‘ 
ae Se ee ee oe ee ee Se ee ea 
See ee 
2 ‘ = 
Vol. VII, No. 8.) The Ghagrahati (Kotwalipara) Grant. 479 
[NV.8.] 
written under the main », so that the letter is really rnna. 
He rightly conjectures that this is what is meant (p. 434). 
ome remarks may be made regarding the vowel signs in 
connexion with the word dhrtaw (I. 2.), for that is the word as 
clearly shown in grants A and B. Babu R. D. Banerji writes 
it dhriam, but there is a stroke to the left above the letter ¢, and 
as it is no part of dh or ¢ it must be meant for a vowel mark, 
being written flat because there was hardly room to write it in 
its proper shape without running into the letter stya above it. 
The whole aksara then looks like fo with a dot over it, and the 
dot is not, I think, anusvara but represents the third stroke 
which goes to form the vowel au, for the following reasons. 
is much laxity in the way in which vowel marks are 
written in this plate. The sign which denotes @ is written in 
practi to in Pavittruko (1. 5), corako (1. 16) and kota 
1, 19). Similarly the curl of the wowel sign 7 is replaced vy a 
dot in almost eve e, as is clearly seen in Supratika (1. 5), 
Tine 1. 
prihivyam apratirathe clearly. 
Line He reads vasya°, but the vowel sign over v con- 
sists of two strokes and cannot be @. It seems to be meant 
for o, the stroke which should be turned to the left being turned 
here to the right, because there was hardly room to write it 
properly because of the closeness of the letter tye above it. 
The main part of the second aksara is th and not 8, as will be 
by a comparison of th in prthivyam (1. 1), artha (1. 15), etc., 
with & in Sré (1. 2), kasikayam (1. 3), etc. The word appears 
therefore to be vothya°. At the end of the line he has 
omitted ra. 
_ Line 4. The letter ka between anumodita and Varaka is 
the termination of the former word. Many instances in which 
ka is added to verbal participles will be found in inscriptions, 
and Varaka is the province ; see p. 487 below. 
Line 5. He reads vyavaharatah, but the h has no vowel 
