52 Facsimiles of Inscriptions. [Jan 



The following version of several of the inscriptions was attempted by 

 Lieut. Madden's pandit at Ajmir. The first being intended for that 

 represented in the plate. 



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Whatever may be the correctness of the rest, the plate specimen cer- 

 tainly does not accord with the pandit's version as to the name of the 

 image, which is clearly Prajitdndth, one of the 24 Jain saints : another is 

 as evidently Mallindtha pratima karapitd ' the image of Mallina'_ 

 tha was caused to be made,' — and doubtless the whole would be found 

 \n any list of the Jain Tirthankaras (see Useful Tables 87). Pdrswa- 

 natha, Varddharndna, Vdsupddya, and Chandraprabhd of this list 

 are found in the present inscriptions. The inscriptions are couched in 

 the Prakrit dialect, and their chief merit is in being specimens of the Jain 

 character of the 12th century. I read the line, in the Plate thus : 



Sam. 1239 Pha. sudi 4, Sukre ; sadhuvdha-achdryyamadana Sri 

 Putra pandu (?) Idhadena, Prajitandtha pratima kdrdpitd" 



