1834-] Remarks on the Allahabad Inscription. 339 



The Russian General Baron Rennenkampff came to take leave of our 

 party next morning as early as the day dawned. Khosrou Mirza 

 presented him with a hag containing twelve hundred ducats and two 

 pair of handsome Cashmere shawls. The Baron's polite attentions to the 

 whole suite were unremitting throughout : he was very desirous of 

 crossing the boundary line, and of accompanying us to the court of His 

 Royal Highness Abbas Mirza, that he might have formed the acquaint- 

 ance of our highly respected envoy, Colonel Macdonald Kinnier ; but 

 the orders of the Emperor Nicholas were so positive, that he could not 

 even transport the Prince's carriage across the river. His fear, also, of 

 being thought more favourable to the Persians, than to his own employers, 

 was excessive. Born a Livonian, he was eyed with jealousy by his in- 

 feriors in rank, who, if any opportunity served, would doubtless have 

 endeavored to injure his good name and interest with the Government. 

 On pressing my hand he said, " The Emperor has every confidence 

 in me at present, and I must endeavour to retain it ; the Russians hate 

 all my countrymen most cordially, because some of us hold the best 

 appointments in the Empire." 



(To be continued.) 



V. — Supplement to the Historical Remarks on the Allahabad Inscription, 

 No. 2. By the Rev. W. H. Mill, D. D. fyc. 



In enumerating the few historical names that remain of the dynasty 

 or dynasties to which I conceive that the Allahabad Inscription* No. 2 

 may possibly belong, I confined myself to such as are authenticated by 

 ancient testimony : in which I am not aware of any omission except that 

 of two kings, whom the researches of Professor Wilson have supplied : 

 viz. Sahasanka, who appears from the Visva Prakdsa to have reigned 

 at Canouje somewhere in the tenth century : and Kora, so called by the 

 Mahometan writers, who was contemporary withMAHMUD GHAZNAviin 

 the eleventh*. It is however scarcely pardonable to omit all reference to 

 a series of names with which so indefatigable an investigator as Colonel 

 Tod thinks he has filled the chasm in question, in that most valuable 

 and elaborate contribution to oriental and general literature, the 



* To these I might add the name of Vjra-Sinha-Deva, who is said, at a 

 period somewhat earlier, to have granted to the request of A'disura, king of 

 Bengal, the five orders of C&nyacubja Brahmans, from whom the present brahmans 

 of Bengal are descended. 



