ | sāmānyo='yaṁ dharma-setur=nṛpāṇāṁ sve sve kāle pālaniyo bhavadbhiḥ ||* See No. 118.