204 Dr. B. Hamilton, on Inscriptions in South Bihdr. 



opposite to Japila, which was the chieftain's principahty. The date assigned 

 to Mahd-nripati (i. e. Maharaja) Pratapa dhavala, besides the number of 

 21 years (apparently the duration of his reign, as chief of Japila), is, in the 

 Jhc simile, written 2219 Samvat ; but tlie first digit being clearly wrong, it 

 must be corrected to 1219, or 1229 ; most hkely the latter. No date is 

 assigned to his predecessor Udaya dhavala ; nor to the line of his succes- 

 sors, beginning with Vicrama, who is perhaps the same with Varcu (the 

 first among his sons, named in the second inscription,) and who appears from 

 the epithet of Vijayin, " victorious," to have been the reigning prince, 

 when his name was here set down. The rest must have been subsequently, 

 from time to time, added ; and the first among them is Sahasa dhavala, 

 perhaps the fourth son of Pratapa dhavala, mentioned in the second 

 inscription. 



Above all this, there have been inscribed, at a much later period, other 

 names, viz. ' MaMrdjd Nyunat rai or Nyunta raya, who went to heaven 

 (^surapura, i. e. the city of the gods) in the year lC43 Samvat ;' and ' Ma- 

 hdrdjd Pratapa rata, or Pratapa rudra, who went to heaven in the year 

 \^53 Samvat.' 



In another part of the inscription, there occurs the name of Mahdrdjd 

 Manasinha, with the dates of lfi52 and 1653 Samvat; and lower down, 

 a string of three names, Mahdrdjd Cansaraja, Pratapa dhavala deva, 

 and Madana sinha. Between the two last, there is interposed the date of 

 1G24 Samvat. 



The name of Pratapa appears then to have been of frequent recurrence. 

 The family, which yet possesses the principality of Bilonja, the lepresen- 

 tative of which, when visited by Dr. Hamilton, was Rdjd BhIjpanat'ha sA, 

 claims descent from Pratapa dhavala, chief of Japila. 



Japila is a large estate, south of Ratitds {Rohitds'wa), in the district of 

 Rdmagliar. But the territories of the ancient chieftain seem to have ex- 

 tended beyond its present limits, and to have reached the vicinity of 

 Satiasram. 



These inscriptions have no other chronological value, but as they corro- 

 borate the date of one possessing more historical interest, noticed in the 

 Researches of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (vol. 9, p- 441). It records a 

 grant of land, by the same Rdjd of Canyacubja, Vijaya chandra ; and, as 

 usual, recites the names of his ancestors, tracing his genealogy through no 



