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prince Kharagraha and the grant was composed by Divirapati Anahila. The king was then at some military camp, the name of which is read as Picchi (Paji).-( JBBRAS, NS, I, 57).
From the victorious camp at Meghavana, Maitraka king Silāditya II issued a grant of a step-well and a field of five pieces situated at Madasara in Madasara Sthali in Saurāṣtra, to Brāhmaṇa Dikşita of Kuśika gotra, an emigrant from Puşyasāmbapura. The Dütaka of the edict was prince Kharagraha. The grant was composed by Divirapati Mammaka.-(Jesar Plates ; EI, XXII 114).
It was issued in the second (intercalary) Pausa of the Valabhi year 35, Dvi. Paușa va. 4 (675 A.D.). The date applies to the system of mean intercalation. --(H. G. Shastri, MG, p. 57, ff.).
From Bharukaccha, the Gurjara king Dadda III, Bāhusahāya, granted to Gangāditya, son of Dundubhibhatta of Bhāradvāja gotra, land in the village of Uvarivadra in Korillā Caturasiti (a district consisting of eighty-four villages) in K. Samvat 427, Māgha-śuddha-Rathasaptami (676 A.D.).-(EI; XXVII 199 f.).
From Dhānandā, Maitraka King Sīlāditya III (son of Silāditya II who never ascended the throne) issued a grant of land to a Brāhmana Balasarman, of Upamanyu gotra, son of Adityaśarman who migrated from Giginagara and settled at Sraddhika (Sādhi near Pādrā) as a member of the Caturvedis, studying Yajurveda in order to enhance the religious merit of his parents. The grant consisted of a rice-field in two pieces, and a deserted orchard which lay near the village Antika (Anti) in the vicinity of Sraddhika in the Bharukaccha district. Prince Dhruvasena officiated as the Dūtaka of the grant, which was composed by Aộahil, a minister of Peace and War and son of Skandabhat, who preceded him in that office.-G.S. 357, Māgha su. 7 ( 676 A.D.):-( A. S. Gadre, Important Sanskrit Inscriptions, Baroda State, p. 16).
The Gurjara-Pratihāra king Bhojadeva, son of Rāmabhadra from Appādevi, possibly the greatest Emperor of Northern India in the early Mediaeval period, is known to history by several names-Prabhāsa, Śrimad Adivarāha, Parameśvara and Mihira. The two birudas-Adivarāha and Mihira, if interpreted literally, might signify that he was a devotee of Vişnu, and of Sun; but, unlike his father Rāmabhadra, who was a votary of Sun, or his great grand-father Devasakti who was a devotee of Vişnu, this king was a sākta, attached to Bhagavati. The birudas thus appear to be formal.
Diva? (Sk. Dvipa) is mentioned in Visesanisiha cunni (pt. II, p. 225), where it is said that it was situated inside the sea at a distance of one yojana, 1 The modern city of Diva is 8 miles from Una, 6 from Ajara and 5 from Delvada.
Vide JTSS- Vol. I, pt I, p. 136.
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