The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.133

v2.c30.s4.133

(5) *Kalvan plates of Yaśovarman.*—Discovered in the village near Kalvan, in the N. W. of Nasik District, Bombay Presidency. It contains 45 lines, incised on three plates of copper. The grant opens with an eulogy of the Paramāra⁷ Bhojadeva of Dhārā and his ancestry from Sīyakadeva (II). We are then told that through Bhoja's favour the illustrious Yaśovarman had obtained the town (*nagara*) of Selluka and was enjoying 1,500 villages. The inscription then records that in the (village) Muktāpalī in the Auḍrahāḍi-*viṣaya*, the *Sāmanta*, the illustrious *Rāṇaka* Amma of the Gaṅga family, being convinced of the excellence of the *Jina-dharma* from the teachings of the Śvetāmbara *ācārya* Ammadeva, gave some land at Mahiṣabuddhika, at the holy *tīrtha* of Kālakāleśvara.¹ The grant was made by Amma on the occasion of a solar eclipse and the *amāvāsya* day of the month of Caitra, after having washed the feet of (the *ācārya* ?) with water thrown from the hands of his wife *rājñī* Caccāī of the Cālukya family. This land measured 40 *nivartanas*. A second piece of land measuring 25 *nivartanas* was given by *Rāja* Kakkapāi. A third piece of land measuring 35 *nivartanas*, a flower-garden measuring 2 *nivartanas*, 2 oil-mills (*taila-ghāṇaka*), 14 shops (*Vaṇik-haṭṭāḥ*), and 14 *drammas* were given by the commercial community consisting of Vakaaigala and others.² The donee apparently was the temple of the Jina in the Śvetapada³ (country), which was thoroughly repaired and dedicated (*nivedita*) to the illustrious *Muni* Suvratadeva. The grant was written by *Sāndhivigrahika* Jogeśvara. It is not dated in any era.⁴