$2 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIU, 
generally to be. found in almost all the grants of the Gahada- 
vala dynasty. 
; e grant was written by the scribe (Karanika) Thakkura 
Sri-Visvaripa. He is most probably the same as the scribe 
of the Ren,' the Raiwan* and the Lucknow Museum plate of 
Govindacandra,’ and also one of Govindacandra’s Kamauli 
plates. The date is regular. The 11th tithi of Jyaistha, Vadi 
of the Vikrama year 1183 (current) corresponds to Sunday, the 
llth May, 1124 A.D. Regarding the localities mentioned in 
this inscription, Maniari is the same as modern Maner, where 
it ound in the possession of a Brahman family. The 
Maniari-pattala herein mentioned is evidently the same as the 
Ma[naJra-patiala of the Benares College copperplate of king 
Jayaccandra®, son of king Govindacandra, dated 1232 V.E., 
i.e. 1175 A.D. Gunave and Padali must lie somewhere close 
to the present village of Maner; but these two localities I am 
unable to identif 
This record supplies one more proof of the Gahadavala 
occupation of Magadha towards the end of the Pala dynasty. 
The Pala sovereignty, over at least a portion of Magadha 
must have collapsed before 1124 A.D., the date of the Maner 
plate, because in that year the Gahadavala king Covinda- 
candra made a grant of land in the district of Patna. At 
various dates between the years 1124 A.D. and circa 1180 
A.D. we find the Gahadavalas ruling over Anga and Magadha. 
The Lar plates of Govindacandra? dated A.D. 1146 prove 
that he had by that year advanced as far as Mudgagiri or 
Munger. There are indications that the occupation was by 
no means a temporary one. In 1169 A.D., as the Taracandi 
inscription of Pratapadhavaladeva® shows, the Gahadavalas 
in the reign of Vijayacandra were occupying a territory, which 
included at least the Shahabad District. Then we have the 
evidence of the Benares College copperplate of Jayaccandra 
dated 1175 A.D. In that year he granted a village in the 

1 Ind. Ant., Vol. XIX, p. 252. 
2 Ibid., Vol. LVI, p. 113. 
3 Ep. Ind., Vol. XITI, p. 297. 
: nd. Ay ps 5 Nov Ey : ea 
I am indebted to Mr. N. K. Majumdar of the Calcutta University 
for the above calculation. 
§ Ind. Ant., Vol. XVIII, p. 131, 1. 20. | 
1 Ep. Ind., Vol. VII, p. 98. 
8 Journ. Amer. Orient. Soc., Vol. VI, p. 548. 
9 Proc..A. 8. B. 1880, p. 78. 


