1883.] 
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Of far greater significance is a copper-plate inscription, which was 
dug up in 1867 at the village of Manpur, in the Agota Pargana, about 
eight miles to the north of the town of Bulandshahr. Natives, even of 
the higher and more educated classes, have a childish notion, of which 
it is quite impossible to disabuse them, that these old copper-plate in¬ 
scriptions always refer to some buried treasure. Thus the Council of the 
Maharaja of Jaypur, on hearing of the Manpur find, at once put in a 
claim for anything of value that might be discovered ; on the plea that 
Manpur had been founded by Raja Man Sinh of the Jaypur line. The 
absurdity of the claim was in this case enhanced by the confusion of 
chronological ideas; for Man Sinh was a contemporary of Akbar’s, while 
the plate is anterior to the reign of Prithi Raj. It was sent to the Asiatic 
Society in Calcutta, and a translation of it into Nagari and English by 
Pandit Pratapa Chandra Ghosh,appeared in Vol. XXXVIII of this Journal* 
By a strange fatality, the three most important words in the whole record, 
viz., those which give the name of the reigning family, the name of the 
country, and the century of the date, are the most doubtful and illegible. 
The year—which is written at full length, in words—ends with ‘ thirty- 
three,’ but the initial letters have been obliterated by rust. The century, 
however, must be either the eleventh or twelfth, for the characters belong 
to the period immediately succeeding that of the Kutila inscriptions. The 
date may thus be confidently accepted as either 1133 or 1233 Samvat, i. e., 
either 1076 or 1176 of the Christian era. The earlier of the two seems 
the more probable. 
The grant—which confers a village named Gandava on a certain Gaur 
Brahman—was made by a Raja Ananga, in whose description a word occurs 
which the Calcutta Pandit first took to be * Kalinga.’ But the only 
country so-called is an extensive tract far away on the sea-coast, south 
of Bengal. It was never owned by a single sovereign—which in itself 
creates a difficulty—and it is further inconceivable how a plate relating to 
so distant a region could have found its way into the Doab. The word is 
very indistinct and ambiguous and (as the Pandit has remarked) may with 
equal probability be read kanishtha, which will also give an intelligible 
sense to the passage. The suggestion of ‘ Kalinga ’ seems therefore to 
have been an unnecessary importation of a somewhat gratuitous difficulty. 
It might perhaps be Kolansa. This is given in Mother Williams’s Diction¬ 
ary as the name of a district, placed by some in Gangetic Hindustan, with 
Kanauj for its capital, but which it would seem more natural to identify 
with the country round about Kol, the modern Aligarh. 
The name of the family was read by the Pandit as ‘ Rodra ’; but 
only with great hesitation, and with the admission that it seemed to be 
something different, though he could not exactly say what. It is really 
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