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and deriving nourishment from, a cow. It was taken care of and 

 eventually made Rajah of Sikurbhoom or Pachete, and the present 

 Rajah is, I think, the 52nd in descent from this foundling. 



A rock near the town of Pachete is pointed as the identical cow 

 that nourished the Prince, and whenever a Rajah of Pachete dies, it 

 drops a stone which rolls down the hill. A regular establishment is 

 maintained for the worship of this cow. 



Note on a Copper plate Inscription from Sambhalpur. — 

 By Bdbu Ra'jendra'lala Mitra. 



[Eeceived 7th December, 18G4.] 



Tbe subjoined is the translation of a copper plate inscription lately 

 presented to the Society by Lieut. Gr. Bowie of the Police Corps. It 

 records the gift of a village named Chullandaraka in the district of 

 Tundaraka to certain learned Brahmans of the Kausika gotra. The 

 name of the donor was Sri Mahasudevaraja. Who he was is not 

 mentioned, nor is any regal title assigned to him, but the epithets 

 used, show that he was a king or chief of some consequence. The 

 patent alludes to a place named Sarabhapura, which the donor had 

 conquered. It was probably the ancient name of Sambhalpur. Origi- 

 nally the document was inscribed on three tablets of copper, of which 

 the last is not now forthcoming. Of the remaining plates, each of 

 which measures 6J" X 3J-" inches, the first is inscribed on one, and the 

 second on both sides. Tbe characters used are of the Narbadda type 

 of the 7 century, very similar to that of the Seoni plates noticed by 

 Prinsep (ante Vol. V. p. 726) but a few of the letters are peculiar, the 

 most abberrant being the kh, w, n, t, bh and I. The vowel mark for o 

 in mo is curiously given with an e on top and a u at foot. The loss 

 of the date, which probably had been given in the third plate, and the 

 absence of the donor's genealogy, deprives the record of all historical 

 interest. 



Translation of a Tarnra Sdsana from SambJialpur. 



Greeting ! Sri Mahasudevaraja, whose two feet are bathed by the 

 ocean of light shed from the topmost jewels on the crowns of valiant 



