24 EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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V.— INSCRIPTIONS FROM NORTHERN GUJARAT.
By J. Kirste, Ph.D., Vienna.
The subjoined inscriptions collected by Mr. H. Cousens, in Gujarat, were entrusted to me for decipherment by Professor Buhler, who assisted me with his advice. They were found in the following places : —
1. Bhilri (Nos. i— iii), 6. Roho (xii — xvi), 2. Dilmal (iv — vii), 7. Sarotra (xvii — xxvi), 3. Mandal (viii), 8, Sonak (xxvii, xxviii), 4. Munjpur (ix), 9. Tarahga (xxix). 5. Palanpur (x, xi),
All are written in Devanagari characters, with the exception of No. viii, where the first six lines are in Arabic and the last in Gujarati. They are mostly injured and defaced. The language is a crude mixture of Sanskrit and Gujarati. Hence the readings are not always certain, and I am not sure that I have succeeded in fully making out the sense of all.
The generally interesting information which they furnish may be arranged under the following heads : —
1. — They yield some notice of the political history of Gujarat. No. viii furnishes a date from the reign of Sultan Ahmad and the names of his father Sultan Muhammad, and of his grandfather Sultan Muzaffar Shah. It also mentions a Malik Kamachanda, who seems to have been the Musalman governor or minister in charge of Mamdali (the modern Mandal) in the Viramagam Taluka, and that of a local chief called Ranaka(?). No. xi records the death of a Rajput, possibly a local chief Vanaraja, of the Gedia family, in Sam vat 1282. Nos. xvii — xix speak of two local
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