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DAIKONI PLATES OF PRITHVIDEVA II : YEAR 890
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village of Vudukuni in Madhya-dosa with all its incomes to one Vishnu, a Brahman of the Vatsa götra and of the pancha-pravara. The donee is described as the foremost of the trivedin scholars, as possessing a fine character developed out of his knowledge of all sästras and agamas and as comparable to Vishnu. He was the dutiful son of Sivadāsa who was likewise an obedient son of Sröttama. The occasion for the gift made by the king is stated to be a lunar eclipse which occurred on Kärttika 15. The date of the charter is given as Samvat 890, Märgga va di 11, Ravau. As in the case of the other records of the family, and especially of those of Prithvidēva II, in some of which the year is stated to be the Kalachuri saṁvat, the year quoted in the present inscription must also be referred to the Kalachuri-Chedi era. In the Amoda plates of Prithvidēva I, and the Kharod inscription of Ratnadēva III," the year is specifically stated as the Chodisasya saṁvat. Thus, referring the year quoted in the Daikoni plates to this era which began in 247-8 A. C., it is found that the date and its details given correspond to 1138 A. C., October 30, Sunday, f.d.t. -45, in accordance with the purnimānta calculation of the lunar months. The lunar eclipse on Kärttika 15 referred to in the inscription must have been the one which occurred just eleven days earlier, on October 19 of the same year which was the day of Kārttika 15. Prof. Mirashi has shown that the Kalachuri year began on the 1st tithi of the bright fortnight of the pūrnimānta Kārttika" and it is found that the date of our record follows the same calculation. It will also be clear that it was the expired Kalachuri year 890 that is quoted in our inscription since the details of the tithi and week-day given in it do not correspond to any date in the Märgasiras month of 1137 A. C. but only of 1138 A. C. Further, the lunar eclipse mentioned in the record as the occasion for the gift occurred not in 1137 A. C. but only in 1138 A.C. on Wednesday, October 19, which was the day of Karttika-purnima.
Most of the verses describing the genealogy of Přithvidēva II in the present charter are identical with those found in other charters of the family, viz., the four sets of the Amoda plates of which one belongs to Prithvidēva I, two to Prithvidēva II,' his grandson, and the fourth to Jäjalladēva II, the son of Prithvidēva II. Verses 1 to 11 of the present plates which take the genealogy up to Ratnadeva II are again identical with the first eleven verses of the Sarkho plates of the same king, Ratnadēva II. It would therefore appear that the text of this genealogy was at first composed in the time of Prithvidēva I, the grandfather of Ratnadēva II and was employed by his successors without much alteration except what was added with reference to the successive donor-kings. The later members of the family, viz., Jājalladēva II' and Pratapamalla 10, have, in their records, also utilised this text, but only partly, amending it considerably in some places.
There is practically nothing new of historical importance in the present charter, since it contains only a conventional description of the princes of the family whose genealogy is well known and even
1 Räjim stone inscription of Jagapala, K. 896 (Ind. Ant., Vol. XVII, p. 139); Ratanpur inscription of Prithvideva II (K. 910), (Bhandarkar's List, No. 1239).
. Above, Vol. XIX, p. 81 and plate. • Above, Vol. XXI, pp. 158 ff. and plate. • Above, Vol. XXVII, p. 278.
The date quoted in the Amodi plates of Prithvidēvs I, viz., Chodi year 831, Phālguns va di 7, Sunday, corresponding, as it does, to 1079-A. C., January 27, Sunday, follows the same pärpimanta caloulation and the year quoted is the expired one.
• Above, Vol. XIX, pp. 75 ff. and plate.
Ind. Hist. Quarterly, Vol. I, pp. 406 ff. and plate. . Above, Vol. XIX, Pp. 209 ff. and plate.
Amodā Plates, abovo Vol XIX, p. 209. 10 Pēndrabandh plates, above, Vol. XXIII p. I.
