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The temple of the Aśramadeva installed at Kemajju, not far from Kavi in Bharukaccha Vişaya, received a grant of land from the Gurjara king Jayabhata IV, on the occasion of Karkasankrānti je. Sun's entering the sign of Cancer, ( which fell on Aşādha Sūdi daśami) in the Cedi year 486 ( = 736 A.D.). The royal edict of the grant was executed by Kandakaņaka.--( Kavi Plates, IA, V, 109).
This plate, dated K. 486, was for a long time ascribed to Jayabhața III, whose reign was supposed to have begun shortly before K. 456. But the Prii.ce of Wales Museum plates, recently discovered, show that it belongs to his grandson Jayabhața IV.
Gurjara king Jayabhața IV issued, only three months and a half later (i.e. in āśvayuja va. 15 of K. 486 ) than the Kāvi plates of the same year, a grant of land to Bhatta Acchada, the son of the Brāhmaṇa Adityanaga of the Hetavaka sub-caste, of Kauņdinya gotra and a student of the Madhyandin śākhā of the Vājasneya (or White Yajurveda ), to provide for the performance of the five great sacrifices and other rites. The donee was an immigrant from Lohikakşa--pathaka-āhāra. The land consisted in the village Mannātha (identified with modern Magnāth on the right bank of the Dhādhar, about 2 miles from Jambusar, perhaps the corrupt form of Magnanātha' god submerged by the Dhādhar), situated in the Bharukaccha visaya. The grant was composed by Sangulla, the son of the official in charge of the army, Alla.-- (EI, XXIII, 147 ff; CII, IV, pp. 102-107).
In both the above grants, verse 2, in a corrupt form, refers to an historical event. We learn from it that Jayabhata, by the edge of his sword, forcibly vanquished in the city of the lord of Valabhi, the Tājikas who oppressed all people. Bühler, who edited the Kāvi plate, having no correct text with him then, drew the conclusion that this Jayabhața inflicted a defeat on the contemporary ruler of Valabhi.
The correct reading of the verse which can now be restored with the help of the better preserved Prince of Wales Museum plates shows, on the other hand, that Jayabhața went to the rescue of the king of Valabhi, when his capital was attacked by the Täjikas or Arabs, and inflicted a defeat on the enemy. This encounter can be placed between 720 A. D. and 735 A. D.
The correct reading of the verse in ofta metre, as restored by Principal V. V. Mirashi, is as under:
असिधाराजलशमितः प्रसभं वलभीपतेः पुरे येन् ।
FF FFCT 197691EGALO ST 747 F 99: 11- cii, iv, pp. 99, 106 ) The only period, during the interval from 720 A. D. to 735 A. D. when the Arabs followed a vigorous policy, was that of the governorship of Junaid. Al Bilā duri (E. D. H. I., VOL. 1, p. 126 ) tells us that after defeating Jaishiya and
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