________________
200
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XIV.
tritivă, in the yugādi parvan, after having doly satisfied the sacred texta, divinities, sages, men, beings and the group of departed ancestors--after having worshipped the sun, whose splendour is potent in rending the mass of darkness-after having praised him (Siva) whose body consists of the earth, water, fire, air, ether, the sacrificing priest, the moon and the son, and whose Crest is & portion of the moon-after baving performed adoration to the holy Vāgudēva-after having sacrificed to the fire an oblation of abundant milk, rice and sugar after having offered oblations to the manes-have given away the above-mentioned villages with their water, dry land, hills, forests, ravines, saline wastes, stones and mines, of iron and salt, together with and including their groves of madhūka and mango trees, enclosed gardens, bushes, grass and pasture land, with their four boundaries clearly defined, to the five hundred Brahmaņas, versed in the four Vēdas with their four divisions, whose different names and gotras are recorded in the copper-plate pertaining to Kathēhali, confirming our gift) with the pouring out) from the palm of our hand of water purified with gokarnal and kuća grass, and ordaining that it should be theirs) as long as the sun and the moon (endure). Aware (of this), you will present to them every kind of income, the due share of the produce, the bhiga, kara, turushka-danda etc. At the same time the village of Majuada in the Vam kāņai pattala, with all usually rendered kinds of income, has been given as a grant to the temple of) the divine and illustrious Chamdramadhava at Chandrivati for purposes of worship.
(L. 24) (The deed) was engraved by Madhava, the son of the illustrious Gangadhara, who made the image of the illustrious Chandramadhave, which puts to shame the other (images).
Of the localities mentioned in the plates the most interesting are Laghukamavali and Chindavali. The first in probably the same as the modern Kamauli, situated 8 miles south of Chandråvati. It was here that a plate of Singara Vatsarāja? and 21 Gábadavāla plates were found. We may presume that the village was divided into two portions, the "smaller Kamavali" and the “larger Kamavali." Chandavali, situated 18 or 20 miles south-east of Chandråvati, is a Tahsil in the Benares district. The following is an alphabetical list of the other localities referred to in the plates, with their modern names as far as I have been able to ascertain them :(1) Adhiva.
Adi-kēšava ghatļa. There is a bathing ghat at Benares which still bears this name. Anadauri. Anadatri. Bhadauha. This is the same a. Baduā, situated in Katēhir pargana 3 miles south-west o
Chandrăvati. Bhandadahe. Same as Bhandahå, situated 2 miles north of Chandravati. Bbāgama. Bharathi. Bhāyi. Brihatsiü. Bpihatyamebalāms. Chamēkha. Chathetară. Chchhatēmbu. Chilåda.
1 The meening of this word is not clear. Gökarna is the name of a place of pilgrimage on the Malabar Coast: Perhaps kwa gra of that place was considered to be of extra sanotity. [See shove, Vol. XI, p. 308 and ref. 18 Kielhorn, Indian Antiquary, Vol. XV, p. 10, n. 67.-F.W.T.) * Ep. Ind., Vol. IV, pp. 180 sq.
Bp. Ind., Vol. IV, pp. 97 sq.
