4 Charters of the Somavamsi Kings. [January, 1905. 
described as fasta weq@i. The charters granted in the 8th and 9th 
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years of his son Maha-Sivagupta (Yayati) are issued from Vinita- 
pura ; while the charters granted in the 24th and the 28th years 
His son Maha-Sivagupta is said in one of the eulogistic verses 
to have defeated Ajapala (a king probably) in battle and to have 
captured thirty-two big elephants. From the third plate of 
Charter H, which is the worst executed of the charters, it ap- 
PDaha bo he defeated the Ceds and devastated their country 
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T have made a tabular abstract of the whole series of ten 
charters, This will facilitate their comparative study and will 
Save the trouble of going through the records themselves. The 
abstract is appended with this paper. 
Some Details common to the new Charters (G, H, I, and J). 
As already stated, they were found somewhere in the Native 
State of Patna attached to the Sambalpur district in the Central 
Provinces. Each charter consists of three plates strung together 
by a thick ring, the ends of which are joined in a circu- 
lar seal. The seal bears in relief a seated ; e with - 
opposite sides of the plates. The language employed in these re- 
cords is Sanskrit; and except for the hetisticties, beacieenadines and 
eulogistic verses, they are generally in prose throughout. A point 
of orthography common to all these records is the use of v for b. 
G.—Pétna Copper-Plate Grant of the 6th year of Mahd-Bhava- 
gupta’s reign, 
the ring and the seal together weigh 2 seers and 
The plates, 
12} chhataks (¢.e., a little more than 53 Ibs.). Each of the plates 
measures about 73 by 5”. The ring is about half an inch in 
