144 REMARKS, &C. 



P. 135. Verse VII. Sums of Peetas — The common sense of pit'ka 

 is a chair, seat, or throne ; and in this sense it occurs in the thir- 

 teenth verse. Udupachch'habipit'ham, or with-a-seat-bright-as-the 

 moon, appears to be the compound epithet of asanam, or chair of 

 state, which, though the King had often given to his Ministers, yet, 

 abashed by his wisdom, and apprehensive of his popularity, he 

 had himself ascended his throne with fear. 



P. 136. Verse X. The tenth stanza is extremely difficult, as it 

 contains many words with two meanings, applied in one sense to 

 the Minister Cedaua Misra; but, in another, IoCarticeya, theln- 

 dian Mars: thus, in the first hemistich, s' ic'hin means fire, or a 

 peacock ; s' ic'ha, a bright flume, or a crest; and s' acti, either power 

 or a spear. As the verse is differently understood, it may be a 

 description of the Brahmen, or of the Deity. 



P. 136. Verse XII. The Brahmans of this province insist, that 

 by the four Vidya's, or branches of knowledge, are meant the four 

 Vedas, not the Upaveda's, or Medicine, Archery, Musick, and Me- 

 chanicks ; and they cite two distichs from the Agnipurana, in which 

 eighteen Vidya's are enumerated, and among them the four Vedas; 

 three only of which are mentioned in the Amarcosh, and in several 

 older books. In this verse also Radhacant has displayed his cri- 

 tical sagacity : instead of nala he reads bala; and, if his conjec- 

 ture be right, we must add, " even when he was a boy." 



P. 137. Verse XVI. Constant to her lord — Radhacant reads ana-, 

 patyaya, or childless, for anupatyaya ; Sati having borne no children 

 till she became regenerate in the person of Parvati. 



P. 139. Verse XXIII. It obstinately bore him no fruit. — The ori- 

 ginal stanza is uncommonly obscure : it begins with the words yo- 

 nirbabhuva, the two first syllables of which certainly mean a womb : 

 but several Pandits, who were consulted apart, are of opinion, that 

 yo is the relative, of which some word in the masculine gender, 

 signifying speech, is the antecedent, though not expressed : they 

 explain the whole stanza thus' — " That speech, which came forth 

 " (nirbabhuva) inconsiderately, of which there was no fruit, he was 

 " a man who spoke nothing of that kind for his own gratification : 

 " he was a man also, by whom no present-of-play things was ever 

 " given, which the suppliant having received, goes to another more 

 " bountiful giver." If the relative had been yan in the neuter gen- 

 der, I should have acquiesced in the translation offered by the 

 Pandits; but the suppression of so material a word as speech, which, 

 indeed, is commonly feminine in Sanscrit, appears unwarrantably 

 harsh according to European ideas of construction. 



P. 140. Verse XXVI. If the preceding interpretation be just, 

 the object of the Pillar was to perpetuate the names of Gurava 

 Miska and his ancestors ; and this verse must imply, that he ex- 

 pected to receive from his own sons, the pious offices which he had per- 

 formed to his forefathers. 



