124 Eangalal Banerjea — On a Cuttach Copper-plate. [Mat, 



VI. 



The following inscription is from the Barsi gate, to the right of the 

 entrance. Vide above Inscr. III. Five lines, 1 ft. 2 in. by 1 ft. 6 in. The 

 letters are chipped in places. 



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 i^LoiXi] <^i^ ^lJaJ..w i<U ^iib\y\ jkiul\ y\ ^k^^\ <^lLI.w *i>«-ej,i ii;UAA-vs, j j_^Of 



e^ir«*^ J o'-^ ^^ :$^i^*aJf ^i ^^ ^^/o ^jM/ols-'t ,^i * # * * :# (jH^y^. ^ 



The building of the edifice of this gate, together with the repairs of the upper 

 strong fort built by 'Ala-uddin, which is dated 702 H., was * * in the reign of the 

 king of kings AbulMuzaffar Ibrahim Shah the king, may God perpetuate his 

 kingdom and rule ! — during the governorship of the Masnad-i-'ali HamidKhan, with 

 perfect choice, and during the shikk-ddri of Khwajah Muhammad, and by order of * * *" 

 on the 5th Zi Ka'dah, 928. The writer is Kh^nzadah Na9r, Mufti of Hansi. [26th 

 September, 1522.] 



The correct year of the erection of 'Ala-uddin' s fortification is 703 H., 

 as given in Inscr. III. 



VII. 



From a Mosque near the Miran Salari Mosque. The stone is white 

 marble and the letters are black and inlaid. Mr. Delmerick sends the fol- 

 lowing reading — 



I prostrate myself before Thee in thanks and in praise. The servant of the poor 

 Hasan Raza erected it. 1097 H. [1686, A. D.] 



The following papers were read — 

 1. Note on a Copper-plate Grant from the Cuttach Colleotorate. — By 

 Babu Eangalal Banerjea. 

 (Abstract.) 



The plates were found in the muniment room of the Cuttack Collec- 

 torate, but there is no record to show whence they came and to whom they 

 belong. Probably they had been submitted as a document in support of a 

 claim for some rent free land when the Province of Orissa was first settled at 

 the beginning of this century, but were never after taken away, the object of 

 the owner having been defeated owing to the absence of a person who could 

 decypher the document. The inscription records the grant of a village 

 named Chandra in the fiscal division of Marada in the province of Dakh- 

 shine Kosala, which has been identified with the modern village of Chandra 

 in Marada Hariharpur in the neighbourhood of Cuttack. The donor was 



