7 OF FIKUZ SHAH. 



The date 123 is here perfectly clear; at leaft it is 

 clear that only thru figures are written, without even 

 room for a cypher after them; whence we mav guefs 

 that the double circle in the former 

 only an ornament, or the neutral termination am ; if 

 fo, the date of both is the year of Christ - : en : 



but if the double circle be a zero, the monument of 

 Vijala Diva is as modern as the year 1174, or 

 years before the conqueft of Dchli by '.n. 



III. and IV. 



The two next Infcriptions were in the fame 

 but the ftanzas, which in the fourth are extremely mu- 

 tilated, are tolerably perfect in the third, wanting only 



a few fyllables at the beginning of the hemiftichs : 



yah cfhivefhu praharta nripatifhu vinaraatcandharefli 1 



prafannah 

 — vahsambipurindrahjagati vijavate vifalacfhonipalah 

 ... da fajnva efha vijayi iantanajanatmajah 

 . . punan cfhemaftu bruvatamudyogas unyanmanah 



He, who is refentful to kings intoxicated with pride, 

 indulgent to thofe whofe necks are humbied, an Indra 

 in the city of Caufdmbi, (I fufpect Caufambi.a city near 

 Hajlindpur, to be the true reading.) who is victorious 

 in the world, Visala. fovereign of the earth; he gives 

 .... his commands being obeyed, he is a conqueror, 

 the fon of Santdnajdna, whole mind, when his foes 

 fay, i; Let there be mercy," is free from further hofli- 

 lity. 



This infcription was engraved, in the prefence of 

 Sr) Talaca R»ha^ by j ihe fon oi :, a 



ji'ha. of a family in Gauda z or Bengal. 



V. The 



