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that of the present grant, only on the supposition that the year used was the Southern Vikrama year commencing with the month of Kartika. Bhimadēva must therefore have died during the period between Pausha and Chaitra of the Southern Vikrama year 1120. On verification, however, the date of Karna's accession as given by Merutunga appears to work out regularly only for Saturday, 12th March 1065 (=Southern V. S. 1121), which is more than a year removed from the date of the present grant. The first epigraphical dates for Karna are those provided by his Navsări1 grants dated Saka 996 and V. S. 1131 (=1074 A.D.).
The writer of the grant was Kökkaka, the son of the Kayastha Vatesvara, who appears to belong to a family of hereditary scribes of the Chaulukyas. Thus we know the Kayastha Vatesvara to be the writer of the Radhanpur grant of Bhimadeva and Kekkaka himself to be the writer of the Navsari1 and Sunak plates of Karna. The Dutaka was the illustrious Bhōgaditya, the minister of peace and war, who also figures in the Navsari plates.
Of the geographical names, Ila, the place of the king's encampment, can possibly be identified with the modern Ilol, a petty state in the Mahikantha Agency, to the south-east of Palanpur. The ending -ol of place names in North Gujarat (e.g., Halol, Kalol, Palol) is to be considered the local equivalent of pur, through ur and ul. Ilapura can thus be a good Sanskrit equivalent to Ilol. I am unable to identify the other places.
TEXT.
First Plate.
1 Om Vikrama-Samvat 1120 Pausha sudi 15 ady-eha kāla Ilä2 väsita-śrīmad-vijayi-katake samasta-rāj-āvalī-virāji
3 ta-mahārājādhiraja-éri-Bhimadevaḥ svabhujyamāna-Dhanada
4 hara-pathakē samasta-raja-purashan janapadamhs-cha bōdhaya
5 ty=astu vaḥ samviditam yatha ady-otvarōyana-parvani Mahēśva
6, ram-abhyarchya pitrōr-atmanas-cha punya-yaso bhivriddhaye Mōḍha-Brā
7 hmana-Janakaya Varaṇāvāḍā-granē(me) Päṭu-satka-kshētrē | Vi
8 vuka-satka-kshētrē cha iti hala-trayasya halam 3 bhūmi'
Second Plate.
9 sasanan -ōdaka-pūrvam-asmābhiḥ pradatta' syams-cha pūrva-10 10 sam(syam) Vara-Asavali-grāma-märgaḥ | dakshinasyām grāma-Pädram | pa 11 schimayam Chhimdriyälä-märgaḥ| uttarasyam Kasava11-Valapayōḥ 12 kshetram iti chatur-aghaṭ-öpalakshitāyāḥ bhūmēr-asyāḥ pa13 ripamthana ken-api na karya | lisi(khi)tam-idam śāsanaṁ kā14 yatul-Vatesvara-suta-Kekkakena | Dūtakō- 'tra mahā-sam15 dhivigrahika-sri-Bhögaditya iti13 śri-Bhimadeva14 ||
1 J. B. B. R. A. S., Vol. XXVI, pp. 252 ff.
Ep. Ind., Vol. I, pp. 317 ff.
* Expressed by a symbol.
Read purushan.
Read -ottarayana.
•Read -yasó.
Read bhumiḥ. Read sasanen=.
Read syas-cha.
10 Va looks like da.
11 Read Kebava...
1 Read yastha..
13 The symbol after i either stands for a punctuation mark or abbreviation of ti 14 Read Bhimadevah.
