The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.226

v2.c28.226

(4) *Augasi grant.*—The plate was found in the Augasi Pargana in the Baberu Tahsil of the Banda district, U. P. The inscription contains 19 lines, and is incised on one side of a single copper plate. There is a ring-hole at the lower part of the plate; but 'the ring with the seal attached to it' is lost. In the upper-middle part of the plate however there is engraved the figure of the goddess *Lakṣmī* sitting in the *Padmāsana* with an elephant at each side 'standing on what looks like an expanded water lily,² pouring water over her head.' The inscription opens with *Om̐ svasti* and a verse praising the princes of the *Candrātreya-vaṁśa*. In that family lustrous because of the appearance of Jayaśakti and Vijayaśakti, arose *Pb.-M.-P.-Kīrtivarmadeva pādānudhyāta-Pb.-M.-P.-Pṛthvīvarmadeva-pādānudhyāta-Pb.-M.-P.-Paramamāheśvara-Kālañjarādhipati-Madanavarmadeva*. Then follows some vague praise of the last ruler, after which we are told that this king, from his residence near Bhailasvāmin (mod. Bhilsa) granted a piece of land measuring 10 ploughs (*hala*) of the village Vambaraḍā in the Suḍali-*viṣaya* to a Brāhman who was an emigrant from the village of Ḍhakārī, in the (*V.*) *Saṁvat* 1190 (A. D. 1134). The inscription was written by the *Dharmalekhi* (law-writer?) Ṭhāsīsuḍha, and engraved by the *Vijñānika* Jalhaṇa.¹