1S75.1 E. V. Westmacott — A Copperplate grant by Lahshman Sen. 5 



The title ' Lord of the Gaura,' or of Gaur, which the Pal Kings bore, 

 does not occur in this plate, nor, I think, in the Amgachhi one, but in 

 Keshab Sen's, he, his father, and his grandfather, are each called Sankara 

 gauresliwara. 



The term pddanudliydta, ' meditating at the feet of, is shown by its use 

 in at least a dozen plates to indicate the succession of a son to his father. 



The list of princes and coui't officials who are ordered to respect the 

 grant, correspond in some measure with other similar lists. Many of them 

 occur in the Monghyr plate, translated by Wilkins (As. Res., Vol. I) and 

 annotated by Professor Lassen (Indische Alterthumskunde, Vol. iii, page 

 731), many in the Amgachhi plate, and many in the Basahi plate, respect- 

 ing which Babu Rajendralala Mitra has given his explanation at p. 327, 

 Pt. I, Journ., As. Soc. Beng., 1873. I have not compared any other plates, 

 but will note each officer's title with M., A., or B., as it occurs in one or 

 other of the three plates I have mentioned. 



Rdjd (B.) must mean princes whom the Sen king considers subject to 

 him. 



Rdjanyaka, may mean only persons of royal descent, or Kshatriya. 

 Rdgni, (B.) may be either reigning queens, or queens-consort. 

 Rdnaha, (M.) probably means queens' relations. 

 Rdjaputra, (A., M.) kings' sons. 



Rdjdmdtya, (A., Amdtya M.) members of the king's council. 

 Ruroftita, (B.) domestic priest. 



Maliddliarmmddhydkslia, chief-justice, mentioned by Mr. H. T. Cole- 

 brooke, Essays, Vol. I, p. 495, ed. 1873. 



MahctscuidhihigraJiika, (A.) a great officer for making treaties and de- 

 claring war. This officer, or a subordinate, is deputed at the end of the 

 grant, to give effect to it. 



1/alidsenapati, (A., Senapati B.) The chief commander of the army. 

 MaMmudrddhikrita, great mint-master. The title can scarcely mean 

 anything else, though we know of no Bengal coinage previous to the Mu- 

 hammadan conquest. 



Antaranga, servant of the interior, or perhaps confidential servant. 

 Brihaduparika, (JJparika M., rdjast (?) dnoparilca, A.) This title in 

 the Monghyr plate follows Rdjasthdniya, and in the Amgachhi one the two 

 seem to be combined. Of what this officer was superintendent, it is impos- 

 sible to say. Professor Lassen thought he was overseer of the officers of 

 criminal law, whose titles follow in the Monghyr plate. 



3£aJidJcshapataliha, (mahdlcshapatdlika A., aksliapatalika B.). Babu 

 Eajendralala translates this title 'justiciary' ; akslia patala meaning ' law- 

 suit' and ' collection'. I think the officer may have been keeper of law- 

 records. 



