Abstract
A new copper plate inscription of Dharmapāla currently kept in the Indian Museum, Kolkata, had been known to a circle of scholars for some time since its discovery. However, its reading and study have just started recently. The present article is probably the first attempt to transcribe, edit, and study the whole inscription. The inscription records the donation of uncertain numbers of land plots in several settlements in Koṭīvarṣa-viṣaya of Puṇḍravardhana-bhukti, locatable in North Bengal, to the Buddhist saṃghas belonging to three facilities established by mahāsāmanta Bhadraṇāga and his wife Saṇhāyikā in the village of Antarāvanikā and in Somapura-mahāvihāra. The information contained in the inscription has important implications for the activities of the subordinate rulers generally called sāmantas and the character of the mahāvihāra.
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