The Nachnā-kī-talāi stone inscription was located in 1883-84 by Alexander Cunningham. The inscription is inscribed on two sides of a loose slab which was found on the ground outside the fort of Kuṭhārā. The inscription is identical to the one found at Ganj. The inscription records the meritorious action of Vyāghradeva who is described in the inscription as meditating upon the feet of Pṛthivīṣeṇa. It has not been definitively proven whether the inscriptions refer to Pṛthivīṣeṇa I or Pṛthivīṣeṇa II. It is assumed that Vyāghradeva was a feudatory or officer under the Pṛthivīṣeṇa mentioned in the inscription.

Bibliographic information

First reported with transcript and facsimile (Plate 27) in ASIR 21: 97-98. Edited in Fleet 1888, re-edited in Mirashi 1963. Discussed in Shastri 1997: 5-6 and 55-65. Further references to discussions in Mirashi 1963: 89. See also PRAS-W 1920, Dikshit 1923-24, Ramdas 1926-27 and Dubreiul 1927-28.

Inscription Concordance

ASIR 21 (1885) 97-98

Fleet (1888) 233-235, no. 54

PRAS-W (1920) 45

Dikshit (1923-24) 362

Ramdas (1926-27) 228-231

Dubreiul (1927-28) 259

Bhandarkar (1929) 241, no. 1709

Mirashi (1963) 89-92, no. 21

Shastri (1997) 5-6, 55-65