The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.230

v2.c30.s4.230

(1) *Nagpur praśasti.*—Incised on a stone slab in the Nagpur Museum. It contains 41 lines. The inscription opens with *Oṁ oṁ namo Bhāratyai*; then follow seven benedictory verses addressed to the 'goddess of speech,' Durgā, Viṣṇu, Śiva, Brahman, and 'that form of the husbands of Umā and Lakṣmī' (*i.e.*, Viṣṇu-Śiva or Hari-Hara). Then follows the genealogy of the family from Paramāra, sprung from the fire-pit of Vasiṣṭha on Mountain Arbuda, to Naravarman. In V. 55 we are told that Lakṣmadeva granted two villages in the Vyāpura-*maṇḍala* on the occasion of a solar eclipse; 'afterwards his brother the king Naravarmadeva, has instead assigned the village of Mokhala-pāṭaka, at the request of the three places.' (V. 55.) The name of the donee is not specified but it was probably the temple which the king ordered (the architect) Lakṣmīdhara to build, and in which this inscription was put up. The record is dated in (V.) *Saṁ.* 1161 (*c.* 1104-05 A.D.). The *praśasti* appears to have been composed by the king himself.²