1898.] 
T. Blocli — Inscription of Maharaja Bhoja I. 
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the Yuvaraja Nagabhata acted as dutaka. 1 The date 2 of the assignment 
(nibaddha ) of the grant is the year 100, the 13th day of the blight half 
of Phalguna. As in the case of the Dighwa-Dubauli and Bengal Asiatic 
Society’s Plates, the date must be referred to the Harsa Era, correspond¬ 
ing therefore to 706-707 A.D. 
The new information which this Inscription furnishes regarding 
the history of this family of Maharajas, is but scanty. It gives us 
tlie date Harsa Sanwafc 100 ( =A.D. 706-707) for Maharaja Bhoja, 
and mentions the name of a Yuvaraja Nagabhata who has been left 
out in the later lists, apparently because he never ascended the throne. 
Of greater interest, however, are the localities mentioned in the In¬ 
scription. The village Siva, the agrahara of the Brahmin families 
descending from Bhatta-Vasudeva and Bhatta-Visnn, is described as 
lying in the Gurjjarattrd-bhumi, in the Dendvanaka-visaya. The 
former I am unable to identify; but the latter apparently is identical 
with the modern Didwana, the name of a town and pargana in Marwar 
State in Rajputana. 3 The place is shown in the map accompanying 
Webb’s Currencies of Rajputana, and also on Plate 27 of Constable’s 
Hand Atlas of India; it is situated midway between Jaypur and 
Bikanir. Accordingly, the village Siva must be identical with the 
modern Sevva, the place where, if tradition can be trusted, the plate 
came to light some fifty years ago. The villages granted in the two 
other Inscriptions of the same dynasty, lay respectively in the modern 
districts of Paizabad in Oudli, and of Benares; but we now learn that 
one part at least of the dominions of this family of petty chiefs (Maha¬ 
rajas) lay also on the other bank of the Jumna, about 500 miles distant 
from their Zauriuclaii in Oudh and 700 miles from Benares. 
I now edit the Inscription from impressions supplied by Debiprasad: 
Text . 
The Seal: 
(a) 
(b) 
(d) 
1 For other instances of a Yuvaraja acting as dfdalca, see Khalimpur Plate of 
Dhnrmapala(Epigr. Inch, Yol. Ill, p. 245), and Mungir Plate of Devapala (Ind, Ant., 
Yol. XXI, p. 258). 
2 Expressed by a symbol, not in numerical figures. 
8 This has been already suggested to me by Debiprasad. 
