The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v1.c18.82

v1.c18.82

(1) Kamauli grant (i).—This was found in the village of Kamauli, near the confluence of the Barna and Ganges at Benares. It contains 28 lines, incised on one side of a single plate. The inscription begins with an invocation of Vaikuṇṭha and *Śrī*.⁵ The metrical portion traces the genealogy of the donor. It then records that *Pb.-M.-P.*-Govindacandra in (V) *Saṁvatsara* 1171 (A.D. 1114 ?), after bathing in the Ganges at Vārāṇasī, granted the village of Bṛhadvirāicamaua in the Kāṭi-*Pattalā* to the *Purohita* Jāgu Śarman.¹