[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931) › v2.c29.s2.165 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.165 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.165 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c29.s2.165](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.165) (1) \*Benares grant.\*—This was found at the bottom of a well in the old fort of Benares. It consists of 48 lines and is engraved on two brass plates, joined by a ring, to which is affixed the royal seal containing the figure of the four-armed \*Gaja-lakṣmī\* sitting cross-legged. Below the goddess the seal contains the legend—\*Śrī-Karṇa-deva\* and below the legend was engraved the figure of a bull. Excepting a verse in line 13 which is in Mahārāṣṭrī Prakrit, it is written as usual in Sanskrit verse and prose. The inscription opens with \*Oṁ namaḥ Śivāya\* and a verse in honour of Śiva. It then traces the genealogy of the Haihayas from Kārtavīrya down to Karṇa. In the prose part of the inscription (lines 33-41) we are told that \*Pb.-M.-P.-Vāmadeva-pādānudhyāta - Pb. - M. - P.-Paramamāheśvara-Trika-liṅgādhipati-Karṇadeva\* from his \*Vijaya-skandhāvāra\*, situated at Svasāga (?), after having bathed in the river Veṇī, worshipped the god Trilocana (Śiva), and performed the annual funeral ceremony in honour of his father Gāṅgeyadeva, granted \*Kāsi-(bhūmy)-anta(rga)ta Susi-grāma\*, to the learned Viśvarūpa, whose ancestors had come from the village of Vesāla. The date, (K.) \*Saṁvat\* 793 (A.D. 1042), comes at the end of the inscription.¹ - [Previous: v2.c29.s2.164](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.164) - [Next: v2.c29.s2.166](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.166) - [Up: v2.c29.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.165](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c29.s2.165) · Pramāṇa