1 j4 Captain Ton's Comments on a Sanscrit Inscription. 



" The ills of life it can remove; it will remove even your foe. It can 

 " bestow offspring and riciies ; and, tliough deatli it cannot remove, it can 

 " cause it to be envied." 



Substance of an Inscription i?i Sanscrit an a Stone, from the Ruins of the 

 Palace of Prithwiraja, at A' si {vulgarly Hdnsi). 



After salutation to Devi, and an invocation [comprised in one stanza] 

 to JMuRAVi, or CuisHNA, it recites, that " PrIthwirAja, sprung of the race 

 of Chdhamcina, was sovereign of the earth (Mahi-pati). The brother of 

 liis mother was Kiliiana, of the Graliil6le race, a glorious warrior, skilfid 

 in archery, and replete with good qualities (profundity, liberality, and 

 beauteousness) as the ocean with gems. 



" Considering the valiant Hajimira to be, as it were, the pivot of the 

 whole earti), the prince [a string of epithets in the king's praise], pleased 

 with his various good qualities, bestowed on him the strong fortress of 

 A'si. 



" In tiiat fortress is a gateway of noble architecture, constructed by 

 KiLHANA; and, corresponding with it, two extensive apartments ; and east- 

 ward of it two hails : the victorious treasury of the foe's wealtii, and his 

 own abode." 



The inscription proceeds, through six more stanzas, to laud PrithwirAja, 

 KiLHANA, and Hammira, in a strain of hyperbole, in the course of which 

 there is mention of the D'oda race ; and it concludes with the date Samvat 

 1224., Mdgha, light-half, 7th. 



