Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c11.23

c11.23

On the wall to the left of the verandah of the cave is another inscription It purports to be an order or notice issued from the camp of the victorious army of Govardhana, by Gotamîputra Sâtakarṇi, lord of Dhanakaṭaka, to Vishṇupâlita, his lieutenant in Govardhana, informing him that the king has granted a field measuring 200 Nivartanas, which was up to that time in the possession of one Ushabhadata, for the benefit of recluses The charter here engraved is represented to have been originally issued in the year 18, that is, in the year preceding that in which the cave-temple was completed and dedicated Below this is inscribed another charter issued in the form of an order to Śramaka, the governor of Govardhana, by the queen of Gotamîputra Sâtakarṇi, who is also called the royal mother She therein speaks of a field granted before, probably the one conveyed by the above charter, and says that it measures one hundred Nivartanas, and she assigns another hundred by this charter out of a field belonging to the crown which was her patrimony It appears that two hundred Nivartanas were granted by the first charter, but probably it turned out that the field measured one hundred only, hence she now makes it up by granting another hundred out of another field The date of this grant is 24, *i e*, it was made six years after the first ¹⁴