1897.] N. H. Ridley— ne Jev'mg fruit. 147 



cates tliaf' Tellngana and Orissa were unrler the same rule, and that 

 many of the officers happened to be Telugu. Presumably Orissa was 

 cx)nsidered as an appendage to Kalinga. 



Of the Gate9vara inscription noticed in p. 234, I secured a trans- 

 cript and have made a decipherment. But as Nagendra Babu promises 

 to edit it in this Journal^ and as I have no leisure, I leave the task to 

 him. He ascribes the inscription to the reign of Anaijga Bhima II., 

 and probably rightly, but he will have to get over the difficulty present- 

 ed by Stanza 8, lines 6-7, in which Anar]ga Bhima is described as the 

 ^^ of Codagaijga. ^^^ usually means son. But Anaijga Bhima II. 

 is not the son but great-grandson of Codagarjga. Possibly 5^«r may 

 be taken to mean a descendant. Another difficulty will be found 

 in the dates. According to the inscriptions Anagga Bhima II., ruled 

 from 1219 to 1242 or 43 AD. But the raid to Lakhnauti and the first 

 battle with Tughril-i-Tughan Khan took place in 642 H. or 1244 A.D., 

 consequently neither Anaijga Bhima II. nor any of his ministers could 

 have made the invasion recorded by the Minhaj-i-siraj, unless either 

 of these dates be found wrong. 



The present inscription does not clear the discrepancy I pointed 

 out in my article regarding the years oP reigns. Taking Kamarnava to 

 begin his leign in 1064 <paka or 1142 A.D. (stanza 37), the total of 

 the years of reign (152) makes the accession of Narasiihha Deva II. at 

 (1142 + 152 or) 1294 A.D. But this is absurd, as 1296 was his 21st 

 Aijka or 17tli year of reign. I trust Nagendra Babu will be able in 

 his next article to find out a solution of this apparent absurdity. The 

 early Mussulman historians rarely mention the names of Hindu kings, 

 and until the dates are established, no reliable connection can be laid 

 down between Hindu chronicles and Mussulman histories. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. The Noiugong Copper-plate grant of Bala Varman of Prdgjyotisa 

 in Asdm. With 3 Plates.— By Dr. A. F. R. Hoernle, CLE. 



2. On certain Palm-leaf MSS. in the Library of H. E. the Mahdrdjd 

 of Nepaul.—By Pandit Haraprasad pASiRl. 



3. Numismatic Notes and Novelties, No. 2. — By Y. A. Smith, I.CS. 

 The papers will be published in the Journal, Part I. 



4. The Jering fruit (Pithecolobium lobatum Benth.) — By H. X, 

 Ridley, Esq., Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. Communicated 

 by Surg.-Maj. D. Prain. 



In the lasi number of the Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Penin- 

 sula {Journal., Part II ; Vol. Ixvi, p. 267) several questions are proposed 



