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Budhasvamin" (11. 41-43). The grant consisted of "a field measuring one hundred bhaktis at the southern boundary of the village Chandraputraka in Malavaka, in the said district (vishaya). The boundaries of this (field are):-to the east, the boundary of the village Dhammanahaḍḍika; to the south, the boundary of the village Devakulapataka; to the west, the boundary of the field of the Mahattara Viratara-maṇḍalin; at the north-western corner, the small tank (called) Nirgandi; (and) to the north, (the field of) Viratara-mandalin" (11. 44-46). The date of the grant was "the year 300 (and) 20 (and) 1; (the month) Chaitra ; the dark (fortnight); the 3rd (tithi)" (1. 54).
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TWO GRANTS OF DHRUVASENA II.
Each of the two donees is called a son of Budhasvamin, a student of the Vâjasanêya sakha, and a member of the Pârâéara gôtra. This suggests that they were sons of the same father, and that the epithet 'who has come from Udumbaragahvara,' which is applied to the first donee (1. 41), holds good for the second as well. The first donee is stated to have resided at Ayânakagrahara and to have belonged to the Trivedins of Dasapura. From this I conclude that Ayânakâgrahara was a quarter or suburb of Dagapura. The second donee, who was probably the brother of the first, resided at, and belonged to the Chaturvedins of, Agastikagrahara, which may have been, another hamlet of Dasapura. This town is the modern Dasôr or Mandasôr, the chief town of a district of the Scindia's dominions, about 52 miles north of Rutlam.
As in the inscription A., the land granted belonged to the province of Malavaka. It consisted of a field in the south of Chandraputraka and was bounded in the east by Dhammanahaḍḍika and in the south by Dêvakulapâṭaka. In his letter to Mr. Marshall, the Dewan of Rutlam thought of identifying these places, successively, with Chandodia, Dhamnod and Divel Khedi three villages in the south-west of Nôgåwå where the two grants were discovered. But the phonetical correspondence of each of the three pairs of names is only superficial; besides, Dhamnod is not in the east, but in the south-west, and Divel Khedi not in the south, but in the north-west, of Chandodia. Hence the Dewan's identification must be rejected. Dr. Fleet has very kindly searched the maps with the following result:
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"Eleven miles south-south-east from Mandasôr, there is a large village which is shewn as Dhamnar' in the Indian Atlas sheet No. 35, S.E. (1891), and as Dhamnár' in the Bhopal and Malwa Topographical Survey sheet No. 38 (1882). I suspect that this is the Dhammanahaḍḍikâ of the record. But neither of the maps shews anything answering to any of the other names; unless Devakulapâṭaka may be found in the Dilauda' of the maps, four miles west-south-west from 'Dhamnár,' and in quite the right position to be on the south of Chandraputraka, Dhamnár' being taken to be the village on its east. And, of course, a possible identification of only one place is not sufficient to conclusively locate the record."
The date of this inscription, [Gupta-]Samvat 321 (i.e. A.D. 640-41), falls between that of the first Nôgåwå grant- Samvat 320-and the earliest date of Dharasêna IV.- Samvat 3266 and thus extends the known period of the reign of Dhruvasêna II. by one year.
1 See the remarks on page 189 above.
2 See above, p. 189 and note 5.
See Dr. Fleet's Gupta Insoriptions, p. 79 f., and above, Vol. V. p. 88 f.
Dr. Fleet informs me that these villages are given on the Indian Atlas sheet No. 36, N. E. (189b), as Chandoria, Dhamnod, Dibal and Kheri.
"There is also another 'Dilauda,' which gives its name to a station on the Holkar and Neemuch State Railway, three and a half miles north-north-east from this one, and two and a half miles north-west-by-west from Dhamnar.""
See Prof. Kielhora's Northern List, No. 481.
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