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F. Kielhorn — Bijapur Inscription of Dhavala. 
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Bijapur Inscription of iJliavoIo, of Uastihundi of the Vil't am a year 1053. 
(From the materials supplied by Munshi Deviprasad).-- By Professor 
F. Klelhorn, C. I. E., Gottingen. 
This inscription was discovered, more than fifty years ago, by 
Captain Burt, from whose rubbing fragments of the text and what 
professes to be a literal translation were published in Yol. X. pp. 819- 
821 of the Society’s Journal. The account, there given of its contents, 
is however quite worthless, and it is therefore fortunate that this docu- 
ment has lately been again brought to public notice by Munshi Devi- 
prasad of Jodhpur, a gentleman who takes great interest in the history 
and antiquities of his country. Munshi Deviprasad, in 1891, furnished 
the Society with an account of it which will be found in the Proceed- 
ings for 1892, pp. 2-3 ; and he has more recently sent in a fuller paper 
on the same subject, as well as an ink-rubbing of the inscription. 
These materials have been forwarded to me by the Philological Secre- 
tary, with the request that I should publish the text of the inscription. 
Although the rubbing sent to me does not enable me to do this as it 
ought to be done, I have great pleasure in giving here, after revision, 
the substance of Munshi Deviprasad’s notes, together with some extracts 
from the Sanskrit text ; and I trust that by doing so I may induce 
those who have access to the original inscription to furnish either my- 
self or some other scholar with carefully made impressions of it. 
According to local report the stone which bears this inscription 
was originally fixed* near the entrance of a solitary Jama temp'e 
which stands about two miles south of the village of Bijapur m the 
Bali- Glod war District of Marwar, among or close to the remains of the 
old town of Hatondi, the Hastikundi or Hastikundika of this inscrip- 
tion. From there it is said to have been removed, some years ago, to the 
Dharmsala of the Jaina community of Bijapur, where it was seen in 
1889 by Mr. Joshi Aidan, Inspector of the Historical Department of 
Marwar. That officer brought it to the notice of Munshi Deviprasad, 
and it is now probably at Jodhpur, having been made over to the charge 
of the Historical Department of Marwar. 
The inscription contains 32 lines of writing which cover a space 
of about 2'8§" broad by 1'4" high. Near the proper right margin, all 
the way down, the writing has suffered a good deal, apparently from 
exposure to the weather ; but otherwise the inscription is in a 
very fair state of preservation, and 1 have no doubt that, with a good 
* Captain Burt found the inscription “ in the interior of a gateway leading 
to Mandir, distant one lcos from Beejapoor, on the route from Odeypore to Sirohee 
near Mount Aboo.” See this Journal, Yol. X. p. 821. 
