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at Fathâbâd, a mint of which I believe no other specimens exist; whereas his later coins bear the mint mark usually of Jannatâbâd,' the wellknown mint name of new Lak'hnauti or Gaur. It is of course more than probable that 'Alâ-ud-din Husain, in the flush of victory and with his adversary penned up and beleaguered in a fortress, at once assumed, while himself in camp or at some obscure town, the regal style, and struck coins, while Muzaffar Shâh might still have done the same inside his strong fortress." Mr. Bayley inclines to read the date 901 A.H.
2. Notes on two Copper-plate Inscriptions of Govindachandra Deva of Kanauj,' by Babu Râjendralâla Mitra. The first of these was "found in the village of Basâhi, about two miles northeast of the tahsili town of Bidhunâ, in the Etawah District. The village is in a small kherd or mound, into which a Thâkur cultivator was digging for bricks to build a house. He came on the remains of a pakkd house, in the wall of the dálán of which were two recesses (ták), and in each of these recesses was a plate."
No. 1 measures 16 inches by 10. "The subject of the inscription is the grant, to an astrologer named Ahneka, of a village named Vâsâbhi, in the canton of Jiâvani, in the Etawah district. The donor is Raja Govindachandra Deva of Kanauj, and the date of the gift Sunday, the 5th of the waxing moon in the month of Pausha, Samvat 1161, corresponding with the end of December in the year 1103 of the Christian era." Mr. Aikman" identifies the place with the modern kherd village of Basáhi, where the record was found. He says 'the only name like Jiâvani in Parganah Bidhunâ is Jiva Sirsâni, about ten miles south-east of Bidhunâ, which has a large kherá. The name Bândhama still exists as the name of a village about 2 miles east of Basâhi. Pusâni may be identified with Pusaoli, two miles south of Basâhi. For Varavvalâ the local pandits give Belgur, two miles southwest, or Banthara, two miles west, of Basâhi. Savahada is apparently the modern Sabhad, 21 miles N. N. W. of Basâhi. All these are kherd villages, with which the whole north-east of Bidhunâ Parganah appears to be studded. Tradition has it that Sahad, in the Phaphand Parganah, which is now but a kherá, was the site of the elephant-stables of the rulers of Kanauj, and, though there is now no vestige of a wall, the villagers still point out the sites of the gates, as the Dihli Darwazah, &c.""
In the preamble it says: "Om! Salutation to the
Jour. As. Soc. Ben, vol. XXVII. p. 218.
+ Ancient name of Kanauj.
The ceremony is a very costly one, but it is not uncommon. Within the last ten years it has been several times celebrated in Calcutta, and in course of it not only
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glorious Vasudeva. I adore Dâmodara, the first among the gods, the three folds of skin on whose belly are said to be the three worlds in his lap. In the dynasty of Gâhadavala was born the victorious king, comparable to Nala and Nabhága, the son of the auspicious Mahiâla. When king Bhoja had become an object of sight to the charming wives of the gods (i. e. died), when the career of kings Śri Karlla had come to a close, when there was a revolution, then Chandradeva became king. Of him was born the renowned of earth, Madanapâla-a lion to the inimical elephant Ilâpati, (king of Ilá), who engaged himself in frequent warfare, and made the trunks of his decapitated enemies dance in the battle-field. Of him was born the celebrated prince Govindachandra, whose lotus-like feet were adored by hosts of mortal sovereigns-a prince of refulgent might, the ornament of mankind, and the disturber of the enjoy ment of his enemies."
Of Madanapala, the son aud successor of Chandradeva, an inscription has been published, bearing date the 3rd of the waxing moon in the month of Mâgha, Samvat 1154 1097 A. D.; according to this inscription he was still reigning in 1103 A.D. The second plate gives the dynasty ofYasovigraha,
Mahichandra his son,
Chandradeva, son of Mahichandra, "by whose glorious majesty was repressed the revolts of the subjects of the unrivalled great kingdom, of auspicious Gâdhipura,† which was earned by the valour of his arms.
"5. Repairing, as a protector, to Kasi, Kusika, Uttara Kosala, Indrasthâna, and other places of pilgrimage, he marked the earth by the performance of a hundred tula rites, in course of which he repeatedly gave to the twice-born his own weight in gold.‡
"6. His son was Madanapâla: that crest-jewel of the lords of the earth flourishes as the moon of his race."
"The subject of the patent is the gift of two villages by Govindachandra to a Thakur of the name of Devapâla Sarmâ, son of Thakur Udyi, and grandson of Thakur Yogi, of the Kasyapa clan. The title of the donee and his ancestors appears in its ancient form of Thakkura. The date of the gift is the third of the wane in the month of Phalguna, Samvat 1174, or just thirteen years after the first grant."
3. A Metrical Version of the opening Stanzas of the Prithiraj Rásau, with a critical commen
gold, but silver, rice, paddy, sesamum seed, and other articles were weighed against the donor, and presented to Brahmans. The Dinakhanda of Hemdri, now in course of publication in the Bibliotheca Indica, contains a full description of the details of this rite.
