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No. 24.] NOTE ON PRINCE OF WALES MUSEUM PLATES OF JAYABHATA (III ?). 177
an altogether different draft of the eulogistic portion is met with. It has nothing in common with the extant portion of the fragmentary Kävi plate of K. 486.
While editing the Nausāri plates Dr. Bhagwanlal Indraji showed for the first time that the first Dadda mentioned in them was identical with Dadda-Prasantaraga on the following grounds. This first Dadda was the great-grandfather of the Jayabhata who issued the plates. Taking 455 as the commencement (of the latter's reign), and calculating backwards at the rate of twenty-five years to a generation, we arrive at 380 as the date of the first Dadda of the Nausāri grant.' He is therefore identical with Dadda-Prasantarāga for whom the two sets of Kairā plates furnish the dates K. 380 and 385. As regards the Jayabhata of the fragmentary Kāvi plate of K. 486, Dr. Bhagwanlal identified him with the donor of the Nausāri plates of K. 456, the interval of thirty years not being too long for one reign. Dr. Bhagwanlal thus gave the following genealogy of the Early Gurjara princes :
Dadda I (circa K. 330)
Jayabhata I. Vītarāga
(circa K. 355)
Dadda II-Prasantarūga
K. 380 and 385
Jayabhata II (circa K. 405)
Dadda III-Bāhusahaya
(circa K. 430)
Jayabhata III K. 456 and 486
This genealogical list was later on adopted in the History of Gujarat in the Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. I, Part I, p. 114 and has also been included by Dr. D. R. Bhandarkar in his List o/ Inscriptions of Northern India, p. 391. The Prince of Wales Museum plates of Jayabhata, dated K. 486, recently edited by Mr. Acharya have, however, slightly affected it. The draft used in these plates closely agrees with that of the Nausāri plates in the eulogy of the first four princes. It carries the genealogy two generations further, mentioning Ahirola as the son and successor of the last Jayabhata mentioned in the Nausāri plates and finally Jayabhata (IV) the son and successor of Ahirola. The concluding eulogistic portion of the grant is identical with that of the fragmentury Kivi plate which is also dated in the same year. The donor of the latter grant must
1 Ind. Ant., Vol. XIII, p. 72.
• Ibid., p. 73.
| SR No. | 032578 |
| Book Title | Epigraphia Indica Vol 24 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hirananda Shastri |
| Publisher | Archaeological Survey of India |
| Publication Year | 1937 |
| Total Pages | 472 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 22 MB |