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No. 11.]
KAMAULI PLATES OF THE KINGS OF KANAUJ.
109
19 hårájñi-sri-Nayanakolidêrya sema[ts]amatya Vam(bam)dhula-gotzâya
Var(bam)dhul-Aghamarya(rsha)na-(Visvimitra-*]tripravardya Vajasaneya-A (SA) khinê
dikshita-Purasa-pautakya dikshita-Vilha-putraya purðhita-gri-Jaga[sa]rmma20 ne vra (brd)hmall(na)ya gôkarnna-kusalatå-påta-karatal-Odaka-parvvsm-8-chandr.
arkkam yavat! sasa nikritys pradattah | matra yathadiyamâna-bhagabhôgakara
pravaņikara-turashkadaņda-ku21 maragadiâņaka-prabhfiti-samasta-dânga: dâs våthati | chha || Bhayanti ch=âtra
pauråņika slakaḥ 116 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 ............ Mangalam maha-fri[ho] Thakkura-bri-Gagûkêna
likhita nsip-ajñaya il
G.-PLATE OF GOVINDACHANDRA OF VIKRAMA-]SAMVAT 1176. This also is a single plate, which measures about 1' 53" broad by 1' l' high, and is engraved on one face only. In the upper part it has a ring-hole, about 1' in diameter. The plate contains 25 lines of writing which is in a tolerably fair state of preservation. The size of the letters is between 1 and 3". The characters are Någart, and the language is Sanskțit.As the name of the village, granted by this inscription, is illegible, and that of the district doubtful, and as the inscription otherwise contains really nothing new, it is ornecessary to publish any part of the text.
This inscription also is one of the Paramabhattáraka Maharajadhiraja Paramésvara Govindachandradêva, who records that, on Wednesday, the 9th of the bright half of Kärttika of the year 1178 (given both in words and in decimal figures), after bathing in the Ganges at Benares, he granted a village (the name of which is illegible) in (the) Saru[gå Prs (district) to the MahapurThita Jágufarman, son of the Dikshita Vilhân, and son's son of the Dikshita Purushottama. - The taxes specified in line 20) are tho bhagabhogakara and pravanikara. The grant professes to have been written (like F. and H.) by the Thakkura Gågûka.
The date is irregular; for, the 9th tithi of the bright half of Kârttika' of VikramaSamvat 1176 current ended about sunrise of Friday, the 25th October A.D. 1118, and that of Vikrama-Samvat 1176 expired, 11 h. 33 m. after mean sunrise of Tuesday, the 14th October A.D. 1119. The date would be incorrect also for Vikrama-Samyat 1177 and 1178 expired.
. H.-PLATE OF GOVINDACHANDRA OF VIKRAMA-SAMVAT 1178.
This also is a single plate, which measures about 1' 49" broad by l' "high, and is engraved on one face only. In the upper part it has a ring-hole, about 1l' in diameter. The plate contains 22 lines of well preserved writing. The size of the letters is between 1 and "
* Read ydwachachá.
* Read ttó matod.
Read st-ddáydnedasyathéti. • Read ka-flokdh.
Here follow the ten verses commencing Badmisis yan pratigripdti, Sankhai bhady-daanan, Sarudu elárebhavinah, Bahubhiratasudha, Gam=ékás, Tadágánái sahasréna, Spa-dattdu para-dattan od, Shashfin varsha-sahasrani, Na vishan visham, And Vat-dbhra-vibhramamasdasi.
• The introductory part of the inscription omits the words abrapati ... Vdchaspati in 11. 13-14 of A.
T Line 15: Shafaaptatyadhika-sa(ka)t-aikddasa(ka)- sanatsar Karttika-indi nasamydi ankataḥ sarvat 1176 Kártlika-sudi 9 Pu(bu)dad.
8 The original actually has Jagdkdya sarmmand, but the two akaharas kdya may have been struck out. 9 This is the Kritay-gadi.