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A. Donative Inscription of the Tenth Century. [No. 3, 
Dhanika Pandit.* 
A translation of the verses which embellish the grant is added to 
the Sanskrit near the end of this paper. Some of them are not 
quite destitute of merit ; and more than one of the number has re- 
peatedly been misinterpreted. 
I proceed to add a few words on the later among what are errone- 
ously called, by Professor Lassen, the kings of Udayapura ;t whom 
he determines and arranges in three divisions, as follows :£ 
I. 
1. Udayaditya. About A. D. 613. 
2. Devas'akti, son of U. 
3. Vinayaraja,§ son of I). 
text, may have been not far from the Vinclhyas. See Professor Weber’s Cata- 
logue of the Berlin Manuscripts, p. 93. 
Many is the pious Maratha who never submits himself to the hands of his 
barber without repeating these lines : 
fafSPiT: II 
6{ By the recollection, on shaving, of Anarta, Ahichchhatra, Pataliputra, Aditi, 
Diti, and S'ris'a, the evils incident to the operation are all obviated.” 
Without conscious sin, —but never uneffaceable by penance, — there are times 
when a Hindu cannot legally rid himself of his beard for five months current. 
The expiation, as has been seen, is not very burtliensome. The razor being 
always an implement of bad omen, it is considered as unsafe to trust to one 
without ritual precaution against mishaps, however auspicious the day or the 
hour. 
Professor Wilson — Translation of the l^shnu-piirana> p. 190, seventy-fifth 
foot-note — unenquiringly calls the Xnartas, “ foresters and barbarians in general.” 
Anarta is now known to have been a part of Gujerat, with Kus'asthali for its 
capital. 
* One Dhanika was author of the only exposition of the Das'a-rupa that has 
come down to us, the AvaloJca. There is some reason for believing that he may 
have flourished as early as the days of our inscription. He is twice cited in the 
S' arngadhara-paddhati. 
Vasanta is a name unknown to literature, at least so far as my explorations 
have extended. Different is Yasantaraja Bhatta, the zoomantist ; for his father 
was S'ivaraja Bhatta. 
f Professor Lassen mistakes as to the locality of this place. It is not in 
Bhopal, but in Gwalior, and lies about thirty miles to the north-east of Bhelsa. 
At present it is very thinly inhabited ; but it was evidently, at one time, a 
considerable town. Of its past history nothing is known. See the Indische 
Alterthumskunde i Yol. III., pp. 822, 823, foot notes. 
J Indische Alterthumskunde , Yol. III., pp. 822 — S69, and p. 1169. 
§ Professor Lassen found Yanyaraja printed ; and he has changed it as above. 
The true name on the copper-plate is Yatsaraja. 
