IDS Inscripi ions from Banha, Bhagalpur. [Dec* 



villag'c issued by Choimammaji, a female oceupaiit of the gadi of Nagar in 

 1743, A. D. 



Anantapura, v. N. Nausummaiengar. 



2nd January, 1872. 



Babu Rajendralala Mitra remarks on these grants as follows. — 

 ' The co})per grants are the most daring and barefaced forgeries that I 

 have ever seen. The character, modern Halaband, in which they are inscrib- 

 ed, the st^de of their invocations, the imprecatory verses with which they 

 close, the existence in their texts of Kanarese words, the gross orthographic 

 and etymological errors which disligm-e them, and the references they make 

 to modern names of places, leave no doubt in my mind that they have been 

 got up with a view to establish the right of certain persons to enjoy rent 

 free the villages named in them. Eecords dating from 2990 years before 

 Christ, cannot be expected to be inscribed in Balaband, or to use Kanarese 

 , words. Sanskrit, five thousand years ago, must have been very different from 

 what the writer has used for the invocations and imprecations ; and it is 

 extremel}'' doubtful if the language of the Brahmans had penetrated so far 

 down into the peninsula as Malnad at that time ; no European orientalist 

 believes that it had then ever come to the North- West frontier.' 



5. From Munshi Gangaprasad, Deputy Collector, Muradabad — 6 

 copper coins found in Mauza' Sarthal, Parganah Bilari, and 4 silver coins 

 found buried under ground at Kankar Khera, a village about 11 miles north 

 of Muradabad. 



6. Babu Bajendralala Mitra submitted facsimiles of two inscriptions, 

 received from Babii Rash Bihari Bose, of Banka, zila' Bhagalpur. One 

 of them runs as follows : — 



Translation. 

 In the month of Madhava (Bais'akha, April — May) S'aka year 1517. 

 S'ri Marri Haji Bah:igal Khan, a sun manifest in the lotus of a pure Brah- 

 man race, an humble follower of the faith (Dm) of Danial • 



the descendant of the divine great king and king of kings, S'rimat Akbar 

 Shah, whose toes are wiped of their dust by the friction of the corners of 

 lines of jewelled heads of lords of earth, dedicated masjids, temples, &c. His 

 address to future kings. " I shall be his servant's servant, birth after birth, 

 who will protect this my work. 11. S. 1000. 



