1837.] Re-examination of the Allahabad pillar. 963 



ally crystallised sugar) added, gives it a most grateful relish, to the 

 rarely stimulated palates of these poor and primitive people. 



No. 12. — Kuti, (Newari.J The machine for converting the dhan 

 into eatable rice, by husking it, is the same as that for making surhi 

 from bricks, (hence called the Dhenki ?) 



No.- 13. — Chan-kummu, (Newari.J Is the banghy used in all field 

 work, and consists merely of two small wicker baskets, suspended 

 from either end of a piece of wood or bambu, four feet long, which 

 the carrier bears on his shoulders. 



N. B. Exact models in wood of the above noted implements, 

 are deposited in the museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



VII. — Note on the Facsimiles of the various Inscriptions on the ancient 

 column at Allahabad, retaken by Captain Edward Smith, Engineers. 

 By James Prinsep, Sec. As. Soc. <Src. fyc. 



[Submitted at the Meeting of the 6th December.] 



Captain Edward Smith, of the engineers, has rendered another 

 signal service to the Society and to all those whose study is directed to 

 the development of Indian history. On this occasion his task has 

 been infinitely more trying to the patience, and has demanded more 

 ingenuity and care, than in the comparatively simple affair of Bhilsa : 

 while on the other hand there was less expected from its accomplish- 

 ment ; seeing that Lieutenant Burt had already taken down the two 

 principal inscriptions by hand, one of which had been published 

 and interpreted with the advantage of all the learning and critical 

 acumen of Captain Troyer and of Dr. Mill himself : while the other 

 -and older text had been shewn to be identical with the four tablets 

 of the Feroz hit, and was therefore included in the explanation of 

 that monument recently given. Nevertheless, experience rife and 

 frequent had taught me the value of a strict revision, even of the most 

 trust- worthy labour of the treacherous eye ; and I was equally sur- 

 prised and pleased to find that Captain Smith had devoted himself 

 to this unpromising labour. There were many discrepancies of letters 

 in Lieutenant Burt's copy of the No. 1 . inscription, which might be 

 satisfactorily rectified ; there were also many obscurities in the Samu- 

 dragupta inscription, which might be cleared up ; and above all, it was 

 an object to determine the nature of the interlineary inscription to which 

 the attention of the curious had been directed first by Lieut. Kixto-e, 



