grant not being yet received, it will be published in the September number of the Journal. It should be bound up in its place with this Paper.

VI-Grant of Ranastambhadeva.

By Mahamahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri, M.A., C.I.E.,

F. A. S. B.

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This is another plate of Ranastambhadeva of Sulkikula. It has a seal affixed to it, surrounded by a raised rim. The seal contains a crescent moon, the letters Śri Ranastambhadevasya and a standing ball. This inscription measures 8" x 6}" and the seal 2" x 1". The letters in the seal are three-fifths of an inch in height each and those in the inscription are two-fifths of an inch in height each. The inscription seems to be incoinplete from the space left after the s'cond imprecatory verse.

The metrical portion of the inscription, containing invocation and genealogy, have verses which are common to all Sulki inscriptions. Like all grants of this family, this also was issued from Kodálaka. The officers addressed are the same as in other grants. The donee's name is Pauchuka, grand-son of Vágbu and son of Hari, belonging to the Kāņva Śākbā of the Yajur-veda. The date is given as the seventh day of the waxing mocn of Āśvina. The land granted belonged to the village of Jārā in the district of Jārā in the Rāòlia Mandala. The boundaries of the land are given thus :-Chakalikabhūmi on the south-east, Stambhakaraksettra on the East, Āhāra on the North. Jaura on the West and Chintābhūmi on the South. There are two very interesting points in this inscription, one is the name of the village where the land was granted and the village and the district from wh ch the donee came. The land was granted in the district of Jārā and in the village of Järă in the Rādha country. There is such a village in the district of Hughli bordering on the district of Midnapur, both of which belong to Rādha o Western Bengal. It is still the abode of a number of well-to-do families of Brāhmaṇas. But it would be worth

investigating how the Sulkis came to acquire land in this part of the country. There is an influential body of cultivating middlemen at Midnapore who call themselves Sukli and trace their origin to a place called Kedālaka. But Ranastambhadeva the donor was a Sulki and his capital was Kodālaka. Can there be any connection between Sulki and Sukli and Kodālaka and Kedālaka ?

The donee belongs to Kāśyapa Gottra and came from a village named Tellangalabbattagrāma in the district of Rādha. He was a student of the Kāņva Sakhā of the śukla Yajur-veda. But he cannot be a Rādbiya Brāhmaṇa of the Kāśyapa Gottra, because among Rādhiya Brāhmāņas, the only Veda studied was the Sāma Veda, and of the 15 villages from which the Brāhmaņas of the Kāśyapa Gottra among the Rādhis derive their village names, Tellangalabbatta is not one.

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