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ii. -ty-esa maiuil Bhuyal = lokos mita-Srih para-krta-sukrtaih palane raksane ca tat = 

 karttavyam bhavadbhih sthiravamala-gunah sydnnivdya-yathdyam \\ Sad—vrtt- 

 = amala-vr- 



12. -ttibhih sphuiataram jatadaraih sarvvatah sarvvan = eta[n] bliaviiia[h] pdrthivendrd 



bhiiyo bhuyo jacaty=esa mauni sdmdny = oyam dhavmma-$etur=ndrdn [dm] kale 

 kale pa- 



13. -laneyo bhavadbhih [||J Vydhgandrya-valiis=tapodhana-janaih sthdtavyam = atr = 



a§rame \ Ity=etat = vratadharibhiv = niyamitam bhuydd=yathd-ndnyathd \ Kart- 

 tavyam tad — ih =dmalam pri- 



14. -yatamair = viprair = Gaydvasibhih 1! Sphuratu kirttir = iyam guna-Mlinl sakala 



-satva-Jiit-odaya-hetave tapati ydvad = ayam bhuvi bhaskaro himaka- 



15. -vena sah=dmala-didliitih , Sri-Ndrdyanapaladeva iti prdpt-odayo bhupatih 



bhuto bhumi bhuja [m] Sirobhir-amala yasy-ocita [m] Sdsanam rdjnas = ta- 



16. -sya gun-amalasya mahatah samvatsare saptame V aiSakhyam Subha-sambhrtena 



vidhina labdha pratisthita-matha . 



The language of the inscription is very incorrect Sanskrit , like that of the Buddhist 

 Sanskrit manuscripts of Nepal, and the record itself has been very carelessly incised. 

 The purpose of the inscription is to record the erection of a monastery for Brahmahi- 

 cal ascetics by a man named Bhandadeva in the seventh year of the king Narayana- 

 paladeva, in the month of Vaisakha. It opens with an invocation to Visnu, in his 

 Man-lion (Narasimha) incarnation and curiously enough it is at present outside the 

 small temple of Narasimha, in the courtyard of the Visnupada temple, which, as we 

 shall see later on, was certainly built during the reign of Nayapaladeva. It may 

 mean however that the small temple of Narasimha was built by Bhandadeva near 

 the monastery and was rebuilt during the time of Nayapaladeva. The genealogy of 

 the builder is given as follows: — 



VAMADEVA, 



married VallabhadevI, 



I 



I 

 SIHADEVA, 



I 



I 

 VAPPADEVA, 



I 

 BHANDADEVA. 



Another small inscription of Narayanapala was found by Pandit Vinoda Vihari 

 Vidyavinoda of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, in the Inscription gallery of that 

 Museum. He has published it in the journal of the Vaiigiya Sahitya Parishad. 1 

 It is incised on a long piece of carved stone, probably the portion of a pedestal. 

 Most probably it came with the other sculptures from the Bihar Museum founded by 

 Mr. Broadley, when that collection was shifted to Calcutta, according to the direc- 



1 Vangiya Sahitya-parishad-Patrika, Vol. XV, p. 13. 



