1837.] on the Allahabad pillar. 971 



and in their place are brought up as many from the end of the follow- 

 ing line; and this transposition continues until the 24th line, where it 

 will be seen that the same dozen letters that close the 23rd line are 

 repeated! It would indeed have been extraordinary, under such 

 unfavorable conditions, had our learned vice-president been able to 

 give a perfect translation I we may rather wonder that he could make 

 any thing at all of such a mass of confusion ! 



When restored to its natural order we find the epithets applied to the 

 deceased Emperor of Hindustan, not only much less hyperbolical and 

 reposing less upon mythological allusions, but crowding in a short 

 space a most unexpected and curious survey of the political divisions 

 of India at the time, containing even the names and titles of very 

 many of the reigning families, and extending beyond the boundaries 

 of India proper into the regions of the " great king" of Persia and the 

 hord, s of the Huns and Scythians ! It may be poverty of imagination in 

 the poet that has wrought us this good ; for once laying hold of an idea 

 he rings the changes upon it as long as he can find words, and then 

 draws up with an inelegant ' &c.' Thus in the 14th and 15th lines he 

 enumerates no less than nine warlike weapons the king's brawny arms 

 were scarred in wielding : and thus when he mentions tributary states he 

 fortunately spares none that Samudra's supremacy could in any degree 

 comprehend! The passage is altogether so curious that I must crave 

 permission to insert a copy of it in the roman character before I endea- 

 vour to trace any of the countries alluded to. The continual recur- 

 rence of the adjectival termination ka, (the prototype of the modern 

 genitive postposition) led me to suspect the nature of the sentence. 



16. Kausalaka mahendra, mdhakdntdraka vyaghra raja, Kaurddrika 

 manta rdja, arghdshtapuraka mahendra, mirika-uddyaraka swdmi, dat- 

 tairandapallaka ddyana, kdnchiyaka vishnu, sdpdvamuktaka (17.) Nila- 

 rdja. 



In this sentence we have the regal designations of nine princes; 

 unless (which is probable enough) the terms mahendra, rdja, swdmi, 

 nila rdja, dayana, &c. are employed with the same general acceptation 

 of prince, to vary the expression euphoniously. 



The kingdom of Kausala (or Kosala) is well known from the Bud- 

 dhist authors to be modern Oude*, (Ayodhya) or Benares, — K&si- 

 kosala of Wilford. The Vyaghra mukhas, tiger-faced people, are men- 

 tioned in the Vardsanhita, among the eastern countries ; and Cdntdra 

 a place south of Allahabad, but the name may apply to any woody tract 



* Wilford however makes Kausala the delta or Sundarban tract of Bengal. 

 As. Res. IX. 260. 



