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Concentration of so much politioal power even for a short time in the hands of the Brahmapas was unknown so far. It reminds us of the conditions that developed in Maharashtra somo 1000 years later. 1!
The imprecatory verses quoted in our record offer some readings not usually found in inscriptions. For the usual Bahubhiruvasudha bhukta, we have Ančkas. Similarly, there is haranti narakë yānti in place of haran-narakamāpnoti (or āyāti) often found in inscriptions.
The published land grants of the Maitrakas and Rashtrakütas mention places to the south and east of Ahmedabad, one of them being Khētaks which was the headquarters of the distriot (ähāra or vishaya) or province (mandala) under the Maitrakas, Rashtrakūtas and the Paramārase and is now also the headquarters of the Kaira or Khēda District. In our grant it is called Khőtakamahābhisthāna. Harshapura, identified with Harsol on the Meshwa river in the Prantij Taluk of the Kaira District, occurs in a grant of Krishna II' as Harahapur-årdhashtama-lata (i.e. Harshapura-760) which included Khētaka, etc.
As suggested by Dr. Shastri, Khallāpalli is probably Kbadal (spelt as Kharāl), about 10 miles east of Hilol, across the Vätrak river. Krisamba or Kusamba seems to be Kobam, two miles north from Khadal. Both these places are now in the Kapadvanj Taluk of the Kaira District. Pädataka may be the same as Pahada or Padă near Raudāvat, about a mile east of Hilol. Thus three villages along with Harshapura lay to the east of Ahmedabad in the present Kapadvanj Taluk, while Khotaka was the headquarters of the district in question.
According to Dr. Shastris, Sharakhi is the same as Siharakkhi-dvádasa mentioned in a copperplate grant (813 A.D.) of Govindarājaand the modern Sorakhi near Baroda, which is over 100 miles to the south of Hilol. There were many other names with siha as the first part. Of these Shamuhijja. (Sihuj, seven miles east of Ahmedabad and about 16 miles north-east of Kaira) and Simhapallikā-pathaka were in the Khētaka district. It is possible that there was another stha rakhi near Hilol. Sāpanda-sthāns, from which the donee came, oan be identified with Sānand, & railway station on the Ahmedabad-Viramgam line, about 12 miles west of Ahmedabad, and the headquarters of the Taluk of the same name.
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[See below, p. 220.-Ed.] * Sankalio, The Archaeology of Gujarat, Appendix D, pp. 40, 41, 48. • Abovo, Vol. I, p. 55. • Kaira District Oenow Hand-Book, Poona, 1968, p. 244. "Shastri, op. cit., p. 41. . Above, Vol. II, p. 53.
Sankalin, op. cit., p. 50. •A, Vol XP.
Ibid., Vol. VII. p. 73.
** Trom the original plates and impressions. In somo no, I have quoted the readings of Dr. Shaded and also of Dr. G. 8. Gal who rapplied me with his transcript propared from a tmprension sont by mo. [800 below, pp. 390f-Ed.)
