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10 But he—the lords of fat camels grow lean through fear of him, 
as they follow his track alone or girt with a company. 
And as for me, well I know that, though I live long, at last 
I shall meet the spear of Death flashing bare before mine eyes. 
Notes. 
The metre of this poem is the same as that of the first piece. 
v. 3. “ Little he slumbers or sleeps” : qalihc ghirdri-n-naumi. Ghirar is the be¬ 
ginning of sleep, drowsiness; the force of qalil being* to deny altogether, the phrase 
means that he sleeps not at all, nor does he ever suffer drowsiness to creep over him. 
“A foeman grim”: kemiyyan musaffcdd; Jcemiy is one fully armed: musaffa 1 means 
stained or blackened with the rust of armour which is constantly worn. So er-Rabi‘ 
son of Ziyad says— 
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And stirrers of the flame of battle—upon them the rust of steel, 
even as though their faces had been besmeared with pitch. 
v. 4. “ There comes down to fight with him” : the person spoken of may be either 
Ta’abbata Sherra himself (which seems best) or the warrior mentioned in the last 
words of the verse before. 
v. 9. “They see” i. e. the wild beasts : verse 8 is a parenthesis, arising out of 
the second hemistich of verse 7. To grasp the hand is a sign of friendship and good 
will in Arabia as in Europe. 
v. 10. “Fat camels”: makhad, properly “ pregnant camels,” which were held to 
be the most delicate of flesh (see Tarafeh, Mo'all. 93). 
Notes on, and Translation of, three Copper-plate Inscriptions from 
Sambalpur.—By Pratapachandra Ghosha, B. A. 
In the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society for November 1872, under 
the head of presentations received, the receipt was announced of a Copper¬ 
plate Grant consisting of three leaves, found in the Sambalpur District. 
The plates were presented to the Society by Capt. M. M. Bowie, then 
Deputy Commissioner of that district. The plates were found buried in an 
earthen vessel, at some depth below the surface in the Tributary State of 
Patna attached to the Sambalpur District. The inscription records the 
grant of a village named Vakavedda on a small rent to four Brahmans of 
four different gotras. The grant was made on the 8th lunar day of the 
bright half of the month of Ashadlia in the 6th year of the reign of Jana- 
mejaya. 
The plates are in tolerable preservation. The inscription runs over 
three oblong tablets connected together by a solid copper ring. The first, 
covering plate is inscribed on one side only, and the last has but two lines 
of inscription on the second side. The ring is surmounted by a round 
