The Dynastic History of Northern India (Early Mediaeval Period) v2.c31.754

v2.c31.754

(1) *Khokhrā stone-inscription.*—This mutilated inscription is incised on a Pāliā at Khokhrā in Cutch, which was originally in the fort of Bhadreswar. ‘The Pāliā has a figure of a cow feeding probably on Indian corn (maize) and suckling her calf,’ and at present contains 6 lines of writing. It opens with *Oṁ* and gives the date (V.) *Saṁvat* 1332 (A.D. 1275), when *M.-P.-Pb.-Prauḍha-pratāpa-Nārāyaṇāvatāra-Lakṣmī-svayaṁvara-Mahārāja-Sāraṅgadeva* was ruling victoriously at Aṇahillapāṭaka, and when the *Mahāmātya-Śrī-Māvava-mahaṁ rādhi*⁶-*Śrī-Kānha* was transacting all the royal business.⁷ (2) *Amaran inscription*.—Found at Amaraṇ, Jamnagar State, Kathiawar. It is dated in V.S. 1333 in the reign of *Mālava-dharā-dhūmaketu-Gūrjjara-dharaṇī-samuddharaṇa-varāha-Saptama-cakravarti-Bhuja-bala-malla-Mahārāja-Sāraṅgadeva*, when Pālha was officer-in-charge of Saurāṣṭra. It records a benefaction by a prince (name lost), son of the Cāpotkaṭa *Rāṇaka* Bhojadeva.¹