Vol. VIII, No. 3.] Fhe Atapura Inscription. 8] 
[N.S.] 
a Brahmana in his habits and modes of life only. Thus his 
Brahmanism is believed to be unreal in the Vallabhi theory. 
Now to the so-called real Nagar-Brahmanism of the Ananda- 
pura theory, we have to say that it is accepted to be certainly 
and incontrovertibly real by its followers on the chief authority 
of this transcript and the corroborative evidence of the Achal- 
gadh inscription and Ekalinga-mahatmya No. I. 
proceed to examine these authorities and see what they really 
let us know on this most disputed point. The following are 
the couplets of these authorities :— 
I. Transcript of the Atapura epigraph— 
TEXT. 
qiazeucfatanafanqerieat AETSa | 
gata Pysed: Gua: BighesswsA pe | 
TRANSLATIONS. 
By Mr. D. R. Bhandarkar— _ 
‘« Triumphant is Sri-Guhadatta, the founder of the Guhila 
family, a Brahmana, and the delighter of the Brahmana 
family, emigrated from Anandapura.’’ 
GA. Ver XXXIX, Part XDV, p. 190.) 
Colonel Tod’s translation— 
‘‘From Anundpoor came he of Brahmin race (may he 
flourish) Mahee Deva Sri Goha Dit, from whom became famous 
on the earth the Gohil tribe.”’ 
(Tod’s Rajasthan, Vol. I, p. 706.) 
A Pandit’s translation— 
‘Triumphant is the king (Mahideva, literally lord of the 
earth) Sri-Guhadatta, the delighter of the Brahmana family 
(and) progenitor (prabhava) of the Guhila family, (who) came 
out from Anandapura. 
II. (Spurious) Ekalinga-mahatmya No. I. 
TEXT. 
gata auTaeye aMTPTASAT AEE | 
anatfenaqgaet fasratfeatfeat fas: 1 Ql 
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: EN 
acai gulag: afaty: | 
araeqraataa fargeaeat ABST | 
aafa asst: WHA Bigfeaas | S| 
