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 NOTES 



BY Mh. COLEBROOKE. 



(A.) The translations presented to the Society by Major Tod, having been 

 made through the medium of an interpreter, using an intermediate lan- 

 guage, I have availed myself of the opportunity, which the original 

 inscriptions on copper offered, for re-examining them ; and translating 

 them anew. (See following Essay.) 



Tiie copy, which Major Tod procured, of the inscription on marble at 

 Madliucara-gliar, having been mislaid, there has been no opportunity of 

 comparing with it the foregoing translation, made by him through the 

 medium of the Hindi language, with the assistance of a learned native. 

 It may be presumed, that the general scope of the inscription is correctly 

 rendered. 



(B) Aricesari, in the inscription in question, is the name, not the title, 

 of the prince : its etymology, as is intimated in Sir William Jones's transla- 

 tion of the inscription, is from Ari, foe ; and chart, lion : a lion, among 

 foes. 



(C) Deva-pala-deva is the prince, named in the grant engraved on 

 copper, found in the ruins of Mongir. — See As. Res. Vol. 1, p. I'iG. He 

 is supposed to be the same with the Sri Deva-pala, named in the inscrip- 

 tion on the pillar at Buddal. {lb. p. 134.) The tribes of LcUata, and 

 Bhola, as well as Him, are mentioned among his subjects, with the 

 tribes of Gaura, Malava, Carndta, ^r. He was therefore sovereign of 

 Thibet and Bootan, as well as of Hindusthan, Bengal, and the Dekhin. 

 It was probably in Thibet tliat he encountered the Huns, and reduced them 

 to subjection. 



(D.) Paurhu, from the Sanscrit praudha, signifies strong ; paurhdhi, 

 strength. Pauruslia, from purusha, man, is manliness. 



(E.) Or perhaps an orthodox Hindu, following the precepts of the Veda, 

 which sanctions religious suicide by cremation to accelerate the attainment 

 of bliss. Cu.marila-bhatta, the great champion of orthodoxy, and insti- 



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