390 Notes on the preceding Inscription. [JuLV, 



X. — Nothing is told respecting the Sura, or Hero, who is the speaker 

 of this flowery verse. 



XIII. This celebrated family is here distinctly called "^"nnTTT, but 

 ^T^a^f «T, or Chdhuvdna, in the monuments quoted byWitsoN, whence the 

 Hindui term Chowhfin, as used by Colonel Tod in his great work on Raj- 

 sthan. Allowing 30 years, which is perhaps not too much, for each descent 

 from the father to his first-born son, the following will be the estimated 

 dates of accession in this branch of the family. (None of its six names are 

 to be found elsewhere, in any published monument within my knowledge.) 



A. D. 



Gu'vaka, became king probably about 800 



I 

 Chandra Ra'ja, 830 



I 

 Gu'vaka .... 860 



I 

 Chandana, 890 



Va'kpati, (conqueror of* Tantrapa '.la), 920 



I 

 Sinha Ra'ja, ,, 950 



And his successor (not by natural descent,) 



Vigraha Ra'ja*, certainly about 968 



so as to satisfy the two dates of the inscription. 



XIV. In this verse, the last part of which is somewhat involved in ex- 

 pression, I have given the best sense in my power to the enigmatical com- 

 pound fT[3T*:f$J: aqueis-radiis-ille. The Hindus are in the habit of ascribing 

 showers to solar influence, agreeably to the line in Manu, (iii. 76). 



or (as it is stated with greater physical truth in the older cosmogony of 

 the Vedas,) to the joint operation of Mithras (or the Sun) and the Ocean. 



" I invoke Mitra of pure might and Varuna not passable by foes — both 

 producing showers that water the earth." Rig- Veda-Sanhitd, 1. 1. § 1 . hymn 2. 

 XVI. XVII. In these two historical verses, between which we find once 

 more interposed the words ^T*5T^ " Herois hoc," with what precise 

 meaning, I cannot tell — the metre is changed from the alternation of 

 Srag-dhard and Anustubh stanzas, to the most popular and harmonious of 

 all the very long lyric measures, viz. the Sirdula-vikriditam, consisting of 

 four lines of 17 syllables, like the following transposition from Sophocles. 



WW — w — www — — — w W — 



Toil' aav, Zed, Swa/xiy tis {ev9a5e irapccv) avSpuy Kard-crxoi Bi a, 



* This prince can scarcely be supposed to belong to the Pa'la princes of Gaura ; 

 but was most probably an ancestor, or near relative, of the northern kings of the same 

 termination, who encountered the earliest Musulman invaders of India. The name 

 of Tantrapa'la is not found in any of the lists of Pa'las supplied from several 

 monuments, by Prof. H. H. Wilson, (A. R. XV. 464.) 



