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M. M. Chakravarfci — hiscription of Nayapdila Diva. 
[No. 2, 
An Inscription of the time of Nayapala Deva, from the Rrsna-dvariJcH> 
Temple at Gaya. — By Babu Monmohan Chakeavarti, M.A., B.L., 
M.B.A.S. 
[Read April, 1899.] 
This inscription is on a stone slab fixed in the right gateway of the 
Krsna-dvarika temple in Graja town. The present temple with its 
image of Kishenji was built 70 or 80 years ago by a Gayawal Brahmin, 
Daraodar Lai Dhokri. But it has been evidently set up on an old site 
on which had stood a temple containing images of gods Krsna and 
Mahadeva. The inscription was first brought to public notice by 
General Cunningham, and a facsimile was printed in the Archaeological 
Survey Report of India, Vol. Ill, Plate XXXII. Dr. Rajendra Lai 
Mittra tried to decipher it, but did not succeed, (see the Proceed- 
ings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, August 1879), I edit the text 
from two fairly good ink impressions taken by Babu Parame 9 vara 
Dayal, Court of Wards’ Head Clerk, Gaya. I have had also the 
advantage of consulting the original in cases of doubtful readings. 
The writing consists of 18 lines and covers a space of 2' 4"x 1' 0". 
The letters are well cut, and where entire are legible. But in many 
lines the letters are more or less damaged, particularly in the 4th, and 
7th to 14th lines. The large number of damaged letters has caused 
much difihculty in decipherment. In size the letters are 
The written characters are of the type known as Kutila. The Matras 
(the top horizontal lines) are in full swing; the marks of medial vowels 
e and 5 are pendent from the top lines as in modern Bengali and Oriya ; 
and the conjunct consonants including those of g and n are carefully 
engraved.^ 
The inscription is in Sanskrit, and excepting the invocation at the 
beginning, is in verse throughout. The verses are twenty-one in number 
and are in various metres. The orthography shows little peculiarity. 
1 These peculiarities I have observed also ia another Gaya inscription of 
the time of Nayapala Deva (Qn-Nayapdla-deva-nr>pate rdjya-griyam lihhratah 
1. 14). This inscription of 15 lines does not appear to have been published yet. 
