JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY. 
No. IV. 1801. 
Decipherment of an Inscription from Ghedi, with a brief Statement of 
the Historical and other Indications therefrom derived. By Fitz- 
Edward Hall, Esq., D. C. L. ' 
Alike by way of confirmation, and on other grounds, the present 
inscription possesses interest. 
Some years ago, in giving an account of two similar relies, discover- 
ed near Jubulpore, I was at some trouble to deduce, that the cir- 
cumjacencies of that place were included, of old, in the kingdom of 
Chedi.* For deduction, on this point, I am now prepared to substi- 
tute affirmation.! 
Further, the Kokalla of Chedi, mentioned in several inscriptions 
found in the west, I formerly hesitated, for want of complete evi- 
dence, to identify with the Kokalla of Chedi of whom I was then 
writing. Here, also, fresh data enable me, as will be seen, almost 
to assert that which before was but impliedly suggested. 
* See the Journal of the American Oriental Society, V ol. VI., pp. 499 — 536. 
The reader of this paper should have those pages before him. 
Possibly we have Chedi in the “ Tchi-ki-t’o” of Hiouen-Tlisang, which 
M. J ulicn hesitatingly represents by “ Tchikdha,” but positively deems to be 
one with Chitor. Hiouen Thsang reached ” Tchi-ki-t’o” after travelling about, 
a thousand Us N. E. from TJjjayim. The error of the Sinologer begins with 
taking west for east. Subsequently’ he adopts the conclusion ol M. L. Vivien 
de Saint-Martin, who, following Sir Henry Elliot, traces “ Tchi-ki-t’o” to Ja- 
jhaotf, on the river Ken. See Voyages des Pelevins Bouddhistes , Vol. III., 
pp. 168, 408, 442 ; and Biographical Index to the Historians of Muhammedan 
India, Vol. 1., p. 37, second foot-note. 
t Lakshmana, a Kulachuri chieftain, is, in the inscription now printed, twice 
called Lord of Chedi ; namely, in the fifty-sixth and fifty-ninth stanzas. 
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