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The Mithilakshara Inscription at Tilkeshwar Sthana on the front door panel is supposed to be dated during the Karnata rule. Till the time of the visit I was not aware about the significance of the inscription. I tried to find something about the inscription from various sources. Going through the Gazetteer of Darbhanga (P.C. Roy Chaudhury, 1964), I found that the subject had not been addressed in detail.
Referring to the important inscriptions of Darbhanga, the Gazetteer (Appendix-1) mentions about the Tilkeswar Temple Inscription and informs that it refers to the name Karmaditya, a minister of the Karnata king. (See note on the Karnata dynasty below) The inscription or its timing have however not been discussed in detail in the Gazetteer. However, the inscription has been dated in the period of the Karnata rulers which was in the course of further reading learnt to be approximately during the years 1097 to 1325 AD.
The inscription has been mentioned by Prof. R K Choudhary in the “Select Inscriptions of Bihar (1958),” but it has not been discussed in detail. It has been mentioned only briefly. It has been stated that it is also known as Havidih inscription of Karmaditya, and that it records the erection of an image of Haihatta Devi at the instance of Queen Saubhagya Devi in La-San. 212. The contents have been given in the images above, a reading of which indicates that the timing of 212 La. Sam. is only an approximation of the actual reading.
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