The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.56

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(1) *Basahi grant.*—It was found in the village of Basahi two miles to the NE. of the headquarters town of the Bidhuna Tahsil (Etawah district, U.P.). It contains 22 lines, incised on one side of a single plate. The circular seal has the usual figures and emblems. The inscription opens with an invocation to Viṣṇu under the names Vāsudeva and Dāmodara, and then gives the genealogy of the family from Mahīala to Madanapāla. His son was the *Rājaputra* Govindacandra. The inscription then records that *Mahārājaputra* Govindacandra after bathing in the river Yamunā at Asatikā⁶ and having worshipped the Sun, Śiva and Vāsudeva, in (V) *Saṁvat* 1161 (A. D. 1104), granted the village of Vasabhī⁷ in the Jiāvatī-*Pattalā* on the occasion of the *Uttarāyaṇa Saṁkrānti* to the Brahman Ālheka. The charter was written by the *Paṇḍita* Vijayadāsa, with the permission of the *Purohita* Jāguka, the *Mahattaka* Vālhaṇa, and the *Pratīhāra* Gautama.¹