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Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



[No. 5 7 



Translation. 



" The order of Deva Raya, the chief ruler, to his next in authority 

 Gopa Raja, son of Kanthappa Raja Wodiar, dated 1438. 

 Banda Baliaka Naik, 

 Allarpa Naik. 

 Bhungeeda Naik. 



" These three are counsellors of the said Gopa Raja, their household 

 god being Vardharaj Devaru • they conducted their domestic affairs in 

 the form of a procession in the service of that god. 



" At this time it was reported that a tiger had killed a cow in the 

 vicinity. Then a hero, named Pratap Singh, visited Gopa Raja, with 

 his followers, during the procession in honor of the god. At the 

 request of Gopa Raja, he hunted and slew the tiger, for which service? 

 Deva Raya, on the recommendation of Gopa Raja, granted to the said 

 Pratap Singh, in the name of the god, 93 wet lands and 13 dry lands 

 near the village of Ooomsee." 



Under the figure of a Tiger : — 



" This shasanam is engraved by Kallukote Tirumallaga. 93 wet 

 lands and 13 dry lands have been granted for slaying the tiger by 

 order of Deva Raya. The said wet and dry lands have been obtained 

 by the favor of Vardharaj Devaru." 



8. From J. Beames, Esq., two silver and four copper coins. 



4. From 0. A. Elliott, Esq., Rubbings of Inscriptions at the foot 

 of some Jain Images in the Hoshungabad district. 



Mr. Blanford exhibited some specimens of flint implements of the 

 " early stone period," found at St. Acheul, near Abbeville, which he 

 had lately received from England. He pointed out the resemblance 

 of their general form to that of the stone implements from Madras 

 exhibited a few months since by Mr. Oldham, and gave a brief descrip- 

 tion of the deposits in which these implements were found. He spe- 

 cially pointed out that the evidence of the immense antiquity of man 

 rested not on mere vague calculations of the rate at which alluvial 

 deposits were formed, as had been recently stated, somewhat dogma- 

 tically, by an eminent mathematician, who was evidently but slightly 

 informed on the enormous changes that have been effected in the 

 physical Geography of Western Europe since the formation of the 

 deposits in which these implements were found, To suppose that the 



