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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF NORTH KONKAN
Name of Brāhmaṇa |
His father’s name |
Gōtra |
Śākhā |
7. Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa |
Gōvardhanabhaṭṭa |
Gārgya |
Ṛigvēda |
8. Chakrapṇibhaṭṭa |
Drōṇabhaṭṭa |
Kapi |
-do- |
9. Mādhava Jyӧtirvid |
Dāmupaiya |
Ātrēya |
-do- |
10. Vāmbadēvabhaṭṭa |
Risiyappabhaṭṭa |
Ātrēya |
-do- |
11. Vāvalaiya |
Dāmupaiya |
Kāśyapa |
-do- |
12. Divākaraiya |
Siddhapaiya |
Bhāradvāja |
-do- |
13. Janārdana |
Vēvala Shaḍaṅgavid |
Kāśyapa |
-do- |
14. Vāmbaṇa |
Tīkapaiya |
Ātrēya |
-do- |
..It seems that these fourteen donees were living at one place which is not named in the
grant. The villages have not, therefore, been assigned to them severally. Their revenue in the
form of dramas, the house-tax and the Kumāragadyānas derived from them were pooled together and distributed among the donees. Of these, Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍita and Divākaraiya were
given two shares each, and the rest one share each. It is noteworthy that one of the donees is described as Karṇāṭa, though the others also named with him but not so specified were living in
the Kannaḍa speaking Karahāta The Brāhmaṇas of Karahāṭa correspond to the modern
sub-sect of the Karhāḍē Brāhmaṇas in Mahārāshṭra and Kōṅkaṇa.
..The object of the grant was to provide for the observance, by these Brāhmaṇas, of
their religious duties such as sacrificing for themselves and for others, the study and teaching of
the sacred texts, the performance of the pañchamahāyajñas and the maintenance of their families.
..While stating the boundaries of the villages in the Varēṭikā-vishaya the following
particulars are given—The village Ēkasāla was bounded by the river Ūlasa on the east and
by the river Pavahā on the south. The way to (the village) Siyali formed its western boundary.
The village Bhūtavali is next named, but without any geographical place being mentioned
as marking its boundary. The village Vaḍavalī was bounded on the north by the river Pavahā.
The village Āsalagrāma had fields of Vaḍavalī and Vikarā on its eastern and
northern boundaries. Another donated village, the name of which has now become illegible,
had a cow-path of the village Ēkasāla and the river Pavahā as its eastern and southern
boundary respectively. Other boundaries of the donated villages are also mentioned, but they
are not useful for their identification. But the particulars given above of some boundaries of
the donated villages show clearly that all of them were situated near each other and so their
revenue and other income could be easily pooled together and distributed among the donees.
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Besides, the present plates record the grants of the produce partly in the form of drammas
and partly in food-grains from fields in two other sets of villages, not included in the Varetikā
vishaya, to certain Brāhmanas individually. The villages were situated in the following two
vishayas :
(A)Villages in the Abhyantara-shaṭshashṭi-vishaya—
(i) Mūlanda and (ii) Vōriyalā
(B) Villages in the Śūrpāraka-Shatshashṭi-vishaya—
(i) Bṛihad-Aḍaṇikā (ii) Laghu-Aḍaṇikā (iii) Khānuvaḍā (iv) Pēḍhāla and
(v) Vīrāra.
..The village Khaṇḍivalīgrāma is mentioned as forming the western boundary of
Laghu-Aḍaṅikā, and Uppalapallikā as a hamlet of the village Vīrāra. The fields are named
generally after the kind of food-grains produced in them[1] such as Khairōṇḍhā-kshētra, Khāmuvaḍa-
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A close examination of the present grant shows that in the case of a few fields only certain levies of rice
are laid down, in addition to the amount in dramas. These fields are as follows : Kōṭṭhāravēḍhi-kshētra (lines 99-100) ; Vāḍa-kshētra (line 106) ; Nihura-kshētra (line 111) ; Vaulapoṇḍhā-kshētra (line 114) ; two Pōṇḍhā-
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