Sg mm 
27, Jaintiapur Copper Plate Inscription of Badagosayi, 
A.D, We: 
By Pror. K. M. Guerra, Assam Educational Service. 
PRELIMINARY, 
This copper plate is in the custody of the present ‘“ raja ”’ 
of Jaintiapur who kindly showed me the inscription. I under- 
Stand it is the property of the Mohanta of the temple of Kali 
at Jaintiapur (26 miles from Sylhet). On examination I found 
it to be the same as is briefly noticed by Sir Edward Gait in 
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page 16. ‘ This plate ans forth that the king, Badagosain 
Simha, having become a sannyasi, makes grant of 192 kedaras 
of land to Lila Puri Swami, with the consent of his nephews 
and nieces, including his successor, Chattra Simha, and in the 
presence of his Prime minister, U. Maupnar Laskar, and the 
commander-in-chief, Manikya Ray.” 
Suspending the plate. The royal seal is just beneath this 
projection. It consists of three circles, one within another. 
The circle in the middle is composed of dots. Within the 
inmost circle there is the design of a jumping lion with its head 
turned towards the right, over a creeper or a bunch of lilies. 
The diameter of the seal is 1Z”. It is nearly the same as is to 
be found in the other Jaintiapur Plates. 
The inscription consists of 23 lines, and the language is 
Sanskrit up toline 15 and Bengali from line 15. It is through- 
out prose. There are a few orthographical errors, principally 
due to dialectic provincialism, e.g. qat< for ataT< (lines 
17-18) #a for ara (1. 19) Ha for We (1. 20), etc. There are also 
Syntactical mistakes, such as the instrumental case-ending for 
the sixth case-ending in erfaat (ll. 4-5), omission of euphonic 
combination, ete. The characters are modern Bengali with 
slight modifications, e.g. the doubling of a letter is indicated 
by the addition of a4 to it. The @ islike Bengali. The in- 
Scription as pointed out refers itself to the reign of Badagosayi, 
who is the 17th king in descent in the line of Jaintia kings, and 
presumably reigned from 1731 to 1770 A.D. ( AS.B. 
5, vol. xiv, page 246). It is dated Kartik 17, Sakabda 
1692 (1770 A.D). — 
