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LUCKNOW MUSEUM PLATE OF JAYACHCHANDRADEVA: V. S. 1237. 293
The date of the record is given both in words and in decimal figures in 11. 22-23 as Sunday, the 7th day of the bright half of Phālguna in the (Vikrama) Saṁvat 1237, when the sun had entered the Mina (sign of the zodiac) and regularly corresponds to Sunday, the 22nd February, A.D. 1181.
The object of the grant is to record the gift of the village Mandara with Kadahr in the Dāhaduāra-pattala by Jayachchandradēva. The recipient of the gift, which was made by the ruler after bathing in the Ganges at Vārāṇasi and performing other ceremonies connected with it, was the Brahmin Pandit Brahmagarman of the Vatsa-gotra and the five prararas, Bhārggava, Chyavana, Apnavāna, Aurva and Jāmadagnya. He was a son of the Pandit Götrā. nanda and grandson of the Pandit Sarvvānanda. In 1.27 of the record, among the taxes to be paid to the donee, is found the phrase yamali-kāmali which is found also in some other records of this ruler in a slightly different form. Its meaning, however, is not clear.
The writer of the plate was the Mahākshapatalika Thakkura Sripati who figures as the writer of most of the copper-plate grants of Jayachchandradēva.
I am unable to identify the gift village and the pattalā in which it was situated.
TEXT.: [Metres : Vv. 1, 3, 15-23, Anushtubh ; vv. 2, 26, Indravajra ; v. 4, 7, 13, Sārdülavikridita ; vv.
5, 6, 8, 11, 12, 25, Vasantatilakā; v. 9, Drutavilambita ; v. 10, Mālini ; v. 14, Sragdharā; v. 24, Salini.)
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1 Om svasti || Akuņthotkantha-Vaikuntha-kaņțbapitha-luthat-karaḥ saṁrambhaḥ surat
ärambhē sa Sriyaḥ śrēyasērstu vaḥ || (111) Asi(si)d-Asi(d)tadyuti-[vamsa-jā]ta-kshmā.
pāla-[mālāsu) 2 divam gatásu sākshād=Vivasvănriva bhüri-dhămnā nämna Yabovigraha ity=udāraḥ 1
211 Tat-suto=bhün Mahlschandras-chamdradhäma-nibham nijam(jam) yên=¶ma
akūpāra-pārsē vyāpā)3 ritain yabāḥ || [31]* Tasyabhüt-tanayo nay-aika-rasikah kranta-dvishan-mandalo vi.
dhvast-oddhata-dhira-yodha-timiraḥ bri-Charhdradovo nfipaḥ | yên=ödāratara-pratāpa
Samit-abēsha-praj-padrava[m] 4 srimad-Gadhipur-adhirajyam-asama dôr-vvikramēn=ärjjitam(tam) | [411*1 Tirthāni
KL-Kubik-Ottarakösal-Endrasthân yakāni paripālayat-adhigamva(mya) | hēm=
åtma-tulyam=anisam(sam) dadatā dvij[ē)5 bhyo yen=ārkitā vasumati batasa(sa)s=tulābhiḥ il [511*] Tasy=ātmajo Madanapala iti
kshitindra-chüļāmaņir=vvijayatē nija-gotra-chandraḥ | yasy=ābhishēka-kalas-ollasi(si)
taih payõbhiḥ prakshā. " 6 litam kali-rajah-patalam dharitryāḥ li (611*] Yasy=āsid=vijaya-prayāņa-samayē tung-achal.
ochchais-chalan-mādyat-kumbhi-pada-kram-asama-bhara-bhra[6]yan-mahi-mandalē 1
cbüdäratna-vibhina(nna)-tälu-ga7 lita-styān-assi(sri)g-udbhāśi(si)taḥ śēshah pēsha-vasā(sā)d=iva kshanam-asau krõde nilin
änanah | [7*) Tasmād=ajāyata nij-ayata-vā(bā)hu-valli-vam(bam)dh-ävaruddba navarājya-gajo narēndraḥ sāṁdr-ami
1 Probably Kadāhi was a pataka attached to the village of Mandara. * See Ind. Ant., Vol. XVIII, pp. 137 ff. (Nos. H, I, J and K) and above, Vol. IV, p. 129.
• From an impression which I owe to the courtesy of Rai Babadur Prayag Dayal, the Curator of the Provincial Museum, Lucknow.
• Expressed by a symbol.
