गुप्त अभिलेख संग्रह (जे. एफ. फ्लीट - गुप्त सम्राटों एवं परवर्ती नरेशों के ऐतिहासिक पाषाण व ताम्रलेख)

150 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
5 ....... pâdayôr=ânamadbhiś=chûḍâratn-âṅśu-râji-vyatikara-śabalâ bhûmi-bhâgâḥ
kriyantê ||
6 ....... [âvar]jjana-klishṭa-mûrddhnâ chûḍâ-pushp-ôpahârair=Mmihirakula-
nṛipêṇ=ârchchitaṁ pâda-yugmaṁ ||
7 ....... [śrî]-Yaśôdharmmaṇ=âyaṁ stambhaḥ stambh-âbhirâma-sthira-bhuja-
parighêṇ=ôchchhritiṁ nâyitô=ttra ||
8 ....... [Yaśôdha]rmmaṇaś=chandra-bimbê râgâd=utkshipta uchchair-bhuja
iva ruchimân=yaḥ pṛithivyâ vibhâti l.
9 ....... [Ka]kkasya¹ sûnunâ || Utkîrṇṇâ² Gôvindêna ||
TRANSLATION.
[It is unnecessary to offer a translation of this fragment, as the contents of it are fully
explained by the translation of the entire copy, at page 147 above. It is sufficient to note
that we have the name of Yaśôdharman,³ complete in line 7, and partially preserved in
line 8; the name of Mihirakula, very clearly legible, in line 6; and, in line 9, the name
of Gôvinda, the engraver of the record.]

No. 35; PLATE XXII.

MANDASOR STONE INSCRIPTION OF YASODHARMAN AND VISHNUVARDHANA.

THE MALAVA YEAR 589.

THIS inscription, which I published, for the first time, in 1886, in the Ind. Ant.
Vol. XV. p. 222 ff., is from a stone-tablet, which, when shewn to me in 1885, was in the
possession of Sir Michael Filose, K.C.S.I., at Ujjain, but which had come originally from
an old well, somewhere in the lands of Mandasôr,⁴ or more properly Dasôr, the chief town
of the Mandasôr District of Scindia's Dominions in the Western Mâlwa division of Cen-
tral India, where it was found, in the course of repairs, built up with the inscribed surface
inside. I could obtain no accurate information on the point; but possibly this is a large
and ancient well, which immediately attracts attention, just inside the eastern entrance of
the Fort.
The stone is a smooth and beautifully engraved tablet, apparently of slate-stone, mea-
suring about 1' 11" broad by 1' 6¼" high and 2¾" thick. There are no sculptures on it,
connected with the inscription. But, on the back, which is divided into two compart-
ments by what seems to be either a spear with a curved handle, or a shepherd’s crook,
there are engraved in outline, very roughly,—at the upper corners, the sun on the proper
right, and the moon on the proper left; and, lower down, on each side, a man on horse-
back, facing towards the central dividing sculpture; the horseman on the proper right
side carries in his left hand either a chaurî or fly-flap made from the bushy tail of the Bos
Grunniens, or a śaṅkha or conch-shell; the other horseman carries something in his right
hand, but I could not distinguish the object. These sculptures were engraved, of course,
when the tablet was fixed in the position in which it was discovered, with the inscribed
¹ Metre, Ślôka (Anushṭubh).      ² Supply praśastiḥ.
³ See page 145 above, note 2      ⁴ See page 79 above, and note 1.