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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1885.
sank surface,-across the centre, the legend river Yamanâ at the place called Asatika or Srimad-Givindacha[n]drade vah; in the upper A satika, and having done worship to the Sun part, Garuda, half-man and half-bird, kneeling (1.10) and Siva and Vasudeva, Govindachandra and facing fall-front; and in the lower part, issues his commands to all the Mahattamas and either a bankha-shell or a chauri. Also the other people of the village of Vasa bhi (1.11) plate itself has a bankha-shell, with a barbed in the Jill vati pattala, to the effect that the arrow below it, engraved on the left margin. said village of Vasabhi,-bounded on the east by The seal slides on a ring about " thick and the village of VAndhamauä (1. 13); on the west 3}" in diameter, which had been cut when the by the village of Vadathalâ ; on the south by grant came under my notice. This ring runs the village of Pusauli; and on the north by on a smaller ring, about " thick and 21" in the village of Sâvabhada, -was granted by him, diameter, which also had been cut. And this on the occasion of the uttaráyana-sankranti second ring runs loosely through the turned (1.16) or the sun's commencement of his proover end of a copper band, about 1" broad atgress to the north, to the Brahman Alhéka the widest part, and tapering to the other (1.15), of the Bahvpicha kakha, and the Gautaend ; and with a pattern of cross-lines on part ma gôtra, with the three pravaras of Gautama of the outside of it, which is secured by a and Avitatha and Angirasa, -the son of Kalpo rivet which passes through a small hole in the or Kalye, and the son's son of Mêmê. Lines 17 top of the plate. The weight of the plate to 21 contain five of the customary benedictive is 7lbs. 12/02, and of the seal, two rings, and imprecatory verses. And lines 21 and 22 band, and rivet, 2lbs. 13 oz.; total, 10lbs. 10oz. record that the charter was written, i. e. comThe characters are Någari. The language of posed, by the Pandit Vijayadasa, the son of the inscription is Sanskrit throughout.
Kake, with the permission of the Purðhita The inscription opens with an invocation of Jågüka, the Mahattaka' Valhaņa, and the PraVasudova (line 1), or the god Krishna ortíhára Gautama. Vishnu, followed by & verse in praise of the Of the villages mentioned in this inscription, samo god under the name of Damodara. It Vasa bhi is of course the modern 'Basahi' then continues,- In the lineage named Gah & itself. Vå ndhamani is the modern Bån. da våla (1.2)," there was a victorious king, dhman,' three miles to the east of Basahi.' the son of Mahiala, named Chandra- Pasauli still exists ander the same name, ddva (. 4), who,-when, on the death of two miles to the south of Basahi.' And Så v&king Bhðja (1. 3) and king Karņa, the world bhada is the modern 'Sabhad', two and a became troubled, -came to the rescue and be- half miles to the north by west of Basahi.' came king, and established his capital at These identifications were made by Mr. AtkinKanyakubja (1.5). His son was Madan - son. JiA vati, the name of the pattall or påla (1. 6). His son was the famous G vin- district in which Vasabh was situated, and dachandra (1. 7), the maker of the grant. Vadathala, on its western' boundary,-have Lines 8 and 9 record the date, in words and not been identified; but Mr. Atkinson suggested figures ; vis. Samvat 1161, Ravidina or Sunday, the modern Jiva-Sirsani,' the 'Jiwe-Sirsani' of the fifth day of the bright fortnight of the maps, eight miles south-east of Basahi,' for the month of Pausha, --corresponding, by the north- former,--and the modern Banthara,' one and ern reckoning, according to the Tables in three-quarter miles to the west of Basabi,' for General Cunningham's Indian Eras, to Sunday, the latter. Asatik â or Åsatikk on the the 25th December A.D. 1104. Line 9 pro- Jamna, where Govindachandra bathed before ceeds to record that, having bathed in the making the grant, has not been identified.
Dr. R.AjendralAl Mitra took GAhadavals to be the name of the founder of the dynasty, instead of the dyDaatio name and he mixes up Bhoja and Kards with this family. Thus, in Jour. Bong. A. Soc. Vol. XLII. Part I. p. 815, he writes- dynasty, of which one GAhadavile was the founder and Karlla" (sic)"the last prinoo. One of the descendanta, some unknown gener tions removed from GAhadavkla, was MahiAla" (n) "and After some generations Bhoja, who does not appear to have been the immediate predecessor of Karlla" (ric);
and he straightway proceeds, through the introduction of Bhoja into this family, to make the dynasty of GAhadavala to be the same with that of Dévakakti" (see General Stacy's grant, Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. XVII. Part 1. p. 708. and Vol. XXXI. Part I. p. 146. and the Dighwa-Doobaneshar' grant, id. Vol. XXXIII. Part I. p. 3218.)-All this is utterly untenable. The text is perfectly plain, il properly understood; and the purport of it is n I have given it.
! See note 30 below.
