74 Rajendralala Mitra —A Copper-plate Grant from Banda. [No. 1, 
are full of lacunae. It comprises the history of nine princes with the names 
of their ministers. 
The second record was found by Capt. T. S. Burt in 1838. It too was 
an inscribed slab, which had been detached from one of several temples at 
Khajraha, nine Jcos from Chhattarpur, which is on the high road from 
Saiyar and Hamirpur, close by the fortified town of Rajgarh, on the right 
bank of the Kam river, S. W from Chhattarpur. It gives the names of six 
predecessors of Dhanga. # 
The third was communicated to me by Major-General Cunningham, 
who found it at Khajraha.f It was a short record of 13 lines, but it was of 
value in settling the date of the dynasty on a sure footing. In commenting 
upon it I pointed out the relation it bore to the two preceding monuments, 
and the results deducible from a reading of the three inscriptions together. 
The conclusion I then arrived at regarding the date of Madanavarma, the last 
prince of the line, was, that he must have lived about the middle of the twelfth 
century. The exact date given by the copper-plate now under notice is Sam- 
vat 1190 = A. D. 1135. The name of the immediate predecessor of Prithvi- 
varma, the father of Madana, in Lieutenant Price’s inscription, is Sallak- 
shanavarma; but this appears to be an alias or title, the real name being 
Kirtivarma in the copper-plate. Putting the names found in the four inscrip¬ 
tions together with such corrections as the several records have helped 
me to make, I arrive at the following genealogy. Altogether we have sixteen 
names. Of these, documentary evidence exists for the dates of three ; the 7th 
king, Dhanga, being assigned by two records to Samvat 1011 and 1019 re¬ 
spectively; the 13th by one to Samvat 1173 ; and the 16th by another to 
1190. For the rest we have to depend upon averages. For reasons assigned 
in my paper on the Khajraha inscriptions, the earlier reigns may be taken to 
have been long, but some of the later must have been very short. Dhanga 
is said to have lived 109 summers, and then to have resigned his life at the 
confluence of the Yamuna and the Ganges, and this led Mr. Sutherland and 
those who wrote after him to suppose that the prince had committed suicide. 
Such is, however, not the inevitable meaning of the passage. To this day 
the ordinary civil way of announcing a death is to say, so-and-so has sur¬ 
rendered his life to the holy river so-and-so or the sacred pool ( Kshetra) 
so-and-so, and the inscription has probably adopted the same mode of 
expression. 
1. Nannuka, of the Chandrartreya race A. D., . 746 771 
II. Yagyati or Vakpati, son of I, . 771 798 
III. Yiyaya, son of II,. 898 823 
IV. Yahila or Kabila, son of III,. 823 848 
* Journal, As. Soc., YIII, p. 159. 
t Ibid., XXXII, pp. 273f. 
