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[N.S.] 



bears in relief on a countersunk surface, in the upper half, a 

 couching lion facing to the proper right, and in the lower haH 



the legend : 



1. S'ri-Vidyadhara. 



2. bhanjadevasya" 1 



The plates had already served for another grant before the 

 present record was incised, like the Buguda grant of Madhava- 

 varman.* The inscription records the grant of the village of 

 Tundurava in the Ramalavva visaya by Vidyadhara-bhanja- 

 deva. The grant was sealed by the queen of Trikalinga and 

 the minister Stambhadevabhatta, brought to the donee's home 

 by the messenger Kesava, written by the Sandhivicpahikn. 

 Khambha and incised by the goldsmith Kumaracandra. The 

 record is incised on one side of the first plate and on both side 

 of the other two plates. 



22. The Orissa grant of Gayada-tungadeva. — This plat* 

 was found in a glass case in the Library of the Asiatic Society 

 of Bengal labelled " copper plate grant dated Saka 1165 bearing 

 an inscription in Bengali characters/' Recently Prof. Nilmani 

 Chakravartti 3 has published it. It is incised on a small but 

 very thick plate of copper with a seal attached to its top. It 

 measures 6" by 5". The inscription records the grant of the 

 village of Toro in the Vendurhga visaya and the Yamagarta 

 mandala to a number of Brahmanas, who emigrated from Ahi- 



chattra and settled in the village of KuruvAbhata in the Otlra 

 visaya by Gayadatuiigadeva. The seal is elliptical and bears 

 the figure of a bull couchant and below it the name of the kin: 

 n raised letters. 



23. The Mddhdinagar grant of Laksmana tiena. -This 

 copper plate was discovered thirty to thirty-five years before 

 by a peasant named Raghunath Bunia in the village of Madhai- 

 nagar on the border of the Nlmgachi forest in the Pibnfi dis- 

 trict of Bengal. It was brought toPabna by Babu DurganAtha 

 Taluqdar, where it was translated by KavirajaGopichandra Bella 

 and Babu Prasanna Narayana Chaudhuri. The last- nam 1 

 gentleman published his account of the discovery in the AUi* 

 hdsika Citra, where he incidentally stated that the copper plate 

 will be forwarded to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Ln 1904 Babu 

 UmeSa Candra Gupta saw this plate in the house of Mahama- 



hopadhyaya Haraprasad Sastri, in the possession of the late 

 Babu Ganga Mohana Laskar.* Subsequent inquiries which I 

 caused to be made of Babu Prasanna Narayana Chaudhuri eli- 

 cited the fact that this copper plate had been sent to the 

 Society, and the Society's receipt for it was still in the Pabn; 



1 Ep. Inch. Vol. IX. p. 272. 2 Ibid.. Vol. Ill, p. 41. 



3 Joiirn. and Proc. . A.8.B., VbL V, p. 347, pi. 17 & IS. 



* TBrr*t*rty ym* by Pandit UmeSa Chandra Gupta* pp. 95-97. 



