726 Facsimiles of various Ancient Inscriptions. [Nov. 



pa?is* : of incense, dron flowers, ghee, amalika (myrobalan fruit) a ser 

 weight ; masuri pulse, a ser ; of dry- wood perfume findanj ; davaha 

 (?) 16 pans. — (Here follows apparently an enumeration of landed pro- 

 perty belonging to the temple or Vishnu- Ithetr am) — Allagamarika (?) a 

 road, — Upa alluka, a small village, with a good tank having four pucka 

 ghats. They say on the south is a bar tree ; on the east a boundary 

 wall ; on the north the wall of Upallika village ; on the west a bazar 

 and old tank, where is also a wall. Between the bar and a great 

 many mango trees are 13 ketakii trees. Also hard by, a well with a 

 cattle-trough attached. On two sides of the bar tree a chabutra is built, 

 on the west a boundary wall : farther off to the south, a tamarind 

 tree, on the south and west are two roads, and a police chauM\ : fur- 

 ther on a drinking trough. On the north of the tamarind tree, half 

 a trough ; item two rows (shops) built by Lokika ; whose son, named 

 Mitrata, built a row, a cistern, and a handsome dbarmsala. An- 

 other lane also, two houses and four bazars, for the Vishnu- khetr a, 

 bounded to the west by several large hills, — four mauwa trees, two 

 pottery and distiller's shops (?) were severally given by Siva Hari, 

 another son. (Verse.) Whatever has been thus presented to Vishnu, 

 may they for ever hold sacred ; and let nobody abstract the house, the 

 bazars, (300 ?) nor the numerous trees. 



Seoni grant, Plate XXIII. et seq. 

 ' For this ancient document I 'am indebted to Mr. D. M. McLeod, 

 assistant to the Commissioner of the Nerbudda territories, who stated, 

 on sending me a copy of the first plate, some months ago, that it was 

 one of five in the possession of a native zemindar in the Seoni district, 

 supposed to be a jatas or sanad confirming lands granted by former 

 Goand chiefs, but wholly illegible to the pandits of the Nerbudda dis- 

 trict. Recognizing the character as identical with that of the Chattisgarh 

 inscriptions, published by Mr. Wilson in the Asiatic Researches, vol. 

 xv pa°-e 507, I supplied Mr. McLeod with this alphabet and with a 

 transcript of the plate in modern Nagari, of which the sense, however, 

 could not be wholly made out for want of the context. Through absence 

 of leisure, and illness of his pandit, the discoverer has been obliged to 

 relinquish his laudable desire to decypher the document on the spot, 

 (where he might, doubtless, have been aided by the names of the coun- 

 tries and villages mentioned in the grant,) and to entrust a faithful 

 copy of the remainder, made with great care by his young native 

 friend Mir Jafir Am, (who has performed his task remarkably well,) 

 to our more hazardous attempts in Calcutta. 



* 8 Tolas, t Pandanus odoratissimus. X Bhath. 



