ON THE TEXT OF A verse in the Bhitari Stone Pillar Inscription of Skandagupta

The controversy sparked off by Verse Seven of The Bhitari Stone Pillar Inscription of the Gupta monarch, Skandagupta, on restoration of possibly the correct text of its last quarter, has lately assumed interesting, though somewhat dogmatic overtones, with the jumping of some of the stalwarts into the fray.

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सत्यव्रत स्कन्दगुप्त के भितरी स्तम्भलेख के सातवें श्लोक के अन्तिम चरण की पुनः परीक्षा करते हैं। वे फ्लीट के पाठ की समीक्षा करते हैं, जिसका अनुसरण वी. सी. पाण्डेय तथा जे. एन. अग्रवाल ने किया, और दिखाते हैं कि अग्रवाल का अनुवाद उनके स्वीकृत पाठ से मेल नहीं खाता। Satyavrat re-examines the last quarter of verse seven of Skandagupta's Bhitari stone pillar inscription. He reviews Fleet's reading, followed with tenacity by V. C. Pandey and J. N. Agrawal, shows that Agrawal's translation never matched the text he retained, and proposes a reading of his own.

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