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liave become more or less illegible. Besides, two ahsharas are entirely 
gone at the lower proper right corner, where the plate is damaged. The 
engraving apparently is deep and carefully executed ; it was done by the 
artisan Mahidhara, an emigrant from the village of Posali (line 62), the 
father of the artisan S'as'ideva who engraved the A'mgachhi plate. The 
size of the letters is about T \". The characters are the kind of Nagari 
wliich about the 10th and 11th centuries appears to have been current 
in the eastern part of northern India, and one peculiar feature of which 
is, that r, preceding another consonant, is ordinarily denoted, not by the 
superscript sign, but by a short line, sideways attached to the upper 
right side of the following consonant. Essentially the same alphabet is 
employed in the Mungir copper-plate of Devapala, in the Budal pillar 
inscription of which I owe an impression to Dr. Burgess, and in some of 
the Gaya inscriptions. The language of our inscription is Sanskrit. 
Lines 1-24, with the exception of the introductory om svasti , and lines 
54-62 are in verse ; the rest is in prose. As regards orthography, b is 
throughout denoted by the sign for v, and the dental sibilant is occa¬ 
sionally employed instead of the palatal, and the palatal instead of both 
the dental and the lingual sibilants. 
The inscription is one of the devout follower of Sugata (Buddha), 
the Paramesvara Paramabhattdralia Malidrdjdclhirdja Mahipdladeva, the 
successor of the Maharajadhiraja Vigrahapaladeva (1. 30). From his 
residence at Vi[la]sapura 1 2 * (1. 29), Mahipaladeva informs the officials 
and people concerned that, to increase his parents’ and his own merit 
and fame and to please the holy Buddha (1. 46), after bathing in the 
Ganges at the time of .a Visliuvasamhrdnti 2 (11. 49 and 50), he has given 
the village of Kuratapallika (exclusive of the part called Chutapallika), 
—a village in the Gokalika mandala of the Kotivarslia vishaya of the 
Pundravardhana bhuJdi 3 (11. 30 and 31),—to a learned Brahman, the 
bliattaputra Krishnadityasarman, a son of the bliattaputra Madhusudana 
and son’s son of the bhattaputra Rishikesa, 4 of the Parasara gotra and 
with the pravara S'akti, Vasislitha and Parasara, an inhabitant of the 
village of Chavati, to where he or his ancestors had migrated from the 
village of Hastipada (11. 47-49). The king moreover appeals to his 
1 The second altshara of this name is indistinct in the rubbings.—A different 
place is mentioned in the Amgachhi plate; but it is not Mudgagiri. 
2 i. e., either the Mesha- or the Tula-samkranti. 
2 The Kotivarsha vishaya and Pundravardhana bhulcti are mentioned similarly 
in the Amgachhi plate. 
feo the name is given in the plate. The correct spelling would be Hrishikesa. 
The plate also mentions the Yeda and sd/chd of the donee, but the words for both 
are illegible. 
