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F. Kielhom — Btjapur Inscription of Dhavala. 
[No. 4, 
impression, nearly the whole of the text may be made out with cer- 
tainty. The size of the letters is about §". The characters are Nagari ; 
they closely resemble, but look more modern than those of the Harsha 
inscription* of Vigraharaja of the Vikrama year 1030. The language 
is Sanskrit, and nearly the whole is in verse. Throughout, the inscrip- 
tion has been written and engraved with great care, and in respect of 
orthography it need only be stated that the letter b has generally ( not 
always) been denoted by the sign for v, and that the dental and palatal 
sibilants have sometimes been confounded. 
The inscription divides itself into two parts. The first part is a 
Prasasti of 41 verses which was composed by SIjryacharya (line 21), 
and which is dated (in lines 19 and 22) in the year 1053, on the 13th 
of the bright half of Magha, a Sunday, under the nakshatra Pushya, — 
corresponding, for the expired Vikrama year 1053, to Sunday the 24th 
January A. D. 997, when the 13th tithi of the bright half ended 7 h. 
5 m., and when the moon was in the nakshatra Pushya up to 21 h. 
40 m. after mean sunrise. The proper object of this Prasasti is, to re- 
cord the consecration by the Jaina sage S'antibhadra or S'antyacharya, 
who during the reign of a certain Dhavala lived at that prince’s capital 
Hastikundi or Hastikundika of an image of the Tirthamkara Rishabha- 
nathadeva, at a temple that had been founded at Hastikundi by Dha- 
vala s grandfather Vidagdha. But, as is usual in such cases, what is 
more valuable to us is the genealogy of the prince Dhavala which is 
given by way of introduction in lines 2—6, and which contains some 
interesting references to princes who (with perhaps one exception) are 
known to us from other inscriptions. This genealogical part of the 
PraSasti will be considered below. 
The second part of the inscription, from line 23 to 32, is really 
quite an independent inscription, added on to the preceding - Prasasti 
because it records endowments that were made in favour of the same 
Jaina temple, or of a sage connected with it, by the father and grand- 
father of the prince Dhavala, mentioned above. This second inscrip- 
tion also (in line 23) opens with some verses on the genealogy of the 
rulers of Hastikundi. First there was a prince Harivarman. From 
him sprang the prince \ idagdha who was ‘a tree yielding every desire in 
the garden which was the illustrious Rashtrakuta race.’ And his son 
again was the illustrious Mammata. The inscription then records that, 
in the Vikrama year 973, Vidagdha made some donations in favour of 
a sage named Balabhadra, and that these gifts were largely added to by 
the prince Mammata in the Vikrama year 996. 
From the second inscription we learn, then, that the chiefs of 
* See Epigraphia Indica, Volt II. p. 120, plate. 
