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SOLANKI DYNASTY.
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Kartika to Bhattarka Ájapala son of Acharya Mangaladiva, who has immigrated from the place called Navapisaka in Kachebhamandala. The four well-known boundaries of the village of Masura are the villages of Gadahadi to the cast, Pankaiji to the south, Dharavadi to the west, and Dahuri to the north. Accor dingly the inhabitants of the place should promptly obey the orders of Âjapila and always send him the usual portion and enjoyments, &c. Our descendants and future landholders shall observe and maintain this religions grant believing it to be equally beneficial to all. Bhagavin Vyasa says "a person making a grant of land enjoys heaven for sixty thousand years; (while) he who resumes such land or supports such resumption lives in Naraka (hell) for the same period."
Composed by Vatesvara son of Kayastha Kanchana. The instructor of this grant is Sri Chanda, the negotiator. Thus may there he blessings and great wealth. Sri Bhimadeva's (grant).
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Stone-Inseription at the Mota Duredj& or the grand gate at Prabhdeapitana, of the time of King Bhimadees II. Dated Samvat 1273.
Prabhisapatana is a stuall town under the Junagadh State on the south-west coast of Saurashtra, where there is the celebrated temple of Somanâtha. In the town-wall of this place and near the gate this stone is found. It has a square surface measuring 20 in. by 20 in. and contains forty-seven lines of Sanskrit verse in Devanagari character. It mentions the building of two temples at Pitans dedicated to gods Vishon and Siva respectively by Sridhara, a minister of Raja Bhimadeva of Gujarat,-whose geneology it gives together with that of his minister, for the religious merits of his mother Rohini and his father Valla who was a great favourite of king Kumarapala The date of the inscription is Vikrama Samvat 1273; A. D. 1217.
TRANSLITERATION.
१ ( ॐनमः शिवाय मनोमयादिरूप्येत तत्समालानं उपास्महे परं व
पंचकृत्यैककारणम् ॥ १ वियद्वायुर्वन्हिर्जलमवनिरिंदु दिनकरचिदाधारश्चेति त्रिभुवनमिदं यन्मयमभूत् । स वः श्रेयो देया
२ (परमसुरनाथ सुरनदीप विभ्राणः शिरसि गिरिजापविषयं ॥ २ पुष्णा सुरदभ्रविभ्रमभृतः pure waà jenigenitafa: saftar annuario: a admuser aga—
३. (टे सौ) जन्यविनासमुदारिद्यदुमदावपावकाशिखाकारानिशं वः श्रियं ॥ ३ ॥ श्रीसोमनाथायतनस्य रेखा
मेरा लिभांति अनन्यसाधारणशोममेव परं प्रारिति सर्पती ॥ ४ महदनकर्ज
भवन
Aho! Shrutgyanam
