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MALLASARUL COPPER-PLATE OF VIJAYASENA.
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purpose of performing the five great sacrifices, viz., Bali, Char, Vaivadeva, Agnihotra, and Atithi, to Bhatta Uchchada', who came from the district of Lõhigakakshapathaka, who is of Kaundinya gotra, who belongs to the community of Traividya Brahmins, who is a student of the Vāji-Madhyandina (säkhā) and who is the son of Adityanāga, a Hētāvuka Brāhmin.
(LI. 40-43) Wherefore no one should behave so as to obstruct him when enjoying (it), cultivating (it), causing (it) to be eultivated or entrusting (it to any one else) in accordance with the proper conditions of a brahmadāya. (And) this our gift should be assented to and preserved by future good kings whether of our own lineage or others. And he shall incur the guilt of five great sins together with the minor sins who, having his mind obscured by the thick darkness of ignorance, may confiscate (this grant) or assent to its confiscation.
(LL. 43-48) [Here follow six of the customary verses.] (Ll. 49-51) The illustrious bhatta Dēiyaka is the dutaka,
In the year four hundred increased by eighty-six on the 18th day of the dark hall of Asvayuja (the year 400, 80, 6 Asvayuja, va 10 5) this has been written by me, the Mahābalādhihrita Samgulla, the son of the Baladhikrita Alla.
(This is) the sign manual of me, Sri-Jayabhata.
No. 24.-MALLASARUL COPPER-PLATE OF VIJAYASENA.
By N. G. MAJUMDAR, M.A., INDIAN MUSEUM, CALCUTTA. This copper-plate comes from Mallasărul, a village about a mile and a half from the north bank of the Damodar river, within the jurisdiction of Galsi Police Station of the Burdwan District, Bengal. It was discovered in 1929 by Dr. Sureshwar Roy in course of re-excavation of an old tank adjoining his house and was subsequently presented by him to the VangiyaSahitya Parishat of Calcutta. The decipherment of the text inscribed on the plate was entrusted to the late Mahamahõpādhyāya Haraprasad Šāstri, but due to his continuous ill health he could not take it up seriously and the copper-plate, which remained unpublished, attracted little attention after his death. Recently I approached the Sahitya-Parishat for permission to edit the record, which was very kindly accorded, and the original plate together with & tentative and incomplete transcript, prepared partly by the late Mahāmahöpādhyāya and partly by Mr. Chintäharan Chakravarti, M.A., was handed over to me. An article in Bengali giving a preliminary account of the plate has been contributed by me to the quarterly journal of the Sahitya-Parishat. But considering the importance of the record I have tbought it desirable to edit the same with fuller details in the Epigraphia Indica.
This is a single sheet of copper, measuring 10-4 long by 6.5'broad, which is inscribed on both faces lengthwise. A circular seal about 2-8' in diameter is soldered on the left side of the plate. It bears in relief a standing figure of a two-armed deity with a chakra in the back. ground representing perhaps the 'Wheel of Law. Below the figure occurs in raised letters the legend (Maha)rāja-Vijaya[se]nasya, i.e., 'Of the Mahārāja Vijayasēna,' which is partly defaced. The plate contains 25 lines of writing; of these fifteen lines are engraved on the obverse and ten on the reverse. The engraver has not been able to follow the draft with uniform accuracy: there are slips and lapses at a number of places, which have been duly pointed out in the
1 (See above p. 152, n. 1.-Ed.]
* The place is marked as Särul' in Survey of India map No. 73 M: 11 (l' to a mile scale) of 1029-30, and as . Mallasarul' in the Map of the District of Burdwan.
