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42 Notes on the Eran Inscriptions. [No. 1, 
The Babi, animadverting on my rendering of the Eran inscriptions, 
says: “He translates qawefgzat: into the unmeaning* ‘ derived 
prosperity to his race ;’ when he should have followed Prinsep and 
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given ‘ for the prosperity of his race. On turning to the version 
of Mr. Prinsep, I am not at all startled to discover that he has not so 
translated @dwefaeat:, an epithet of Harivishnu. He has not trans- 
lated the expression at all. It is lower down, in the column inscrip- 
tion, that the words occur to which his “for the prosperity of his 
race” are meant to correspond.; Differing, there, from Mr, Prinsep, 
in deciphering the original, I have given ‘with purpose to advance 
the merit of his father and mother.” 
When I called fraqaasiaT “a hoary solecism,” I should not 
have done so,—as I wrote near two years ago,—f{ if I had had access, 
at the time I so characterized it, to a respectable Sanskrit Dictionary. 
The Babd, with all the air of a discoverer, magnanimously taunts me 
with this mistake, notwithstanding my voluntary and explicit admis- 
sion that I had erred. Who shall say that, but for his ploughing with 
my heifer, I might not here have eluded the Babi’s penetration ? 
However, my translation of the aforesaid expression, ‘‘ the counterpart 
of his sire,” is quite correct. The Baba, with intent to make me out 
wrong, refers to Dr. Goldstiicker’s Sanskrit Dictionary. Dr. Gold- 
sticker authorizes me to say that my explanation is quite as good as 
his own. 
* More literal than my “ who derived prosperity to his race” would have 
been “ cause of the prosperity of his race.” Only I wished to make promi- 
nent the devolution which is implied by the Sanskrit. 
The verb “ derive,” as employed by me, has been in the English lan- 
guage for several hundred years; and it is not yet obsolete. Within a 
short time I have met with it, in the acceptation which the Baba pronounces 
to be “ unmeaning,” in three living writers. 
“The term, indeed, is derived to us from the Schoolmen ; and so far they 
are chargeable with having perplexed theology with the disquisitions arising 
out of it.’ Bishop Hampden’s Bampton Lectures, third edition, p. 181. 
Also see pp. 153, 184, 331. ‘ ‘ 
“The king’s power of assent is a power derived to him from the whole 
body of the realm.” Gladstone ; The State inits Relations with the Church, 
second edition, p. 9. Also see the same author’s Church Principles, &c. p.5 
It is proper to state that I forego any advantage which could be derived 
to my argument from the idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of — 
utility.” J.S. Mill: on Liberty, pp. 23, 24. Also see the same author's 
Considerations on Representative Government. 
+ Journal As. Soc. Beng., 1838, p. 634. 
t Journal As. Soc. Beng., 1861, p. 139. 

