138 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIII, '17.] 



of the misra; as he had left it untranslated, for without a wao 

 the word ham (also), the last word of the hemistich, becomes 



meaningless. 



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tammam 



According to Professor Blochmann and the people of the 

 neighbourhood of Shan-bandi, whom I consulted, the village 

 has never been called Dinanath. It was a resting-place for 

 wayfarers, and as such might have been called Dina-nath (the 

 friend of the poor), the name of the village being different. 





