74 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
peculiar. The anusvara is written as in modern Nagri with a 
dot placed along, or sometimes above, the base line. . The char- 
acters are all well-formed and beautiful to look at. The lan- 
guage of the inscription is Sanskrit. The opening four lines 
are a verse in the famous Sragdhara meter and the concluding 
lines a verse in Anustup. The rest are in prose. Grammatical 
mistakes are few in number and are probably due to the inscrib- 
ers ignorance of the language. Correct readings have been 
given at foot along with the text. 
inscription refers itself as already pointed out to 
Ramasimha II, who is the twentieth king in the List of Jaintia 
kings given by Sir Edward Gait (see Journal of the Asiatic So- 
ciety of Bengal, 1895, Vol. LXIV, part 1, page 246). His 
regnal vears appear to have been from 1790 to 1813 A.D. The 
king, after having built a temple for Ramesvara-Siva on the 
Kapota tila (a small hill) in the existing village of Dhupi, 
makes a grant of land for the carrying on of his daily worship 
by Sri- Rukhada Paribrajaka or his disciples 
The inscription is dated Sunday, the ok of Jyaistha, 
full moon day, sakabda 1720 (1798 A.D. }. 
-EXT. 
(Edited from the original.) 
2 Bam | 
Tas 9! Sl rv? 
lL. oP HREM BeAcSTAVAlaaas? Daaicrtaraee’ crate 
2. ofa: feats afsfas aiffeitgsacs 1 stBarahr 
3. te agiasateafatca’ “aicw crate: stata: 
4, afefraqaataaceaascyi: 17 faserfeananns 
5. *BtCe acareraan waafra: wai ateraatar faafare Ae 
6. BT Frelyarasal Alataesqriacatsee 
7. af gfaefadert ota ‘aahistan sartaiaasafa 
8. Barwa errecaiifacaaniy Sfattatns: sea sage 



- | To be inserted after *f4 in line 7. 
2 To be inserted in line 28 in place of the creeper design 
3 Expressed by a symbol. 
+ Read °fqya: 5 Read 7 atayes 
6 The curve above the base line in f4 has been omitted. 
1 Meter: 4%} 3 Read *fafasie 
9 Read nafis\e 
