6 E. V. Westmacott — A Copperplate gr ant by LaJcshman Sen. [No. 1, 



Ifahapratzhdra, (A., M., pratihdr B.) great doorkeeper, probably 

 commander of tbe bodyguard. 



Mahdbhogika, I think was probably an officer in charge of revenue, 

 from a special right over the land called bhoga. The letter I have read y, 

 is not quite clear, and might be p or y. 



Mahdpilupati. The word pilu has several meanings, but this officer 

 was probably head of the Forest Department of the Revenue. 



MaliaganasTca daussddhika, {mahddausddliasddhanilca M.) Mx. Wilkins 

 calls him ' chief obviator of difficulties'. Professor Lassen thinks him the 

 same as Mahdsddhanabhaga in the Keshab Sen plate, and as Sddhara 

 means 'material,' he considers this officer Minister of Public Works. 



Chauroddliaranilca (M., A.) thiefcatcher ; this was probably a milita- 

 ry appointment, established to cope with the predatory bands which infest- 

 ed the country even within the last sixty years. 



Gaulmilea (M. and, I think, A.). The gaulma was a troop composed 

 of nine elephants, nine chariots, twenty-seven horsemen, and forty-five foot- 

 soldiers. 



Bandapdshika, (M., A.) Wilkins translates ' keeper of the instruments 

 of punishment' ; it may, however, be derived from danda a staff, or mace. 



Bandandyaka, (A., Mahddandandyak M.) was probably subordinate to- 

 the last. 



Bishayapati, (M.) rendered by Wilkins 'governor of a city'. The 

 word bishaya has so many meanings, that it is not easy to guess at the 

 nature of the office indicated by this title. 



The Chattel Bliatta caste, to whom, among others, the grant is addressed, 

 are twice mentioned, the second time being where the grant of land is said to 

 be free from the entrance of Cltatta Bliatta. I see that Chanda Blianda is the 

 reading of Mr. Prinsep's pandit, and Professor Blochmann also,* accepts 

 this as an improved reading. I can only say that the first part of the com- 

 pound letter is most clearly 3, and the second I think cT, but it may be the 

 vowel . The compound is certainly not ii. Who the Chatta Bliatta were 

 it is as yet impossible to say, but they formed probably the bulk of the cul- 

 tivating population of the country, and I think it probable that the reason 

 why the name has disappeared is that the Gliatta Bliatta were made Mu- 

 hammadans ; for the Bengal Muhammadan, who cultivates in many districts 

 more than half the land, is not the descendant of foreign conquerors, but 

 betrays in many points a Hindu origin. Chatta and Bliatta I look upon 

 as two distinct names, because I have seen the Bliatta, or Batta, written 

 before the Chatta, instead of after. 



In the Monghyr plate ^^XZ^ spT9{ is enumerated among the things 

 from which the grant is free, and Mr. Wilkins translates it ' no passage for 



. * Journal, As. Soc. Bengal, Pt. I, 1873, p. 226, Contributions to History and 

 Geography of Bengal, 



