The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.132

v1.c18.132

(22) *Set Mahet grant.*—This was discovered in a monastery ‘on the site of *Saheṭh*’ (*i.e.*, Set), on the borders of the Gonda and Bahraich districts. It contains 27 lines incised on a single plate, recording that the donor of No. 4, after bathing in the Ganges at Vārāṇasī, and having worshipped Vāsudeva and other gods, in (V) *Saṁvat* 1186, granted the villages of Vihāra, Paṭṭanā,⁵ Upalaüṇḍā, Vavvahalī,⁶ Meyī-*sambaddha*-Ghosāḍī,⁷ and Poṭhivāra-*sambaddha*-Payāsī⁸ in the Vāḍā(jā)- Caturaśīti-*Pattalā* to "the *Saṁgha* of the Buddhist friars (*Śākya-bhikṣu*) of whom Buddha-bhaṭṭāraka is the chief" residing in the Jetavana-*mahāvihāra*. The gift was made by the donor 'having been gratified by the *Saugata-parivrājaka-mahā-paṇḍita* Sākyarakṣita, (a resident) of the Utkala-deśa and his disciple, the *Saugata-parivrājaka-mahāpaṇḍita* Vāgīśvararakṣita, (a resident) of the Coḍa-deśa.'¹ The grant was written by the *Kāyastha* Sūrāditya.²