The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.734

v2.c31.734

(1) *Veraval grant.*—Found in the temple of Harsaṭa at Veraval in Kathiawar. It contains 45 lines of writing in very bad Sanskrit, opening with *Oṁ oṁ namaḥ Viśvanāthāya* and an invocation to that deity. It is then dated in *Rasula-Mahamada-saṁvat*² 622 (A.D. 1264), in V.S. 1320 (A.D. 1264), in *Valabhīya* (S.) 945, and *Siṁha-Saṁvat* 151, when *P.-Pb.-Umāpativara-labdha prauḍha-pratāpa-Niḥśaṅka-malla -Ari-rāya-hṛdya-śalya Caulukya-Cakravarti-M.-Arjunadeva* was ruling victoriously at Aṇahillapāṭaka and while the *Mahāmātya-Rāṇaka* Māladeva was transacting the business of the Seal, and *Amīr-Rukunadīna*³ was reigning in the coast of Haramuja.⁴ At this date, with the permission of the *Pañcakulas*, in the town of Somanāthadeva, *Mahan(ta)* Abhayasīha the *pāri(pārśvika)* of *Mahattara-Gaṇḍaśrī*-Paravīrabhadra, the great teacher of the Pāśupatas, the (ship-owner),⁵ Noradīna Pīroja,⁶ a native of Haramuja-deśa, brought a piece of land in the Sīkottarī-mahāyānapalı outside the town of Somnath and built a *mijigiti* (masjid) on it. For the maintenance of this place of worship he gave the whole *palladikā* belonging to the temple of Bhūteśvara, in the centre of Somnath, the *dānapala* of an oil-mill, and two shops in front of the *mijigiti*. Any surplus that remained was to be sent to the holy districts of Mecca and Medina.