10 E. V. Westmacott — A Copperplate grant by Lahshnan Se)i. [No. 1, 



. The name arliiya is also used, nearly corresponding to the hatha. A 

 bigha takes six or seven kathas of seed, so the grant here recorded was, 

 roughly speaking, about seven acres. 



The produce is said to be 125 purun of cowries. It is not clear whe- 

 ther this refers to the gross produce or to the rent. Mr. Colebrooke's 

 table gives 



20 Jcapardah = 1 Icakini 



or cowree 

 80 = 4 = 1 pan 



1280 = 61=10=1 pur an. 



The Dinajpur people say 

 4 coivree = 1 ganda 

 80 = 20 = 1 pan 

 320 = 80 = 4 = 1 dam 

 12S0 = 320' = 16 = 4 = 1 kalian 

 Thus the kalian of Dinajpur corresponds with the ancient pur an, and 

 as, when cowrees were last current, six or seven kalian went to the rupee, 

 the annual produce of the land granted amounts to about twenty rupees, 

 or, calculating roughly, a rupee a bigha. Average good arable land in 

 Dinajpur pays a rent of a rupee or a rupee and a quarter per bigha at 

 the present time, so the language of the grant probably refers to gross pro- 

 duce. 



The land granted is to be all good land, of which none is unculturable 

 waste, none is sacred to a god, none is taken up with cattle paths, and none 

 is used, as large spaces near villages are, for latrine ground. 



The slokas with which the grant concludes, occur repeatedly in other 

 similar grants. 



The date, the year 7, appears to refer only to the reign of the King, as 

 is the case with most grants engraved on copper plates that have come to 

 my notice. 



The age of the grant may, however, be known by the character, and 

 by the date of the subversion of the Sen dynasty, to be between 1100 and 

 1200 A. D. 



The words following the date I take to be the name of the scribe or 

 the engraver. Comparing this grant with that made in the next generation 

 by Keshab Sen, the only points requiring notice are the use by the latter 

 of the title Gaureslnvar, to which I have before alluded, and the attributing 

 to Keshab Sen sovereignty over the Asvapati, the Gajapati, whom I take to 

 be the King of Orissa, and the Narapati. 



The Buddhagaya inscription, to which I have previously referred, is 

 shown by the character in which it is engraved to be later than this, and is 

 dated after the reign of Lakshman Sen, in the time of Asoka Chandra Deb. 



