1895.] Babu Nagendranatlia Vasu — Copper ylate grant of Vigvarupa. 199 



copper-plate and made ifc over to the land-holder, who kept it in his 

 house. This plate was made over to me by Pandita Laksmi-candra 

 Samkhyatirtha in 1892, and I noticed the contents of this inscription 

 and published a facsimile of the whole plate in the Vicvakosa, but this 

 is the first time that I publish the entire text. 



It has a curvature at the top bearing a ten-handed image of 

 Sada9iva, similar to that in the gcant first brought to notice in the 

 Society's Journal by J. Prinsep in 1838 (Vol. VII., Part I., p. 42). 



The characters may be described as Bengali of the 12th or 13th 

 century A. D., and they resemble closely the characters of the Deopada 

 inscription of Vijaya-sena. 



The inscription opens with an invocation of Narayana, of the Sun 

 and of the Moon. It then relates that : — 



From this famous lineage (of the Moon) sprung Sudha-kirana-9ekhara 

 (piva) in the shape of Vijaya-sena. From him was born a very powerful 

 king named Ballala-sena. From him sprung a son named Laksmana- 

 sena ; his son was Vi9va-rupa. The object of this plate is to record the 

 grant of certain lands within the limits of Vikramapura to the pruti- 

 pathaka (the reader of the Vedas) the illustrious Vicvariipa-deva- 

 9arman of the Vatsya gotra, a great-grandson of Para9ara-deva-9arman, 

 grandson of Gai-bhe9vara and son of Vanamali, in the month of Bhadra 

 of the 14th year; effected by the illustrious Kopivisnu, the chief officer 

 of peace and war in Gauda ; (engraved) on the first A9vina of tlie year 14. 



One of the important points for notice in connection with this in- 

 scription is tlie distinctive titles of the four Sena Kings which have, I 

 believe, hitherto escaped the notice of antiquarians; thus: — Maharaja 

 Vijaya-sena-deva was styled Vrsabha-9agkara-gaude9vara, his son Maha- 

 raja Ballala-sena-deva, Nih9ar)ka-9ai)kara-gaude9vara, his son Maharaja 

 Laksmana-sena-deva, Madana-9ar)kara-gaude9vara (L. 35), and his son 

 Maharaja Vi9varupa-sena-deva, Vrsabhai)ka-9ar)kara-gaude9vara. 



The contents of the grant published by Prinsep as that of Ke9ava- 

 sena, agree closely with those of the grant under review, with this 

 exception that the place, where the name of the pseudo-Ke9ava-sena 

 occurs in the grant, is in such a condition as to show that originally 

 some other name had been inserted in the place of that of Ke9ava-sena. 

 This circumstance led Prinsep to believe that at the time of the copper- 

 plate being engraved, Ke9ava-sena's elder brother Madhava-sena sud- 

 denly expired, and that his name was erased from it and that of his 

 brother. But in the face of the copper-plate grant under review, 

 Prinsep's inference can scarcely hold good. The reading moreover of 

 Prinsep is not correct. The correct reading of the 10th verse, published 

 by him according to the facsimile of the original grant of the 3rd year, 



