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T. Blocli — Copper-plate Inscription of Jayadityadeva II. [No. 1, 
the Rohini and Rapti rivers, shows that the position was recognized 
from the earliest times as one of strategic advantage.” 
The inscription is engraved on a single copper-plate measuring 12|" 
by 12f." On the top there is an oval projection, upon which we find 
the representation of full-blown lotus, the centre of which consists of a 
raised disc bearing the image of some animal, perhaps a boar, with Crl- 
Jayaditya-devah written below in raised characters. The writing con- 
sists of 24 lines, covering only three quarter of one side of the plate. It 
is fairly well executed and well preserved; however, the meaning of a 
few passages remains doubtful. The characters belong to the northern 
alphabet and are in every respect similar to those of the Gorakhpur 
plate of the same king, belonging to this society, and edited by Prof. 
Kielhorn in the Ind. Ant. Yol. XXI, 1892, p. 169 ft. Thus, in the con- 
junct letter rya the r is written on the line in paryanta (11. 1 & 12), and 
haryd (1. 19) ; and the anusvdra is placed after not above the aksara to 
which it belongs in pravrttlndm (1. 5), and hhuhliujdm (1. 19). The 
language is Sanskrit, and with the exception of four imprecatory and 
benedictive verses in 11. 17-21, and a verse referring to the grantee, the 
Kayastha Ke 9 ava in 11. 22-24, it is in prose. 
The object of the Inscription was to record a grant made by king 
Jayadityadeva IT. (1. 8), who was the son of DharmmMityadeva and 
his wife CandrMevi (1.4) and the grandson of Jayadityadeva I. and 
his wife Yogadevi (11. 3 & 4), all of whom belonged to the Malayaketu 
family (1. 3) and received the titles paramabhattdraka-malidrdjadhirdja- 
paramegvara. The document was issued from Vijayapura (1. 1). The 
grant consisted in the village Kumarasandika, connected with the 
palUkds : Patrasanda, papkusanda, GMdhi, and Deuli, which lay in 
the Leddika visaya and the Daddarandika mandala (1. 8). It was given 
to a Kayastha Ke^ava, son of a Kayastha Dhemuka, and grandson of a 
Kayastha Rudra, in recognition of good services rendered by him to 
the king (1. 13). Its boundaries are laid down in 1. 15; they were : in 
the east the river Rohini ; in the south a tilaka tree ; in the west the 
ditch called Hastilaiida ; in the north a kumhhl tree. The document 
is signed by the minister (niahdmantri) Mahaka. The mahdsdmanta 
Grahakuuda acted as dutaka. The inscription was written by the 
Kayastha Yaladduka, Its date is given as Samvat 921 (11. 21-22). 
The date doubtless must be referred to the Yikrama era. Of the 
geographical names mentioned in this inscription, the river Rohini is 
the only one that at present can be identified. As regards Yijayapura, 
we learn from the Gorakhpur Inscription (Z.c. p. 170) that it was 
situated on the slopes of the Himalaya (uttaragiri-katake) . 
I now edit the inscription from the original plate : — 
