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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE SILAHARAS OF NORTH KONKAN
the cyclic year corresponding to the expired Śaka year 1108, according to the Southern System,
was Parābhava as stated. The corresponding date of the Christian era is the 26th January
A.D. 1187. The following royal officers are mentioned in the present grant—the Mahāpradhāna
Bhōpā Vyōmaśiva, the Senior Treasury Officer and Mahāsāndhivigrahika Anantapai and the
Junior Treasury Officer Amuka. Of these, Bhōpā or Bhōpaka Vyōmaśiva is mentioned in
the Lonāḍ stone inscription[1] of Aparāditya II and in the Bassein stone inscription[2] of his
predecessor Mallikārjuna. The Senior Treasury Officer Anantapai is, again, mentioned in the
Chipḷuṇ Stone inscription and Bassein Stone inscription of Mallikārjuna[3].
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As for the localties mentioned in the present inscription, Shaṭshashṭi has already been
identified with Sāshṭi. Māhavali is near Kurlā as already stated. Darbhāvatī is modern
Ḍabhoī in the former Baroḍā State. The temple of Vaidyanātha situated there was well known
in ancient times.[4] Several grants made to the god are known.
Text[5]

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Above, No. 30, line 7.
Above, No. 29, lines 9 and 11.
Above, No. 28, line 7 ; No. 29, line 7.
See Burgess and Cousens, Antiquities of Ḍabhāī (A.S.I. Report, Vol. II).
From the facsimile plate XVI in P.M.K.L.
[6] Expressed by a symbol.
[7] Such daṇḍas in this and the following lines are superfluous.
[8] Read –वर्त्यनन्तपैप्रभु–.
[9] Read द्रव्यादिलोभात्. The following daṇḍa is superfluous.
[10] Metre of this and the following verse : Anushṭubh.
[11] भूमिप्रदानेन is superfluous.
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