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1861.] Decipherment of an Inscription from Ckedi. 
One Rudras'ambhu was a devotee at Kadambagulia. Among his 
disciples was Mattamaydranatha, who was religious guide to a 
chieftain called Avanti.* A line of holy personages is named, as 
having followed Mattamayuranatha’s successor Dharmas'ambhu : 
Sadiis'iva, Madhumateya or Sudhaman, Chudas'iva, and Hridayas'iva. 
The last was in the service of Raja Rakshmana, who entrusted to 
him the temple aforesaid. From Hridayas'iva it passed into the 
custody of Sadhuvrinda, disciple of Aghoras'iva.f 
S'ankaragana and his younger brother are dismissed, by the in- 
scription-writer, with nine stanzas of vague encomium. $ 
Equally in inscriptions from the west, and in the one under abstract, 
which was discovered not far from the !N armada, we encounter the 
very uncommon names of Kokalla and S'ankaragana, § where the 
kings of Chedi are in question. There can scarcely, then, any longer 
be doubt, that it is one and the same royal family which all those 
memorials have in reference. 
The first three kings of our inscription are panegyrized, in it, we 
are told, by S'rinivasa, son of Sthirananda ; and the remaining three, 
by Sajjana, son of Shfra.|| The compiler and supplementor of their 
labours seems to have been Rajas'ekhara. 11 this was the dramatist, 
a matter of some curiosity, in a literary point of view, now approaches 
its solution.^ 
Towards its conclusion, the inscription is much worn. Something 
is wholly abraded; and much more is impracticable of confident 
decipherment. The names of Tripun, Saubhagyapura, Lavananagara, 
* His full name was Avantivarman. Tlie meaning of the forty-ninth stanza I 
could never hare made out rightly, but for the aid of another inscription, m 
which we read of Kadambagulia, the town of Mattarnayura, and its master as just 
specified Avantivarman gave to an unnamed monastic a piece of ground m Mat. 
tamavura ; and the monastic, from that time forward, was called Mattarnayura. 
natlia, — a title, more properly, of Ids benefactor. See this Journal tor 1847, 
pp. 1080—1084; and Sir H. M. Elliot’s Biographical Index, Sfc., Vol. 1., p. 38, 
fourth foot-note. . , . , 
+ See stanzas 48—58. The pious folk here remembered, most likely enjoyed 
but a local celebrity. An Aghoras'iva is quoted in the Sarva-dars' ana-sangraha, . 
in the chapter on the tenets of the S-'aiva sectaries. Sadas'iva is an appellation 
not at all unusual. Quite probably, Sadhuvrinda is not a proper name. 
t Stanzas 63 — 72. . 
S See the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Yol. III., p. 95, 1 twelfth and 
fourteenth stanzas ; also the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic 
Society, Vol. IV., p. 111. At p. 203 of Vol. III., Part 11., we read ot one 
Buddharaja, — as he should have been called,— son of a S ankaragana. 
|| Perhaps, Dhira. See stanzas 77, 78. 
*|[ This topic I shall recur to in my next contribution to these pages. 
