The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.499

v2.c31.499

(5) *Patan grant*: 'picked up from the old rubish lying at the Patan Kacheri.'—It contains 45 lines, incised on two plates. It opens with *Oṁ svasti*, then follows the genealogy of the Caulukyas from Mūlarāja I to Bhīma II.⁵ The object of the inscriptions to record that *Pb.-M.-P.-Abhinava-Siddharāja* Bhīmadeva, residing at Aṇahilapāṭaka in V.S. 1256 (? 1199 A.D.) granted four ploughs of land in Kaḍāgrāma, on the eastern side, the side close to the land of the god Ānaleśvaradeva, of the village of Mahīsānā,¹ to the Rāyakavāla Brāhman Āśādhara. The writer of the grant was the *Moḍhānvaya-prasūta-Mahākṣapaṭalika-Ṭha*(*kkura*)-*Kumyara*, the *Dūtaka* the *Mahāsāndhivigrahika-Ṭha*(*kkura*) Bhīmaka. The grant ends with *Śrī-Bhīmadevasya*.’²