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1881.] R K. Bhattacharya —Identity of TJpello with TJpaplam. 
been situated between Mathura and Delhi, and consequently the Pandits 
who claim that Upello on the Delhi and Agra road was the Upaplava of 
ancient times may be quite correct. 
As regards Dasarna, although we have not any strong argument on our 
side to refute Mr. Wilson, yet we may freely urge that there was a 
Dasarna in the north-western Provinces ; for a river of the same name is still 
to be found in the Hamirpur district, North-West Provinces. 
With respect to Malada it is true that no definite trace of it is to be 
found now. Nevertheless we must consider it to have been situate in the 
North-Western Provinces. There is a place in the Delhi district called 
Malwa, from which a large quantity of oil is exported to various provinces 
of Hindustan. I may throw out the suggestion that this Malwa may be 
the Malada of the Mahabharata. If this be the case we have got a con¬ 
sistent theory which may be provisionally accepted as true until some better 
one be found in its place. 
Translations from the Hamdseh .— Bp C. J. Lyall, C. S. 
In the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1877 I 
published some translations of old Arabian poetry, chiefly from the 
Hamdseh, and the following are offered in continuation of those. 
Somewhat more exactness of metrical form has now been aimed at in 
the English versions, but I hope that accuracy has not been allowed 
thereby to suffer. The majority of the poems have been translated 
in Arabian metres, a full explanation of each of which will be found 
where it occurs. A critic in the Academy, noticing the previous 
series, has called in question the possibility of giving in the English 
language any idea of Arab metres, or at least the adequacy of the 
attempt made in that series. On that occasion, however, I aimed 
(with one exception) at no exact reproduction in English of the order 
and quantity of the syllables in the Arabic originals : only a general 
likeness was intended; and that likeness seemed to me to be suffici¬ 
ently secured. I may mention that I have carefully studied M. 
Stanislas Guyard's Theorie Nouvelle de la Metrique Arabe, and that any 
discrepancy which may be detected between his views on the Arabian 
metres and mine is not due to my ignorance of the former. The four 
metres which I have imitated in the translations are the Tawtl, the 
Hezej, the Kamil, and the Wdjir (the last exactly only in one poem, 
No. Ill : in Nos. XV and XXII only the general scheme is followed), 
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