1897.] N. N. Vasu —Meyhegvara Inscription of Svapneqvara Deva. 11 
Meghegvara Inscription of Svapnegvara JDeva of Orissa.—By 
NagSndua Natha Vasu, Editor of Vi^ako^a. 
(With Plate II). 
[Read January 1897.] 
The inscription of which I give an account to the Society this night, 
is engraved on a large slab in the western wall of the court-yard of the 
famous temple of Anauta-Vasudeva in Bhuvane 9 vara. Just on the right 
side of this slab is another, bearing inscriptions in eulogy of Bhatta 
Bhavadeva. Dr. Rajendra Lala writes about these two slabs as follows :— 
‘ There are existing two large slabs stuck on the western wall of 
the court-yard (of Anauta-Vasudeva), bearing Sanskrit inscriptions. 
One of these was originally intended for the temple of Brahme 9 vara, 
and the other for that of Atlanta and Vasudeva. Both of them had 
been removed from their proper places by General Stewart, and 
deposited in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal at about the 
early part of this century. When Major (then Lieutenant) Kittoe 
visited Bhuvan^vara in 1838, the priests complained bitterly of the 
sacrilege, and he suggested the restitution of the stones. The Society 
readily permitted this, but in replacing them, through some mistake or 
other, the Major selected the outer wall of this temple for both of them, 
instead of their respective places. Before making the restitution, James 
Prinsep published transcripts and translations of both the records in the 
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.’ 1 
I went personally to inspect these two slabs, and made rubbings of 
both. Both the slabs now lie at the identical spot where Dr. Rajendra 
Lala saw them. I was assured by the old Pandas of the temple that 
they remained at that very spot from before the time of the Doctor’s in¬ 
spection, without suffering a change of place or alteration of any kind. 
It is, indeed, surprising that there is no conformity at all of the 
Brahme 9 vara inscription described by the learned Doctor with the 
inscription I inspected. In fact, there is no Brahm^vara inscription at 
1 Dr. Mitra’s Antiquities of Orissa, Yol. II, p. 84. 
