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1887.] Govindachandra Deva of Kanauj. 
the illustrious Chandradeva , who by his own arm had acquired the 
sovereignty over Kanyakubja :— 
(1. 13.) He, the victorious, commands, informs and decrees to 
the people assembled, resident at the village of Tribhandi , in the Yava- 
ala district, and also to the rajas, rajnis, yuvarajas, counsellors, 
chaplains, warders of the gate, commanders of troops, treasurers, keepers 
of records, physicians, astrologers, superintendents of gynecaeums, 
messengers, and to the officers having authority as regards elephants, 
horses, towns, mines, districts, cattle-stations, as follows :— 
(1. 15.) After having bathed here to-day in the Ganges, at the 
illustrious Varanasi (Benares), after having duly satisfied the sacred 
texts, men, beings and the groups of ancestors, after having worshipped 
the sun whose splendour is potent in rendering the veil of darkness, 
after having praised him whose crest is a portion of the moon (S'iva), 
after having performed adoration of Vasudeva (Krishna), the protector of 
the three worlds, after having sacrificed to fire an oblation of clarified 
butter, I have, in order to increase the (spiritual) merit and the fame 
of my parents and myself, and with the consent of the illustrious rajas, 
feudatory princes (samanta), and the great lady, the queen, the illus¬ 
trious Ddlhanadevi ,* at the occasion of giving the valuable present of a 
plough to the highest, (i. e., Brahmans),! on Thursday, the 4th lunar 
day of the bright half of Bhadrapada, in the (Vikrama) Samvat year 
1181,—given the above-written village with its water and dry land, 
with its mines of iron and salt, with its leaves (parnakara),J with its 
ravines and saline wastes, with its fisheries, with and including its 
groves of mango trees, enclosed gardens, bushes, grass and pasture land, 
with what is above and below, defined as to its four abuttals, up to its 
proper boundaries, to the Brahman, the Pandita , the illustrious Bhupati- 
sarma, son of the Pandita, the illustrious Narapati, grandson of the 
Pandita, the illustrious Mahipati of the Mauneya gotra (and) whose three 
pravaras are Gadheya (Visvamitra), Bhargava (Chyavana), and Vaita- 
havya (Aruna),—(confirming my gift) with (the pouring out) from 
my hand, shaped like a cow’s ear, (of) water purified with kusa-grass, 
(and) ordaining (that it shall be his) as long as moon and sun (endure). 
Aware (of this), you, being ready to obey (my) commands, will make 
over to him the due share of the produce, the money-rent, the taxes on 
aromatic reeds, and so forth. 
* This is the only instance where the name of Govindachandra Dcva’s consort 
occurs. 
t Sixteen such valuable gifts ( mahdcldna) are particularly enumerated in the 
Orihyasutras. 
J Viz.y the pan, or betel-leaves. 
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