1867.] copied in the temple of NahJion Vat. 83 



number. May I remain undisturbed in unceasing bliss. May youths, 

 male and female, of handsome appearance, attend on me, 100,000 in 

 number, singing melodiously in sweet voices. May I possess wealth 

 in elephants, horses, buffaloes and oxen of the best kind, elegant 

 carriages and swift boats, to use them in going abroad. I would 

 be pleased if each of my followers carried a glittering sword, and, 

 when they close up in procession, they should solemnly walk like 

 Putpala. Thus it is becoming. May 1 be favoured with magnificent 

 palaces, nine of them, all covered with gold. Let them have high 

 towering spires* rising above, glittering with jewels ; let them be 

 surrounded by colonnades, winding in three circles ; let them be 

 engraved everywhere with sculptures. On each gate have placed the 

 Dragon king (Phaya Nokh), — place him on each step of the stairs to 

 guard them. There must be adjoined three dwelling-houses, hand- 

 somely and finely got up. The roof must ascend in three terraces, 

 above each other, and all embellished with splendid ornaments. The 

 round houses also may shine in splendid ornaments. A stable for 

 elephants has to be built, nice and clean. Let there be halls on both 

 sides of the lake, one at the right, the other one at the left, and have 

 them decorated with garlands of the Champa-flowers, exhaling a 

 sweet perfume, like the scented powder of Kracheh. That is all. 



Literary Intelligence. 



Professor J. G. Biihler of the Elphinstone College, Bombay, and R. 

 West, Esq. C. S. Acting Judge of Canara, have just brought out the 

 First Book of " a Digest of Hindu Law," from the replies of the £ astris 

 in the several courts of the Bombay Presidency. The volume before 

 us contains a large mass of responsa prudentum in a variety of practical 

 cases regarding the Hindu Law of inheritance as current in Bombay. 

 It has been published under the auspices of the Bombay Government, and 

 will prove a useful book of reference to lawyers. In the Introduction 

 the editors have given an interesting account of the ancient Smritis. 



The Government of Bombay has sanctioned the publication of an 

 edition of the A'pastamba Dharma Sutra with the Tika of Hara 

 Datta. The work will be carried through the press under the 

 editorship of Dr. G. Biihler. 



* The description of the wished for palace is taken from the example of that 

 one in which the inscription was hung up, viz. the temple of Nakhon Vat. 



