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SOLANKI DYNASTY.
193 41-42. Now he was the king Sibi or the sage Dadbichi in the quality of goodness and was like Râvata in issuing strict orders * * * * * * * * was like king Yudhish shira, * * * what more can we say? He was like Brihaspati. All of them............. ..........the sister's son of Kumarapallit, very strong *
43-45. Bhoja, son of Premalladevi * * * * * * * * * * * * * * as Gandaraja officiated at the worship of Somanatha at the time of the eclipse of the moon, he was highly pleased * * * * * * * respectively.
46-47. Ganda * * * * * * * near PÅpamochana on the bank of the river Hiranyå gave * * * * * * him. who was in advance of all the great lords, the kings.
48-50. He who gave a village by a deed of gift with order............ .........to be enjoyed by sons, grandsons, and women born in the family as long as the sun and the moon (endure).................................. The Shighrakavi composed this eulogy of Ganda's qualifications.
51. ........................................ Rudrasuri son of Lakshmidhara wrote this................
.............. Vallabhai Samvat 850, Ashå (dha) .......
Copper-plate grant of Raja Bhimadeva I of Anahilapura. Dated Vikrama
Samvat 1086.
There are two plates of this grant as it is generally to be found in Valabhi grants, measuring 8} in. by 6 in. They were received from Radhanapur, the principal place of a small Mahomedan principality of the same name in the Palanpur Agency to the north-west of Ahmedabad. The plates are written on one side only having twelve and ten lines and a half of Sanskrit prose in Devapågari characters. They are in a good state of preservation. They mention the grant of a village named Masur situated in the Kutch district to a Brahmara named Bhattârka Ajapála son of Acharya Mangala Siva by king Bhimadeva Solanki of Gujarat on the sacred day of the full-moon day of the month of Kârtika in the year Sarpvat 1086, A.D. 1029. It mentions the boundaries of the village as well as the religious merits of such a grant and the demerits of depriving any person of it.
Makabala may be the name of the sister'a son of king Kumârspála, L. 25.
Ahol Shrutgyanam
