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DABOK INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF DHAVALAPPADEVA.
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(A.D. 1006), we know that the Rāshtrakūtas were ruling over Rajputāna in the eleventh century A.D. We also know from the Sirur inscription of the Rashtrakūta king Amoghavarsha I that Govindarāja III conquered Kerala, Mälava, Gurjara, etc., as far as Chitrakūta (Chitor in Mewar). This would show that the Rashtrakūtas of the Deccan held their sway over some parts of Rajputāns in the beginning of the ninth century A.D. Possibly the Rashtrakūtas of Dhanop, which is near Mewar, were related to the Rashtrakūtas of the Deccan, and Dhavalappadēva may Biso have been related to them. His name seems to be of South Indian origin.
The epigraph under notice describes Dhanika as the son of Guhila, who then ruled over Dhavagartā (1. 2). The Chātsū inscription of Balāditya mentions a Dhanika as the son of Guhila. One Dhanika figures as a local ruler in the inscription dated Samvat 887 (A.D. 830), recently discovered at Näsūn in the Kharwă estate in Ajmer-Merwara, but, there, he is described as the father of Isänabhata. The Dhanika of the Chatsu inscription was the great-grandson of Isānabhata. Consequently there must have been two Dhanikas and two ftānabhatas.
The contents of the inscription may be summed up as follows:
After making an obeisance to the god Siva and giving the date as the eighth day of the bright fortnight of Bhādrapada of the samvat 207 (200 in letter-symbol and 7 in figure), the first five lines state that, during the reign of Paramabhaffaraka Mahārājādhirāja Paramesvara Sri-Dhavalappadēva, Vaidya Giyaka, son of NÄgadāman of the Kāyastha family and an inhabitant of Dhavagartā, which was being ruled over by Dhanika, a Guhilot, made permanent endowments of some faradyagraishmika fields (the fields that can be tilled in autumn as well as in summer) to two temples-one of Mahamahēsvara established by him (Giyaks) and the other of Durgadevi previously established by Vaidya Yatodēva, Lines 4-5 inform us that the above fields were in the share or inheritance of Chachcha (probably one of the sons of the donor). In lines 5-10 are given the boundaries of the fields and of the two shops. Lines 10-11 tell us that the fields were granted for the increase of religious merit and fame of the donor and his parents, as also for the repairs and maintenance of the above temples. In lines 12-13, the allotment of the fields and the share of their produce is made. The fifteenth or the last line tells us that the inscription was engraved by Vriddhinaga, son of Vaidya Giyaka.
TEXT, 1 पोंनमः शिवाय ॥ सं २०.७ भाद्रपदरादि ८ परिमंदि(सिन्दि)वसे
परमभहारकमहाराजाधिरावपरममारबीच(ध)वसष्पदेवप्रवर्ध()2 Ar i freguest st(s)faaray[
watarat (V) atat वातावैधगीयवनागदामपुषनेगम१ वात्य (त्यः) श्रीमविक्यौरसामान्यदेवदायत्वेन पचयनीमी(वी) प्रयच्छति
पात्मीयाकारितदेवद्रोणीप्रतिष्ठापितस्य देवाधिदेवमहामी.
1 Above Vol. VII, p. 207.
* Names ending in pps generally denote the names of persons of South India; for instanos, appo (above, Vi, 117), Tailappa (ibid., ILL, 271), Dhörappa (ibid., 11, 217), Dhadiyappa (ibid., IL, 217), etc. Such ingtapos Morare in northern India. The name Dhavalappe also occurs in a grant of Krishna II (ibid., L03), bat Lo munt be a different person. . Abovo, Vol. XII, p. 14. • Ind. Ant., Vol. LIX, p. 22.
From the impression, Expressed by a symbol
