The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c30.s4.383

v2.c30.s4.383

(3) *Mandhata grant.* Found 'at the village of Godarpura opposite the island of Māndhātā, on the southern bank of the Narmadā in the Nimār district of the Central Provinces.' It contains 53 lines incised on two plates. The introductory portion (Vs. 1-21) is the same as in No. 2 of his father.⁷ The new facts about the genealogy of the Paramāras (Vs. 22-23) are as follows. After Devapāla's death, the throne of Mālava went to his son Jaitugi. After his death his younger brother Jayavarman II succeeded him. In the formal portion of the grant we are told that this last ruler in (V.) *Saṁvatsara* 1317 (*c.* 1260 A. D.), while staying at Maṇḍapa-*durga*, caused the Pratīhāra Gāṅgadeva to give the village of Vaḍaüda¹ in the Mahuaḍa-*pathaka*² to the *agnihotrin* Mādhva Śarman and two others (names and shares given). Gāṅgadeva made the grant at Amareśvara-*kṣetra*,³ on the southern bank of the Revā after bathing at the confluence of the Revā and Kapilā⁴ and worshipping the holy Amareśvara Śiva. The *rāja-śāsana* was written 'here at Maṇḍapadurga' (mod. Māṇḍu) by Harṣadeva, with the approbation of the *Sāndhi-vigrahika*, the *Paṇḍita* Mālādhara. It was corrected by the grammarian (*Śābdika*) Āmadeva, a disciple of the learned Gōsēka (Gōsē), 'who knew the boundless essence of legal science' (*Smṛti-śāstra-sāra*), and engraved by the *rūpakāra* Kānhaḍa. The *Dūta* was the *Mahāpradhāna Rājā* Ajayadeva.⁵