116 Three Sanskrit Inscriptions. [No. 2, 



The present inscription is, by one year, the latest, as yet brought 

 to light, published by the Haihaya rulers in Central India. We 

 learn, from it, that the capital of those potentates, from the very 

 first, was Tripuri ; and that their kingdom, so long as they are 

 known to have possessed it, was called Chedi. We find it set forth, 

 that, " In that Kalachuri family was a monarch, eminent among the 

 just, His Majesty Yuvaraja, — a young lion in destroying odour- 

 bearing elephants, i. e., pride-blind kings, — who sanctified Tripuri, 

 resembling the city of Purandara."* 



As I have elsewhere made out, the era to which the date of the 

 inscription is to be referred is a point still awaiting solution. t 



Insceiptiox I. 



arefci 3i^r cnsrcw arTcTerTisnaf^ 11 

 ct^«t Prefer s^gnreTifspws 11 ^ n 



"^T^Vfa OT^rfiTf TTO ^ II ^ || 



*?HTfarcere^T*TOinfw:T*r- 



Then come, unnamed, the malid pratihdra, the duslita-sddhya-charddhyaksha, 

 the bhdnddgdrilca, the pravdtiva-vdra, and the as'wa-sddhanaka. 



Of the duties of several of these officers nothing is known witli certainty. 

 The title before the last, with, perhaps, the last itself, is, probably, represented 

 amiss. The das' a-mnlika is called, near the end of the inscription das' a-imilin. 



* So runs the seventh couplet. See the note on it, and two notes further on. 



f See the Journal of the American Oriental Society-, Vol. VI., p. 501. 



