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T. Bloch — Inscription of Maharaja Blwja I. 
[No. 4, 
as holding a mirror and water-jar (darpana and kalaga) in two of her 
left hands, both of which are among the attributes of this goddess. 
The language of the Inscription is Sanskrit. With respect to 
orthography, the same peculiarities re-occur here, as in the Dighwa- 
Dubauli and Bengal Asiatic Society’s Plates ; viz., the letter b is every¬ 
where expressed by the sign for v ; parambhagavati (or parambhu 0 ) 
stands for paramabhagavati (in lines e and k of the seal, and lines 4 
and 6 of the text) ; samvatsro , in the date (line 16), is written for 
samvatsara or samvatsaranam; anga is written for amga (in lines 10 
and 14). 
The Inscription opens with the well-known Genealogical list of 
Maharajas from Bevagakti down to Blwja ; the same pedigree, in exactly 
the same words, is repeated on the seal also, and may be seen, too, in 
the Dighwa-Dubauli and Bengal Asiatic Society’s Plates of Mahendra- 
pala and Vinayakapala. Thereafter, we learn, that the Maharaj a-Cri- 
Bhbjadeva, from his victorious camp, pitched up at Mahodaya (line 1) 
issued a command to his officials in the village Siva, belonging to the 
district ( visaya ) of Bendcanaka, which lay in the country of Gurjjarattrd 
{Gurjjarattrd-bhumau; lines 6 foil.), informing them that a certain 
Bhatta-Harsnka (line 8) had reported to him, that the above-named 
village (viz., Siva-grama) had been granted by the present King Bhoja’s 
great-grandfather, Maharaja Vatsaraja, (line 9 : parama-deva-padanam 
prupitdmaha, etc.,) to his (sc. Haisuka’s) grandfather, Bhatta Vdsudeva. 
This Vasudeva again by a special deed (pratigraha-pattrena) , had made 
over the sixth part of its revenues to a certain Bhatta Visnu (line 10). 
Maharaja Bhoja’s grandfather, the Maharaja Nagabhata, confirmed the 
original grant; but in the reign of the present King Blioja (deva-rajye, 
line 11), both the original grant ( gdsana) and the record of its being 
sanctioned by Nagabhata (anumati) had been lost. The Maharaja 
Bhoja, therefore, after he had come to know about the grant, its sanction, 
and enjoyment, consented that the said village should be enjoyed by the 
Brahmans, the descendants of Bliatta-Vasudeva, who belonged to the 
Kagyapa-gottra and were students of the Agvalayana-\_gakha\ of the Rg- 
veda, as well as by the Brahmans, the descendants of Bhatta Visnu, who 
belonged to the Katyayava-gottra and were students of the Aevuldyana- 
\_gakhci] of the Rg-veda, in the same way as it had been enjoyed before, 
and as the divison of the shares had been already settled (prdg-bhoga~ 
kramen=aiva yathdmgam, line 14). Then follows a ^loka (line luff.) 
which tells us that the 9asana was drawn up 1 by Prubhasa, and that 
1 This is the meaning of the word jprayukta according to Prof. Biihler’s sug¬ 
gestion; see Mr. Fleet’s note 9, Ind. Ant., Vol. XV, p. 107. The translation of the 
first line of the verse accordingly would be: “(This is the writing) of the long- 
enduring 9 asana, drawn up by Prabhasa.” 
