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Vol. VII, No. 8.] The Ghagrahati (Kotwiliptra) Grant. 483 
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the third is bho, the rounded left limb a characteristic a 
bh as in bhaveataiin) Ae 9) ear (I. etc.; and 
sima (Il. me etc. The first aksara is not ¢ nor 72, for it is 
different from i in iccha@mi (1. 10), and neither of those vowels 
be 
cultivated land with land infested vive wild animals. Now v there 
are only two letters which with ¢sa make a word, namely, ma 
and va. Matsa is inadmissible: it is a rare form of matsya and 
- makes nonsense of this passage. Vatsa therefore is the only 
possible word, and it yields a good and striking meaning. It 
must be admitted that the character is not va not even ba, and 
I can only suggest that the engraver has bungled the letter. 
Bungled letters will be found in grant B; see my Article, 
ik 
99. 
The next word is bhimir and not bhumim, for there is no 
anusvara over the mi, and there is an r above the following 
ny. The succeeding words are mnrpasyaivdrtha-dharmma-kr. 
Here the Sloka ends, and the following words tad asmai, etc., 
introduce a new sentence. Kr cannot end a word, and it bn 
obvious that the word intended is krt, and that the final th 
been forgotten coming as it does in connexion with the aon 
ing tad. 
The Sloka then stands thus : 
Sa sata Sévapadair justa rijfio o bhivy-artha-nisphala 
Vatsa-bhogyi-krta bhimir nrpasyaivartha-dharma-krt. 
where (as I conjecture) sata stands for an original sadbhih. 
the remainder of this line vrahmana is a mistake for 
vrahmanaya,and dayatim for diyatim. The declension of brah- 
mana appears to have puzzled some of the local scholars, for 
in grant B the dative is brahmand in |. 20, as it is here, and 
brahmane in 1.11. This suggests that in ordinary parlance the 
final a had disappeared, and the word was pronounced man 
and was sometimes treated as a base ending in an. The sug- 
gestion is supported by a converse process that we find, 
Sanskrit bases ending in in are treated arcade as if they 
had a final a, thus grant A has svdminasya a hyayinasya 
(1. 19) as genitives. Hence it seems a fair fetus that the 
final Sanskrit @ was i tae dropped in the ordinary language, 
as it is at the present day. 
Line 15. The reading i is not kulacaran but kula-varan, the 
third letter being a v as in the preceding KeSavAdin. 
Line 16. The second word is not ksitra but keettra, the 
vowel being an e. The third word is rightly read as kul lya. 
