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Waina^ or iu its neighbourhood, and that it was at Ballia that Hwen 
Thsang crossed tlie Ganges to go to Mo-ha-so-lo (Masar). 
I regret the length of this communication but I have been anxious 
for sometime past to contribute what I could to the researches now in 
progress. I have endeavoured to avoid all appearance of dogmatic 
assertions and remembered that it is extremely unsafe to argue about 
places which I have not seen or which others have not fully explored. 
If I can by suggestions, however crude, assist others in research, I am 
satisfied. 
APPENDIX. 
An edition of a new copper-plate inscription of Jayadityadeva II . — 
By Dr. T. Blooh. 
This Inscription, which is edited here for the first time, has been 
referred to in the preceding paper on page 76. Regarding its find-place, 
etc., Dr. Hoey makes the following remarks : — 
“I have found it very difficult to trace out the place where this 
copper-plate, which the son of the Raja of Bansi made over to me, was 
originally found. It came into the possession of the Bansi family 
through Durbali Ram Tewari, a Pandit employed to look after a 
Sanscrit library which the Bansi Rajas have kept up. A very old man 
named Gauri Oharan Lnl of Kubabar tells me that a Brahman of 
Gurmha brought in this copper-plate two years after the mutiny and 
asked to have it read. So he sent it on through his brother, then 
employed at Bansi, to the Pandit. U'he mode of discovery was this. 
Some men were employed to dig kunkar at the North-East corner of 
the large sheet of water covering over 30 acres at the village Gurmha. 
It is a long strip of water extending within Rakhnakhor and Pachgawan. 
The kunkar was to be supplied for some purpose by two Dakhani 
Brahmans, who had taken a contract. The labourers, in the course of ex- 
cavation, found two pots, one containing silver coins, the other gold coins 
and this Copper-plate. Of course the coins have long since disappeared. 
I have not been able to visit this place, but I shall now furnish some 
notes regarding it, and other places of interest, in the same Tappa 
BacTigawan, which lies North of Gorakhpur City. These notes are reli- 
able, because they have been recorded by an English-speaking, well- 
educated native Magistrate, who is a graduate, and has, in his enquiries,.- 
acted under my instructions and provided me with photographs. 
Gurlima is not a large village, but the lake is remai kable for a very 
massive high mound of bricks at the East side, on top of which rises a 
I Wainaban is clearly the Vinayaka-vana, the forest of discipline (Vinaya), a 
parallel to the dharmaranya of the Hindus and Buddhists. 
