Person: Michael WILLIS

INIG1122 Pachrāi (Shivpuri). On slab in a shrine of Śāntinātha. 8 lines, nāgarī, corrupt Sanskrit. Mentions one Harirāja and his son Raṇamāla (i.e. Raṇapāla). Begins with a verse in praise of Śāntinātha; refers to Bālacaṁdra, the disciple of Subhanaṁdi belonging to Kuṁdakuṁdasaṁtāna and Deśikagaṇa. Mentions the ruler Raṇapāla and his forbears Harirāja and Bhīma. Gives the genealogy of a person named Maheśvara belonging to Parapāṭānvaya. His son was [De]vi and his son was Rājana, who is stated to have made the kīrtti. At end mentions two goṣṭhikas one of which was Jasahaḍa.

INIG1120 māgha śudi 3 śukravāra Sakarra (Guna). On a satī stone. 4 lines, nāgarī, Hindi. Not legible.

INIG1118 Chitārā (Sheopur). On a pillar. 3 lines, nāgarī, Prakrit. Not legible.

INIG1107 māgha śudi 11 [5?] Pārolī  (Morena). On a temple door in Satmaḍhī group. 2 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Pilgrim record mentioning two female devotees named Kuṁdaṇa and Diūdhārā.

INIG1106 Shivpuri (Shivpuri). On a black marble slab lying in the forest near a ruined Vaiṣṇava temple west of Shivpuri. Particulars not given. Records the construction of the temple in the time of Vijayapāla Kacchapaghāta.

INIG1100 Budhi Chanderi (Guna). On a slab kept in the sculpture shed at Chanderi. Number of lines not given, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Records a praśasti of the Śaiva ācārya Prabodhaśiva, the disciple of another ascetic (name lost) who belonged to the lineage of the Śaiva ascetic Dharmaśambhu. Composed by Daśaratha.

INIG1000 Lakhārī  (Guna). On the door of a ruined Śiva temple. 2 lines, old nāgarī, corrupt Sanskrit. Pilgrim

record giving three names. Date is unclear; by saṁvatsara sateṣu 100 -10 sahasreṣu perhaps the writer’s intention was 1000.

INIG1098 Bārā (Shivpuri). Fragment of a large slab inscription. 8 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Records the construction
of a temple of Viṣṇu (Garuḍāsana), a list of merchants involved in the work, and the name of the sūtradhāra Sthirārkka and poet Nārāyana. Now in Archaeological Museum, Gwalior.

INIG1086  …śudi 11 Chanderi (Guna). On the pedestal of a broken image near the rest house in the fort. Number of lines not given, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Appears to record the making of the image; mentions a certain sha(kha)trī Ratanadeva. A Garuḍa figure is carved in the middle of the inscription.

INIG1082 [bhadrapada ?] badi 5 Tongrā (Shivpuri).On an image of Nṛsiṃha. 17 lines, old nāgarī, Sanskrit. Describes the construction of a Viṣṇu temple; damaged. Now in the Archaeological Museum, Gwalior.