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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA NOTE ON VIJAYADITYAâS GRANT OF SAKA 653
___________ NOTE ON VIJAYADITYAâS GRANT OF SAKA 653 G. H. KHARE, POONA Mr. S. C. Upadhyaya has edited a copper-plate grant of the Western Chālukya king Vijayāditya, dated Śaka 653, in this journal Vol. XXV, pp. 21 ff. He did not, however, decipher the portion of its text concerning the village granted and the specification of its boundaries. Mr. N. L. Rao, in footnote 3, p. 21, has rightly deciphered the portion in question ; but the localities have been left unidentified. I have attempted below to identify them.
The following place-names occur in the grant. Navasāri : name of the vishaya in which Tēllādāhāra was included. Tēllāda : name of the āhāra in which the village granted was situated. Tārā[va]dra : name of the village granted. Kōñchaütthā, Tēllāda, Paḍhamatthāṇa, Vēsīmā : names of villages by which the village granted was bounded. Of these Navasāri is too well-known to require any identification. Now, in the Postal Village Directory of the Bombay Circle published in 1902, the names of the following villages are found, with the details shown against them.
These are evidently Tēllāda, Kōñchaütthā, Paḍhamatthāṇa and Vēsīmā of the grant These places can be easily traced in maps also. If we take latitude 21º north and longitude 73º _____________________
[1]Read ślōkau.
[7] Read Māradāsēna. The aksharas Māradāsē, which were inadvertently omitted before na in this line, were
afterwards incised in the lower right corner below l. 14 on the first side of the second plate. For a similar case
of omitted aksharas being misplaced, see –mūle dattam=iti written in l. 13 instead of below l. 20 of the Indore
plates of Pravarasēna II, above, Vol. XXIV, p. 55.
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