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1871.] Two Copper-plate Inscriptions from BcimangliMi. 
estate. The villages Korandiya, Devakunda, Timandira, Konkola, 
Jambupadraka, Prasanna, of Sri Eanabhanja Deva’s grant are in 
name evidently Uria. Again, the title of the donees in both 
inscriptions is Uria. The donee of Eajabhanja’s deed of gift is 
Buddha Samanta, son of Mundi Samanta, and that of Eanabhanja 
is Badhaka, son of Mundi Samanta. That the donees are of the 
identical family does not admit of doubt, and there are strong 
reasons to suppose that they are the same individuals. Buddha 
and Bodhaka might be different rendering by the engravers, of 
the same name. In the translation, nevertheless, Samanta has 
been rendered as 1 generalissimo,’ and the reason of my so doing is, 
that in the absence of any legend or tradition to the contrary, I think 
it better to give a literal rendering of the inscription than to 
mislead the reader by what I believe to be a mere guess. 
The tablet bearing Banabhanja’s grant measures 8| inches by 
7 inches, and the diameter of the seal attached to it, is over 3 inches. 
On referring to the plates, it will apj>ear that it is the better 
executed engraving of the two. Indeed, the other tablet is a copy,— 
a rough and hasty one—of this. In the seal is the figure of a bull, 
the Nandi, surmounted by a crescent moon and standing before 
a trident. The name of the prince “ S'rf Eanabhanja Deva’s” 
occurs next in one line extending over the entire 
diameter of the seal, and the exergue bears a little less than a half 
lotus. The inscription, transliterated in Devanagari character, 
stands thus : 
i VRvr^fvr^KT vptt waters fsr- 
fjmsw fV grfirer* i *nrr- 
(?) *rfc3T^<?X!f sfctxrg 
TgJTct: 
^ftf%W§jT5T(*J?)st ^jf^Tcr: I cRJT?J|3T: BflT 
