1 838.] Facsimiles of Ancient Inscriptions. S7 



Transcript in Modern Devan&gari. 



tot wt fa^i ^^k 7ns fair 7<ff *?t£t ?nn?Eh 



ibreW ^TCfaft^fTO§T:TZTTTW *tf?f 3HTT * 



* The following errors of orthography are noted by the pandit : ap- 

 plying «f before ^ and JI in the second fourth lines. The insertion 

 of visarga in ^J^WKHt and ^rrE^fH" ^iWr for iftff : in the ninth line ; 

 the tst final of the tenth and eleventh lines, which should both be •!: 

 and *3nT ^r^T^l in the 10th which should be ^irj^^T^f. 



Translation. 



" In the month of Jyaistha, in the year one hundred and thirty-threef 

 after the decease^ of Sk and a Gupta, the chief of a hundred kings, 

 resembling Indra in his rule, possessed of the chiefest of riches, en- 

 joying far-spread reputation, born of the royal race of the Guptas, 

 whose earthly throne was shaken by the wind of the bowing heads of 

 a hundred kings. 



At this celebrated and precious village, sanctified in reverential at- 

 tachment by the inhabitants of Kakubharati§. 



The opulent Bhatti Soma was the son of Amila, the receptacle 

 of good qualities. His son was the very famous and talented Rudra 



f Lit. " The month JyestJia in the year thirty and two and one plus one 

 hundred, being arrived." 



X S?iantSh, of the repose, i. e. death. 



§ Written Kakubhahrati 3ffW TT<T^T«T^ (sic) : the meaning must be that 

 such was the name of the village ; and probably the modern Kuhaon may be & 

 corruption of the ancient appellation kakubha. 



