230 Of two Edicts bestowing Land. [No. 3, 



ing* its groves of madM7casf and niaugo-trees, its orchards,! tim- 

 ber^ grass, and pasture,|| with its holes and saline wastes, with 

 everything above and below, its four abuttals being ascertained, as 

 far as its borders : which had been granted by patent, in perpe- 

 tuity,^" — by the illustrious king and chief ruler,* the fortunate Chandra 



* The tautology, in the original, of sa and paryanta ( with and including' seems 

 to be a speciality of legal documents. 



f The madhuka is a sort of bassia, from the blossoms of which a spirituous 

 beverage, called mddhwi, is extracted by distillation. By the laws of the Mana- 

 vas — XI., 95 — the drinking of this liquor is forbidden to Brahmans. 



X The Sanskrit scholar will observe that it would have been permissible, if not 

 even preferable, to connect the word rendered ' groves' with mudhiiJcas, and that 

 translated ' orchards' with ' mango-trees ;' especially if the last are coarsely de- 

 scribed by the substantive vana. On the interpretation thus suggested, the writer 

 will have affected the verbal collocation technically known, in the writings of the 

 Sanskrit grammarians and rhetoricians, as yathd-sankhya, or " construction by 

 the correspondent order of terms ;" a figure of speech exemplified in this cou- 

 plet : 



" Heec domus odit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat, 

 Nequitiam, pacem, crimina, jura, probos." 

 Verses distinguished by the style of regimen here illustrated, are said to have 

 been once called, by the French, " rapportez." See Notes and Queries^Vol. VII. , 

 p. 167. 



§ Vitapa ; trees in request for their wood, in distinction from those valued on 

 account of their fruit or flowers. So say the native vocabularies. 



|| Trina-yuti-gochara . These words, for ' grass and pasture,' are met with in 

 an inscription translated by Colebrooke. He misreads them, however, trina-dya- 

 tiyochara. Miscell. Essays, Vol. II., p. 310. Trina-yuti, corrupted to trinay- 

 uthi, has been taken for the name of a place, in this Journal for 1841, p. 103. 



If The original, dpadmasadma.no huhukdntam ydvat s'dsanikritya, is, a hundred 

 to one, corrupt. Unable, however, to heal it by any convincing emendation, and 

 content with a make-shift rendering, I avail myself of the fallacious ingenuity of 

 a native scholar, to extract sense from it as it stands ; more especially as the 

 copper-plate pretty distinctly bears the phrase huhukdntam, in which lies all the 

 difficulty. The ending — hdlam was expected, whatever went before. 



Divers pandits have assured me that huhuka is a name of the dog, derived from 

 the animal's cry, huhu •, but no instance of the employment of this word has been 

 produced. In one of the standard Sanskrit works on omens, that of Vasanta- 

 raja, the nearest word to huhu is hohd ; and this is explained as being imitative 

 of the scream of the jackal. 



Assuming huhu to be as the pandits assert by the adjective of ha, from the 



