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No. 15] GRANTS OF GAYADATUNGA
101 The charter records (lines 18 ff.) the grant of the village called Törð situated in the Vandunga vishaya (district) which apparently formed a part of Yamagarta-mandala. The grant was made in favour of the following donees: (1) Bhatta-putra Dado, who received land that was the onesixth share of the gift village, belonged to a family hailing from Ahichchhatra (modern Rāmnagar in the Bareily District of U.P.) and was a resident of the bhatta-grāma called Karuvā in Odravishaya. He was the son of Govinda and grandson of Kakā-ājhā (i.e. Kakā-upādhyāya) and belonged to the Kaubika götra and the pravara of the three gages. (2) Bhatta-putras Trivikrama and Purushottama, the two sons of Vishnu-dīkshita, received another plot of land that was another one-sixth share of the gift village. (3) Bhatta-putra Rāmadēva, son of Madhusudana, received along with his five brothers another plot which was the one-eighteenth share of the gift village. (4) Vishnu, son of Dūvilla, received a plot which was another oneeighteenth share of the gift village. (5) Bhatta-putra Ghällo, son of Sāha, received land that was likewise the one-eighteenth share of the gift village. (6). Bhatta-putra Närāyana, son of GhāLlidāman, received a plot which was land that was the one-sixth share of the gift village. (7) Bhattaputra Srighosha, son of Vēdaghosha, received along with his three brothers land that was the onetwelfth share of the gift village. (8) Bhatta-putra Trilochana, son of Trivikrama, received land that was the one-eighteenth share of the village. (9) Bhatta-putra Baladēva, son of Avida, received land that was the one-thirtysixth share of the gift village. (10) Bhatta-putra Manõrathadēvasarman, son of Paüma (i.e. Padma), received along with his two brothers land that was the one-twelfth share of the gift village. (11) Bhatta-putra Sadhōvaṇa, son of Ananta, received land that was another one-twelfth share of the gift village. The specified shares of the donees of the grant account for the whole of the gift village. It will be seen that the götra has been specified only in the case of the first of the donees. This seems to suggest that all of them belonged to the same götra and probably to the same family.
In lines 33-34. it is stated that the village of Toro was made a kara-sasana (i.e. a revenuepaying holding) in favour of the said Brāhamņas and that the trin-odaka (i.e. the nominal rent per annum) was fixed at 9 palas of silver. The grant was made a permanent holding by means of the copper-plate charter for the merit and fame of the donor and his parents. Entry of the royal agents and servants into the gift village was prohibited and people were warned not to cause any inconvenience to the donees. This section is followed by two of the usual imprecatory and benedictory verses with which the document ends.
I am not sure about the location of the places mentioned in the inscription. B. Misra suggested the identification of Toro with Thorakota in Pallahara and Vēndunga with Balanga in Bonai.'
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[Metres : verses 1-2 Sragdharā ; verses 3-6 Anushtubh.]
Obverse 1 Siddham svasti [l*] Avadhodhata-dvipa-ganda-sthala-galad-avirala-mada2 malina-madhū(dhu)kar-ávali-jha[m*]kļiņēst-ai)ka-pradoshāt=pravudha-tēyaḥ -vipra
1 The Kausika götra has three pravaras, viz. Vaisvāmitra, Daivaräta and Audala. * See Dynasties of Medieval Orissa, p. 40. . From the facsimile published in JPASB, Vol. V, 1909. • Expressed by symbol. • Road Abaddh-oddhata. • Read pravsiddha-tējdo.
