1872.] Inam grants found in tlie Malnad. 193 



2. From Col. J. T. Walker, E. E., Superintendent G-. T. Survey of 

 India, — a copy of" Notes on tlie Harmonic Analysis of Tidal Observations." 



3. From Babu Eamnarain, through the Hon'ble E. C. Bayley, 

 C. S. I., — four Diamonds, said to have been found in the bed of a hill stream 

 near Simla. 



4. From the Chief Commissioner of Maisar, — a copy of Memoran- 

 dum, by E. Cole, Esq., Superintendent of Inam Settlements, Maisur, on 

 certain copper grants found during the settlement of the Inams in the 

 Malnad or Hill- Tracts of the ISTagar Division with translations of the 

 inscriptions. 



Memo, on Certain Copper Grants found during tlie settlement of the 

 Inmns in tlie Malnad or mil-tracts of the Nagar Division. 

 1. During my investigation into the inams located in the Malnad 

 talooks of the Nagar Division, I had occasion to inspect the copper grants 

 held by the Agrahardars of the villages noted below. 



1. Kuppagadde, Soraba Talook. 



2. Gauja, Anantapura do. 



3. Bhimanna Katte Matha of the Kavaledurga Talook. 



These grants are of undoubted antiquity, and are said to have been 

 made by Janamejaya who is mentioned in the Yishnu Purana as the son of 

 Parikshit, who was the grandson of Arjuna, who again was one of the five 

 sous of Piindu, whose adventures and exploits are narrated in the great epic 

 poem of the Muha Bharata. 



2. These grants are said to have been executed in the 111th year of 

 the Kaliyuga, or 2990 years before Christ, according to the system of Hin- 

 du chronology hitherto in vogue ; but Professor Wilson has formed an opi- 

 nion that Parikshit, the grandson of Arjuna, with whose reign the Kaliyuga 

 commences, could not have lived before the 13th century B. C. Professor 

 Wilson would appear to have adopted this era by shewing that Sandra- 

 coptus of the Grreek writers was the Chandragupta of Hmdu history. Mr. 

 J. Garrett, the Director of Public Instruction in Mysore and Coorg, adop- 

 ting this basis for Hindu chronology, is of opui ion that Janamejaya must 

 have reigned some time in the 12th century B. C. 



3. It will be observed in the translations of the grants for the Gauja 

 and Kuppagadde Agraliars, which have been rendered by my Personal Assis- 

 tant, that these grants are said to have been made during the great " Sarpa 

 Yaga" or sacrifice of serpents, though the allusion to the solar eclipse is only 

 made in the grant for the Gauj Agrahar. A copy of this grant was sent 

 some years ago by Sir Mark Cubbon to Colonel Ellis, who was then Poli- 

 tical Agent at Bundelkund. Colonel Ellis asserted that the solar eclipse 

 alluded to in the grant was that of 1521 A. D., and di^ew the conclusion 



