North Indian Inscriptions

MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS

end as 966. Though no era is specified, the date must evidently be referred to the Kalachuri era. It regularly corresponds, foe the expired Kalachuri year 966, to Sunday, the 5th October 1214 A.C., when there was a total solar eclipse visible at Kāṅkēr the tithi being the new-moon day of the pūrņimānta Kārttika, and the nakashatra, Chitrā.¹ The cyclic year, however, does not agree. According to the southern luni-solar system it was Bhāva and according to the northern system, it was Bahudhānya. In neither case was it Īśvara. As Kielhorn has pointed out,² according to the northern mean-sign system the cyclic year Iśvara lasted from the 2nd September 1212 A.C to the 29th August 1213 A.C. The discrepancy is evidently due the writer's carelessness.

The present grant mentions eight royal officers, besides the Prime Minister. Five of these figure as witnesses and one more,viⱬ., Vishṇuśarman, as the writer in the preceding grant. The prime Minister seems to have been changed during the interval. In the present he grant he is named Vāghu,while previously the post was help by Ḍōgarā. The engraver of both the grants was the same man Kēśava.

The donee of the present grant was the Gaitā Laksmīdhara, who is also mentioned in the preceding inscription. He was a student of the Yajurvēda and belonged to the Ghṛita-Kauśika gōtra.He was the son of Gadādhara and grandson of Mādhavaśarman.

Of the place-names mentioned here, Pāḍi, where the grant was made, has already been identified. It seems to have been a second capital of Pamprajāja; for, the preceding plate also, though granted at Kākaira, was actually engraved at Pādi. As for Kōṅgarā, the village donated by Pamparāja, there are three places of that name in the vicinity of Kāṅkēr. Two of them, Deo Kōṅgērā and Kōṅgērā Biyās, lie close together, 4 miles to the south-east, and the third, Hāṭ-Kōṅgarā, 5 miles to the north of Kāṅkēr. Once of these is probably meant by the Kōṅgarā of the present grant.³ Āṇḍali is probably Āndaṇi, 6 miles east of Kāṅkēr.

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¹ According to Pillai's Indian Ephemeris, the tithi ended 3 h. 10 m. and nakshatra, 8 h. 40 m. after mean sunrise. According to Kielhorn's calculations, the tithi ended 3 h. 33 m. and the nakshatra was chitrā by the equal space system and according to Ganga for 2 h. 38 m. After mean sunrise. See Ep. Ind, Vol. IX, p. 129.
² Ibid., Vol. IX p. 130.
³ Hiralal connects Śrī-Prāṁkēśvara-saṁnidhāne with Kōṁgarā-grāmō and decides the question in favour of Deo Kōńgrēā. The prefix Deo of this village-named is , according to him reminiscent of the shrine of Prāṁkēśvara, which, though it has now disappeared, was previously situated close to the village. It seems, however, more probable that the grant was made at the shrine of Prāṅkēśvara and before that deity. For an analogous instance, see the Amōdā plates of Pŕitvīdēva I, above, No.76.
⁴ Expressed by a symbol.
⁵ Perhaps -गुणालंकृत- is meant. The Sunak plates of the Chaulukya Karņa have समस्तराजावली- विराजित-. see Ep. Ind., Vol. I, p. 317.
⁶ Read -महामाण्डलिक-.
⁷ Read - श्रीमद्दोपदेव-
⁸ Read - प्रवद्धेमन-
⁹ Read लक्ष्मीदेवी.
¹⁰ Read कुमारवोपदेवः. The case-affixes of the following words also are dropped.
¹¹ Read ठक्‍कुरः असू.