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which is thus the date of the present plates. The charter was written by Arupaditya, the son of Vatse rāja. There were two dutakas Chandiyamma and Vayama.
It will be noticed that the donee of the present pletee is, in spite of slight diserepancies in his description, ideatical with that of the Bisavai grant. He is aleo the donee of the Bhärsta Itihasa Samsödhaka Mandala plates of Govinda III. The provenance of the latter is not known but it is not unlikely to be some place in Berär. The villages mentioned in the plates were, therefore, probably situated somewhere in Berär, not very far from Sireo (Sisavai of the previous plates) where he or his descendants seem to have lived, and not in distant Gujarat & murmised by the editor of the above plates. It may also be noted that Araņāditya, the son of Vatsaraja, who is mentioned as the writer of this grant whether he actually wrote it or not, figures in that capacity in five other sete of plates, vie., the Nēsari platest of Saka 726, the Waņi-Dindori plate of Seka 780 (for the expired Saka 729), the Sibavai grant of Saka 729, the Bahulāwad plates of Baka 782 (for the expired Saka 731% and the B. I. 8. M. plates of Baka 782. He was also probably the writer of the incomplete Rådhanpur plates of Sake 780, judging by the writing on them which resembles that on the Nesari and the Sisa vai plates. He was thus the official writer in Govinda III's secretariat at least from Saka 726 to Baka 784.
Having disposed of the format part of the grant, let us now turn to the historical information furnished by it. The charters granted by Govinda III fall into two main groups. Under the first of these come the Paithan plates of Saka 716 and the Añjanavati plates of Saka 722. The second group includes almost all the rest. The draft of the genealogical and eulogistic portion adopted in the two grants of the first group consists for the most part of old verses descriptive of the ancestors of Govinda III, which are known from the earlier records of Dantidurga, Krishna and Dhruva. To the glorification of the reigning king, the draft devotes only two verses which mention no historical event except that he obtained the kingdom from his father in supersession of his brothers. No exploits of Govinda III.-- not even his victory over the twelve kings headed by
*[There are instances of the tithi which commenced some time after sunrise being cited as the surrent tithi. (See e... Nos. 215 and 269 of the Madras Epigraphical collection for 1918, whose dates have been caloulated by the late Mr. Swamikannu Pillai on pages 84 and 85 of the Madras Epigraphical Report, 1919.) It is, therefore, not necessary to take Tuesday the 9th November A.D. 812 as the date of the record for, the pratipat-tithi commenced at 51 ghatikās after sunrise on the previous Monday which was also the day of the eclipse. The latter, viz., A.D. 812 November 8 Monday may thus be the date of this charter. N. L R.)
These plates were first noticed by Mr. Y. R. Gupte in the Journal of Indian History for 1925, pp. 100 f. and subsequently edited by Mr. G. H. Khare in the Sources of the Mediaval History of Me Deccan, Vol. III, pp. 27 €. The grandfather of Rishiyappa is called Vishnu in the Steavai grant, but Mas pavisin in the B.I.S.M. plates as in the present plates ; his father is called Anpama in the present record, but Appasivi (not Sappasā vi as Mr. Khare has read in the B. I. 8. M. plates) in the other two recorde. Riskiyapps is said to belong to the community of the Chaturvidyas in the Slavni graxt, bo to that of the Trovidyas in the sther two.moorde. His name, götra, Vēds and place of residence (which both Mr. Gupte and Mr. K bare som to have incorrectly rood Vinidiva) are the eame in all the recorde.
The plates record the grant of the village Dasapura which was bounded on the north by the Vindhya mountain. This is likely to be Dasur in the Ellichpur tahsil of the Akola Distriot, situated only two miles to the south of the town hills which were to ancient times called Vindhya. Beme of the places mentioned in will be traced in the vicinity of Daour. Thus Ladávadiki, Pieppariki and Khida of the great se probably modern Ghāt-ladki, Pimpri and Khed in the neighborhood of Daanr. The Ambili kunda at which the king bathed before making the grant was probably a kusda at the source of the hole river Paydahol (modern Purni) not far from Dasar.
- G. H. Khare-Sources of the Medimal thistory of the Decoan, Vol. I, p. 23. . Ind. Ant., Vol. XI, p. 160. • Sources of the Mediaval History of the Deccan, Vol. II, pp. 18.,
The only exceptions so far known are the British Museum and the Kadab plates, for which see aboro, A, 806,
a. 4.
