The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.299

v2.c30.s4.299

Hariścandra was succeeded by his son *Mahākumāra* Udayavarman. We have the *Bhopal grant* for his reign. This was found ‘during survey operations, in a field at the village of Uljamun, in the Shamsgadh Pargana of the Bhopal State,’ C.I. It contains 41 lines written on two plates. In the lower part of the second plate is engraved the figure of Garuḍa with folded hands. The inscription opens in the same way as the grant of the donor's father. Then comes the donor's genealogy.¹ We are then told that Udayavarmadeva, son of *Pañca-mahā-śabd-ālaṁkāra-virājamāna-Mahākumāra*-Hariścandra, having bathed in the Revā at the Guvāḍaghaṭṭa,² in V.S. 1256 (*c*.1200 A.D.) granted the village of Guṇaürā,³ one of the forty-eight belonging to Voḍasirā, which formed part of the Narmadapura⁴-*pratijā-garaṇaka*⁵ in the *Vindhya-maṇḍala*, to the Brāhman Mūla Śarman. The grant ends with the sign-manual of the donor and that of the *Dūtaka*, the illustrious *Maṇḍalika* Kṣemvarāja.⁶