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XIII. Three Grants OF Land, inscribed on Copper, Jbufid at Ujjayani, 

 and presented by Major James Tod, to the Royal Asiatic Society. 

 Translated hy Henry Thomas Colebrooke, Esq. 



Read December 4, 1824. 



The translations, which accompanied the Sanscrit inscriptions on copper 

 presented to the Society by Major Tod, having been made through the 

 medium of an interpreter, I have thought it right to re-examine the 

 originals, at the same time that I undertook the decyphering of a third 

 inscription, likewise presented by Major Tod, but unaccompanied by a 

 translation. 



Neither of the three inscriptions in question is complete. They had origi- 

 nally consisted of a pair of plates in each instance : as is evident, both 

 from the contents, and from the very appearance ; for they exhibit holes, 

 through which rings were no doubt passed to hold the plates together. In 

 one instance, it is the last of the pair, which has been preserved. In the 

 two others, the fiist of eacii remains, and the last has been lost. Enough, 

 however, subsists, in these fragments of inscriptions, to render them useful 

 historical documents ; as is amply shown in the very interesting comments 

 on them which Major Tod lias communicated. 



I now lay before the Society a transcript of the contents of each plate, 

 as read by me ; and copies, facsimile, of the originals. My own translations 

 follow ; and notes will be found annexed. 



On collating the J'ac-simile with the transcript, the learned reader will 

 observe that errors (for engravers are not less apt, than ordinary copyists, 

 to commit blunders) have been in several places corrected. Where the 

 mistake and requisite correction seem quite obvious, I have in general 

 thought it needless to add a remark. But, wherever it has appeared neces- 

 sary to give a reason for an emendation, an explanatory note is subjoined. 



All these inscriptions are grants of land, recorded upon copper, con- 

 formably with the usage of the Hindus, and the direction of the law, wliich 



