The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.35

v1.c18.35

(1) *Candravati grant (i)*.—It ‘was found on the inner slope of the left bank of the Ganges, near the water’s edge, under the fort at Candrāvatī,¹ in the Benares district.' The inscription contains 23 lines, inscribed on one side of a single plate. The ring which passes through a hole in the upper part of the plate carries a circular seal with the figure in relief of a Garuḍa with the body of a man and the head of a bird and facing to the proper right. Across the centre of the seal is the legend: *Śrīvadac-(Śrīmac)-Candradevaḥ*, and at the bottom there is a conch-shell. The grant opens with *Oṁ svasti*, and then in the first verse invokes the goddess *Śrī*. Next follows the genealogy of the donor from Yaśovigraha. The inscription in its formal part, records the grant of the Vadagavā-*grāma*² in the Vāvana-*Pattalā* to the Brahman Varuṇeśvaya (ra?) Śarman by *Pb.-M.-P.-Parama-māheśvara-nija-bhujopārjita-Śrī-Kanyakubjādhipatya-Śrī*-Candradeva. The donor before making the gift bathed in the neighbourhood of Śauri-Nārāyaṇa after worshipping the Sun and Vāsudeva. The occasion of the grant was a lunar eclipse in (V) S. 1148 (A.D. 1090).³ The inscription was written by *Ṭhakkura* Mahaṇaṁda.⁴