The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.264

v1.c18.264

(6) *Benares college grant*.—Unearthed in a field at the village of Sihvar, 6 miles N.E. of the city of Benares; 35 lines, incised on a single plate. It records that the donor of No. 1, after bathing in the Ganges at Vārāṇasī, on Sunday, the 13th lunar day of the bright half of Bhādrapāda, in (V) *Saṁvat* 1232 (Sunday, 31st August, A.D. 1175), on the occasion of the *Nāma-karaṇa* (name-giving) ceremony of his son, *Rājaputra* Hariścandra, granted the two villages of Sarauḍā and (Ā?)māyī in the Māṇara-*Pattalā*,¹ to the *Mahāpaṇḍita* Hṛṣīkeśa Sarman, son of *Mahāmiśra-paṇḍita*² Hāle. It was written by the same as in No. 1.³