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Observations on a seco7id Inscription taken in facsimile from the 

 neighbourhood of Mount Aboo. By Capt. Burt, Bengal Establish- 

 ment, F. R. S. 



In a notice of the Bussuntghur Inscription, (Asiatic Society's Jour- 

 nal, No. 116,) I made mention of another also sent to me from the 

 same part of the country by Capt. Burt, which I hoped might, when 

 decyphered, throw light on the dynasty of Rajpoot chieftains, whose 

 names were therein first made known to us. Some trouble has been 

 required to read this second inscription, which is to a great extent not 

 to be made out, owing to obliteration of the characters. It is cut, 

 Capt. Burt tells me, " in the interior of a gateway leading to Mandir, 

 distant one kos from Beejapoor, on the route from Odeypore to Sirohee 

 near Mount Aboo." 



The date of this inscription is Samvat 1053, equivalent to a. d. 996, 

 and it is consequently 46 years anterior to that taken from the Baolee, 

 at Bussuntgurh. It contains, also, as will be seen, notices of a new 

 dynasty, and mentions a principality hitherto unknown. Raja 

 Dhavala, of the race of Viswavarnay is represented as engaged in con- 

 stant wars with neighbouring chiefs, and appears, on the consolidation 

 of his power, to have followed the usual course of erecting, and dedica- 

 ting a temple with pious reference to his ancestors. Lands and endow- 

 ments were doubtless assigned in the ordinary mode for the main- 

 tenance of this shrine, the record of which has been obliterated with 

 the erasure of great part of the inscription. 



The facts which may be deduced from this ancient record, confirm 

 the theory which I ventured, with Lieut. Cunningham's concurrence, to 

 put forth, based on the Bussuntghur inscription, as respects the condi- 

 tion of Meywar subsequently to the first invasion of the country from 

 Cabul, in a. d. 812. The presence in that inscription of the names of 

 a new dynasty reigning over the country still called locally Badari, 

 near Mount Aboo, about a. d. 1042, and the historical knowledge 

 which we have of a so-called division by Bhritripad, about two 

 hundred years previously of the territory under his domination among 

 thirteen sons, led to the conclusion, that this list of names recorded 

 the reign of a line of petty potentates, either descendants of Britripad's 

 successors, or, as is more likely, of chieftains established in a small 



