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No. 11.]
KAMAULI PLATES OF THE KINGS OF KANAUJ.
111
15 vidhaya prachura-påtha(ya)sena havish& hå(ha)va(vi)rbhujam hutra(två)
pitsi-pimda-yajñam nirvarttys m åtå pitrôr=&tmanasacha punya ja(ya)sô(66)vi(bhi)vșiddhaye ! Vaba)ndhulasya gôtrayal Vaba)ndhul-Aghamarshaņa
Visva(fv)mitra-trip[r*]ava16 râya 1 Vajasaneya-sâ() khine dikshita-śrî-Purasa-pautraya dikshita-sri-Vilha
putraya I vrå (bra)hmaņa-bri-Vyásåya asmåbhiḥ gôkarnna-kusalatå-pûta
karatal-cha(da)ka-porytam=8-chamdr-- 17 rkkan gåvach-chh&sanikritys pradatto matvå Syathadiyamâna-bhågabhôgakara
prabhfiti-sarvv-&dåyån dasyath=éti || chchha || Bhavanti ch-atra s10kAh 116
22 .......Likhitar
ch=edam
karaṇika-thakkura-śrl-Gágúkên=eti 11
I.- PLATE OF GOVINDACHANDRA OF VIKRAMA-SAMVAT 1184.
This also is a single plate, which measures about 1' 4" broad by 1'" high, and is engraved on one face only. In the upper part it has a ring-hole, about 18 in diameter. The plate contains 25 lines of well preserved writing. The size of the letters is between land g". The characters are Nagari, and the language is Sansksit.- As the names of the village, granted by this inscription, and of the pattald in which it was situated, are doubtful, and as the inscription otherwise, excepting the date of it, contains nothing new, it is not necessary to publish any part of the text.
This inscription also is one of the Paramabhattaraka Maharajadhiraja Paramétvara Govindachandradêva, who records that, on the Manvadi, Friday, the full-moon tithi of Karttika of the year 1184 (given both in words and in decimal figures), after bathing in the Ganges at Benares, he granted the village of Råri (?) in the Madavala (?) pattala, together with its patakas, to the Mahapurðhita Jágūšarman, son of the Dikshita Vilha, and son's son of the Dikshita Purushottama - The taxes specified in line 20) are the bhagabhôgakara, pracanikara and kataka. The grant was written by the Thakkura Visvarupa.
The date regularly corresponds, for Vikrama-Samyat 1184 expired, to Friday, the 21st October A.D. 1127, which was wholly occupied by the full-moon tithi of Kårttika, correctly called Manvådi.
J.-PLATE OF GOVINDACHANDRA OF VIKRAMA-SAMVAT 1190.
This also is a single plate, which measures about 1' 4" broad by 113 high, and is engraved on one face only. In the upper part it has . ring-hole, about 11 in diameter. The plate contains 24 lines of writing which almost throughout is in an excellent state of preservation. The size of the letters is between and ". The characters are Nagari,' and the language is Sanskrit. As regards orthography, the letter b is everywhere denoted by the sign for v; the dental sibilant is about a dozen times employed instead of the palatal, and the palatal several times instead of the dental; and the word dmra is written amura, in line 15.
1 All the signs of punctuation in 11. 15 and 16 are superfluous.
* Read "la-gótraya. Between dikshita and art the akahara da or dd was engraved, but it has been struck out. • Read osdy=dsmábhir• Originally yathadikshita was engraved, but the aksharas kshita seem to have been struck out.
• Here follow the seven verses commencing BMmin yah pratigrihpáti, Saikhan bhadr.dsanan, Bahubhirasudhd, Gamudkan, Sardán=et&wwbhdvina), Mama wana.gard kahld, and Vari-Mindshemarang dahu.
1 The introductory part of this inscription does contain the words aérapati . . . Fachaspati in 11. 18-14 of A.
# Line 15: Chaturalllyadhika hat-aikddaia-santatsord Kartlikd midri fukla-pakahd paurniya)d[.lv Naweddau Sukra-dind-Aklopi samvat 1184 Kartlika-sudi 16 Sekre.
» Here, as in F., the sign for ki is almost exactly like the sign for gt.
