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edict by orders from tbe mouth of Srimaddatta-maha-mahattara, whose feet are 
worshipped with the Sirisha flowers on the heads of all ministers. 
Three dronas of land in Kamanpanudiyaka and a couple of dronas in the village 
named Ketangapala, according to extreme boundaries detailed herein. 
Where Ddmbdra-ddma in the village Kamanopaundiyd bounded east by the royal 
road, on the south by Lavanotsavdsrdsramasambdsdbdti, on the west by Labrdpdlya laud, 
on the north by Mritaccharha , thus bounded on four sides, Lala land with Vastu, three 
dronas. So in the village Ketangapala, on the east Lambasdsana land, on the south 
Labrdpdlyo land, on the west a cattle-track, on the north Mritaccharha , thus bounded 
on four sides one drona of savdla land. So, bounded south, west and north village 
Kdghpo'lchira , one drona of savdla land. Two plots, 2. Thus in the two villages, five 
dronas of savala land. About this there are slokas declaring a religious duty. 
By many kings, Sagara and others, land has been given. As long as the land lasts, 
each receives the fruit. He who accepts laud, as well as he who gives it away, both 
these, performers of virtuous deeds, certainly go to heaven. 
Life, youth, and riches are unstable as the water (drop) on the (lotus) leaf moved 
(by the wind). Therefore reflecting on this, and knowing what has been done, make, oh 
make, your hearts participate in virtuous deeds for the attainment of final happiness. 
The fame of others, when cherished, becomes like (our) own. 
The Etymology of Local Names in Northern India, as exemplified in the 
District of Mathura.—Dy F. S. Growse, M. A., B. C. S. 
The following article is an attempt to investigate the principles upon 
which the local nomenclature of Upper India has been and still is being 
unconsciously constructed. The inquiry is one of considerable importance 
to the student of language ; but it has never yet been approached in a 
scientific spirit, and the views which are here advanced respecting this terra 
incognita in the philologist’s map must be regarded as a first exploration, 
which is unavoidably tentative and imperfect. Many points of detail will 
possibly demand future rectification ; but the general outline of the subject, 
the fixed limits within which it is contained and some of its more charac¬ 
teristic features of interior development have, it is hoped, been satisfactorily 
ascertained and delineated with a fair amount of precision. 
It is not to be inferred from this prelude that a subject of such obvious 
interest has hitherto been totally neglected. On the contrary, it has given 
rise to a vast number of speculations, but all of the most haphazard descrip¬ 
tion. And this from two causes ; the first being a perverse misconception 
as to the vernacular language of the country ; and the second, the absence 
of any list of names sufficiently complete to supply a basis for a really tho¬ 
rough induction. The former error it is the special object of this paper to 
dispel ; the difficulty involved in want of materials having already been, 
partially at least, removed by the village catalogues, published in Part II 
