CONTAINING SAKSCRiT INSCRIPTIOlif S. 453 



NOTE lo Vol 7. Page 180. 



A PASSAGE in the preface of the Samgadhara padj'-^ 

 hall, and another in the hody of that work, which were 

 first indicated by Capt. Wilford *, show, that a term, 

 contained in the inscription on the column at Delhi, 

 for which I proposed to substitute, with the advice of 

 the FanJit who assisted me, the word ' Bahiijata as a 

 conjectural emendation, must be read * Chahumana^ or 

 ' Chahavana ;' being the name of the tribe to which, 

 the prince, there mentioned, belonged, and which is 

 well known at this day under the appellation of Ch'duhan, 

 In the preface, Sa'hagad'haka describes himself aS 

 second in descent from Raghude'va, a priest attend- 

 ing on Hammir king of S'acamhha'r'i^ of the tribe o£ 

 Ch'duhan, Chuhuvan, or Bahuvana (for the name is va- 

 riously spelt in different copies.) The work itself is a 

 compilation of miscellaneous poetry arranged under 

 distinct heads ; and one chapter Tthe 73d) is devoted to 

 the admission of stanzas concermng individual princes. 

 Among them two stanzas occur, whick are there cited 

 as an inscription on a royal column of stone erected as 

 a sacrificial pillar -j~; and which on comparison, ari 

 found to he the same with the two first of the stanzas 

 on the pillar at DeUiu Several copies of the Sarngad- 

 hura ■padShali have been collated : in all of which, the 

 term in question is written Bahuvana. Comparing this 

 with the preface of the same compiladon, and with the 

 inscription itself, we may be allowed to conjecture, that 

 Chahuvaua is the correct fe^^ding : the Nagari lettefte 



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