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The Rāştrakūta King Prabhūtavarşa Govindarāja issued to Brāhmaṇa Bhogika, an imigrant from Gaudadeśa, the grant of a village in Vahaula Eighty-four', on Saka-nrpa-kālātita S. 739, Vaišākha bahula 7 (816 A. D.). The grant was composed by Mahāsāndhivigrahika Jajjulla.-(Dabhoi Plates, H. I. G., 3, 125 A ).
The Rāştrakūta king Suvarṇavarşa Karkarāja of Lāța, issued from Khetaka the grant of the village of Samipadraka situated in the region between Mahi and Narmadā, as well as the village Sambandhi in Mankaņikā Bhukti on the occasion of the Lunar Eclipse on the Full Moon day of Māgha in S. 738 (817 A.D.). The grantee was Govaddi, son of Upādhyāya Bādaddi of Bharadvāja gotra, resident of Bādāvi. The Dütaka of the royal edict was Bhațţa Droņamma, which in its turn was composed by Sandhivigrahika Nemāditya.-( Navsari Plates, JBBRAS XX, 131 ff.).
The copper-plates, with a ring and a seal of Garuda with folded hands, found from Aņustu (near Karjan) of the Rāştrakūta king Karka Suvarņavarşa were issued from the capital Khetaka, which was the head-quarters of the Gujarat Branch of the Rāştrakūtas in the Lāța-mandala.
It records the gift of a village Majjargaội, which was included in the Bharukaccha District, to a Brāhmaṇa Baţţa-Sri Bhatta, son of Kukkura, a resident of Bharukaccha, who belonged to the Vasiştha gotra, and was a student of Rgveda, for the augmentation of religious merit and renown in this world and in the next, of our parents and of ourselves', by the performance of the five Yajñas, by the king : ( ATTIMET a teng (6h goratii)
The dūtaka was Baţtaśri Droņamma and the chief scribe was Sri Nemāditya, son of Sri Durgabhatta. The record ends with the sign-manual of Karkarājadeva, son of Srimad Indrarāja. The date is the full-moon day of Vaišākha of $. 739 (= 24th April, 818).- A. S. Gadre, Important Sanskrit Inscriptions, Baroda State, p. 25-34).
Five grants of Karka-Suvarņavarşa are known as shown below:-. . (1) The Baroda Plates of $. 734 (IA, XXI, p. 156); (2) The Navsāri Plates of Ś. 738 ( JBBRAS, XX, p. 131 ); (3) The Anastu Plates of S. 739 (Important Incriptions, Baroda State,
p. 25-34); (4) The Surat Plates of $. 743 (EI, XXI, p. 133 ); (5) The Brāhmaṇapalli Plates of $. 746 (EI, XXII, p. 77).
Out of these, only the Surat Plates of $. 743 record a gift of a field to a Jaina teacher; the rest are grants made to learned Brāhmaṇas..
Govindarāja Prabhūtavarşa, son of Indrarāja, issued to Brāhmaṇa Soma, who hailed from Valabhi and belonged to śāņpilya gotra, the grant of a field adjoining the Satrunjayi (Satrunji) river, on the occasion of a solar eclipse in
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