CONTAINING SANSCRIT INSCRIPTIONS. 447 



three plates of copper, fastened together by a ring, on 

 which is the representation of a seal, bearing the figure 

 of a boar with a sun and crescent. The purport of the 

 inscription, for I think it needless to make a complete 

 version of it, is that ' Janame'j aya, son of Paricshit, 

 a monarch reigning at Hastindpura, made a progress to 

 the south, and to other quarters, for the purpose of re- 

 ducing all countries under his domination ; and per- 

 formed a sacrifice for the destruction of serpents, in 

 presence of the god (or idol) Harihara, at the con- 

 fluence of the rivers Timgabhadrd and Haridd, at the 

 time of a partial eclipse of the sun, which fell on a 

 Sunday in the month of Chailra^ when the sun was 

 entering the northern hemisphere ; the moon being in 

 the Nucshatra A'svcini*.'' 



Having completed the sacrifice, the king bestowed 

 gold and lands on certain Brdhmanas of Gautamagrdma: 

 whose names and designations are stated at full length, 

 with the description and limits of the lands granted. 

 The inscription concludes with two verses ; the same 

 with two of these which occur in the plates found at 

 Chilradurg\ ; and in those preserved at Conjeveram\, 



* Such is the deduction from the text, which states a half eclipse 

 of the sun in Cnaitra, on the sun's entrance into the Uttnrdyana, or 

 northern path, at the moment of P'^yatiputa (which imports new 

 moon on a Sunday in any one of the undermentioned Nacshairas, 

 viz. ylswini, Srdvann, U hanishV ha , Ardnt, Astesha, and Mrigasiras ; 

 the first ot" which is the only one compatible with the month). The 

 words of the text are Cbmiramasc crislina Lshould be crishna] facsh% 



sU carafia uit''ira\ana san vyatipdta Jiimittc 



snrya fsr-cani ard/ia grusa grihita \j\\Qu}A\ie grihita] savidi, [should be 



' "'In the places marked with dots^ the letters are wanting in tlie 

 original. 



t See prige 420 of this volume. 



X As. Res. vol. 3. p. 52. The versee are those numbered 30 



& 54. 



