The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.175

v2.c29.s2.175

(5) *Rewa stone-inscription.*—This inscription is now ‘in the store of the office of the Home Member of the Council of Regency,’ Rewa State. Its find-spot is at present unknown. ‘The record is incised on a smooth plain slab of sandstone, the left half of which is missing.’ It is dated in the (K.) S. 812 (A.D. 1060-61), in the 9th year of the reign of Karṇa. The inscription begins with a verse containing an invocation to Śiva. The record is so mutilated that it is very difficult to follow the details mentioned in it. But it seems to refer to a line of chiefs² who were servants of the Kalacuri kings. It mentions two battles, a battle of the horses (*ghoṭaka-vigraha*) and a battle in the valley of the Yellow mountain (*pīta-parvata-tala*), in which Vapullaka (also called Vapula), one of these chiefs, seem to have shown his valour. In the second conflict (*samara*) he defeated the forces of one Trilocana and a holy person (*muni*) named Vijjala. The proper object of the inscription is to record some donation of land to (Śiva) Vapuleśvara, who was named after Vapula, ‘a devoted worshipper of the feet’ of Karṇadeva. The *praśasti* was composed by one Viruka. Line 19 contains ‘a supplementary record which mentions the donation of an image of *Maheśvarī* by a lady named Pravarā, alias Nayanāvalī, who was apparently the wife of Vapula.³