J The Don Bnziirg Copper Plate Inscription of Govindachandra : — 

The inscription is inscribed on two copper plates (measuring 37.5 
cms. by 27.7 cms. and 36,5 cms by 26,4 cms._i recovered by a Chamara 
cultivator in a field near the village of Don Buzurg, 12 kms. to the 
north of the Mairwa railway station in the district of Saran. 
Both the plates were originally soldered on a circular ring passing 
through the upper part of the second plate and the lower part of 
the first plate. The inscription consists of thirty-six lines of wri- 
ting, of which nineteen lines are engraved on the first plate and 
the rest seventeen lines on the second plate. The copper-plates are 
presently preserved in the State Museum, Lucknow. 

Language-Sanskrit; characters-Nagarl of the 12th century 

A.D. 


The inscription purports to be the charter of the king Govinda- 
chandradeva of the Gahadavala dynasty and records the 
grant of the village of Vadagrama situated in the Alpa division 
(pa(tala) to a Brahmana named TuHaicha barman, belonging to 
the Vachchha-gotra or Dronayanasada by the Gaha^vala king 
who was encamped (ySnSvdsa) at Mamdalia in Alathvimahapura 
at the time of issuing the grant. At this place, the king granted the 
village after taking bath in the Ganges. 

The in.' cription is dated on tuesday, the 8th day of the bright 
fortnight of the month of Jyesjha of V.S. 1176, i.e. 1119-20 A.D. 

References : El, vol. XVIII, pp. 218-24; 3ASB, vol. I, pt. i, p. 
13C; Niyogi, R., The History of the Gaha^avdla Dynasty (Culcatta, 
1959), Appendix B, p. 249, no, 18; Bhandarkar's List No. 202. 



Inset iptions of the Gdha^avSla Period