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recorded in E I. vol. XI p. 20 at p. 24). (12) The Madanapur plate of the Buddhist king Śrīcandra¹⁶⁴⁷ of East Bengal records that the king made a grant of land to a brāhmaṇa named Śukradeva 'in honour of Buddha-bhaṭṭāraka' after having bathed on the Agastitṛtīyā day. (13) The Dambal (inscription of the times of Cālukya Tribhuvanamalla alias Vikramāditya (in śaka 1017 i. e. 1095-96 A. D.) begins with an invocation to Buddha and records certain grants to two vihāras, one of Buddha built by certain Settis of Dharmāpura or Dharmavolal (i. e. Dambal in Dharwar District) and the other of Tārādevī by a Setti of Lokkigundi (or modern Lakkundi). (14) In E. I. vol. XVI p. 48 at p. 51 (Inscription of Lakṣmeśvara in 1147 A. D.) a general is styled as the restorer of the four sects viz. Śaiva, Vaiṣṇava, Bauddha and Jaina (catuḥ-samaya-samuddharaṇam). (15) A stone inscription from Śrāvastī (modern Sahet-Mahet) of (Vikrama) samvat 1276 (1219-20 A. D.) records that a certain person Vidyādhara of the Vāstavya family established a convent for Buddhist ascetics at the town where the inscription was put up (I. A. Vol. 17 p. 61). (16) The Kumbhakonam Inscription of Sevappa Nāyaka of Tanjore (of 1580 A. D ) records the gift of some land in the brāhmaṇa village (*agrahāra*) of Tirumalīarājapuram to an individual attached to a temple of Buddha at Tiruvilandura.¹⁶⁴⁸