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



collectorate. In 1907, while I was searching for the Tippera 

 grant, sent to the Society by Mr. McMinn, then one of the Vice- 

 Presidents, which also was issued to Ganga Mohana Babu, I 

 was informed by Mahamahopadhyaya Hara Prasad Sastri that 

 Babu Ganga Mohana Laskar's father had sent one of the plates 

 to him. On careful examination I find that this was the Ma- 

 dhainagar grant, and I edited it in the Society's Journal. 1 The 

 grant ^s a very important one for the history of Bengal, and 

 specially for that of the Sena dynasty. The inscription records 

 the gift of the village of Dapaniya patika in the Paundra- 

 Varddhana bhulcti to Damodaradeva Sarman by Laksmanasena- 

 D^va. The inscription is incised on both sides of a single plate 

 of copper measuring l'3£" x 12A ". In the place of the seal a ten- 

 armed male figure is attached to the top of the grant by a hook. 



24. Spurious bronze plate from H amir pur. —According to 

 a label on its back in the hand- writing of Mr. V. A. Smith and 

 signed by him, this plate was obtained by him through Pandit 

 Muralidhar from an old Bhar woman living in Chaubepur near 

 Citrakot, who said that she originally came from mauja Siuni 

 in Pargana Jalalpur in the Hamirpur district. The grant was 

 obtained by the Pandit in 1875 and was forwarded to the So- 

 ciety by Mr. Smith. In 1877 Dr. Rajendra L§la Mitra pro- 

 nounced it to be a forgery, 4 which verdict was adopted by Mr. 

 Smith. The inscription is in Maurya Brahml and records the 

 defeat of the tribe of Bhars by Lodhas in the Vikrama year 

 1404, i.e., 1447 A.D. 3 The date is given in modern Nagari numer- 

 als. The inscription is in nine lines and has been incised on a 

 thin rectangular plate measuring 9§" by 7|". The two upper 

 corners are clipped. 



The following eleven copper plates bear short inscriptions, 

 in very modern Nagari characters and Hindi language, recording 

 grants of land made by the princelings of Rajputana and 

 Central India during the period of the dissolution of the Mughal 

 Empire. The dates on these inscriptions cover a period of about 

 sixty-five years (1726—1790). the earliest of them being a grant 

 by the famous freebooter, Raja Chatrasala or Chhattarsal of 

 the modern historians. There are three grants by RajaGumana 

 Singh of Kota, three more by Raja Hindupati Singh of Bundi, 

 single ones of Maharaja-Kumaras Udota Singh and Kirti Singh, 

 and Raja Sikhet Singh of Kalimjara. The era used on these 

 inscriptions is the Vikrama era. 



25. Grant of the Maharaja-Kumara Udota Singh. — This in- 

 scription records the grant of certain lands to Pandit Saragasura 

 [Svargamra] and Giradhari [Giridhari], on Monday the 30th 

 of the dark half of Magha of the year 1783[= 1726 A.D.], by the 



l Journ. and Proc, A.S.B., Vol. V, p.465, pi. 23 & 24 



*Proc. A.S.B., 1877, p 266. 



» .T.A.S.B.. Vol. XLVI. 1877, pt. I, p. 236. 



