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All these plates were issued during the ninety years from A.D. 1097 to A.D. 1187. Excepting the genealogy of the family and dates for each king from Chandradeva to Jayachohandra, there is in them no historical information of any particular value. But the plates are of great interest on account of the very large number of districts and villages mentioned in thom. Nearly all these localities remain to be identified; and it is with the view of perhaps inducing others, especially residents of the United Provinces, to help in the work of identifcation, that I give here an alphabetical list of all names of districts that ooour in the plates. So far as I can judge, most of these districts would have boen called after larger villages or towns, some of which undoubtedly are still in existence.
List of districts mentioned in the plates. Amyu(mbu) All-pattala; Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 188, line 20. (The insoription grants the village of Dêùpålt on the banks of the D[ai]vah. DaivahA apparently is the modern Dooha' which according to Thornton's Gazetteer, p. 333, is another name of the river Gogra.)
Antarala-pattald; Jour. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. XXXI. p. 123. Asurésa-pattala; Ind. Ant. Vol. XV. p. 11, line 20. Bhaïlavata-pattala(); Jour. Roy. As. Soo. 1896, p. 787. Bhimamayatåsn . -pattald; above, Vol. V. p. 117, line 13. Dayad&mi-pattald; Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 140, line 18. Dévashali-pattals; ibid. Vol. XV. p. 7, line 14. Dhan@saramaus-pattala; ibid. Vol. XVIII. p. 11, line 8.
Goyars-pattala (in Opavala-pathaka); above, Vol. V. p. 114, line 15. (Gôyara perhaps is the Gowra' in Indian Atlas, sheet No. 102, long. 83° 20', lat. 26° 47'.)
Haladoya-pattald ; above, Vol. IV. p. 101, line 14; and Jour. As. Soo. Beng. Vol. XXVII. p. 243.
[HAP]thanna-pattalA; Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. D. 21. JAra[ttha)-pattala; ibid. p. 141, line 18; and p. 142, line 16. JiÂvai-pattall; above, Vol. IV. p. 119, line 14; or, which is the same.Jiâvati-pattale (in Pañchala-desa); Ind. Ant. Vol. XIV. p. 103, line 10; and Ep. Ind.
Vol. II. p. 360, line 8. Kachchhôha-pattalá; above, Vol. IV. p. 116, line 12; and p. 129, line 19. Kangali-pattala; ibid. p. 127, line 17. Kați-pattalà ; ibid. p. 102, line 13. [Kesauré ?1-pattala; bid. p. 105, line 12. Kosamya(mba)-pattala; Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 137, line 18. K[thô]takoţiávarahôtta[ra]; above, Vol. IV. p. 108, line 11. Mahash-pattala; ibid. p. 122, line 18; or, which is the same, Mahasøya-pattala; above, Vol. V. p. 115, line 12. MA[na]ra-pattalA; Ind. Ant. Vol. XVIII. p. 131, line 20. Nandini-pattal&; below, p. 155, line 13. Nandivåra-pattala; below, p. 154, line 12 Navagâma-pattalA; Jour. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. LVI. P. I. p. 109, line 14; and above,
Vol. IV. p. 113, line 13. Ndulasat&visika; above, Vol. IV. p. 110, line 9.
1 The plates generally state that Yasovigrahs, the reputed founder of the GAhadavala family, caine when the lines of the protectors of the earth born in the solar race had gone to heaven.' The kings thus referred to are the Pratihêras of Kansuj who, we now know, derived their descent from the San. The Gahadevils king who first took possession of KanaDj was Yafovigraha's grandson Chandradêra, for whom we have a date in A.D. 1097.
1 The data visild of this name is derived from the Prikrit sattdelaan's or Sanskrit naplavishlati, twenty. seven.'-Compare, in other plates, names of districts like Nakohisapura-chaturafitika, eto.
