Discovered in Dive Agar, Raigad district, Maharashtra, this stone epigraph displays a relief of the sun, moon, and a kalaśa above the text, with an imprecatory ass-curse sculpture below. Engraved in the Nāgarī script utilising Sanskrit, the charter belongs to the reign of mahāmaṇḍaleśvarādhipati Anantadeva III.
Issued on the eighth tithi of the dark fortnight of Aṣāḍha, cyclic year Ānanda in Śaka 1176 (1254 CE), the record states that the local subordinate, Rāma māṇḍalika, transferred the rights of an orchard (vāṭikā) to Gaṇapati nāyaka in Dīpaka village (modern Dive Agar). This property was granted as a subsistence estate (vṛtti) through the traditional ritual of pouring water over the recipient's hands. The text precisely delineates the physical boundaries of the granted orchard, noting specific adjacent properties such as the agricultural field belonging to Śrīdhara on the southern perimeter.
1. svasti | śakasaṃvat 1176 ānandasaṃvatsare | āṣāḍha va di
2. 8 dine adyeha samastarājāvalīvirājitamahāmaṇḍa-
3. leśvarādhipatiśrīmadanantadevakalyāṇavija-
4. yarājye tatprasādāt śrīrāmamaṇḍalīkena prabhu-
5. jyamāne śrīdīpakagrāme vṛttiḥ paścimataḥ
6. . . . . . . . . . . . dakṣiṇataḥ śrīdharasya vṛttiḥ
7. uttarataḥ. . . . . . . | evaṃ sarvasīmāsamanvitā vāṭikā śrī-
8. rāmamaṃḍalīkena gaṇapatināyakāya hasto-
9. dakena. . . . . .vṛttiḥ . . . . . .pradattā | maṅgalaṃ mahā-
10. śrīḥ |
Hail! In the Śaka year 1176, the cyclic year Ānanda, on the 8th day (i.e. tithi) of the dark fortnight of Āṣāḍhā, on this day, here, during the beneficial and victorious reign of the mahāmaṇḍaleśvarādhipati, the illustrious Anantadeva II, adorned with all royal titles, in the famous Dīpaka village enjoyed by the illustrious Rāma maṇḍalīka, the vāṭikā (orchard) with all its boundaries stated as follows—on the west, the vṛtti of. . . . on the east . . . . . . on the south, the field of Śrīdhara, on the north . . . —has been granted by the illustrious Rāma Maṇḍalīka as a vṛtti (means of subsistence) to Gaṇapati Nāyaka with the pouring out of water on his hand.
May there be happiness and great prosperity!
| Dynasty: | Śilāhāra |
| Ruler: | Anantadeva III |
| Date: | 9th July 1254 CE (Āṣāḍha kṛṣṇa 8, Śaka 1176) |
| Place: | Dīpaka village |
| Donor: | Maṇḍalika of Anantadeva III |
| Donee: | Gaṇapati Nāyaka |
| Language: | Sanskrit |
| Script: | Nāgarī |
| Religion: | Vedic |
| Nature of grant: | Land donation |
| Purpose: | To record the grant of an orchard granted as vṛtti (means of livelihood/subsistence) |
| Provenance of inscription: | Dive Agar, Raigad, Maharashtra |
| Type of Inscription: | Stone inscription, Gadhegal or Ass curse inscription |
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