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1888.] A. Ffihrer —Kudarkot Inscription of Takshadatta. 
allied himself with the Moghul. This statement is repeated in the 
Political History of Jaipur by Col. Brooke. (Government Selections, 
No. 65, p. 14.) It is, however, certainly wrong, for there is no doubt that 
his father had previously given his daughter in marriage to Akbar. I 
admit, fully, that if a Rajput lady was the mother of Jahangir, there 
is better authority for her having been Bihari Mall’s daughter, than for 
her having been of the Jodhpur family. I cannot find that Udai Singh, 
or the Mota Raja gave his sister to Akbar, though he gave his daughter 
to Jahangir, and it would appear that Chandra Sen’s introduction to 
Akbar and the marriage of his sister or other relative to Akbar did not 
take place till the 15th year of the reign, that is, after Jahangir’s birth. 
I also admit that there are great difficulties in the way of holding that 
either Salimah or Ruqiyyah Begam was the mother of Jahangir. But I 
still think it not established that his mother was Bihari Mali’s daughter. 
Perhaps the Tarikh-i-Alfi would throw ght on the subject, but our 
Society’s copy of that work is incomplete, and does not come down to 
Akbar’s time. Possibly too, if discreet inquiries were made at the Court 
of Jaipur, the truth might be ascertained. 
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Kudarkot Inscription of Taksliadatta.—By A. Fuhrer, Ph. D. 
This inscription is on a white sandstone slab, which was found, 
in 1875, amongst the ruins of the old fort of Kudarkot, a small village in 
tahsil Bidhuna, 24 miles north-east of Etawah, in the North-Western 
Provinces. That Kundarkot was once a place of some importance, is 
evident from the rise and height of the mound upon which it is built, 
and the number of large bricks and sculptured stones scattered about 
the place. That it is a place of great antiquity, is proved by this 
inscription. The original slab is now in the Lucknow Museum, having 
been presented by Dr. W. Hoey, C. S., in December 1886, who found it 
at Etawah in the Collector’s godown, an open shed affording no proper 
protection for such a treasure. 
The slab measures 2' Q\" X P 5" x 3". The most interesting point 
about this inscription is the character of the letters. On the whole 
they show the later Gupta type; but the mason has taken out the 
kanas , i. e., the vertical strokes for the long a , and placed them above 
the letters after which they are to be read. The medial i is also highly 
ornamented. In this respect, as well as in the form of letters, the 
inscription resembles the Asirgarh seal of S'arvavarman, published in the 
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 
