The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s11.53

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¹ This inscription has not been published yet. Mr. Rice, however, was kind enough to bring it to my notice, and to send an ink-impression of it for my perusal. One point of interest in this record is, that the characters are of the "box-headed" type, like those used in the Êran inscription of Samudragupta and in the Nachnê-kî-talâî and Siwanî Vâkâṭaka records (Gupta Inscriptions, pp. 18, 233, 243). The Koṇuûr inscription of Dâmôdara, noticed a little further on, is in the same characters. The only other record in "box-headed" characters in this part of the country, known to me, is a fragmentary inscription on a sculptured stone at a temple at Sangsî near Bâwaḍa, in the Kôlhâpur State. The sculpture represents a woman on a funeral pyre. And the inscription records that the stone was set up by a prince, whose name is broken away, in affectionate memory of his wife Pâlidêvî.