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No. 13.]
BAIGRAM COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF THE [GUPTA]-YEAR.
Attention may be drawn to the curious fact that in this new grant we do not find any reference to the Board of Advisers mentioned in the Damodarpur grants Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5, as having aided the vishayapatis of Kōtivarsha in the administrative work of the vishay-adhikarana, the four members forming that Board being (1) the nagara-śreshthin (the President of the town-guild), (2) the prathama-sarthavaha (the representative of the merchant class), (3) the prathama-kulika (the representative of the artisan class) and (4) the prathama-kayastha (probably, the chief scribe,the head of the Government officials). The absence of such a reference in a document of the year 128 G.E. (Damodarpur grant No. 2 of Kumara-gupta I's reign being also of the same date) belonging to a different part of Pundravardhana bhukti is difficult to explain, excepting on the tentative theory that Kötivarsha (of Damodarpur grant No. 2) was perhaps a more important vishaya where Government had to keep better administrative arrangement for the vishay-adhikarana than in Pañchanagari of this grant, which may have been a newly formed district at the time. It may also be noted that in this inscription we do not come across the name of the bhukti Governor known from two of the Damodarpur grants (.e., Nos. 1 and 2).
4 nā
1 Svasti [*] Pañchanagaryya Bhaṭṭāraka-pad-anuddhyātaḥ vriddhir-etad-vishay-adhikaranan-cha
Vayigramika-Trivrita(ta)-8rigöhälyöḥ Brahmay-örtarin-samvyavahari-pramukhān
10 m=i[ti] [*]
avadharanaya avadhrita
TEXT.
grama-kuṭumbinaḥ kusalam-anu
3 varnya bōdhayanti(ti) [*] Vijñāpayatōra(tō)=tr=aiva-vāstavya-kuṭumbi-Bhōyila
Bhaskaräv-avayōḥ piträ Sivanandi
kari[ta]ka-Bhagavato Govinda-svaminaḥ dēvakulas(am)=tad=asay=alpa(tad= ado-lpa)-vrittikaḥ(am) [*] Iha
5 baby-ady-astamba-khila-kshēttrāņām-akiñchit-pratikarāņām
sasvad-achandr-ärkka
tāraka-bhōjyānāṁm(nām)=akshaya-nivyā
6 dvi-dinärikkya-kulyavapa-vikkrayō-nuvrittas-tad-arhathavayōs sakāśat-shad-dinārān=
ashța cha rupakan=ayi
7 [kritya Bhagavatō Govindasvaminō dēvakulē [khanda-phuṭṭa1-pratisamska(ska)rakaraṇāya gandha-dhupa-dips
8 sumanasa[m*] pravarttanaya cha Trivṛitayam Bhogi(yi)lasya khila-kshēttrakulyavapa-trayam Śrīgōhalyāś(A)=ch=āpi
9 tala-vaṭak-artha[m*] sthala-västunō droņavāpam=ēkam Bhaskarasy=āpi sthalavästunō drōṇavāpañ-cha dātu
Yato yushman-bōdhayama[ḥ*]
Pustapala-Durgadatt-Arkkadiaayor
First Side.
12 näriky kulyavapa-vikkrayo-nuvrittaḥ
vikkravē cha na
13 virodha upachaya ēva
cha
11 m-ast-iha vishaye samudaya-bahy-ady-astamba-khila-kshēttrāṇā[m*]
achandr-arkka-täraka-bhōjyānām dvi-di
IC kaśchid-raj-artthaBhaṭṭāraka-pādānāın ētarōḥ
vishaye samudaya
tad-diyatām=iti
Bead sphutita. Phuffa is evidently a Prakrit form.
Kumārāmātya-Kula
81
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* Read pay-avadhrita.
Evamvidh-apratikara-khila-kabēttra
dharmma-phala-shad-bhig-āvāptiśm
sasvad=
