Vol. VI, No. 9.] Catalogue of Copper-plate Inscriptions. 4s, 

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in 1807 in the Asiatic Researches, 1 and was subsequently 

 reprinted in his Miscellaneous Essays.' 2 The late Dr. Kiel- 

 horn edited it from an ink impression supplied to him by Dr. 

 J. F. Fleet. 3 The record is incised on one side of a single plate of 

 copper measuring 16£" by 12!". On the proper right side of the 

 plate is "an oval projection with a raised rim .... on which is 

 ri vetted a disc of the same shape, similarly with a raised rim. 

 which contains a flat button about an inch in diameter ; on the 

 countersunk surface of this button there is some emblem which 

 may perhaps be an animal - . . ." The record commemorates 

 the grant of the village of Dummuddumaka to the service ot 

 the goddess Durga, by Macloli the minister of King Jayaditya. 

 The prasasti was composed by the Kayastha Nagadatta, and 

 the verses about Nagadatta were composed by his younger bro- 

 ther Vidyadatta. According to the closing verse of the inscrip- 

 tion either the prakasti was composed on the grant made at 

 Jivanapalli. The use of such adjectives as BodhisaUva, Sugata, in 

 connection with proper names shows that the persons mentioned 

 in this grant were inclined towards Buddhism. The approxi- 

 mate date of the grant is 9th century AD, Kiel horn's no. 604. 

 5. The Gorakhpur grant of Jayadityadeva II. — This plat* 

 was made over by Dr. W. Hoey, I.C S., to the Society in 1899. 

 It was discovered by ls some men employed to dig kankar at 

 the north-east corner of the large sheet of water covering over 

 thirty acres at the village Gurmha. 4 The inscription was deci- 

 phered and published by the late Dr. T. Bloeh, Ph.D., then Philo- 

 logical Secretary of the Society. 5 The inscription records the 

 ^rant of the villages of Kumarasandika together with the palli- 

 kds Pat rasa nda, San kusanda, Gaddhi and Deulf in the Leddika 

 visaya and the Daddarandika mandala by the Paramesvara 

 Parama-bhattdraka-mahdrdjddhiraja Jayadityadeva II, the son 

 of Dharmmadityadeva and the grandson of Jayadityadeva I 

 of the Malayaketu family, to a Kayastha named Kesava. 

 The document is signed by the minister (Maharnantri) Mahaka. 

 and the Mahasamanta Grahakunda acted as dutaka* The 

 inscription was written by the Kayastha V&ladduka in the 

 Vikrama year 6 927, i.e., 870 AD. The record is incised on 

 one side of a single plate of copper measuring 12£" by 12f". 

 cc On the top there is a oval projection, upon which we find 

 the representation of a full-blown lotus, the centre of which 

 consists of a raised disc bearing the image of some animal, 

 perhaps a boar, with Sri-Jay&dityadevah written below in 



raised characters." 7 



I As. Res.. Vo! IX, pp. 106-12. 



* Colebrooke's Miscellaneous Essays, Vol IF. pp. 247-54. 



3 Jnd. Ant., Vol. XXI, pp. 160*71. 



* J.A.S.B., 101 0, pt. I, p. 88. 5 Ibid , pp. Hf \t. 

 « Ep. Ind., VI. VIII, App. I, p. 4. note 2. 



7 J.A.S.R, 1900, pt. J, p. 90. 



