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No. 15.)
THREE GRANTS OF GOVINDACHANDRA.
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plate contains 25 lines of writing. The size of the letters is about to. The characters are Nagari, and the language is Sanskrit. The writer and engraver have done their work in a rather slovenly manner so that the text contains a large number of minor mistakes. As regards orthography, the letter b is denoted by the sign for u, the dental sibilant is often employed instead of the palatal, j is used instead of y in -parjanta), 1. 16, and the word têkhara is written Seshara, in line 19.
This is another inscription of the Paramabhaffaraka Maharajadhiraja Paramddvara Govindachandradêval The king records in it that, on Tuesday, the full-moon tithi of Karttika of the year 1908 (given both in words and in figures), his queen, the Paffamahadevi Maharajñi Gobaladevi, endowed with all royal prerogatives, after bathing in the Ganges at Benares near the temple of the god Lôlerka," in the presence of that deity, with the king's consent, gave the village of Gaţiara in the Bhimamayûtâsa . pattala to the Thakkura Apatašarman, son of the Thakkura . . . . and son's son of the Thakkura Kulhe, a Brahman of the Vasishtha gôtra and student of the Chhandöga säkhá (of the Sama-vôda), who had come from Pataliputra.-The taxes specified (in line 22) are the bhagabhôgakara and pravanikara. The writer's name either was not given or is broken away at the end of the inscription.
The date is irregular ;' for the full-moon tithi of Karttika of Vikrama-Samvat 1208 current ended 17 h. 43 m. after mean sunrise of Monday, the 6th November A.D. 1150, and that of Vikrama-Samvat 1208 expired, 3 h. 58 m. after mean sunrise of Saturday, the 27th October A.D. 1151. The date would be incorrect also for Vikrama-Samvat 1209 expired. but correct for both 1206 and 1210 expired.
Of the localities, Pataliputra is the modern Patna in the Patna district of Bengal; the village Gaţiara and the pattald in which it was situated I am unable to identify.
EXTRACTS FROM THE TEXT. 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-srimad-Govindachandradøy6(V8)
.. 7-Srimad-Govindachandradby(+8) v[i]jayf 13 Bhimamaylltåss . . 8-pattalaya Gaţiara-grama-nivåsinô niyi(khi)la-janapadán=
[pagatan-api cha raja-rajoi-mantri-purðhita-pratih Ara-8[]n&pati14 [bb járdágárik-Akshapatalilea-bhishag-ni(nai)mittik-Antahpurika-(da)ta-karitaraya(ga).
pattanAkarasthanagôkalAdhikari-purush&n=&jñapayati(ty)-Adidati 15 0()dhayati cha yatha viditam=asta bhavatin yath=8parilikhita-gramaḥ
sa-jala-sthalab 88-18sla(ha)-lavan-Akaraḥ sa-gartt-shara sa-na (ma)dhAkab(ka)
châta-da(va)na-vitapa-[va]ţi16 ki-tripa-yâti-gôchara-parja(rya)ntaḥ s-orddh[v*]-4[dha]d-chatur-Aghata-visn(4a)ddhaḥ
AVOC ) m-paryantah samvatsaranám ash[t"javi(dhi)ka-dva datya(68)Ba(68)téshu Karttike mesi [gu(fu)]kle
1 Compare the inscription of Goviudachandra and his queen Nayapakalideri of V. 1176, above, Vol. IV. p. 107, 7.
Loldrka is a form of the Sun. The two fast akalaras of this name are illegible in the original. The part of tbe plate which contained the name is broken away.
Compare Ind. Ant. VOL. XIX. p. 867, No. 184 (where on p. 868, lipe 2, 16 October is misprint for 16 October '). • From an impression supplied by Dr. Pabrer.
The inscription begins with the words to disiddhi (instead of oth saati); otherwise the text, up to this, in practionlly identical with that of the Kamauli plate of Govindaobandre, published above, Vol. IV. p. 100.
• Here two (apparently damaged) akaharas are illegible in the impression, • Tbin word is superfluous. 10 This and the other signs of punctuation in lines 16-22 are superfluous. 1 Read 'rond .
