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INSCRIPTIONS OF THE EARLY GURJARAS
Kāyāvatāra, viz., ‘the descent in the bodily form’ of Śiva and refers to his incarnation as
Lakulīśa, the founder of a Pāśupata sect.1 Girinagara is the well-known Girnār in
Kathiawad. Śraddhikā is Sādhi, 5 miles south by west of Padrā, the head-quarters of
the Padrā taluka in the Baroda District. Kōrillā, the headquarters of the pathaka (sub-division), in which the donated village was situated, is probably Kōral on the northern
bank of the Narmadā 10 m. north-east of Broach. Śamīpadraka is, as shown by
Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar2, identical with the village of the same name which was given
away by the Navsāri Plates of Karka-Suvarnavarsha, for two of the surrounding villages
Gōlikā and Dhāhaddha are the same3 in both the grants. In Karka’s grant the
village is said to be situated in the country between the Mahi and the Narmadā.4 From
the boundary villages mentioned in it, Śamīpadraka seems to be identical with Sōndārn,
seven miles south-west of Kārwān and about twelve miles north of the Narmadā.
Dhāhaddha is probably Dhāwat two miles to the north of Sōndārn. Gōlikā cannot be
identified.
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1The place is called Kāyāvatāra in the Linga-purāna and Kāyārōhana in the Vāyu-purāna. (J. Bom.
Br. R. A. S. Vol. XXII, p. 154). See also the Ekalingji stone inscription (loc. cit. pp. 151 ff.)
which mentions it as Kāyāvarōhana and Cintra praśasti (Ep. Ind., Vol. r, p. 281) in which it is called Kārōhana.
2J.Bom. Br. R. A. S., Vol. XX, p. 149.
3Dr. Bhandarkar read the name of one of them as Dhāhadva instead of Dhāhaddha. In the present grant the subscript letter of the last akshara is clearly dh. For the form of the subscript v see tachchāturvvidya- 1. 19, pūrvvatō 1.23 etc.
4See Mahī-Narmmad-āntarāladeśa-varti-Śamīpadraka-nāmā grāmō etc. in the Navsāri plates of Karka,
J. B. B. R. A. S., Vol. XX, pp. 131 ff.
5From the facsimile accompanying Pandit Bhagvanlal’s article in Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII, pp. 70 ff.
6Expressed by a symbol.
7The mark of punctuation is unnecessary here and in lines 2-34, below.
8The sense requires a reading like.
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