4. A note on the Badkamta Nartteévara Image 
Inscription. 
By Natint Kanta Buarrasatt, M.A., 
Curator, Dacca Museum 
[With Plate X.] 
In March 1914 number of the J.A.8.B., pp. 88 and 89, 
I gave a reading of this inscription. The reading was rather 
defective as I could not read some of the letters rendered 
very indistinct by the peeling off of stone. The name of the 
onor was also read incorrectly as Bharudeva whereas it 
ought to have been read Bhabu Deva. I give a fresh reading 
of the inscription below. 
(1) fimreioonr cade deva padi | ya vijaya rajye 
Asta na Caturdasyam Tithau Brhas- 
pati v pare Pusya aekeane | Karmmanta pala Sti 
(2) Kusumadeva suta Sti Bhabudeva| karita Sti Nart- 
teSvara Bhatté ........ Chandra ee Asadha dine 
14 ) Khanitafica Ratokena sarvaksar 
(3) Khanitafiea madhustdaneneti | 
The most important addition is that of the word ae 
before sare fet e#. I pointed out in my paper Se 
forgotten kingdom of East Bengal’’ in which this inscription 
was 8 published that the date of the inscription was a curious 
anomaly ,—several scholars declaring the coincidence of 
wainee: fafa, garaaa, ewaufa are and the 14th day of yrme, 
impossible. We find now from the word ¥yegaaq that the calcu- 
lation is to be made by the movement of the moon. Astro- 
nomers who are fond of a puzzle may see now whether the 
calculation made according to the movement of the moon 
makes the coincidence possible and yields a date 
tried to prove in my paper that the country round 
modern Comilla was anciently known as Samatata. An 
inscription of king Mahip4la deva discovered by Babu Upendra- 
chandra Guha, B.A., B.T., at a place called Baghaura in the 
Comilla district seems to confirm my identification. The in- 
scription is on the pedestal of an image of Vishnu and runs as 
follows :— 
(\H) @ aaq 3 arafea 20 SaetuIEes cI 
Qa) awlfifed atcramag( caren aaa2 faafare 
(34) ala yaaa afanntacay qqznaqa 
(eu) waa fasttimas wasnt afresa | 
