84 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [March, 1912. 
This ninth stanza of the Mahatmya is really the 
thirteenth of the Chitor inscription, dated (v.s.) 1331=—a.p. 
° ay 
prefaced the eighth stanza with the words asm Teraa: afaty: 
meaning—‘as said by the ancient poets.’ Accordingly it is 
clear beyond doubt that this verse is borrowed from the Chitor 
inscription, which is in it in relation of Guhila, the son of 
Bapa. But it is strange that the author of the Mahatmya, 
having taken out qztaqa: the term in the beginning of the first 
verse of the stanza, meaning — his (Bapa’s) son ’—and added 
his own reading HaHa in its stead, meaning—‘ His High- 
ness (Guhadatta) became’—has cited the stanza and attri- 
buted it to Guhadatta of the preceding couplet, to make him 
Guhila. Such twisting is found at many places in this work, 
regarding the manuscript of this work, by them, that this is 
the first time that it has lately been discovered by Pandit 
the transcript of Atapura inscription and Mahatmya No. I, it 
is said that Guhadatta came from An 
authorities, namely, the inscriptions of Chitor and Mama-deva 
and the Khyati of Muta Nensi, etc., which are taken in corrobo- 
rative evidence by Mr. Bhandarkar to establish the Nagar- 
