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SOLANKI DYNASTY,
invisible. To-day on Sunday the 13th of Ashidha Yadi of the year 662 of Rasulla Mahomed whn prenchied to the people in Sri Visvanatha Nagari ; 1320 of king Sri Vikrama Samvata ; 945 of the splendid Valabhi Sarvata, and 151 of Sri Simha Samvata, during the increasing, beneficent and victorious reign of Chakravarti Maharajadhiraja Sri Arjunadeva of the Solanki race, who lived at the beautiful Aụahilapurapatana, who was the most powerful kiog being adorned with lines of all the kings, who was the grcatest Bhattarka being an undoubted warrior and endowed with immense prowess by the favour of the lord of Sri Pârvati, and who was a shaft in the hearts of his chemies-during his reign when his chief minister Rânch Sri Maladeva, who was maintained by his lotus-like fect, was in charge of the signet and the scal, and when the great Pasupatåcharya, the greatest of the Panditas and the most religious Gauda Sri Seshta Virabhadra, and Parckha Malan Sri Abhayasimha and other five families lived at Deva Påtana Somanatha, Nacoda Nuruddin Piroz son of Abu Ibrahim a Khoja navigator who came there for business from Hurmza (Ormnuz) which was (then) under the rule of Amira Sri Rukonuddin, took formal possession with nine Nidhinas (?) by what is called the Sparshana Nyaya of a piece of land situated in Sicotri out-side the city of Somunátha and under the possession of Mahajana, to use it as suited his desire, in the presence of the great men Thakar Sri Palugideva, Ragi Sri Someśvaradeva, Thakar Sri Ramadeva, Thakar Sri Bhimasinha, Rájaári Chhada and others who had faith in the Devadroni at Somanátha, as also in the presence of the whole Jamdta (Meho. modan community). Then being a great religious man according to his faith, being devoted to his religion Piroz Nacoda for perpetuating his fame till the sun and the moon endure and for his own) welfare, built a Masjida as a place for-worship on the site with an eastern gate through his friend the great man Raja Sri Chhåd. For the maintenance of this Masjida, and for the expenses of daily worship, oil required for lamps, water, Malim, Modin (®), monthly reciters and preachers, and for special festivity to be celebrated as is usual with navigators on the Baráti (?) and Khatama (1) nights and for the annual repair, the plastering and white-washing, hc (Piroza) bought to-day in the City of Somanathadevanagar from the great Sri Tripurantaka master of the sacred place of Sri Savaghanesvara, Vinayaka and Ratnesvara and others, all the sheds with the out-houses thatched with struw and sand together with two-storied houses, facing the north, and belonging to Sri Dhayaleśvara. In this is not to be included the house of Sutradhara Kanbada having an eastern entrance. Thus surrounded and having a northern entrance, with all its boundaries duly defined, and whose all rights of enjoyment it now possesses is this land given. He also obtained grant of one pali (about an ounce) of oil from each of the oilmills. He also took two shops for the maintenance of this Masjida by the said Sparshana Nyaya from Kalhanadeva, son of Chhada Sodhala,
Aho I Shrutgyanam
