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the king, five koļagas of paddy-land at that tank, one oil-mill of this village for a perpetual lamp, and ten kolagas of paddy-land for the priest.
(L. 16.) He who destroys this charity will incar the sin of destroying cows and (the city of) Båparasi.
No. 24.-DAULATPURA PLATE OF BHOJADEVA I. OF MAHODAYA;
(HARSHA-]SAMVAT 100.
BY F. KIELHORN, Pg. D., LL.D., C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN. This plate is said to have been found, some thirty years ago, among the ruins of an ancient temple near the village of Siva, the Sewa' of the map, about 7 miles E.N.E. of the town of Didwana in Jodhpur (Marwad), Rajputâna, Indian Atlas, quarter-skeet No. 33 N.E., long. 74° 44' E., lat. 27° 27' N. It was taken at the time to the small fortress of Daulatpurd, about 4 miles E.S.E. of Didw&na, but since September 1897 has been deposited in the Historical Records Office at Jodhpur. I edit the inscription which it contains from impressions, which were kindly furnished to Dr. Hultzsch by Munsiff Debiprasad of Jodhpur and by Dr. Fübrer.
This is a single plate, inscribed on one side only. It is very similar to the Dighw&-Dabanli plate of Mahendrapala and the Bengal As. Soc.'s plate of Vinayakapáls, published by Dr. Fleet, with photolithographs, in Ind. Ant. Vol. XV. p. 105 ff. and p. 138 ff. The plate is about 1'91 broad by 1'4' high, and on to its proper right side is soldered a heavy brass seal, about 61 broad by 94" high, the top of which is raised into an arched peak. The letters of the legend on the seal are in relief, and the arch contains a standing figure which is only faintly visible in the impressions. The writing on both the plate and the seal is well executed, and in an excellent state of preservation. The size of the letters on the plate is between f' and *", and on the seal, between ' and ". The characters belong to the northern class of alphabets, and are similar to, but in some particulars more antique than, those of the two platos mentioned above. They include, in line 16 of the plate, numerical symbols for 100 and 10, and the numeral figure for 3. The language of the inscription is Sanskrit, and, with the exception of one verse in lines 15 and 16, the text is in prose. In respect of orthography, I may note the use of the sign for u, to denote b; the constant doubling oft before r; the employment of n instead of anusvára in the word ansa, in lines 10 and 14 of the plate; the use of parambha. gavatibhakto in lines 4 and 65 of the plate, and of parashbhagavatíbhaktô in lines 5 and 10 of the seal, for paramabhagavatibhaktô ; and the occurrence of the term samvatsró, for samvatsarah or the ordinary sanoat, in the date, in line 16.
The inscription is one of a Maharaja Bhỏjadêva, who, from his residence or camp of Mabodaya, on the representation of one of the people concerned, ronews here a grant which had been made by his great-grandfather, the Maharaja Vatsar&jadêve, and continued by his grandfather, the Maharaja N&gabhatadeve, but, in his own reign, had fallen into abeyance. The object of the grant is the village of Siva, in the Deņdvinaka-vishays of the Gurjaratri
Vis, his sovereign, the Chola king Rajadhiraja.
Le Varanasi (Benares). ! I refer especially to the different forms of the consonants j and ; of the subscript in the aksharai Pw, yw and shw; and of the medial # (ai, 6, and aw).
• For other northern inscriptions which exhibit both namerical symbols and numeral figures, see my List of Northern Incriptions, Nos. 528 (which is about 78 years older than the present inscription), 541, 560, 602, 6!6, 652, od 655.
In line 6 the engraver has actually engraved paranbhagao. • See my List, Xos. 542 (where the actual reading also appears to be samalard), 544, and 545.
