1865.] Notes on the Eran Inscriptions. Al 
cords * * is sadly defective in many respects.”* To this I need not 
add one word of comment. 
Before passing to other things, I take occasion to say, that, contrary 
to what has been intimated, not in a single instance that has been 
pointed out, have I “ blundered” where Mr. Prinsep “happens to be 
correct.” And was “such a scholar” correct only by hap? 
At the end of my “ Note on Budhagupta” are these words: ‘“ My 
paper on the land-grants of Hastin, and that on the Hran inscriptions, 
as I did not see the proof-sheets, abound in errors of the press, to say 
nothing of other faults. The more important will here be rectified, 
and a few comments interspersed.”+ Referring to me, the Babi says : 
“T must, even at the risk of being tedious, adduce my premises for 
the errors [s¢c] in his reading of the Ivan inscriptions, to which I take 
exception. Dr. Hall has attributed most of them to the printers ; but 
it is difficult to conceive how those scape-goats are to be responsible 
for the word sanswrata, which Dr. Halk altered into sanswrabhw with- 
out any authority. ** Regarding the elegant simile of a king 
electing his wife like a maiden her husband, the Doctor says,”’t &c. dc. 
* My “ bulky” list of corrigenda and addenda, as the Babi styles it, 
takes up just twenty-one lines ; and within that space, I set sdnka 
and Surdshtras, for s‘anka and Surdshtra, to the account of the printer : 
and this is the entire foundation for the charge that I have attempted 
to disown my errors. 
The Babi’s clause bearing on sanswratam certainly stands in need 
of readjustment. The word was Mr. Prinsep’s, not mine. 
_ And now for the “ elegant simile,” which is altogether the Babi’s 
own property. I first printed: “ Who, by the will of the Ordainer, 
acquired, like as a maiden sometimes elects her husband, the splendour 
of royalty.” This I corrected to: “ Providentially preferred by Royal 
Prosperity, as it had been a maiden who elects her husband.” No- 
where have I spoken of “a king electing his wife like a maiden her 
husband :” and whence does it appear that I took “ the splendour of 
royalty” for anything but an unfleshly personification ? 
* Journal As. Soc. Beng., 1861, p. 268. 
+ Journal As, Soc. Beng., 1861, p. 149. 
t Journal As. Soc, Beng., 1862, p. 394. 
