1892.] F. Kielhorn— Copper-plate Inscription of Mahipdla. 79 
successors to respect this grant, and commands the villagers to make 
over to the donee all due taxes and shares of the produce (11. 50-53). 
The wording of the prose passage (11. 24-53) of which the preceding 
is an abstract agrees most closely with the phraseology of the Bhagal- 
pur plate. 5 6 The royal residence of Vi[la]sapura and Mahipaladeva 
himself are described exactly as Mudgagiri and ISTarayanapaladeva are in 
the other plate. And the long line of officials enumerated, the quali¬ 
fications of the village granted and the exhortation to future rulers, etc. 
are almost identical in both plates. A difference which may be pointed 
out is that, while in the present inscription, just as in the A'mgachhi 
plate, the donation is made to please the holy Buddha, in the Bkagalpur 
plate bTarayanapala, though also described as a devout follower of 
Sugata, professes to please the holy S'iva and actually makes his gift 
in favour of that deity. 
As is the case in the other inscriptions, this grant was dated (in 
line 53) in regnal years ; but the figures for the year and day and the 
name of the month are illegible in the rubbings. The date is followed 
(in lines 54-61) by seven of the usual benedictive and imprecatory verses 
of which five occur also in the Bkagalpur plate, while all are given, in 
the same order, in the A'mgachhi plate. And these again are (in line 61) 
followed by another verse which records that the dutaka for this grant 
was the minister Bhatta Yamana. The inscription closes with a verse 
containing the name of the engraver which has been already mentioned 
above. 
I have reserved for the end my account of the introductory 
poetical part of the inscription (lines 1-24), which gives the genealogy 
of the Pala princes from Gopaladeva I. to the ruling prince Mahipala¬ 
deva. It consists of twelve verses. 6 Verses 1-5 are identical with the 
verses 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7, and the sixth verse is a slightly altered version of 
verse 10, of the Bkagalpur plate. And the genealogy furnished by these 
six verses undoubtedly is, as Dr. Rajendralala Mitra and Dr. Hultzsch 
have put it:— 
1. Gopala. 
r - A 
2. Dharmapala. Vakpala. 
r - A -—\ 
3. Devapala. Jayapala. 
4. Vigrahapala. 
5. Varayanapala. 
5 See Dr. Hultzscli’s edition in the Indian Antiquary, vol. XV, p. 304. 
6 All the verses occur in the Amgachhi plate. 
