South Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE EARLY GURJARAS

ing to the maxim of waste land,─to the Brāhmana Nārāyana, the son of the Brāhamana Chashtasvāmin, of the Śāndilya gōtra, (who is ) a student of the kauthuma śākhā of the Chhandōga (i.e., Sāmavēda) who resides at Brahmapurī and belongs to the community of the Chaturvedins of that place, for the performance of five great sacrifices, viz., bali, charu, vaiśvadēva, agnihōtra, (reception of) guests and such other (religious) rites.”
[For a translation of 11. 30-33, see above, p. 89.]
(L. 33) And it is said by the holy Vyāsa, the redactor of the Vēdas─
(Here follow six benedictive and imprecatory verses.)
(L. 38) This (charter), the Dūtaka of which is the Balādhikrita Bāvulla, has been written by the Balādhikrita Sahabhata, the son of the Balādhikrita Durgabhata.
Recorded in the year 400 (and) 60, (the month) Āśvayuja (and) the dark (fortnight) (and) (on the lunar day) 10 (and) 1. This is the sign-manual of me, the illustrious Jayabhata.

Seal
The illustrious Jayabhata
No. 23 ; PLATE XVI
KAVI PALTE OF JAYABHATA IV : (KALACHURI) YEAR 486

THIS plate was discovered by Rao Saheb Gopalji G. Desai of Broach in 1875.¹ He found it with several other plates in the possession of the Kapila Brāhmanas of Kāvī, an ancient town in the Jambusar tālukā of the Broach District, situated not far from the Gulf of Cambay, a few miles to the south of the Mahī. Dr. Bühler, to whom its impressions were sent, made personal inquiries at Kāvī in the course of which he came to know the following history of the plates─’Five or six hundred years ago a small tānk or receptacle for water, attached to the outside of a house behind a temple of Gangeśvara Mahādēva at Kāvī was cleaned, and among the rubbish at the bottom, seven inscribed copper-plates were found. These were taken possession of by the caste of the Kapilas. During the times of the Musalman rule, in the reign of Mahmud Bigarhā, the Kapilas were sorely oppressed. A portion of the community fled to Gangāsāgara in Bengal and took away two of the plates. The others remained at Kāvī.²’ The present plate is the second and last plate of its set. It is still in the possession of the Kapila Brāhmanas from whom it was recently taken on loan by a medical practitioner of Bombay. The first plate, which was probably one of the two taken to Bengal, is not now forthcoming. The inscription on the second plate was edited with a translation, but without a facsimile, by Dr. Bühler in the Indian Anti-quary, Vol. V, pp. 109 ff. Its photograph was subsequently published in Fleet’s Sanskrit, Pāli and Old Kanarese Inscriptins, Plate 272. Having failed to get a fresh impression of the original plate, I edit the inscription on it from a copy of the photograph in Fleet’s book, kindly supplied to me by the Director-General of Archaeology in India. “Originally the plate measured ten inches in height by thirteen in breadth. But not inconsiderable pieces have been broken off from the right and left hand sides, so that
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¹Ind. Ant., Vol. V, p. 109.
²Loc. cit. Of the four other plates shown to Dr. Bühler, three forming a set contained a grant of Gōvindarāja of the Gujarāt Rāshtrakūta branch (ed, By Bühler in Ind. Ant., Vol. V, pp. 145 ff.) and the remaining one, a grant of the Chaulukya Abhayapāla.