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lished in ray last volume. There are, however, some peculiar forms, as 

 the kh, the gh, the a, &c. Hardly any of the letters in the whole 

 inscription can be regarded as uncertain ; I have had therefore, no 

 difficulty whatever in preparing the following transcript in modern 

 Devanagan. But as to the interpretation, after receiving a formal 

 certificate from the pandits of the College that, with exception of the 

 verses at the commencement and conclusion, the body of the inscrip- 

 tion was not Sanscrit, or was so ungrammatical as to be quite unintel- 

 ligible, it may be conceived that I was somewhat staggered ! How- 

 ever, on conning it over word by word, with a pandit better versed 

 in the out-of-the-way terms employed, the general drift was readily 

 made out, although the connection in many parts still remained 

 broken, and the sense doubtful. As there is neither date nor allusion 

 to any reigning monarch, the fragment is of no historical value ; but 

 it may be a curious study for the Sanscrit scholar. 



Transcript in modern Devandgari character. 



**f ^^ ii ^ra^^tfinsn^ sfrrrn: ^rfa^nr ^l*jw #r% <txr^r«r^ i ^f» 



WT^ini:^^! f^K^: I ^T^IP T^* T3«reOT trf%^5f ^^R^^ 



^tu rr^-^: ^jfafcrernT^^i ^t^it ^r^r^ 1 1 ^^l^f^ #Tfa%*r ^=H <r^ 

 •? s^m faror ^\^\ ^^$\v f pszjz^-NtRT ^m ii ^tararrftr -ct^t 

 ftssjr 5^m ^t?t i 3Whr<j^4 iz^j *r^«ftfa ii s^cnT^r: m^«r 



sn^r ^rrag* ?i%^ s^grfg: ^TfasrT i ?ra; ^re^fa mi^ fa*in: g^m 



fol^ II TO<Wl«rt *frfa Krttfa SfWTWt^T %T*T?Tfar II 



Translation. 

 Salutation to the divine son of Vasu Deva, (Krishna.) We adore 

 with becoming reverence Narayana, lord of lords, creator of the three 

 worlds, source of the holy precepts of the vedas, whose praise is 

 beyond speech and thought. — For the abode of the eternalt day by 

 day the pious offer up lamps of oil ; of safFronJ and asafcetida four 



* This should be f*f. f A Vaishnavi temple so called ? 

 X Kunkwna-drdma i the whole of this passage is very obscure, and full of 

 •rttiographical errors. 

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