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VI. 



SANSCRIT INSCRIPTIONS 



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A BIJ. 



By HORACE HAYMAN WILSON, Esq. Sec. As. Soc. 



A.N extensive collection of Sanscrit inscriptions has been found upon the 

 mountain Arhuda, or, commonly, Abu,* copies of which have been presented 

 by Captain Speirs, Political Agent at SiroMy to the Society : to each inscrip- 

 tion is attached a brief notice in Hindi, stating the position which the monu- 

 ment occupies, or specifying its character. The inscriptions themselves are 

 too voluminous to admit of translation, nor is the greater number of them of 

 such importance as to deserve it. It will, therefore, be sufficient for all useful 

 purposes, to offer a concise description of the series, translating, in detail, 

 those only which appear to afford materials to history. 



* A mountains or rather mountainous range, about eighteen miles south west of Sirohi. Ac- 

 cording to Major Tod, the summit is five thousand feet above the sea. He calls it a place of won- 

 clers, independent of the temples with which its sides are covered. Trans. Royal As. Soc. 1. 139. 



