Saturday, March 28, 2015

Serpentine inscriptions at Kamāl Maula Mosque


Serpentine inscriptions giving grammatical rules of the Sanskrit language found by K. K. Lele at Kamāl Maula Mosque in Dhār,Madhya Pradesh.

In 1903, K. K. Lele, Superintendent of Education in the Princely State of Dhār, found a Sanskrit and Prakrit inscription from the time of Arjunavarman in the walls of the Kamāl Maula mosque at Dhār. The text of the inscription includes part of a drama called Vijayaśrīnāṭikā composed by Madana, the king's preceptor who also bore the title 'Bālasarasvatī'.
The inscription reports that the play was performed before Arjunavarman in the temple of Sarasvatī.

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