126 Three Sanskrit Inscriptions. [No. 2, 



TSTTfe Tlfawraj STPERf*TT XTF^^ | 



This inscription I found in Udayaditya's magnificent temple to 

 S'iva, at Udayapura in Gwalior. It is engraved in a bold Land, on a 

 thick slab of stone, now detached from its original setting, and once 

 contained at least twenty-two lines of writing, twenty and a half of 

 which I print. 



All that it has to communicate of value may be abstracted as 

 follows. In the year 1229 of Vikramaditya, or A. D. 1172, the 

 ruling sovereign was Ajayapala.J Somes'wara was his prime minister, 

 general intendant of the royal signet, and governor of the twelve 

 districts comprehended in Bhailla. At the time aforesaid,§ Luna- 

 pasaka, a military officer appointed by Somes'wara, bestowed upon 

 Vaidyanatha, surnamed Avatya, the village of Umaratha, in Bhringa- 

 rika. The donation was for religious uses, and was transacted at 

 Udayapura. || Umaratha was bounded on the east by Naha ; on the 

 south, by Yahidauga ; on the west, by Deuli ; and on the north, by 



* For this stanza, arid its traditional history, see last year's Journal pp. 

 202, 203, foot-note. There is an error in the end of its third quarter, as engraved 

 and printed. A common reading for what is there corrupted is ^XfTT f«T=f ^T?F 



f If the verb in this sentence means "ratified," or " counter-signed," it is 

 without any classical warranty. The proper name is not over-distinct. 



From the words ^j; ^f^j^-^ * * * ^j^ffT, distinguishable after what is 

 given above, I suspect that nothing is lost from the inscription, beyond a 

 customary couplet, insisting, that its validity is not to be impugned on account 

 of clerical deficiency or excess. 



X Leading off his titles are words of which I can make nothing. A'madanahila 

 may be a proper name. 



Devapala, who calls himself Raja, was reigning at Dhara. in A. D. 1353. See 

 this Journal, for 1859, pp. 1 — 8. A Raja. Devapala has left his name carved in 

 the Udayapura temple, with the date 1268 attached. If in S'aka, the time was 

 A. D. 1346. Were Ajayapala and Devapala of the same family? 



§ Circumstantially, on Monday, the third day of the light fortnight in Vais'a- 

 liha. That day is called aleshaya-triliyd and yugddi, as in the inscription. The 

 term yugddi, " beginning of a cycle," is applied to four days in the year, the 

 anniversaries of the commencements of the great cycles. The yugddi in question 

 has reference to the saiya yuga. 



|| The grant was, professedly, for the benefit of one Solana, of blessed memory, 

 son of Vilhana, a Eajaputra, of the family of Muhila'uta. Solana and Vilhana 

 may be supposed to have been father and grandfather of Lunapasaka. 



The donor stipulates for the observance, in behalf of some unnamed idol, of 

 ceremonies involving the ritual employment of sandal, flowers, incense, lights, 

 and edibles. 



