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The Indian Analyst
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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA No. 10─EPIGRAPHIC NOTES D. C. SIRCAR, OOTACAMUND 6. Rākshaskhāli (Sundarban) Plate ; Śaka 1118 In the Indian Historical Quarterly, Vol. X, June, 1934, pp. 322-31, Dr. B. C. Sen edited the Sundarban (Rākshaskhāli) copper plate, dated Śaka 1118, belonging to a ruler of lower Bengal, whose name was read as śrī-Maḍōmmaṇapāla. In the Indian Culture, Vol. I, April, 1935, pp. 679-82, I made an attempt to improve upon the reading and interpretation of the record as published by Dr. Sen and suggested inter alia that the name of the ruler was very probably śrīma[ḍ*]-Ḍōmmaṇapāla. This suggestion and some others of mine were later supported by Dr. R. C. Majumdar in the Dacca University History of Bengal, Vol. I, p. 222, note. The inscription has recently been re-edited by Mr. R. K. Ghoshal in this journal, Vol. XXVII, pp. 119 ff., where some of my views have been commented upon, while some of them have been accepted. As regards the name of the ruler in question, Mr. Ghoshal seems to be inclined to prefer Maḍōmmaṇapāla to Ḍōmmaṇapāla suggested by me. In this he apparently ignores the important fact that a name like Maḍōmmaṇa is not known to have been borne by any Indian in any period of history, while Ḍōmana (no doubt the same as Ḍōmmaṇa) is a fairly popular name even now in Bengal[4]. That the name was popular among the Vaidyas of Bengal also in early times is proved by the mention of Ḍōmanadāsa in Bharatamallika’s Chandraprabhā (Śaka 1597) and of Ḍamanasēna (the same as Ḍōmanaº ; cf. the Bengali tendency to pronounce a, both initial and medial, as ō) in Kavikaṇṭhahāra’s Sadvaidyakulapañjikā (Śaka 1575) as the ancestors respectively of the Dāsas and the Sēnas among the Vaidyas[5]. Another interesting fact which can hardly be ignored in this connection is that the name Ḍōmmaṇa=Ḍōmana=Ḍamana is apparently of South Indian
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[4] Cf. Ind. Cult., Vol. II, p. 152.
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