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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MARCH, 1884.
In addition to these two grants, we have Tlâô grant purports to be written by the same four others of the Gurjara dynasty ;-the two Rêva who wrote the two Kaira grants. Kaira grants, dated, like the Nausari and Kavi My opinion is that the Umêtâ and Ilâô grants grants, in the years 380 and 385 of some un- are forgeries; and that they were probably got specified era; the Umêtâ grant, dated speci- up by the same man who forged the grant of fically in the year 400 of the Saka era ;'-and Dharaséna II. Possibly he got hold of genuine the Tâô grant, dated specifically in the year grants of Dadda II., dated, like the Kaira, 417 of the Saka era. They give the following Nausâri, and Kåvi grants, in an unspecified short genealogy
era ; and then, not knowing what the era was, Dadda l
he made a guess and inserted the name of
the Saka era. Jayabhata, or Vitaraga.
I reject therefore, the Umêta and Tlað
grants; and, with them, the theory, so far as Dadda II., or Praśântarâga.
it rests upon them alone, that the dates of the And, being all grants of Dadda II., they prove, Kaira grants are to be referred to the Saka if the Umétâ and Ilàô grants are genuine, that era. the dates of the two Kaira grants,--and, conse- There remain the dates of the years 380 and quently, also of the Nausâri and Kavi grants, 385 of some unspecified era for Dadda II. ---must be referred to the Saka era. The of the Kaira grants, and the dates of the years genuineness of the Umêtâ and the Ilão grants, 456 and 486 of an unspecified era, but however, I now question.
undoubtedly the same, for the second JayaThe characters of the Kaira, Nausâri, bhata of the Nausâri grant and the sole and Kâvî grants, are all of precisely the same extant Jayabhata of the Kâvi grant. It type, and as like each other as can possibly be is at once plain that Dadda II. of the Kaira in the case of inscriptions the actual engraving grants cannot be identified with the second of which was done by different men. On the Dadda of the Nausâri grant. In the first place, other hand, the characters of the Umota and the biruda of the former was Praśântarâga, Ilâð grants are identical with each other, but and of the latter Båhusahâya. And, in the differ entirely from those of the other four second place, a far more important obstacle grants; and the wording of the formal parts of exists in the fact that, if these two Daddas these two grants, and the method in which the were identical, then the reigns of the father dates are expressed in them, differ on the one and his son,-of Dadda II. of the Kaira side from the Kaira grants, which are from one grants; and of the second Jayabhata of the original form of draft, and on the other side from Nausâri grant, and the Jayabhata of the Kavi the Nausâri and Kavi grants, which are from grant,-covered a period of at least one hundred another. The grant with which the Umêta and six years, from 380 to 486, which is an and Ilâô grants are identical throughout, even absolute impossibility. On the other hand, as and especially in their mistakes, is the Valabhi we have the dates of 456 and 486 for the grant of Dharasêna II., dated in the Saka year second Jayabhata of the Nausâri grant, it is 400,' which both Dr. Bhau Daji and Dr. plain that his reign cannot have commenced Bühler have stamped as a spurious grant. If much before 456. Taking 455 as the complaced side by side, they will be seen at once to mencement, and calculating backwards at the have been engraved by one and the same hand, I rate of twenty-five years to a generation, we in spite of the assertion to the contrary in the arrive at 380 as the date of the first Dadda plates themselves, and at one and the same of the Nausâri grant. And this is exactly time, in spite of the asserted intervening differ- the earliest of the two dates obtained for ence of seventeen years in the dates. And, Dadda II. of the Kaira grants. I identify further,-in spite this time of the difference Dadda II, of the Kaira grants, therefore, with of the characters and style of drafting, the the first Dadda of the Nausâri grant, to whom
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• See Mr. Fleet's Nos. CXXXIX. and CXL., pp. 81 ff. below.
Published by Dr. Bühler, ante Vol. VII. pp. 61ff.
• See Mr. Fleet's No. CXLI., pp. 116 ff. below. + Published by Dr. Bühler, ante Vol. X. pp. 2774.
