The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.521

v2.c31.521

(9) *Royal Asiatic Society's grant.*—Found deposited in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society, London, in 1879. Its find-spot is unknown. It contains 56 lines, incised on three plates. It opens with *Oṁ svasti*: then follows the date, V.S. 1266 (A.D. 1209), Siṁha Saṁvat 96. Next comes the genealogy of the Caulukyas of Aṇahillapāṭaka from Mūlarāja I to Bhīma II.³ We are then told that in the reign of *Pb.-M.-P.-Abhinava-Siddharājadera-Vola*⁴ (*Bāla* ?) *Nārāyaṇāvatāra* Bhīmadeva, while the *Mahāmātya* Ratnapāla was in charge of the Seal and when the *Mahāpratī*(*hāra*) Somarājadeva was carrying on the administration at Vāmanasthalī⁵ in Surāṣṭra-*maṇḍala*,⁶ 350 *pāśas* of land yielding four *Khaṇḍas*⁷ were granted to a certain Mādhava of the Nāgara kindred (*jñātīya*), for the maintenance of an irrigation-well and a watering-trough made at the village of Ghaṇṭelānā⁸ by one Mahīpāla of the Prāgvāṭa kindred (*jñātīya*). The *Dūtaka* is represented as 'himself' (*Svayam*, perhaps Somarāja).⁹