Indian Epigraphy c11.t1.45

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We have many later instances in which royal grants were copied on temple walls or stone slabs. Among such records found in North India, the Shergadh stone inscription,² originally affixed to the wall of the local temple of the god Somanātha, is a careful copy of a regular charter of the Paramāra king Udayāditya (c. 1060-87 A.D.) of Malwa recording the grant of a village made by the king in favour of the said deity. Of the many well-known instances from South India, mention may be made of the Gadag inscription³ (1192 A.D.) of the Hoysala king Vīra-Ballāla II, the Belgaum inscriptions⁴ (1204 A.D.) of Raṭṭa Kārtavīrya IV and others.