The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.439

v2.c31.439

(1) *Udayapur stone-inscription.*—Found ‘ in Udayāditya’s magnificent temple to Śiva at Udayapur, in the State of Gwalior, C. I. It contains 23 lines, and opens with *Om namaḥ Śivāya*. Then follows the date (V.) *Saṁvat* 1229 (A. D. 1173),³ in the reign of *M.-P.-Parama-māheśvara* Ajayapāladeva, when the *Amātya* Someśvara was transacting the business of the seal.⁴ At this date the illustrious Lūṇapasāka,⁵ an officer appointed by the king to govern Udayapura, which was in the *Bhāillasvāmi-mahādvādaśaka-maṇḍala*,⁶ a province acquired by the king’s own prowess, on the occasion of a *Yugādi*, which coincided with the *Akṣaya-tṛtīyā*, gave the village of Umarathā in the *Bhṛṅgārikā-Catuḥṣaṣṭi-pathaka* to the god Vaidyanātha, at Udayapura, for the spiritual benefit of the deceased *Rāja*, the illustrious Solaṇadeva, a son of the *Rājaputra*, the illustrious Vīlhaṇadeva, of the Muhilaündha(?) family. Lines 20-21 state that the donation was received (on behalf of the god) by Nīlakaṇṭha Svāmin.⁷