1056 Ancient Inscriptions. [Dec. 



III. Another facsimile taken by Captain Burt from a temple at 

 Oodeypur in February 1838, deserves also particular mention, not for its 

 substance, which is merely a grant of no great antiquity by a raja named 

 Punya Pal of Jogobatee, but because the date is given in three eras, 

 one of which is new. It shows the Sumbut year of Vikramaditya 

 1116, corresponding with 981 of Salivahana, to have fallen in the year 

 446 of Oodyaditya, therefore the raja Oodyaditya, from whom pro* 

 bably Oodypur derives its name, lived in the year 670 of Vikrama- 

 ditya or about 614 A. D. This raja's name is not in the chronolo- 

 gical tables of the Sesodee, or of any other dynasty. But the name of 

 Deva Ditya occurs, at about the period assigned for the sera in this 

 inscription, and they may be identical. 



IV. The next inscription of which we shall furnish a translation, is 

 one often mentioned in the pages of this journal, viz. that of Bageshar 

 near Almora in the province of Kamaon. This inscription was copied 

 by Mr. Trail the late commissioner, but the copies proving defective* 

 facsimiles were also obtained, from which the following transcript and 

 translation have been made. 



There are still several hiatuses, and especially towards the close, where 

 the date will most probably have been. Failing this means of fixing 

 the period when the rajas named in this inscription lived, we have no- 

 thing but the appearance of the stone, and the character of the writing 

 to indicate its probable epoch. In the present instance these are uncer- 

 tain criteria, for the character, though ancient and in some respects 

 peculiar, does not correspond sufficiently with that of other inscriptions 

 or coins to afford a safe chronological guide. The inscription so far 

 as it has been decyphered is as follows :— 



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^nftrcrsn ^w^^re §*: Ite ^ti $ *jsft snrf *mfftraf?nrc 

 ^Kt^^^mq^^^ftref *ra*:rc*rr*r uf^nrrfccw OTtfthrro 



