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D. C, SIRCAR and K. V. RAMESH.-Two Songira Inscriptions from Barlui, (E. I, Vol XXXVI, Pt. I., January 1965). Calcutta, 1964. Pp. 33-38.
The two inscriptions are engraved, the second in continuation of the first, on a stone slab broken into three pieces. Some letters being damaged; the charactersthe Nägri alphabet of about the thirteenth century; the language is Sanskrit.
The first record is dated in Vikrama 1283, Jyeshtha-sudi 8, Thursday (7th May, 1226 A.D.) falling in the reign of the Songira Chauhan ruler Udayasimha of Jalor. The second inscription is dated Vikrama 1330, Phalguna-sudi II, Sunday (18th February, 1274 A.D.). Both of them record some pious deeds of a Chauhan chief named Albhata and certain other persons with reference to a Jain establishment, the śāntinātha temple at Barlut.
1. Inscription of the time of Udayasimha, v.s, 1283.
The inscription records three different gifts made by Rāja (i.e. RajputraRawat) Abhata ; (1) gift of land in favour of the god Šāntinātha and of the Mananasimha-vihāra for a temple (devagriha) belonging to the Brihad-gachchha : (2) gift of a pitha in favour of the god śāntinātha in the village of Valadautha, i.e., modern Barlut ; (3) gift of (the income) an araghotta for the expenses of offering worship to the god.
The importance of the epigraph is that it furnishes the earliest date for the ruler of the Songira Chauhans over the Sirohi region.
11. Inscription of the time of Chachig, Vikrama 1330.
It is dated Vikrama Samvat 1274, Phalguna-sudi II, Sunday (18th February, 1274 A.D.). It records construction of a vihara of the same name. It mentions Śreshthin (banker) Padmasimha, belonging to the Ambai gotra, the Nasala santhana (family) and the Prägvāta (Porwad) and Umsevala (Oswal) communities.
The building constructed by Padmasimha and others was consecrated by Gunabhadra-süri of the Brihad-gachchha.
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