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PLATES OF DANTIVARMAN OF GUJARAT.
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Rashtrakata princes the name of Dantivarman, who, as stated above, is styled a mahdsåmantadhipati who had obtained the pañcha-mahababda. This indicates that he was ruling over some province as a minor chief. Further, as we have seen, the sign-manual of Dantivarman is followed by that of his elder brother Dhruvarâja II. From this it is plain that both Dhruvarija II. and Dantivarman were alive when the charter was issued, and that Dantivarman was wielding power under Dhruvaraja II. This enables us to settle another point of importance, connected with the history of the Gujarat branch of the Rashtrakaças. The Bagumr& plates of Saka-Samvat 8101 mention Krishộardja-Akalavarsha (II.) as their donor. And to judge from their contents, which are full of misspellings and omissions, he appears to be the son of Dantivarman. Dr. Hultzsch, who edited the grant, held that this Dantivarman must be placed between Dhruvarja II. and Krishnaraja II. Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji, however, was of opinion that this Dantivarman, the father of Krishparaja II., was identical with Dantivarman, the dataka of the Baroda plates of Karka. Now, the date of the Baroda plates is Saka-Samvat 734, and that of the plates of Krishnaraja II. is Saka-Samvat 810, so that if, according to Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji's supposition, we hold that Dantivarman, the dataka of the Baroda charter dated Saka-Samvat 734, was the father of Krishparaja II. whose grant bears the date Saka-Samvat 810, the son is separated from the father by no less than seventy-six years. This is highly improbable, though not altogether impossible. But our grant mentions another Dantivarman as brother of Dhruvarija II., and its date is Saka-Samvat 789, whereas that of Krishnaraja II., as has been just stated, is Baka-Samvat 810. Thus the Dantivarman of our grant is brought olose to Krishnaraja II., and there can be little doubt that Dantivarman, the father of Krishnaraja II., is no other than DantiVarman, the younger brother of Dhruvarkja II., the donor of our grant. The new plates therefore show that the view of Dr. Hultzsch is correct.
As regards the places mentioned in the inscription, the Kampilya tirtha is, in my opinion, to be identified with Kampil in the Kaimganj tahsil of the Farukhabad district in the NorthWest Provinces. This Kampil, whose ancient name was Kampilya, was for long the capital of Sonthern Pabchala and was once & sacred place of the Jainas. The river Pordvi is perhaps identical with the modern Porna, in the Surat collectorate. For, in an unpublished grant belonging to the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Parkvi is spoken of as being in the vicinity of Nagasarika, which is evidently the modern Nausari, and the river which is close by Nangari is the Pärna. The river Mandakini, which is mentioned in defining the boundaries of the village granted, cannot be identified with the Ganges, as we have no grounds whatever to guppose that the Gujarat Rashtrakațas extended their dominions as far as the Ganges. And since the name Mandakini is used also to designate other rivers than the Ganges, the river MandAkini mentioned in these plates may have been some river in Gujarat, and the village granted was probably situated in that province. Instances of grants made to religious establishments remote from the village granted are not wanting in modern times, and there can therefore be nothing improbable in the supposition that the Buddhist vihára at Kampil in the North-West Provinces enjoyed the income acerning from a village in Gujarat.
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