26. A Note on Bhatti. 
By ManAmanopapHyAya HaraprasapD Sastri, C.1.E. 
My young friend Babu Surendra Nath Mazumdar, M.A.. 
in a note published in the February number of our Journal and 
Proceedings identifies Bhatti, the author of Ravana Badha, as 
the Bhatti of the inscription No. 485 of Dr. Kielhorn’s 
‘*Northern List,’’ and in doing so he controverts the opinion 
against such identitification advanced by Dr. Hultzsch in 
1326, that is, a.p. 1404. In the colophon it is distinctly 
stated that Bhatti is an inhabitant of Valabhi and the son of 
Sridhar Svami. 
It runs thus :-— 

xfa aswiaiasiavearfaeat ifgar aw wat cama 
ayia fasaans qesedat ata afamfaaa: a | Sgt 
Mantawha: qracfas WaT 1s 1 2en Whefe @ 7at 
UAT | 
The Bhatti of the inscription came from Mahichhaka and 
dwelt at Mahichhaka; while Bhatti, the poet, wrote the poem 
at Valabhi, for he himself says so, and dwelt at Valabhi by the 
statement in the ancient colophon. Can these two Bhattis be 
one and the same person? ‘This fact was made known by Dr. 
Rajendra Lal Mitra in the year 1882 in the 6th volume of his 
‘* Notices of Sanskrit Manuscripts.”’ 
