164 Translations from Chand. [No. 4, 



the first number of a compound, disi-garh-nipati, l lord of all forts on 

 earth' : the former seems preferable. 



2. Bijai certainly may mean ' victorious,' but I think it better to 

 regard it as a proper name. Bliurga is a word I have never met 

 elsewhere ; it may be for bhiigat, l spread through the world ;' but 

 more likely for the Sanskrit blirisa, ' extensive.' Mr. Beanies may 

 have Jddav for jihi ; but whence he obtains his epithet ' strong- 

 armed' I cannot conceive. Is it intended as a rendering of mahima 

 bhurga ? 



4. Sevalii, which Mr. Beames takes to be a substantive, is clearly 

 a verb. He also confuses the Hindi nisdn, l a kettle drum,' by no 

 means an uncommon word, with the Persian nisltdn ' a standard.' 

 One would have thought the epithet bahundd, ' loud sounding' was a 

 sufficient guide to the true meaning. To translate bahundd by ' very 

 splendid' is decidedly original. 



5. Here din must stand either for din prati, * every day,' or for din 

 bhar, ' all day ;' I can see no reference to ' five times a day.' 



6. Nor here to ' golden hoofs ;' can Mr. Beames have taken nag 

 for nahh ? 



7. Mr. Beames has entirely omitted the words ' hay sankhi.' 



8. Apparently Mr. Beames has wrongly divided the words, thus 

 getting liar at the end of the line, and then seeing the words kar and 

 patra, has jumped to the conclusion that some reference is intended 

 to liar's j i. e. Siva's, bow ; the real meaning is something quite 

 different. 



9. The text speaks of ten sons only, no daughters : and the 

 meaning is, not that Padamsen had ten sons, but that he was one of 

 ten brothers. 



12. ' From her breast a daughter sprung.' This is rather awk- 

 ward English, and not at all required by the original, which literally 

 translated is, 'she had one fair daughter.' Nor in the preceding 

 line is there any mention of ' house :' apparently either suglmr or 

 gliarni has been wrongly divided. The word bhdn, l the sun' has 

 been totally omitted. 



14. The words in this line should be divided thus : Bdl vais sisutd 

 samir : evidently Mr. Beames has split them up into Bdl vai sasi sutd, 

 but even then they cannot bear the meaning he gives them. Vais is 

 for avasthd. 



