392 Notes on the preceding Inscription. [SrihY 



cogitans, belong the words ^srfjf fV*J% % *TO " /am dominus equidem 

 quis mei ?" for the connecting particle xh immediately following, marks 

 this as the subject of thought. The third, which alone of the participles has 

 the force of a passive verb, denotes the answer which the personified For- 

 tune receives to her questioning thought in the second line : and here the 

 connecting particle xfrf, which indicates the answer, though most awk- 

 wardly separated from it, refers undoubtedly to the words in the third 

 line following ^sr, viz. ^^ «fT^3J§ " Habita (in) brachiorum &yy" 

 The most unusual part of the sentence, however, is the junction of the word 

 ^fa (pax) with this leading participle in the compound ^VTfXrTT, which 

 can mean nothing else than pacified -compellata. The stress laid upon this 

 circumstance of pacific answers and protection, seems to confirm the 

 opinion, that Vigraha entered the kingdom originally as a conqueror. 



XXII. XXIII. The measure of these two verses is the same as that 

 of the 1st, the Ratha-udgatd. 



XXIV. And here we return to the long measure of the III. V. and 

 following verses, the Srag-dhard. 



The word fa"ft, whose instrumental plural occurs in the third line, is 

 inexplicable from any existing vocabulary, or oral information within 

 my reach. As no probable emendation occurs to me of what is thus clearly 

 marked in the inscription, I can only give it the sense of the word most 

 nearly approaching to it, (fiflTSj^) and suppose that the compound 

 WT^^r^«p«rf"rrfcf»T : means, like WPfJWSfi'ijfadif'W : " with birds 

 of every place and tribe." 



XXV. This and the seven following verses are like the II. &c. is 

 the Anustubh measure. 



XXVI. The prince Duri-abha, thus honourably mentioned as lit- 

 tle inferior, or (as the second comparion might indicate,) even supe- 

 rior, to his victorious elder brother, may not impossibly be the prince 

 of that name who reigned at Guzzerat, separated only by a single 

 short reign from Chamcnda, who was conquered by Mahmud Ghaznevi, 

 in 1024 : as his elder brother is yet more probably the chief 

 commemorated in a Benares inscription of 150 years later date, as the 

 founder of the fortunes of the Rahtore family, that possessed them- 

 selves of the imperial throne of Kanoj about the same period*. The latter 

 hypothesis, which agrees with the history and probable origin of the Rahtore 

 family, requires for its verification, that we allot an interval of 33 years, oi* 

 a few more, (instead of 2i,) to the four generations that separate the Rahtore 

 chief Yasovigrah a from Govinda Chandra, sovereign of Kanoj, (grand- 

 father of the last king, Jayachandra,) of whom we have a grant of land 

 dated Samvat 1177, or A. D. 1120, i. e. 148 years after the date of the 



* Whether the Vigraha Ra'ja De'va, who is commemorated as a great con- 

 queror in the 5th Devanagari inscription on the great Lath at Dehli, (A. R. vol. i. 

 Art. 21.) may not he identified with our Vigraha Ra'ja, — there are no sufficient 

 data for ascertaining. 



