The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.237

v2.c29.s2.237

(4) *Karanbel stone-inscription.*—The stone which bears this inscription was found at Karanbel, now a heap of ruins, a few miles from Bheraghat near Jubbulpore in the C. P. Though the stone was found broken, 'hardly a single *akṣara* has been lost.' The inscription contains 25 lines; but it appears to have been left incomplete. 'For there is nothing in it to show why it was engraved, and we miss at the end the names of the author and the engraver which in a carefully executed inscription like the present one, had it been finished, would hardly have been omitted.' In consequence the inscription is also left undated. The record opens with *Oṁ namaḥ Śivāya*, and 6 verses invoking the blessings of Śiva, Gajanana, and Sarasvatī. The contents of the genealogical portion are 'almost identical with those of the introductory portion of the Bheraghat inscription of Alhaṇadevī.' Among the differences may be mentioned the following: (i) the (Gohila) Haṁsapāla is here called *Prāgvaṭeśvarapāla*; (ii) the (Paramāra) Udayāditya is called *Dhārādhīśa*; (iii) 'the genealogy is here ed from Yuvarājadeva II.' The inscription 'probably was intended to record the erection of a temple of Śiva.'²