The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.112

v2.c28.112

(1) *Khajraho stone-inscription.*—The stone which bears this inscription is said to have been discovered in the ruins at the base of the Lakṣmaṇa-temple at Khajraho. It consists of 28 lines and contains 49 verses in fluent and correct Sanskrit. It opens with adoration to the holy Vāsudeva' and then invokes the god Vaikuṇṭha. Next follows the account of the rise of the Candrātreyas from the Sage Atri. The genealogy is traced from Nannuka to Dhaṅga The inscription is mainly concerned with the *praśasti* of Yaśovarman, who constructed a splendid home of Viṣṇu and set up in it an image of Vaikuṇṭha, which he received from the *Hayapati* Devapāla (Vs. 23-43). The last 6 verses give an account of Dhaṅga; and then comes the date (V.) S. 1011 (A. D. 953-54) and the name of Vināyakapāla ‘protecting the earth.’ It ends with ‘adoration to the holy Vāsudeva! adoration to the sun.’ The inscription was composed by the *Kavi* Mādhava and written by ‘the *Karaṇika Gauḍa* Jaddha who was *Saṁskṛta-bhāṣāvidvas*.¹