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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(83.) Manoratha, son of the brahmaņa rajaguru Murari, and Padma, his wife, composed this prasasti.
(34.) This is that king whose active arm destroyed the famed prowess of his many foes. And this is that Sridhara, whose glory ever spreading through the world extends anew. The king] being pleased delivered this sâsana to that bråbmaņa through the words of his dharmadhikárin, the very learned Gonandana.
[Plate II, B, 1. 15.] Hail! From the victorious camp at Hamsakoñchi, his Majesty Vaidyadeva, a most devout worshipper of Siva and of Vishņu, the Maharajadhiraja, the Parameboara, the Paramabhattáraka, being in good health (Plate III, A, 1. 1.] greets, informs and commands the people of the villages of Santi.Badà and Mandarà possessed by Gangadhara Bhatta, in the vishaya of Badà, in the mandala of Kamarupa in the bhukti of Pragjyotisha, beginning with the principal residents .. . . (?) and peasants. Be it known unto you that these two villages, having their boundaries fixed and subject to no reduction, with their water and dry land, not to be entered by regular or irregular troops, and their uncultivated land free of taxes, with a revenue of 400, we have given by charter to Sridhara Sarmå (surnamed) Guggult in ?? . . . Therefore be obedient to this charter. Written in the fourth year on the first day of Vaisakha by the movement of the sun."
[Plate III, B, 1.0.) (35) This copper was engraved by the artist Karnabhadra, an intelligent, courteous and accurate workman.
To such a plate are added the words of the Munis: -
XXIX.-BENARES COPPER-PLATE GRANTS OF GOVINDACHANDRA
OF KANAUJ. BY ARTHUR VENIS, M.A., PRINCIPAL, SANSKRIT COLLEGE, BENARES.
No. I.'-Dated Saṁvat 1162. This grant is on a single plate, and closely resembles the Basahi grant of Samvat 1161, both in its outward form and text. The plate is 1' 6" long by 11" broad, and weighs 8lbs. 12oz. Like the Basâhi plate (see Dr. Fleet's description in loco), it has a famkha engraved on its left margin with a barbed arrow below it. At its top end is rivetted a turned over copper band, through which the ring of a seal was evidently intended to run; but the seal is missing.
The inscription is in Någari characters and is well preserved, but the technical execution is on the whole imperfect. As regards orthography, 6 and o are denoted by the same sign, except once in line 1, where b (babhúva) is represented by the sign used in seven inscriptions of Jayachchhandra (Ind. Antiq., vol. XVIII, pp. 129 et seq.) The sibilants are used promiscuously. The letters rand & have two forms. In line 22 I * See above, p. 349.
As to the finding of these plates see ante, p. 347. Here follow the boundaries of the villages.
* See Rajendralala Mitra, Journal As. Soc. Beng., vol. XLII The usual imprecations which follow are left an. (1873), and Fleet. Ind. Antig., vol. XIV (1885) for the Barabi translated.
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