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Jaina inscription on the Temple of Baijnath at Kiragrama," and " In- 

 scription on an image of Parsvanatha, in Kangra." Professor Kielhorn, 

 C, I. E., contributes papers on eight inscriptions from Khajuraho. Dr. 

 Hultzsch describes two inscriptions from Gwalior, A plate is given of 

 the 12th edict of Asoka from Shahbaz Garhi. 



Part IV contains seven papers and four plates. 



Dr. Hultzsch's paper, noted above, is concluded. Professor Kielhorn 

 gives an account of the Siyadoiii stone inscription, which was first 

 mentioned in our Journal, Vol. XXXI, by Professor Fitz-Edward Hall, 

 as a " huge inscrijation " from some part of Gwalior of which a trans- 

 cript had been made over to him by General Cunningham." In 

 1887 Dr. Burgess discovered this inscription about 10 miles from 

 Lalitpur. Although no definite date is given on the inscription, Dr. 

 Kielhorn has been able to deduce from it the names of four kings of 

 Mahodaya or Kanyakubja, with their known dates, viz., 



Bhoja, succeeded by Mahendrapala, A. D. 903-4 and 937-8. 



Kshitipala, succeeded by Devapala, 948-49. 



Professor Kielhorn also gives a description, with text, of the 

 inscription found at Kudarkot, in the Itawa District, North-Western 

 Provinces, now in the Luckuow Museum. The paper is accompanied 

 by a photolithographed facsimile. Also of two Chandella inscriptions, 

 and of a fragment of an inscription from Jhansi. 



Dr. Biihler gives descriptions of the Peheva inscription from tho 

 Temple of Garibnath, in the Karnal District, edited from a paper im- 

 pression fm-nished by Mr. C. J. Rodgers. Dr. Biihler has also edited 

 the Kangra Jvdlamuhlii Prasasti from the temple of Bhavani, in Bha- 

 v^-an, a suburb of Kot Kangra. 



The third volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Indicartim, to which 

 allusion was made in last year's address, has appeared and contains an 

 account of the Inscx-iptions of the early Gupta Kings and their succes- 

 sors, by J. F. Fleet, Esq., CLE. Both in point of exhaustiveness 

 and accuracy it is a model of what a work of this kind should be. It 

 is furnished with 45 photolithographic facsimile plates, prepared in the 

 well-known establishment of Mr. W. Griggs, at Peckham. A paiticu- 

 larly valuable feature of the book is Mr. Fleet's ' Introduction,' which 

 takes up more than one third of the volume and exhaustively discusses, 

 among other things, the much-debated question of the epoch of the 

 Gupta era. This, Mr. Fleet now shows conclusively, must be the 

 year 319-320 A.D., equivalent to S'aka Samvat 241 expired. 



In the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenldndischen Gesellscliaft, Dr. 

 Biihler, in a paper entitled " Die Mansehra Version der Felsenedicte 

 A^ka's," gives the text of 12 edicts, in Roman and Sanskrit characters, 

 with comments and comparisons with Dr. Seaart's and other versions.' 



