68 N. N. Vasu — Oopper -'plate Inscription of Madanapdla, [No. 1, 
of the first two kings, Mahipala II., and ^urapala, have been made 
known to ns for the first time only very recently in a notice on the 
Bdmacarita, a poetical biography of Ramapala, discovered by my learned 
friend, Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, and pnblished in the 
Proceedings of this Society, March 1900, p. 70 They are omitted in 
the pedigree of Pala kings, occnrring in the Kamanli Plates of Vaidya- 
deva of Pragjyotisa {Epigr. Indica, Vol. II, p. 350), from which record 
we have been already acqnainted with the names of their two snccessors, 
RamapMa and Knmarapala. Of -Madanapala, we possess a short dedi- 
catory inscription, dated in his 1 9th year, while the name of Gropala III., 
his nephew and predecessor on the Pala throne, is entirely new to ns. 
As to Madanapala’s time, I can only say that I believe him to have 
lived in the first half of the I2th centnry A.D. 
The grant made by him on the occasion of his qneen, the Patta- 
mahadevi Citramatika, consisted of a village perhaps named Kasthagiri, 
lying in the Kotivarsa-visaya, and belonging to the Panndravardhana- 
bhnkti. It was given to a Brahman, Vate 9 varasvami 9 arman, son of 
pannakasvamin, grandson of Pi ajapatisvamin, and great-grandson of 
Vatsasvamin, an inhabitant of Campahitti, stndent of the Kantthnma 
Qakba of the Saniaveda, fellow-stndent of Bhusana, and belonging to 
the Kantsa Gotra and ^andilya-Asitadevala Pravara (11. 42-45). The 
village was given to him as a dahsina, after having read the Maha- 
bharata for the benefit of the Queen. The passage recording this fact, 
is of peculiar interest; it reads (1. 45 ff.) : PattamaJiddevi-gri-Gitramati- 
kayd Vedavydsa-prokta-prapdthita-Mahabhdrata-samutsarjjita-daksindtvena 
BhagavantarnBuddha-hhattarakam-uddigya gasani-krtya pradatto S smdhhih. 
The order confirming the grant was issued from the royal camp at 
Ramavati, situated on the banks of the Ganges (1. 30). It was given 
in the king’s 8th year, on the I5th lunar day of Caitra (11. 49 and 57). 
The minister of peace and war, Bhimadeva, acted as dutaka (1.57). 
The engraver’s name was Tathagatasara (1. 58). With the exception of 
the Panndravardhana-bhukti and the Kotivarsa-visaya, the names of 
the localities mentioned in tin's inscription are new to us ; I am unable 
to identify any of them. 
I now edit the Inscription from the original plate. 
The Seal : 
( 9ei-Madanapalah. ) 
The Plate. Obverse : 
(1. I,) Om name Vu(Bu)ddhaya i| Svasti || Maitrim^ karunya- 
ratna-pramudita-hrdayahpreyasiih sandadhanah samyak- 
I Metre Sragdhara. 
