396 Literary Intelligence. [No. 4, 



" I have just packed up five of the Gwalior inscriptions, which will 

 be taken down to Calcutta by an officer who starts to-morrow from 

 Nynee Tal. I have duplicate copies for comparison with the Xagari 

 transcripts that may be sent up to me. I have added also an inscrip- 

 tion in small characters from Ratanpur, in the Nagpur district. 



" Another very large inscription in middle-sized well formed letters 

 contains a long genealogy of some unknown princes — with, appa- 

 rently, the history of a temple between Samvat 960 and 1025, or for 

 sixty-five years. The money of the time is called ' Sri-mad Adi 

 Varaha dramma] which is clearly the small silver Varaha coinage 

 bearing the Boar incarnation on one side, and the legend ' Sri-mad 

 Adi Varaha' on the other. A new era is also mentioned, as well as 

 I can remember now (for the inscription is with Mr. Griffith) the 

 Varahada era, beginning about 438 B. C, which is probably therefore 

 the same as the Virat era. There is a Maharaja Bhoja Deva in this 

 list also. 



" I enclose a small inscription from Kajraha which will show 

 Rajendralal two things. — 1st, that there may be a blunder in a date, 

 notwithstanding the care that ought to have been taken — and 2nd, the 

 form of the figure 5, which is like our English 5 with rather a long 

 head. This peculiar form of the figure is found in one inscription 

 along with the common 5. I should be glad to have a translation of 

 this inscription if Rajendralal would kindly undertake it. The date 

 is probably 1011 — at least I satisfied myself by personal inspection 

 that the figure 1 was first engraved and afterwards changed to O- 

 I understand the inscription to record a series of gifts to the temple 

 of Jinanath by Dhanga Raja. The gifts are numbered. — 1st, the 

 Pahila Garden. 2nd, the Chandra Garden. 3rd, the Little Chandra 

 Garden. 4th, the Sankara Garden. 5th, the Panch Itala Garden. 

 6th, the Mango Garden. 7th, the Dhanga Tank. Perhaps Dhanga 

 should be read Ghanga ; but in the 3rd line he is called Raja ; and I 

 feel inclined to identify him with the Dhanga Raja of the large 

 inscriptions from the Brahmanical temples. 



" Of coins I can tell you but little, not from want of new matter, 

 but from want of time. Of novelties I may, however, mention a 

 square copper coin of a new king, Epander, and a tetradrachm of 

 Antiochus Nilcator with the name of A°;athokles on the reverse. 



