JOURNAL 
OP THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY. 
No. I. 1861. 
Of Two Land-grants, issued by King Hastin, bearing date in the 
years 156 and 163 after the Subversion of the Guptas . — By Fitz- 
Edwabd Hall, Esq., D. C. L. 
Shortly before his final departure from India, Mr. Edward Thomas 
was apprized, by me, of the existence of two unpublished inscriptions 
deposited in the museum of the Benares College. On his obligingly 
consenting to furnish me with his reading of them, they were 
transmitted to him ; and, in May, 1857, he was so good as to send 
me his decipherments from England. At that time I was unable to 
avail myself of the fruit of his labour, for guidance or for suggestion, 
as I no longer had access to the originals. Having, however, at 
last obtained the loan of them, and having given some study to the 
Hindu alphabets now obsolete, to say nothing of the assistance for 
which I am beholden to Mr. Thomas, I purpose to lay out the 
result of my researches on these ancient relics. 
With the aid of the transliterations executed by Mr. Thomas, the 
very same with which he favoured me, an abstract version of one of 
the memorials in question was prepared by the late Professor H. II. 
Wilson. This abstract Jdr. Thomas has printed :* but the Sanskrit 
has hitherto remained inedited. 
In treating of these inscriptions, Mr. Thomas notices that the 
late Major Kittoe communicated, regarding them, with Colonel 
* Essays on Indian Antiquities, by Mr. James Prinsep ; Vol. 1. pp. 251 
and 252. 
n 
