XI. 



Account of Ancient Hindu Remains in Chattisgher. 



By It. JENKINS, Esq. 



With Translations and Observations by H. M. WILSON, Esq. Sec, A. Soc. 



EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER 

 X'ROM R. JENKINS, Esq. to W. B. BAYLEY, Esq. Vice Pres. A. Soc. 



"I HAVE requested Colonel Agnew to send you by dawk banghy, a small 

 box containing three Copper Plates united by a ring of the same metal with 

 a seal embossed. The plates and signet bear inscriptions in a character 

 which none of the brahmins of the country are able to decypher, and which 

 seems quite distinct from that of any other inscriptions which have been hi- 

 therto found in Chattisgher. You will probably think them worthy of being 

 submitted to the Asiatic Society. I do not say presented, as the Pujaris of 

 the temple to which they belong are not willing to part with them altoge- 

 ther, and I have promised that they siiall be restored. 



" The only account of these plates which I have been able to procure is 

 that about forty years ago Bimbaji Bhosla who then ruled in Chattisgher, 

 gave the Pergunnah of Raju into the civil charge of a Marhatta chief nam- 

 ed Hanvvant Rao Maharik ; that this person coming to reside in the town 



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