Bulletin of the Deccan College Research Institute December 1948

Thus the treatment of the formal character of the inscriptions must take into consideration the latter aspect also and try to measure the influence of the formal customs of the commonalty on the contemporary bureaucratic practices and vice versa. [...] In the light of this the study of the formal aspect of the Deccan's epigraphy must be directed at finding out the feature peculiar to each of these dynasties the extent and precise nature of their indebtedness in this sphere to the preceding and contemporary dynasties and the effect upon the Deccan's epigraphy of their political contacts with the rest of India besides tracing the origin and dev [...] They are engraved on almost every part of the cave and in any imaginable place: on the facades of the caitya-caves on the walls and around the caitya-window arches ' in the recesses on the façades and walls' on the mouldings of the doorways' and around the windows and doorways ' on the walls of the verandah ' on the benches in the verandah and hall etc. [...] On the proper left of the shrine is the bull or Nandi.' Another dated S. 1029 shows on the top of the stone a liriga in the centre the Sun on the proper right and the Moon on the proper left. [...] On its proper right are the Moon and the cow and the calf while on the left are the Sun and a scimitar.' Inscribed tablets with similar sculptures are very common in the epigraphs of the 8ilähäras of North Konkan and Kolhapur the Yadavas and the Kalacuryas.