94 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XII, 



Inscr. No. 2 : An inscription incised on the base of a pil- 

 lar in the porch of the third, or inmost, gateway of the fort, at 

 the left. It consists of 12 lines of writing and covers a space 

 of 16J " high by 9| " broad. Written in a corrupt mixture of 

 Sanskrit and Bhasa. Letters very badly engraved and several 

 of them utterly indecipherable. 



The inscription is dated in the year [Vikrama-] Samvat 

 1532, the 2nd (?) day of the dark fortnight of Vaisakha, Monday, 

 and refers to the reign of Nam Singha Be, the son of the Raih- 

 avara raya sri Surija Mala. Though a good part of the text ' is 

 unintelligible, yet it is clear that the object of the inscription is 

 to record that the erection of the gate in question was com- 

 pleted on the date above given, and the fort was also contem- 

 poraneously repaired. It would therefore seem that the fort had 

 been built some years before Samvat 1532. Of the names given, 

 Nam Singha De is the entire name of Naro, and Surija Mala 

 the entire name of Sujd, his father. Rathavara is evidently the 

 same as Rathora. ' ' 



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Inscr. No. 3 





the nnttrV? °' 3 : A? inscri P fci on incised on the left pillar of 

 ^L°^! r : gateway of the fort. It consists of 9 lines of writing, 



18i" 



broad. Written 



covering a space of 7] " high by 



rupt Sanskrit. Characters neatly engraVeland well reserved. 



the mth T» n ?T ,° pe ? S 7 ith the date Vikmma- Samvat 1573, 



Thurlv »Jtt h P ght t 7 tnigM °f the mon ^ of Margasira, 

 1 nursday, and then it records that the pillars of the above-men- 



