No. 96. Pharpię

Stone lying in a field near the village of Pharping, situated 4-1/2 miles to the south west of Kathmandu on a ridge skirting the valley was an inscribed stone when I explored the region in 1952-53. Later it was traced in Guękhel by the side of the road near the Nakhu village. The stone wholly readable even though fragmentary is now in the Government Museum in Patan. There is no date because of damage. The inscribed part is 36-1/4 cm wide and 21 cm long. (R).
Ųrč Kalahābhimānin (i.e., Aėųuvarmman) Records construction of a water conduit.
DV. 88; HJ 88; R. 83;

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1. Oė svatanu-vasu-ųiraõ-kar-ādidānair-upakðtam-arthijanasya yena sakala . . . .
2. santaptasya kalčųvarair-atiųaōhair-nityaę-guía-dveøibhir-lokasy-āsya sukhāvaho ma . . . . .
3. sa ųrčmān-kalahābhimāni-nðpatiõ sarvajãatām-āpnuyāt | yenaikena kalāvapi sthiradhiyā. . . .
4. teneyaė svayaųo-marčci-vimala-sphčtām=bhuvi syandinčė rājãā ųrč-kalahābhimāni . . .
5. praviøōā pātālam-punar-api parāvðtya tarasā dravčbhótā kčrtiõ pracuraya . . .
6. āryāvāsasya bhóøā praíidhi-virahitā nityam=anyārtha-vðtti. . . . .
7. kurvāí-ev-opamānaę-køititala-ųaųinas-tasya rājãaõ kðpāyā[õ] . . .
8. sakala-jagad-udanyā-ųāntaye ųčtatoyām-iha yativaravāse pātayitvā praíālčm

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NOTES
L. 3. R. has sarvajãatā-prāpnuyāt-