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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[MARCH, 1884.
re-edit these two Garjara grants from the device, the meaning of which is not apparent, facsimiles published with Professor Dowson's but which may perhaps be some emblem of paper.
sun-worship, and, below this device, the legend The first of these facsimiles shows two Samanta Dadda, in the same characters as the plates, each about 11}' loks by 9' broad. It body of the grant. The language is Sanskrit does not suffice to show whether the edges throughout. of the plates were fashioned thicker or raised the inscription is of the time of Dadda II. into rims to protect the writing, or not. At also called Prasantaraga. It is dated, the lower right-hand corner, a largish piece is in both words and numerical symbols, in the broken off the first plate; and, at the upper year 380 of an unspecified era, on the fifteenth left-hand corner, a small piece is broken off day of the bright fortnight, i.e. the full-moon the second plate. With these exceptions, the day, of the month Karttika. The charter is plates are well preserved, and the inscription is issued from Nândipurî, which Dr. Bühler very legible. The facsimile is a good one, but has identified with an old fort of that name, shows many omissions and inaccuracies, which just outside the Jhadeswar gate to the east of may be errors in the original, or may only Broach, but which Pandit Bhagwânlal Inbe due to imperfections of the lithograph; draji prefers to identify with the modern being in doubt as to which cause they are to Nândôd in the Rajpipla State ;' and it records be attributed to, I have had to treat them a grant of the village of Sirisha padraka, for the most part as errors in the original. in the vishaya or province of Akrû rêśvara. The plates have holes for two rings; but the Dr. Bühler has identified Akrûrêśvara with facsimile shows one ring only. It is about the modern Auklėswar or Ankulsáwar, the chief thick, and of irregular shape like the rings town of a Taluka of the same name in the of the Valabhi grants. The seal on the ring southern part of the Broach District. And is roughly circular, about 1}" in diameter; and Sirishapadraka would seem to be the modern it has, in relief on a countersunk surface, some 'Sisodra' in the Ankleswar Taluka."
Text."
First plate. [°] Om Svasti Nândipuritó [1] Vividha-vimala-guna-ratna-sampâ(pa)d-udbhâs[i]ta-sakala
di[n]mukhê paritrât-ab[@]sha-sapaksha-(mah]a-mahîbhriti ['] satatam-avilanghit-avadhausthairyya-gå[m]bhi(bhi)ryya-lavanyavati maha-satvatay
at[i]-duravagâhê Gurjjara-npipati-vansa-mah-[8]dadhå (dhau) Sri-sahajanma Kri[°] shpahřiday-Ahit-aspadah kaustubha-maņir=iva vimala-yaso-didhiti-nikara-vinihata-Kali
timira-nichayah sat-pakshồ Vainatêya iv-Akrishta-satru[ ] Naga-kula-samtatir=utpattita eva dinakara-charana-kamala-praņim-âpanit-aśésha-durita
nivahah gimanta-Daddah [lo] pratidinam apôta-sankam yêna [] sthitam-achala-guna-nikara-kêsari-viraj[i]ta-vapusha vipihat-åri-gaja-kumbha-vigalita-mu
ktậphalo(la)-chchhala-prani(ki)rnņa-vimala-yaś6-vitânêna rup-anu. [] râpam satvam-udvahatâ kësari-kiśôrakên=év=ôpari kshitibhritâm [l"] yam ch=&timalina
Kaliyuga-timira-chandramasam-and-divasam=any [6]nya-sparddhay=[8*]v=['] yayuh kalê-samûh-adayê guņå vikram-ånîta-mada-vilás-a lasa-gatayô=râti-gaja-ghath pra
madasmcha [l*) yasya ch=ivirata-dana[] pravâ ha-priņit-artthi-madhukara-kulasya ruchira-kirtti-vas-asa hâyasya satatamaskhalita
padam prasaratah sad-vaus-hita-śôbhå-gauravasya [] bhadra-matangajasy=eva kara-ghâta-vinihata-kshitibhřid-annata-tanúruhasya Rêva-nir
jjhara-salila-prapata-madhura-ninadasya bhag-0dbhaIn his paper on the Ilao grant, Professor Bhandarkar • Ind. Ant. Vol. VII. p. 62. Page 73 above. has doubted the correctness of the facsimiles of the 10 Ind. Ant. Vol. V. p. 113.-The name Akulesvara, seals of the two Kaira grants, because they give the evidently denoting the same place, occurs in line 14 of legend Samanta-Dadda, without the use of the honorific the 110 grant, No. CXLI. be.ow. prefix sri. But there appears to be no renson whatever 11 Postal Directory of the Bombay Circle, p. 271. for this doubt, as precisely the same reading Samanta. 12 From the lithograph which accompanies Prof. J. Dadda ooours, though in respect of Dadda I., in line 4 Dowson's paper in the Jour. R. A. 8., N. S., Vol. I of the text of the same two grants.
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