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A Neiv Copper-plate Inscription of Laksmanasena. — By Babu Akshay 
Kumar Maitra, B.L. 
[Eead, June 1899.] 
The copper- plate — bearing this Inscription, was discovered in the 
month of Bhadra 1898, in the village of Annlia, near Ranaghat, in 
the District of Nadia. It has been edited previously in my journal, the 
Aitihasika Citra, by Pandit Rajanikanta Cakravartti of Maldah. I now 
re-edit it from the original plate. 
The plate measures 13j" by 12|" and bears on both sides a Sanskrit 
Inscription in 56 lines partly in prose and partly in verse. The writing 
is of the Bengali variety of the North-East Indian Alphabet of the 
12th century and intimately agrees with the characters of the other 
well-known documents of the Sena Dynasty. The spelling is on the 
whole very correct, and no remarks as to orthography are called for. 
The seal, bearing the image of a ten-armed deity, is attached to the top 
of the plate. 
The Inscription opens with the words Om I Namo Nardyanaya, and 
an invocation to pambhu and the Moon, after which the well-known 
genealogy of the Sena Kings from Hemanta to Laksmanasena is re- 
corded in exactly the same words as in the Tarpan Dighi Plate, ^ but 
with this exception only that instead of verse VIII of the Tarpan Dighi 
Plate, three other verses are added (11. 18-24) in praise of the liberality 
and bravety of Laksmanasena, which, however, do not mention a single 
historical fact. 
The object of the Inscription is to record a grant made by 
Laksmanasenadeva, who is styled as Paramegvara-Paramavaisnava- 
Paramahhattdraka-MaJidrdjadhirdja and who is described as meditating 
over the feet of Mahdrdjddhirdja-gri-Valldlasena. The grant was made 
1 Edited in this Journal, Vol, XLIV, for 1875, Part I, pp. 1-15, with two 
facsimile Plates. Another copper-plate of Laksmanasena has been discovered last 
year at Madhainagar, near Serajganj, in the Pabna District. It is, however, yet 
nneditedv 
