296 R. Hoernle— The Nowgong Copper-plate. [No. 4, 
Be it known to you that this land, together with its houses, 
paddy-fields, dry-land, water, cattle-pastures, refuse-lands, etc., of 
whatever kind it may be, as far as any place within its borders : and 
into which (land) entry is prohibited to (all) Raj ms, Rajaputras, Ranalcas , 
Rajavallahkas, eunuchs, grand ladies, and any (other) persons that may 
cause trouble on account of the fastening of elephants, the fastening 
of boats, the searching for thieves, the exercise of authority, the 
infliction of punishments, the realising of tenants’ taxes and imposts, 
the providing of room for the royal umbrella, etc. 49 
(Verse 1) There was an accomplished hhatta , Maladhara by name, 
of the Kanva (Jakha, 50 a light of the Kapila gotra, who had obliterated 
all his shortcomings by dint of his perfect discernment acquired 
through his wealth of knowledge and austerities. 
(2) This man also had a son, the god-beloved Devadhara, auspi¬ 
ciously born, the soul of good works, by whom, in his capacity of an 
Adhvaryu priest, the Vaitanika rites were performed in due order 
without any confusion. 
(3) Having finished his studies, and in due course taken a title, 
and being intent on entering the state of a householder, that learned 
man (Devadhara) mated with his house-wife f amayika, 61 even as the 
sun does with his lustre at the periods of twilight. 
(4) Hence, these twain, like the sun and moon attached to and 
dependant on one another, received this son of theirs (prutidhara), free 
of all faults, just as this world receives its light from the sun. 
(5) Now seeing that in the course of his studies he would acquire 
a thorough mastery of all the prutis (or revealed Vedas), he received the 
name prutidhara from his father, and he is well-known by it throughout 
the world. 
(7) This good man, returning from his religious preceptor, has, 
with the intention of taking on himself the condition of a householder, 
arrived at the time of the equinox, an applicant (for patronage), 
devoted to duty, a Pandit, skilled in sacred recitation. 
(8) To this Brahman (the abovementioned land) is given by me 
after bathing and completing all due observances. Whatever recom¬ 
pense there is (of this action), may it accrue to my parents as well as to 
myself in the world to come. 
49 The sentence which breaks off here is resumed in verse 8, below. 
10 The Kanva ^akha belongs to the Vajasaneyin division of the Yajur Veda. 
61 The spelling Qdmdyikayd represents the popular or vernacular pronunciation 
of the word, which is evidently retained for the sake of the metre; for the correct 
Sanskrit spelling Qydmdyikayd would have offended the Tristubh metre. The form 
pydmdyilcd, I may add, has not yet been noted in any dictionary; it occurs, however, 
also in the IJatnapala grant (see Vol. LXVII), as the name of a woman. 
