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1879.] B. Mitra —On a Cop.per-Plate Grant from Kulw. 
and must date from the 4th or the 5tli century A. D. There is, however, 
no date in the record to verify this conjecture. 
The purport of the document is the grant of a village named Sulisa 
to a Brahman of the School of the Atharva Veda, for the use of a temple 
dedicated to S'iva, by a queen named Mihiralakshmi. Her son Samudra- 
sena is the donor. He was a Brahman, who assumed to himself the title 
of Maliasamanta, “ great commander,” and Maharaja, “ great kingthese 
titles are also assigned to three of his ancestors, whose names are, in the 
ascending series, (1) Bavisena, (2) Sanjayasena, (3) Varunasena. Who 
these worthies were I cannot ascertain. They were probably petty chief, 
tains of the Panjab, where even at that early date Linga worshij} had be¬ 
come widely prevalent. 
Translation. 
Born in the year-of the celebrated king, of him, whose glorious 
deeds had spread far to the four oceans, whose feet had become resplen¬ 
dent with the reflection of the crown-jewels on the bended heads of many 
chiefs of great armies, who had celebrated great sacrifices, of the mighty 
commander and great king S'ri Varunasena. His son and successor, horn of 
her majesty Pravalika, the great goddess, (was) his father’s rival in merit, the 
mighty commander, and great king S'ri Sanjayasena. His son and successor, 
born of her majesty S'ikharasvamini, the great goddess, (was) the hero of a 
hundred battles, the mighty commander, and great king S'ri Bavisena. His 
son and successor, horn of her majesty S'ri Mihiralakshmi, the great 
goddess, (was) the delighter of mankind like the autumnal moon, the 
bestower of gifts to those who are overpowered by powerful enemies, the 
kind to the poor, the merciful to the decrepit, the great devotee of Mahes'- 
vara, the great Brahman, the devoted friend, the mighty commander, and 
great king S'ri Samudrasena. He, for the enhancement of the virtue of 
his mother Mihiralakshmi, and for the service of the lord, the destroyer of 
Tripura, the giver of light to the world, the beneficent to those who bow 
to him, * * * the divinity established at Kapiles'vara, and named after his 
mother Mihires'vara, alias Kapales'vara, for his daily supply of sacrifices, 
boiled rice, offerings, flower garlands, incense, aromatics, lamps, and for 
occasional repairs, to Stoma, a Brahman of the school of the Atharva 
Veda * * * has granted, for the period of the duration of the sun, the moon 
and the stars, the village of Sulisa, extending as far as the dependencies* 
* Tho boundaries described are unintelligible to me. The word Kittumba is in 
Sanskrit usually employed to indicate a kinsman, it does not moan a dependency in 
tbo sense of an adjoining piece of land, but it has been repeatedly so used in the text 
as to leave me no alternative but to use it in the latter sense. The names of the places 
are such as to be quite unintelligible. 
