396 Literary Intelligence. [No. 4, 



" I have just packed up fwe of the Gwalior inscriptions, whicli will 

 be taken down to Calcutta by an officer who starts to-morrow from 

 Nynee Tal. I have duplícate copies for comparison with the Nágari 

 transcripts that may be sent up to me. I have added also an inscrip- 

 tion in small characters from Ratanpur, in the Nágpur district. 



" Another very large inscription in middle-sized well formed letters 

 contains a long genealogy of some unknown princes — with, appa- 

 rently, the history of a temple between Samvat 960 and 1025, or for 

 sixty-five years. The money of the time is called ' Sri-mad Adi 

 Varáha dramma] which is clearly the small silver Varáha coinage 

 bearing the Boar incarnation on one side, and the legend ' Sri-mad 

 Adi Varáha' on the other. A new era is also mentioned, as well as 

 I can remember now (for the inscription is with Mr. Griffith) the 

 Varáhada era, beginning about 438 B. C, which is probably therefore 

 the same as the Virát era. There is a Máharája Bhoja Deva in this 

 list also. 



"I endose a small inscription from Kajráha which will show 

 Bájendralal two things. — lst, that there may be a blunder in a date, 

 notwithstanding the care that ought to have been taken — and 2nd, the 

 form of the figure 5, which is like our English 5 with rather a long 

 head. This peculiar form of the figure is found in one inscription 

 along with the common 5. I should be glad to have a translation of 

 this inscription if Bájendralal would kindly undertake it. The date 

 is probably 1011 — at least I satisfied myself by personal inspection 

 that the figure 1 was first engraved and afterwards changed to O- 

 I understand the inscription to record a series of gifts to the temple 

 oí Jinanáth by Dhánga Raja. The gifts are numbered. — lst, the 

 Páhila Garden. 2nd, the Chandra Garden. 3rd, the Little Chandra 

 Garden. 4th, the Sankara Garden. 5th, the Panch ítala Garden. 

 6th, the Mango Garden. 7th, the Dhánga Tank. Perhaps Dhánga 

 should be read Ghánga ; but in the 3rd line he is called Baja ; and I 

 feel inclined to identify him with the Dhánga Baja of the large 

 inscriptions from the Bráhmanical temples. 



" Of coins I can tell you but little, not from want of new matter, 

 but from want of time. Of novelties I may, however, mention a 

 square copper coin of a new king, Epander, and a tetradrachm of 

 Antiochus Nilcator with the ñame of Agathokles on the reverse. 



