CXXli Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 
Jhansi City, from the Tahsildar. Inquiry showed that it had 
been originally dug up some 40 or 50 years ago by one Ganeshju 
while excavating the foundations of his house. The exact spot 
is now unknown, but it was somewhere on the raised mound 
(consisting of the usual débris of old houses, etc.) on which the 
village stands. The inscription was in possession of one Bindra- 
ban, son of Kalli, Brahman, one of the Zamindars of Pachar, 
and he has presented it. to Government. The plate has been sent 
to Dr. J. P. Vogel and will be deposited in the Lucknow Museum : 
while the inscription, with a translation, will be published in the 
Epigraphia Indica. 
preliminary translation made by P. Vinaik Rao, Sanskrit 
Teacher of the Macdonnell High School, J hansi, shows that the 
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the light half of Kartik Samvat 1233, or A.D. 1176, and the land 
is recorded as situated in the village of Bilaspir in the Parganna 
of Karigawa; the village of Lewa is also mentioned as obviously 
in the immediate vicinity. ! 
ewa ( @aT) is the name of a village only 3 miles west of 
Pachar, and there are several villages named Kargawan (aqaaf) 

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such temples near this one, 
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