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The charter records the grant by Jasõrājs of the village Vildhaja and one hundred (measures of land in the village Ghaptăpalli to a Saiva ascetic Dinakara for the worship of Chantekvara (Siva). The writer of the grant was Sõhika, son of the Kayastha Aiyala of the Välabhya family.
The inscription being incomplete gives us no clue as to the antecedents of king Bhðjadēva, whose feudatory issued the present grant. But there can be no doubt that Bhojadova mentioned here is the famous Paramāra king of the same name. The earliest date so far found for Bhoja is V. 8. 1076 from the Banswara plates and the latest is V. 8. 1099. The latest date of Vakpati Muñja is V. 8. 1050. He was succeeded by Sindhuraja and the latter by Bhöja, evidently, some time before V. S. 1076, the date of the Banswarā plates. For Bhöja's successor Jayasimha, we have V. 8. 1112 as the earliest date in his Mandhata plates. It is evident therefore that Bhoja died some time before V. 8. 1112 and after V. 8. 1099. If there is any truth in the popular tradition that Bhöja ruled for 18 years, we shall not be far from truth if we assign to Bhoja's reign the approximate period from V. 8. 1065 to V. 8. 1110. The Bhojadēva of the present record of V. 8. 1103 must therefore be identical with the Paramāra Bhoja. The contemporary Chaulukys ruler of Northern Gujarat was Bhima I, but his rule does not seem to have extended much to the south and east of his capital. In the Läta country (Surat and Broach Districts) another Chaulukya family was ruling which did not acknowledge the power of the Chaulukyas of Anahilapitana as may be seen from the Surat plates of Kirtiraja of Saka 940 and of TribhuVanapāla of Saka 972. We know also that the Paramaras were not new to the province of Gujarat in the time of Bhoja. For the two grants of the Paramāra Siyaka of V. 8. 1005 recently found at Harsola in Ahmadabad District and the incomplete grant' of V. S. 1026 of the samo king found in Ahmadābād show us that that part of Gujarat at any rate was in the hands of the Paramäras during the time of Siyaka.
At Kalavana in the Nasik District an undated grant of the time of Bhoja is found which leaves no doubt that Bhöja's power was at this period acknowledged there. It moreover speaks of Bhöja's defeating the kings of a number of countries including Läta and Gujarat. In the Betmå plates of Bhoja of V. 8. 1076 the village granted may probably be located in Gujarat. All these indications point to the fact that the Paramāras were connected with Gujarat 10 in the early days of the rise of their family and had gained influence over a considerable tract of country under king Bhoja in Gujarat and elsewhere in its neighbourhood.
No account is given of Sahav hans who was among other kings subdued by Bhöjadeva with the help ot Straditya. Shavkhana no doubt stands for the word Chahamāna as the change
1 Above, Vol. XI, pp. 182 . . From 18. of Rajam rigtiba.
From MS. of Amitagati's Subhashitaratnasandóha. • Above, Vol. II, p. 48. • Kielhorn's List No. 354 in Ep. Ind., Vol. V, Appendix and Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, p. 201. . Above, Vol. XIX, pp. 241 1.
Above, Vol. XIX, pp. 178 f.
. Abovo, Vol. XIX, pp. 71 t. See also my note on the grant publiebed in the Journal of Indian History, Vol. VII, p. 222. There is reason to believe that the date of this grant, which mentions & solar solipse in the month of Chaitra, must be confined to V. 8. 1102-1104 and was therefore Dearest to the date of the prosent grant.
. Above, Vol. XVIII, pp. 922 ft.
10 In taot I am led to believe that the Paramiras had no footing in Milwi before about V.8. 1027, short time before Slyoka waoked Minyakheta as is known from the Paiyalachchii-Namamala of Dhanapkla, since the Pratapgadh Inscription of Pratihara Mahindrapkls of V. 8. 1003 whow that Milwww governed by a Pratibis governor. See above, Vol. XIV, p. 177,
