490 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [September, 1910 



first twenty lines in 1892. l A complete version with a plate 

 would still be welcome The inscription records the grant of 

 some land in the Kotivarsa visai/a, and Paundravarddhana bh$k- 

 ti, to a Brahamana, by Vigrahapaladeva, after a bath in the 

 Ganges, on the occasion of a lunar eclipse, in the 13th year of 

 his reign. The record was incised by Sa&ideva, an artizan of the 

 village of Po4ali. The inscription is incised on both sides of a 

 single plate measuring l'2£"by V l". Atthe top of the inscription 

 is a seal similar to that on No. 10 bearing the name of Vigraha- 

 paladeva in raised letters. The inscription is in a bad state of 

 preservation. Kielhorn's no. 643. 



12. The Manahali grant of Madanapaia. — This plate was 

 found in a park adjoining the village of Manahali in the district 

 of Dinajpur and was forwarded by the late Mr. N. K. Bose, 

 C.S., then magistrate of Dinajpur. The inscription records the 

 grant of the village of Kasthagiri in the Kottivarsa visaya and 

 the Paundravarddhana bhukti to a Brahmana named VateS vara- 

 svamin as daksina for having read the Mahahharata for the 

 benefit of the Queen, by Madanapaia in his 15th regnal year. 

 The metrical portion of the grant is very important as it 

 gives a complete list of the Pala kings. The record is incised 

 on both sides of a single plate measuring V 3§" by V 4". The 

 seal is similar to those on Nos. 10 and 11. The dutaka was 

 the Sandhivigrahika Bhimadeva, and the scribe was the artisan 

 Tathagatasara.* 



13. A grant of Madanapaia of Kanyakubja. — Nothing is 

 known about the provenance of this inscription. It was edited 

 by Dr. Fitz-Edward Hall in 1858, who believed it to be the pro- 

 perty of a certain Major R. R. W. Ellis. 8 It was subsequent- 

 ly re-edited by Dr. Kielhornin 1889. 4 The inscription records 

 the grant of the village of Ahnama in the Dhanesaramaua 

 pattala, to a Samavedi Brahmana named VamanasvamiSarmman, 

 by Candradeva, the father of Madanapaia, after bathing in 

 the Ganges at the ghatta of Trilocanadeva, at Benares, on the 

 occasion of the Uttardyana samkrdnti. Evidently the grant was 

 issued by Madanapaia immediately after his father's death. 

 The date is Monday, the 3rd of the white half of Magha of the 

 Vikrama year 1154, i.e., 19th January 1097 A.D. The grant 

 was incised by the Karanika-thakkura Sahadeva. The in- 

 scription is incised on one side of a plate of copper to which 

 seal is attached by means of a ring which passes through a 

 hole at the top. The plate measures V 9" by 1' 2". The 

 devices on the seals of the grants of the Gahadavala kings of 

 Kanauj consists of the figure of Garuda kneeling at the top 



A Ind. Ant., Vol XXI, pp. 97-99. 



2 J.A.S.B., Vol. LXIX, 1900, pt. I, pp. 66-73. 



» J.A.S.B., Vol. XXVII, pp. 220-4!. 



* Ind. Ant.. Vol. XVIII. p. 9. 



