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view about the identification of en ane with Outtak; for the 
word ‘ Katakat’ looks as if it were in appositio n with Vinitapura. 
The words se Ait under this. ani be translated as “from Vinitpura, 
which is Kat 
This. se purports to convey ar on the northern part 
of oe cgay river (or the river of the Dasarna country), 
to the village Talakajja in Samal (or Sanrla) Visaya 
ars 
Maddhila and a resident of Pr da in Kogala, having the prava- 
ras Gotrapa, Kasyapa, Vatsa and Naidhruya, and a stndent of the 
ae Sakha of the Vajasaneya (Samhita). 
ines 15-36 contain the usual injunction to future kings with 
the benedietiv and i imprecatory verses about the merits of the pre- 
serva a a the ae erits of the confiscation of granted lands, 
36-41 tell us that it was written by Uccavanaga (or 
Voleumps P)y ne Cahieao (? ), son of Samamphendllava ( ? )s 
by the command of the ranaka Dharadatta, the Maha-Sandhivi 
hin, in the Sth year of ‘the victorious reign of decane ait 
that z was engraved ee Vijiani Madhava, son of 
s 40-42 conta a verse setting forth the tiechatiobichan of | 
life aad its pleasures and enjoining the preservation o ood 
works of others. The next lines are very obscure. They speak of 
a powerful Kosala king of the Somavamésa (referring erebahty to 
Maha-Sivagupta himself) who defeated probably the Cedis (@tgqra 
may be a mistake for Sara ). The last two words of the record 
speak of the devastation of some amg probably Dahala or the 
Cedi country (“ serar fasargarc “made Dahana or Dahala 
uninhabited”). The same king probably was the author of the 
devastation, 
12 tape Copper-Plate Grant of. ao aa year of Yayati-Maha- 
Siv vage ypta's 47 
Each of the plates measures 83” by 63. The ring is 53!’ in 
diameter. The diameter of the seal is gir It contains the usual 
female figure. The weight of. the plates, the ring and the seal 
together is 4 seers and 5 chataks (or nearly 9th). The characters 
includes decimal figures for 24 and 5 in line 62. The virama occurs 
in wre (1. 12), were and qa in line 13, and in wawrata_in line 
24. It is mistakenly omitted in warq and *yTw in lines 56 and 57 
respectively. Final forms occur of » in yareta (1. 18) cera, ik Ld 
. 19) and @etegra (20); and of m (a) with a virama below, 
fq in the last line. The avagraha occurs wrongly in 
aaiianten 3 in line 19 and correctly in gwaytsfizetin line 38. 
The average size of the letters is $ of an inch. As for the ortho- 
graphy, we may notice the use of * (@) for anusvara in 
