62 U. C. Batavyal— Copper-plate Grant of JDharmapdla. [No. 1, 1894.] 
we find that among the villages granted to the poet the very first village 
is called 3 TTWW which sounds much like and ^ meaning 
the same thing. 
Narayana Blia^taraka in the copper-plate cannot from the adjec¬ 
tives attached to it mean the God Narayana. It plainly refers to some 
person whose name was Narayana, who was deemed a holy man, 
and who had come as a guest to the Lata Brahmanas. Everything 
therefore points to the identity of Narayana Bhattaraka with Bhatta 
Narayana, the author of the Yen! Samhara. 
I am aware that some think Lata to have been in Gujarat. In Dr. 
Biihler’s article on Inscriptions from Kavi, see Indian Antiquary , V, p. 145, 
we read that the Rastrakuta prince Govinda II made over the Late^vara 
Mandala to his brother Indra. Govinda II seems to have been a con- 
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queror, and he seems to have led a Rastrakuta invasion of Gujarat. That 
need not make us think that Lata was in Gujarat. The Late 9 vara 
Mandala above referred to, was probably the kingdom of Kannauj itself : 
and Indra who received the LateQvara Mandala from Govinda II, was 
probably the very Indra Raja whom Dharma Pala conquered, according 
to the copper-plate of Narayapa Pala.—Govinda II was alive in faka 
730 = 808 A. D., and was thus a contemporary of Dharma Pala. I am 
strongly inclined to think that the Lata Brahmanas to whom Bhntta 
Narayana came were really Kannauj Brahmanas. 
