1879 ] F. S. Growse— JBulaiidshahar Antiquities. 157 
abbreviation of Aliibaran, meaning, according to tbe author, “ snake fort,” 
and conjectured to have been originally a stronghold of the Naga tribe. 
Of its early history, however, little trustworthy is known. Gold coins, 
bearingGreek and Pali inscriptions, which not unfrequently used to be washed 
down in the rains from the high ground of the old city, show that the 
place at that remote period was one of considerable wealth and importance. 
At the time of Mahmud’s invasion, in 1017, it was the seat of a Dor Raja, 
by name Har Datt. In 1194, Chandra Sen, the last of his descendants, was 
killed while defending the fort against the army of Sahab ud din Muhammad 
Ghori. Under the Muhammadan rule every memorial of their Hindu pre¬ 
decessors has gradually disappeared. After a search over every part of the 
district, the author was only able to discover a stone bearing two inscrip¬ 
tions, and a few fragments of pillars and doorjambs. The inscription con¬ 
tains a partly illegible date, which Dr. Rajendralala Mitra in a note con¬ 
tributed on the subject, conjectures to be Samvat 1180 (A. D. 1124). 
Most of the pillars are ascribed by Mr. Growse to the time of the Dor Rajas, 
in the early part of the 11th century. 
Mr. H. H. Locke made .some remarks on the pillars, and said it 
would be of great interest to know how the author of the very interesting 
paper which had just been read had arrived at his conclusion as to the date 
of these pillars. There was no gainsaying the evidence of inscriptions 
and it was more than probable that Mr. Growse had evidence as strong as 
an authentic inscription in support of the date which he assigned to the 
carvings—but Mr. Locke, judging from other examples, would have named 
a later date for these then Mr. Growse does, and therefore thought it would 
he very interesting and important to know how the latter gentleman had 
arrived at his conclusion. 
The paper, with Dr. Mitra’s note, will be published in the Journal, 
Part I. 
3. Note on some Mammals from Gilgit collected by Major Biddulph. 
By W. T. Blanfoed, Esq., e. e. s. 
This paper will be published in the Journal, Part II. 
4. Notes on a Donative Inscription from Brtjaurgarh near Alwar. By 
Rajendbalala Mitea, ll.d., c.i.e. 
Babu Harischandra of Benares has forwarded to me a facsimile of an 
inscription lately discovered in the neighbourhood of Alwar, together with 
a Nagari transcript. The locale where the record was found and the cir¬ 
cumstances connected with its discovery are thus described by the Babu 
in his letter to me. He says, “ In Rajgarh Parganah there is an inacces- 
