FROM BENARES. 453 



% In the 9th volume of the Asiatic Researches mention is made by Mr. 

 Colebrooke of a grant of land made by Java Chandra Raja of Kanoj, It 

 was inscribed on a plate of copper, a transcript of which was presented to 

 him by a Pundit named Sarvaru trivedi, who stated that he had been em- 

 ployed in decyphering it: the original is in England : the first name in the 

 ancestral line as decyphered by Sarvaru is Sripala, whose son was Mahi 

 Chandra. The six plates have been examined in a most attentive manner, 

 and no construction which could possibly be forced could tend to fix the 

 term " Sripala" as the head of the genealogical list : indeed the term is 

 not even introduced epithetically which often is the case ; we may therefore 

 reasonably infer that the Pundit did not pay attention in making his trans- 

 cript: another mistake also occurs regarding Vijaya Chandra-deva which 

 will be mentioned in a note on the same : with these two exceptions the list 

 of royal names in the grant mentioned by Mr. Colebrooke corresponds 

 with that of the present grant. In a grant found at Khara, Yasopala is 

 mentioned as conferring a gift of land in Sumbut 1093 (A. D. 1037) is he 

 the same with Yasovigraha ? 



3. The purport of the 4th and 5th stanzas corresponds most exactly 

 with that given as the great character of Sri Chandra-deva by Sarvaru 

 trivedi. 



4. Mr. Wilson in a note to a passage in the preface to his Sanskrit dic- 

 tionary advances as a mere etymological speculation, (when determining 

 the date of the composition of the Viswaprakasa, a lexicon by Maheswara 

 descended from Sri Krishna, physician to Sahasanka, king of Kanoj,) that 

 Sahasanka may possibly be a title of this Sri Chandra-deva, and wishes that 

 the original of the passage inserted in the Oth vol. of the Researches by Mr. 

 Colebrooke could be examined. Mr. Colebrooke reads, " which realm (Ka- 

 noj) he Sri Chandra-deva acquired by his own strength.*' The passage on 

 the plate now transcribed is this, " Sri Madgadhipuradhi rashtramasamam 



