The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s2.243

v2.c29.s2.243

*Kumbhi grant.*—This was dug up at Kumbhi, on the right bank of the Herun river, 35 miles N. E. of Jubbulpore. The inscription is incised on two plates of copper. The seal on the ring has the usual figures of *Gaja-Lakṣmī* and the bull. Between the two figures is the legend *Śrīmad-Vijayasiṁhadeva*. The inscription opens with *Oṁ namo Brahmaṇe*, and then gives the genealogy of the dynasty from *Brahmā* down to Vijayasiṁha. In the prose part of the inscription we are told that with the permission of *Pb.-M.-P.-Vāmadeva-pādānudhyāta-Pb.-M.-P.-Parama-māheśvara-Trikaliṅgādhipati-nija-bhujopārjit-Āśvapati-Gajapati-Narapati-rāja-trayādhipati* Vijayasiṁhadeva, his mother Gosaladevī granted in (K.) *Saṁvat* 932 (A. D. 1180) the village of Coralaya, in the Saṁvala-*pattalā*, to the Brāhman Sīṭha Śarman. The inscription was written by Vatsarāja and engraved by *Sūtradhāra* Lema.¹