Epigraphia Indica Vol 12

Author(s): Sten Konow
Publisher: Archaeological Survey of India

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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
[VOL. XI.
TRANSLATION, (Line 1.) Om. Hail! From the victorious Siha pural the lord of Kalinga, the glorions Mahārāja Umavarman, who is devoted to the feet of his father, commands the ryots, accompanied by all others), in the village of Bțihatproshthā :
(L. 3.) "This village has been given by Us to the Brāhmaṇa Haridatta, who belongs to the götra of the Aupamanyavas (and) who has studied the Bahuricha-(sakha), having made (it) an agrahāra which is to last as long as the sun, the moon, and the stars, and having exempted (it) with exemption from all taxes, having separated (it) from the [Da]ntayavāgu division (thöga) (and) having joined (it) to the Thirty-six Agrahāras in such a way that it must be mentioned (henceforth) in connection with (this) division (?).
(L. 7.) "Knowing this (to be) thus, you ought to wait on him) and to supply to him) what has to be measured (viz. grain), gold, etc. according to the old-accustomed rale."
(L. 8.) And future kinga (the king) requests :-"Having obtained possession of the earth by means of either right or inheritance or conquest and ruling (it), you ought to preserve this agrahāra, considering this present grant (to have) religious merit (for its object)."
(L. 10.) And with reference to this there are the following) verses sung by Vyāsa :[LI. 11-15 contain three of the customary verses.]
(L. 15.) The messenger (ajña) (was) Vāsudēva. In the year 30, on the 20th day of Mārgasirsha.
(L. 16.) (The above edict) was written by M... vara, the son of Haridatta, who was placed in charge of the record office (akshapatala) of the district (dēša).
No. 3.-THE TARPANDIGHI GRANT OF LAKSHMANA SENA.
BY R. D. BANERJI, M.A.
In 1875 Mr. Westmacott published an account of a copper-plate discovered in the village of Tarpandighi in the district of Dinajpur. This was the first inscription of Lakshmanasõna discovered until then. Mr. Westmacott's article was accompanied by two lithographs of drawings made from this copper plate. The inscription has not since been published with mechanical facsimiles. It now appears that the plate belonged originally to Sir William LeFleming Robinson, Bart., of Hillesley House, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. It was lent to Mr. Westmacott for publication by the owner. The plate has recently been purchased from Sir Ernest Robinson, the nephew of the owner, by the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad. The inscription is incised on a single thick plate of copper measuring 13" x 11" with a projection of 34" in length, to which is attached the royal seal by means of a copper bolt. Prinsep in his paper on the Bakerganj grant of Kēdavasēna has referred to the curious figure which is to be found on Sona grants.3
Another copper-plate inscription of Lakshmanasõna is the Angliya grant originally published in a now defunct Bengali periodical called Aitihasika Chitra (of Rampur Boaliä in the Rājshāhi District of Bengal). The author of that paper made out the sadhana of the figure which forms the royal seal of the Sēna Kings of Bengal. In the Bakerganj grant of Kēšava
This i4 a Prakrit form of Simlapura,
Journal Bonds. Soc., Vol. XLIV, P. I, pp. 11 ff. Ibidem. Vol vil, p. 43. The name of the deuor seeing to Karavasina as roul by Prinsep and not Visvarüpasina as supposed by Babu Nagendra Nath, ibidem, Vol. XV, P. 1, p. 8.