238 Notes. 



Mala implies, (as I learn from Major Tod), according to the ac- 

 ceptation of the country, land not artificially irrigated, but watered only by 

 rain and dew. 



t.^2) J\w eclipse of the moon appears, from calculation, to have taken place 

 lit the time here assigned to it: viz. iCtli July 114-4; as in the preceding 

 year, 28th July 1143. — Jr/ de verifier ks Dates, i, 73. 



(^2) Hiranya, gold : rent in money. 



Blidga bhdga ; in another place, bhagubhoga : share of produce, rent in 

 kind. 



(34) This stanza, a little varied, recurs in the third grant (No. 3). 



(35) This also recurs in the same (No. 3) ; and is likewise found in a 

 grant translated by Sir 'William Jones. — yi*. Res. vol. i, p. 365, st. 1. 



t3C) A quotation. — See Digest (ij'Hiiidu Law, ii, 281, and As. Res. ii, 53. 

 Also, i, 366; and viii, 419. 



(37) The remainder of the stanza (which may be easily supplied from the 

 other inscriptions: See the next grant; and ^5. 7?t's. vol. i. p. 365, st. 3, 

 and vol. iii. p. 53, and vol. viii. p. 41 i)) was probably followed in tlie second 

 plate, by further quotations, deprecating tlie resumption of the gift by 

 future sovereigns : and to which was subjoined the sign manual, witii the 

 names of attesting officers ; as in the accompanying grant by Yas'o varma 

 (No. 3). 



The bridge of virtue, whicli signifies " the maxim of duty," bears an 

 allusion to Rama's bridge, to cross the sea to Lancd. 



^38) Tliesc two stanzas occur also in the preceding inscription. 



(39) Vat a-c'hedaca-shal' -trlnsati ; tliirty-six villages of Vat' a : for it should 

 probably be read C'hetaca (whicii signifies a village) instead of C'hedaca. 



(40) Valgdgra-d'hdrd-d'hdi'd : an allusion is probably intended to D'hdrd, 

 the seat of government of tliis dynasty. Valga signifies a leap ; and d'/idra, 

 a horse's pace. 



I'll) The grantee was either the same person, or one of the same family, 

 as in the preceding grant ; for the designations are identical, so far as this 

 reaches. 



(12) For want of the first plate of this patent, the beginning of the second 

 is. very obscure ; and perhaps not rightly intelligible, without divining what 

 iias gone before. I have endeavouied to make sense of it, but am far from 

 confident pf having succeeded. 



(") MoMALA DEvi was not improbably the name of Yas'o varma's mother; 



