The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.65

v1.c18.65

(4) *Rahan grant.*—It was discovered at a place called Rahan in the Etawah district, U. P. It contains 29 lines, incised on one side of a single plate. The seal attached to the ring is lost. The inscription opens with '*Oṁ Paramātmane namaḥ*' and an invocation to Lakṣmī and Vaikuṇṭha. In the metrical portion, the genealogy is traced from Mahītala to Govindacandra. The inscription refers itself to the reign of Pb.-M.-P.-*Parama-māheśvara* Madanapāla, whose son the *Mahārājaputra* Govindacandradeva announces that the *Rāṇaka* Lavarāpravāha, after bathing in the Yamunā at the *ghāṭ* of the deity Muraïtha at Āsatikā, in the (V) *Saṁ*. 1166, on the occasion of a solar eclipse (A. D. 1109?),¹ gave part of the village of Rāmaïtha in the Siguroḍha-*Pattalā* to the Brahman Guṇacandra. The grant was written by Tribhuvanapāla, with the consent of the *Mahattaka* Gāṅgeya.²