274 Sanskrita Inscriptions from Central India. [ No. 3, 
The subject of the record is the donation, by one Bhabya Pahila, 
of six small plots of garden land and a house for the use of a temple ; 
it is dated, Monday the 7th of the waxing moon in the month of 
Vais’‘kha, Samvat 1011 = A. D. 954. 
When I first read the inscription I took the cypher in the date to 
be a 7, as I felt it difficult readily to believe, that the modern Deva- 
nagari, the character used, could be associated with the Samvat date 
1011, but finding the figure 7 differently given at the foot of the 
record, I had no alternative but to take it for a dot. The idea of 7 
was suggested by a twisted tail at the right hand of the eypher 
which in modern Nagari cannot be expected in any other figure. Its 
presence, however, has been accounted for by General Cunningham, 
who says, “ I have satisfied myself by personal examination that the 
figure one was first engraved and afterwards changed to 0.’* 
The inconsistency regarding the association of so early a date as the 
tenth century, with very modern characters, General Cunningham 
explains by assuming the record to be a recent transcript of an ancient 
document. In a private letter (dated 10th November, 1860) to Mr. 
A. Grote, commenting on my translation of the inscription, he 
observes: “ Of the short inscription from Kajraha (or Khajuraha) I 
have little to say. The date has puzzled Rajendra on account of the 
modern style of the letters ; but the date can only be one of two, either 
1011 or 111], (better 1711). I believe that the inscription may have 
been engraved any time during the last 300 years, from a more ancient 
copy. My reasons I will give in detail when giving my note on the 
Khajuraha kings. I may mention, however, for Rajendra’s satisfac- 
tion, that I copied in the same Jain temple an inscription, but without 
date, which is word for word the same as the other down to the 
enumeration of the gifts. I say word for word, but not letter for 
letter, as this other shorter inscription has no mistakes in it of one s 
for the other, and is besides in comparatively old characters, on the 
pedestal of a Jain figure.” 
The donor, a Jain, calls himself the respected of Raja Dhanga, and 
gives away, among several parcels of garden land, a house and pre- 
mises of the name of “ Dhdnga badi.” This would imply him to 
have been either a near and elder relative of Dhanga, or a priest. The 
latter is not likely, as a Pahilla, according to General Cunningham, 
* Ante XXIX. p. 396. 
