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Vishnu's discus on the top, the inscription appears to belong to 

 Sambhalpur or Sonpur. the Nagpur rajas never having used the 

 insignia in question. The inscription has to do as much with the 

 Kols and their lands as with the mountains in the moon ; it behoves 

 therefore their advisers to warn them not to endamage a cause, in 

 many respects a praiseworthy one, by making the copper-plate in- 

 scription the basis of their claim. 



Below are my transliteration and translation of the inscription, the 

 doubtful words or passages being in Italics. 



Transliteration. 



Srimadvira Jayanta Sinha mipati-stat ' 'sresJitha patni tatlid. 



namna Ratna Kumarika gunavati raj nam kule bkavinah, 



bhupala nihaya chate navaratam srinwantu bho mad vacho. 



yattam peda haleti lokaviditam gramam praclitsurmuda, (I). 



Asharhe Ravibasare subha tithau tatropardge sini. 



valyam vai* dwija deva vahni savidhe kritwa suvakyam mahat, 



gramah saivalani jalasaya vanaramaclri kashthadibhir. 



yukta swarna nidhanakhata sahito dattah sasimomaya (II). 



Bipraya veda-vidushe bahu-srutaya santaya karmani-nije-parinish- 

 thataya deva-dwijati-gurupada-rataya Kasinathaya kantavapushe guna- 

 vattaraya (III). 



Bakshantu kirtimatulam mamatavadete yevatra lobha vasatah 

 pravilopayanti te Somalendu (?) Vimaleswara Dharmaraja padeshu 

 vipriyahrido narake pateyuh (IV). 



Samvateshta dasa sate ekashastyuttanikhyake. 



Vikramaditya bhupasya nirmita tamra putrika (V). 



Kasinatha Madhu srinian Vanamali samanwitah. 



Swarblianu vatsare dattam bhunkshwa gramamakaulakum (VI). 



Salii. 



In conclusion, I have to add that I have not been able to discover 

 how the plate fell into the hands of the Kols. I was told, it was 

 found near Ladhma, some fourteen miles south-west from Ilanchi ; 

 could it be supposed that some native of Sambhalpur or Sonpur had 

 mislaid it on his way to the head quarters of the South West 

 Frontier Agency ?" 



