The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.277

v2.c28.277

(3) *Icchawar grant.*—This was found near the village of Icchawar, in the Pailani Tahsil of Banda district, U.P. It consists of 35 lines incised on one side of two plates of copper. It opens with the same genealogical details as in the Semra grant (No. 1), and records a gift by the king, from his residence at Vilāsapura, on the occasion of a lunar eclipse in (*V.*) *Saṁvat* 1228 (1171 A.D.). The village granted was named Nandinī (mod. Nandandeo or Nundodeo, some 10 miles S.W. of Icchawar?), and was situated in the Nandāvaṇa-*viṣaya*. The donee was the Brāhman *Senāpati* Madanapāla Śarman, son of the *Ṭhakkura* Maheśvara and grandson of the *Ṭhakkura* Bhonapāla, an immigrant from the *bhaṭṭāgrahāra* Naugāva. The writer of the *Śāsana* was the *Kāyastha* Pṛthvīdhara, probably the same person who wrote the Semra grant. The engraver was also the same as in No. (1) but in this plate he calls himself a *Śilpi*.¹