The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.283

v1.c18.283

(13) *Bengal Asiatic Society's grant (vi).*—Found with No. 8; 32 lines, incised on a single plate. It records that the donor of No. 1, when in residence as in No. 11, in (V) *Saṁvat* 1236, granted the village of Abhelāvaṭu in the Jāruttha-*Pattalā* together with the *pāṭakas* of Maṇiārī, Gayasaḍa, Vatāvana, Asiāma, and Sirīma, to the donee of No. 8. It was written by the same as in No. 1.⁵ (14) *Bodhgaya stone-inscription.*—Found in Bodhgaya, in the district of Gaya, Bihar; 17 lines. It opens with *Oṁ namo Buddhāya*, and then praises the Ādi-Buddha,¹ the Bodhisattva Lokeśvara, Ekajaṭā,² Śrīghana (Buddha) and the monk Śrīmitra. This last person is described as the *dīkṣā-guru* of the *Kāśīśa* Jayaccandra. The object of the inscription is to record the construction of a large cave (*guhā*) at Jayapura, “with Siṁhanada³ in front and bearing therein the images of Ugratārā,⁴ with her hands raised upwards, Dattatārā, adored in the morning and (another Tārā) draped in orange clothes,” in the *vatsara* of king Vikramāṅka measured by the……Vedas (4), eyes (2), and the moon (1), 124…?⁵ The *praśasti* was composed by Manoratha, written by the *Kāyastha* Purandara, and engraved by the *Śilpī* Dhārādhara.⁶