1877.] Eajendralala Mitra — Copper Plate Ins cription from BJidgaljpur. 257 



3. In the year 1007 of the Hijrah this longlasting building was erected. 



4. As the words JjLa. 'grandeur', and }$Ia. * a well' have the same form, the grand- 

 eur of the garden increased by it (the well). 



5. Its chronogram lies for ever in the words chdh-i-bdgh, ' the well of the garden,' 

 but the letter he in it is to be left out. 



Adding up the letters of chdh-i-ldgh and subtracting five for the he 

 to be omitted, we get 1007 H., or A. D. 1598-99. 



Regarding Makhsus Khan, vide Km translation, Vol. I, p. 388. He 

 is the founder of ' Makhsiisabad', the Muxadavad of our old maps, which 

 name was subsequently changed to Murshidabad by the famous Murshid 

 Quli Khan. 



II. 



" The second rubbing", Mr. Eainey writes, " is taken from a slate 

 slab, lodged over the centre eastern door of a Mosque House, now occupied 

 by Mr. A. V. Roberts, District Engineer (who gave me these rubbings) 

 and owned by C. Aguilar, Esq. This house faces the Racket Court on the 

 southern side, and is divided from it by the large public road running there 

 east and west." 



The best praise is — * There is no God but Allah, Muhammad is Allah's prophet.' 

 The building of Mirzani Wall Beg of Kolab, under the direction of La'l 

 the architect. The building of the mosque took place in 1074 [A. D, 1663-4.] 



The rubbing has (^'j^^ Mirzani, instead of Ijyo Mirzd. The Dic- 

 tionaries do not give the word. 



The inscription spells jU*a3 ma''ammdr ! 



Dr. Rajendealala Mitea exhibited a copper plate inscription lately 

 received from Mr. W. R. Davies of Bhagalpur. The plate measures 15-.5 

 X 7*7 inches, and has on the top a cast copper seal, six inches high. The 

 name on the seal is that of Narayanapala Deva, and the legend over it is 

 the Buddhist wheel of the law, mounted on a pedestal, and supported 

 on the two sides by two deer. Below the name is a sprig with two leaves 

 and a flower. The inscription on the plate is in a modified form of the 

 Kutila character, and extends to 29 lines on the front, and 25 on the reverse, 

 side. Its language is Sanskrit, and its purport the grant of a village named 

 Mukutika for the use of Siva Bhattaraka and his followers. The grant 

 was made on the 9th of Vaisakha, in the 17th year of the donor's reign, 

 when he was encamped at Mudgagiri, modern Monghyr. The document 

 was composed by his minister Bhatta Guravo, the same who recorded the 

 Buddal inscription noticed in the volume of the Journal of the Socie- 

 ty, and engraved by Madghadasa, son of Subhadasa. 



