Vol. VII, No. 8.] The Ghagrahati (Kotwalipara) Grant. 499 
(N.8.] 
used in Eastern India is, I believe, the Bodh Gaya inscription 
of Mahanaman of 588-9 (FGI, p. 274), and some time must 
have elapsed before it reached this outlying region since it does 
not appear in the other grants. 
These four considerations suggest that this grant must be 
later than 536 and 588-9 A.D. The question, how much later 
it was, depends on what may be considered a sufficient interval 
to permit of all these modifications establishing themselves in 
this remote locality. Ido not think we can estimate a shorter 
period than some thirty years, and if so, this grant might 
be assigned to the latter part of the first quarter of the 
seventh century. 
ext, we may consider the reference to the king Samacara- 
deva. Though nothing is known of him, there seems to be no 
good reason to doubt the genuineness of the name, because the 
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ferences. The earlier emperor Dharmaditya in grant A, 
though styled only maharajdadhiraja (1. 2), is yet alluded to as 
0 one is mentioned ag his 
was an independent king 
ngal was subject to Harsa in the sec 
of the seventh century, and Harsa, ‘*: ond quarter 
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after his accession and after he had sibduad a. 
