34. The Date of the Khadga Dynasty of Bengal. 
By R. C. Masumpar, M.A., Pa.D. 
Majumdar of Dacca. It had been found several feet under the 
earth, at Ashrafpur, police station Raipura, District Dacca. It 
was exhibited in the monthly meeting of the society held on 
the 4th March 1885 together with a tentative reading of the 
inscription prepared by Pandit Kamakhyanath Tarkaratna of 
the Calcutta Sanskrit College. ! 
A second copper-plate which was found at the same place, 
and at the same time, was exhibited in the monthly meeting 
of the Society on the 3rd of December 1890.2 Both these 
plates which may be referred tu as A and B belong to the reign 
of a king called Devakhadga, and are now in possession of the 
Society 
notice from the very beginning r. R. L. Mitra after a learn- 
ed disquisition read the date in plate A as ‘Samva ie 
referred it to the Vikrama era. On the 5th August 1891, the 
iia 
: r. Hoern 
Nepal and thus obtained the year 893 A.D. for these two in- 
scriptions 8 
In 1904 Mr. Ganga Mohan Laskar edited the plate B and 
gave a revised transcription of the plate A together with an 
abstract of its contents. He accepted the reading of the a 
proposed by Dr. Hoernle, but instead of referring the year 13 to 
1e Newar era of Nepal, he took it as the regnal year of 
Devakhadga.* This view has been accepted by all the writers 
who have since dealt with these epigraphs. 

' Proc. A.S.B., 1885, pp. 49 ff. 2 Ibid, 1890, pp. 242-243. 
8 Thid, 1891, p' 19,’ - + Memoirs, A'S.B., Vol. 1. pp. 85 ff. 
