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ing in acute-angled characters of the 9th or 10th centuries AD. 

 A circular seal with a beaded rim is attached to the top of 

 the plate bearing the figure of a bull couchant in relief, and 

 below it the name of the king, in raised letters. The plate has 

 suffered very much along the borders and is covered with ver- 

 digris. It records the grant of certain villages and portion* 

 thereof to a Buddhist monastery under supervision of the 

 spiritual preceptor Sanghamitra by the King Devakhadga in 

 order to secure the longevity of his son Rajaraja-bhatta. I* 

 mentions the queen (Mahadevi) PrabhavatI and was written 

 at Jayakarmanta-vasaka by Puradasa in the month of Vaislkha 

 of the regnal year 13. Inscription no. 9 measures 7|" by 6" 

 and records the donation of six patakas and ten dronas of land 

 to the monastery of Sanghamitra. The donor seems to have 

 been Rajaraja-bhatta. The dutaka was Yajnavarmman and 

 the scribe Puradasa. Both plates are incised on one side only. 

 Plate no. 9 was sent to Ganga Mohan Babu several years back 

 and has not yet been recovered. Kielhorn's no. 651. 



10. The Bhagalpur plate of N araya?iapala.— r \ his plate was 

 sent by a certain Mr. Smith of Bhagalpur. A line runs along 

 the edge of the plate and at the top is a massive seal consisting 

 of a raised disc with a row of dots along the circumference and 

 foliage on each side. The disc bears the representation of the 

 wheel of law (dharmacakra) in the centre with a deer cou- 

 chant on each side. Below the disc is the name of Narayana- 

 pala in raised letters. The inscription was published by Dr. 

 R. L. Mitra in 1878 l : a more correct version was published by Dr. 

 E. Hultzsch, then Government Epigraphist in 1886 2 The in- 

 scription records the grant of the village of Makutika in the Tira 

 bhukli Kaksa visaya to the congregation of Prisupata teacher- 

 at Kala§apota for the adequate worship of the lord Siva by 

 Narayanapaladeva in the 1 7th year of his reign. The dutaka was 

 Gurava, probably the same man mentioned in theBuddal pillar 

 inscription, 8 and the engraver wasMarighadasa,an inhabitant of 

 Eastern Bengal (Sarnatala). The inscription is incised on both 

 sides of a single plate measuring V 3-5" by V. Kielhorn s no. 638. 



11. The Amgachi plate of VigraJwpala ///.—This plate 

 was discovered by a peasant while digging for earth near his 

 hut for the repair of a road in 1806. He gave it to the police, 

 who sent it to Mr. Pattle, the then magistrate of Dinajpur, by 

 whom it was forwarded to the Society. The discovery was 

 announced by Colebrooke with his reading and translation/ 

 Dr. Hoernle took it up about eighty years later and published 

 the text twice. 5 Finally, Dr. Kielhorn gave his version of the 



J jXs.BTr^l7xi7v II, 187- pt. I, p. 384, pi xxiv-xxv. 

 * Ind. Ant.. Vol. XV, p. 304. 



Ep. Ind., Vol. II, p. 161. 4 Asiatick Researches, pp. 434-3*. 



6 Centenary Review of th A.S.B., pt. VI, pp 210-13 and Ind 

 Ant., Vol. XIV. pp. 162-fiH. 



