Indian Epigraphy c11.t9.35

c11.t9.35

arranged in four lines.³ The seal of Kāntideva’s charter is more elaborate in design. It is soldered to the top of the plate above the writing and has a raised rim with pointed end. “It is divided into two panels. The upper one bears in relief the figure of a seated lion inside a temple. The temple is indicated, as in many sculptures in Bengal, by a trefoil arch with flagstaffs on both sides. The seated lion is represented with mouth open and all the four paws in front. Across the lower panel of the seal is the legend *śrī-Kāntidevaḥ*. The letters are engraved in bold relief on a raised space. The seal is supported, at its lower end, by two figures of serpents, with raised hoods, whose interlaced tails and parts of the bodies are soldered both to the raised rim of the seal and the plate.”¹ The circular seal of the Ipur plates has been described in the following words: “It is divided by a cross-line into two sections. The lower section bears, in relief, the legend *śrī-Mādhavavarmā* in two lines. Above the line seems to be a figure of Lakṣmī or a *svastika* on a pedestal, flanked by two lamp-stands and surmounted by the sun and the crescent of the moon.”² The seal of the kings of Śarabhapura has a double-line demarcation in the middle of the surface, the upper field being occupied by the representation of Gaja-Lakṣmī and the lower by a legend in a stanza in the *Anuṣṭubh* metre arranged in two lines.³