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his brothers, a full detail of whose descent is given in No. XVIII, dated A. D. 

 1231: the date of this inscription must therefore be the same, as well as 

 its general tenor, and it would have been unnecessary to have particularised 

 it further, except for two circumstances. 



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The first, is its position under a groupe of Lingas, indicating its erection 

 by a worshipper of Siva^ in concurrence with which it opens with a Stanza, 

 the purport of which is the invocation of that deity. The object of the grant, 

 however, and the creed of the granters, are Jaina, and their connection with 

 the types, and formulae of the Saiva religion, presents a curious and unex- 

 pected amalgamation. 



The other peculiarity is the detail it gives of the r'oyal house of Guzerat. 

 As this forms the ground work of some observations, to be made generally 

 on the deductions derivable from the inscriptions, the passages are trans- 

 lated. 



The first verse is simply benedictory : of the second, the first half of the 

 Stanza is nearly complete, and contains the names Chola and ChauluJcya, as 

 well as what appears to be a proper name, MtJLA RAja ( ■^T^^^^gT'^f%{«T 

 T^TT%) The second half is wholly wanting, and may either contain a proper 

 name, or the epithets of the individual referred to in the first. The first part 

 of the Stanza is also deficient, but Chdmunda Rqjd (j^J'^^TyW^m,'^ W^"^) 

 plainly appears, after which the inscription then proceeds thus. 



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from him Vallabha Raja, the Lord of the sea shore, became the friend of the 

 ■world. 



4. After him Durlabha Raja enjoyed the world, acquired by the valour of his arm, 

 and after him Buima maintained the integrity of his kijigdora. 



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