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while in the other it is angular. The bh of this type, however, is not 
invariably used. The Kutila 62, resembling the modern 4, is promis- 
cuously used with the former. B, v and ch are written alike. At the 
end of the first line, which is about + shorter than the rest, several 
characters are scratched at the end, which cannot be made out; 
probably they. were of the same type as those of the rest of the 
inscription, but owing to partial obliteration they now look different. 
The second and third lines have several letters of the same kind. 
The last letter of every line, as also the initial letters of the 22nd, 
23rd and 24th lines, are lost. 
In regard to style, the inscription offers little for comment. Sans- 
krita poetry of the later middle ages is noted for its unchaste ideas, silly 
conceits, and over-strained metaphors ; and the author of the record 
under notice, is in every way true to the age he livedin. An eager 
attempt to make up for the poverty of ideas by a pruriency of diction, 
pervades his composition,and the erotic tendency of his thoughts assails 
him even in his salutation to his gods. The language, however, is 
generally correct, and there is little to complain of against the 
engraver Sampula. 
The subject of the record is not of much interest. It is said that 
in the reign of Prithudeva son of Ratnapala, King of Chedi, modern 
Rewa and Mundla,* who was a prince of the lunar race, a Brahmana 
of great learning came from Chedi to the Turmana country, and one 
of his descendants, in the year 1150 A. D., dedicated a temple to S‘iva, 
in the village of Sambagrama. The locality of Turmana must be 
assumed, from the position of the temple, to be the district around 
Ratnapur, and for the origin of the name, we must look to the prince 
of the Gwalior inscription published in the last volume, whose 
dominion extended to the west as far as Bhopal and perhaps farther. 
By the testimony of the inscriptions and coins extant, it has been there 
shewn that Toramana was a prince of some renown, and the association 
of his name with the country, several centuries after his death, may 
be taken as an additional proof in support of that opinion. 
The name of the dedicator of the temple is indistinct, the syllables 
de, va and na are alone legible, with a hiatus after va barely sufficient 
for a single letter, which I suppose was a g. If this guess be correct, 
the name would be Devagana, probably an alias of the Devadasa 
* Vide Journal American Oriental Society, vol VI. p. 18. 
