728 Facsimiles of various Ancient Inscriptions. [Nov. 



What would have added still more to the value of the present docu- 

 ment, is the exact date it cites, were it not unfortunately in an unknown 

 era, entitled Pravarddhamdnarajya Samvat : it may, however, bear the 

 interpretation of " date of the growing (or current) reign" which I 

 have adopted in the translation. At any rate, the omission of the now 

 common dates in all these early records proves that the Vikramdditya 

 Samvat was not then generally in use. 



The omission of a benedictory invocation at the head of the inscrip- 

 tion is a curious circumstance also noted in the Chattisgarh grant. The 

 initial word Dristhamasi, may possibly be equivalent to " Take heed" — - 

 or "By these presents." Some of the epithets, especially those ap- 

 plied to the piece of ground, are too far-fetched even for a guess 

 solution by Kamala Kant and Ram Govinda, whose ingenuity has 

 good reason to be admired even in those I have attempted to render 

 into English. They refer to practices of petty exaction not uncom- 

 mon among feudal chieftains. 



Transcript of the inscription in modern character. 



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