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here as the successor of Paramabhaṭṭāraka Mahārājādhirāja Paramēśvara Madanavarman who himself succeeded Paramabhaṭṭāraka Mahārājādhirāja Paramēšvara Prithvivarman and as belonging to the family of the Chandratreya rulers. There is no versified eulogy of the reigning monarch in the present record as in Madanavarman's grant.
The grant portion beginning in line 6 records the king's order addressed to the Brahmaņas and others assembled at Vavauḍā-grāma in the Duḍuhi vishaya. The order relates to the grant of the said village, made by the king when he was stationed at Sallakshaṇavilāsapura, on the date discussed above, in favour of Pam Padumadharaśarman (i.e. Pandita Padmadharaśarman) who belonged to the Kautsa gōtra and Vājasanēya śākhā and was the son of Tha (i.e. Thakkura) Dhaim, grandson of Tha Sripala and great-grandson of Tha Sahārana. His family hailed from Pataliputra-nagara. It will be seen that the donee of this grant was the son of a brother of Sōmēsarman or Sōmēka known from Madanavarman's charter.
The conditions of the grant (lines 13-17) are similar to those of Madanavarman's charter. The imprecatory and benedictory stanzas are quoted in lines 17-19. This is followed by the king's endorsement on the original document that was later copied on the plates. Line 20, with which the record ends, mentions the Dharma-lekhin Thakkura Vishnuka who wrote the charter and Palhana who engraved it on the plates. The other charters of Paramardin were also engraved by Palhana who is called a pitalahāra (brazier) in the Semra plates1 of 1165 A. D., silpin and varnaghatana-vaidagdhi-viśvakarman in the Ichchhawar plate of 1171 A. D. and the Pachar plate3 of 1176 A. D. and vijñanin in the Mahoba plate of 1173 A. D. But Vishnuka was not the writer of any of those charters. The writer of the first three grants was Prithvidhara and that of the fourth charter Subhananda, both belonging to the Västavya-Kayastha community.
Of geographical names, the inscription mentions, besides Kālañjara, Sallakshaṇavilāsapura, whence the grant was made by the king, and the gift village of Vavauḍā in Duḍuhi-vishaya. Sallakshana vilāsapura seems to have been named after Sallakshanavarman who was the elder brother of Prithvivarman, great-grandfather of Paramardin. The locality may be the same as Vilasapura whence Paramardin issued his Ichchhawar and Pachar plates. It has been suggested that Vilasapura is the same as modern Pachar about 12 miles to the north-east of Jhansi in U. P.s Duḍuhi-vishaya seems to have been the district round modern Dudahi in the Lalitpur subdivision of the Jhansi District. The name of the place, whence the donee's family hailed, is quoted here as Pataliputra-nagara (not Paṭaliputra-bhaṭṭāgrahara as in Madanavarman's grant).
1 Siddham Svasti Jayatyahladayan-viévam Visvesvara-sirō-dhritaḥ | Chamdrātreyanarē[m]drāņām vamsa(sa)s-chandra iv-ojjvalaḥ [*] tatra pravarddhama
virōdhi-vijaya-bhrājishņu-Jayaśakti-Vijayaśakty-ādi-vir-āvirbhāva-bhāsvarē
2 në
bhaṭṭaraka-mahārājādhiraja-para
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Above, Vol. X, p. 49.
Ibid., Vol. XVL, p. 15.
Ibid., p. 44.
From the original plate and impressions. 'Expressed by symbol.
parama
3 méévara-irl-Prithvivarmmadēva-pad-änudhyāta-paramabhaṭṭāraka-mahārājādhiraja-paramēs vara-sri-Madanavarmmadova-pad-anudhyāta-pa
1 Above, Vol. IV, p. 170,
Ind. Ant., Vol. XXV, p. 208.
