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V. A. Smith —Two Chandel copper-plate Inscriptions. [No. 1, 
Note by Bdbu Branndth Bandit. 
The Society is indebted to Mr. V. A. Smith, B. A., B. C. S., for these 
two copper-plates recording the grant of two villages by two kings of the 
Chandel Dynasty, Dhanga Deva and Bern Varmma Neva in Samvat 1055 
and 1107 respectively. Mr. Smith has sent transcript and translation of 
both the plates, which I have revised for publication in the Society’s Jour¬ 
nal. Some parts of the translation however, sj^ecially of plate No. 2, 
remain tentative and far from literal. The Note appended by Mr. Smith 
gives the most salient points in the grants, and after the exhaustive notice 
in General Cunningham’s Arch£eological Survey of India, Yol. II, there is 
nothing to he added to the ample materials which exist concerning the 
chronology of the Chandel Dynasty. I have added some philological 
parallels gathered from several grants, and those who care to pursue the 
matter further may consult the Khajuraho inscription in the Asiatic 
Researches, Yol. XII, and the Ujjayini grants in the Transactions of the 
Royal Asiatic Society. Yol. I, reprinted in Colebrooke’s Works, Yol. II, 
and the Banda copper-plate, ante p. 73. The village Tarkayikd , of No. 2, 
is the same as the Talcdri of No. 1, and the Dhakari of the Banda copper¬ 
plate, ante p. 76. All three may he safely identified with the Tikri of 
modern maps. 
NOTES. 
(1.) Compare ^ ^ 
•sjT«T, &c. in J. A. S. B. Yol. YIII, pp. 491, 492. Also ^ ^ 
&c. in J. A. S. B., Yol. X, pp. 99, 100. 
(2.) Compare the partly decyphered sloka 
^T^T^fcr: in the 9th line of the Bliavala Inscription, J. A. S. B., Yol. X, 
p. 820. 
(3.) Compare ‘SU^or* I J. A. S. B., Vol. YIII, 
p. 297. The sloka I &e. in J A. 
S. B., Yol. Y, p. 379. 
(4.) Compare 
ifT^qfrT I j- A. S. B., Vol. Y, p. 379. fqqqqfrT 
I J. A. S. B , Yol. YIII, p. 297. The royal 
officers are set out in great detail in the Kumbhi grant. J. A. S. B. Yol. 
YIII, p. 492, and in the Fyzabad grant. J. A. S. B. Yol. X, p. 100. 
(5.) Compare | J. A. S. B. Yol. Y, p. 379. 
cT^pqt fqfaqrt ^T<3T WWrk \ J. A. S. B. Yol. YIII, p. 492. 
^-^TTTWi *n»*TOT frrf^q-^- 
ott i J. A. s. B. Yol. X, 
p. 100. 
