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KADMAL PLATES OF GUHILA VIJAYASIMHA, V. S. 1140
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Pāldi ingcription of V.S. 1173 (1116 A.D.) to his reign ; but, as has already been pointed out,' this is wrong. From the Bhērāghāt inscription mentioned above, we algo glean that Vijayasimha married Syāmaladēvi who was the daughter of Udayāditya of Malwa (1060-87 A.D.) and the mother of Alhaņadēvi, queen of Kalachuri Gayākarna (1151 A.D.) of Dāhala. This matrimonial relation between Vijayasimha and Udayāditya, which established a close alliance between the hostile Paramāra and Guhila dynasties, certainly suggests a combined resistance by both against the waxing imperialism of the Chalukyas of Gujarāt, who, under Bhima I (1022-64 A.D.), had become by far the strongest power in Western India after the fall of Bhöja I in 1055 A. D.'
From the latter half of line 12 begins the prose portion of the document, interspersed with a few renunciatory and imprecatory verges. This ends with line 40, the last line on the second plate. Lines 19-21 mention the date of the record both in words and figures, which forms the most illegible part of the whole inscription. Ojha gives V. 8. 1164 (1107 A. D.) as its date, though he admits to have not been able to read it completely. Bhandarkar at first put it as V.S. 1140 (1083 A. D.), but later on supported Ojha. This change in Bhandarkar's view does not appear to be based on a re-study of the epigraphic text, but was probably adopted to reconcile it with the date V. S. 1173 (1116 A. D.) of another epigraph, viz. the Paldi inscription which Ojha attributes to Vijayasimha. But this inscription certainly belongs to the reign of Vijayasimha's son Arisimha.
As regards the date of the record under review, it is sure that the donation was made on the occasion of a solar eclipse which invariably falls on the amāväsyä day. After the syllables vadi in the beginning of line 21 denoting the dark half of the month, we have the numerical enumeration of the tithi in two figures which have been endowed with head-lines and other alphabetical characteristics. The first of them, though it looks liko ra, is apparently the numeral 1, while the second, which reads as ka, seems to be the numeral 4 endowed with a top mātrā and placed in an unusually oblique position. Thus these figures together mako 14 which must be the tithi on which the solar eclipse of our grant fell. This means that the wiväsyä morged with the chaturdati on the day when this eclipse actually occurred.
Now turning to the numerical mention of the year towards the end of the line 20, we find that, after the syllables Samvat, the first two figures clearly make 11. The following figure resembles the second of the figures in the enumeration of the tithi, which is 4 as explained above. Originally, a cypher seems to have been engraved in the place of this figure making the whole appear as 110; but soon it appears to have been corrected to 4, now making the whole appear as 114. Hence, either by restoring the cypher back to its fourth place which seems to have been originally intended, or by taking, by way of adjustment, the rounded part of the body of va further in varshe to serve also as the cypher, we get V. 8. 114[0]. This is supported by the verbal enumeration of the year in lines 19-20. Bhandarkar's original view regarding the date was therefore correct.
What now remains for our scrutiny is the description of the month wherein the solar eclipse of the grant took place. The letters may be taken to suggest Ashādha in line 20, once at the beginning and again towards the end. But the month of Ashādha does not suit the rest of the details of the date. There never occurred any solar eclipse on the fourteenth tithi of that month in the said year, either by the amänta or by the purnimānta reckoning. Even if we take the year to be V.S 1164, the solar eclipse does not tally. On the other hand, the month of Asvina of V. 8. 1140 turns out true to all other details of the date by the amänta reckoning. The amāvāsyā of the month of
Annual Report of the Rajputana Museum, Ajmer, 1916-18, p. 3 ; Rhandarkar's List, No. 191. . Above. Vol. XXX, pp. 8 ff. • Ray, Dyn. Hiat. N. Ind., Vol. II, pp. 1178-79.
Ojha, op cit.. p. 446, note 1. . Ind. Ant., Vol. XXXIX, p. 101, notu 12, line 2. • Bhandarkar's List, No. 176.
