22G Of two Edicts bestowing Lund. [No. B. 



The same : — whose feet are justly revered by the entire brother- 

 hood of potentates : son and successor* of the auspicious Chandra 

 Deva, supreme sovereign, great king, chief ruler, lord paramount, 

 emperor ;t who gained, with his own arm, the primacy of happy 



crush,' ' to grind,' and not simply * to press down,' the conjectural reading bhaydt 

 * for fear' would yield a better sense : ' in the apprehension of being,' &c. 



* Pdddnudhydta. Professor Wilson — Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 

 Vol. II,, p. 393 — errs in supposing that this formula may connect the names of 

 contemporary rulers, sovereign and subordinate, to imply the inferiority of the 

 latter. In the following volume of the same Journal, at p. 379, he remarks, on 

 this expression, that it ' s is nothing more than a paraphrastic phrase for ' succes- 

 sor.' It means, literally, ' meditating upon bis — the father's — feet ;' denoting 

 either the disposition of the son to imitate the paternal example, or to refer, with 

 reverence, to the memory of his sire." Colebrooke, long before, — Transactions of 

 the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. I., p. 236 : or Miscell. Essays, Vol. II., p. 303,— 

 had, however, written as follows: " Pdddnndhydta, an ordinary periphrasis for 

 son and successor : literally, ' whose feet are meditated, i. e. revered, by ....'" 

 In some cases, — as in this Journal for 1839, p. 491, — the same words are used, by 

 a chieftain, of his favourite divinity. 



For this locution, pdd&nta-khydta has sometimes been substituted, in decipher- 

 ments of inscriptions. See our Journal for 1848, Part I., p. 71 ; and for 1851> 

 p. 676. This epithet would signify, if anything, ' whose toes are notorious.' 



In this Journal for 1855, p. 487, the Sanskrit may be found of a short inscrip- 

 tion which I translated from a version taken by an archaeologist of established 

 repute, Mr. Edward Thomas, from an obscure copy of what I now know to be a 

 very rough original. In the second line, as printed, is the phrase pdddnudhyd- 

 tasya ; which is, of course, the correct reading for Major Cunningham's utterly 

 meaningless pdddnaddtasya. See Bhilsa Topes, p. 151. 



But I here mention this record chiefly with a view to express the opinion that it 

 requires further examination before we can be positive about its contents. Four 

 independent transcripts which I have lately had taken of it, have only served to 

 increase bewilderment ; with the exception of determining that ^Jj'WrS'^TW stands 

 in place of ^TR WW- 



f Parama-bhattdraJca, mahd-rdja, adhi-rdja, parames'wara, parama-mdhes'- 

 wara : and, if regard be had to their etymology, these appellations are not classed 

 by subordination ; for, to all appearance, the first and the last are indicative of 

 co-ordinate eminence. The precise sense of parama-mdhes'ivara is ' supreme 

 great lord.' In all cases, however, where bhattdraka, qualified, or unqualified, is 

 met with in a list of this description, it stands at the head. Colebrooke says that 

 it " answers to the title of majesty." Miscell. Essays, Vol. II., p. 303. 



The Aitareya-bhrdmaua, in its concluding pentad, has a curious classification of 



