192 P. P. Saraswatl — On iwo Copper-plate Grants. [August, 



4. Note 071 ttvo Copper-plate Grants of the Clidndel Dynasty of the eleventh 



and twelfth centuries of the Samvat Era, — By Pandit Pbannath 



Saraswati, M.A., B.L. 



(Abstract.) 



These two copper-plate grants are of the Chandel dynasty, dated Samvat 

 1055 and 1107, corresponding to the years 998 and 1050 of the Christian 

 era. The Society was indebted for these copper-plates to V. A. Smith, 

 Esq , B. A., B. C. S., who sent the following account of their discovery : 



" In 1872 a peasant when ploughing in the lands of Mauza Nanyaura^ 

 Pargana Panwari, Zila Hamirpur turned up two inscribed copper-plates. 

 The plates were brought to Mr. W. Martin, C. S., who is now on furlough, 

 and were left by him in the hands of a local pundit [Muralidhar of Mauda- 

 ha, in Hamirpur Zila] who was in his service. With the assistance of thi» 

 man I have had Nagri transcripts prepared, and have made translations of 

 the inscriptions." The first of these, records the grant of certain lands by 

 Sri Dhanga Deva, the Lord of Kalinjara, the son of Yasovarmma and the 

 grandson of Sri Harsha ; the recipient of this gift (which was made at 

 Benares on the occasion of an eclipse of the Moon) is mentioned as one Eudra 

 Sri Yasodhara, son of Rudra Jaya Kumara, belonging to the gotra of 

 Bharadvaja, t]iQ pravara of Bharadvaja Angirasa and Vrihaspati, a follower 

 of the Vajasaneya sdJchd of the Yajurveda and an inhabitant of the village 

 <T^lf^iB"T Tarkayika. 



The second copper-plate records the grant, of certain other lands by 

 Deva Varmma Deva, the Lord of Kalinjara, the son of Vijaya Pala Deva 

 and the grandson of Vidyadhara Deva ; the recipient of the gift (which 

 was made on the occasion of the annual shradh of the donor's mother, the 

 Queen Bhuvana Devi') is mentioned as a Brahman by name Abhimanyu, the 

 son of Bhatta Ella, the grandson of Jayavara, belonging to the gotra of 

 Bharadvaja, the pravara of Angirasa Vrihaspati and Bhai'advaja, a follow- 

 er of the Yajur Veda sdhhd and an inhabitant of Tahdri hhatta grdma w\i\c\i 

 may be translated to mean the village of Takdri inhabited by Bhattas, i. e. 

 Brahmans learned in the Vedas. Deva Varmma's name is new, not being 

 mentioned, in any of the previously discovered inscriptions or copper-plates, 

 or the annals mentioned in Major- General Cunningham's Archaeological 

 Survey of India, Vol. 11. The name of the Queen- Mother Bhuvana Devi 

 is also new. 



Mr. Smith had forwarded transcript and translations of the inscriptions 

 on the copper-plates which I have revised. They will be published, with a 

 detailed Note, in the Society's Journal. 



The Pandit then spoke to the following effect : 



This concludes the announced programme of the meeting, but before I 



