Fleet, John Faithful. Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings and Their Successors. Calcutta: Superintendent of Govt. Printing, 1888.

This inscription is too fragmentary for a connected translation to be offered. But we have to note the following points. Line 1 mentions the city of Kâśî; and line 2 apparently the god Puramdara, in connection with it. the passage lost between the last legible letter in line 2 and the first line 3, contained the name of a king, in connection with whom we perhaps have, at the commencement of line 3, a mention of the Madhyadêśa or Central Country. In his lineage, there was born “another” king Bâlâditya (l.3). In the family of the latter, there was born yet another Bâlâditya (l.3). His wife was Dhavalâ (l.4), who is compared with Rôhiṇî, the wife of the Moon, Gauri, the wife of Śûlapâṇi, and Lakshmî, the wife of Vâsudêva. Their son was the glorious Prakaṭâditya (l.6), whose virtues and prowess, including a comparison of him with the god Kârttikêya (l.9), are described in lines 7 to 10, apparently without the introduction of any further historical matter. Line 11 mentions the building of a temple of the god Muradvish. Line 14 contained some provision for the repairs of this temple. And line 16 gives us the name of Dêvaka, the son of Râmachandra, apparently as the engraver of the inscription.

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