The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.329

v2.c31.329

(9) *Ratanpur stone-inscription.*—Contains 11 lines, incised on a stone in the dome of an old Śaiva temple outside the town of Ratanpur in Jodhpur State, Rajputana. It is damaged, the 1st and the 7th lines being almost illegible. It opens with an invocation to Śiva, and is then dated in the victorious reign of *M.-Pb.-P.*-Kumārapāla.³ The inscription then records the publication of an order of Girijādevī, the *Mahārājñī* of Pūnapākṣadeva, successor of (the Naḍḍūla Cāhamāna) *Mahārāja* Rāyapāla, prohibiting slaughter of animals on some specified dates. The violation of the order was to be punished with fines. On the Amāvāsyā day even the potters were ordered not to burn their pots. The edict was made public through Pūtiga and Sāliga, the two sons of the *Śrāvaka* Subhaṁkara belonging to the Prāgvaṭa-vaṁśa and Naḍḍula-pura. It was written by Ṭhakkura Asa-pāla.⁴