1839.] Inscribed Slab found near Chhatat pur. 161 



name, in a North Westerly direction, appears on the map near the left- 

 bank of the Dassaun river. The name of Jaya Varma Deva is in the 

 royal genealogy recorded on this slab ; of which the date is effaced. 

 This genealogy has also its Vijaya ; but it cannot be identified with that 

 of Banga. It appears however that when Ananta, the Brahmin 

 minister of his father and grandfather, drowned himself in the Yamuna, 

 some other (probably a Brahmin) was appointed to the administration 

 by Jaya Varma, — because, as Capt. Price infers from words used in 

 the inscription, he had abandoned worldly concerns. 



In the Khajrao slab it is not stated that Jaya Varma Deva was the 

 son of Banga, but we learn that the priest Yasondhara administered 

 after the pious suicide of Banga.* These circumstances afford some 

 grounds, though weak, to identity the Jaya Varma Deva of both slabs. 

 In case of identity, we may suppose that the two genealogies exhibit 

 distinct branches of one family, and that Jaya Varma Deva succeed- 

 ed collaterally. No doubt local inquiry would fling light on the history 

 of the Kings or Chieftains here recorded. 



The poet elevates Banga into a great monarch and conqueror. 

 Kings of Oude and even Ceylon attend to do him homage, and his cap- 

 tives are the wives of the kings of Andra, Rad'ha, and Anga. All 

 this of course is the exaggeration and fancy of the poet. But the 19th 

 stanza seems however to indicate the actual conquest by Vijaya of 

 southern territory. 



Banga's piety was not limited to the erection of the shrine. He 

 also built mansions for seven Brahmins who officiated at the temple, 

 which he endowed with lands. " Two yavas at Sri Brahma kalpa; one 

 in the vicinity. Kalpa gram, on the south of the snowy mountains, was 

 another." This obscure sloka introduces a new land measure. The 

 yava, or barley corn, is the lowest linear measure, — and suits, neither 

 royal munificence, nor priestly expectation. We have Kalpi on the 

 right bank of the Yamuna ; but unless to fill up the verse it would hardly 

 be described as south of the snowy mountains. Is any Sri Brahma 

 kalpa known in the vicinity ? 



We should be much gratified if this, and other points connected with 

 this inscription receive the attention of Captain Burt, or any other 

 intelligent correspondent who may have the opportunity of local inqui- 

 ry. We will not dismiss the temple, without noticing Xicqha * the 

 carpenter," the Christopher Wren who built the " cloud-capt" fabric. No 

 Indian name approaching to this is now known. Was he foreigner ? 



* In the 9th verse of the Mow slab the name of Jaya Varma's father is incomplete. 

 But Banga would not suit the metre, and would make an incongruous compound. 



