VIII. 



Sanscrit Inscriptions. 



By (the late) Captain E. FELL. 



With Observations hj H. H. WILSON, Esq. Sec. As. S. 



THE Society having been some time in possession of various translated 

 Inscriptions by the late distinguished scholar Capt. E. Fell, think it due 

 to his memory, as well as to the value of the documents, to offer them to the 

 public. 



The first of these was found at Garha Mandela; in what situation, is not 

 upon record. Capt. Fell's intention to furnish the necessary illustrations 

 both of this, and of the Inscription at Hansi, having been delayed till the 

 papers should be revised for publication, and having been finally disappoint- 

 ed by his premature death. The Hansi inscription was copied from a stone 

 in the fort. 



The Garha Mandela inscription is remarkable for the genealogy of a race 

 of princes who exercised the sovereignty over part of central Hindustan in 

 which the enumeration much exceeds that of any inscription yet discovered. 

 A very moderate computation will place the origin of the family in the com- 

 mencement of the seventh century, as if we allow an average of twenty years 



