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The inscription is one of Mahiraja Dhruvasēna (I.) and records the grant of a village (of which the name must have occurred in the missing portion of the grant and is therefore now lost) to a Brāhmaṇa named Rotghamitra of the Vrajagaņa götra, a student of the Chhandoga School, and resident of Simhapura, for the maintenance of certain sacrifices. The grant is dated sam. 200 6, Āsvina sukla 3. The samvat year, when referred to the Valabhi era, yields A.D. (206+ 319) 525. The dataka was Mammaka, and the writer Kikkaka, as usual.
The only point worthy of notice in this grant is the village-name Simhapura, which is mentioned in it as the residence of the grantee. It is tempting to identify it with Sihör in the east of the Kathiawad peninsula, a junction on the Bhavanagar-Wadhwan Railway, not far from Valā, the ancient Valabhi. KATHIAWAD PLATE OF DHRUVASENA (I.J.)
TEXT. 1 rạnava-kshiti-sarit-parvvata-sthiti-samakālīnam patra-pantr-ānvaya-bhojyam bali2 charu-vai vadov-ādyänăm kriyaņām samutsarppaņ-årttham Simhapura-vastavya
brāhmaṇa:Rötghamitrāya 3 Vrajagana-sa-gotrāya (Ch)Chhandoga-sa-brahmachāriņš brahma-dayam nisrishta
[*] yato=syrochitayı brahma. 4 dēya-sthitya bhumjataḥ kṣishataḥ pradifatah-karshāpayatas-cha na kais-chit-svalp
ápy=ābāda vichāraṇā vā 5 käryy-asmad-vamsajair=āgummi-nfipatibhis-ch=ānityāny-aišvairyyāṇy=asthiram mânu
shyam ch=āvēkshya sāmányar cha 6 bhūmi-dana-phalam=avagachchhadbhir=ayam=&smad-dâyð=numantavyo yas-ch-achchhin
dyad=achchhidyamānam v=inumodēt 7 sa pañchabhir-mmahā-pätakais=s-opapātakais=samyuktas=syäd=api ch=ătra Vyāsa-gitan
slokau 8 bhavataḥ [l*] shashtim[*] varsha-sahasrāņi svarggě mödati bhūmidaḥ[*] achchhetta
ch=ānumantã cha täny=&va narako 9 vasot [lle*) sva-dattāṁ para-datta[m®]=vvå yo harēta vasundharan [*] gavām
fata-sahasrasya hantu[bo] prāpnoti 10 kilbisham[|| * * ]-iti sva-hasto mama mahārāja-Dhruvasēnasya [11] dūtakaḥ
pratihāra-Mammakaḥ [ll] 11 likhitam Kikkakena [ll] sam 200 B Asvayuja su 3 [ll]
No. 8.-SRIRANGAM COPPER-PLATE GRANT OF DEVARAYA II;
SAKA 1349 (1350). BY THE LATE T. A. GOPINATHA RAO, M.A., TRIVANDRUM. The temple of Śri-Ranganatha at Srirangam possesses, among others, two sets of copperplates belonging to the reign of the Vijayanagara king Dēvariya II. The inscriptions engraved npon these two sets are edited below from the impressions prepared under my supervision.
No. I. SAKA-SAMVAT 1949. This set consists of three plates (size 108 x 67 in.), of which the first and the third bear writing on one face only, namely, the second side of the first and the first side of the third.
From the original plate and a set of impressions.
[Read agami,-Ed.]
