The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.279

v2.c28.279

(4) *Mahoba grant.*—This was discovered in the town of Mahoba (Hamirpur district, U.P.), in a stone chest about 30ʹ below the surface. It contains 33 lines incised on one side of two plates of copper. The plates were strung together by a ring having a seal, which is now broken. On the top of the first plate there is the usual figure of *Gaja-Lakṣmī*. The introductory portion of the grant is exactly the same as in Nos. (1) and (3). It records the grant of some 'land measuring 60 square *vādhas* cultivable by five ploughs' in the village of Dhanaura (mod. Dhanaura, 11 miles from Erich on the Betwa) in the *Viṣaya* of Eracha (mod. Erich on the Betwa, 60 miles from Mahoba) to the Brāhman Ratna Śarman, an immigrant from Phauḍiva(?)-*bhaṭṭāgrahāra*, by the Candrātreya king Paramardi, when he was resident at the village of Gahikū (mod. Gahuli, about 10 miles north of Dhanaura). The writer and engraver of the plate were the same as in Nos. (1) and (3). Pālhaṇa describes himself here as a *Vijñānin* (skilful artist). The date of the grant is (*V.*) *Saṁvat* 1230 (A. D. 1173).²