1840.] Ancient Land Grants in Assam, 781 



a large piece of rock, and on the top, near to the great temple, is a figure of Hunooman. 

 At the foot of the hill a small figure of Gunaish is cut on a boulder, by the side of 

 which is the inscription marked No. 1. I perceived no inscriptions on the other stones. 

 No. 2 is an inscription on the Dhol Mundip of the temple named Asakrunta, on the 

 opposite or right bank of the Burrumpooter. No. 3 was taken from a stone by the side 

 of a tank, about two miles from Gowahatti, on the Nowagaon road. The copies on the 

 English paper are the inscriptions within the temple of Kamakhshya, to which I had 

 no access, and were taken for me by the Suddur Ameen, Juggoo Kam Phookaw ; all 

 the inscriptions, I believe, are in the Assamese character. 



" I might enter into a long description of the picturesque situationof these Mundurs, 

 but it might be out of place, and I shall rest perfectly satisfied, if the copies may prove 

 of the slightest use." 



** If we leave out the ornamental parts of the poetry (being praises of the princes and 

 the goddess) the inscription informs us that the principal temple of Kamakhya has 

 been built by Shukla Diva and Shukla Dhwaja, the vounger brothers of Malladiva 

 (the king of Behar) in 1487. Equivalent to 1566 a. d.''^ 



