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1873.] Rajendralala Mitra —Two Copper-plate Inscriptions. 
Bandhama still exists as tlie name of a village about 2J miles east of Basahi. 
Pusani may be identified with Pusaoli, two miles south of Basahi. For 
Varavvala the local pandits give Belgur, two miles southwest; for Bantlia- 
ra, two miles west of Basahi. Savahada is apparently the modern Sabhad, 
2f miles N. N. W. of Basahi. Ail these are khera villages with which the 
whole north-east of the Bidlnma Parganah appears to be studded. Tradition 
has it that Sahad in the Phaphund Parganah, which is now but a khera, 
was the site of the elephant stables of the rulers of Kanauj, and, though 
there is now no vestige of a wall, the villagers still point out the sites of 
the gates, as the Dihli Darwazah &c.” 
The attesting witnesses to the gift were the high priest, the accountant 
general, and the warder of the palace, the conveyancer being a man of the 
name of Yijaya Dasa, son of Pandit Kuke. 
No. 2 measures eighteen inches by eleven and a half. It originally 
had one or more rings and a seal attached to its top : but they are now lost. 
Its corners are broken, and the inscription, which extends to twenty-four 
lines, has been very much defaced by rust, making it quite illegible in some 
places. Owing to this the pandit, who deciphered the first plate, could not 
make anything of the record. Careful clearing and an impression taken 
under a copper plate printing press, have, however, enabled me to read a 
good part of it, and filling up such portions as are irretrievably lost of the 
preamble, which is the same as in a record published in the twenty-seventh 
volume of this Journal, and the concluding imprecatory and commendatory 
verses from several land grants already published, I have succeeded in res¬ 
toring the record with the exception of a few proper names of places which 
are not of any material importance. The portions taken from other records 
have been enclosed in brackets in the subjoined transcript. 
The subject of the patent is the gift of two villages by Gfovindachandra 
to a Thakur of the name of Devapala Shrma, son of Thakur Udyi, and 
grandson of Thakur Yogi, of the Kasyapa clan. The title of the donee and 
his ancestors appears in its ancient form of Thakkura. The date of the gift 
is the third of the wane in the month of Phalguna, Samvat 1174, or just 
thirteen years after the first grant. The dates are given, in both cases, both 
in letters and figures, and so there is no doubt whatever about the 
accuracy of my reading. 
The preamble of the first grant opens with a reference to a dynasty of 
which one Gahadavala was the founder, and Karlla the last prince. One of 
the descendants, some unknown generations removed from Gahadavala, was 
Mahiala, and after some generations Bhoja, who does not appear to have 
been the immediate predecessor of Karlla. Of these several names, that of 
Bhoja is the most important. As a sovereign of Kanauj, he must be one of 
the two Bhojas of the Saran plate noticed by me in my paper “ on a Land 
