The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.541

v2.c31.541

(14) *Kadi grant (iii).*—Found as in No. 6 above. It contains 55 lines, incised on two plates. The introductory portion is almost the same as in No. 4. The inscription next records that *M.-P.-Pb.-Abhinava-Siddharāja-Saptama-Cakravarti* Bhīmadeva residing at Aṇahilapāṭaka⁵ in V.S. 1287 (A.D. 1030) granted the village of Devāū (?) in the Vardhi-*pathaka*,⁶ to the temples of Ānaleśvara and Salakhaṇeśvara, built by the Soluṁ (ki) *Rāṇā* Ānā *Ṭha(kkura)* Luṇāpasāka⁷ to defray the expenses of the temple service and to feed Brāhmans. The trustees of the endowment was Vedagarbharāśi, the *Sthānapati* of the Mūleśvaradeva-*maṭha* at Maṇḍalī. The writer and the *Dūtaka* of the grant are the same as in No. 12. Line 7 of the plate II then ends with ‘Śrī-Bhīmadevasya.’ Lines 8 to 26 contain a mutilated postscript which appears to ‘contain some more orders regarding dues to be paid by the merchants of Salakhaṇapura.’¹