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The Indian Analyst
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North Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE PARAMARAS OF MALWA Appendix
No. 45 ; No PLATE ...THE copper-plate which bears the subjoined inscription is stated to have been found, in
1836, in course of cultivating a field at Pipliānagar,[4] a village in the Shujālpur parganā
of the Shājāpur District of Madhya Pradesh. From the cultivator who unearthed it,
the plate went into the hands of the local jāgirdār, who, in his turn, presented it to L. Wilkinson,
who was then a political Agent at Bhopāl. Wilkinson intimated this discovery to the Asiatic
Society of Bengal, enclosing a copy of the text incised on the plate, together with a sort of
translation ; and this was published, along with his letter, in the Journal of the Society, in its
Volume VII (for August 1838), pages 736-41. Since then, the inscription has been often referred
to but it has not been systematically edited so far. The fate of the plate too is not known ;
possibly it may have sailed out along with Mr. Wilkinson.[5] It is unfortunate that Wilkinson’s
reading of the text is not accompanied by a facsimile, and under the circumstances the only
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Brother of No. 11.
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