The Age of the Imperial Guptas c6.81

c6.81

The third Faridpur inscription, that of the year 19 of Gopacandra, records that during the reign of this emperor and the government of the *Mahāpratīhāra*, *Kumārāmātya* and *Uparika* Nāgadeva, when Vatsapāla-svāmin was in charge of the district and *Maṇḍala* of Vāraka, Vatsapāla-svāmin, himself, applied for the sale of some land to bestow it on a Brāhmaṇa named Gomidatta-svāmin. In the second plate the *Pustapāla* was Janmabhūti but in the third plate the *Pustapāla* was Nayabhūti. Like the inscription on the first plate this inscription turns into a deed of gift at the end, because it states that Vatsapāla-svāmin bestowed the land purchased by him on Bhaṭṭa Gomidatta-svāmin. The second plate of the reign of Dharmāditya cannot be very far removed from the third in date because both mention the Headclerk Nayasena.¹