Hie Maner Copper Plate Inscription of GoTindachandra : — 

The inscriptign is inscribed in twenty-six lines on a copper 
plate which had come to light when a man from Maner, a village 
in the western part of the Patna district, had filed the plate in course 
of a law suit. One of the pleaders of this man, who happened to 
be the brother of the Late Prof. Jadunath Sarkar of the Patna 
College, Patna had kept a transcription and photo of the plate. 

Language-Sanskrit; characters-Early Nagarl. 

The inscription purports to be the charter of the king Govinda- 
chandradeva (the son of Madanapala and the grandson of Chandra- 
deva of Kanauj of the Gahadavala dynasty) and records the grant 
of the village named Padali together with the village Gunave in the 
Maniyara (Maner) division {paffala) given in charity by the king 
to a Brahma^a named GaneJvara barman, the son of Thakkura 
Dedabha and the grandson of Thakkura Siva of the Ka^yapa race, 
after having taken bath in the Ganges. 

A strange tax, known as the Turk’s duty (blackmail), is men- 
tioned in the inscription. 

The inscription is dated on the 11th day of the dark fortnight 
of the month of Jyes^ha in the year V.S. 1 183, i.e. 1 126 A.D. 

References :JASB, vol. V, 1922, pp. 81-84; JASB, vol. XVIII, 
pp. 8lff;/B07?5. vol. II, 1916, pp. 441-47; Banerji, R.D., Pdlns o/ 
Bengal, p. 66; Niyogi, R., The History of the GShatfavdla Dynasty, 
p. 250, no. 25; Bhandarkar’s List No. 214.