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Se rial
No.
17
No. in
K's List.
19
:
•
Stone
or
copperplate or other
mate
rial.
Inscriptions of the Pala Dynasty of (Gaura or Gauda) Bengal-continued.
Locality.
S.
Brass Imâdpur, Muzaf- Mahipala (I) figures. farpur District;
18 640 C. P. Dinajpur...
two brass figures found in a field.
King.
Same king
Titarâwa(Tetrâwa). Same king Patna District; on base of colossal statue of Buddha.
A. D.
...
:
DATE.
Indian.
Regnal. Era.
48
Ille
gible
:
Parport.
Dedications
Royal grant of a vill. named Kuratapallika in Pundravardhana bhukti (province) to a learned Brahman, "in order to please Buddha," etc.; issued from Vi[l]asapura; gives royal genealogy from Gopala I.; notes that Mahipala "obtained his father's kingdom which had been snatched away by people having no claim to it"; gives list of officials as in No. 10. Dedication
Reference and Remarks.
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The inscriptions, which are identical, are engraved below two groups of brass figures, and the date runs as follows: Sriman-Mahipala devarajasa samatt 48 jeshta dinasukala poksha 2 (Hoernle, Ind. Ant., XIV (1885), p. 165, note 17.) Also mentioned in Rep., III, 153. Discovery recorded in Proc. A. S. B., 1881, p. 98, but with imaginary readings.
Ed, with transcript and partial transl., but no facs., by K. in J. A. S. B., Part I, Vol. LXI (1892), pp. 77-87. This important document should be studied along with the Amgâchhi plate.
Never published or ed. but briefly alluded to in Rep., I, 39, and III, p. 123, No. 11.
SEPTEMBER, 1909.]
THE PALA DYNASTY OF BENGAL.
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