55. Genealogy and Descendants of Nilakantha Caturdhara

55. Nilakantha Caturdhara, the Commentator of the Mahabharata - His Genealogy and Descendants * In April 1938 Mr. Sadashive Vishnu Chaudhari, the present Registrar of the Law College, Poona, approached me with a request that I should investigate the tradition current among his family members about their direct descent from Nilakantha Caturdhara, the celebrated commentator of the Mahabharata. He further told me that he was unable to link up his known genealogy with that of Nilakantha Caturdhara as we find it recorded in his works partially. I gladly agreed to investigate the above tradition as I was then preparing a paper' on the identification of Narayanatirtha, the author of the work Bhattabhasaprakasika with Nilkantha's guru in Mimamsa of the same name. Some information² given by Mr. Chaudhari about his family together with what * Annals (B. O, R. Institute), Vol. XXIII, pp. 141-161. 1. This paper was published in June 1938 in the now extinct Mimamsa Prakasa, Poona (Vol. III, No. 6, pp. 65-71) edited by the late Pt. V. R. Kinjawadekar. 2. I note here for ready reference the dates recorded by me in my paper on Narayanatirtha as also those discovered by me subsequently :A. D. - - 1680 Nilakantha composed his Sivatandavatika. 1687 - Date of a Ms of fc by a (folios 120) dated Saka 1609 A. D. 1687 (vide p. 94 of Cata. of Vangiya Sahitya Parisat, Calcutta, 1935). 1691 - Date of Berlin Ms of bha . bha . dipa belonging to govimda caturdhara (Weber, p. 107). - 1693 Nilakantha composed his are at Benares. 1746- Sivadiksita, the grandson of Nilakantha composed his prakasa at pratisthanatirtha or Paithan. 1746-Gangarama Diksita, the great grandson of , received a grant from King Shahu. (476)

I could collect from a study of the works of Nilakantha has already been recorded by me incidentally in the above paper, though I could not then record the full evidence in support of my statements based on the information supplied by Mr. Chaudhari. I, therefore, propose to record here the full evidence regarding the genealogy of Nilakantha Chaturdhara as reconstructed by me on the basis of my study of his works and the information supplied by Mr. Chaudhari. In all the colophons of Nilakantha's works he is called the son of Govinda Suri.' We may, therefore, take it that Govinda was the father of Nilakantha Caturdhara. This parentage of Nilakantha is 1. (Ms No. 994 of 1884-87 B. O. R. Institute, fol. 90 b and 10 b-' 66 66 " 'caturdhara vamsavatamsagovimda suri sunonilakamthasya krtau " etc.). (Ms No. 110 of 1899-1915 - B. O. R. I., fol. 140 b - " caturdharavamsavatamsa govimda suri sunonilakamthasya krtau " etc.). (Ms. R No. 26- Trien. Cata. Govt. Ori. Mss. Library, Madras, 1913- Page 44 of Vol. I, Pt. I-Sanskrit A-colophon as above). GZANLANZEN-II (Ms R No. 2070 P. 2803 of Vol. iii, Pt. I - Sanskrit A - Trien. Cata. Madras, 1922-colophon as above). (Ms No. 348 of 1899-1915 - B. O. R. I. fol. 6 bcolophon as above). - - 4 (Vide p. 588 of Ind. Office Cata., Pt. IIl Ms No. 1798 colophon as above). - zen (Vide p. 1024 of I. O. Cata. Pt. V-Ms No. 2885 colophon as above). 2. Siva Diksita, the grandson of Nilakantha in his records the following verses in which he mentions his genealogy :- " vikhyate kavikacamadhyavartti gododakatire nagaramahimnikurparakhye | govindah srutinaya sindhuparadrsva sri caturdhara kulamandanam purasit | srikantham manasi vibhavya nilakantha- statsunuh sritavatakananam surasam | vedamteh samanadigananam srutinam vyakhyane kila caturanano babhuva | govindastadvapurbhuh srutihrdayamunih sarvatamtrasvatamtra- (stajja ) stacchiksitarthah sivamidamakaroddhatasvaprakasah | (Continued on the next page)

further supported by the following genealogy,' of the family recorded by Siva Diksita in his Dharmatattvaprakasa composed by him at Pratisthana or Paithana in A. D. 1746 (Saka 1668 )2- govimda (caturdhara ) of kurparanagaram or Kopargaum on the banks the Son Godavari. nilakamtha Son govimda Son 66 siva author of dharmatatvaprakasa, composed at Paithana in 1746 A. D. He calls himself by the epithet varanasyapta- janma or born at Benares. " The gotra of Nilakantha Caturdhara was Gautama³ and his mother's name was 5. He had three brothers: (1) fara- (2) and (3) as pointed out by Holtzmann. The above genealogy recorded in A. D. 17465 is further supported by con- (Vide 73 p. - (Continued from the previous page) bhuyah prityai sivakhyai samadamini mahanaisthikabrahmacarye varanasyatajanma surasaridamale sripratisthanatirthe nagamgarasabhusake salau (li ) vahanaje ksaye | nabhasyasita turyehni grantho'yam purnatam gatah || 6 || - Ms. No. 81 Cata. of Sanskrit Mss, Pt. II, R. A. S. B., Calcutta. See also p. 192 of H. P. Shastri's Cata. of Nepal Mss, Calcutta, 1905). 1. Ibid. 2. Vide p. 73 of Cata. of Sanskrit Mss (Calcutta Sanskrit College, Part II)-Ms No. 81. - 3. Vide p. 154 of Hall's Bibliography, Calcutta, 1859. Ms of - kataka "By Nilakantha Caturdhara, Son of Govinda and Phullambika. Nilakantha was of the gotra of Gotama. He resided at the village of Kurpara, now called Konpar-, to the west of river Godavari, near the temples of Sukresvara and Kacesvara in Maharastra. ,, 4. Vide p. 75 of The Mahabharata by Dr. Adolf Holtzmann, 1894, Keil. (North Indian Recension). 5. Besides the Nepal and Calcutta Mss of the ther (Continued on the next page)

temporary records' of the priests at Tryambakesvara near Nasik so far as the names of Siva Diksita and his father Govinda Diksita are concerned. Both the father and the son are described² in these records as bearing the surname a³ and having Shrigonde as their native place but residing at Varanasi or Benares. It appears that nilakantha, govinda and siva normally resided at Benares and were educated at this seat of learning, though the family hailed from Kopargaum in the Ahmadnagar district of the Bombay Presidency. Like Nilakantha an author of the name I went to Benares from kurparagrama and composed there a work called acarapradipa (B. O. R. I. Ms No. 84 of 1884-86). seems to have been a contemporary of and possibly his neighbour at Kopargaum. He quotes Bhattoji Bhatta in the above Ms which is dated A. D. 1729 and refers to gods sukresvara and kacesa at Kopargaum ( " grame kurpara- samjnike ...... yatrasti sukresvarah | yatrasti sukresvarah | goda pascimavahini vijayate devah kacesah parah " ). The genealogy of Nilakantha's family so far reconstructed (Continued from the previous page) is a Ms of it recorded by Hultzsch. See Report in Sanskrit Mss in South India, No. III, Madras, 1905 (Ms No. 1780, 263 leaves )-P. 5 Siva Diksita of Benares, son of Govinda of the Chaturdhara family wrote the dharmatattvaprakasa No. 1780) at pratisthana in A. D. 1746. " 1. Mr. Vasudeva Vishnu Meghashyam of Trymbak near Nasik has kindly furnished the pertinent extracts of these records to Mr. S. V. Chaudhari, from which I am quoting in this paper. 2. The record reads "govimda diksita pu . siva diksita . u. caudhari gamva srigomde mukama varanasi ." We already know from dharmatattvaprakasa that siva aff was born at Benares. It appears that at the time of their visit diksita to Tryambakesvara both the father and son must have been residing at Benares as stated in the above extract. - 3. In verse 10 at the beginning of his fara af composed in A. D. 1680 Nilakantha refers to his surname in the expression " srimaccaudharinilakamthavasina ." This statement shows that the surname Ta was current in Nilakantha's time, if not earlier. (Vide folio 2 a of Ms No. 994 of 1884-87 of IB. O. R. Institute)from the SansHistorian V. K. Rajawade derives the surname krit word cakradhari (= cakaradhari = caaradhari cavadhari = = caudhari ). Vide p. 72 of B. I. S. Mandal, Itivrtta, for 1913 Note No. 14- "atat." -

may now he linked up with the subsequent genealogy of the family as filed on 2 nd September 1854 with the Inam Commissioner Poona, by Vaman Shiv Dikshit Chaudhari of the Village Pathardi¹ in the Ahmadnagar District. This genealogy is as follows:- govimda diksita 1 siva diksita gamgarama diksita (mauje nivadumge ta T) sevagamva yethila mokase amalaca mulasampadaka ) sakharama diksita I nilakamtha diksita I siva diksita 1235 mahadeva diksita appa diksita vamana diksita gopala diksita ( kaiphiyata denara ) ramgasastri narayanasastri kesava diksita visnu diksita A comparison of the above genealogy with that given by Siva Diksita in 1746 A. D. shows that the names of fa and his son far are common to both these genealogies. The earlier and the later fragment of genealogy being thus riveted at two joints, the accuracy and continuity of the genealogy of the Chaudhari family from Govinda (c. A. D. 1600 ), the father of Nilakantha Caturdhara, up to A. D. 1854 is now proved beyond challenge. Three days before the composition of the work Dharmatattvaprakasa by Sivadiksita at Paithana the Maratha King Shahu gave a village as inam to Gangarama Diksita, the son of Siva Diksita-on Wednesday, 6 th August 1746.2 The Sanad in respect of this inam is - 1. Vide p. 644 of Bombay Gazetteer XVII (Ahmadnagar) Bombay, 1884 The villages Pathardi and Nivadunge belong to Shevgaon Paragana of 161 villages in the Ahmadnagar District. The members of the Chaudhari family migrated from Kopargaum in the Ahmednagar District to Shrigonde and Pathardi in this district and Paithana (8) on the left bank of the Godavari river in the Nizam's territory, 2 miles east of the Ahmadnagar frontier and about 50 miles north-east of Ahmadnagar (Ibid, p. 351). 2. Shahu's Sanad is dated Rajyabhiseka Saka 73, Ksaya Samvatsara, Bhadrapada, Suddha Pratipada, Saumyavasara-Wednesday, 6 th of August 1746. was completed on the 4 th day (Continued on the next page)

reproduced in the Appendix to this paper from a certified copy of it furnished by the Alienation Record Office, Poona, to Mr. S. V. Chaudhari on 16 th December 1927. In this Sanad Gangarama Diksita is described as the son of Siva Diksita, of the surname Chaudhari, gotra Gotam, Sutra Asvalayana, hailing from Benares, then resident at Paithana. Gangarama Diksita obtained this Sanad through the good offices of Fattesing Bhosale ( A. D. 1707-1760 ) who was regarded by Shahu as his own son. The names in the genealogy reconstructed and recorded above are supported and supplemented by the Tryambakesvara Records' referred to by me already. Mr. V. V. Meghashyam who possesses these records states in his letter to Mr. S. V. Chaudhari dated 30 th April 1941 that he has in his possession some writing of Nilakantha Diksita, son of Gangarama Diksita dated Saka 1706 = A. D. 1784. This date is consistent with King Shahu's Sanad to Gangarama Diksita issued in A. D. 1746. (Continued from the previous page) ( turyehi ) of the bright fortnight ( site ) of the Bhadrapada month ( nabhasi ) of Saka 1668 (naga, amga, rasa, bhu ) the name of the year being ( ksaya, ksaye ). These details correspond to Saturday 9 th August 1746. Thus while the work was completed at Paithana on Saturday the Sanad was issued on Wednesday of the same week. (Vide p. 295 of Indian Ephemeries, Vol. VI). 1. I reproduce below the extracts from these records kept at my disposal by Mr. S. V. Chaudhari :- " " siva diksita ba . samkara diksita u . caudhari . " umabai bhra . samkara di . dira siva di . pu . malhara di . va gamgarama di . suna ramabai u . caudhari ga . srigomde mu . paithana . " kasinatha di . malhara di . a. samkara di . pa. govimda di . cu . gamgarama di . bam . visvanatha di . cu . ba. visvesvara di . va nilakamtha di . gotra gautama u . caudhari ga . srigomde mu . varanasi . " " gamgarama di . pi . siva di . a. govimda di . bam . malhara di . va cimtamani di . cu . samkara di . ma . akabai u . caudhari ga . srigomde ." 66 66 nilakamtha di . pi . gamgarama di . a. siva di . pa. govimda di . bam . sakharama di . u. caudhari gava srigomde mu . pratisthana . " apa di urpha krsna di . cu . bam . siva di . u. caudhari gamva srigomde ha . paithana . " The value of the above entries for the reconstruction of a complete genealogy of the family will be easily recognized. CL 31

" Hall in his Bibliography' states that Nilakantha resided at the village of Kurpar, now called Konpar to the west of the river Godavari, near the temples of Sukresvara and Kacesvara in Maharastra". The above statement occurs in Hall's description of a Ms of the Vedantakataka. I have no means of verifying it but presuming that the topography of the residence of Nilakantha at Kopergaum recorded above is based on any references in the Vedantakataka itself, I have to point out that in the description of Kopergaum in the Bombay Gazetteer we find a reference to the temple of Kacesvara as follows:In the elbow of the Godavari and surrounded on three sides. by its bed stands a fortified cut-stone enclosure (65' x 58' * 60) with massive black walls. It has one gate but the side towards the river is open. In the centre is the cenotaph or thadge, a very small work of timber and brick upon a coarse stone plinth with no writing or ornament. Near the site of the old palace in the island stands the temple of Kacesvara a set of plain modern buildings held in great honour." The editor of the Bombay Gazetteer in a footnote on the above passage records "the local story of the Kacesvara temple" which is the same as the story of Kaca and the Devayani found in the Puranas. This footnote is concluded with the remark: "To this day a stone Shukra and Kach sit side by side on the island and receive much worship. " If the images of Sukra and Kaca are still worshipped on the island at Kopergaum they must be identical with those in the temples of Kacesvara and Sukresvara referred to by Hall in 1859. If Hall's remarks are based on Nilakantha's own statement we shall not be wrong in supposing that the residence of Nilakantha 1. Pub. Calcutta, 1859, p. 154. 2. Vol. XVII (Ahmadnagar) 1884, p. 723- Kopargaum is 60 miles north of Ahmadnagar. It is on the north bank of the Godavari. It was the favourite residence of Raghunatha Rao Peshwa. In an island in the Godavari there were two palaces which have been pulled down and sold. Raghunatha Rao Peshwa died at Hingani three miles off and his cenotaph is still at this place......... In 1818 Kopargaum was occupied by Madras troops. In the Marathi ballads (1) by Parasarama (Ed. by V. N. Kolharkar, Bombay, 1924) there is a reference to kaca and sukra at Kopargaum Vide Pp. 38-39 (lavani 26 ) - " guru sukra kacesvara rsi godatiravasi .' This ballad refers also to the garden of Raghoba Dada Peshwa on the island. Parasaram belongs to the last quarter of the 19 th century, - -

at Kopergaum was near these temples situated on the island in the elbow of the Godavari. This tentative suggestion regarding the topography of the house of the Chaudhari family at Kopergaum say about A. D. 1750 needs to be verified on the strength of other contemporary evidence. We have already referred to the three brothers² of Nilakantha viz. ( 1 ) siva, (2) krsna and ( 3 ) tryambaka . All these brothers were 1. Siva Diksita in his dharmatattvaprakasa composed in A. D. 1746 states in the following verse that Govinda Chaturdhara, the father of Nilakantha lived at Kurpara town on the bank of the Godavari, where stood in the centre kavi and kacah- 66 vikhyate kavikacamadhyavarti- gododakatire nagaramahimni kurparakhye govimdah srutinayasindhuparadrsva sri caturdhara kulamandanam purasit || " This reference to kavi ( = sukracarya ) and kaca by the grandson of Nila kantha leaves no doubt that the Chaudhari family had its residence near the temples of Kacesvara and Sukresvara on the island at Kopergaum referred to in the the Bombay Gazetteer. 2. Vide Ms No. 1523 of Nilakantha's commentary on the Harivamsa described by Weber in his Catalogue of Berlin Mss, Vol. II (1886 ), pp. 112-113. In the following verses Nilakantha refers to his native place kurparagrama, his gotra gautama, his surname caturdhara, his father govimda, his mother phullambika and his younger brother siva, krsna and tryambakah- " jnanacaryamivottamottamakacasya tadvaya gautami yam pratyakpravana prasuya krtani (?) siddhesalabhabhavat | vidvadratnasuvarnavarnaghatitam sambhusanam kurpara- gramam yam samupasrayanti sudhiyo durastasamvatsaram || 1 || tatra brahmakulam mahadvijayate gotrena yadvautamam dharmajnanaviragavaibhavacaturbhadrena caturdharam | govimdah svayamatra janma ghrtavan yo nilakantham sivam krsnam tryambakamityamun ajanayat phullambikayansutan || 2 || tesam jyestho nilakanthah kasyam visvesatustaye | vyatanodbharate bhavadipamandhya vinasagam || 65 The above verses have been discussed by Wilhelm Printz in his Inaugural Dissertation: Bhasa-Worter in Nilakantha's Bharatabhavadipa etc.", Berlin, 1910, p. 9. I am thankful to Dr. V. S. Sukhtankar for drawing my attention to these verses.

younger than Nilakantha. It remains to be investigated if these brothers left any descendants, whose lines could be traced among the present members of the Chaudhari family residing either in the Maharastra or outside.' From the data recorded above the following facts regarding Nilakantha's family and its subsequent history become clear :- (1) Nilakantha mentions his own gotra "Gautama" which is the gotra of Mr. S. V. Chaudhari, the present Registrar of the Law College, Poona. This gotra has been recorded in King Shahu's grant of A. D. 1746 to Gangarama, the great grandson of Nilakantha. (2) The genealogy of Nilakantha's family as given by his grandson Siva Diksita has been linked up with the genealogy filed with the Inam Commission in A. D. 1854 by Mr. Vamana Siva Diksita, who is the 6 th in descent from Nilakantha Caturdhara. (3) The surname Chaudhari now current in the family was also current in Nilakantha's time as Nilkantha in his work composed in A. D. 1680 calls himself "fair." srimaccaudhari nilakantha . (4) The place of residence of Nilakantha's father Govinda was somewhere near the temples of Sukresvara and Kacesvara on the island of the river Godavari at Kopergaum. Siva Diksita, the grandson of Nilakantha, refers to these images of (=) and in his work composed in A. D. 1746. The memory of this residence may have then been fresh in the mind of Nilakantha's grandson.² (5) From Kopergaum the members of the family of Nilakantha Govinda Chaudhari migrated to Shrigonde, Pathardi, 1. Mr. S. Chitrav states that the descendants of Nilkantha are now residing at Benares (Vide p. 499 of Madhyayugina Caritrakosa, Poona, 1937). 2. Even Nilakantha seems to refer to d and on the island of the Godavari in the following line of verse 1 from his commentary on the Harivammsa which I have quoted above:Here jnanacarya Godavari. 66 = jnanacaryamivottamottamakacasya tadvaya gautami " · sukracarya = kavi mentioned by Siva Diksita, gautami = river mentioned in the above line is also mentioned by Siva Diksita. So in Nilkantha's line the images of and stood on the bank of the Godavari,

Nivadunge and Paithana in the Ahmadnagar district or near its border and settled there. The education of the early descendants of Nilakantha upto A. D. 1750 or so appears to have been carried out at Benares. Perhaps the contact with Benares lessened after Shahu's grant of the village Nivadunge to Gangarama in A. D. 1746. (6) It remains to be seen if any member of this Chaudhari family composed any important work after the composition of the Dharmatattvaprakasa by Nilakantha's grandson Siva Diksita' in A. D. 1746. Perhaps with a settled life in the Ahmadnagar District the ambition for achieving eminence in the literary sphere, so characteristic of Nilakantha's life did not stir up the Chaudharis to take to learned pursuits in the manner of their illustrious ancestor. - " P. S. After this paper was completed I happened to read a letter of A. D. 1683 addressed to one narayana diksita by hari diksita from Benares. In this letter one " govimda diksita caudhari " is mentioned as the son-in-law³ of the addressee. This letter is addressed to a then in Konkan according to Mr. Pimputkar. In the preamble of this the writer informs a the father-in-law of "fa" gavimda diksita caudhari 66 as follows:fa "I took your leave and came to Benares. Thereafter your sonin-law Govinda Diksita Chaudhari wss approached by certain Vaidika Brahman Pandits who bore some rivalry to him. They said to him that they would no longer bear any feelings of rivalry to him if he 1. Vide Aufrecht CC I, 647. 66 fa, son of Govinda Diksita of the Caturdhara family:Japavidhi Dharmatattvaprakasa Namaskaravidhi siva Son of Caturdhara : Sannavatisraddhanirnaya" Vide also List of Ujjain Mss, 1936 p. 29-Ms No. 759. - - - 2330 - sannavatisraddhanirnaya (leaves 8 ) by siva govimda caturdhara copied by Cintamani Bhadkamkar in Saka 1745 = A. D. 1823. 2. Vide p. 82 off by R. S. Pimputkar, Bombay, 1926-qft 3, dated Saka 1605 = A. D. 1683. 3. Ibid. " upari tumaci ajna gheuna varanasisa alyanamtara tumace jamvai govimda diksita caudhari " etc.

gives a dinner to 100-200 Brahmans. Then myself and Govinda Diksita Chaudhari considered the proposal and brought about the dinner in question. All Maharastra Brahmans attended the dinner, Samvat 1740 Saka 1605, Rudhirodgari Samvatsara, Asvina Krsna Dvitiya, Guruvasara." After this preamble is recorded a list of Brahmans. I am inclined to identify govimda diksita caudhari of the above leter of A. D. 1683 with govimda caudhari the son of nilakantha caturdhara who com possed one of his works in A. D. 1680. If this identification is accepted it shows that in A. D. 1683 Nilakantha's son Govinda was already a married man, holding some status in Benares society of Maharastra and other Brahmans. The letter also reveals for the first time the name of the father-in-law of Nilakantha's son. This man was obviously in Konkan as stated by Mr. Pimputkar and his name was narayana diksita ." 1. This date corresponds to Thursday, 27 th September 1683 (Vide p. 169 of Indian Ephemeris, Vol, VI).

Genealogy of Nilakantha Caturdhara, the commentator of the Mahabharata :- siva ( brother ) - govimda caturdhara ( of Kopargaum ) x phullambika (c. A.D. 1625 ) ( A. D. 1680, 1693) nilakamtha 1 siva | tryambaka krsna samkara govinda (AD 1683, 1691 ) (A.D. 1746) siva diksita ( akabai ) | ( x umabai ) | 1 gamgarama malhara ( x ramabai ) gamgarama (A.D. 1746) malhara cintamani (?) visvanatha kasinatha sakharama | nilakantha I visvesvara siva (A.D. 185+) vamana 1 ramakrsna krsna ( alias apa ) mahadeva (Or malhara ?) gopala ! jijaba visnu kesava (about 50 years old in 1942) govindasastri ! narayana ramga ! sadasiva (Born in February 1884 - magha vadya 11 sake 1805 ) The above genealogy has been reconstructed by me on the strength of manuscripts of the works of the Nilakantha Caturdhara and other members of his family. It is correct so far as the main line is concerned but needs more evidence for the verification of names in the branch-lines. Some names have been inserted in the above genealogy on the strength of extracts from the records of priests at TrymbakeSvara as they were sent to me by Mr. Sadashiv Vishnu Chaudhari, the present Registrar of the Law College, Poona. It will be seen from the above genealogy that there is unbroken continuity of descent from Govind Caturdhara (c. A. D. 1625) to Sadashiv Vishnu Chaudhari 1942). (487)

The sanad from King Sahu to Gangarama Diksita A. D. 1746 sri sri nakkala INAM vardhisnu ravikrama A COMMISSION visno samutiriva vamani sambhusuno raso mudra sivara jasya rajate svasti srirajyabhiseka sake 73 ksayanabha samvatsare bhadrapada suddha pratipada saumya- vasara ksatriyakulavatamsa srirajasahu chatrapati svami yani vedasastra sampanna rajasri sri raja sahu narapati harsani dhana balaji gamgarama diksita bina siva diksita upanama caudhari gotra gautama sutra asvalayana kasikara halli (va ) stavya paithana yasi dilhe inamapatra sri sriai adipu rusa sriraja sahu cha trapati svami krpanidhi bajirava pra dhana tasya jagajivana parasu rama pratinidhi aiseje tumhavisi ciramjiva rajasri phattesimga bhosale yani sahunagara najika kille satara yethila mukkami svamisanidha vinamti keli ki he bhale satpatra yamce calavi- liya srayaskara aise januna yasi apalekaduna mauje nivaduge yethila madhiyatra kanhoba ta tisagava para sevagava sarakara asadanagara ha gava inama dilha ahe to maharajamhi yace vamsaparamparene inama karuna deuna calavila pahije mhanuna vinamti keli tyavaruna manasa anuna tumhi bhale satpatra tumace calaviliya srayaskara aise januna svami tumhavari krpalu houna mauje majakura pesajicya mukasiyakaduna karuna hali dekhila yatramadhi kanhobaci kulababa va kulakanu halipati va pestarapati kherija hakadara va inamadara karuna tumhasa va tumace vamsaparamparenem nutana inama karuna dila ase tari tumhi mauje majakura sadarahupramanem apale dumala karuna gheuna tumhi apale putra- pautradi vamsaparamparenem inama anabhauna sukharupa rahane janije lekhanalamkara (488)

marya deyam ra jate rujusuru navi samamta sumamta mamtri sarakara tarikha 29 mahe rajaba su || saba abena maya alapha varasudrasuru sudra bara bara bara bara sadarahuce asalesa bamda dona tyaci cikatavani eka tijavara - lekhanasima - pa aksarace eka mortaba ase . nakala karanara atmarama ravaji karakuna ta 4 mahe sapatambara sana 1854 i|| ruju pahanara vamana krsna karakuna ta || 7 sapatabara sana 1854 isavi Copied by Y. L. THAKAR Compared by H. R. GURUJI sadarahu khari nakala milanebaddala sadasiva visnu caudhari yani ta . 20|10|27 ve arjane magani kelyavaruna kharca vagairebaddala phi 4946 vhi . pi . ne magavuna tyamsa denyamta ali ahe . ta . 15|12|27 . H. R. GURUJI J. R. BARVE asi || kamisanara madhyabhaga imnacarja alinesana ऑphisa rekarda INAM A Genealogy of the Chaudhari family COMMISSION nakkala kaphiyatice terave jababapramanem vamsavala vamana diksita bina siva diksita caudhari ra . mauje pathardi ta || sevagamva jilhanagara yani mauje nivadumge ta|| sevagamva jilhanagara yethila mokase amalabaddala

alahida kaiphiyata lihuna deuna tyajabarabara hi vamsavala mula sampadakace ajyapasuna lihuna dilhi ase tarikha 2 saptembara sana 1854 6 || mukkama pune . dastura bapuji vithala hujura karakuna ta . sarakara sahi tarikha 16 saptembara 1854 sahi vamana bina siva diksita dasturkheda Signed before me at Poona on the 16 th September 1854 Sd. THos. A. COWPER Copied by Y. L. SHAHA Captain Inam Commissioner Compared by H. R. GURUJI sadarahu khari nakkala milanebaddala mi . sadasiva caudhari yane tarikha 20 akatobara sana 1927 ca arja kelevaruna sadarahu nakkala li .vagaire phibaddala 4549 vhi . pi . nem magavuna tyasa denyamta ali ahe . tarikha 16 mahe disembara sana 1927 . H. R. GURUJI J. R. BARVE asistamta kamisanara madhyabhaga imcarja elinesana rekarda ऑphisa govimda diksita | siva diksita gamgarama diksita ( mauje nivadumge ta || sevagamva yethila mokase amalaca mula sampadaka ) sakharama diksita nilakamtha diksita siva diksita 1235 mahadeva diksita appa diksita ka . vamana diksita ka . gopala diksita ramgasastri narayanasastri kesava diksita visnu diksita ka .