4l6 ON SANSCRIT AND 



[See Plate A. Fig. g.'] 



Jajjala, general of Hammira's forces, taking the 

 field against the Muhammedan emperor, says vaun- 

 tingly 



** I PUT on strong armour, placing barbs on my horse, and 

 taking leave of kmsmen, 1 hasten to the war. Having received 

 the commands of my master HA^f m'ira, I ily through the 

 sky; I pursue the road ; I flourish my scimitar on the head of 

 the foe. Amid the bustle of horse and foot I scale mountains. 

 In Hammira's cause, Jajjala declares, The fire of wrath 

 burns within me ; layin*^ my sword on the liead of the Sultan, 

 and abandoning this corporeal frame, 1 ascend to heaven." 



The emperor, whose death was thus vainly promised 

 to Hammira, by his braggart general, must have been 

 Sulta'n Muhammed Khu'^1, with whom he is stated 

 to have been contemporary ; and who reigned from 

 A. D. 1325 to 1351 *. Hammira was sovereign of 

 Sdcamhhar'i^ which, with unfeigned deference for the 

 opinion of Captain Wilfoed on a geographical ques- 

 tion, I still think to be Sdmhher \ : and for this sim- 

 ple reason ; that the culinary salt, brought fron the 

 lakes of Sdmhher^ is named in Sanscrit^ Sd camhhariya 

 lavana, answering to the Hindi Sdmhher I'dun. It is, 

 however, proper to remark, that maps exhibit a place 

 of the name of Samhhere between Ujjayam and Tudor. 



The Ulcaclihd is a stanza of six verses, each com- 

 prising eleven monients (scanned 4+ 4-f 3). It ad- 

 mits eight species from 6o short syllables to 28 long 

 and 10 short. 



• As. Res. Vol. IX. 192. 

 t As. Res. Vol. VII. p. 511. 



