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The land was consequently measured out and the price of it 



paid. 



The second part of the same grant records that this Vata- 

 bhoga bestowed the land purchased by him to a Brahmana 

 named Candrasvamin. The boundaries of the village or land 

 are then given at length, and the inscription ends with the usual 

 imprecatory verses and the date. 



II. Second Plate — Undated Grant of the time of 



Dharmmaditya. 



During the rei^n of Dharmmaditva when a certain officer 



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(Mahapratlhara-uparika) Nagadeva was governing Navyava- 

 ka&ika, and when his deputy Gopalasvamin was in charge of 

 the affairs of the Varakamandala, a certain person named 

 Vasudevasvamin approached certain officers and the leading 

 men of the district and stated that he wanted to purchase a cer- 

 tain piece of land from them in order to bestow it on a Brahma- 

 na. The land was sold and the price of it paid. The second 

 part of this plate contains details of the boundaries of this land, 

 and says that the land was sold to, and was bought by Vasudevas- 

 vamin, but it does not contain anything about the land being 

 granted to the Brahmana Somasvamin, who is mentioned in 

 the first part of the inscription as the future donee. 



III. Third Plate — Inscription of the time of 



GOPACANDRA — OF THE YEAR 19. 



In the reign of Gopacandra when the Mahaprafihara 

 Vyaparandya-dhrtamula-Kumaram Nagadeva was 



ruling, his deputy Vatsapalasvamin was in charge of the pro- 

 vince of Varaka, somebody, whose name appears to have been 

 lost, approached the officers, etc. with the request that he may 

 be allowed to buy a certain piece of land in or to bestow it on a 

 certain Brahmana. The second part of the inscription records 

 that the land was sold and the price of it paid. We also come 

 to know that the purchaser of the land was the very same 

 Vatsapalasvamin, who had been placed in charge of the affairs 

 of the Varakamandala, and the donor of the land. The land 

 purchased by him was bestowed on Bhattagomidattasvamin 

 ywith the right of succession to son and grandson/' The 

 details of the boundary of the land granted are given, which 

 is followed by the imprecatory verses and the date. 



IV. Fourth Plate — Inscription of the time of 



SaMACARADEVA— -OF THE YEAR 14. 



According to Mr. Pargiter's version when the Emperor 

 bamacaradeva was reigning and the Uparika Jivadatta was the 



