106 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [March, 1908. 
Translation. 
In the year 1, the eighth day of the bright fortnight of Asvina, 
while the paramount sovereign, the king of kings, the great lo 
Gopala was king, at Nalanda the Goddess Vagisvari was tinged 
with Ps. streaks, 
0. IV a at inscription of the 11th year of the reign of 
Méhiphladens 
‘The in nscription was discovered by of Bala Marshall — in 
afterwards rediscovered b sae Sir A. Cunningham 
has given the following gpa An of the inscription in his report, 
Vol. iii, page 123 . . . . consists of 10 short lines beginning hn 
1—S'ri Man Mahipala De 
2—Va rajye samvat. Li. 
I edit the inscription from the original which is now in the 
Museum gal Ne 
The cription i is on a portion of the door-jamb 27'S x5”, of 
which tiie tnadhiption proper occupies only a space 9” x5”. The 
character is the 11th century Nagari, and the language is Sanskrit. 
There are altogether 12 short lines and not 10 as Sir A. Cun 
ningham Mar described. The letters are ois and clearly written 
e maximum number of letters in a line L. 
The shlect of te rap ai is to rostral the placing of thie 
door-jamb on w it has been incised, when the restoration 
of the place after a coriftagrra tion was ’ completed. Baladitya, 
the ce calls himself a lay-disciple and a follower of the 
Mahayana or great vehicle. He was originally an inhabitant of 
Kosambi, is afterwards settled at Tailadhaka or Teladha (for 
which see A.S.R. Vol. xi, page 164, and Vol. viii, 34). 
word Tyavis a in this inscription is a peculiar one. M. M 
Seeexiienl Shastri says the word Jyavisa is probably equiva en 
to the modern rn Nepalese word Jaisi which means a mixed cast 
formed by the union of Brahman and Ksatriya. 
The inscription is dated in the llth year of the reign of 
Mahipala-deva, and there is no other particular. There were at 
least two kings of the Pala dynasty who bore ce a ied of the first 
of whom there is the date 1026 A.D. (see E p. Ind. Vol. vill, 
App. i, p. 18), and paleographical evidence is in favour of assign- 
ing sani inscription to his reign. 
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