The Dighwa-Dubaull Copper-Plate Inscription of the time of 
Maharaja Mahendrapala ; — 

The inscription is inscribed in fourteen lines on the one side of 
a copper plate (measuring ;3.4 cms. by 42 eras.) from Dighwa- 
DubauH, a village situaied about 40 kms. south-east of Gopalganj, 
the chief town of the Gopalganj district. 

Language- eianskrit; characters-North Indian alphabets of about 
the 8th-9th century A.D. 

The inreription purports to be the charter of the Gurjara- 
Pratihara king Mahendrapala issued from the camp at Mahodaya 
(i.e, Kanauj), and records the grant of the village of I'anlyaka- 
grama of the Vali\aka-vi.saya in the Sravasti-bhukti to the Bhatta 
Padmasara of the Savarna-gotra by the king. 

The inscription is dated on the It'th day of tlie bright fortnight 
of the month of Magha (January-February) in the year 155. The 
era to which the year 1 55 is to be referred to is not specified; but, 
applying the c'ate to the era of Har.savardhana of Kanauj (commen- 
cinq in A.D. 6C6-OU, its dale WL,u!d come to 76;-. 2 A.D. (lA, 
vol. XV. pp, 105ff). But Mai endrapaia flourished in the last quarter 
of the 9th and the early part of the 10th centuries A.D. The inscrip- 
tion may, therefore, be assigned to the last quarter of the 9th 
century A.D. 


Reference : JA, vol, XV, pp. 105-13