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No. 1.)
INDIA OFFICE PLATE OF LAKSHMANASENA.
this plate so closely resembles the Mādhāinagar plate of Lakshmaņasēnal that the lacune over a large part of it can be supplied from the Mädhāinagar plate. In fact Banerji's and Majumdar's reading and translation of that part of the Mädhāinagar plate which is identical with lines 1-24, 27-34, 43-45 and 49-57 of the present plate render a fresh reading and translation of these passages superfluous, except in so far as the India Office plate happens to supply lacune in the Madhainagar plate. But it seemed more convenient to transcribe and translate the whole. The engraver seems to have made no mistakes in reproducing his copy, although he was not always careful in forming his characters. The usual ambiguities (r, v, ch; 8, 9;h, ng; dh, p, y; some conjuncts; and vowel marks) therefore present occasional difficulty, and in combination with the effects of corrosion) make the reading of some characters, especially in unfamiliar place. names, open to doubt.
The deed was issued by the Mahārājadhiraja Ari-rāja-Madana-Sankara Lakshmaņasonadöva (lines 28 and 57-8). The name of the place of issue has been doubtfully read in the Madhāinagar grant as Dhāryyagrāma. In the present plate it is again doubtful (line 24). The grant is dated on the 6th day of the month Kārttika in the year 27, and was executed by Sankaradhara, the Gauda-Mahāsāndhivigrahika as dúta (lines 57-59). It is a conveyance of land to Pāthaka Padmanabhadõva-sarman, son of Mahādēva[dēva]-Sarman, grandson of Jayadeva-sarman and great-grandson of Buddhadēva[?]-Sarman, of the Maudgalya götra and the Aurva, Chyavana, Bhārgava, Jāmadagnya and Apnavāna pravaras, a follower of the Kauthuma sākhā of the Sama-vēda (lines 45-7). The motive of the gift is to win merit for the Mahādevi ..padovi and the Mahādēvi Kalyāpadēvi (line 48) The land conveyed consists of two adjacent estates, of the annual value of 400 kapardaka-purānas, in the Paundravardhanabhukti, one at least (possibly both) being in the Vațumbi chaturaka of the Vaśchasa (?) avritti of that bhukti. Both portions of land have as their southern boundary Jaladändi, while the village Khivöläpändi forms the eastern boundary of one and the western boundary of the other. That on the west is bounded on the north and west by the Suja-nadi(?). That on the east (which perhaps fell in a different chaturaka) is bounded on the north by Valēngavēnada' (?), and on the east by Simhadāvilli (?), by the southern part of Kaimajagrāvāļi (?) and apparently by a water-exit. The lands conveyed comprised four part-estates (khanda-kshetra) named Kavilli, Chuschall, Gāndoli and Dāhipă. Measurements are given, but they are not intelligible. There is possibly a reference to a 22-hasta unit of measurement. I cannot identify on the maps any of the places named; but the find-spot may indicate that they are to be looked for in the north of the Daoca District.
The invocation and genealogy in thirteen stanzas, identical with those of the Mädhäinagar inscription, occupy the first 23 lines of the plate. The remainder is in prose, with the exception of the dharm-ānu samsinaḥ ślokāh (vv. 14-19)* which are given precisely as in the Mädhāinagar plate up to the point to which that plate is legible. The list of officials addressed corresponds in every respect with that found in other Sēna grants. But the amplification of Lakshmaņasēna's titles which occupies six lines in the Madhāinagar plate is here reduced to two lines (lines 26 and 27, probably corresponding to two of the three illegible lines in the Mädhāinagar plate). Lakshmanasēns is described in both plates as Gaudēšvara-paramēsvara-paramanārasimhaparamabhattāraka-mahārājādhirāja, but the present plate omits the description of him (given in
Edited by R. D. Banerji, with facsimile. in J. P. A. S. B., new series, Vol. 3 (1909), pp. 467-476 ; and by N. G. Majumdar, Inscriptions of Bengal, Vol. III, pp. 106-116 (Varendra Research Society, Rajshahi, 1929). [Bee below p. 9 n. 3.-Ed.]
[See below p. 8 n. 16.-Ed.] and verse introducing the dita (v. 20).--Ed.)
