A History of Assam c8.29

c8.29

Bhāskara’s copper-plate land grant. Further information regarding Bhāskara Varman is provided by a copper-plate inscription recording a grant of land made by him which was dug up in 1912 at Nidhanpur in the Panchakhanda pargana of Sylhet. It seems that this grant was recorded on four plates, the two inner ones being inscribed on both sides, but only the first, second and fourth plates were found; the third had somehow got separated from the others. It is stated in the last verse of the inscription that the original plates were damaged by fire and so fresh ones were prepared.*