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INDIA OFFICE PLATE OF LAKSHMANASENA.
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(Ll. 37-40) (2) in the chaturaka............, land bounded on the east by two sutras of land and Simhaqavillt situate in................, also by the southern portion of Kaimajagravadi, also by the water-exit situate in....................; on the south by Jaladändi; on the west by Khåväläpändi; on the north by Valõngavēnada,' tbe land thus defined by four boundaries and being the demesne of..........makosa-dova,
(Ll. 40-43) (these two parcels of land) thus measured and defined each by its own boundaries above mentioned,....
.......comprising a drönika and one quarter plus 22 yashtis ..........................................by the 22 cubit (measure)....... ......producing 400 kapardaka-purānas annually, with the four part-fields.......... ...... being two parts of one estate, with undergrowth and saplings, water and dry ground, broken ground and barren ground, betel and cocoanut trees ; saving the ten sins (?). exempt from all annoyances, without right of entry by Chattas and Bhattas, free from all dues, with grass, yüti, pasturage and boundaries :
To the Pathaka Padmanbhadova-sarman, follower of a school of the Kauthuma branch of the Sāma vēda, of the Maudgalya götra and the Aurva Chyavana Bhargava Jåmadagnya and Apnavāna pravaras, son of Mahädēvadēva-sarman, grandson of Jayadēva-barman and greatgrandson of Buddhadēva(?)-farman :
(Ll. 48-50) on a holy day, in due form, with the water-rite, in the name of the holy one, the glorious lord Nārāyana, to win merit for the Mahadevi... pådovi and the Mahadevi Kalyanadövi
We renounce for so long as the Moon and Sun and Earth endure..................this land producing in all 400 (kapardaka-purānas,) and by the bhumichchhidra rule, having turned this into a title deed on copper We hereby give it.
(Ll. 50-51) This is to be observed by you all without exception. By princes to come also this charter is to be maintained, from the fear of being cast into Hell if they should take away (the land granted) and from the high esteem of virtuous conduct if they maintain it. And in this connection there are verses enjoining (such) virtuous conduct : [Here follow six of the customary verses.]
(Ll. 57-58) The King, Ari-rāja-Madana-Sankara, has made the Gauda-mahäsāndhivigrahika Sankaradhara, chief of a hundred councillors, his agent.
(L. 59) His Majesty's secretary. The Mahāsāndhivigrahika's' secretary. The secretary for the royal documents of His Majesty the King the illustrious Madana-Sankara', In the year 27 on day 6 of Kärttika.
(Chemadagrävafi? See above p. 8 n. 11.-Ed.) *[See above, p. 8 n. 16.-Ed.]
[See above, p. 9 n. 3 and n. 4.-Ed.) Ari-raja-Madana-Sankara was the special title assumed by Lakshmanasēna. See, for example, the Edilpur copper-plate of Kobavasõna, line 43.
Sri I take to be a symbol for royalty (the King) here.
• The abbreviation ni appears to correspond to the final syllable in karanani found in the last line of other Sēna plates, and to have some such meaning as is conveyed in the translation secretary'. [This abbreviation probably stands for nibaddham.--Ed.)
Abbreviated here, Mahasam.
Sanga-samaya ni is obscure. I take it to mean "secretary for completed contracta", registration officer. (I was inclined to read singa-sa[TR.) saptavi, taking saplavi as a contraction for saptavimod, and understanding sånga-samvatsaré to mean " in the completed year". But this is hardly justified.) (To me the reading appears to be Sähasamaya ni.-Ed.]
The reading brimad-raja ni is doubtful; and ni following Madana-Sankara is again doubtful. The royal secretary cannot be thrice mentioned (Sri ni : Srimad=rja ni Sri-Madana-Sankara ni). The translation given does not correspond with these doubtful readings, but may possibly oonvoy the intended meaning.
