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No. 80.1 SHAHDAUR INSCRIPTIONS, ONE APPARENTLY OF THE YEAR: 60.
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headed by MasAnA-GAvunda and Ioha-GĀyunda, jointly granted a pious endowment : for the theatrical entertainment and oblations of the Kshotrapaļal of Koļür they granted a gift, 1 Ganga's mattar of black-loam land east of the town (and) west of the cross-road, 20 kamba of red forest-land south of the town (and) north of the road to Karage, 10 kamba south of the channel of Chanda of the Mango (and) below the Long Tank (Nidugere) and oil for lights. Fortune! Fortune !
(LI. 38-99: a prose formula of the usual type.)
(V 3.) The prior of the establishment has obtained the monastery as a pious gift," he hns got the land on sarva-namasya tenure, on condition that he shall certainly always avoid women.
No. 30.-SHAHDAUR INSCRIPTIONS, ONE APPARENTLY OF THE YEAR 60.
BY STEN Konow.
Shahdaur is a hamlet in the Oghi kanungo circle of the Mānsehra tahsil, Hazāra District. and is situated about two miles east of Shamdhara and about four miles due east of Oghi. It is shown as Shodaur on the one inch equal 2 mile sheet 43 F., N. W., at 34° 30' 36' N. and 73° 4' 20" E.
One mile south-east of the hamlet there is a narrow glen descending from the Tanglai hill, which gives its name to the Tanglai Forest, one of the reserved areas in the Hazāra District. In one of the small terraced fields of this glen, and overlooking a small spring in a contiguous gorge, is a firmly buried rock or large boulder of irregular shape, measuring 13' x 16', without any sign of dressing or design in position. The boulder marks the southern edge of a small field, and is of grey friable sandstone with a rough surface.
The rock bears two Kharðshthi inscriptions, one in two lines on the perpendicular side facing the north, and another on the top. The latter shows remnants of five lines, but must, according to Khan Bahadur Mian Wasi-ud-din, have extended further to the south, where the surface is said to be greatly disfigured from age and other causes.
The rock is said to have been brought to the notice of Mr. W. S. Davis, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Hazăre, in 1893, but no records have been traced about the matter.
In the hot weather of 1924 a villager of Shamdhara gave information about the existence of the inscriptions to Mr. T. C. Copeland, I.C.S., Deputy Commissioner of the Hazára District, who informed the Director-General of Archæology of the matter in a letter of the 24th October 1924 and forwarded some photographs and rough tracings. A further report was sent to the Direotor-General on the 20th November 1924 by Khan Bahadur Mian Wasi-ud-din, who had in the meantime examined the rock and exposed it by excavation for several feet and found out that there was no continuation of the inscription on the perpendicular side below the surface. He also stated that an examination of the neighbourhood did not bring to light any further evidence or coins, but only some glazed fragments of coarse pottery. Local inquiries about coins are also said to have been fruitless. Every patch of level space in all directions has been lately brought under cultivation, and no ancient walls are said to be in evidence anywhere, though mention is made of the existence of burjs' before Government occupied the valley
On this deity, form of Bhairava, see above. • Babtana or sathtati, pious work. The sapta-sathidna are enumerated in the verso:
Tafaka dhana-nikahaparis brahma-shapyar Sivalaya de Vanasi rastatiputra apta-terlaran gald Cf. above, Vol. III, pp. 99 and 128.
