JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. II. 1862. 



Three Sanskrit Inscriptions : Copies of the Originals, and Prefa- 

 tory Observations. — By Fitz-Edwaed Hall, Esquiee, D. C. L. 



The first among the memorials now edited has already appeared in 

 the pages of this Journal ;* but in a transcript so unfaithful, as to 

 have concealed all its facts of highest value. Otherwise, it would 

 not, certainly, have been left to the writer to discover the position 

 of the ancient kingdom of Chedi ; and, probably, the researches of 

 some other investigator would have identified the insignificant vil- 

 lage of Tewar with Tripuri, the Chedian capital. f 



* For 1839, pp. 481 — 495. Specimens of the errors which bestrew the old 

 decipherment — a most careless and unconscientious performance, — will be given 

 in foot-notes. Nor is the English translation a translation properly so-called. 



f Tripuri is mentioned twice ; Chedi, once. The places will be indicated. 



For Tripuri, in connexion with Raja Vakpati, alias Munja, of Ujjayini, see 

 the note after the next. 



At Bhelsa, within the fort, I recently found a fragmentary inscription, built 

 into the outer wall of a modern house, and looking upon one of the streets of 

 the town. Subjoined is all that remains of a record of which perhaps a full half 

 is missing : 



******* fsfsiiTSRfw spsrrfararT *mfer?rT^ 

 ^rTf^r f%f%f^<TT *?nw^ * * * * h 



Q 



