The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.116

v2.c28.116

(3) *Nanyaura (now Bengal Asiatic Society) grant.*—It contains 15 lines incised on one side of a single copper plate, and was found with another plate of Devavarman (dated in V. S. 1107) in a field at the village of Nanyaura, in the Panwari-Jaitpur Tahsīl of the Hamirpur District, U. P. There are no holes in the plate for rings, nor any seal attached to the plate The grant opens with the sign *Oṁ svasti* and then traces the genealogy of the donor from king Harṣadeva. We are told that *Pb.-M.-P.* Harṣadeva-*pādānudhyāta-Pb.-M.-P.* Yaśovarmanadeva-*pādānudhyāta-Pb.-M.-P.-Kālañjarādhipati*-Dhaṅga-deva in the (V.) year 1055 (A. D. 998), when there was an eclipse of the moon, granted from Kāśikā (Benares) the village of Yu(Cu?)llī attached to (*pratibaddha*) Uṣaravāha to the *Bhaṭṭa* Yaśodhara, an emigrant from Tarkārikā, whose ancestors had been settled at Dūrvāharā. The inscription ends with ‘*Śrī Dhaṅga*.’¹