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Introduction
CXXXV
The writer of the grant is Vateşvara – son of Kāyachcha ( ostha ). The Dūtaka is Şrī Chandaşarmmå the great minister of peace and war.
The second is also issued from the capital, the writer and the Dūtaka being the same as the last one. The grant gives a field near Mundakagrāma in Vardhivishaya ( in the Vadhiar district ) to one Vāsudeva son:of Balabhadra - Udicha Brahamaņa - a Brahamaņa froin the north.
The third is dated Samvat 93. It may be that the figures to indicate thousand may have been left out or intentionally kept understood. The year intended is V. S. 1093. The writer and the Dūtaka of this grant are the same as those of the previous two. It is issued from Anahilapātaka and grants a field in the limits of a village called Sahasachānāgrāma in Kachchha. The grantee is one Govinda - son of Damodara of Vatsa-gotra originally of Prasannapura-sthāna. *
These grants indicate that Vadhiara and Cutch continued to remain within the jurisdiction of Aşahilapātaka in the reign of Bhīma. I.
The Dvyāşraya mentions the two main political events of his reign as the defeat and imprisonment of Hammuka - the ruler of Sindha and the acceptance of a freindly alliance by Karņa – the king of Chedi whose other name is given as Kalachuri (v. 28, C. IX).
Two of his secret emmissaries, after their tour, come to Bhima and inform him that the king of
* It is likely that the Brāhmaṇas reffered to in this grant are Praspora Dāgars of Gujarata amongst whom Vatsagotra is common. Probably the word Praạnorā has something to do with Prasannapara.
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