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Dr. Hoernle-— Gauhafi Copper-plate Grant of Indrapala. [No. 2, 
higher than the figure of the elephant, which is protected thereby. 
The whole looks just like a heart-shaped box, without a lid. 
The language of the grant is Sanskrit. The formal part of the 
grant, describing the locality and its perquisites and boundaries, is in 
prose, viz., lines 3-11 on the reverse of the second plate, and lines 
1-9 on the obverse of the third plate. The remainder, detailing the 
genealogy of the donor and of the donee, is in verse. 
The execution of the inscription is very slovenly and inaccurate. 
Not unfrequently one or two aksaras are omitted e.g., 1,16 s kiva for 
kitava, 1,46 anta for ananta, 1,116 sajjair for sasujjair , 1,106 bhdri 
for bhdrahari, and elsewhere. Sometimes single letters are omitted. 
e.g., 1,106 laksmah for laksmyah, II,3a. samvadha for sambaddlid, 11,5 a 
savvd for sarvvd, and elsewhere. Once an aksara is repeated, viz., to, 
in 1,146 and II,la; similarly there is a duplicate u in III,8a and 
III,9a; and there is a superfluous y in vannyatye in II,3a, and a 
superfluous r in dhumrair for dhumair in II,5a. Many more such 
inaccuracies of the scribe or the engraver are noted in the footnotes 
to the transliteration. Curiosities are abhavata for abhavat in II, 9a, 
kalatravdnam for kalatravan II,9a and II, 10a, avan for abliavan or 
rather for abJiiin, 11,16, paksasta for paksastha in 11,66, rakarana for 
sakarana in 11,76 (see footnote 11 to the translation), vaksena for 
vakrena in III,3a, and the obscure, and probably blundered, daksi 
pdttau in III,8a (see footnote 18 to the translation). Other anomalies of 
spelling may be due to provincial usage. Such are the occasional 
confusion of sibilants, 2 3 as in amusya for amusya in II,la, esa for esd 
in 11,156, kasl for kdsl in III,5a, atidisyate for atidigyate in II,3a, 
and elsewhere; also the ligature of m with v, instead of anusvara 
with v, or m with 6; e.g., amvu for ambu in II,5a, prablirtinam- 
vinivdrita for prabhrtindm vinivdrita in 11,116, and elsewhere ; and 
the confusion of v and 6 as in Vrahma for Brahma in 1,66, II,la and 
vabhuva for babhuva in II,11a, and of n for n, as in taragginindih for 
taraqginindm in II, 14a. Similarly due to provincial usage are occasional 
prakriticisms or vernacularisms, as virjja for vlryya in 1,146, jagas 
for yagas in II,la, Pragjyotisa for Pragjyotisa in 11,36 ; perhaps also 
dydcarasya for arydcarasya in 11,136, and the omission of final t in 
asi for dsit in 11,26, and of final visarga before an initial p and s, as 
in khatvdrjga for khatvdrjgah in 1,16, Pati for Patih in II,10a, and 
elsewhere. 
2 This means Plate I, line 1, reverse, a = obverse, 6 =*= reverse. And so on, in 
all references. 
3 The confusion of sibilants, as Mr. Gait informs me, has reached its climax 
in modern Assamese, which uses s indiscriminately for s, s and g. 
