363 
1874.] ltajendralala Mitra —On a Skanda Gupta Inscription. 
The following is the genealogical tree derived from the text. The 
Misras were evidently the hereditary ministers of the Pala Rajas of Bengal. 
S'andilya 
"i 
, i 
Viradeva 
! 
, i, 
Panchala 
I. 
Garga—married Ichclilia 
Deva Pala (contemporary)—Sri Darblia Para, married S'arkara 
.1 
Somes'vara Misra, married Tarala 
Sura Pala, Lord of Gauda, contemporary Ivedaranatlia Misra, married Vandkva of Devagrama 
Narayana Pala, contemporary Gurava Misra. 
On a copper-plate Inscription of the time of Slcanda Gupta.—Bp 
Ra'jendeala'la Mitea. 
(With. a plate.) 
I am indebted to General Cunningham for a facsimile and a very care¬ 
fully-made hand-copy of a copper-plate inscription, lately discovered by him 
at In dor, a khera ten miles from Anupshahar on the Ganges. The plate 
measures seven inches and nine-tenths by five inches and eight-tenths, the 
edges being slightly arched. The inscription extends to twelve lines, the last 
three of which are more apart from each other than the others. The char¬ 
acter of the writing is the well-known Gupta, and is in a fair state of pre¬ 
servation, except at the beginning of the second, third, fourth, and fifth 
lines and in three or four places in the middle, where rust has eaten up the 
surface, and made the facsimile in those parts illegible to me; but, I think, 
even there the outlines of the letters are not altogether lost on the copper¬ 
plate, for in General Cunningham’s hand-copy, which has helped me very 
largely in reading the record, they have been so produced as to be easily 
recognisable. Only in one place, where the age of the moon is given, I have 
failed to read the letters. 
The document opens with a stanza in praise of the sun-god, and then 
records the mandate of a petty zamindar, named Devavishnu, rendering it 
obligatory on the part of the guild of oil-sellers at Indrapur in the Doab, to 
supply the temple of the sun, at that place, with a sufficient quantity of oil 
daily for the use of the temple, the supply being increased by two palas 
