498 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [August, 1911. 
Thus grant A has sadhanika! (ll. 7, 15), sal (1. 19) and ksens 
. 25); B has karar daya (1. 5) and dandaka (|. 23) and probably 
the local title mridha Sanskritized (see my article, p. 202, note 
18); C has apparently vyaparandya (|. 3); and apavisichya 
occurs in all of them (A, 1. 16; B, 1.19; C, 1. 19). 
All the grounds on which Babu R. D. Banerji has pro- 
nounced this grant to be spurious have been examined, and it 
appears that the particulars which he considers open to dis- 
trust are not really suspicious, and that the grant has all the 
marks of genuineness in the character of its script, the form 
in which it is drawn up, and its purport. I am therefore of 
opinion that it is not spurious but perfectly genuine and valid. 
Date of the Grant. 
There are some data to enable us to fix approximately the 
period in which this grant was made and in which the king 
Samacaradeva reigned. 
irst, we have the shapes of the letters &, y and s, and 
the disappearance of the character for b. 
e disappearance of this character, which is used in 
grants A and B and perhaps in C, has been discussed above 
(p. 477) and shews that this grant must be later than A and 
B and probably later than C also. 
he shape of y isin Dr. Hoernle’s opinion, as mentioned 
in my article (p. 207), an important criterion for determining 
the age of writings from the fifth to the seventh century A.D. 
Its shape in this grant is the third of the three kinds discussed 
in my article (p. 206) and is similar to that in grant C; but this 
grant is later than C, because (1) the second kind of y which 
appears in C does not occur here, and (2) the third form has 
almost reached its full development here. 
_ In the body of all the other grants the letter s is written 
in the eastern form, but in the government seal attached to © 
it has the western form as already mentioned (p. 493). The 
corresponding seals on A and B are too much corroded to 
permit of its shape being ascertained. The people therefore 
used the eastern form, though the western had been introduc 
at head-quarters, and some time would be required before the 
latter would oust the former trom general use. In this grant 
we have a later stage because only the western form is used. 
On these three grounds therefore this grant is later than 
C, and the date of C is 586 at the latest and may be five or 
ten years earlier. 
The first inscription in which the looped form of & was 
Se een 
1 T have to thank Babu R. D. Banerji eae adhanika 
; %. D. ji for pointing out that saand 
bangs! Pye in other grants in the forms Dausadhanika, Dausadhasadhe 
