130 Copper-plate Grant of GovindacTiandra of Kanauj. [JtrLT, 



speeted by his countrymen for liis learning, wealth and social qualities. 

 The Dictionary is remarkable for being the first of its kind prepared by a 

 native without European assistance or superintendence. It is alphabeti- 

 cally arranged, fuller in vocables than the ' S'abdakalpadruma' of the late 

 Sir Raja Radhakanta Deva, and gives the etymology of every word. In 

 the last respect it is superior to both the ' S'abdakalpadruma' and the Dic- 

 tionary compiled under the superintendence of the late Dr. Wilson. The 

 work was completed in eight volumes, of which the 1st, 3rd, and 5th are 

 lost. The second volume is devoted to the letter ^, the 4th to ^ to ^, the 

 6th to qf to X, the 7th to ^ to "«[ and the 8th to '^ and ^. The codices 

 seem to have been sadly neglected, and have suffered much from damp and 

 the ravages of rats." 



7. From F. S. Growse, Esq., through Dr. Eajendralala Mitra, a copper- 

 plate grant of Govindachandra of Kanauj, dated A. D. 1111, with tran- 

 script and translation by Babu Durgarama Basu, B. A. and B. L. 

 Dr. Eajendralala Mitra writes regarding it : 



" I send herewith a copper-plate grant, forwarded to me by J. Growse, 

 Esq. of Mathura, for presentation to the Society. I send also a transcript 

 and a translation prepared by Babu Dvirgarama Basu, B. A. and B. L., 

 Pleader of the High Court, who undertook the decipherment of the record 

 at my request, 



" The plate was accidentally turned up, in the year 1869, at a place 

 called Rahan in the Etawa district, by a kachhi while digging in the- 

 fields. It is quadrangular in shape, measuring across the middle 19| x 13 

 inches, but the edges are slightly curvilinear. At the middle of the upper 

 edge is rivetted a clasp holding a ring. 



" The record comprises 29 lines, extending lengthwise over the whole 

 surface of the plate, except the last line, which terminates at about the 

 middle, the space after it being filled up by the figures of a conchshell and 

 an arrow.- The characters are of the Kutila type. 



" In its preamble and the imprecatory verses, the record is a counterpart 

 of the several inscriptions of Govindachandra of Kanauj, already published 

 in the Journal — the last by me in 1873. The dynasty is the same, and 

 described in identically the same words. The subject, the grant of a plot 

 of land measmung fom* ploughs, in the district of Kamaitha, to one Bhatta 

 Brahmana Gugachandra of Bhatakabara, is also of little interest. But it 

 bears the date, the 15th of the wane in the month of Pausha, Samvat 11G6, 

 equal to A. C. 1111, when his father, Madanaptila, was still the 

 reigning sovereign, which shows that he must have succeeded his father 

 some time after A. C. 1111, and not between 1103 and 1117 of the 

 Christian era, as conjectured by me in my paper of 1873 {Jourmil XLII, 

 p. 316.)" 



