The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c29.s3.16

v2.c29.s3.16

Ratnarāja was succeeded by his son Pṛthvīdeva, also called Pṛthvīśa.⁵ Recently a land-grant of this king was discovered in the Bilaspur district of the C. P. This was the *Amoda grant*. It was dug out of a field in the village of Amoda, which is ‘about 10 miles from Jānjgir, the headquarters of a *tahsil* of the same name in Bilaspur.’ The inscription contains 41 lines and is incised on two plates. Each of the plates has a hole, ' the first at the bottom and the second at the top,' but the ring and the seal are lost. The grant opens with *Oṁ namo Brahmaṇe*. In the introductory portion the genealogy is traced from Kārtavīrya, Kokkala, and Kaliṅgarāja to Pṛthvīdeva. The prose part of the inscription records the grant of the village of Vasahā (mod. place of the same name in Bilaspur *tahsīl*), in the Yayapara-*maṇḍala* (the region round mod. village of Jaijaipur, 10 miles from Amoda) to a Brāhman named Keśava, son of Cāṭṭa and grandson of Thīrāica, on the occasion of the dedication of a four-pillared hall (*Catuṣkikā*) to the god Vaṅkeśvara at Tumāṇaka. The donor was *Samadhigata-pañca-mahāśabda-Vaṅkeśvara-vara-labdha-prasāda Eka-viṁśati-sahasraikanātha-Mahā-pracaṇḍa-Sakala-Kosalādhipati-Parama-māheśvara-Kalacurivaṁśodbhava-Samasta-rājāvalivirājamāna-Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Pṛthvīdeva*. The grant is dated *Cedīśasya Saṁ.* 831 (A. D. 1079).¹