IS 62.] 
Three Sanskrit Inscriptions . 
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Lakhna’uda. Lakatharasi, a person bearing the title of Bbattaraka, 
who was somehow connected with the instrument of gift, is named 
at its conclusion. 
Bhailla, now Bhelsa, was the designation, in past times, of a large 
territory. The region which included it, being ruled, in A. D. 1172, 
by Ajayapala, was, doubtless, a new kingdom that had grown out of 
the dismemberment of the realm once dominated by Udayaditya. The 
kings of Malava who succeeded Udayaditya between A. D. 1104, and 
1215, were Naravarrnan, Yas'ovarman, Jayavarman, Vindhyavarman, 
Subhatavarman, and Arjuna ; and no traces of their authority have 
come to light at Udayapura, or in its vicinity. 
One day’s march from Udayapura brought me to the place where 
I finish this paper. For the second time I have just read the old 
inscriptions here, in the column and on the gigantic stone boar. It 
has caused me no surprise to find, that my former decipherments of 
them admit of a few corrections.* 
* See last year’s Journal, pp. 14—22, and pp. 139—150. 
In the opening stanza of the first inscription is a hiatus, the last letter 
before which I took to be 7% and supplied accordingly what was missing. But 
it is indubitably. a euphemism for “ destruction,” may be proposed 
as the original veading. 
Immediately preceding the name of Indrayislinu, I thought I saw 
Through the mutilation of the engraving on the column, I now think I can make 
out On the boar, to be sure, where everything is very indistinct, there 
seems to be but both the inscriptions must, almost to a certainty, here exhibit 
the same word. 
Four months after my first visit to Eran, writing uuder the guidance of my 
facsimile copy, I said of what looked to me like sansurabhu, that it “is doubtful 
in its penultimate syllable, and very doubtful in its final.” Mr. Prinsep’s 
lection is sansuratam. The result of a close re-examination of the word as it 
stands on the stone is this. The final syllable is clearly tri. The penultimate, 
judged by what is left of it in its damaged state, could not well have contained 
any consonant but Jc or r. The vowel, if it had one, may have been d, e , or o. 
Possibly the word was sanmrdtri: and it may be a plausible theory, that it was 
the name of the country which had the Yamuna and the Narmada for two of its 
boundaries. Or is it a repetition of the date; an abbreviation of sanivat , follow¬ 
ed by three literal symbols of arithmetical value? If I had access to Mr. 
Thomas’s edition of Mr. Prinsep’s Indian Antiquities , it might be easy to say 
whether this last suggestion is of any account. 
For several months I have had by me a photograph of the inscription in the 
Gwalior Fort, for which 1 have to thank Colonel Cunningham. Its paleography 
seems to be a little more recent than that of the monuments at Eran. It 
speaks of a Toramana, and of Matricheta, son of Matridasa, son of Matriuula. 
A specimen of it here follows : 
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