112 A. Fiihrer— Three new copper-plate grants of [No. 2, 
region of the wielder of thunderbolt, (i. e ., the East), like rivals of the 
mate of Abhramu.* 
(L. 11.) He it is who has homage rendered to his feet by the 
circle of all rajas; he, the most worshipful, the supreme king of 
maharajas, the supreme lord, the devout worshipper of Mahesvara 
(Vishnu), the lord over the three rajas, (viz.) the lord of horses ( asva - 
pati), the lord of elephants (gajapati) and the lord of men (narapati ),f 
(like) Brihaspati investigating the various sciences, the illustrious 
Govindachandra Beva , who meditates on the feet of the most worshipful, 
the supreme king of maharajas, the supreme lord, the devout worship¬ 
per of Mahesvara, the illustrious Madanapala , who meditated on the 
feet of the most worshipful, the supreme king of maharajas, the supreme 
lord, the devout worshipper of Mahesvara, the illustrious Gliandradeva , 
who by his own arm acquired the sovereignty over Kanyakubja :— 
(L. 14.) He, the victorious, commands, informs and decrees to all 
the people assembled, resident at the village of SohanjaJca , a part of 
Baluri , in the Navagrama district, and also to the rajas, rajhis (queens), 
yuvardjas (heirs-apparent), counsellors, chaplains, warders of the gate, 
commanders of the troops, treasurers, keepers of records, physicians, 
astrologers, superintendents of gynaeceums, messengers, and to officers 
having authority as regards elephants, horses, towns, mines (dkara), 
districts ( sthdna ), cattle-stations, as follows :— 
(L. 17.) Be it known to you that, after having bathed here to¬ 
day in the Ganges at the divine and blessed A'dikesavaghata,j; at the 
glorious Varanasi (Benares), on the occasion of the sun’s entrance into 
another zodiacal sign after midnight, after having duly satisfied the 
sacred texts, divinities, saints, men, beings and the groups of ancestors, 
after having worshipped the sun whose splendour is potent in rending 
the veil of darkness, after having praised him whose crost is a portion 
of the moon, (i. c., S'iva), after having performed adoration of Vasudeva 
(Vishnu incarnate as Krishna), the protector of the threo worlds, after 
having sacrificed to fire (Agni) an oblation of clarified butter with abun¬ 
dant milk, rice and sugar,—wo have, in ordor to inorease the (spiritual) 
merit and the fame of our parents and of ourself, on Monday, the day 
of full-moon of Marga^irsha sudi, in the (Vikrama) Saipvat year 1180,— 
given the above-written village with its water and dry land, with its 
mines of iron and salt, with its fisheries, with its ravines and saline 
* Motro : Drutavilftmbita. Abhramu is the femalo elephant of tlio East (the 
region of Indra), tlio mato of AirAvata. 
f The uAvapati, gajapati, and narapati aro high officers of Btnto. 
1 Tho quay of AdikoMivn, or Vishtyu, still maintains its reputation for sanctity 
at IJonuros. 
