Dr. B. Hamilton, on Inscriptions in South Bihar. 203 



Jyaisht'ha badi, and underneath the name of" his brother, the prince Tribhu- 

 VANA DHAVALA, the princc's wife Sulhi and another female So'mali, and 

 two sons Lacshmyaditya and Padmaditya ; exhibits a rude figure of a god- 

 dess Tbtald dev'i, attributed to the family priest Vis'warupa. On the other 

 side of the figure, are the names of five daughters, and, at the foot of it, 

 six sons of the Ndijaca. These are Varcu, Satrughna, Birabala, Sahasa 

 DHAVALA, Yami-carticeya and Santa- yatna deva. Beneath are names of 

 Cdyast'has, Yajnyadhara, and Vidyadhara, sons of Cusuma-hara ; the 

 treasurer Devaraja, and the door-keeper (pratihdra) Tishala. 



The site of this inscription is described by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton : 

 ' Where the Tutrahi, a branch of the Kudura river, falls down the hills of 

 Tilot'hu, is a holy place, sacred to the goddess Totald. The recess, into 

 which this stream falls, is about half a mile deep ; and terminates in a mag- 

 nificent, abrupt rock, somewhat in the sliape of a horseshoe, and from 180 

 to 250 feet high. In the centre is a deep pool, at all times filled with water, 

 and which receives tlie stream, tliat falls from a gap in this immense precipice. 

 This gap may be 30 feet wide ; and the perpendicular height there, 180 

 feet. 



' The image is said to have been placed by the Cherbs, about eigliteen cen- 

 turies ago ; and, in fact, resembles one of the images very common in the 

 works attributed to that people in Bihar. But this antiquity is by no means 

 confirmed by the inscription, the date of which is evidently in Samvat 1389, 

 or A.D. 1332. 



' In another inscription it is said, that the family priest of a neighbouring 

 prince, Prata'pa dhavala, had, in A.D. 1158, made the image of the god- 

 dess: alluding evidently to a rude figure, carved on rock, and now totally 

 neglected. 



' The image now worshipped is, as usual, a slab carved in relief, and represents 

 a female with many arms, killing a man springing from the neck of a buffalo.* 

 It is placed on the highest ledge of the sloping part of the rock, immediately 

 under the waterfall. From two to three hundred votaries, at different times 

 in the month of Srdvan, go to the place, to pray.' 



The third inscription is upon a rock at Bandughdta, on the Sane river 



• It figures Mahishasura, vulg. Dhainsisur, slain by Bhavdni. 

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