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No. 13.
PARTABGATII INSCRIPTION OF KING MATIENDRA-PALA II.
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worshipped the god Siva and moditated on the unreality of lifo and wealth, bestowed, on the Mina-samkrāati dny, the village of Dhārā-padraka, with all its appurtenances, for repairs to, and maintenance of daily services at, the temple of Indrāditya-dēva at Ghonţă-varshika, il place associated with Nityapramudita-diva, at the reqnest of the great feudatory Indra-raja, son of Durlabha-rāja of the Chahamāna race. He therefore enjoins all residents of the village and the neighbourhood to observe this order (11. 20-20). A further endowment of a field by the river-side to the north of the village, irrigated by a Persian wheel, onil of five matting screens for the erection of a flower porch is recorded (1. 26). The grant is sigued by Madhava and countersigned by the Vidagdha (1. 27) of the first grant.
The names of the warlike Chūhaminas eulogized in this grant are not known from any other record. It was probably a local dynasty of the Chabaminas which had entered into in subordinato alliance with kiug Bhoja-Deva I. and helped him in his wars, thus giving the overlord great pleasure.' Indra-raja built a temple to the sun-god (Indraditya-dova) and applied to the governor of Ujjain, appointed by his overlord, the king of Kananj, evidently Alahendrapāla II. of the first grant, for an endowment for its upkeep. The grant is not dated; but we find from the third grant that the temple of Indrāditya-diva was existing and was well-known after the uame of the builder (1.28) four years before the date of the first grant. We thus have reason to suppose that the request of the bailder to the provincial representative of his overlord to secure a pirmanent endowment for it must have immediately followed its erection and preceded the gift of Bharti-patta recorded in the grant following. Thus this grant is evidently prior to the third, and is consequently the first, though not by many years, as is evident from the signature of the same governor, Vidaydha, allixed to both the grants. The custom of provincial governors countersigning grants issued by subordinate chiefs relating to lands in their (the governors') jurisdiction is borne out by the evidence of the Unů plate of the time of Mahendra-pāla I. of Kanauj, where Dhiika couutersigued a grant of Bala-varman, & feudatory of the king (Ep. Ind., Vol. IX, p. 6).
Mandapikā is Måndů, where another officer Sri-sarman, appointed by the king's commander-in-chief, resided. Dhārā-padraka is probably Dhargāvad (in Mowar), situated near the boundary of the Partābgarh State. The matting screens referred to were to be used, evidently, in the periodical festivals in which the throne of the deity is placed in a porch of flowers and leaves temporarily erected over it.
PART III.
This grant records that Maharajadhiraja Bhartri-patta, son of Khommāņa, enjoins his descendants to maintain in perpetnity, and not to interfere with, the enjoyment of the bestowal of a field named Vavvülika (Babbulika) by the side of the river Nandya in the village of Palīga-kupika, made by him apon Indrarajaditya-deva of Ghônţă-varshi for increase of merit to himself and his parents (11. 27-30). The boundaries of the field are defined (11. 28-29), and a customary verse eitolling the donor and the donee follows (11. 31. 32). The date is given as the first day of the bright half of the month of Srāvana in the Samvat year 999 (A.D. 942).
Bhartsi-patta of this inscription is Bhartși-pattal II., son of Khommāņa III. of Měwār, belonging to the Guhila family. Another inscription of his reign is dated Sarnvat 1000 (A.D. 943). Paläsa-kupika is probably the present Parisiä, about 15 miles south of Mandasor. The river Nandy, and the villago of Varaha-palli, mentioned in the boundaries, cannot be identified at present.
Ind. ant., Vol. XXXIX, p. 191. Annal Report on the working of the Rajputana Museum, Ajmer, 1914, p. 2.
