INIG1183 Chait Inscription of VS 1183

Author: M. B. Garde

INIG1183 māgha śudi 5 Chait (Gwalior). On a pillar in the ruins of a Jaina temple. 6 lines, old nāgarī, Sanskrit. Damaged and not legible.

Uploaded on November 6, 2017
October 19, 2019
INIG1182 Chait Inscription of VS 1182

Author: M. B. Garde

INIG1182 Chait (Gwalior). On a pillar. 6 lines, old nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions some Jaina worthies; only the name Vijayasena is legible.

Uploaded on November 6, 2017
October 19, 2019
INIG1161 Gowalior Fort Inscription of VS 1161

Author: Alexander Cunningham

INIG1161 māgha śudi 6 Gwalior fort (Gwalior). From a Śiva temple. 9 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Fragmentary inscription mentioning the Kacchapaghāta rulers Bhuvanapāla, Devapāla, his son Padmapāla and Mahīpāla. Records that Manoratha, a Māthura kāyastha, was married to Bhāvā (?) and that he was a servant of Bhuvanapāla. Their son was Mānicandra and he built a temple of Śiva (Smarārāti) and some other gods. Further recounts that Mānicandra was married to Rāsagati and that their sons were Madhusūdana and Āśācandra. The later (i.e. Āśācandra) built the present temple of Hara. Composed by the Jaina sage Yaśodeva. Now in the State Museum, Lucknow.

Uploaded on November 6, 2017
October 19, 2019
INIG1152 Dubkund Inscription of VS 1152

Author: M. B. Garde

INIG1152 vaiśākha śudi 5 Dubkund (Sheopur). On the base of pādukā in a Jaina temple. 4 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions double pādukā of Kāṣṭhasaṁgha mahācāryavarya śrī Devasena.

Uploaded on November 6, 2017
October 18, 2019
INIG1145 Dubkund Inscription of VS 1145

Author: Alexander Cunningham

INIG1145 bhādrapada śudi 3 Dubkund (Sheopur). On a slab from the ruins of a Jaina temple. 61 lines, old nāgarī, Sanskrit. Genealogy of Kacchapaghāta mahārāja Vikramasiṁha. Arjunasiṁha, son of Yuvarāja, killed Rājyapāla (of Kannauj) at the insistence of Vidyādhara, the Candella ruler at Khajurāho. The son of Arjuna was Abhimanyu (in the time of Bhoja) and the son of Abhimanyu was Vijayapāla and that of Vijayapāla was Vikramasiṁha. Composed by Vijayakīrti son of Śāntiṣeṇa written by Udayarāja and incised by Tīlhaṇa. Now in the Archaeological Museum, Gwalior.

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October 18, 2019
INIG1132a Pachrāi Inscription of VS 1132a

Author: M. B. Garde

INIG1132a Pachrāi (Shivpuri). On a pillar in one of the Jaina temples. 6 lines, nāgarī, corrupt Sanskrit. The inscription is broken.

Uploaded on November 6, 2017
October 15, 2019
INIG1034 Sihoniyā Inscription of VS 1034

Author: Michael WILLIS

INIG1034 Sihoniyā (Morena). On a Jaina sculpture. 2 lines, old nāgarī, Sanskrit. Second line obliterated; mentions
mahārājādhirāja Vajradāman (Kacchapaghāta).

Uploaded on November 6, 2017
September 27, 2019
INIG1013 Sihoniyā Inscription of VS 1013

Author: Michael WILLIS

INIG1013 Sihoniyā (Morena). On the pedestal of a Jaina figure (near Ambikādevī temple). 1 line, old nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions Mahendracandra.

Uploaded on November 6, 2017
September 27, 2019
OBIG1555 Rakhterā (रखतेरा or Rakhetrā, Ashoknagar, Madhya Pradesh). Rock-niche with inscription of VS 1555

Author: Anon.

A rock-cut niche with sacred feet and inscription above, part of the cave complex at Bhiyāṃdāṃt, with a large image of Ādinātha, and other images of Śiva, Varāha, and Brahmā.

Community: Malwa epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
January 18, 2019
INIG1555 Rakhetra rock-cut inscription of VS 1555

Author: Peter Flügel

INIG1555 Rakhterā (रखतेरा or Rakhetrā, Ashoknagar, Madhya Pradesh). Rock-cut inscription of VS 1555 above foot prints near a large rock-cut image of Ādinātha at the site known as Bhiyāṃdāṃt. Working transcription (01/2019)

[line 1] saṃvat 1555 varṣe phāguṇa-sudi 2 śukra-vāsare revatī-nakṣatre mālavaka-deśe kṣa-
[line 2] laj[ī]-vaṃśe suritrāṇa gyāsu[d]īna-vijaya-rāj[ye]…
[line 3] śrī vinaya [?śeraṣā-pratāpe śrī rājamaṇe śrī malayacaṃdasūri ś[iṣya]° u[pādhyāya]° [ke]śarva-
[line 4] (ddha) śi[ṣya]° u[pādhyāya]° śrī mānikasuṃdara śi[ṣya]° u[pādhyāya]° śrī viśālarājasya pādukā kā-
[line 5] (rāvitā) śi[ṣya]° munirājena śreyas tu[leṇa] ra(ṇaśvata) 1111 ii ra | (sākṣāt) ||

Community: Malwa epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
January 18, 2019