6 N. N. Vasu — Copperplate-grant of Vigva-ripa. [No. 1, 
On a Copperplate-qrant of Vicva-ripa, one of the Séna Kings 
of Bengal.—By NacinpranatHa Vasu. 
(With Plates I and IT.) 
[Read December, 1895. ] 
In the village Madanapada, Post Office Pinjari, Parganah Kotali- 
pada of the Faridpur district, a peasant whilst digging his field found a 
copper-plate and made it over to the land-holder, who kept it in his 
house. This plate was made over to me by Pandita Laksmicandra- 
samkhyatirtha, in 1892, and I noticed the contents of this inscription and 
published a facsmile of the whole plate in the Vigvakésa.! But this is 
the first time that I publish the whole text. 
The plate measures 125 inches in length, and 10 inches in breadth, 
with a thickness of 3th ofan inch. It has a curvature at the top, 
bearing a ten-handed image of Sadagiva, similar to that in the grant 
first brought to notice in the Society’s Journal by J. Prinsep in 1838 
(Vol. VII, Part. I, p. 42).? 
The size of the letters is about 1’. The characters may be des- 
eribed as Bengali of the 12th or 15th century A.D., and they resemble 
closely the characters of the Déopada Inscription of Vijaya-séna. 
The only letters deserving of notice are @,k, t, dh, n, bh, r, s, and h 
which have a much more modern look than those of the Déopada 
inscription. 
It contains 60 lines on both sides. The language of the grant is 
Sanskrit: Except the opening words Om namo narayanaya, the inscrip- 
tion is in verse as far as line 31. From there to the end, the formal 
part of it is in prose, with the introduction of some of the usual bene- 
dictory and imprecatory verses in lines 54 to 59. 
As regards orthography, the only points calling for remark, are, 
that 6 is throughout denoted by the sign for v. Besides it may be noted 
that. the letter 7, which before another consonant is denoted by the 
1 See Vicvakésa Vol. IV., Art. Kécava-séna-déva. 
2 See also Prinsep’s Useful Tables, Ed. Thomas, p. 272, note 1. 
