A History of Assam c26.2

c26.2

[THIS set of copper-plates refers to a grant of land by Raja Ratna Pāl. It was obtained by the author from a cultivator in mauza Bargaon, district Darrang, Assam, who said that it was found by his grandfather while ploughing his fields. The translation is by the late Dr. Hœrnle, who published a full account of the plates in the *Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal*, vol. lxvii, pt. I, page 99. Most of the footnotes which accompanied the original translation have been omitted. Dr. Hœrnle thought that this inscription was probably made in the first half of the eleventh century.]