Dr. B. Hamilton, on Inscriptions in South Bihar. 205 



less than six generations. The original was said to have been transmitted 

 to Great Britain by the late Sir John Murray M'Gregor; but I am unable 

 to say where it has been deposited. It would be an acceptable communica- 

 tion, as serving to autlienticate the history of a prince among the most 

 conspicuous in the annals of his country ; on which he inflicted the same 

 calamity which Count Julian did on Spain, by assisting a Musleman conquest 

 of it, in revenge for the abduction of his daughter.* The analogy indeed 

 is not quite complete ; for it was seduction of a daughter which Count 

 Julian sought to revenge. 



Concerning the inscription at Tdrdchand'i, of which a translation is here 

 presented, it is to be remarked, that the denunciation or protest, which it 

 records, is first expressed in verse, t and is then repeated in prose. This 

 repetition has much assisted the decyphering of it, and the correction of 

 some errors, either of the original, or of the copy. A few explanatory 

 notes will be found annexed. 



Translation of the Inscription at Tdrdchdndi. 



" Pratapa dhavala, wholly divine {devd), possessor of happily risen 

 and celebrated glory, addresses his own race. In these villages, contiguous 

 to Calahand'i,X that contemptible ill copper § [grant], which has been ob- 

 tained by fraud and bribery, from tlie thievish slaves of the sovereign of 

 Gddliinagara,\\ by priests sprung from Suvalluhala :^ there is no ground of 



* See p. 147 of this volume. 



f In two stanzas of Vasanta-tilaca metre. 



J Calahan'd'i ; written Caiahandt, with a long vowel, in the prose paraphrase. 



§ The text exhibits, in two places, cutumbra ; which, I conjecture, should be cu-tdmra, 

 from cu ill and tdnira, copper; alluding to a grant inscribed, as usual, upon copper. There may 

 be an allusion to Cutamba, the name of a district in that vicinity. 



II Gddhinagara, the same with Gddhipura, is identified with Canyacubja See As. Res. 



ix. 44-1. 



51 Suvalluhnln ; written Sxmllti haiilya in the prose paraphrase ; it appears to be the designa- 

 tion of the Brd/imanas, who had obtained the grant of land in question. 



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