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you : this land should be preserved ; nor is the per- 

 manence of the realm consistent with the slightest in- 

 jury : a shame on avarice ! That land is, as it were, a 

 widow, the sovereign of which is despised [for his 

 covetousness.] 



g. 'Although this excellence of the descendants 

 [of that prince,] which is guarded by their natural 

 virtues, be sufficiently apparent, yet does Me'dini, 

 urged by the multitude of the good qualities of that 

 unsullied race, thus make it known *. 



^ Years expired of the S'aca king 1141 -f-; dated 

 in the seventeenth year of Ranabanca Malla, 

 SriivTat Hartica'la Dk'va J, or expressed in nu- 

 merals, Sawvat^, 17; on the 29th of the Sun's being 

 in the balance/ 



II. hiscripiion on a Plate of Cof per found in the distr'icl 



O/GORAKHPUE. 



A PLATE of copper, containing a,n inscription in 

 the Sayiscrit language, declaratory of a grant of hmd, 

 but without date, was lately found in the district of 

 Gorakhpur, near the river called the little GamChac. 

 It was brought to Mr. John Ahmuty, Magistrate of 



• This inscription appears not to be a grant by the sovereign ; 

 but a memorial of the grant recorded by the possessor, who must 

 have been the heir of the grantee, and who seems to acknowledge 

 in this place the liberahty of tlie grantors successors, continuing 

 the land to him. ' . ^ ' 



f Corresponding to A. D, 1210. 



X This prince is probably a dilferent person from the grantor 

 named in the fifth verse. -A- '— 



§ Here Samvai is used for the year of^^he king^ reigti." See re- 

 marks, towards the close of this "paper^n a^i inscriptiouifound at 

 Amgachhi in Dinajpur. , l '.,"*'.. 



2 D 4 



