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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
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and the inscription ends with the words : "this is the own hand of the Maharajadhirdja, the glorious Sôdbadêva.'
I regret to say that I have not been able to identify with confidence any of the numerous localities mentioned in this inscription. The river Gandaki in which the king had bathed when making his donation must be the Gandak or Little Gandak of the United Provinces ; but I have not found on their banks any name like Dhuli&ghatta. The Sarayů after which Sodhadêva's territory appears to have been called Sarayu para most probably is the river Gogra, which in Oudh is known by the names Deoha, Surjoo or Sarayı, as well as Ghogra." The rivers would indicate in a general way where the Guņakala-vishaya and the district of) Tikarikå, in which the villages containing the land granted were situated, should be looked for.
Of the throe datos which the inscription contains, the date on which the grant was made regularly corresponds, for Vikrama-Samvat 1134 expired, to Sunday, the 24th December A..D. 1077, when the 7th tithi of the bright half of Pansha ended 17 h. 21 m., and the Uttarêyapasankranti took place 5 h. 35 m., after mean sunrise. And the date on which the grant was written regularly corresponds, for the Karttikadi Vikrama year 1135 expired and the púrnimanta Chaitra, to Sunday, the 24th February A.D. 1079, when the 6th tithi of the dark half of the půrnimánta Chaitra ended 21 h. 42 m. after mean sunrise. From this it may be seen that the grant was written as much as fourteen months after the making of the donation. The date given in lines 28 and 29 for the accession of Sodhadêva's father Vyasa must fall in the Kárttikadi Vikrama year 1087 expired, because of the three years which might be denoted by the number 1087 that year alone contained an intercalary Jyaishtha; and for the Karttikadi Vikrama year 1087 expired the date corresponds to Monday, the 31st May A.D. 1031, when the 8th tithi of the bright half of the second Jyaishtha commenced 9 h. 47 m. after mean sunrise. It may seem somewhat remarkable that the week-day should have been connected here with a tithi which commenced so late in the day, but this is no reason for suspecting the authenticity of the date; the accession of Vyåsa may have taken place late in the afternoon.
This last date, of A.D. 1031, is earlier than any date known to us from the inscriptions of the Kalachuris of Chêdi. In my opinion, it shews that the founder of this new branch of the Kalachuri family, Rajaputra, cannot be placed later than the beginning of the 9th century A.D.
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First Side. 1 Om svasti [11] Abhůt=Somaḥ saumya-dyatir=ampita-sur-Atri-tanayaḥ sphurach
chůda-ratnam Smara-vijayinaḥ sambļita-tamah | Vu(bu)dhas-tasmaj-játaḥ kumuda-vi[fa]da-jna(jña)na-badanan grahagrâma-slá (bla)gh - Avadhir-adhiks
saubhagya-vasatih || [1] "Tasmáj-jaga2 t-patir=apatyam-abhat-prabhuta-bh upåla-mauli-mani-chumvi(mbi)ta-padapadmah sadma
tvishâm vinaya-vesma(@ma) Purûravaḥ sa yasy-Orvvasi(si) priyatama purato va(ba)bhůva || [2] 8Taj-janm Naghu(hu)shaḥ kriti nijapada-bbramsa(sa)bhramâkâta-bbřid=yên="ottapta
1 Compare in the Sirkâr Gorakhpur names of pargaņas like Bamhnspara, Bhawapdra, Chilūpârs, Dhariápára, etc.. in Sir H. M. Elliot's Races of the N. W. Provinces of India, Vol. II. p. 119.
. See E. Thornton's Gazetteer (1957), p. 333. Deoba' clearly is the D[ aivahd, wlich we have in Dailcahd-part in a plate of Jayachchandrs of Kanauj, Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 138.
Their earliest certain date corresponds to the 18th January A.D. 1042; compare my List of North. Inser. No. 407. The Sarkaragans who was contemporary of Kókkalls Imay have been the Sankaragans I. of the present inscription.
• Prom impressions supplied by the Curator of the Lucknow Museum. Denoted by a symbol.
Metre: Sikhariņi.
7 Metre: Vasantatilaka. * Metre of verses 3 and 4: Śårddlavikridita.
. Originally wyine was engraved.
