North Indian Inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF NORTH KONKAN

Vaulathai; on the north, the filed owned by the Brāhmaṇa Tikkambaiya−and also the drammas of the houses connected with this filed to be paid to the same (donee)−and to the Brāhmaṇa Vapyaiya, the son of the Brāhmaṇa Dhālana, who has mastered the six vēdāṅgas¸ of the Vāsishṭha gōtra and the Ṛigvēda śākhā, who has emigrated from Karahāṭa –thirty-six drammas out of the revenue of the Vāḍa filed in the village Vōriyalā, situated in the Abhyantarashaṭshashṭi vishaya, together with four mūṭakas, less by a quarter, of rice out of the produce of the (same) filed−in figures, dra. 36 (and) rice-mūḍas 33/4− the boundaries of which are as follows: −on the east, waste land of a field in (the village) Khānuvaḍā and also an Ābhiṭṭhā-tree; on the south, a viraīkā ; on the west the hamlet Kāḍhēvalī attached to the village . . . . . . .; on the north, the vāvaka (field) of the Brāhmaṇa Dāupaiya; and also eighteen drammas out of the revenue of the Nihura field in this (village) and one and a half mūṭaka together with ten kuṭapas of rice according to the measure in use in this village out of the produce in rice-grain of the field, in figures, dra. 18 (and rice 11/2 mūḍās and 10 kuṭapas, −the boundaries of which (field) are as follows:−on the east, the village Mānē; on the south, a cow-path; on the west, a pastureground; on the north, a tamarind tree; on also nine drammas from the revenue of the Vaulapoṇḍhā field of this (village) together with one mūṭaka of rice less by five kuṭapas, in figures, dra. 9, khaṇḍikās 3 and kuḍavas 15; the boundaries of which (filed) are as follows :− on the east, a filed belonging to the god Vishṇu-Nārāyaṇa; on the south, a Nihura field; on the west, the orchard of the householder Pāmbuva; on the north, a Khānūvala field; together with the drammas levied as a house-cess in respect of these fields to be paid to this very (Brāhmaṇa) ; and to the Brāhmaṇa Dāmupaiya, the son of the Brāhmaṇa Risiyapaiya, of the Kāśyapa gōtra and the Ṛigvēda śākhā, who has emigrated from Karahāṭa, one hundred and twenty-two drammas from the revenue of the four fields (named below) together with four mūṭakas of rice out of the produce of

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food-grains therefrom by the measure in use in this village, in figures, dra. 122, (and) rice mūḍās 4; and also four houses in this village and also drammas levied as house-cess in respect of these four fields, (viz.) two Pōṇḍhā fields in the village Bṛihad-Aḍaṇikā (Large Aḍaṇikā) situated in the Śūrpārakashaṭshashṭi vishaya, the boundaries of which, are as follows:− from the north-east to the south-east, an Aśvattha tree, a Nyagrōdha tree and an Aśvattha tree combined with a tamarind tree, and also a Khadira tree and waste land; on the south, a Vāṁkaḍi field and the Siṅghala-dvīpa field; on the west, a row of (boundary ) stones and also stones fixed in the ground; on the north, a Madhu field; and also two Tōraṅī fields of this (village), the boundaries of which are as follows:− on the east, a Nāṇēvāpa field, and a Vēḍēvāpa field; on the south, a royal road; on the west, a waterfall already in use; on the north, a Bhābhōṇḍhā field; and fifty drammas out of the revenue of three fields (mentioned below) in figures, dra. 50, together with one house in this village−(the fields, namely) the Māni field in the village Laghu-Aḍaṇikā (Small Aḍaṇikā) situated in this vishaya, the boundaries of which are as follows : − on the west, Vārasaunda field; on the south, a Jambūvaṭī field; on the west, the village Khaṇḍivalī; on the north, the same Khaṇḍivalī village and a previously occupied (field); and also a Madhukachcha field connected with the (aforementioned) field, the boundaries of which are as follows :− on the east, the Chōli field; on the south, the Vēndarī marsh; on the west, the same Vēndarī marsh; on the north, a small stream; and also an Uttēśravā field in this village, the boundaries of which are as follows:− on the east, a ṭembha (low mound ?); on the south, a cow-path; on the west, a cow-path; and on the north, a dam; and also eighty drammas, in figures, dra. 80, out of the revenue from (the following four fields) together with three houses in this village−(the fields, viz.) the Kusumbhōli field in the Khānuvaḍā village situated in this vishaya, the boundaries of which are as follows:− on the east, a Madhu tree; on the south, a Kusumbhōli filed belonging to the Government; on the west, a salty stream and salty land; on the north, a Banyan tree and also land previously occupied; and also the