52. Arvalem. Arvalem, Goa. EI., XXXVII (missed reference ?) and JESI, VII (M.N. Katti) Go, 175-177(49). Fragmentary epigraph is found engraved on a pillar set up as a Щivaliкga in a shrine in Cave No. 3 near Arvalem in Goa. The pillar has a circular top and is octagonal in shape. On each of the seven narrow surfaces in between the base of the circular top and the octagonal stem of the pillar has one line been written after placing down the pillar horizontally, as in the case of the Guдnаpura inscription (No. 26 above), and thereafter the pillar erected vertically. The eighth surface is blank. The pillar appears to have been later converted into a liкga when the base of the pillar was cut and the pillar shaped in the present form (Gopal).
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Text 1. нyaщailо raмy=оpavana kаnanах 2 [bha*]gamanищas=sadа sannиhиtо Haraх 3 нyеna tulyas=tad=abhigаmиnа[m] 4 jаpyaищ=cha sthаna-vиrаsan=аdibhiх 5 sau gatvа chештay=аpy=аgatastvиha 6 Naravyаghra dakшiн=еpi mahаlayе 7 [yо] hiмsyаt=sa-pаtaka-yuktо bhavе[t] K.V. Ramesh in EI XXXVII read other inscription in Kadamba characters : 1. Sаmbalуra-vаsи Raviх |