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No. 45.)
KAMAN STONE INSCRIPTION.
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The second part of the record which begins in line 12 registers the following doonment :
Document No. I (11. 12-13). This is undated. It records that the Goodfhikae (members of the Managing Committee) made a permanent endowment of something, which they had soquired, evidently in favour of the deity.
Document No. II (1. 13). This document is dated in the year 2010 () on the third tilki of of the bright fortnight of some month, now lost. It records some donation of a merchant named Vajrata.
Document No. III (11. 13-17). Tbis is dated in the year #29 on the third tithi of the bright fortnight of Mägha. It records the gift of two plots of land situated inside the kotta (tort) by some one whose name occurring in the beginning of line 16 is now missing. The first of these was bounded on the east by the house of one Krishnaka, on the south by a small well and on the West and north by an old royal road. The second plot of land which was situated in the eastern part of the fort was bounded on the east and the south by & royal road and in the other directions (i.e., the west and the north) by the land of the temple (othana) and a small habitation. These gifts were made in favour of # detty (probably Siva) whose name appears to be Kāmyakēbvara. It is further recorded that a guild of potters living in Kâmyaka, in consideration of a sun of money received in advance, stipulated to pay a permanent ces. Every potter was, without any exception, to pay one pana pet wheel every month.
Document No. IV (11: 17-18). This is dated in the year 232 on some tithi now lost, in the bright fortnight of Vaibákhs. It records that the guild of gardeners living in Kamyaka, in consideration of & sum of money paid in advance, stipulated to supply permanently sixty Ratlands, of which thirty-four were to be delivered at the temple of Vishnu and the remaining (twenty-six) at the shrine of Chamunda.
Document No. V (11. 19-21). This is dated in the your 233 on the 7th tithi of the bright fortnight of Pausha. It records that the guild of artisans living in the place (i.e. in Kämyaka), in consideration of an amount received in advance, made a permanent endowment. Every artisan who worked in the place was to pay one dramma per month.
Document No. VI (11. 19-21). This is dated in the year 220 on the Bth tithi of the bright fortnight of Srāvana. It registers that a man named Untata piously denoted three ploughmeasures of land in his own village, the name of which has not been preserved. The land was previously tilled by the Brahmanas Bahulla, Jajja and others and was, at the time of the gift, cultivated by one Eduvāka.
It is further laid down that whatever would be produced in the case of all these permanent endowments should be added to the capitals; for such is the law (tästra) of endowmente.
Document No. VII (H. 21-22). This is dated in the year 180 on the 3rd lithi of the bright fortnight of Srāvana. It records that two avāris (enclosures), facing the west and situated outside the fort, were donated by a sākhika (a worker on conch-shells) named Bhadra by means of a written deed.
Document No. VIII (11. 22-24). This is dated in the year 2998 on the 2nd tithi of the bright fortnight of Phälguna. It records that some drammas were formerly (pura) made over by
1 Tho third figure of the date is illegible.
The meaning of this is not clear. Perhaps it is intended to provide that if the amount of the endowment or the property increased in value, the benefit of it was to accrue to the doneo.
• Or the three figures of this date I take the last two as denoting 9, though they are dissimilar. Of the two figures in question the second is the usual one for 9; the first also has the same value in L. 21 of the Jodhpur Inscription of Pratthara Bauks (above, Vol. XVIII, plate facing p. 96). In the Chaulukya grant of Trilochanapala (Ind. Ant., Vol. XII, plates I and II between pp. 202-203) both the signs are used to denote 9.
