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Bhavadatta with Bhavattavarman. As very little was known so far about the Nalas, these two records are of special value for they help us in determining the country over which they ruled.
The inscription records the grant of a village called Kadambagiri-grama to Matrādhya. ryya and his eight sons, namely, Döväryya, Dāvadattaryya, Kumāradattarya, Vi(VI)radattaryya, Vasudattarya, Go(Gauridattaryya, Dhruvadattāryya and Durggatth(datt)āryya of the Parāśara-gotra. The grant was issued from Nandivarddhana but actually made at Prayāga or the confluence of the Ganges and the Jumna. However, it does not follow that Prayāga formed part of the dominions of Bhavattavarmman, for grants of distant villages, we know, were often made at exceptionally holy places or tirthas like it or Benares. The charter was written at the oral instructions (of the king) by Chulia, his confidential officer, and engraved by Boppadēva, the grandson of Paddopadhyāya.
The document is dated on the 7th day of the dark fortnight of Kärttika of the 11th (regnal) year of king Bhavattavarmman. Paleographically the record may be assigned to the latter half of the 5th or the first half of the 6th century A.D.
Of the localities mentioned, Nandivardhana, from where Bhavattavarmman issued the grant, deserves notice. Perhaps, it is different from the Nandivarddhana which has been identified by Rai Bahadur Hiralal with Nagardhana in the Nāgpur district, and is identical with Nandur in the Yeotmal täluka of the Central Provinces, which has a good camping ground, Kadambagiri-grama is apparently Kalamba in the same district, without the appendage girigrāma. Other villages I am unable to identify.
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First Plate 1 सि[म] ॥ खस्ति [0] नन्दिवनात् [1] महेश्वरमहासमातिबाट १ राज्यविभवः नलपवंशप्रसूत: चिपताकाध्वजः श्रीमहाराज. 3 भवत्तवर्मा कदम्बगिरिग्रामे [व]णिपुरोगान् समात(स) र. 4 कुटम्बी(बि)न: समानापयति ययममाभिः भगवतः प्रजापति (ते.) 5 प्रसादसिवयेचे मायमुनयोसंवे(वे)थे प्रथागस्थितेदकपूर्वक
Second Plate ; First Sido. 6 मम चाचपो(पि) भा[]रिकायाय दंम्म(दाम्प)त्यस्याम्माकमनुग्रहार्यम्
(a) पराशरस7 मोचाय माचाव्यााय पुत्राणां चास्वाष्टानाम(ना) यथा देवाबस्व 8 देवदताव्यस्य कुमारदत्तार्थस्य वि(वो)रदत्तार्थस्य वसुद9 ताय॑स्य गो(गौ)रिदत्तायस्य ध्रुवदत्तार्यस्य दुर्गत्या(दत्ता)य॑स्य चेत्येवम् 10 पालमवमायमा बाचार्याय दत्ता(तो) यत एतेषाम् ब्राणाना]म(ना)
वि.
See the Dynasties of the Kanares Districu of the Bombay Presidency, p. 6, and the Early History of the Deccan, p. 49.
* From the original plates. • The letter seems to be a correction from प. [The plate reads (1)[.7 being invised below 11.-Ed.) Superfluous. [Or perhaps sfee is meant-Ed.]
is added below the line by way of interlineation. The two horizontal lines in the margin may be noticed
