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(above named persons) the shares (of the crop), enjoyments (bhoga), and everything else. Therefore nobody shall cause any hindrance to these (donees) if they enjoy, cultivate, cause to be cultivated, give away, mortgage or sell these villages, together with their houses and walls, together with their gates of exit and entrance, together with all their plants, (viz.) asanas, shoots of sugar-cane, hemp, mangoes, madhúkas, and so forth, together with their forests, hollows, and treasure-trove, together with their mines of iron and so forth, together with their cow-houses, together with (all) other objects found within their boundaries, and together with the external and internal imposts. And the king, the royal officials, and the rest shall remit what would accrue to each of them, and this Our grant is not to be taken away nor to be resumed. And even future kings should protect it. And it has been said," etc.
Quite at the end, after the signature of the king, the scribe has perpetuated his name in the following Malini verse :-"The recorder of charitable gifts (dharmalekhin) called Přithvidhara, a member of the Vastavya race of exalted name, who has performed meritorious acts and is a home of all good qualities, has written by the king's order the copper-plate grant with distinct and elegantly formed characters." "And it has been incised by the coppersmith (pitalahára) Palhana."
Our document is thus a confirmation of a former grant by Paramardidêva's grandfather and immediate predecessor, Madanavarmadêva. 'Madanavarman's latest known date is V.S. 1215, and Paramardin's earliest one is V. S. 1224. Hence our inscription reduces the gap between the two kings by about five years. Our date of Paramardidêva, [Vikrama-]Samvat 1223, Vaisakha sudi 7, Thursday, corresponds, according to Professor Jacobi's Tables, to Thursday, the 27th April, A.D. 1187, the year given being the sonthern expired year. Our date of Madanavarmadôvs, Samvat 1219, Mågha badi 15, Thursday, corresponds to the 15th February, A.D. 1102, which was a Thursday, the year being the current year, and the scheme used the amanta scheme; the solar eclipse, however, according to Professor von Oppolzer's Canon der Finsternisse, did not take place on that day, but on the preceding new-moon day, the 17th January, and was visible all over India.
Among the localities mentioned, Väridurga is probably Barigar in. N. L. 25° 14' and E. L. 80° 6' (Indian Atlas, sheet No. 69 S. E.). Madanapura is of course identical with the modern town of this name (Indian Atlas, sheet No. 70 S. W.). Among the other names I find :
1. Vikaura-Beekore khurd and kullan, 4-5 miles S. W of Madanapura. 2. Khataudi-Khutouroa, S. E. of Beekore. 3. Sêsayi-Sajee (®), S. E. of Khutoures. 4. Dudhai-Doodhai, N. L. 24° 26' and E. L. 78° 27' (Indian Atlas, sheet No. 70
N. W.). 5. Itäva- perhaps Etawah, N. L. 24° 12' and E. L. 78° 16' (Indian Atlas, sheet
No. 70 S. W.). 6. Vadavári-Berwara, N. L. 24° 30' and E. L. 78° 41' (Indian Atlas, sheet No. 70
N. W.). 7. Vladana-Ooldana khurd, 7 miles N. E. of Madanapara, and Ooldana kulla , N. L.
24° 28' and E. L. 78° 53' (T. A. sheet No. 70 N. W.). 8. Patha-Putha, 4 miles E. of Berwars.
i fi.e. probably imposts paid by the villagers and strangers or Uparia.-G. Rübler.]
• According to the pedigree in the Batésvar stone inscription of Parsmardideva (Rp. Ind. Vol. I. p. 207 f.), Paramardin's father was Yabbvarman. But he does not seem to bave actually ruled, as no minister is named with him, while those of the other kings are all giveo.
. See Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 236.
