484 Facsimiles of ancient Inscriptions. [Aug. 



Translation. 

 " He whose glory was transcendent by reason of his four great 

 goods*, — before whose splendour other kings bowed, sickened with 

 envy, — who was ever occupied in the juridical decisions of learned 

 Munies dwelling in leafy hermitages,— whose crooked ramparts were 

 alike bright and impenetrable, — who was the spoiler of all such as were 

 vexed with peace, — (such was) the great king Hari-varman. His 

 son, whose excellent victories equalled those of his father, born of his 

 noblef wife Anka-de'vi', was the great king A'ditya-varman. His 

 son again, whose exceeding joys equalled those of his father, born of 

 Arika'ri'J, eldest daughter of the Gupta race, was the great king 

 I'svara-varman. His son, whose magnificence equalled that of his 

 father, born of Arika'ri', eldest daughter of the Guptas, was the great 

 king of kings R. Sxnha-varman. His son, possessed of like exceed- 

 ing joys with his father, born of Bha'ra Ka'mahari', was the chief 

 of the excellent lion-rulers, the great king of kings Kharva-varman, 

 our worthy Lord." 



It is observable — that the title of Rdja-adMrdja, or king of kings — 

 is here, as in the Allahabad inscription, restricted to the two last of 

 the line of succession — viz. Sinha-varman, and Kharva-varman. I 

 do not understand the simple letter R. prefixed to the former name, 

 (viz. a ^ with a dot preceding and following) — unless it be an abbrevia- 

 tion for Raja : nor am I quite sure of the three letters following the 

 last name, which I have made "W^K'- W. H. M. 



Inscription on a bronze image from Peshdwar. 



The head depicted in Plate XXVI. is copied from a sketch in M. 

 Court's memoir and collection of drawings, from which extracts are 

 published in the present and in the preceding Journal, (see p. 482.) 



The characters are decidedly Deva-nagarf, but whether from their 

 indistinctness, or from errors in the copying, or from the language 

 being different, their combination does not form any intelligent 

 Sanscrit sentence. 



* i. e. Religious duty, T$m\ wealth, ■gjrsj ; pleasure, ^jfj- } eternal salvation, 

 ifjT^. Such are the four Bhadras or goods according to the Hindus. Amera Cosha, 

 ii. 7, § 3, si. 57. If, however, for ^Vf^ we reaa " ^J*T3f with Pkema-chand 

 Pandit, the translation will be, " He whose glory transcended the bounds of 

 the four encircling oceans." — W. H. M. 



f The ordinary honorific epithet Srlmati is here, contrary to the usual rule, 

 introduced into the compound in the feminine gender. Regularly it should either 

 be the crude form Srlmat, or the locative case feminine Srimatydm. — W. H. M. 



$ The recurrence of the same name and description is singular. It is impos- 

 sible that they should be the same person, such incest being unknown even to 

 the heroic age of India. — W. H. M. 



