1862.] Three Sanskrit Inscriptions. 127 



Lakhna'ucla. Lakatharasi, a person bearing the title of Bhattaraka, 

 who was somehow connected with the instrument of gift, is named 

 at its conclusion. 



Bhailla, now Bhelsa, was the designation, in past times, of a large 

 territory. The region which included it, being ruled, in A. D. 1172, 

 by Ajayapala, was, doubtless, a new kingdom that had grown out of 

 the dismemberment of the realm once dominated by Udayaditya. The 

 kings of Malava who succeeded Udayaditya between A. D. 1104, and 

 1215, were Naravarman, Yas'ovarman, Jayavarman, Vindhyavarman, 

 Subhatavarman, and Arjuna ; and no traces of their authority have 

 come to light at Udayapura, or in its vicinity. 



One day's march from Udayapura brought me to the place where 

 I finish this paper. For the second time I have just read the old 

 inscriptions here, in the column and on the gigantic stone boar. It 

 has caused me no surprise to find, that my former decipherments of 

 them admit of a few corrections.* 



* See last year's Journal, pp. 14—22, and pp. 139—150. 



In the opening stanza of the first inscription is a hiatus, the last letter 

 before which I took to be zq t and supplied accordingly what was missing. But 

 it is 5^f, indubitably. ^J5^¥f a euphemism for " destruction," may be proposed 

 as the original reading. 



Immediately preceding the name of Indravishnu, I thought I saw «gtr*f. 

 Through the mutilation of the engraving on the column, I now think I can make 

 out 'g"q'¥f. On the boar, to be sure, where everything is very indistinct, there 

 seems to be «g: but both the inscriptions must, almost to a certainty, here exhibit 



the same word. 



Four months after my first visit to Eran, writing uuder the guidance of my 

 facsimile copy, I said of what looked to me like sansurahhu, that it "is doubtful 

 in its penultimate syllable, and very doubtful in its final." Mr. Prinsep's 

 lection is sansuratam. The result of a close re-examination of the word as ifc 

 stands on the stone is this. The final syllable is clearly tri. The penultimate, 

 judged by what is left of it in its damaged state, could not well have contained 

 any consonant but h or r. The vowel, if it had one, may have been a, e, or o. 

 Possibly the word was sansurdlri ; and it may be a plausible theory, that it was 

 the name of the country which had the Yamuna and the Narmada for two of its 

 boundaries. Or is it a repetition of the date ; an abbreviation of samvat, follow- 

 ed by three literal symbols of arithmetical value ? If I had access to Mr. 

 Thomas's edition of Mr. Prinsep's Indian Antiquities, it might be easy to say. 

 whether this last suggestion is of any account. 



For several months I have had by me a photograph of the inscription in the 

 Gwalior Fort, for which I have to thank Colonel Cunningham. Its paleography 

 seems to be a little more recent than that of the monuments at Eran. It 

 speaks of a Toramana, and of Matricheta, son of Matridasa, son of Matrinula. 

 A specimen of it here follows : 



