1864.] 



Peliewa Inscription of Baja JBhoja, 



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the Raja Tarangini, will be found in this Journal for 1860, pp. 400, 

 401. This silent adoption of my identification has enabled Mr. Tho- 

 mas to ascribe it to Rajendra himself (see Journ. Royal Asiat. Soc. 

 Vol. XX. p. 108 ; note 2,) # — and Mr. Thomas's authority, added to 

 the Babu's own silence, has induced Professor Dowson to do the 

 same. In the same Vol. of the Royal Asiat. Soc. Journal, Mr. Dowson 

 writes as follows regarding Rajendra's translation of the Wardak 

 inscription, — " Before proceeding to criticise I will perform the more 

 grateful task of applauding the success he has achieved, especially in 

 the reading of the name of the king and in identifying him with the 

 Hushka of the Raja Tarangini. This alone would have been a valu- 

 able gain." Here then we see that the two points in the Babu's ver- 

 sion of the Wardak inscription, to which Professor Dowson has 

 awarded special praise, are precisely those two which the Babu has 

 adopted from my published letter without any acknowledgment 

 whatever. 



Extract from a letter from Major- General Cu]sns T i3sr0HAM. 

 Bated, Nynee Tdl, 1Uh May, 1864. 



" I have succeeded in clearing up the whole mystery of the date of 

 Raja Bhoja in the Pehoa inscription, which is written at full length 

 in words, as well as in figures. The date is 276 — Rajendra has mis- 

 read the name of Bhoja's father, which is Udmabhadra Deva, and not 

 Sdmachandra JDeva, as may be seen most distinctly even in his own 

 facsimile. This correction is most important, as it enables us to iden- 

 tify both father and son with two of the Rajas of Kanoj, whose 

 names are, given in the Benares copper-plate. To this identification 

 Rajendra will object that the genealogy of the Pehoa inscription prior 

 to Ramabhadra differs entirely from that of the Benares copper-plate ' 

 and so it does differ beyond all doubt ; but there is no such genealogy 

 in the Pehoa inscription of Raja Bhoja ! The explanation of this 



* In the same volume, p. 99, in an article read on the 5th July, 1862, Mr. 

 Thomas describes a square copper coin of JEpander whom he calls a " new 

 king." But the name of this king had already been made known by me in this 

 Journal for 1860, p. 396, from a similar copper coin in my own possession. 

 Since then I have obtained a hemidrachma of Epander, in bad order, and ano- 

 ther copper coin in very bad preservation. 



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