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mence the second line of the stanza there, though the continuance 

 of the same measure is so clearly marked by what precedes and what 

 immediately follows : and 



7. What is still more strange, that measure closes with the second 

 line of the stanza ; what follows being as irreducible to metre as to 

 good sense. 



With these nine specimens of most evident error in as many 

 lines of the inscription, the two last errors implying the skipping of 

 several syllables at once, — and closed with the fact that there is no 

 integral number of Mdnini stanzas of four lines, but b\ only from 

 their commencement, in the 7th line of the pillar, — the grounds of 

 conjectural emendation were too slight for its probable application, 

 when the guide of metre was wanting. Accordingly from tbe 14th 

 to the last line of the pillar, which supplied a stanza in the ordinary 

 Anustubh measure, (a space constituting about one quarter of the 

 inscription,) I have been content to groupe together those syllables 

 which formed connected meanings, leaving the rest in which no such 

 connexion appeared, uncopied : and abandoning, with respect to 

 them, a task so much resembling that which the Chaldean king 

 imposed on his magicians, — that of supplying the dream as well as 

 the interpretation. 



After this explanation, I proceed to exhibit the text, together with 

 an English version of tbose three quarters of the inscription which are 

 sufficiently intelligible, beginning with the seven lines of prose, that 

 declare the genealogy and the succession. 



Line of 



the L at. 



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3. ^rei^^TmiplrTO * T'fi^Tw^i'T^r^m^ 



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