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No. 58.1
AN UNPUBLISHED GRANT OF DHRUVASENA I.
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The inscription is one of the Mahasamanta Mahārāja Dhruvasena I of the Maitraka family and records the grant from Valabhi, of the village Kalahaṭaka situated in the Hastavapraharaņi to two Brahmaņas, Viśvadatta and Vasudatta, of the Bharadvaja yōtra for the maintenance of the sacrificial rites bali, charu, vaisvadeva, etc. That the plates confirm a previous grant is suggested by the expressions Hastavapr-aharanyam Kalahaṭaka-grāmaḥ pūrova-bhukta-bhujyamānakah ( 1. 14), pūrro-āchāra-sthityā pratipāditah (ll. 18 and 19 ). The name of the donees' place of residence is broken. These expressions might be translated as "the village Kalahataka situated within the Hastavapra-harani territorial division which had (formerly) been enjoyed and is being enjoyed (by the donees of the original grant)", "has been granted (by us) in accordance with the usual custom. "
The writer of the published charters of Dhruvasena I, issued by him from the Gupta-Valabhi Sarvat 206 to 217 is Kikkaka, but there are several changes in the office of the Ditaka or the executive officer. Thus the Dutaka Pratihära Mammaka who is mentioned in all copper-plate grants of Dhruvasena I issued from G. V. Sath. 206 to Srāvana ju. 15 of 210, gives place to Rudradhara in the Palitānā plates of Aśvayuja ba. 5, G. V. Sarh. 210, issued like the other two grants of 210 from Valabhi. Later, in the year 216, Rudradhara is replaced by the Bhāgika Rajasthaniya Bhatti. Thus the chronology of various grants, so far as the Dutakas are concerned, is sufficiently clear and leads me to surmise that as the lutaka of these plates is the Pratihära Mammaka, the charter may, even in the absence of date, be tentatively placed between the years 206 and 210, s.e., before the assumption of the Dutaka's office by Rudradhara. This must, however, remain a mere possibility as it is not necessary that there should be only one Dutaka at a time, and that another could not be appointed during the life-time or even the tenure of a certain Dutaka. Of the place names mentioned in the inscription, Hastavapra is modern Hathab1. Kalahataka may be identified with modern Koliak (spelt as Koliyat by Col. H. S. Jarrett) lying on the eastern bank of the creek near Hithab.
TEXT. First Plate.
1 ओं स्वस्ति वलभीतः प्रसभप्रणता मित्राणां मैत्रकाणामतुलबल सपत्त्रमण्डलाभोग2 सप्रहारथतलब्धप्रतापः प्रतापीपमतदानमाना बंदोपार्जितानुरागोनुर
3 मौजभृतमित्रयेोबलावामराज्यश्रीः परममाहेश्वरसेनापतियोभटबस्त स्वतः
4 तत्यादरखोरुयावनतपविषोजतथि [रा: "]
शिरोवनतमचूडामचिप्रमाविष्कुरित
पादनख
5 प (पं) क्तिदीधितिनानाथजना (नो) पजीव्यमानविभव परम माहेश्ारखेनापतिधरसेनः 6 तस्यानुजस्तत्पादाभिप्रणामप्रशस्त विमल मौलिमणिमन्वादिप्रणोत विधिविध (धा) मध 7 धर्मराज व विहितविनय परखापचा (च) तिरखिलभुवनम लाभोगखामिना परमसामिन (ना)
8 वसुपचितराज्याभिषेक महाविवाचनावपूतराजवीः परममा हमारी महाराज
1 Ind. Ank, Vol. V, p. 314 and above, Vol. XI, p. 106 and notes 1 and 2.
Ind. Am., Vol. V, p. 314.
●ikhari 1891 eda, Vol. II. p. 245.
