The Silsila Rock Inscription of the time of Afigasimha ' 

The inscription is inscribed on a boulder of stone at the foot 
of a hill belonging to the Kaimura range near Silsila, not far from 
Bhagwanpur, about 16 kms. to the south of Bhabua in the distiict 
of Rohtas. Actually, there are two inscriptions engraved on the 
boulder, the second below the first, the first containing five lines 
of writing and the second six lines and covering spaces of about ;6.2 
cms. by 30.5 cms. and 91,9 cms. by 61 3 cms. respectively. 

Language— Sanskrit; characters - Early Nagar! of about the 
12th century A. D. 

The object of the first inscription is not quite clear. It appe- 
ars to be recording the sacrifice of certain animals (pigs) in 
favour of some deity. 

The second inscription is of some importance, for it throws 
some light on the early mediaeval history of the Bhabua region. 

It refers to the reign of the Nayaka Aflgasiihha, who was ruling 
from \'anthiaifi-patharpura, and records that some land in the 
possession of the Nayaka in the village of Amarmetha in the 
Kasaramola-pattala within Varanasi was granted as a Sivasasana 
by a person named ViraOrti. In other words, VimOrti purchased 
the plot of land from the Nayaka and granted it in favour of Lord 
Siva worshipped in a temple (in the neighbourhood of the boulder 
bearing the insciiption) and that the charge of the land was given 
to the Brahmana priest of the Siva temple in the locality.