1865.] Notes on the Eran Inscriptions. 43 
Commenting on the Babi’s decipherment of an inscription, I said : 
* The third line shows an wpadhmdniya before ay. In the teeth of 
all grammar, this, as lately edited, had been turned into a repha.’’* 
To this the Babi rejoins: “ The wpadhmdnéiya is a printer’s blunder.” 
The Sanskrit scholar cannot fail to discern that there is, in this reply, 
a blunder incomparably worse than a printer’s, 
Again, I objected to the Babi’s aratfaqear. The reply is: “My 
mitdpitustathd is quite as correct as the suggested mdtdpitrostathd ; 
the one being an ¢taretarasamdsa, and the other a samdhdra.” 
Th passing, matdpitustathé would involve, not, as is here implied, 
an itaretarayoga compound, but a samdhdra. A compound of the 
sumahdra description must be a neuter singular; and that “ mother” 
and “father” can be thus combined, the veriest tyro in Sanskrit 
should know to be impossible. 
These specimens of the Babi’s want of accuracy and scholarship 
might be greatly extended. But I shall have said as much as I care 
to say, after mentioning that he has credited Mr. Prinsep,+ instead of 
myself, with extracting a full date from the inscription of Budha- 
gupta. This is a trifle; but it is characteristic. 
T had written thus far in April last, but laid my letter aside, with 
the intention of withholding it. Owing, however, to Babi Rajendra- 
lal Mitra’s paper on Bhoja, in the second number of this year’s Jour- 
nal, I have resolved to forbear no longer. It would make a long list, 
if I were to resume the facts of my own finding out which the Baba 
there appropriates as though he himself had first brought them to 
light. Where, too, he assails me, in connexion with the name of 
Colebrooke,} he knows full well that I was not professing to correct 
that great scholar as to the meaning of the word dala. When re- 
translating a passage translated by another, it is no just conclusion 
that I regard as wrong, whatever I do not think fit to copy from his 
renderings. It was a matter of misreading and metre, in the instance 
in question, where I showed that Colebrooke had slipped.§ For the 
* Journal As. Soc. Beng., 1862, p. 128. 
+ Journal As. Soc. Beng., 1862, p. 396. 
Journal As. Soe. Beng , 1863, pp. 106 & 107. 
i Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. VII., pp. 31 and 45; 
and Journal As. Soc. Beng., 1861, p. 210, 
