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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XXV.
No. 31. ANJANERI PLATES OF GURJARA JAYABHATA III: K. 461.
BY MADRO SARUP VATS, M.A., AND D. B. DISKALKAR, M.A. This grant consists of two plates which are held together by two copper-rings, one of which has an oval seal containing the letters fri-Jayabhata embossed below a peculiar symbol resem bling a flying Garuda. They were found with a Marathā family surnamed Shid of Anjaneri village in the Nāsik District along with two copper-plate grants of Prithivichandra Bhögasakti, dealt with above, and measure 127" x 9". The first plate contains 18 lines of writing and the second 21.
The characters belong to the southern variety and closely resemble those of the Nausäri and Kävi plates of Jayabhaţa III and IV issued in the years 456 and 486 respectively. With the exception of the attestation in the last line, its palæography is similar to that of the Chalukya and Rashtrakūta grants of the seventh century A.D. found in Gujarat. The characters in the attestation are cursive and differ from the rest of the inscription. Often a dot has been used in the record to denote a mark of punctuation.
The record is dated the 11th day of the dark half of Asvina, Tulā-sarkrānti, (Kalachūri) Samvat 461 corresponding to A.D. 709-10. and was issued from Bharukachchha (Broach). The introductory portion, containing the description of the family of Jayabhata, agrees with that given in the two grants mentioned above. The genealogy starts with Dadda (II) who was born in the lineage of Mahārāja Karna and who protected the lord of Valabhi who was defeated by Harshadöva (identified with Dharasēna IV who suffered defeat at the hands of Harshavardhana of Kanauj). His son was Jayabhata (II) and his son Dadda (III)-Bāhusahāya. The latter's son was Jayabhata (III), the donor, who was a great devotee of Mahesvara and had obtained the five great sounds (samadhigata-pafcha-mahasabda).
The beneficiary in the present grant was a Brahmaņa named Nārāyaṇa son of Vasusvåmin of Dabhilya götra and Chhandöga-Kauthuma sākhā and a resident of Brahmapurl.
The property granted consisted of three pieces of land totalling 60 nivartanas in and around the village Tauranaka situated in the Nandipura Vishaya : the first measuring 52 nivartanas, the second 5 nivartanas and the third 3 nivartanas.
The importance of this grant lies in the fact that it extends the date of Jayabhata III from the year 456 of the Nausāri plates to the year 461.
The grant mentions certain places situated in the Nāndipura vishaya which has already been identified with Nandod situated on the Karjan river in the Rajapipla State. The places mentioned are the villages of Tauranaka, Jayapura, Vidvēraka and Bhatishöhi and the river Karillini, Tauranaka, in and around which were situated the three plots of land granted, seems to be the modern Toran (also called Toranmal) on the Karjan river which seems to be the river Karillini of our grant situated about 2 miles north of Nandod. It is possible that Jayapura is the same as modern Jitpur, 6 miles east of Nandod and about 8 miles south-east of Toran or Tauranaka of the grant. Bhūtishohio and Vidvēraka, however, cannot be identified but should not be far away
1 See above, pp. 225 ff. 1 Ind. Ant., Vol. XIII, pp. 70 ff.
Ibid., Vol. V, pp. 113 ff. Professor Mirashi has since proved that this grant is referable to Jayabhata IV, cf. above, Vol. XXIV, Pp. 176 ff.
[The date would correspond to Tuesday, 23rd September A.D. 710, when the sun seems to have entered the Talk-rabi.-Ed.)
[ See below p. 284, n. 2.-Ed.]
[This is apparently identical with the modern village of Bhuchbad, about 1 miles south-west of Toran the western bank of the Karjan.-Ed.)
