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TWO GRANTS OF VARMANS OF VANGA Rājshāhi, is clearly dated in the 19th year of his reign. The other manusoript belongs to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The late Mahāmahopadhyaya Haraprasad Šāstrī published an illustration of the dated page of this manuscript in the journal of the Vangiya Sahitya Parishat of Caloutta. Sastri read the date as the 39th year; but a close examination of the illustration under a lens tends to show that the date is 32. Thus Harivarman is to be oredited with a reign of at least 32 years.
The name of the donee of the grant is unfortunately damaged by a grack in the plate which runs right across the name. He is stated to have served as the Santivärika (sprayer of propitiatory sacred water) to the king. His götra was Vatsa with the usual flv pravaras, and he belonged to the Abvalāyana branch of the Rigvēda. His father was Padmanabha and grandfather Vēdagarbha. His great-grandfather's name is rather obecure and reads like Jayarakshita. As the Vatsa götra is to be met with among all the three prominent sections of Bengal Brāhmaṇas, viz., Rādhiya, Vārēndra and Vaidika, it is difficult to say to which seotion the donee belonged.
The land granted measured 86 dronass of the onltivable type. It lay in the village of Vara-parvvata in the Mayūravidja vishaya in Patiohavsa-mandala within the Paundra bhukti. The bhukti of Paundravardhana is well-known, I am unable to locate the village granted. The inscription is undated and does not bear the usual endorsements at the end.
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1 to 28 (damaged) 27 ......................... entry stifa7428 पुरसमावासितश्रीमज्जयस्कन्धावारात् महाराजाधिराजश्रीजातवर्मपादानुध्यातपरमवैष्णव- .
Reverse । परमेश्वरपरमभट्टारकमहाराजाधिराजश्रीहरिवर्मदेवः कुशली ॥ 2 श्रीपौण्ड्रभुक्त्यन्तःपातिपञ्च]'चासमण्डले [मयूरविड्ज] विषयस' । वरपर्वतग्रामे ।
uailfacoeaj 3 धिकषड्द्राणोपेतहलभूमौ ॥ समुपगताशेषराजपुरुषारा]जीराणकराजपात्राराजामात्यमहा4 व्यूहपतिमण्डलपतिमहासान्धिविग्रहिकमहासेनापति[महाक्ष]पटलिकमहामुद्राधिकृत्य(त)
1 Vangiya Sahitya Parishat Patrika, Vol. XXVII, Illustration No. 8.
*[There is some evidence to suggest that Harivarmaa ruled for 48 years. Soe History of Bengal, Dacor University, Vol. I, p. 201, note 1. Verse 16 af Bhavadave's prasasti sooms to refer to a son of Harivarman as his Successor; cf. Ind. Cult., Vol. VII, p. 414 and note-Ed.)
· [The text gives: 1 hala, 8 dronas and 80 of a smaller unit, tho name of which is doubtful.Ed.) •The reading of the letters is doubtful-Ed.] *[San stands for sambaddha.-Ed.]
• [The above reading of the two ataharot seems to be wrong. The word wood bare certainly indicated.. subdivision of the dröna.--Ed.]
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