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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA
(VOL. XXIX Since the donor of the prosent plates is described as the wife of Dovaraja, it seems plausible to suggest that the Devarāja referred to by them is no other than the second person mentioned in the pedigree given above, because the palaeography of the record does not go against the age assigned to that ruler by Prof. Mirashi. In the Uņdikavātikā and Pāņdurangapalli plates, this Dēvarāja is stated to have had three sons, but the names of only two of whom, viz., Abhimanyu and Bhavishya, are known from the inscriptional data available. As the queen of Dēvarāja is also called the mother of Mānarāja in the present inscription, it is clear that Māṇarāja is the name of the hitherto unknown (third) son of Dāvarāja and he was probably the eldest. And this is quite in keeping with the ancient practice of naming the child after his grandfather, because the name of the father of Dēvarāja is known to be Mānāmka, who founded the Mānapura branch of the Rashtrakūtas.
The grant was issued in the third regnal year of king Vibhurāja. His exact relationship with Syávalangi Mahādēvi is not explicitly stated in the record. But since the plates are issued in the early part of the career of that king, I believe that Vibhurāja is an alias of Māņarāja and that the plates were issuod by the queen-mother Syävalangi Mahädövi after the death of her husband Dēvarāja. Whether it was actually so needs further corroboration. In the light of the details at present available, the genealogy of the family can be reconstructed as follows:
Mänāmka (Founder of the Mänapura family) Devaraja m. Syávalangi Mahādēvi
Mānarija
Avidhéya
Bhavishys or (?) Vibhuraja
Abhinianyu The present plates were issued on the Vaisakha paurnamāsi day in the third regnal year of king Vibhurāja ; but these details are not quite sufficient to verify the date of the grant.
The mention of golden bars (suvarna-salūkā) givan as dakshiņā is also very interesting. It cannot be said if these bars bore any marks as on the bent-bar silver currency, so frequently noticed in ancient sites like Taxila on the North-Western borders of India. At any rate, no currency of the above description is known to have boen current in Mahārāshțra in the period in which the plates were inscribed.
For want of adequate data, the geographical position of Kamalibhūhaka mentioned in the grant cannot be located. It is likely that it was the name of some plot in Hingņi Berdi itself where the plates were discovered.
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F TATE (?) 2 राणामन्ववायश्रियोलंकारेण श्रीमता महाराज
From the original plates and ink improssions. · Expressed by a symbol.
I am not sure about the roading of this akshara. (Possibly dalita-Satru-barlanan is intended.-B.C.C.)
