462 Mr. CoLEBnooK^s Notes. 



able and experienced scholar. But an exact copy of the inscription would 

 be an acceptable communication ; and the object may be recommended to 

 the attention of any intelligent traveller visiting Hdnsi. 



Mr. Wilson surmises Hammira to be a corruption of Mir or Amir. (As. 

 Res. XV., p. 466.) The conjecture is probable. Yet Hammira has unquestion- 

 ably been a name of Hindu chieftains. The sovereign of Sdcambhari {Sam- 

 bher), who bore that name (As. Res. vol. ix, p. 192, and vol. x, pp. 4.16 and 

 418) was, as it would appear, a Hindu. 



D. {Page 205.) 



It appears from an inscription (a grant on plates of copper) published, 

 with a translation in the fifteenth volume of Asiatic Researches (p. 447), 

 that Jaya-chandra was son of Vijaya-chandra ; and that there has 

 been a mistake in considering Vijaya-chandra and Jaya-chand to be 

 equivalent Sanscrit and Hindi appellations of the same individual. The 

 error originated with the Pandit Serv6ru Trivedi, who communicated a 

 copy of the inscription noticed in the ninth volume of Asiatic Researches 

 (pp. 400 and 441) as relative to Jaya-chand, whom he identified (erroneously, 

 as now appears) with Vijaya-chandra. 



The series of princes who reigned at Gddhipura or Canyacubja, ancestors 

 of Jaya-chandra, is now completely and accurately determined ; and the 

 recovery of the inscription in question (p. 205 of this volume) ceases to be 

 a matter of any interest. 



E. {Page 235.) 



By some oversight the date of the month has been given wrong : sudi 

 instead of badi ; the increase instead of the wane of the moon. It should be 

 3d badi (dark half). 



On a reperusal of the Grant No. 1. (p. 232), it appears probable that the 

 grantee's name was Dhanapala instead of Vanapala. Througiiout the 

 inscription the letter ^ has for the most part the appearance of ^, the 

 detached stroke ^ being effaced : and Dhanapala is doubtless the more 



ordinary name. 



The tenour of the three inscriptions, as read and translated, is subjoined 

 in printed characters. This should have accompanied the fac-simile and 

 English version of them. 



