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[No. 2, 
Three Sanskrit Inscriptions . 
ytVf%<*nScrir VTC?[Vt mfcTT 
3JH 3TclT ***** **? <3NT ^JT^lfti* || ^ 0 
TWlfc Vftwm swlwi 
xrefHfV’fijmwf i 
This inscription i found in Udayaditya’s magnificent temple to 
S'iva, at Udayapura in Gwalior. It is engraved in a bold hand, on a 
thick slab of stone, now detached from its original setting, and once 
contained at least twenty-two lines of writing, twenty and a half of 
which I print. 
All that it has to communicate of value may be abstracted as 
follows. In the year 1229 of Vikramaditya, or A. D. 1172, the 
ruling sovereign was Ajayapala.J Somes'wara was his prime minister, 
general intendant of the royal signet, and governor of the twelve 
districts comprehended in Bhailla. At the time aforesaid,§ Luna- 
pasaka, a military officer appointed by Somes'wara, bestowed upon 
Yaidvan&tha, surnamed Avatya, the village of Umaratha, in Bhringa- 
rika. The donation was for religious uses, and was transacted at 
XJdayapura.|| Umaratha was bounded on the east by Naha ; on the 
south, by Yahidauga; on the west, by Deuli; and on the north, by 
* For this stanza, and its traditional history, see last year’s Journal pp. 
202 , 203, foot-note. There is an error in the end of its third quarter, as engraved 
and printed. A common reading for what is there corrupted is Tq-ppfj fz"5[* vrgif 
f If the verb in this sentence means “ratified,” or “counter-signed,” it is 
without any classical warranty. The proper name is not over-distinct. 
From the words * # * V^T?T, distinguishable after what is 
given above, I suspect that nothing is lost from the inscription, beyond a 
customary couplet, insisting, that its validity is not to be impugned on account 
of clerical deficiency or excess. 
X Leading ofi* his titles are words of which I can make nothing. A'madanahila 
may be a proper name. 
Devapala, who calls himself Raja, was reigning at Dhara in A. D. 1353. See 
this Journal, for 1859, pp. 1—8. A Raja Devapala has left his name carved in 
the Udayapura temple, with the date 1268 attached. If in S'aka, the time was 
A. D. 1346. Were Ajayapala and Devapala of the same family ? 
§ Circumstantially, on Monday, the third day of the light fortnight in Yais'a- 
kha. That day is called akshaya-iritiya and yugadi , as in the inscription. The 
term yugadi , “ beginning of a cycle,” is applied to four days in the year, the 
anniversaries of the commencements of the great cycles. The yugadi in question 
has reference to the satya yuga. 
|| The grant was, professedly, for the benefit of one Solana, of blessed memory, 
son of Yilhana, a Rajaputra, of the family of Muhila’uta. Solana and Vilhana 
may be supposed to have been father and grandfather of Lunapasaka. 
The donor* stipulates for the observance, in behalf of some unnamed idol, of 
ceremonies involving the ritual employment of sandal, flowers., incense, lights, 
and edibles. 
