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1879.] R- Mitra —Donative Inscription from Bajaurgarh. 
ten in Sanskrit, they could read it out, and they explained the purport of it 
to the agent, who was very glad to hear it, and requested them to translate 
it into English, and, if possible, to take a print of it. Accordingly they 
took the inscription home, took a print of it, and translated it into 
English ; both of which they gave over to the agent, The agent is at pre¬ 
sent at Udaypur. It is not known whether he has sent these to any press 
or not. 
The stone is at present with the above named Pandits. It was 
found in the month of Magh, 1933 Samvab.” 
The inscribed face of the stone measures 24 x 17 inches, and contains 
17 lines of Sanskrit in the Kutila character. The record opens with the 
name of the paramount sovereign Vijyayapala Deva, son of Kshitipala Deva, 
during whose reign, on Saturday the 13th of the waxing moon in the month 
of Maglia (January—February), in the Samvat year 1016 = A. D. 1071, it 
was executed to attest the gift of a village, named Vyaghravatika, with its 
adjoining fields to certain hermits for the worship of a lingam consecrated 
by the donor’s mother Lachchhuka, and named after her Lachehhukesvara. 
The donor calls himself S'ri Mathana Deva, son of the Maharaja and Adbi- 
raja S'ri Savata, of the S'rihara clan of Gujjara. 
The fact of the donor’s giving away a village in the neighbourhood of 
Alwar, would imply that he was, in the fourth quarter of the 11th century, 
a ruler of that part of the country, and his capital was named Eajyapura, the 
modern Pargana of Rajgarh. He lived under the supremacy of the 
paramount sovereign Vijayapala; but no information is vouchsafed regard¬ 
ing that sovereign. It is well known, however, that for three centuries or 
more, the Pala kings of Gwalior exercised supremacy over a large tract of 
country, including a portion of the Doah and parts of Rajputana, and it is 
probable that one of these was the sovereign referred to. In Pere Tieffen- 
thaller’s “ Description of India,” a long list is given of these Pala Rajas, 
and the 67th of the list is named “Bedjepal;” but he is said to have reigned 
at a much earlier date than 1078 A. D., and his father’s name was “ Tilek- 
pal.” 
At the close of the grant there is a supplementary sanad by which 
certain market tolls are assigned for the benefit of the temple aforesaid and 
of some others in its neighbourhood. The assignments include a toll of 2 Vis 
for every bag of goods, 2 Palas of oil or ghi for every jar or leather bottle 
of those articles, 2 Yis for every stall or shop, and 50 leaves for every Chol- 
lika coming to the market from outside the boundary of the village. The 
pala is a well-known liquid measure of a little over two ounces ; but what the 
vi (Dr) is, I cannot make out. It appears to me to be very like an abbre¬ 
viation of visvd or “ twentieth hut it cannot imply the twentieth of the 
merchandise brought for sale, for 2 vis would amount to ten per cent., a 
