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change is not quite apparent as there is room enough at the 
bottom of the inscription for a postscriptum. The only ex- 
planation seems to be that the thing had to be and was done in 
a hurry. The day and the month were not changed and conse- 
quently the new date does not work out satisfactorily. I am 
indebted to Pandit Hirananda Siastri for the calculation that 
the Pausa purnima of the Vikrama year 1257 does not fall on a 
Sunday. The Belkhara inscription is dated in the year 1253 
of the same era and the last symbol of that inscription has no 
resemblance to the last one of this grant. I am correct 
then it becomes certain that King Haris-candra continued 
to reign up to the year a.p. 1200. 
The Belkhara inscription is dated in the year 1253 of the 
Vikrama era and the date corresponds exactly = Seriearnesl the 
29th April, a.p. 1197.' The text runs as follow 
(1) Parama-bhattaraketyadi rajavali-... .vapa 
(2) ti-gajapati-narapati- rajatrayadhi pati sides vi- 
(3) dya-vicdra-vacaspati Sri-mat = KAN Y AKUBJA- 
VIJAY A- 
(4) RAJYE Samvat 1253 Vaisaésa Sudi 11 bhaume 
(5) Velasara-palyam Ranaka Sri-Vijayakarnna-ra- 
(6) jye dharmmakari nimnamatah Raita Sri Ana{m|da 
(7) suta Raita Sakarukasya Ki irttir =iyam. . 
(8) Ghatita c=esam Sutradhara Jalhanena éubharin. 
ra II Sri-Sakari aay —s gurau.... II. 
phrases. We should compare with this the Peskeohee of one of 
the Nepalese a a in the collection of the Cambridge 
University library :— 
Famcnatayes rajavale pirvvavat Siri-mad = = Govindapala- 
devanim vinastarajye astatrim sa 
_-MS. Add. 1699, 5 
On this Prof. Bendall remarks: ‘‘ The first clause prob- 
ably represents the scribe as declining to recite before 
(purvavat) the long list of be titles beginning as they do, in 
fact, in the first three MSS. noticed—with the title paramesvar ra. 
he great interest, however, : he colophon lies in the phrase 
nashiarajye instead of the usual pravardhamana-vijaya-rajye. 
L take this to be an acknowledgment that the star of the Bud- 
: : ’ 
dhist dynasty had set and their empire in 9 
‘‘vinasta’’ ‘* rui ce w which well accords with the 
fact that Govinda was the last Buddhist sovereign of 
whom we have pea wath record, and that the ee enedsn 
1 Ibid., vol. v, App. p. 27. 
2 Cat: talogue of Bud d. Sans. MSS., Cambridge intro., p. iii. 
