The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.60

v1.c18.60

(2) *Kamauli grant.*—This was found in a field in the village of Kamauli, near the confluence of the Barna and the Ganges at Benares. It contains 24 lines, incised on both sides of a single plate. The opening verses (2-3) correspond with those of No. 1. Genealogy also the same as above. The inscription records that *Mahārājaputra* Govindacandra from his victorious camp (*vijaya-kaṭaka*) in Viṣṇupura, after having bathed in the Ganges and worshipped the same gods as in No. 1 in (V) *Saṁvat* 1162 (A. D. 1105), granted the village of Usithā (?) in the Jīāvatī-*Pattalā* in the Pañcāla-*deśa* to the Brahman Vīlhākāya Dīkṣita. The writer of the grant and those who consented to the grant are the same as in No. 1. The latter group contains an additional name, *viz.*, the queen-mother (*jananī*) Rālha-devī.²