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28. Safichi Inscription of Sridharavarmman. 
By N. G. Masumpar, M.A., Lecturer, University of Calcutta. 
This inscription comes from the village of Kanakheda, 
near Safichi, in the Bhopal State. and is now in the Satichi 
Museum of Archeology.! It has been edited by Mr. R. D. 
anerji,” in Epigraphia Indica, Vol XVI, pp. 230-33. I first 
read the inscription in 1918 from two ink impressions kindly 
made accessible to me by Dr. Bhandarkar. I have now read 
it over again, and compared the published text with the 
reproduction accompanying Mr. Banerji’s article, as well as 
with the two aforesaid impressions, which are in the Are 
logical Section, Indian Museum. I have to thank Mr. Chanda 
for having placed them at my disposal for the second time and 
thus enabling me to re-edit the inscription. 
It consists of 6 lines of writing, which covers a space of 
2’22” by 64”. The size of such letters as k, vy and / varies 
a) 
Southern features,’ e.g., the peculiar type of medial 7 shooting 
upwards ; k, r, and / with elongated verticals (e.g. in vejayike 
and samvatsare, 1. 2, and bahulasya, 1. 3); a similar elonga- 
tion in the case of p and 4 when medial u or @ ave added to 
them (e.g. in sambuddhaya& and pirvvakam, 1. 3); the use of 
the archaic type of m; and the rather ornamental treatment 
of the subscript y and 7 (e.g. in-adhigamya, 1. 4. and Sridhara, 
1.6). There is one instance of final m in siddham occurring 



! See Catalogue of the Saichi Museum (1922), p. 33 (A. 98), where it 
follows: ‘‘ Inscribed stone (length 26”; high 9”) from 
Tod. guage is Sanskrit considerable ion of the 
©pigraph is defaced. It records the digging of a well by one Mahadanda- 
nayaka Saka Stidharavarman, son of Saka Nanda.”’ 
or earlier references see his Progress Report, ASI. WC., 1917-18, 
919-20, p. 53. 
f. the alphabet of Jaggayapeta inscriptions, Biihler, Ind. Pal. 
(Trans.), p. 43; Chanda, ‘‘Some unpublished Amaravati inscriptions, 
me ol. XV, p. 67, No. 27 ; Majumdar, Cinna inscription of Sti-Yajfia 
Satakarni, J.4.S.B., 1990, p. 327 and pl.; and Kielhorn, Talagunda 
Pillar inscription, B7., Vol. VIII, p. 24 and pl. 
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