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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(JUNE, 1902.
It may be remarked that the legend on the seal of this grant, which I failed to decipher, has been found by Dr. Hultzsch, from an inspection of the original, to be Pistri-bhaktan], "he who is devoted to his father."5
The places mentioned in the Chokkhakuti grant of A. D. 807.
This record has been edited by Mr. D. R, Bhandarkar in Ep. Ind. Vol. VI. p. 285 ff., with a facsimile lithograph. The original plates were obtained from Gujaraty in the Bombay Presidency. But the exact find-place of them appears to be not known.
The record recites that, on a specified day in the month Pausha, Saka-Samvat 789 (expired), falling in A. D. 867, the Rashtrakūta prince Aparimitavarsha-Dantivarman, of the Gujarat branch of the Malkhêd family, bathed in the "great river" (mahánadi) Paravi, and granted a village (gráma) named Chokkhakuti, situated in the north-west part of a small territorial division known as the SarthAteilatakiya forty-two, to a vihdra or (Buddhist) monastery at a place named Kampilyatirtha. It prescribes that the said village was to be enjoyed by the succession of the disciples and disciples' disciples of the dryasarigha or Buddhist community. And, in specifying the boundaries of the said village, it places, on the east, the boundary of a village gráma) the name of whiob is t be read as Davbhellamka, for Dabbhellamka, = Dabbhellanka, instead of Dantejllamka as given in the pablished text;6 on the south, the boundary of a village named Apasundara ; on the west, the boundary of a village named Kalapallika; and, on the north, & river (nad) named Mandakini.
I find that Chokkhakuti is the Chokhed' of the Indian Atlas sheet No. 28, S. E. (1888), in lat. 21° 1', long. 72° 59', in the NausÂri division of the Baroda State, about five miles towards the north from Nausari. The map shews Dabhel,' answering to the Dabbhellanka of the record, * s large village, the site of which is about one mile and three quarters towards the north-east from
Chokhad.' It shews 'Asundar,' answering to A pasundars, one mile on the south of Chokhad.' And, ono mile on the north-west of Chokhad,' it shews, on the south bank of the river which will be mentioned further on, Karoli,' which answers to Kalapallike and gives another instance of the not infrequent interchange of land r. In the Trigonometrical Survey sheet No. 15 (1879) of Gujarat, Dabhel' is presented as Dábhel,' with, in the first syllable, the long d, which is no doubt correct, as it can be fully justified by a lengthening of the short a on the disappearance of the first component, b, of the double consonant, bbh, in the second syllable of the original name; the other three names are presented just as in the Atlas sheet.
The river Mandakint of the record is a river which passes about one mile on the north of • Chokhad,' and flows into the sea about five miles on the south of the Tapti. Its name is given as Mindhola' in the Atlas sheet and . Mindhála' in the Trigonometrical sheet, and is certified as MindhojA,' in Gujarati characters, in the official compilation entitled Bombay Places and Common Official Words (1878). And the Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. II., Surat and Broach, p. 25, speaks of it as “the Mindhols or Midágri." We have another epigraphic mention of this river in the spurious plates which purport to record a grant mada by Dharasena II. of Valabhi in A. D. 478. It is there called the Madavi.? This latter name may be taken as a corraption of the
* See Bp. Ind. Vol. IV. p. 148.
• The poond wyllable of this name, in line 60, is much blurred, owing to our Teneness on the part apparently of the engraver, rather than of the writer, of the repord. And, in deteoting the corroot reading, I have of course been helped by my identification of the village. But an inspection of the frosimilo will show that the consonant is unmistakably vbh,- for bbh, in accordance with the general practice of the record.
+ Vol. X. abovo, p. 184, plato ii., line 8-4, and Plate. There is a somewhat unusual mark at the top of the me to the right. It does not seem to be intended for a long d. Nor, as far as I could reo when I had the original plato before me, does it seem to be part of an imperfectly formed andra.
