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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
continuation of the insuription B, which ends with verse 26. The inscription clearly divides itself into two portions, the first of which, extending to nearly the end of line 9, comprises the nine verses 27-35. All that it is necessary to say about this part, is, that it eulogizes the piety of a prince (narapati, nripati, bhími pála) Govinda or Govindaråja, who in verse 27 is styled Mauryakula-pradípa, the light of the Maurya family,' and who evidently is the Govinda spoken of in verse 21 of the inscription B; and that in particular it records the foundation by this prince of a sattra, or hall of charity for travellers and for the learned and indigent, and the erection of a temple of Siva, under the name of Siddhesanatha or Siddheśvara, with a tank or well attached to it. In all probability, the temple is the same at which the inscription is still preserved.
The second part of the inscription, the verses of which are numbered separately, opens, towards the end of line 9, with a date, and records up to line 15 various donations in favour of the temple and the charitable institute mentioned before, made both by Govindaraja himself and by (his sovereign lord) the mahámandala-nátha, the illustri. ous king Seuņa.
According to verses 1-3 (lines 9-11), the king Seuņa, on the occasion of a solar eclipse in the month of Ashadha of the Jupiter year Saumya which was the expired) Saka year 991, granted to the temple of Siddheśvara the two villages of Samgamî and Madhu vàţika, together with the income due from them to the king himself. The date corresponds, by the amánta scheme, to Tuesday, the 21st July, A.D. 1069, when about half an hour after mean sunrise there was a solar eclipse which was visible in some parts of India; and the king Seuņa is the Devagiri Yå dava Seunachandra II., of whom we possess a copper-plate grant which is dated only a fortnight later than the present inscription, on Gurudina or Thursday, the 14th of the bright half of Sråvana of the year Saumya, corresponding to Saka-samvat 991'.-The villages of Samgami and Madhuvatiká I am unable to identify on the maps at my disposal.
Govindaraja's donations are enumerated in the verses 4-13 (lines 11-15). Some of the particulars of this passage I do not fully understand ; but it is clear that Govinda provided for the worship of the god in the temple founded by him (verses 4-5); that, for the support of the learned men and their pupils who resorted to his sattra, he gave four fields which are described as Vagalakammatabhúmi, Vakhulikshetra, Vanakitakabhúmi and Patayakshiņioáta, and the exact boundaries of which are recorded in the text (verses 6-12); and that he besides granted sixteen nivartanas of land to certain secular and religious teachers (verse 13).
The concluding lines of the inscription once more state that the temple, referred to in the preceding, was founded by the prince Govinda and his wife, the rájil Nayaki (verse 14), and contain the usual admonitions to future rulers to watch over, and not to resume, the donations here recorded.
Taken as a whole, what is contained on the three stones is a single inscription, dated in Saka 991 or A.D. 1069, of a chief Govindaraja of the Maurya clan, a feudatory of the Devagiri Yadava king Seunachandra II. Its proper object is, to record that Govindaraja built the temple at which the inscription was put up, and made various
See Indian Antiquary, vol. XII, p. 120. It should be stated, however, that the date of the copper-plate is incorrect; for Srárapa-budi 14 of Saka 991 expired ( Saumya) corresponds to the 4th August, A.D. 1069, which was a Tuesday, not a Thursday
