The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.49

v1.c18.49

(4) *Candravati grant (iii).*—Found with No. 2. It contains 27 lines, incised on one side of a single plate. Seal as usual. It begins with the remark that 'this grant was made after a munificent gift of gold and other valuables equal to the king's weight (*tulā-puruṣa*) and a thousand cows before the image of the god Ādi-Keśava.' The introductory portion is as usual. The inscription records the grant of 30 villages in the Bṛhadṛhevaratha [*sic!*]-*Pattalā* and two villages in the Kaṭhehalī-*Pattalā* to the donees of No. 2 above. It also records the dedication of the village of Majauḍa, situated in the Vamṁkānai-*Pattalā*, for the maintenance of the shrine of Candra-mādhava¹ at Candrāvati.² The grant is dated in (V) S. 1156 (A.D. 1100). The donor before making the grant bathed at the *ghāṭ* of Ādi-Keśava at the confluence of the Gaṅgā and Varaṇā. It was engraved by Mādhava.³