Vol. X, No, 3.] Edilpur Grant of Kesavasena. 99 



[N.S.] 



The grant was issued [1. 38J from the victorious camp ft1 

 Jamvugrama on the occasion of the king's birthday. 1 



The recipient of the grant was a Brahmana, named Ifiv.ira- 

 devasarman, of the Vatsa gotra and a reader of the Ved; 

 (krutipathaka) . The term Sadasiva-mudraya ?nudrayilva requires 

 some explanation. All copperplate inscriptions of the Sena 

 kings of Bengal bear a small ten-armed seated male figure at the 

 top. Evidently this is the lanchana of the Sena dynasty, and the 

 words quoted above show that it was commonly known as the 

 Sada&ivamudra. It may, of course, be taken to mean the very 

 auspicious seal, but we find a description of Sadasiva, a ten- 

 armed form of Siva, in the Mahaparinirvana T antra, and the 

 coincidence is so remarkable that we certainly have to explain 

 the expression SadaSiva-mudraya mudrayitva as meaning M sealing 

 it with the SadaSiva seal. 



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1 The actual wording of the plate, 11. 49f., is iubhavarmvrddkau 

 dirghayusth [a] kamanaya. In Western Bengal, two words are used to 

 denote a'birthday — 6ubhavarsapu?'a and janmatithi-piija. 



