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The New Śaktipur Grant of Lakṣmaṇa Sena Deva and Geographical Divisions of Ancient Bengal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

N. K. Bhaṭṭaśālī
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Mr. RameŚa Basu has published a reading of this grant in the Journal of the Baṅgīya Sāhitya Pariṣat, 1337 B.S., No. 4. From Mr. Basu's account, it appears that the plate was discovered at the village of Śaktipur in the Sadar subdivision of Murśidābād district. Mr. Basu has, unfortunately, failed to read correctly some vital geographical details regarding the land granted away by the plate, and thus could discover no clue as to its geographical situation. The genealogical portion of this new plate contains no new information whatever, as it is an exact replica of some other plates of the same king previously found. The real importance of the new plate lies in the supply of new geographical information.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 67 , Issue 1 , January 1935 , pp. 73 - 113
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1935

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page 78 note 1 Vidyāpatir Padāvali, ed. Mr. Nagendranāth Gupta and published by the Vangīya Sāhitya Pariṣat of Calcutta, Introd., p. 1.

page 82 note 1 Mauzā is practically a synonym for “village”. It denotes a revenue unit and sometimes consists of more than one village.

page 82 note 2 Another plate of Lakṣmaṇa Sena found in Dinajpur district goes by the name of Tarpandighī plate. The plate was found from a tank adjacent to the mile long tank at Tapan in the Bālurghāṭ Subdivision of the district, and its correct designation should be the Tapandighi plate.

page 94 note 1 The term in the original is Bhū-droṇa, meaning that the Droṇa here is a measure of area. Dronṇ was originally a measure of quantity, from Droṇa “a wooden bucket”. As much land as could be sown by a Droṇa full of corn came to be known as a Droṇu area. Similar was the ease with Āḍhaka and Kulya.

page 94 note 2 The usual money mentioned in the Sena plates, but omitted here. A Kaparddaka-purāṇa was evidently the value of a purāṇa counted out in eowri shells, which formed the exclusive currency of Bengal in those days. For further discussion see infra.

page 113 note 1 There are some inaccuracies in the transliteration of names on the maps and also some inaccurate spellings, owing to the ignorance, in this matter, of the young pupil of the local School of Engineering who was employed to draw these maps. It was not possible to correct them without drawing the maps afresh. The effect of an attempt to spell correctly the name of the Vardhamāna Bhukti may be seen on map No. V. It is expected, however, that readers will have no difficulty in amending these mistakes from the correct spellings given in the body of this paper.—N. K. B., Dacca.