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1G0 R. Mitra —Donative Inscription from Rajaurgarh. 
laro-e percentage to be assigned for the use of the temple, and quite out of 
keeping with the two and a half ounces of oil per jar. It could not, besides, 
apply to stalls and shops, for it would be absurd to suppose that a ten per cent, 
toll was levied on shops every month. At that rate the whole of the shop 
would disappear in 10 months. Some current coin is evidently meant, and 
if we take it to be the twentieth of a rupee or a five-pice piece, it would 
be near the mark. But I am not aware of any such coin having been cur¬ 
rent in the 11th century. 
I am equally at fault about the meaning of the word CholhJca. The 
word does not occur in any Sanskrit dictionary. The word chulli means 
“ an oven,” “ a hearth,” or “ a funeral pile,” but such things can form no 
part of a market, nor can there be any consistency in asking the owner of 
a hearth, or the leader of a funeral procession, to pay 50 leaves. I think the 
word implied an aboriginal or wild man of the woods, and every wild man 
who brought sUl leaves for sale had to give 50 leaves for the use of the 
temples. Such leaves are brought by thousands to every market in the 
North Western Provinces in the present day, and used partly for paoking 
small parcels, serving in this respect the purposes of brown paper of 
European grocers, and partly for eating from, the poorer classes not being 
able to afford metal plates, and earthen platters ; which, according to. Hindu 
custom, cannot be twice used for eating rice, are always expensive and 
cannot be kept clean for repeated use. 
Translation of a Sasanafrom Rajaurgarh near Alwar. 
Salutation to Shuman Ramanuja. Om ! may it be auspicious. On 
Saturday, the 13tli of the waxing moon in the month of Magha, in the 
Samvat year one thousand and sixteen (in figures) S. 101G Magha, Sudi 
13, Sani, in the prosperous and auspicious kingdom of his excellent majes¬ 
ty Maharaja and Adhiraja, Lord Vijayapala Deva, the successor of his 
excellent majesty the Maharaja and Adhiraja, Lord Kshitipala Deva. On 
this day the prosperous lord of Rajyapura Sri Mathana Deva, son of the 
great king and king of kings, STi Savata, of the S'nhara clan of Gujjara, 
to the officers of state, whether hereditary or temporal, and to the inhabi¬ 
tants, including wealthy merchants, jewellers and others, high and low, 
assembled in the village of Vyaghravataka, accords due greetings, informa¬ 
tion, and orders. “ Be it known unto you, that knowing the body, wealth 
and life to be as unstable as drops of water at the points of grass-blades, 
and all worldly pleasures to be worthless; knowing also the immortality of 
good name and reputation ; we have, for the augmentation of the virtue of 
our parents and of ourselves, and for our weal in this world as well as in 
the next, as also with a view to cross the worldly ocean, and to remove all 
