Indian Epigraphy c6.s4.15

c6.s4.15

We have also inscriptions containing a record of events happening at different dates arranged in a chronological order. The Siron Khurd (Siyādoṇī) inscription³ in 46 lines records twentyseven donations made at different dates between Vikrama Saṃvat 960 and 1025 by some subordinates and subjects of the Gurjara Pratihāra emperors of Kanauj in favour of the Brahmanical deities worshipped at the locality. Some of the records of these donations are undated while a few of the dated records refer to the reigns of the Gurjara Pratihāra monarchs. But there is little doubt that the records were arranged in strict chronological order. The dates, Vikrama Saṃvat 960 (903 A.D.) and 964 (907 A.D.), are associated with the reign of Mahendrapāla, successor of Bhoja, and Vikrama Saṃvat 1005 (948 A.D.) with that of Devapāla, successor of Kṣitipāla. The inscription was drawn up by people who were apparently endowed with a sense of chronological order. Similarly, in the Nagari plates¹ of Eastern Gaṅga Anaṅabhīma III (c. 1211-38 A.D.), we have not only an account of the predecessors of the donor for many generations together with the duration of their rules and the date of the coronation of one of them in the Śaka era, but also the description of seven grants made by the king within a period of about one year quoting the exact date of each one of them.