The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.335

v2.c31.335

(11) *Nadol grant.*—The plate was found ‘in the possession of the *Panchāyat* of the village of Nādol, in the Desuri district, Jodhpur State. It contains 13 lines of writing in Sanskrit prose; there is a benedictory verse towards the end. It opens with the date (V.) *Sam.* 1213 (A.D. 1156) when *Pb.-M.-P. Umāpativara-labdha-prasāda-prauḍhapratāpa-nijabhuja-vikrama-raṇāṅgaṇa-vinirjita-Sākambharī-bhūpāla*-Kumārapāla was reigning at Aṇahilapāṭaka and when the *Mahāmātya* Bāhaḍadeva was transacting the business of the Seal, etc. It then records a grant made by his feudatory, the *Mahāmaṇḍalika* Pratāpasiṁha of the Vaḍāṇā clan (*anvaya*). The grant consists of one *rūpaka* per day from the custom-house (*maṇḍapikā*) of Badarī to some Jaina temples at Naḍūlaḍāgikā (mod. Nadlai) and Lavaṁdaḍi. The inscription was written by the *Gauḍānvaya-Kāyastha-Paṇḍita* Mahīpāla.³