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No. 24.
CHHATARPUR PLATE OF GOVINDACHANDRA: [V.) . 1177.
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ligatures. A few other mistakes of spelling may also be noticed. In line 18, we meet with sorddhadhaf- for sordhvadhas. In the same line we also find ushna wrongly spelt as nina, while in line 21, the rapha is omitted from the name Bárhaspatya. The Sandhi is frequently disregarded.
The first ten lines and a half are in verse and contain, as in other copper-plate inscriptions of this dynasty, the genealogy of the king beginning from Chandradēva, while the nine lines at the end (11. 24-32) are taken up by seven benedictory and imprecatory verses quoted from the Mahabharata. The rest of the inscription, i.e., from the middle of line 1l to line 24, and the latter portion of line 32, is devoted to the formal subject matter of the epigraph. The object of the document is to record the fact that king Govindachandradove, son of the illustrious Madanapaladēva, son of the illustrious Chandradēva, after bathing with the water of the Ganges at Varanasi on the occasion of the full moon of Kartika in the Vikrama)-Ban vat year 1177. after having daly propitiated the sacred texts, divinities, eto., and adored the Sun, Mahädēva and Våsudėva, gave away, by this charter, the village of Sasaimaua in the Köți district, clearly defined by its four boundaries, together with what is above and below it, to the Brahman, the illustrious Bahulašarman, the son of the illustrious Thakkura Låhula, and the grandson of Avasth1-Sri-Málhē, whose pravaras are Angirasa, Barhaspatya and Bhårad vāja, and who belongs to the Bharadvája-gotra. The king further commands the residents of the aforesaid village to continue regularly to pay all the taxes to the donee. The document was written by the Karanika Thakkura Sridhara.
The name of the village, whose grant is recorded in this inscription, was Såseimana. The locality, where the two copper-plates were unearthed, was, as mentioned above, the village of Chhatarpur near Sheorijpar in Cawnpore district. If Chhatarpur is really the place where the donee of the grant actually resided, then the village of Sásaimana must have been situated some where in its neighbourhood. I have referred to a large scale map of the Cawnpore district, but have failed to discern any village of this precise name. I have, however, received a copy of a letter from the District Magistrate to the address of the Director-General of Archeology in India, which states that there is a village of the name of Bissman, which now forms part of the Cawnpore City. This village answers very nearly to the ancient village Såsaimaus. The District Magistrate is unable to throw any light on the ancient district of Koti.
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First Plate. fLines 1 to the middle of 11 are the same as in the Don Buzurg plates of Govindachandra of
[Vikrama-Samvat 1176; above, p. 218.] 11 . . . . . . . . . . TU A T e afarer: 1
परमभारवमहाराणाधि12 TOUTÀTUTHATÈTT() fotonyaituifwazitumgrefumitacauterg
ध्यातपरमभहारकामहाराजा[Thio romark is not justifiable for the word is written with or without ; cf. Sabdakalpadruma under the word; "Tud for ."-Ed)
[I think it is there. -Ed.]
Not mentioned in the inscription which simply ways feefs. It may be any of the five parnassEd.)
[It would be better to take mastra-deva together, menning gode invoked by, etc. -Ed.) . From the ink-impresioa.
