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Hills, and the inscription of Kalchand, a governor of Gaya, under 
the Emperor Firoze Shah, dated 1429 Samvat, in the temple of the 
orn 
.E, in the Indian Antiquary, Vol. XX, for September 1891), 
that still remain attached to the ruins os the ancient temples, the 
construction of which they commemora 
(6) That they bear a decisive eran of the fact that the 
modern Deva Nagari character continues almost unchanged from 
nearly 500 years; and that, therefore, the poe found in 
aya, containing no date in any recognised era, and wri tten in 
which bear a clear date in the era of Vikramaditya, are HiT in 
modern Deva Nagari character :— 
(a) Inscription dated 1257 Samvat, 1200 a.p., on a slab of 
stone on a wall on the northern side of the temple 
of Parpita mahesvara in Gaya, and being No. 22 of 
the list of Gaya inscriptions given by General Cun- 
ningham, in Vol. III of his report on the Archeologi- 
cal Survey of India. 
(b) Inscription of Sairyndasa, dated 1516 “meat attached to 
Gayesvari temple in Gaya (being No. 28 of the 
ni a 
temple in Gaya, on in the Indian Antiquary, 
Vol. XX, pp. 312 t 
(d) Inscription dated 1519 Samvat, of seven long lines on a 
slab of stone, about 25 inches long and 7 inches broad, 
fixed on a wall in the temple of Kotesvara Mahadeva 
south of the well- known temple of Saksi Mahadeva 
near Visnupada in 
According to local tradition, the line of this family of the 
lunar kings ended wit hairavendra, the last king named in 
these inscriptions. After his death, his widowed Queen is said to 
have succeeded him; but she is said to have been overpowered 
by one of the ministers of Hhsigvenares. who was a Bhat (bard) 
by caste, but whose name is not known now. This Bhat minister 
was trying to seize the throne for himself when chance ordained 
it otherwise. 
It is said that four brothers, warriors, belonging to the 
family of the Maharana of Udaipur were proceeding to the 
shrines at Gaya by the route, which later on seems to have 
been developed into the Grand Trunk Road the Emperor 
Shér Shih. They happened to halt for the night under some 
trees near a well in front of the town of Umga, the capital of 
