

JOURNAL 



OF THE 



STATIC SOCIETY. 



No. III. 1864. 



Remarks on tlie date of the Pehewa Inscription of Raja Blioja*-— 

 By Major- General A,. Cmoroo-HAM. 



The age of the Pehewa Inscription of Raja Bhoja has been a sub- 

 ject of difference between Babu Rajendra Lai and myself, for some 

 years past. When he first published the inscription in 1853 (J. A. S. 

 Bengal, p. 674) he read the date as 179 Saxnvat, to which I demurred 

 at the time. He again referred to the subject in 1858, (J. A. S. 

 Bengal, p, 76) and his remarks lead me to believe that at that time 

 he still adhered to his original reading.. But in an article just now 

 published, he has finally come round to my view of the subject by 

 candidly admitting that the forms of the alphabetical characters may 

 be " a good test to some extent," and that we are fully justified in 

 placing the date of the Pehewa Inscription in the 9th, 10th, or 11th 

 century, (see J. A. S. Bengal, 1868, pp. 100, 101). 



"With, this happy conclusion I should have been contented to 

 let the matter drop ; but as, during the discussion, several erroneous 

 statements have been put forth by the Babu, some of which affect me 

 personally, I think it right, in justice to myself, to correct these 

 errors at once, lest others should be misled by the Babu's authority 

 to believe that they are actually my opinions. 



When the Babu first published his translation of the Pehewa 

 Inscription, I objected to his placing Col. Tod's first Bhoja in the 

 year 179 Samvat according to his reading of the Pehewa inscription. 

 When I made this objection I knew nothing more of this inscription 

 than what Rajendra had himself published. But as I knew that two 



* For Babu Rajendralala Mitra's reply to these Remarks vide the Proceedings 

 of the Society for September last (Ante, vol. XXXII. p. 437.) — Eds. 



2 Gt 



