An Unpublished Inscription of Maharaja Jagat Simha of Mewar

Summary

Agrawala edits an unpublished inscription of Maharana Jagat Simha of Mewar. Written in Nagari script on a rectangular black stone, the inscription has 26 lines of Sanskrit with some Mewari wordsfile:///home/oai/share/563033-1-398-185-288.pdf#:~:text=Nagari%20script%2C%20the%20language%20of,which%2016%20has%20been%20engraved. It opens with a salutation to Ganapati and recounts the genealogy of Udaipur rulers up to Jagat Simhafile:///home/oai/share/563033-1-398-185-288.pdf#:~:text=The%20existing%20inscription%20of%20M,Jagat%20Simha%20and%20his%20successors. Agrawala observes that contemporary eulogists used similar language across prasastisfile:///home/oai/share/563033-1-398-185-288.pdf#:~:text=inscriptions%20of%20the%20times%20of,same%20language%2018%20such%20matters. He notes that several verses (10–13) of this record were later incorporated into the Jagadisa temple prasasti; both inscriptions were composed by poet Laksmi Natha, son of Tailanga Krsna Bhattafile:///home/oai/share/563033-1-398-185-288.pdf#:~:text=244%20%E0%AB%AE%E0%AB%AA%20unpublished%20Inscription%20of,Jagdisa%20Prafasti%20of%20the%20same. The engraver made numerous spelling errorsfile:///home/oai/share/563033-1-398-185-288.pdf#:~:text=The%20engraver%20of%20the%20existing,several%20blunders%20in%20this%20direction. Agrawala provides the text and analysis, showing how the inscription contributes to understanding royal genealogy and literary practices in Mewar.