1084 Note on Inscriptions from [Dec. 



^JC^ inraf . . . • . . after this occurs the expression amaradehasa pdta 

 " falling of heavenly form" — used to denote the death of a person, — 

 then bdrasa ' twelve' and at the end of the line, siri pithirdjdno, which 

 in Sanskrit will be ^^^T^TT^T : (^T«TT) 



. . tajdloralakhila bdranasi hirananivenayati — apparently ' he distributes 

 much gold at Benares (S. vdranasam hiranydnivisirjati) — all that follows 

 is too uncertain until we approach the verb, — anekdni dato (deva ?) mani 

 ratandni ahardpayati, ' he gives as charity innumerable and most precious 

 jewels.' 



14th line. . . . si novasikariti terasamava ( sala ?) vasesu panchata fpaba- 

 ta ?) vijaya chana kumari pasange, arahate panavasata pi kamani sidindya 

 ydpuravake .... 'in the year thirteen hundred married (S. WJi:) with 

 the daughter of the so-called conqueror of the mountains (a hill raja)' 

 — . . the rest is obscure but seemingly declaratory of some presents 

 to priests.— 



15. This line presents but a few words of intelligible import — vihi- 



tdnancha sata disdnam sidiya samipe subhare — aneke yajand, 



and the final word dhandni. 



16. Patdlake chatara cheteghariya gabha thambhe pati (thdj payati, — 

 ' he causes to be constructed subterranean chambers, caves con- 

 taining a chetiya temple and pillars' agisati katariyam napdda- 



chhati — agama raja savatha rdjd saurasefnajrdja. . ma rdjd pasata 

 saghate. . . . randni. 



The meaning of this judging from the last word and the constant re- 

 petition of ' rdja,' is that he had many encounters with various princes, 

 including perchance the raja of Saurasena, or of Saurashtra ? 



The last line begins well: (omitting u vise) — kusalo sava pdsanda 

 pujan (iya) (17 letters) kdrakdra . . . . patihata lakivdhani bdlevdka- 

 dhagata chana pavaia chako rdjdsanka lavinaravato mahdvijaye rdjd 

 khdravela sanda, — " for whom the happy heretics continually pray 



slayer, having a lakh of equipages the fearless 



sovereign of many hills, by the sun (cherished ? or some such epithet) 

 the great conqueror raja Kha'ravela sanda (or the king of the ocean- 

 shore — reading khdravelasya, and supposing the two final strokes not 

 to be letters)." 



All who take an interest in Indian antiquities will at once see the 

 value of the above record — perhaps the most curious that has yet been 

 disclosed to us, — and will lament the irretrievable obscurity in which 

 the dilapidation of ages has involved the greater part of its contents. 

 Much may be objected to in the hasty analysis which, in the midst of 

 the interruptions at this busy season, I have hurried prematurely into 



