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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA here as the successor of Paramabhaṭṭāraka Mahārājādhirāja Paramēśvara Madanavarman who himself succeeded Paramabhaṭṭāraka Mahārājādhirāja Paramēśvara Pṛithvīvarman and as belonging to the family of the Chandrātrēya rulers. There is no versified eulogy of the reigning monarch in the present record as in Madanavarman’s grant. The grant portion beginning in line 6 records the king’s order addressed to the Brāhmaṇas and others assembled at Vavauḍā-grāma in the Duḍuhī vishaya. The order relates to the grant of the said village, made by the king when he was stationed at Sallakshaṇavilāsapura, on the date discussed above, in favour of Paṁ Padumadharaśarman (i.e. Paṇḍita Padmadharaśarman) who belonged to the Kautsa gōtra and Vājasanēya śākhā and was the son of Ṭha (i.e. Ṭhakkura) Dhāiṁ, grandson of Ṭha Śrīpāla and great-grandson of Ṭha Sahāraṇa. His family hailed from Pāṭaliputra-nagara. It will be seen that the donee of this grant was the son of a brother of Sōmēśarman or Sōmēka known from Madanavarman’s charter. The conditions of the grant (lines 13-17) are similar to those of Madanavarman’s charter. The imprecatory and benedictory stanzas are quoted in lines 17-19. This is followed by the king’s endorsement on the original document that was later copied on the plates. Line 20, with which the record ends, mentions the Dharma-lēkhin Ṭhakkura Vishṇuka who wrote the charter and Pālhaṇa who engraved it on the plates. The other charters of Paramardin were also engraved by Pālhaṇa who is called a pitalahāra (brazier) in the Semra plaes[1] of 1165 A. D., śilpin and varṇaghaṭanā-vaidagdhī-viśvakarman in the Ichchhawar plate[2] of 1171 A. D. and the Pachar plate[3] of 1176 A. D. and vijñānin in the Mahoba plate[4] of 1173 A. D. But Vishṇuka was not the writer of any of those charters. The writer of the first three grants was Pṛithvīdhara and that of the fourth charter Śubhānanda, both belonging to the Vāstavya-Kāyastha community.
Of geographical names, the inscription mentions, besides Kālañjara, Sallakshaṇavilāsapura, whence the grant was made by the king, and the gift village of Vavauḍā in Duḍuhī-vishaya. Sallakshaṇavilāsapura seems to have been named after Sallakshaṇavarman who was the elder brother of Pṛithvīvarman, great-grandfather of Paramardin. The locality may be the same as Vilāsapura whence Paramardin issued his Ichchhawar and Pachar plates. It has been suggested that Vilāsapura is the same as modern Pachar about 12 miles to the north-east of Jhansi in U. P.[5] Duḍuhī-vishaya seems to have been the district round modern Dudahi in the Lalitpur subdivision of the Jhansi District. The name of the place, whence the donee’s family hailed, is quoted here as Pāṭalīputra-nagara (not Pāṭaliputra-bhaṭṭāgrahāra as in Madanavarman’s grant). TEXT[6]
1 Siddham[7] Svasti | Jayaty=āhlādayan=viśvaṁ Viśvēśvara-śirō-dhṛitaḥ | Chaṁdrātrēya-
narē[ṁ*[drāṇām vaṁsa(śa)s=chandra iv=ōjjvalaḥ |[|*] tatra pravarddhamā-
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[1] Above, Vol. IV, p. 170.
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