18G2.] Three Sanskrit Inscriptions. 123 



W VR3 I 



The nest inscription, hitherto unpublished, is, like the first, en- 

 graved on copper. It has been transcribed from the original plates, 

 which belong to the Asiatic Society of Bengal. The stanzas, nine 

 in number, introducing the grant proper, have already appeared in 

 print, and need not be repeated. t Nor are the verses that follow 

 the prose of sufficient interest, on the score of novelty, to deserve 

 copying.* 



Ikscbipttok II. 



would give a VaJctra stanza. The ol \ decipherment has ; ^^jf^T;^J^T5r- 



* Not ^f%rj as was formerly misread. But the plate wants the final conso- 

 nant. And the name of the engraver is Lena, not Lema. 



Confusion of sibilants has, in several instances, unspecified, been redressed 

 in the transcript now printed. 



On the seal attached to the two plates are the words ^fltll'gpjf^^^'^':. 

 Above is a figure of Lakshmi, supported on each side by an elephant sprinkling 

 her with water from its proboscis. Underneath is Nandi. 



f See this Journal, for 185S, pp. 242, 243. 



% Any one familiar with the poetical excrescences of Hindu land grants will 



recognize them by their opening words : vf?j -q: | ^IW I *jRT*f fTR" I 



<©H"fji I All but the last three of these stanzas will be seen at the page of this 

 Journal following the last just referred to. 



Thus ends the inscription, much more abruptly than is commonly the case 

 with such writings. 



On the seal, the ring of which holds together the two plates, are the words 



Above them is an effigy of Ganula, with folded hands •. beneath is a conch- 

 shell. 



