1864.] 



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Sri Harsha era of 607 A. D., which would bring the date of the in- 

 scription down to A. D. 823. But if the middle figure is actually a 

 7 (as read by Eajendra, although his facsimile gives a 1) then the 

 date would be 276, or A. D. 883 if referred to the Sri Harsha era, a 

 period which would enable us to identify the Bhoja of the Pehewa 

 inscription with his namesakes of Grwalior in A. I), 876, and of the 

 Eaja Tarangini in A D, 883 to 901. I will endeavour to examine 

 the original inscription during the ensuing cold weather, as I have a 

 suspicion that the first figure of the date is not a 2, but either a 1 or 

 a 9. In the pencil tracing sent to me by Mr. Grrote the figure is a 1 ? 

 and so it was read by Eajendra himself, as I have conclusively shown 

 in the opening paragraphs of this paper. 



Babu Eajendra has drawn attention to another Eaja Bhoja, to 

 whom allusion has been made by Professor Hall in his " Vestiges of 

 the royal lines of Kanoj," with the dates of 960 and 964. To this 

 monument the Babu states that I probably refer (see p. 96 of his 

 article) in my letter published in the Journal for 1860, p. 395. But 

 here again (to use the Babu's own words) he did not think it " worth 

 his while to look to" my actual statement. Had he done so he would 

 have found in J. A. S. B I860, p. 395, that I referred to the Grwalior 

 Bhoja Deva inscription with its date of Samvat 933, " both in words 

 and figures." In the same letter I added that " the form of the figure 

 9 in this date is the same as that which Eajendralal has read as 7," 

 that is, in the Buddha Gaya inscription already quoted. Notwith- 

 standing this direct notice of his misreading of the figure 7, the Babu, 

 in his very last article on Eaja Bhoja, has again brought forward this 

 erroneous date of Samvat 721 to prove that the Kutila character was 

 in use as early as that time. I may add that the Babu is equally 

 wrong in his statement that the inscription referred to by Professor 

 Hall, was found " at Grwalior." It is believed to have been found 

 somewhere in the Gwaiior territory, but the actual site is not known. 

 It is certain, however, that it was not found " at Grwalior." 



In the remarks which accompany his translation of the Bhoja Deva 

 inscription of Gwaiior, of which the date, Samvat 933, is given both 

 in words and in figures, Babu Eajendra (J. A. S. Bengal 1862, p. 

 399) states that " the date is open to question." " The first figure," 

 he adds, " is peculiarly formed, and may be taken for a 7, which would 

 carry the prince to A : C, 676 =.S. 733 ; or within eleven years of the 





