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IV. 



INSCRIPTIONS. 



I. 



I.-INSCEIPTION ON THE INNEE WALL OF THE 

 FOET AT EAICHOEE. 



Some time ago Mr. Francis B. Hanna, m.a., m.e., Engineer 

 to the Madras Railway at Bellary, informed me of the 

 existence of an ancient inscription on the inner wall of the 

 fort at Raichore. Being an experienced photographer he 

 succeeded in taking two successful negatives of the inscrip- 

 tion. These he kindly forwarded to me, and from them 

 Messrs. Nicholas and Co. of Madras have printed the positives. 

 Moreover at my suggestion Mr. Hanna wrote the following 

 descriptive note (A) about the Raichore fort, which I trust 

 will prove of much interest to the reader. In B I give a 

 transliteration, and in C a translation of the inscription, which 

 is followed by an historical inquiry contained further on in D. 



A. 



DESCRIPTIVE NOTE ABOUT RAICHORE FORT. 



Contributed by Mr. Francis B. Hanna. 



The town of Raichore is situated in the south-west corner 

 of the dominions of the Nizam of Hyderabad. It lies nearly 

 midway between the large rivers Kistna and Tungabhadra, 

 and has, according to the recent census, a population of 13,575 

 persons. The surrounding country is a level plain, broken up 

 here and there by hills of solid gneiss, most of which are 

 covered with loose boulders of the same stone. Of late years 

 the name Raichore has become well known in Southern India, 



