Vol. IX, No. 4.] Two Portuguese Inscriptions. 171 
[N.S.] 
troubles so frequent in the a pais ea of Mailapur would 
account for its removal to a Hindu temple. 
the Museum of Diu (cf. pee Portug., viii, 183) 
there is an epitaph with the words...NA ERA A.D. 1667, 
where the word A[nno] is redundant after ERA. In the 
Mailapur inscription there was no room for A [nno}], as is plain 
from the se outlines of the stone shown on our plate. 
Hence D = D[e 
Inscription No. 2 was found on the floor of the 
Kalyana mandapam of the op iaet as Temple. It is in 
Portuguese, too, and runs thus :— 
E-DE SEVS.- HE 
RDEIROS (=And of his heirs). 
The shape and the seeie of the letters go to show that 
pe era does not belong to No.1. Moreover the breadth 
th stones differs ee ewny It is from 60 to 61 
inte in ms 2; 74 inches in No l. 
Since fragments of Christian funeral inscriptions have been 
worked into the floor of this Hindu temple, it is not impossible 
that there be — fragments with their faces turned down- 
ards. We hope that the Archeological Department of 
Madras will do the needful to examine into the matter. 
NS 
