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COPPER-PLATE GRANT OF VAIDYADEVA, KING OF KÂMAROPA.
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L.11.
वश्यात्मोदयमानस्य चिरं राज्यमचीकरत् ॥ -[21]. प्रचण्डसुभटाटोपण्डितामित्रमण्डलः । अभूदजितमानोपिच्छिालायां महीपतिः ॥ -[22]. पत्युभमरशाल्मल्याग्छिाला[न?]भूतिषण्डको"। वश्यौ व(ब)भूवतुः पूर्वमेवमेतौ यथाक्रमं । -[23]. भारभ्योदयमानमादिपुरुषं गोच
क्रमीयम्महानस्माकम्परिवईमानमहिमत्यालोक्य ते पूर्वजाः । अस्मद्रोचभवास्कदाचिदनाडुास्थानिक स्यादिदं
सत्पनीहयमित्यवेत्य चखनुप्राशस्त्यवर्णानिमान् ॥ -[24]. यावप्रान्तमरीचिरेचकचयव्याप्तचिलोकोच्छ्रयं"
चक्रं चक्रधरो वि(ब)भर्ति गिरिशो यावद्भवानीपतिः । 13. यावलोकमिसक्षयाकुलमिलञ्चिन्तालसश्चात्मभू
मर्गोचस्योदयमानदेवनृपतेस्तावत्स्थितिर्दृश्यताम् ॥ -[25].
XXVIII.-COLPER-PLATE GRANT OF VAIDYA DEVA, KING OF KAMARUPA.
BY ARTILUR VENIS, 21.A., PRINCIPAL, SANSKRIT COLLEGE, BENARES. Twenty-five copper-plate inscriptions were found in October 1892 in the village of Kamauli, near the confluence of the Barna and the Ganges at Benares. The story at the time was that a villager while ploughing a field had turned up one of the plates with his plough and so discovered the others; but I do not know whether this simple and in India) not unusual story has been subsequently confirmed by official inquiry into the locality and circumstances of the find. Mr. R. H. Brereton, Magistrate of Benares, sont me the plates, which are the subject of this and the next paper, vis. the grant of Vaidyadeva and two grants of Govindachandra of Kanauj, for immediate examination and report. On receiving from me a few rough notes as to their general contents and approximate dates, he kindly permitted a more careful and leisurely revision of these grants.
The Vaidyadeva grant is engraved on three plates. A spoon-like arrangement loosely holds the plates together, its narrower, hooked end being passed through a hole in the middle of their right-hand margins. The broader, hollow end of the spoon contains a figure of Gaņeśa. The plates measure 9" broad by 7" high, and weigh together
4 Here again the akshara in brackets noems to be 4 Metre of verses 24 and 26, Sardalavikridits. engraved above the line.
I am not sure whether the word of this a.Thia wm originally engraved, but appears to have | line should bealtered to मेचक. been altered to °चिदन यु; and I believe the irtended All the plates were deposited in the Provincial Museum reading to be fafara.
| at Lucknow in July 1893.
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