The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.33

v2.c30.s4.33

(1) *Harsola grant (a)*.—Found in the possession of a Brāhman in the village of Harsola in the Parantij taluka of Ahmedabad District, Gujarat. It contains 27 lines, incised on two copper plates. At the left-hand bottom of the second plate is incised the figure of a flying Garuḍa holding a snake in his right hand. The grant opens with an invocation to Nṛsiṁha (Viṣṇu); then follow the names: *Pb.-M-P.* Amoghavarṣa—*pādānudhyāta*—*Pb.-M-P*-Akālavarṣa Pṛthvīvallabha—Śrīvallabha⁴—*narendra-pādānāṁ*. Then follows: *tasmin kule* was king Bappaiparāja, whose son was Vairisiṁha; his son was king Sīyaka. In the formal part of the grant we are told that on his return from a successful expedition against Yogarāja, the *Mahāmaṇḍalika-cūḍāmaṇi-Mahārājādhirāja*⁵ Sīyaka was encamped on the banks of the Mahī, where after worshipping Śivanātha,⁶ at the instance of the ruler of the Kheṭaka-*maṇḍala*,⁷ in (V.) *Saṁvat* 1005 (949 A.D.), he gave away the village of Kumbhārōṭaka in the Mohaḍavāsaka-*viṣaya* to the Nagar (Brāhman) Lallōpādhyāya of Ānandapura. The *Dāpaka* ¹ was the *Ṭhakkura* Viṣṇu. It was written by the *Kāyastha* Guṇadhara. The last line contains the sign-manual of Sīyaka. ²