1837.] on the Columns of Delhi, Allahabad, Betiah, $c. 591 



the okapada, those that go in pairs, the white dove and the domestic 

 pigeon. Among all fourfooted beasts the following shall not be for 

 food, — they shall not be eaten : the she-goat of various kind, and the 

 sheep, and the sow, either^ when heavy with young or when giving 

 milk. Unkilled birds of every sort for the desire of their flesh shall not 

 be put to death. The same being alive shall not be injured : whether 



5 gangdpuputake 9, sankujamave 10, kadhata sayakt, pannasa sesimale, 



6 sandake, okapade, parasate 11, setakapote, gdmakapote ; 



7 Save chatapade 12, ye patibhogan no eti, na chakhddiyati : — Ajakdndni 



8 edakdchd, sukarichd, gabhiniva payamindva : avadhaya — pataka 



9 pi chakdni dsanmdsike vadhikakate no kataviye 13 : tase sajfve 



9. The ganga puput&ka seems to designate a bird which arrived in the valley 

 of the Ganges at the time of the swelling of its waters jfjITSTT^^T* or in the rains ; 

 as such it may be the ' adjutant,' a bird rarely seen up the country but at that 

 season. 



10. The sankujamava and the two names following it in the enumeration are 

 no longer known. The epithet karhatasayake might be applied to the chikor, 

 quasi eS^^^rSf^r sleeping with its head on one side—a habit ascribed in fable 

 to this bird according to the pandit : or it might be rendered ^f^f^a: or ^jfrff 

 the Numidian crane. The panasasesimala may derive its name from feeding on 

 the panasa or jak fruit. 



11. I feel strongly inclined to translate these three in a general way as the 

 perchers, ^*^T, the waders or web-footed, ^tq^ ; and those that assort in 

 pairs TT^l? rf. Tlie first epithet might also apply to the common fowls in the 

 sense of capon. The mention of the wild and tame pigeon immediately after the 

 above list obliges us to regard all included between the known names at the 

 commencement, and these winding up the list, as birds ; or nearly allied to the 

 feathered race : otherwise panasasesimare might easily be broken into TT«m 

 a monkey, and ftftJlTTC, th e gangetic porpoise ; and in the same way rekapade, 

 (T'K 1 ^;) might be aptly translated, frog : sandak, sadaka, or salaka, T^qft 



the porcupine. 



12. The sense requires that a new paragraph should begin with this word 

 although from the final e of the preceding list they might seem all to be classed 

 together in the locative case. As a noun of number savechatupade may 

 remain singular : — in Sanskrit the sentence would run ^ ^r^psr^xr -q srfcf^rjf 

 $raf^ •T^T'sTr^T^ : V e should equally govern a plural verb in the text, where 

 perhaps the anuswara is omitted accidentally in eti and chakhddiyati. 



13. This paragraph as translated in the text would run in Sanskrit with 

 very slight modification ^^^njjyffcj ^S^TH? ^fr*t*farf»WRW? ^*rf% 



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