The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.533

v2.c31.533

(11) *Bharana stone-inscription.*—Found built into the verandah of a Bāvā's monastery at the small village of Bharana near Khambhalia, a seaport in the Gulf of Cutch in Jamnagar State, Kathiawar. It contains 9 lines of fragmentary writing, opening with the date V.S. 12(75) (A.D. 1219) in the *Vijaya-rājya* of *M.-Bhīmadeva* of Aṇahilapāṭaka. The object is to record that a well was caused to be made by Sāmantasiṁha, who was probably an officer appointed in Saurāṣṭra (*Śrī-Sau... deśābhiyukta-mahaṁ-Śrī...*).⁴