Pratihāra

INIG1304a caitra śudi 1 budhavāra Kurethā (Sheopur). Copper-plate inscription. 19 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions the donation of Guḍhhāgrāma in favour of nāyaka Vaccheka or Vaccha by Pratīhāra king Naravarman, younger brother of Malayavarman. Composed by Purutyama (possibly a mistake for Puruṣottama) and engraved by the goldsmith Saḍheka. Now in Archaeological Museum, Gwalior.

INIG1277 jeṣṭha badi 15 ravidine Kurethā (Sheopur). Copper-plate inscription. 25 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions donations and the Pratīhāra king Malayavarman. The royal lineage is given as Naṭula, Pratāpasiṁha and Vigraha and his queen Ālhaṇadevī; she was the daughter of the Cāhamāṇa Kelhaṇa and mother of Malayavaman. The king granted Kudavaṭhe (modern Kurethā) to Vatsa and Haripāla, brahmaṇas of the Vāsala gotra. The plate is now in the Archaeological Museum, Gwalior.

INIG1055 Thūban (Guna). On a slab in a wall of a house. 14 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Records that when Harirāja of Pratīhāra family was ruling the earth, a temple of Janārdanavāsudeva was constructed by Keśava, son of Moṭṭaṇa and Māhaṭa, grandson of Jayasvāmin and great-grandson of Śūrasvāmin of Garga family.

INIG932 Gwalior fort (Gwalior).4 On the lintel of the Caturbhuj temple. 7 lines, siddhamātṛkā, Sanskrit.Records the excavation of the Vāillabhaṭṭasvāmin (i.e. Caturbhuj) temple from the rock by Alla, an officer of the Gurjara Pratīharā ruler Mihira Bhoja (c. AD 836-85).