IN CHATTISGIIER. 51L 



A person who is prudent and wise and bestows land in gift shall enjoy 

 heaven for 60,000 years and those who violate or contemn the donation 

 shall remain in hell (as many.) 



Land has been given by Sagara and other kings : such as is the land 

 such is the reward and whether it be the gift of yourself or of others do 

 thou Yudhishthira guarantee the grant: the gift of land is the best of gifts 

 and its protection the first of merits. In the prosperous and victorious 

 reign.* 



OBSERVATIONS. 



THE inscriptions in the temple at Raju were at first sent by Mr. Jen- 

 kins as copies, but fac similes were afterwards forwarded by him : one of 

 these (No. 1.) presented a tolerably perfect inscription but the other was 

 too much mutilated to be decypherable with any degree of satisfaction : it 

 will be sufficient therefore to offer a translation of the first. Mr. Jenkins 

 likewise forwarded a copy of No. 1. completed by the conjectural criticism 

 of a pundit of great celebrity, but his conjectures were too fanciful to be 

 admissible: he also supplied two translations prepared by native writers 

 in his service with the assistance of the pundits, but as they were far from 

 correct it is unnecessary to insert them ; they contain however some pas- 

 sages to which reference will be made. 



* What ensues and terminates the inscription is utterly unintelligible; VH^l? ^if^THif^WH^TO' W 



may be supposed to specify a day in the month Kartik but it has been already stated that the grant 

 was made on the 12th of Jyeshth, and how are these to be reconciled. It is stated by the decipherer 

 that agreeably to some canon peculiar to Rernafa, Bhuruha might signify 824, and would thus imply 

 the date of the year; there are no means of verifying his assertion ; the period would not be incompati- 

 ble with the dates of other inscriptions in the Chattisgher district, particularly that at Ratenpur, which 

 is dated in Samvat 915 or A. D, 869. 



