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lion (V.E. 1209) rightly demonstrates this. As to how he got this, we have certain indirect information from the Jain authority, the Sundhā hill inscription. He is stated there to have aided the Gurjara king in putting down disturbances in the mountainous parts of Saurāṣtra.The Nadol Jain copper plates grant of V.E. 1218 also refers to it. It was probably for this faithful service to his sovereign that he got a small principality. And our two subsequent copper plates Jain grants both dated V.E. 1218 (1161 A.D.) suggest that by that year he had pleased Kumārapāla so much as to get his ancestral principality of Nadols restored to him.
Below is the description of the two copper plates, Jain grants from Nadol:--
The first grant was discovered by Colonel Tod who presented it to the Royal Asiatic Society, London. It is a lengthy grant of 38 lines. It begins with Om namaḥ Sarvajñāya and adoration to lord Mahāvīra. Then it traces the genealogy of Alhañadeva from Lakşmaņa, omitting Ratnapāla and Rāyapăla. It records that Mahārāja Ālhanadeva of Naddūla in V.E. 1218 (c. 1161 A.D.), after worshipping the Sun and Iśāna and making gifts to Brāhmaṇas and Gurus, granted a monthly sum of 5 drammas to a Jain temple of Mahāvīra belonging to Sānderaka gaccha from the office of custom-house in the Naddūla talapada.*
The second one was found in the possession of the Mahājanas. It is also a lengthy one, engraved on the two copper plates. It opens with Om Svasti and adoration to Brahma, Sridhara and Sankara in the form of Jains who are always free from passion. It then narrates the pedigree of this family from Vākpatirāja of Sākambharī to Rājakula Alhaņadeva (omitting Ratnapāla and Rāyapāla) and his three sons Kumāra Kelhanadeva, Gajasimha and Kirtipāla from his queen Ānalladevi of the Răşțrauda family. It records that Alhana and Kelhana were pleased to give to Rājaputra Kirtipāla 12 villages, adjoining to Naddūlai (modern Nadlai). Kirtipāla on the other hand granted a yearly sum of two drammas from each of his 12 villages to the Jina Mahāvīra at Nadļūlai."
These two Jain grants are very important from the genealogical point of view. Besides this they give the names of Alhama's three sons and queen
1 V. 33: frit arce fata F0ZAPOTETIETA T ET. etc. 2 Jain Lekha-sangraha, I, p. 210. V. 5: 379TE UPTOR SUTTET TIETTI 3 DHNI., II, p. 1117. 4 EI., IX, pp. 63-66; Jain Lekha-sangraha, I, pp. 208–209, N. 839. 5 Ibid., pp. 66-70; ibid., pp. 210-211, N. 840.
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