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[No. 2, 
Note on ilie Pdlam Baoli Inscription.—By Ba'jenrrala'la Mitra. 
(With a plate.) 
A transcript of this record, together with an Urdu translation, has al¬ 
ready appeared in Sayyid Ahmad’s A'sar us-Sanadid, or Description of the 
Bums of Dihli, and an abstract of it in English occurs in Mr. Tho¬ 
mas’s “ Chronicles of the Pathan kings of Delhi,” a new translation of it 
would have, therefore, seemed to he uncalled for. But a transcript and trans¬ 
lation of the record prepared for Mr. Thomas, “ differed materially from 
the text given in the A'sar us-Sanddid ,” and the revised documents were 
missing when that gentleman wrote his work in 1871. An enquiry was 
accordingly set on foot by General Cunningham for the original stone, but 
“ it could not be found, and was supposed to have disappeared in the muti- 
ny.” ( Opus cit., p. 137.) A revised translation of the record now traced at 
Bohtak by Mr. J. G. Delmerick, who in March placed a rubbing of it at 
the disposal of the Society, will, therefore, not be unwelcome to oriental 
antiquarians, particularly as the names given by Mr. Thomas do not appear 
to have been correctly transcribed. 
The object of the inscription is to record the excavation of a Baoli in the 
neighbourhood of Palamba, the modern Palam, in the Dihli district. The 
name of the person who caused the Baoli to be excavated was Udhdhara, and 
not Utara, as read by Babu Bamsaran Das for Mr. Thomas. He was a petty 
zamindar or Thakur, but of good lineage, as the eulogist states that his 
family had a place in a genealogical work of some repute at the time. Udh- 
dhara’s father came from the village of Uchhapur near the confluence of 
the united streams of the Satlaj, the Biyas, and the Chanab with the In¬ 
dus. 
The record is dated “ Wednesday, the 13th of the wane, in the year of 
Vikramarka, 1333,” = A. D. 1276, and was composed during the reign of 
Ghiyas ud-din Balban of Dihli, whose predecessors are indicated by their 
regal titles, and not by their personal names. The titles have been Sans- 
kritised, partly with a view to take off their foreign appearance, and partly 
to suit the exigencies of the metres used. Thus, Shihab ud-din appears as 
Sahabadina ^T^T^t«T, Qutb ud-din as Khudabadina Shams ud-din 
as Samasadina Firuz Shah as Pherujasahi , Jalal ud-din 
(Baziyah) as Jalaladina Mu’izz ud-din as MaujadinaTlT5T^t*r, ’Ala 
ud-din as Alavadina NaQir ud-din as Nasaradina Ghiyas 
ud-din asGayasadina «T. Such lengthening and shortening of syllables 
is common enough, in the present day, in English poetry dealing with Indian 
proper names ; but the systematic neglect of the sibilants appears unaccount¬ 
able. The use of the cerebral sibilant for the gutteral k in Qutb is also 
remarkable. 
