Object type: Stone slab

INIG1341d pauṣa badi 1 somavāra Sesaī Buzurg (Shivpuri). On a satī stone. 12 lines, nāgarī, Hindi. Mentions the death of rā˚ (rāuta) Malayadeva and his two wives in a cattle stealing incident during the time of mahārājādhirāja Gopāla during the administration of mahākumāra Jaitravarman. The name of the village is given as Sesaigrāma.

INIG1341c kārttika śudi 5 vu(bu)dhe Surwāyā (Shivpuri). On a slab. 25 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Records that in the time of Gopāladeva a well was constructed by the Sārasvata brāhmaṇa Īśvara of Sarasvatīpaṭṭana (i.e. Surwāyā). Composed by Somamiśra, traced on the stone by Gāṅgadeva and incised by sūtradhāra Ratana. The date is also given in the chronogram: eka abdhi rāmarūpa. Now in Archaeological Museum, Gwalior.

INIG1341a  Jyaiṣṭha śudi 4 śanivāra Sakarra (Guna). On a satī stone. 11 lines, nāgarī, Hindi. Mentions the name Rāmadeva.

INIG1340a Narwar (Shivpuri). On a slab in the wall of a house. 3 lines, old nāgarī, Hindi. Not legible.

INIG1339b Pachrāi (Shivpuri). On a tall satī stone to the east of the village. 9 lines, nāgarī, Hindi. Mentions Canderīdeśa. Broken and not fully legible.

INIG1339 pauṣa badi 10 guruvāra Narwar (Shivpuri). On a slab. 27 lines, old nāgarī, Sanskrit. Records the construction of a well (vāpī) and the planting of a garden (upavana) by Gaṅgadeva, son of Ajayadeva and minister (saciva) to Gopāladeva; also mentions Jayapāla or Jajapella, the progenitor of the Jajapella dynasty, who was brought forth at Ratnagiri by the goddess Mahāruṇḍā. Born in the Jajapella dynasty were Cāhaḍa (who captured Narwar or Nalagiri), his son Naravarman or Nṛvarman, his son Āsalladeva and his son Gopāla who defeated Vīravarman, lord of Jejabhukti.

The inscription was discovered in ruins of an ancient monastery belonging to the Jētavanārāma group, north of the Kūṭṭam-pokuṇa in Anurādhapura. It consists of 14 lines of Sanskrit prose engraved on a granite slab. It seems to be the second portion of a text. The first part must have been written on another slab, which has not been found. The inscription records rules for the guidance of monks and laymen living in within the precincts of the vihāra or in its lands. No date is given in the inscription but, according to Wickremasinghe, it is probably from the first half of the 9th century A.D.

INIG1338k Narwar (Shivpuri). On a slab. 22 lines, old nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions the construction of a well and the planting of some trees by kāyastha Āśāditya during the time of Gopāladeva of Narwar.

INIG1338j phālguna śudi 11 Narwar (Shivpuri). On a slab in the shrine near Hawā paur. Number of lines not given, nāgarī, corrupt Sanskrit. Records the installation of Viṣṇu and the perpetual obeisance of Nāgo and Suhagā, the wives of Acitamaḍalīka.