157 
1895.] and a Candella Copper-plate from the Banda District. 
in the Hamirpur District belong respectively to the reigns of Deva- 
varmma-deva (S. 1107) and Dhanga (S. 1055). 1 The third plate is a 
record of Madana-varmma-deva, dated S. 1190. 2 
A fifth copper-plate inscription of the reign of Yira-varmman, dated 
S. 1337, and known as the Dahi copper-plate, which belonged to 
Colonel Ellis, was lost in the Mutiny. 3 
The numerous other inscriptions of the Candella kings are on 
stone. 
Several inscriptions of the reign of Paramarddi-deva are known. 
A single line record on a pedestal at Mahoba, dated S. 1224, is 
mentioned by Cunningham, and seems to have contained the king’s 
name. This inscription has not been published, and the original seems 
to have disappeared. 4 * 
The Mahoba inscription, dated S. 1240, certainly belongs to Para- 
marddi-deva’s reign, though his name has been lost. 6 
The Kalanjar inscription, supposed to be dated in S. 1258, requires 
re-editing. It certainly mentions Paramarddi-deva. 
The Madanapur inscriptions record the fact of the conquest of 
Paramarddi by PrthivI Raja Cahumana (Chauhan) in S. 1239,= 
A.D. 1182. 
An inscription at Khajuraho dated S. 1234, and two at Ajaygarh, 
dated respectively 1237 and 1243, (Nos. 46 and 50 of Cunningham’s 
list), belong to the reign of Paramarddi, though they do not seem to 
mention his name. 6 
The only inscription mentioning Paramarddi by name, and recorded 
during his reign, which has been properly edited, is the Bagrari stone 
inscription. 
“ The proper object of the inscription is to record (in verses 25-29) 
that Sallaksana, the minister of the king Paramarddi-deva built a 
temple of Visnu, and a temple of fiva at which the inscription was put 
up ; and that this second temple was completed by Purusottama, the son 
1 Y. A. Smith and Babu Prannath Pandit in J. As. Soc., Bengal, Yol. XLVIF, 
Part I (1878), p. 80. 
2 Rajendralala Mitra, A copper-plate grant from Banda; ibid. p. 73, PI. VI. 
3 Cunningham, Archseol. Reports, Vol II, p. 455; Vol. XXI, No. 58, pp. 83, 87. 
4 Cunningham, Reports, Yol. II, pp 447, 448; Vol. XXI, No 44, p. 82; V. A 
Smith, History of Bundellchand, J. A. 8., B., Vol. L, Part I (1881), p. 21. 
3 Ibid.; ibid. 
6 Madanpur is in the Lalitpur Subdivision of the JhansI District of the North- 
Western Provinces (Arch. Rep. Vol. X, p. 98, PI. XXXII; Vol. XXI, p. 173). 
The other inscriptions referred to are noticed in the works already cited. 
The king’s name is written Paramarddi, or Paramardi. So the name Varma may 
be written as Varmma, or in the stem form as Varman. 
