146 N. N. Y asii — hiscripHon of Narasimha Deva TI. [Nov., 



dated in the Qaka year 1217, on Monday, the 6th titJii of the bnglit 

 half of the mouth of Simha. According to the editor of the inscrip- 

 tion (ibid. p. 230), this date corresponds to Monday, tlie I9th September 

 A.D. 1295. May I venture to state that this is incorrect ? In A.D, 

 1295 the month of Simha lasted from the 30th July to the 29th August, 

 and the tithi which ended on the 19th September, 1295, Avas the 10th, 

 not the 6th, of the bright half. 



In reality, the original date vrould be wrong for paka 1217, both 

 current and expired, and there can be no doubt that the year 1217 lias 

 been wrongly quoted in the plates instead of 1218 expired, and that the 

 intended date is Monday, the 6th August A.D. 1296. We find the same 

 mistake in the Puri plates of Narasimha TV. (Journal^ Vol. LXIV, 

 Part I, p. 151), where the paka year 1316 has been wrongly quoted 

 instead of 1317, and I have given numerous similar dates in my paper 

 on the paka era in the Indian Antiquary. 



Babu M. M. Chakravartti writes : — 

 . The date of this inscription does not appear to me cori-ectly calcu- 

 lated. It is put down as 19th September, 1295 A.D. (p. 230), but on what 

 grounds is not clear. On the other hand Jacobi's tables give a different 

 date. The date of our inscription is Simha gakla 6, Monday. In 1295 

 A.D. this tithi fell on 17th August, which was Wednesday and not 

 Monday, consequently 1295 A.D. could not have been the date. But 

 in 1296 A.D. Simha gulda 6 fell exactly on Monday, the 6th August. 

 Hience if 1217 be taken as an expired paka year, the correct date is 



6th August, 1296 A.D. 



Again the aijha has been translated as year, but in the note to my 

 article on the Uriya inscriptions of 14th and 16th centuries, I have 

 pointed out what an arjka really means in Orissa. It is a curious kind 

 of regnal year in which certain figures such as I, 6, 16, 20, &c., are 

 omitted. 



The prose portion of the grant contains several words which are 

 distinctly Uriya, and these words differ little from the modern Uriya 

 words, e.g., nahar (palace), nala (reed which was the standard of 

 measurement), hatikd (mod. bdti=^20 acres nearly), vidna ( = an acre 

 nearly), guntha (-aVth of a mdna), hida (ridge of fields), gohari (mod. 

 gro^on or low waste land used as path), dandd (high waste land used 

 as path), komati (mod. kiimti, a Telugu caste), and so forth. So far as 

 these words go, the Uriya language must have been fully developed by 

 that time. Several of the,Uriya words have proved stumbling blocks 

 to Nagendra Babu in his translation. 



It is curious to find so many of the names Telugu, for instance 

 Komati, Amnai, Uadai, Talang-gram^ Nadi, &c. This fact clearly indi- 



