1895.] Baba Nagendranatlia Vasu —Copper plate grant of Vigvarupa. 199 
copper-plate and made it over to the land-holder, who kept it in his 
house. This plate was made over to me by Pandita Laksmi-candra 
Samkhyatlrtha in 1892, and I noticed the contents of this inscription 
and published a facsimile of the whole plate in the V^vakosa, but this 
is the first time that I publish the entire text. 
It has a curvature at the top bearing a ten-handed image of 
Sad^iva, similar to that in the grant first brought to notice in the 
Society’s Journal by J. Prinsep in 1838 (Yol. VII., Part I., p. 42). 
The characters may be described as Bengali of the 12th or 13th 
century A.D., and they resemble closely the characters of the Deopada 
inscription of Vijaya-sena. 
The inscription opens with an invocation of Narayana, of the Sun 
and of the Moon. It then relates that: — 
From this famous lineage (of the Moon) sprung Sudha-kirana- 9 ekhara 
(piva) in the shape of Vijaya-sena. From him was born a very powerful 
king named Ballala-sena. From him sprung a son named Laksmana- 
sena; his son was Vi 9 va-rupa. The object of this plate is to record the 
grant of certain lands within the limits of Vikramapura to the fruti- 
pathaka (the reader of the Vedas) the illustrious Vmvarupa-deva- 
9 arman of the Vatsya gotra, a great-grandson of Para 9 ara-deva- 9 arman, 
grandson of Garbh^vara and son of Vanamall, in the month of Bhadra 
of the 14th year; effected by the illustrious Kopivisnu, the chief officer 
of peace and war in Gauda ; (engraved) on the first A9vina of the year 14. 
One of the important points for notice in connection with this in¬ 
scription is the distinctive titles of the four Sena Kings which have, I 
believe, hitherto escaped the notice of antiquarians; thus: — Maharaja 
Vijaya-sena-deva was styled Vrsabha- 9 agkara-gaude 9 vara, his son Maha¬ 
raja Ballala-sena-deva, Nih 9 agka- 9 aqkara-gaude 9 vara, his son Maharaja 
Lakstnana-sena-deva, Madana- 9 aijkara-gaude 9 vara (L. 35), and his son 
Maharaja Vi 9 varupa-sena-deva, Vrsabhai)ka- 9 aqkara-gaude 9 vara. 
The contents of the grant published by Prinsep as that of Ke9ava- 
sena, agree closely with those of the grant under review, with this 
exception that the place, where the name of the pseudo-K§9ava-sena 
occurs in the grant, is in such a condition as to show that originally 
some other name had been inserted in the place of that of Ke9ava-sena. 
This circumstance led Prinsep to believe that at the time of the copper¬ 
plate being engraved, Ke 9 ava-sena’s elder brother Madhava-sena sud¬ 
denly expired, and that his name was erased from it and that of his 
brother. But in the face of the copper-plate grant under review, 
Prinsep’s inference can scarcely hold good. The reading moreover of 
Prinsep is not correct. The correct reading of the 10th verse, published 
by him according to the facsimile of the original grant of the 3rd year, 
