[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931) › v2.c31.734 # The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.734 The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.734 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.734](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.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. - [Previous: v2.c31.733](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.733) - [Next: v2.c31.735](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.735) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.734](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.ray-1931.v2.c31.734) · Pramāṇa