[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931) › v2.c31.445 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.445 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.445 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.445](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.445) (2) \*Unjha inscription.\*—Found in the Kāleśvar Mahādev temple at Unjha, Baroda State. It is dated in (V.)S. 1231 in the reign of Ajayapāladeva of Aṇahilapāṭaka.⁸ (3) \*Bombay Secretariat grant.\*--The find-spot of the inscription is not known. It was deposited in 1889 in the Bombay Secretariat. It contains 32 lines, incised on two plates. Though there are ring-holes in the plate, and one plain copper ring was found, there is no indication of any seal having been attached to the ring. At the end are engraved the sun, the moon, and the figure of a four-faced, and four-armed god, seated on a water-lily (Brahman). The inscription opens with two verses praising the god Śiva (Vyomakeśa and Smarārāti), and next comes the name \*Brāhmaṇapāṭaka\* the place from which the grant was issued. It then traces the succession of \*Pb.-M.-Parama-māheśvara\* Ajayapāladeva from Jayasiṁha.¹ We are next told that in the reign of this prince, who was established in Aṇahilapāṭaka when the \*Mahāmātya\* Someśvara was in charge of the seal, the Cāhuyāṇa (Cāhamāna) \*Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara\* Vaijalladeva who had attained the \*Pañca-mahāśabda\* and who through the favour of Ajayapāladeva was governing the \*Narmadā-taṭa-maṇḍala\*, when stationed at Brāhmaṇapāṭaka, in V. S. 1231 (for 1232? = A. D. 1175), granted the village of Ālaviḍagāṁva, belonging to the group known as \*Mākhulagāṁva-grāma-dvicatvāriṁśat\* and forming part of \*Pūrṇa-pathaka\*, for the feeding of 50 new Brāhmans in Khaṇḍohaka, southern division. In line 31 there is another date, (V.) \*Saṁvat\* 1231, in figures. The \*Dū(taka)\* of the grant was the \*Pratīhāra\* Sobhanadeva. The grant ends with \*Sva-hasto-yam-Mahāmaṇḍaleśvara-Śrī\* Vaijalladevasya. Uparori (Uparika?) Vāmadeva.² - [Previous: v2.c31.444](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.444) - [Next: v2.c31.446](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.446) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.445](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.445) · Pramāṇa