1G2 Inscribed Slab found near Chhatarpur. [March, 



Of the character of the Poem a few words remain to be said. It is 

 composed in an ambitious style by an accomplished scholar. His 

 verses are polished and elaborate ; some however are obscure, and the 

 quaint pedantry of Sanscrit Poetry here abounds. But in spite of 

 these defects, many of the verses may be justly commended as contain- 

 ing much of truly poetical imagery, conveyed in lofty and polished 

 diction. But we must leave space for Captain Burt's narrative. 



Extract from the Journal. 



I reached Chatterpore at 9 o'clock at night, (which was an ear- 

 lier hour than I had stipulated for by twelve or thirteen hours), 

 but my reason for pushing on was in order to have time to pay a visit 

 to Khajrao, a place situated about nine pukka (full) koss (eighteen 

 English miles) from Chatterpore, to the right of my road, and lying 

 not far from Rajpore, or Ragurhy, or I think it is more correctly call- 

 ed Rajnuggur. The natives at a distance sometimes call Chatterpore 

 Chatpore. It was whilst I was on my return trip from Eraw to 

 Saugor that I heard, from a palky bearer, of the wonders of this 

 place — Khajrao, near Chatpore, as he called it ; and which he stated 

 to be situated from Saugor seven munzils, or daily stages, for native 

 pedestrians, which, at fifteen miles per day, is about the thing, Chat- 

 terpore being distant from Herrapore fifty miles, or one hundred from 

 Saugor. I may as well now employ my twelve or thirteen hours spare 

 time in taking a look at Khajrao along with the reader. 



Immediately on my arrival at Chatterpore, at 9 o'clock at night, I 

 told the dawk moonshee, (baboo, or writer) to procure a double set 

 of sixteen bearers, and two spare men for a bangie, containing my 

 food and printing materials, to start as soon as possible for Khajrao. 

 I wished to arrive there before sunrise in the morning, and it lay at 

 a distance of eighteen or twenty miles thence by an indifferent road. 

 I left a pair of trunks and a pair of patarahs (tin boxes) under the 

 care of the baboo, as I should not require them until my return, and 

 in about an hour started for Khajrao, via Rajnuggur, and reached the 

 temples of the former at seven or eight o'clock in the morning. The 

 ruins which I went to see lie at some distance from the village, which 

 lies beyond them, and this place I did not see, as a quantity of jungle 

 intercepts the view of it. I was much delighted at the venerable, and 

 picturesque appearance these several old temples presented, as I got 

 within view of them. They reared their sun-burnt tops above the 

 huge trees by which they are surrounded, with all the pride of supe- 



