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THE ASIATIC SOCIETY 



No. 87.— MARCH, 1839- 



Art. I. — Notice of an Inscription on a Slab discovered in February, 

 1838, by Capt. T. S. Burt, Bengal Engineer s^ in Bundelkhund, 

 near Chhatarpur. — By the Editors. 



Captain Burt will have imputed, to the right causes, (Mr. Prinsep's 

 illness, and absence) the delay, with which we notice the impression 

 of the above inscription, so obligingly forwarded by him. This com- 

 munication, has added to the obligations which antiquarian science 

 owes to him. The legend of the inscription is now presented to our 

 readers with a translation — a relevant extract from Captain Burt's 

 Journal* — some explanatory notes, — and a prosodial key to the in- 

 scribed verses, or rather Poem. A facsimile of the inscription is not 

 added, because the character resembles the specimen published in our 

 number for April, 1837 ; and Captain Burt describes it as No. 3, 

 Allahabad pillar. 



This slab, it will be seen, was found detached at one of several temples 

 at Khajrao, nine coss from Chhatarpur, which is on the high road 

 connecting Saugar and Hamirpur. Khajrao is described by Captain 

 Burt as near Rajgarhy, which we assume to be the Rajgarh of the 

 maps — a fortified town on the right bank of the Cane river S. E. from 

 Chhatarpur. The place abounds with remains of temples, statuary, 

 and monuments of ancient times. The slab was found in the temple 

 dedicated to " Lalajee." This name, (unknown to the Sanscrit 

 theogonies) is probably the appellation locally current of some divinity 

 whose alias we cannot conjecture. It may however be assumed, that 



* Captain Burt's letter covering the inscription has been mislaid. We hope we 

 have not taken a liberty in making an extract from a Journal of his Travels, in the 

 hands of Thacker & Co., for the press.— Eds. 



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