288 V. A. Smith—Observations on some Chandel Antiquities. [No. 4, 
was at one time thrown, may be accepted as certainly being Samvat 1011, 
but the reading of the Raja’s name is still unsettled, General Cunningham 
being in doubt whether the initial letter is Dh or Gh; it looks quite as 
like Sh, and is certainly different from the ordinary Kutila form of Dh. 
Not only this short inscription, but all the leading Chandel inscrip- 
tions require to be carefully edited. Of the three great inscriptions at 
Khajuraho one only has been published at length, viz., that dated 1056 
Samvat, now built into the wall inside the entrance of the Vis’vanath tem- 
ple. This record was translated by Mr. Sutherland (J. A. S. B., for 1859, 
Vol. VIII, p. 159), but with many errors, some of which have since been 
corrected by General Cunningham. (Proc. A. 8. B., for 1865 (1) p. 99.) 
The other equally large inscriptions, v7z., that dated 1058 Samvat, 
now built into the temple wall opposite that above mentioned, and that of 
Raja Dhanga, dated 1011 Samvat, now built into the wall on the right 
side of the entrance to the Chatarbhuj temple, are referred to in the 
Archeological Report (II, pp. 4:28, 426), but have never been published or 
translated, and we understand that other inscriptions of the Chandel dynas- 
ty, concerning which nothing has yet been made public, are in General 
Cunningham’s hands. 
The main outlines of the Chandel chronology* have been established 
beyond dispute, but many details are still unsettled, and there is much 
difficulty in reconciling the statements of several of the inscriptions which 
have been given to the public in a more or less perfect form. Maisey’st 
inscriptions from Kalinjar were translated a long time ago, when skill in 
deciphering inscriptions was a rarer accomplishment than it is now, and 
both the text and translation of the records published by him seem to re- 
quire revision by a competent scholar. 
The drying up of the Kirat Sagar at Mahoba this year has disclosed a 
large broken Jain statue of Sumatinath with an inscription, dated “in the 
victorious reign of S’riman Madana Varmma Samvat 1215 Pts Sudi 10.” 
(Plate XV).t 
* By a recent attempt to settle the genealogy (J. A. S. B., XLVII, Part I, p. 74) 
Dr. Rajendralala Mitra has added to the confusion. He reduces Samvat dates to the 
Christian era by subtracting 55 instead of 57 as usual, and he ignores the two new 
plates published at p. 80 of the same number of the Journal, and uses Sutherland’s 
erroneous date of 1019 in the Dhanga inscription which was long ago corrected to 
1056. He also omits all mention of Raja Parmél or Paramardi and of the other in- 
scriptions of Madana Varmma, which show that the Dr.’s date of 1160 A. D. for the 
close of Madana Varmma’s reign is much too early. 
+ J. A. S. B., XVII, Part I, 171, 313 (for 1848). 
{ General Cunningham (Arch. Rep. II. 448) mentions an image of Sumatindth 
at Mahoba, dated in 1213 Samvat. 
