The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c28.281

v2.c28.281

(5) *Pachar grant.*—This is said to have been dug up in the village of Pachar, 12 miles N. E. of the city of Jhansi. The inscription consists of 22 lines, incised on one side of a single plate. There is a ring-hole at the bottom of the plate, and at the top a 4-handed squatting figure of *Gaja-Lakṣmī*. The introductory portion of the grant is nearly the same as in Nos. (1), (3) and (4). It records a gift of some land in the village of Lauvā (mod. Lewa, 3 miles west of Pachar) in the *Viṣaya* of Karigavā (perhaps mod. Kargawan, 9 miles N. E. of Pachar) to the *paṇḍita* Keśava Śarman, an immigrant from Mutāuṣa *bhaṭṭāgrahāra*. The grant was made by the king when he was resident in Vilāsapura¹ (probably mod. village of Pachar) in *(V.) Saṁvat* 1233 (A. D. 1176). The writer of the inscription was Subhānanda of the *Vāstavya-vaṁśa*. It was engraved by the same as in (3). He describes himself as *Vaidagdhī-Viśvakarmaṇā* (a master of art and craft), as in No. (3).²