The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s6.49

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in the forms given by the author, he often uses the usual expression amuka, meaning "some one" or "such a one." This general expression, however, is not used to indicate the date, and we have in all the forms one date, viz. 15 Sudi of Vais'âkha,² in the year of Vikrama 1288, except in one case where it is the 3rd Sudi. This probably was the date when the author wrote. Similarly, when giving the form of a grant inscribed on copper-plates, the author in order probably to make the form clear, uses real and specific names. He gives the genealogy of the Chaulukya kings of Anahilapattana to Bhîma II. and then introduces Lavaṇaprasâda, whom he calls Lâvaṇyaprasâda and styles a Mahâmaṇḍales'vara, as the prince making the grant. Similarly, in giving the form of a treaty of alliance called yamalapattra, the persons who are introduced as parties to it are Siṁhaṇa and Lâvaṇyaprasâda and the form runs thus:—