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.
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| Inscription ID | IN00199 |
| Title | Nachna Inscription of Vyaghradeva |
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| Parent Object | OB00185 |
| Related Inscriptions | IN00198 IN00200 |
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| Author | Dániel Balogh |
| Print edition recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Edition improved by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for | Own research. |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Language | संस्कृतम् |
| Reigning monarch | Pṛthivīṣeṇa I or Pṛthivīṣeṇa II |
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| Topic | records the meritorious action of Vyāghradeva who is described in the inscription as meditating upon the feet of Pṛthivīṣeṇa |
| Date: | |
| Min | 350 |
| Max | 499 |
| Comment | Basis of dating: palaeography, conjecture. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 5 |
| Description | southern box-headed |
| Layout | |
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| Width | 53 |
| Height | 33 |
| Description | Four somewhat irregular lines, with an engraved wheel near the centre. All quite badly damaged. Character size is an estimate. |
| Decoration | An eight-spoked wheel is carved near the centre of the inscription, occupying the width of about 3 characters in line 2. Given the way line 1 curves above the wheel, this figure may have been engraved before the inscription. |
| Bibliography | |
| References | 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. |
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| Misc notes | IN00198 is an incomplete version of the same inscription on the same stone; IN00200 is a complete version on another stone found nearby. |