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TWO GRANTS FROM DASPALLA
32 yē tāmra-sä (sa)sanikṛitya pa(pra)datto='smābhir-ataḥ tämra-sa(sā)sana-pradarsa(réa)nād= ev-asmat-ka[r]y-anurodhād-yathākāl-ōpa[bhu]
33 jyamins-phalasy-kaya kair-api paripanthibhir-na bhavitavyam | Ma bhūd-a-phala-fakā vab para-date(tt-ti pla]rtb[i]vä[b]sa' vi phala
34 ntyä para-datt-änupānam || 11*] Sva-dattam paradatta[m vä*] yō harēta vasundharam(rm) sa viahṭhāyāṁ krimir-bhätvä pitribhi[b] saha pachyati [] [12] Va(Ba)hu[bhir vasu]
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35 dhā dattā rājabhiḥ Sagar-ädibhiḥ | yasya yasya yada bhumis-tasya tasya tadā phalaḥ(lam) || [13] Sämany-ya[m] dharmma-attu[r]-nţipăṇā[*]
36 kālē kāla(lē) pālē (la) niyō bhavadbhiḥ | sarvvän=ētā[n*] bhāvinaḥ pārthivēndrā[n*] bhūyō bhūyah prarthalyaty-isha Ramab|| [14] Iti kama[la
37 dal-amvu(mbu)-vindu-lōläm sri (śri)yam-anuchimtya manushya-jivitam cha sakalam=idam= udahritam cha vu(bu)ddhva na hi puru[shai]ḥ para-ki[r]ttayo vilō
38 pyaḥ || [15] Sandhivigrahiņā rājñō Dēvānandasya nirmmitā | prasa(sa)stiḥ3 param-ōdārā Yaso (so)dattēna śrimata || [16] Jē(Jyē)shṭha
39 sudi 5 Samva (Samva)t 100 80 4 ya utkirnna(rņņā) Lōgayākēna || Siddham
B.-Daspalla Plates of Satrubhanja Tribhuvanakalasa; Year 198
According to information kindly supplied to me by Mr. P. Acharya, this set of plates was presented to the Orissa State Museum in June 1951 by Mr. Krushna Chandra Misra who is a clerk in the office of the Sub-Deputy Collector of Daspalla. Nothing is known about its exact findspot or the circumstances leading to its discovery.
The inscription is written on three plates, of which the first and third are inscribed only on the inner side. The writing is in an excellent state of preservation. The plates measure 6-7" X 4-75". The hole in the plates for the seal-ring to pass through, which had been made apparently before the plates were engraved, is 4" in diameter and is -75" inside from the proper right margin of the plates. The copper ring which is 37" in thickness and 2.7" in diameter has its joint covered by a lump of bronze, on which the seal (1.5" in diameter) is countersunk. It resembles the seal found with other charters of the family to which the issuer of the present record belonged. Its upper part is occupied by the figure of a lion to proper right, having its face to front, its left paw raised and its tail curled above its back. Below the above emblem is the legend in two lines: (1) Sri-Sa(Sa)trubha- (2) ñjadevasya. The three plates together weigh 107 tolas; but, as they vary in thickness, their individual weight is not the same. The weight of the first plate is 49 tolas and that of the second and third plates 27 and 31 tolas respectively. The ring with the seal weighs 38 tolas. Thus the weight of the three plates together with the seal-ring is 145 tolas.
In respect of palaeography, language, orthography and style, the inscription under review resembles very closely other charters of the Bhañja kings of Vañjulvaka, two of which have
1 Read sva-danal-phalamanantyam.
3 Read anupalaně.
The visarga had been at first omitted but was later inserted.
This sign of punctuation is preceded by a visarga-like mark that forms a part of it. Expressed by a symbol.
