

122 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [May, 1914. 



surface with some pointed instrument. I have been told that 

 the Muhammadan cultivator of Belabo, who discovered the 

 plate, thought at first, that the plate was of gold and tried to 

 verify his opinion by removing the verdigris from the surface 

 and cutting away a portion from the bottom of the plate. The 

 height of the seal is 4" and the diameter of the impression is 

 3r. The diameter of the small wheel in the area of the seal is 

 /. The seal is referred to in the text of the inscription as 

 * A the seal of the wheel of Visnu " (L. 48). - 



The text of the inscription is divisible into the usual 



parts: xr- 



(i) The metrical portion giving the genealogy of the King \ 



(ii) the prose portion containing the names of the donee and 



the object of the grant; 

 (iii) the imprecatory verses ; and 



(iv) the date. 

 The metrical portion consists of fourteen and a half verses 



and supplies us with the following account: 



"The sage Atri was the son of the Self -existent-one. 



The moon was born from the rays which issued from his eyes 

 (v. 1). From him Budha son of Rohini and from Budha, 

 Pururavas, son of Ila, who was the chosen husband of Urvasl, 

 was born. He procreated Ay us, and from him was born 

 Nahusa, who was equal to Manu and from him was born 

 Yayati. He received Yadu as his son. In the royal family 

 which spread out from Yadu, Vira^ri and Hari were born many 

 times (v. 3). In this family was born Hari who was a part 

 incarnation of the lover of the milkmaids, the stage manager 

 of the Mahabharata, the Great Krsna (v. 4). These Yadus 

 occupied a town named Simhapura (v. 5). Once upon a time » 

 man named Vajravarman was born whose presence was counted 

 as auspicious when the Yadava army started on a campaign 

 (v. 6). From him was born Jatavarman, who had married 

 Vfrasrl, the daughter of Karnna(the Cedi King), and spread his 

 sway in the Anga country, defeated the King of Kamarupa* 

 defeated Divya (the Kaivartta leader Divvoka), and Goyar- 

 dhana, and obtained paramount power (v. 8). V T Irasri gave birth 

 to Samalavarmman (v. 9). There was one named Udayl and 

 his son Jagad-vijayamalla, had a daughter named Malavyadevi 

 (v. 11), became the principal queen (agra-mahisl) of Samalavar- 

 man (v. 12). From them was born Bhojadeva (v. 13). 



The inscription is written in protobengali characters of the 

 late eleventh or early twelfth century a.d. It refers itseu 

 to the reign of Para>ia-vaisnava-Parame4vara-Parama-bhat- 



taraka-Maharajadhiraja S'ri -Bhoja (deva), who meditatea 

 on the feet of Maharajadhiraja Samalavarmmadeva, and 

 was issued from the victorious camp of Vikramapura. 

 records the grant of the village of Upyalika pertaining to the 

 Khandala of the eight gacchas of Kausambi, in the maridala ot 



