The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.244

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(3) A Gujarât Chalukya copper-plate grant from Nausârî in the Barôḍâ State.² It first mentions Pulikêśin II.; and then his son Satyâśraya-Vikramâditya I., whom it describes as a *paramamâhêśvara* or most devout worshipper of the god Mahêśvara,—as meditating on the feet of his parents and of the illustrious or holy Nâgavardhana,³ and as having overcome the Pallava family with unrepulsed prowess. It next mentions another son of Pulikêśin II., named Dharâśraya-Jayasimhavarman,⁴ whose dignity or prosperity, it says, had been augmented by his elder brother Vikramâditya I. It then mentions a son of Jayasimhavarman, the Yuvarâja Śilâditya, "the sun of good character," to whom the seal gives the *biruda* of Śryâśraya, the "asylum of Fortune." And it then records that, while resident or encamped at Navasârikâ, Śryâśraya-Śilâditya granted to some Brâhmaṇs a village named Âsaṭṭigráma, in the Kaṇḍavalâhâra *vishaya*, which was in the Thâhirikâ *vishaya*. The grant was made on the thirteenth day of the bright fortnight of the month Mâgha, in the (Kalachuri) year 421 (expired); and the corresponding English date is, approximately, the 30th January, A. D. 671.⁵ Of the places mentioned in this record, Dr. Bühler has identified Navasârikâ with Nausârî itself, and Âsaṭṭigráma with Asṭgâm, a few miles to the south-east of Nausârî.⁶ This record and the other⁷ of Śryâśraya-Śilâditya, both describing him as *Yuvarâja*, indicate the same dates, A. D. 671 and 692, for his father Dharâśraya-Jayasimhavarman.