1835.] Notes on the preceding Inscription. 299 



The first benefaction has its date assigned to the beginning of October, 

 without naming any year ; it may be A. D. 961 or some later year of the 

 reign of Sinha Ra'ja. That the word W means the sign of Libra, though 

 hot to he found in that sense in any lexicon, is shews in the following A'ryd 

 verse of the Sat-kritya-mnAtdvuli of Raghunatha, well known to the 

 astrological students of India, 



77Tr%3f ^HW^T ^TTOTKW "^ II 

 on which the scholiast writes xfn ^l<t*fTf3T[W^P "such are the special 

 names of Aries and the rest of the. Zodiacal signs," i. e. Kriya is for Mesha 

 r ; Tdburi is Vrisha $ ; Jituma is Mithuna Q ; Kulira is Karkata <s ; 

 Leya is Sinha Q, ; Pdthrya is Kanya nji ; Yuka is Tula =& ; Kaurpa is 

 Vrischika in ; Tuuxika (as if from To£ov) is Dhanus $ ; A'kokera is 

 Makara "/j> ; Hridroga is Kumbha £g ; and Antyabha is Mina }£• 



In the 2nd grant, I cannot be sure that I have rightly divided the names 

 of the villages, or even in every instance that I have exactly discriminat- 

 ed proper names, (e. g. Uru-saras which means " a wide tank,") while 

 the topography of the country and even the names of its Vishayas (dis- 

 tricts or pergunnahs, as they are called since the Mahometan conquest,) 

 are unknown to us. But from this general uncertainty of the proper 

 names in this paragraph, we must of course except the still celebrated 

 resort of pilgrims, Pushkara 3 or Pokar, situated about 150 miles S. W. from 

 this mountain, and four miles west of Ajmeer, on a beautiful lake JEq^ 

 from which its name is derived. 



The 3rd grant, made by Vatsa was undoubtedly during the reign of 

 his brother Siniia Ra'ja, as appears by its being placed before the gift 

 of the two villages, Chhatradhdra and Sankardnaka, by the new king 

 Vigraha, repeated here as the 4th grant, after having been recorded in 

 the metrical part of the inscription. This proves what has been before 

 remarked, that the 5th grant by the two sons of Sinha Ra'ja was subse- 

 quent to the accession by conquest of their protector Vigraha Ra'ja. 

 The word ^n^jr«f, enumeration, in this record, means the specification of 

 year, month, half month, day, caste, family, and parentage, as prescribed 

 in the text of Yajnavalkya. 



See Mitascara, si. 87 — where, in the commentary, the above-enumera- 

 tion is called ^3^fT. 



Of the decease of Otho the Great, which took place in973, some remarkableparticulanj 

 are given by cardinal Baronius, fromau author of that age, named Witichind, who 

 states the event to have been " nonis Mail, quurtd ferid ante Pentecost en, 11 i. e. " on 

 the nones or 7th of May, the 4th day (Wednesday) of the week before Whitsuntide," 

 (Annales, torn. x. p. 812.) I quote these words because they minutely confirm the 

 lunar calculation given above: for the Whitsunday of May 11 implies an Easter Sun- 

 day of March 23, agreeably to the time deduced above for the Paschal full moon of 

 that year, (Samvat 1030.) 



