Kolhāpur Stone Inscription of Bhoja II

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The illustrious mahāmaṇḍaleśvara Vīra-Bhojadeva, governing his kingdom from his camp in the fort of Pranālaka, his mind being diverted by pleasant conversation,—on the holy occasion of the Uttarāyaṇa Saṅkrānti of the sun, on Tuesday, the twelfth tithi of the dark fortnight of Puṣya (i.e. Pauṣa) of the cyclic year Sādhāraṇa, when a thousand years increased by one hundred and twelve had elapsed by the era of the Śaka king—has granted, together with a royal charter for the augmentation of his own kingdom, a śālikhalla (rice) field measuring 550 vapyakas by the rod of Eḍenāḍa together with a dwelling house connected therewith measuring twelve cubits, and the khaḍavalaka (courtyard) belonging to it in the same village, the field lying on the eastern side in the village Kopparavāḍa situated within the territorial division of Eḍenāḍa, east of the way from Tīravāḍabīḍa to the fort of Pannāle with the following four boundaries, viz. to the east of a tax-paying field, to the north of the dam of an empty tank marked by a field-deity, to the west of a karañja field and to the south of the vṛtti field and the karañja field belonging to Desileya and Ceṇḍikeya—by pouring water on the hands of the four Brāhmaṇas residing in the maṭha mentioned below, viz. the Sahavāsī Brāhmaṇas Ādityabhaṭṭa and Lakṣmīdharabhaṭṭa, and the Karahāṭaka Brāhmaṇas Prabhākara Ghaisāsa and Vāsiyaṇa Ghaisāsa, for the worship, with five offerings, of the god Umā-Maheśvara in the form of Amṛteśvara, established in the maṭha caused to be constructed by the Sahavāsī Brāhmaṇa Lokaṇa Nāyaka, for providing food to Sahavāsī Brāhmaṇas, for offering the naivedya three times a day to the Goddess Mahālakṣmī, and for the repairs of what may be broken or dilapidated of that maṭha, the gift being free from all taxes, free from all molestation, faultless in respect of all income and not to be interfered with by any royal servant even with a finger and lasting as long as the moon and the sun endure.

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Besides,—on Friday, the first tithi of the bright fortnight of Aśvina in the current cyclic year Paridhāvin, when a thousand years increased by one hundred and fourteen had elapsed by the era of the Śaka king, Kāliyaṇa Nāyaka, son of the same Sahavāsī Brāhmaṇa Lokaṇa Nāyaka, gave to the aforementioned four Brāhmaṇas—with the pouring out of water, as a gift free from all molestation, faultless in respect  of all income and lasting as long as the moon and the sun endure—a half vṛtti consisting of one largest nivartana and one smallest nivartana, together with a half of a first-rate house and a middle-type house along with the khaḍavalaka (courtyard) connected therewith, within the limits of the agrahāra village Pauva situated in the Tāluragekholla which belonged to Lakhumaṇa-Ghaisāsa by purchasing it from the mahājanas who had purchased it for a gift from the previous owner (viz., Lakhumaṇa Ghaisāsa)—for the feeding of the Brāhmaṇas in the charitable feeding house established by the donor’s mother Pomakauvā.

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Moreover—

On Friday, the fifth tithi of the bright fortnight of Phālguna in the cyclic year Pramādin, the same Kāliyaṇa Nāyaka, having purchased, from Māyiṃkauvā, the daughter’s daughter of Someśvarabhaṭṭa of the Chandoga (Sāmaveda), the northern half of a nivartana of the best land in her field on the eastern direction and within the limits of the same agrahāra village Pauva—donated it by pouring water on the hands of the aforementioned four Brahmaṇas as a gift free from all molestation, faultless in respect of all income, and lasting as long as the moon and the sun endure.