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TWO LOST PLATES OF NIDHANPUR OOPPER-PLATES.
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V. 3 & 4. From the lord Bamattal whose fame spread over the globe, conquered by his inexhaustible might and wealth and who was the ornament (Rit, flag) of the Pallevas who were emperors, who shone by the baths which concluded the performance of the Abvamēdha, who were the enjoyers of earth, who were not toriched (even) by a bit (lava) of danger and who had their origin in the highly pure family of Bharadvija-from him was born, like Guha (t.e., Kumara) from the great Isvara, he who shone by his....might and wealth, whose greathtas was seen in the field of battle, who was valiant and powerful, who was well known as Hajatimna of holy Teputation and who was a toyal lion to the elephants of dating, hostile kings.
V. 6. The conqueror of crowds of hostile kings, the door of a series of auspicious acts, in whose mind, purified by the feeling of incessant devotion, Mpigånkamauli (Siva) rests his foot.
V. 6. The tree of Dharma which has got many sālchãs (i.e., Vēdic divisions in the one case, and branches in the other) in the form of .......... the Vedas ... which is sprinkled incessantly by the waters of his virtuous acts; and which bears the splendour of the fruits and flowers-flourishes, though scorched by the cruel sun of the Kali age.?
No. 19.-TWO LOST PLATES OF THE NIDHANPUR COPPER-PLATES OF
BHASKARAVARMAN. BY MAHAMÄHOPADHYAYA PANDIT PADMANATKA BHATTAONABYA, VIDYAVINODA, M.A.
The three copper-plates which were discovered in 1912 at Nidhanpur in Pañchakhanda, Sylhet, containing an insoription of Bhāskaravarman were published by me in this Journal (vide Vol. XII, No. 13, pp. 65 et seq.). There I stated that one plate was missing. It now turns up that the number of copper-plates missing was more than one, as I have got two plates, one of which is undoubtedly the 3rd plate, and the other the penultimate plate; and the rumour goes that a third missing plate is in the possession of a Musalman and efforts are being made to get it from him. I have not, however, thought it advisable to defer any longer the publication of the two plates that have since been discovered, and if any missing plate be forthcoming at all, it will contain only a list of donees supplementary to what is found in the two plates under discussion.
The discovery of these two lost plates he rendered some of my statements in the previous article, made, of course, on mere oonjeoture, liable to revision. In fact the grant had
1 It is plain that Eka malla is the title of Paramēsvaravarman I. The Käfchipuram inscription (8. 1. 1., Vol. I, No. 24) calls him Ugradands, the adversary of Raņarasika (the W. Chalukya Vikramaditya I, A.D. 666-80). Another inscription in the same place (ibid, No. 27) gives Paramēsvara, the title of Lókāditya.
• Compare fromag : 74: in line 11 of Karam grant. • Vido 8. I. L., VOL I, No. 24, verse 5. C. et a fica rafea Unt in the Kanohipuram inscen. (8.1. I., VOL I., No. 94, verse 11).
Compare the epitheta sankarabhaktab, and Isvarabhaktab, in the Kanchipuram incorptions. Also expressions like w urwuf...forurei wat #met; fafanya uword; fyystufe: ete.
• The epitheta wawe, wolfra, ford found elsewhero show that the king had a great reputation for virtue.
The simile of the Kali age is commonly met with in the Pallava insoriptions. In the Rajasimhēsvara ingcription the king is said to have heard the divine voice even in this Kali age, and elsewhere in the same inscription he is said to have saved the people from the jaws of the horrid monster, the Kaliage. Similarly the Palla vas are given the title of we
a tus. (See 8. I. I., Vol. I, No. 24.)
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