JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 
Part I.—HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
SPECIAL No. 1884. 
Trmislation to McmbodJi’s Harihans.—By Gr. A. Grierson. 
As promised when laying the text of this interesting Maithil poem 
before the Society,^ I now oifer a translation of it. 
This was the more necessary, as the text is very difficult, there 
being many passages which even Maithil jDandits have been unable to 
interpret satisfactorily. I have done my best to give a clear rendering of 
the whole, and have added notes where requisite. 
As the poem contains a large number of words and forms not men¬ 
tioned in any extant dictionary or grammar, I have added an index 
vocabulorum, which will I hope prove useful. 
In the introduction to the text I stated that the author had no issue. 
I have since ascertained that he had a daughter from whom the present 
Maharaj of Darbhanga is descended. 
Book I. 
I reverence^ the feet of the daughter of the Himalaya,^ through 
whose power poets can describe the three worlds. I also"^ have made my 
^ See J. A. S. B. Part I for 1882, p. 129. 
2 “sniwf or oR Mth. for ; = Skr. ‘ I reverence.’ For 
similar forms in a still older stage, cf. and ia Vid. LXXVIII, 
2, 5. Here the termination ^ is simply another way of writing so that 
is for = Ap- R- = Skr. 
3 Parvati, i. e., Devi. 
means ‘ I also,’ 
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