The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c16.228

v1.c16.228

The inscription was issued by *Pś.-M.* Trailokyacandra-deva-*pādānudhyātaḥ P.-Pb-M.* Śrīcandradeva from the *Vikramapura-samāvāsita-Śrīmaj-jayaskandhāvāra*. It records the grant of one *pāṭaka* of land in Nehakāṣṭhi-*grāma* of Nānya-*Maṇḍala* in Pauṇḍra-*Bhukti* to the Brāhmaṇa Pītavāsagupta Śarman, who was officiating in the *Koṭi-homa*. The grant was made in the name of *Buddha-bhaṭṭāraka*. It is not dated.¹ Two other copper plates of this king issued from his camp at Vikrampur have been discovered, though they have not yet been properly edited.² Another inscription of this family, "incised on the pedestal of a huge image of Naṭeśa Śiva was dug out of a tank in a village called Bharella police-station Baḍkāmtā in the district of Tippera (Bengal)." The epigraph consists of two lines, and is written in characters which are assigned to the latter half of the 10th century A.D. The inscription is dated in the 18th year of the *Vijaya-rājya* of Layahacandradeva, and records the consecration of the image "on a Thursday under the constellation Pushya, on the 14th day of the dark half of the month, the day being the 14th Aṣāḍha counted by the movement of the moon" by Bhāvudeva, son of Kusumadeva, Lord of Kārmānta (mod. Badkamta, some 3 miles S.W. of the find-spot of the image).¹