1862.] Three Sanskrit Inscriptions. 113 



Beginning with Yuvaraja, father of Kokalla, and ending with 

 Ajayasinha, heir-apparent, the line of kings recorded in the inscrip- 



of last January. Gopalpur is a small village on the Nerbudda, about ten miles 

 from Jubulpore. Some twenty or thirty years ago, as I was informed, in an at- 

 tempt made to remove the tablet, it was broken. 



The space occupied by writing, — twenty lines and two-fifths, — measui'es about 

 a yard and a half by two feet. The inscription is entirely in verse, and it has 

 no date. Its left-hand portion, the smaller, contains few words any longer 

 decipherable ; and the right-hand portion is legible only here and there. Still, 

 the fragments which I here annex leave no doubt as to its origin. 



Line VI. ^fT^ef W^J ^^Tff^fan^P^ ^^T5T*T: I 



„ VII. ****** °3?^r<rf*:f^r*jjw^: i 



„ IX. »3P?%?: I 



„ XI. ^ffa-Jt: W^^TS^-¥«^f?FT'W»^': I 



„ XV. ttt3! TTsrasprikra^. 



„ XVI. ^t^T^r^t i 



ST^feT fix * * ^tsto ^ftfaanif^^^P I 



„ XVII. rrW^^l^^^fTTf^iTS 3 ?!: 

 'ffaW!!: I 



„ XVIII. ^ro#f*r Iws-st^t cr^m#g ^T^sbri i 



„ XIX. ****** jnj: f^r^r f«ra: wfw *p fafinn. \ 

 tnwEBfffsijj; i»«Tt ^faarww*? ^ art n-q\ n 



„ xx. ^^T^lffT ^fT^Tss^ *meft vffinm I * 

 ^fi^ntftKorer * * * ^*rf*Nt n 



Here we have the names of Arjuna the thousand -armed, of Kalachuri, Kama, 

 Yas'ahkarna, Jayasinha, Grosala, and Yijayasinha ; and these names indicate, 

 that the inscription is Chedian, and of nearly the same time with that of the 

 inscription printed at large in the coming pages. Whose concubine madam 

 Jogala was, does not appear. Nor is it known who Harigana and Malhana were. 

 Equally in the dark are we as to the bigamous husband of Mahadevi and of 

 another lady whose name has been obliterated. Finally, a part, at least, of this 

 memorial was composed by one Somaraja. 



Malhana, I think, is a name that occurs in the Rajatarangini. But I write 

 in the wilderness, with few books about me. For Malhana of Kanauj, see 

 Dr. Aufrecht's account of the Vis' wa-prakds' a in Cat. Cod. Manuscript. Sans- 

 crit. &c, p. 187. 



Last Christmas I was encamped at Bilahari, — in the Jubulpore district, — 

 which place the common fame of the neighbourhood connects with Eaja Karna. 

 It must once have been a town of some importance. I found there one complete 

 inscription, in the character of twelve or fifteen hundred years ago, but well nigh 

 completely obliterated by time and weather; and two fragments of a second 



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