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The Ramtek Inscriptions II: The Vākāṭaka inscription in the Kevala-Narasiṃha Temple

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Hans Bakker  and
Harunaga Isaacson
Hans Bakker
Affiliation:
University of Groningen
Harunaga Isaacson
Affiliation:
University of Groningen
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In The Ramtek Inscriptions [I] (hereafter RI) mention was made of a Vākāṭaka inscription in the Kevala-Narasiṁha temple on Ramtek Hill, the discovery of which was reported in IAR, 1982–83, 137. The credit for first discussing, as well as editing the text goes to the Director of the Archaeological Survey and Museums of Maharashtra, Dr. A. P. Jamkhedkar. In an article which appeared in 1986 in R. Parimoo (ed.), Vaiṣṇavism in Indian arts and culture (pp. 335–41), Jamkhedkar attributed the inscription to Prabhāvatī Guptā (op. cit., 340), an attribution for which he adduced arguments in a subsequent article that was published in M. S. Nagaraja Rao (ed.), Kusumāñjali, vol. i in 1987 (pp. 217–23).

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 46 - 74
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