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GOHILA DYNASTY,
TRANSLATION. Thus the chapter of the sixteenth kald of Vishnubhakti Chandrodaya composed by Sri Nrisimbaranya Muni is finished. This is the end of Vishnubhakti Chandrodaya. The number of verses in this book is 4500. I have copied the book as I found it. So if there is any crror the fault should not be attributed to me. Mehta Váchha copied this book of Sri Vishubhakti Chandrodaya for * * Allâ of the Islåta caste, when the great Mulek Sri Ustatâm and Raol Sri Saran. gadeva with his pancha kula were in power at the part of Ghogha, this day on Sunday the 12th of Falguna Suli (bright halt) of the year Samvat 1469. The book says it should be protected from oil, from water, from looge binding, and froun falling into strange hands. Let there be peace and joy.
IV. Stone Inscription in the temple of Lakshmi Narayana at Malurá under Bhavnagar,
___Datel Sament 1500.
This stone is built up under the seat (Simhasana) of the god Lakshmi Narayana, whose temple is near Darbaryadha of the sea-port town of Mahuva on the southern coast of Kathiavad, and which is the principal town of the district of the same name under Bhavnagar State. It is a hard black stone with a face measuring 21 in. by 12 in., and contains eighteen lines of Sansksit verses and prose in Devanagari characters.
It mentions the digging of a Vdo (Våpi) to the west of the town by a Modha Vanil, Selha Mokal, in Surmvat 1500, A. D. 1441, during the reign of Gohilta Sarangaji. It also mentions the different names of the town of Mahuva at different times, from which it can be inferred that the town exists from very ancient times.
TRANSLITERATION. १ १०॥ नमः श्रीसर्वशाय स्वस्ति स्वतिमति प्रसिद्धनृपतिश्रीविक्रमातिकमात् संवद्विष्णुपदेद्वये २ षुजगतीसंख्ये प्रजानांपतो मित्रे चौतरगे प्रचंडकिरणे धन्ये मधौ माधवे शुक्ले पूर्णतिथी गुरी च गुरुभे ३ सद्योगभोगक्षणे ॥१॥वालाकांतगैरे पुरे मधुमतासंज्ञे निवासोचिते ऽश्रीमत्कामगवीखुरोद्भवभवे वंशे ४ शिवे संभव: श्रीरामापितचामरातपहरप्रौढिप्रतिष्टान्वितः श्रेटिश्रीनरपाल एष समभूत् श्रीकृष्णसेवा(प)रः ५ ॥शातपुत्रोऽतः पवित्रो हरिपरिचरण: प्रेष्टिमल्लोऽत्र पल्हस्तस्मादप्याविरासीदमितवितरणोऽनस्य सत्य ६ स्वभावः श्रेष्ठिश्रीरामनामा कृत्तसुकृतचयः संयुतो जानुसत्या सन्मत्या विष्णुभक्त्या (नि)वसति सदने ब्रह्मणो
वेदवेदः ७ शातदनुजनितपूर्वादुअपुण्यप्रभावात् कलिबलदलनेऽलं मोकलो निर्जलायां प्रणयति वरवापी तत्प्रती
१पद २रगे ३
Ahol Shrutgyanam
