Vīravarman

INIG1339 pauṣa badi 10 guruvāra Narwar (Shivpuri). On a slab. 27 lines, old nāgarī, Sanskrit. Records the construction of a well (vāpī) and the planting of a garden (upavana) by Gaṅgadeva, son of Ajayadeva and minister (saciva) to Gopāladeva; also mentions Jayapāla or Jajapella, the progenitor of the Jajapella dynasty, who was brought forth at Ratnagiri by the goddess Mahāruṇḍā. Born in the Jajapella dynasty were Cāhaḍa (who captured Narwar or Nalagiri), his son Naravarman or Nṛvarman, his son Āsalladeva and his son Gopāla who defeated Vīravarman, lord of Jejabhukti.

INIG1338g caitra śudi 7 Banglā (Shivpuri). On a memorial stone. 16 lines, old nāgarī, Sanskrit. Records, in verse and prose, that rāyarāuta gajavāharāuta Vāndana, son of rāuta Deva and grandson of rāuta Bhoja fought on the banks of the Volukā or Valuā in a battle against the Chandilla mahārāja Vīravarman on behalf of mahārāja Gopāla.

INIG1337c caitra śudi 7 śukravāra Banglā (Shivpuri). On a memorial stone. 12 lines, nāgarī, corrupt Sanskrit. Records the death of the archer Gāṅguka (son of archer Siṁha of Vaghelāka family) along with his two sons lndauka and Kauka in the fight of Vīravarman against Gopāla of Nalapura. It seems from the last four lines that eight girls committed satī on the pyre of lndauka.

INIG1337a caitra śudi 7 śukravāra Banglā (Shivpuri). On a satī stone. 5 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Records the mahāsatī of Dhūmādevī on the pyre of her husband rāṇaka Vīsala who died fighting on the banks of the Valuvā (modern Barua) for paramabhaṭṭāraka mahārājādhirāja Gopāla of Nalapuradurga when Vīravarman of Jejahuti (Jejākabhukti) attacked with four other kings.

INIG1318  śravaṇa badi 2 budhe Jhānsī (Jhānsī) .On a stone slab from the walls of the fort. 20 lines, nāgarī, corrupt Sanskrit and local dialect. Mentions king Vīrabrahma (i.e. Vīravarman of the Candella dynasty) and records that rāṇaka Abhayadeva of Yādava family granted the village of Sakela to Sulhaṇabhaṅḍāri, son of rāuta Sāḍheka. Also records the establishment of a liṅga, a tank and garden. Now the State Museum Lucknow.