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



in-law of Samalavarmman , must remain an open question so 

 long as fresh material is not available. 



The name of the bhukti in which the village granted wa^ 



situated is Pundra, which is most probably the same as 

 Paundravarddhana of the Pala and Sena copperplate grants. 

 The name of the Mandala Adhahpattana is new to Indian 

 Epigraphy. The Kau&arnbi-asta-gaccha seems to have been 

 situated somewhere in the Pargana of Kusumba or Kusumbi 

 in the Rajshahi District. This seems to indicate that at this 

 period Sonargaon or Suvarnnagrama was included in Varendrl 

 and the Ganges met the Brahmaputra much lower down the 

 Delta than it does at present. The land granted measured 1 

 Pataka and 9£ Droiias. Among the names of officers we find a 

 new name Pithika-vitta. The name of the composer of the 

 verses of the grant is Purusottama. Two persons of this 

 name are known to have belonged to this period according to 

 Mabamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastrl. One is known from 

 the Sadukti-Karnamrta l and the other for his Supplement 

 of the Amarakosa* Haravali. etc. 



The only other point of interest in this grant is the -itn 

 verse. Here the use of the term ainhavatara raises 

 doubts. Perhaps it contains a veiled reference to Harivarmman. 

 Devout Vaisnavas regard Krsna as a full incarnation and 

 would not style him ammvatara. But it should be noted that 

 the Visnu Purana refers to Krsna as the amiavatara. 



The characters are Bengali characters of the 11th century 

 a.d. The principal peculiarity is the use of the Xagarl and 

 Bengali forms of ta side by side. The inscription has been 

 very carelessly incised. Some verses have surely been omitted 

 after the 9th in line 17. The 14th verse has been very care- 

 lessly written. Single letters have been omitted in many cases 

 Cf. Kastam in 1. 22 and bhavatam in 1. 37 



some 



• • — — — w ■ 



I edit the inscription from the original plate : 



Text. 



Obverse. 



1. Om Siddhi [h] « Svayambhuvam-ih-apatyaih munir-atri 

 [r] divaukasam | Tasya yan-nayanam tejas = ten = aja- 



2. -yata Candramah n (1). Rauhineyo Vu(Bu)dhas = ta- 

 mad = asmad = aila-Pururavah [|] Jajne svayam-vrtah kirttya 



3. e-Orvva§ya ca bhuva ca yah R (2). Sopy-ayurii samajija- 

 nan-manusamo rajnas-tato jajnivan [i] Ksma 



4. -palo Nahasas s -tatojani maharajo Yayatih sutam [l] 

 S-opi prapa yandurh 4 tatah ksiti-bhu- 



1 Notices of Skt. MSS., Vol. Ill, p. 138. 



* Aufreeht Cat., Vol. I, p. 342. 3 Read Nahutas. * Read y ad urn 



