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putra Gaja Singha Deva in connection with the city of Mandavya- 

 pura, records that his general Solahkl Ja[sadhavala] , the son of 

 Dhamodara, granted to the god Vasudeva a grant of 1 dramma 

 from the income of his generalship of Jhamara, evidently the 

 old word for Jhavara, the village where the inscription is found. 

 Then follow other lines, the sense of which is not quite clear, 

 but the object whereof is to record another grant, apparently 

 of 1 kalasa of oil from the oil-mills, made by the same Jasa- 

 dhavala for the lightening of a lamp in the temple. Both the 

 grants were made in the presence of four representatives of the 

 four padras of Mandavyapura (cfr. the second inscription). 



The most important information supplied by the inscrip- 

 tion is in the mention of Gaja Singha Deva as a ruler of 

 Mandavyapura (Mandora). The name of Gaja Singha as a son 

 of the Cahamana Alhana of Nadola, was already known from 

 the Kiradu-mscription of V. Samvat 1209 (Ep. Ind., XI, pp. 

 43-b), where his sign-manual is given after those of his father 

 Alhana and his brother Kelhana Deva. From this fact, D. R. 

 Bhandarkar had concluded that Alhana had apparently given 

 a share in the administration of his kingdom to his first two 

 sons Kelhana and Gaja Singha (loc. cit., p. 71). Alhana's 

 third son was Klrt, Pala, who, according to the Nadola-plates 

 of V. Samvat 218 (Ep. Ind., IX, p. 69), had been assigned by 

 his father with the approval of Kelhana, the territory round 

 Xadahu. Our inscription integrates the above information. 

 Gaja Singha had been assigned the territory of Mandora. 



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