36. The Ghagrahati (Kotwalipara) Grant and Three 
other Copper-Plate Grants. 
By F. E. Pareirer, M.A. 
Babu Rakhal Das Banerji has published in this Journal 
(Vol. VI, No. 8 for 1910, p. 429) an interesting description and 
reading of a copper- plate grant, which is dated in the reign of 
a king named Samacaradeva, and which was found in mauza 
Ghagrahati in the south- west corner of the Faridpur district 
in 1908. Dr. Bloch brought the grant to the notice of Dr. 
Hoernle and me towards the end of that year, when I was at 
Dr. Hoernle’s request editing three copper-plate grants found 
in the same district some years previously ; and we were 
informed that it would be published in the Indian Archzologi- 
cal Report. A photograph of it was sent me by the kindness 
of a friend in 1909, and I read it then for the purpose of ob- 
taining information. that might elucidate the three earlier 
grants. My article on those gra ctu was published in 1910.! 
mentioned above *—an event that I have awaited with much 
interest, as it enables me to comply with the Society’s desire 
that I should write a paper dealing with these grants. The 
three other grants are marked’ A, B and C in my article and 
will be cited by those marks in this paper. I may express my 
regret that this grant has been styled the ‘‘ Kotwalipara 
ant,’’ because Kotwalipara is some two or three miles 
distant from where it was found. It is better to name it the 
** Ghagrahati Grant,’’ because it was found in Ghagrahati, and 
presumably relates to land there as will appear further on. 
begin by giving my reading and a translation of 
this fourth grant, because he has marked several words in his 
transcript as doubtful, and has not given us the benefit of a 
translation of it as he reads it. The plate published with his 
article and his reading of it have siahiobae e to correct my 
reading in three words, Pavittruko (1. 5), caru ( (L 10) and krtya 
(l. 16), and the plate has enabled me to reconsider three diffi- 
cult words, vothya° (1.3), and samsmriya and bhavya® (1. 13); 
but iD all other respects the reading that I made two years ago 
has not needed alteration, because the photograph sent me 
was = excellent one. As he makes no reference to my 
article on the three other grants, it seems he had not seen it 
oe Indian Antiquary, vol. XX XIX, 1910, _ 193. 
2 It has » been published i eouiently in the Rep. A.S.I. for 
1907-8; see postscript. 
