160 Inscribed Slab found near Chhatarpur. [March, 



the slab does not belong to this edifice ; and that that, celebrated in 

 the polished verses now presented, has yielded to the mouldering hand of 

 time. We may also assume, that its site, was the consecrated spot, 

 described by Captain Burt, and that it gives us the genealogy of Rajas 

 who formerly ruled in that part of the country. 



We learn that Raja Banga erected a lofty temple for the reception 

 of an emerald emblem of Siva, and a stone image of the god. On the 

 death of this Raja, seemingly by voluntary immersion in the confluence 

 of the Yamuna and Ganga, his territory was administered by the 

 priest Yasonhara, — perhaps, during the minority of his heir Jaya 

 Varma Deva. The original inscription, of sixty stanzas, was engraved 

 and put up in 1019 Sarnbat, or 962 a. d. — that is about 877 years ago. 

 From the two last, or supplementary, stanzas we learn, that it was 

 engraved by order of Raja Jaya Varma Deva in " irregular" letters. 

 He afterwards had it re-engraved in clear character : then because 

 effaced, he again, at the distance of fifty-four years, had the poem re- 

 engraved in the Kakuda character on the slab, from which Captain 

 Burt has taken a faithful impression. It bears the date Friday, Vai- 

 sakh 3d, Sudi Sambat 1 173, a. d. 1016. The poet was Sri Ram, who 

 has not failed to give his own genealogy, and the caligraphist was 

 "that Gaud'a' Kayastha." 



The pious Banga appears to have been of the Lunar race. The 

 pedigree given by the slab is this 

 Nannuka 



! 



Vag-Yati 



i 



VlJAYA 



I 



VlHALA 



I 



Sriharsa 5 -j-Kunkati his wife of the Gangetic race. 



i 



Yaso-Dharma Deva+Narma Deva his wife. 



I 

 Banga. 

 Banga appears to have been succeeded by Jaya Varma Deva, who 

 may have been his son. 



In the 12th vol. of the Asiatic Researches there is copy of an im- 

 perfect inscription taken from a slab translated by Capt. Price, who 

 found it near Mow, a town ten miles from Chhatarpur. A place of that 



