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POLITICAL HISTORY OF N. INDIA FROM JAIN SOURCES
weighing of the prince, and the donation of the weighed gold of which twothirds were allotted to the Jina and the remainder to the Jain preceptor.1 Verse 33 of the first record refers to a Gosthi of Hastikundi which renovated the temple of the first Tirthankara, built by Vidagdharāja. After the renovation Säntibhadra in V.E. 1053 (A.D. 997) installed the image of Tirthankara. The names of certain members of the Gosthi are enumerated in the last of the first record.
Verses 8-17 of the second record describe the nature of the grant made by the prince Mammata and renewed by his son Vidagdharāja. The description is as follows:
(1) One rupee for each twenty loads carried for sale; (2) One rupee on each cart filled (whether going from or by the village); (3) One karşa for ghata at each oil mill; (4) Thirteen collikas of betel leaves by the bhaṭṭas; (5) Pellaka pellaka by the gamblers; (6) One aḍhaka (24 seers) of wheat and barley from each araghatta, i.e., well with a water wheel; (7) Five palas for peḍda (?); (8) One Vinfopaka coin for each bhara (2,000 palas);2 (9) ten palas from each bhara of articles, such as cotton, copper, saffron, gum resin, madder and so forth, and (10) One mayaka for each dropa of wheat, mûng, barley, salt, räla and such other objects which can be measured."
The date of donation made by Vidagdharaja is given as V.E. 973 (816 A.D.).
Thus the known kings from the Jain inscription of this family are as follows:
1 V. 7 of the 1st record दानेन तुलितपलिना तुलादि दानस्य येन दोषाय । भागद्वय व्यतीर्यत भागश्चाचार्यवर्याय ॥
रूपक एको देवो वहतामिह विंशतेः प्रवहणानां ।
धर्म ..... क्रय विक्रये च तथा ॥ V. 8. संभृत गंया देयस्तथा वहन्त्याश्वरूपकः श्रेष्ठः । घाणे घटे ज कर्षो देयः सर्वेण परिपाट्या ॥ श्री महलोकदत्तपात्राणां चोहका त्रयोदशिका | पेलक पेलकमेतत् द्यूतकरैः शासने देयम् ॥ 3 देयं पलाशपाटक. गोधूम मुद्रलवण. ...etc., V. 17
V. 13.
4 Ibid., V. 19.
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