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Note on an inscription from Oodeypore near Sagur. 



This inscription sent by Capt. Burt (Eng.) to our late Secretary, has 

 been already noticed in the Journal, though but casually (As. Soc. Jour. 

 p. 1056, vol. vii.) Capt. Burt having again submitted it to the Society 

 through me, the translation is now published with the original in Devna- 

 gree, as I have not thought it necessary to have a lithograph prepared 

 of the facsimile, the character being well known. The errors of grammar, 

 and incorrectness of expression occurring in the inscription are so gross, 

 that the pundit Kamalakanta Vidyalanka declined helping me in the pub- 

 lication of it unless I permitted him to interline his emendations, which, 

 as will be seen, has been done accordingly. The date is s. v. 1116, or 

 918 of Salivahana, or 446 of Oodyadhitya, thus establishing the era of the 

 latter monarch, as has been already noted by Mr. H. T. Prinsep, at about 

 a. d. 618. A misapprehension occurred however when the former notice 

 was published, as to the name of the reigning raja, the recorder of the 

 inscription ; and especially as this record introduces us to names hitherto 

 unknown among the rulers of Malwa, I have thought it expedient to pub- 

 lish Kamalakanta's acknowledgment of his error in having taken one 

 of the attributive epithets of the reigning raja, on a hasty perusal, for 

 his actual name. Our present raja has stood hitherto recorded as Punya 

 Pala, in place of his proper appellation : had not circumstances induced 

 the necessity of a cursory notice, the oversight would have been of course 

 corrected as soon as made. 



I have in vain endeavoured to trace the Pavara dynasty in ordinary 

 books of reference ; the names of the chiefs therefore recorded on this 

 tablet are of course unknown to history. Of the three* generations noted 

 on this inscription, one only in the person of the reigning raja is recorded 

 as in possession of its regal authority, and he is represented as having 

 regained the heritage of his fathers, though the fact of their ejection from 

 it is, for obvious reasons, but dubiously alluded to. According to Abool 

 Fuzl (Useful Tables, p. 107) Jitpal Chohan recovered Malwa from Kemal- 

 ood-deen, whom he murdered a. d. 1069. Conquered in 866, Malwa would 

 appear from the slight notice afforded by historians during the period 

 intervening between the years of its invasion, and the accession of the so- 

 called Jitpal Chohan, to have owned but a doubtful submission to its 

 Islamite oppressors. Reduced as we are to the meagre chronicles of his- 

 torians, who belonged to the invading and aggressive party, we cannot 

 expect to find the record of their defeats kept with any thing approach - 



* I do not include of course the fourth generation, adolescent sons of the reigning Raja 



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