JOURNAL 



OF 



THE ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. 55.— July, 1836. 



I. — Translation of a Tdmba Patra, which was found in a field of the 



village of Piplidnagar in the Shujdlpur Pargand, by a Krisdn engaged 



in ploughing, and presented to Mr. L. Wilkinson, the Political 



Agent at Bhopdl, by the Jagirddr. 



[In a letter to the Editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society.] 



It is incumbent upon the friend of research to contribute every 

 piece of information, however trifling, thrown in his way by accident 

 or opportunity, by which the future researches of our successors in 

 regard to the history and chronology of this country may be, in any 

 degree, promoted. With this view I have thought it proper to for- 

 ward to you the copy of an inscription on a copper plate lately found 

 at Piplianagar, in this neighbourhood. For the benefit of the purely 

 English reader, I have added a translation, which, if found correct, 

 you can also insert. 



On referring to the Chronological Table of the rajas of Malwa, 

 given in the number of your Journal for December 1835, I find that 

 this plate confirms the Ujjain Inscription in regard to the order of 

 succession of four princes. 



Three other copper-plates have since been found at the same vil- 

 lage. I have not yet had time to translate, or indeed to decipher them. 



L. Wilkinson. 



[This inscription does more than Mr. Wilkinson allows, for it 

 adds four important names to the Ujjain list, below that of Jatavar- 

 ma, (see Chron. Tab. 105,) and having a date A. D. 1210 to Arjun 

 the last of the list, it exactly fills the blank between the former prince 

 (1143), and Birsal in 1220. We have no space for comments, 

 but we offer our best thanks to Mr. Wilkinson for his valuable 

 contribution. — Ed.] 

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