Indian Antiquary Vol 02

Author(s): Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Catalog link: https://jainqq.org/explore/032494/1

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY, A JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH IN ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY, LITERATURE, LANGUAGES, FOLKLORE, &c., &c. EDITED BY JAS. BURGESS, M.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., AUTHOR OF "THE ROCK-TEMPLES OF ELEPHANTA," "THE TEMPLES OF SATRURJAYA," "VIEWS OP ARCHITECTURE AND SCENERY IN GUJARIT AND RAJPUTANA," &c. VOL. II. 1873. Swati Publications Delhi 1984

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Published by Swati Publications, 34, Central Market, Ashok Vihar, Delhi-110052 Ph. 7113395 and Printed by S.K. Mehra at Mehra Offset Press, Delhi.

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CONTENTS. Authors' names arranged alphabetically. 243 V. BALL, B.A., Geological Survey of India :--- ON THE ANTIQUITIES OF RAMGARH HILL, District of Sarguja JOHN BEAMES, B.C.S., M.R.A.S., &c., &c., Balasore :CHAITANYA and the VAISHNAVA POETS of BENGAL: Studies in the Bengali Poetry of the 15th and 16th Centuries... The EARLY VAISHNAVA POETS of BENGAL: I. Bidy&pati REVIEW: A Grammar of the Urdu or Hindustani Language, by John Dowson, M.R.A.S., &c. ON THE SUBDIVISIONS of the BRAHMAN CASTE in Northern Orissa PAGE Mr. Growse, p. 218) W. C. BENETT, B.C.S., Gonda:NOTES connected with Sahet Mahet PROF. RAMKRISHNA GOPAL BHANDARKAR, M.A., Elphinstone College, Bombay :--- Note on a Letter by Prof. A. Weber, Berlin... PATANJALI'S MAHABHASHYA On the INTERPRETATION of PATANJALI 33 BHAVABHUTI'S QUOTATION from the RAMAYANA Reply to Professor Weber THE MORBI COPPERPLATE H. B. BOSWELL, Bo. C.S., Belgam: Reply to query on p. 338... Rev. D. C. BOYD, M.A., Bombay : TRANSLATION of a portion of Weber's critique on Goldstucker's "Panini" ... REVIEW: Lotus Leaves by H. C. Dutt B.: The KHATRIS J. G. BUHLER, Ph.D., Gujarat : The DESIRABDA SANGRAHA of Hemachandra ABHINANDA the Gauda... ON THE AUTHORSHIP of the Ratnavali ON A PRAKRIT GLOSSARY entitled Paiyalachhi PUSHPAMITRA or PUSHYAMITRA ? A. H. BURGESS, M.A., London:REVIEW-Essays on Eastern Questions, by W. G. Palgrave... *** The BARLY VAISHNAVA POETS: II. Chandi Dis Letter-Chand's mention of Srt Harsha,-(reply to 240 *** 1 37 56 www 68 187 12 59 69 94 123 238 257 370 61 150 A. C. BURNELL, M.C.S., M.R.A.S., &c., Mangalor: THE MRITYULANGALA UPANISHAD Reply to Query on p. 214 On the COLOSSAL JAINA STATUE at Karkala On the VILLAPPAKAM COPPERPLATES Capt. ROBT. COLE, Maisur: CROMLECHS in MAISUR... G. H. DAMANT, B.C.S., Rangpur:ON the DIALECT of the PALIS ON some BENGALI MANTRAS INSCRIPTIONS on a Cannon at Rangpur BENGALI FOLKLORE:-The two Ganja-Eaters 28 17 102 127 166 362 92 266 274 353 371 86 101 191 218 271 The story of a Touchstone... 357 T. W. RHYS DAVIDS, C.C.S.:INSCRIPTIONS at the Audience Hall of Parakrama Bahu, Palastipura, Ceylon PAGE THE EDITOR:-- PAPERS on SATRUNJAYA and the JAINS:-I. Kathiawad and the Jains REVIEW: Miscellaneous Essays by H. T. Colebrooke, 2nd Ed.... PAPERS on SATRUNJATA and the JAINS:-II. The Tirthankaras or Jinas. 134 -V. Satrunjaya Hill Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, by Lieut-Col. James Tod. 2nd Ed..... 246 www AJANTA CAVES .. ON COPYING INSCRIPTIONS REVIEWS: Supplement to a Classical Dictionary of India, by John Garrett, Director of Public In. struction, Maisur 204 DISCOVERY of DIES Note on MOUNT ABU INSCRIPTIONS REVIEW: Histoire du Bouddha Sakya-Mouni depuis 8a naissance jusqu'a sa mort, par Mme. Mary Summer.... INSCRIPTION AT VISALGADH ...354 ... 152 183 33 On Indian Dates J. F. FLEET, Bo. C.S.: NOTES on INSCRIPTIONS at Gaddak, in the Dambal Taluka, Dharwad www JAS. FERGUSSON, D.C.L., F.R.S., &c., London:Letter-Early Indian Buildings and their Dates. 14 ... 204 213 255 COORG SUPERSTITIONS NOTE on Dravidian Numerals 25 371 372 The late CHARLES E. GOVER, M.R.A.S., Madras:PYAL SCHOOLS in Madras F. S. GROWSE, M.A. (Oxon), B.C.S., Mathura:Letter-Sri Harsha, anthor of the Naishadha...213, 306 Rev. Professor A. F. RUDOLF HOERNLE, D.Ph., Banaras: Query: Subha Chandra, author of the Sabda Chintamani 28 93 296 Rev. F. KITTEL, Merkara : THE CANARESE COUNTRY compared with the countries adjacent to it (a Translation)... NOTES concerning the Numerals of the ancient Dra vidians 210 Letter: Genitive Post-positions: in reply to Dr. Pischel (p. 121)... DENZIL IBBETSON, C.S.:Query on cleaning coins KASINATH, Sirsa:-- KHATRIS SERPENT WORSHIP Rev. C. EGBERT KENNET, Madras:NOTES on early printed Tamil Books NOTES on the SAIVA-SIDDHANTA 52 29 (reply p. 370) 33 26 124 180 343 23 24 47 124

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1 CONTENTS. ... 107 PAGE COORO SUPERSTITIONS :- Demons and Deities 168 The COORGS: Polyandry . ... 182 On the KARNATAKA VAISHNAVA DASAS ... 307 Rev. F. J. LEEP.OR, Tranquebar :Queries : Right and Left hand Castes, the use of the sacred thread ... ... (See reply, p. 274) 214 ... 218, 267, 324, 344 Capt. J. S. F. MACKENZIE, Maisur Com niasion :On the RUDE STONE ARCHXOLOGY of Hassan Dis trict, Maisur ... .. ... HALE MAKKALU-(continued from vol. I. p. 380) ... 29 Tas MENHIRS of the Hassan District... ... ... 49 THE KULUVADI of the Hassan District ON THE RULES which govern Kanarese Poetry ... 109 SRAYANA BELLIGOLA .. .. CM., London :--Literary Note .. Capt. S. B. MILES, Political Agent, Muskat : REMAINS in MEKRAN ... ... ... ... A. K. NAIRNE, Bo. C.S., Bandora :MUSALMAN REMAINS in the South Korkan : 1. Dabhol ... .. ... ... 278 > 2. Ports south of Ratnagiri ... 317 V. N. NARSIMMIYENGAR, Bangalor :MARASA VAKKALIGARU of Maisur LEGEND of the Menhirs of Maisur LEGEND of Rishya Sping ... Rev. MAURICE PHILLIPS, L.M.S., Salem : TH SEVEN PAGODAS ... ... .. .. TUMULI in the Salem District ... ....... PADMA NAO GHOSAL, Calcutta - Etymology, &c. of Caloutta. .. ... ... .. 370 RICHARD PISCHEL, D. Ph., London ON Pror. HOERNLE'S THEORY of the Genitive Post-positions ... ... ... ... 121, 366 P. N. PURNAIYA, B.A., Yelimduru : THE CALENDAR of Tipu Sultan ... ... ... 112 HIS HIGHNESS RAMA VARMA, Firet Prince of Travankor : INSCRIPTIONS in the PAGODAS of Tirakuranguli in Tinnevelli, and of Suchindram in S. Travankor ... 360 W. RAMSAY, Bo. C.S.: Tux HILL of SAPTA SRING ... ... ... .. 161 E. REHATSEK, M.C.E., BombayAN EMBASSY to KHATA or China A.D. 1419; Trans lated from the Persian ... ... REVIEW: The Prosody of the Persians,' by H. Blochmaun, M.A. ... 119 HINDU PRONUNCIATION of GREEK, and Greek Pro nunciation of Hindu Words, translated from the German of Dr. Weber... ... ... ... ... 143 ON ATTRACTION and REPULSION, translations from the Persian ... ... 151, 182, 214, 241, 305, 337 TRANSLATION of Lassen's Account of the Jains. 193, 258 of Persian Document ... ... 282 DER PHRASES AND DIALOGUES ... ... ... 331 B. LEWIS RICE, Acting Director of Public Instruction, Maieur NAGAMANGALA COPPERPLATES, transliterated and translated, with remarks ... ... ... ... 155 JAINA INSCRIPTIONS at Sravana Begola ... 265, 322 RAM DAS SEN, Zamindar, Berhampur Letter-On Chand's mention of Srl Harsha... ... 240 JOHN ROWLAND, Bengal U.C.S. - MOUNT ABU .. ... PAGE W. F. SINCLAIR, Bo. C.S., Khandesh :NOTES on JUNNAR TALUKA ... ... 10, 43 Nore on a BUDDHIST CAVE at Bhamer, Khandesh. 128 NOTES ON Natural History : I. Snakes ... 171 STONE and WOODEN MONUMENTS in Westeru Khan desh ... ... .. ... ... ... ... 201 List of Weapons used in the Dekhan and Khan desh .. .. .. .. ... 216 Notes and LEGENDS connected with Animals :-II. Birds, &c. ... . .. ... .. 929 H. J. STOKES, M.C.S., Negapatam :WALKING THROUGH FIRE 190 DINSHA ARDESHIR TALEYARKHAN, Rajkot:* LEGEND OF VELLUR . .. .. 172 T.: REVIEW: Narmada Sankara's Narmakofa .. . 203 KASHINATH TRIMBAK TELAG, M.A., LL.B. Bombay: Os the Date of Sri HARSHA... .. . ... 71 H. G. T., Vizagapatam :REMARK on the Note concerning Ancient Dravidian Numerals, p. 94... ... ... ... ... ... 97 M. J. WALHOUSE, late M.C.S., London:ON SOME FORMERLY EXISTING ANTIQUITIES on the Nilgiris ... ... ... . ... ... 975 Major JOHN W. WATSON, Acting Political Superintendent, PahlanpurTHE STORY of RANI PINGLA ... ..215 LEGENDS OF THE EARLIER CAUDASAMA RAs of Ju. nagadh ... .. ... ... . .. . 32 LEGEND of RAN TUNK... ... ... ... ... 339 DR. ALBRECHT WEBER, Berlin - REMIKS on some articles in the Indian Antiquary. 57 On the DATE of PATANJALI, translated from Indis. che Studien by the Rev. D. C. Boyd, M.A. ... 61 HINDU PRONUNCIATION of GREEK, and Greek Pronunciation of Hinda Words, translated by E. Rehatsek, M.C.E. ... ON PATANJALI, &e. .. 206 CAPT. E. W. WEST, Assist. Political Agent, Kolha pur: NOTES on WITCHCRAFT and DEMONOLOGY in Gajarat ... ... ... 13 KART DASTUR in Jesht Purnima ... Note: Plurality of Village Headmen ... ... ... 33 REV. JOHN WILSON, D.D., Bombay: MEMORANDUM on the SHOE QUESTION, as it affects the Parsis ... ... .. ... . .. JAMES WISE, M.D., Dhik: Query on Shah Kabir... ... .. .. ... F. N. WRIGHT, B.A., Oxon, B.C.S., Cawnpur : THE CHANDEL THAKURS . .. Colonel H. YULE, C.B., Palerme :NOTES on Supara, and "the Discovery of Sans krit" ... ... .. SOPEITHES king of the Kykeol... ... ... .... 370 - 335 SELECTIONS AND MISCELLANEA. The Prithiraja Rasu-Extract from the Kanhapatti Prastar ... ... ... Selections from Rev. Dr. Sherring's Work on The Hill Tribes of the Nilgiris....... ... Castes 30,99 249

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CONTENTS. ... 177 ... 181 PAGE Progress of Oriental Research in 1870-71 Asiatic Societies : Bengal ... .. Ceylon ... ... ... Royal Asiatic .. ... Societe Asiatique ... The Saurashtra Society ... Early Printing in India ... Definition of Fo or Buddha Service Tenures in Ceylon Archaeology of Maisur... The Gujarat Lion, by Capt. Trotter ... 124 Hassan Abdal ... ... .. 125 A Human Sacrifice .. ... The Mahamagam at Kumbhakonam ... 151 A Festival at Haidarabad 152 Castes of the Bombay Presidency ...154, 242, 274, 372! PAGE Three Copper-plates from the Krishna District ... 175 Archaeology of Belari ... ... Naked Procession ... Archaeology in North Tinnevelli ... 202 Ng& Monumenta ... ... ... 214 Notes on the Bhondas of Jaypur ... 236 Early Roman Intercourse with India ... Shahbau Garhi Inscription ... Dr. Leitner's Greco-Buddhist Sculptures ... The Chera Dynasty Vithoba of Pandarpur . .. ... 272 Pehlevi Inscriptions .. .. ... ... 273 Traces in the BHAGAVAD-Gira of Christian Writings and Ideas, from the German of Dr. Lorinser ... 283 Dr. Buhler's Report on Sanskrit MSS. in Gujarat .. 304 The Garos... ... . The Lushais ... ... ... ... .. .. 363 241 242 249 ... 136 ... ... 836 ILLUSTRATIONS. 1.4. Cromlechs in Maisur (4 pages) ... to face p. 86, 87 5. Statue of Gomatesvara at Sravana Belgola ... 129 6. Rishya Spinga conveyed to Anga ... ... ... 142 7-8. Nagamangala Copperplates I. to VI. (2 pager). 156 9. VII. to X.. (1page). 158 10. Impression of a forged die... ... ... (out) 213 11,12. Finds in Tumuli, Salem District (2 pages) 296, 227 13,14. Cave at R&mgarh Hill (2 pages) ... ...244, 245 15. Inscriptions at Ramgarh Hill, and at Pulash pura (2 pages) ...... ... ... 246, 247 16. Morbi Copperplate (facsimile) ... ... .. 17. Inscription at Sravana Belgola ... .. 18. Five-celled Dolmen, &c. .. .. 19. Weapons found in a stone circle ... 20. Colossal Statue at Karkala . 21. Villappalkam Copperplates ( 9 pages).. ...

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY, A JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH. CHAITANYA AND THE VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL. STUDIES IN BENGALI POETRY OF THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES. BY JOHN BEAMES, B.C.S., M.R.A.S., &c. 'wish-granting daughters all died her first-born THE PADAKALPATARU, or wish-the scriptures child, however, was a son named Biswarup, who of the Vaishnava sect in Bengal. In form it is a collection of songs written by various poets in various ages, so arranged as to exhibit a complete series of poems on the topics and tenets which constitute the religious views of the sect. The book has been put together in recent times, and takes the reader through the preliminary consecration, invocations and introductory ceremonies, the rise and progress of the mutual love of Radha and Krishna, and winds up with the usual closing and valedictory hymns. Before beginning an analysis of this collection so remarkable from many points of view, it will probably be of some assistance even to those who have studied the history of Vaishnavism, if I state briefly the leading points in the life of Chaitanya, and the principal features of the religion which he developed, rather than actually founded. Bisambhar (Vishvambhara) Misr was the youngest son of Jagannath Misr, a Brahman, native of the district of Sylhet in Eastern Bengal, who had.emigrated before the birth of his son to Nadiya (Nabadwipa), the capital of Bengal. His mother was Sachi Debi, daughter of Nilambar Chakravarti. She bore to Jagannath eight The facts which here follow are taken from the " Chaitanyacharitamrita," a metrical life of Chaitanya, the greater part of which was probably written by a contemporary of the teacher himself. The style has unfortunately been much modernized, but even so, the book is one of the oldest extant afterwards under the name of Nityanand became the chief disciple of his more famous brother. Bisambhar was born at Nadiya in the evening of the Purnima or day of the full moon of Phalgun 1407 Sakabda, corresponding to the latter part of February or beginning of March A.D. 1486. It is noted that there was an eclipse of the moon on that day. By the aid of these indications those who care to do so can find out the exact day.t, The passages in the original are Sri Krishna Chaitanya Nabadwipe abatari; Ashtachallis batsar prakat bihari; Chauddasat sat sake janmer praman, Chauddasat panchaune hoila antardhan. Chaitanyacharitamrita, Bk. I. ch. xiii. 1. 13. Sri Krishna the Visible became incarnate in Nabadwip, For forty-eight years visibly he sported; The exact (date) of his birth (is) in Saka 1407, In 1455 he returned to heaven. And again Phalgun purnima sandhyay prabhur janmoday, Seha Kale daibajoge chandrer grahan hay. On the full moon of Phalgun at eve was the lord's birth, works in Bengali. My esteemed friend Babu Jagadishnath Ray has kindly gone through the book, a task for which I had not leisure, and marked some of the salient points for me. +There was an eclipse of the moon before midnight Feb. 18, O.S. 1486.-ED.

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JANUARY, 1873. At that time by divine provision there was an eclipse of the moon.-Ch. 1. xiii. 38. In accordance with the usual Bengali superstition that if a man's real name be known he may be bewitched or subject to the influence of the evil eye, the real name given at birth is not made known at the time, but another name is given by which the individual is usually called. No one but the father and mother and priest know the real name. Bisambhar's usual name in childhood was Nimai, and by this he was generally known to his neighbours. In person, if the description of him in the Chaitanyacharitamrita (Bk. I. iii.) is to be considered as historical, he was handsome, tall (six feet), with long arms, in colour a light brown, with expressive eyes, a sonorous voice, and very sweet and winning manners. He is frequently called " Gaurang" or "Gaurchandra," i. e., the pale, or the pale moon, in contrast to the Krishna of the Bhagvat who is represented as very black. The name Chaitanya literally means soul, intellect,' but in the special and technical sense in which the teacher himself adopted it, it appears to mean perceptible, or appreciable by the senses. He took the name Sri Krishna Chaitanya to intimate that he was himself an incarnation of the god, in other words, Krishna made visible to the senses of mankind. The Charitamrita being composed by one of his disciples, is written throughout on this supposition. Chaitanya is always spoken of as an incarnation of Krishna, and his brother Nityanand as a re-appearance of Balaram. In order to keep up the resemblance to Krishna, the Charitamrita treats us to a long series of stories about Chaitanya's childish sports among the young Hindu women of the village. They are not worth relating, and are probably purely fictitious; the Bengalis of today must be very different from what their ancestors were, if such pranks as are related in the Charitamrita were quietly permitted to go on. Chaitanya, however, seems to have been eccentric even as a youth; wonderful stories are told of his powers of intellect and memory, how, for instance, he defeated in argument the most learned Pandits. A great deal is said about his hallucinations and trances throughout his life, and we may perhaps conclude that he was more or less insane at all times, or rather he was one of those strange enthusiasts who wield such deep and irresistible influence over the masses by virtue of that very condition of mind which borders on madness. When he was about eighteen his father died, and he soon afterwards married Lachhmi Debi, daughter of Balabhadra Acharjya, and entered on the career of a grihastha or householder, taking in pupils whom he instructed in ordinary secular learning. He does not appear, however, to have kept to this quiet life for long; he went off on a wandering tour all over Eastern Bengal, begging and singing, and is said to have collected a great deal of money and made a considerable name for himself. On his return he found his first wife had died in his absence, and he married again one Bishnupriya, concerning whom nothing further is said. Soon after he went to Gaya to offer the usual pinda to the manes of his ancestors. It was on his return from Gaya, when he was about 23 years of age, that he began seriously to start his new creed. "It was now," writes Babu Jagadishnath, "that he openly condemned the Hindu ritualistic system of ceremonies is being a body without a soul, disowned the institution of caste as being abhorrent to a loving god all whose creatures were one in his eyes, preached the efficacy of adoration and love and extolled the excellence and sanctity of the name, and the uttering and singing of the name of god as infinitely superior to barren system without faith." Chaitanya, however, as the Babu points out, was not the originator of this theory, but appears to have borrowed it from his neighbour Adwaita Acharjya, whose custom it was, after performing his daily ritual, to go to the banks of the Ganges and call aloud for the coming of the god who should substitute love and faith for mere rites and ceremonies. This custom is still adhered to by Vaishnavas. The Charitamrita veils the priority of Adwaita adroitly by stating that it was he who by his austerities hastened the coming of Krishna in the avatar of Chaitanya. Vande tam srimadadvaitacharyam adbhuta cheshtitam, Yasya prasadad ajno'pi tatswarupam niru payet. I praise that revered teacher Adwaita of won derful actions, By whose favour even the ignorant may perceive the divinity) personified.-Ch. I. vi. Thus in Sanskrit verses at the head of that chapter which sings the virtues of Adwaita: in the Bengali portion of the same chapter it is asserted that Adwaita was himself an incarnation of a part of the divinity, e.g.

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JANUARY, 1873.] CHAITANYA. Adwaita Acharjya fshwarer angsa barjya. his home, in the first instance, to Puri to see the The teacher Adwaita is a special portion of shrine of Jagannath. Thence for six years he god. roamed all over India preaching Vaishnavism, And the author goes on to say that Adwaita and returned at last to Puri, where he passed was first the teacher then the pupil of Chaita- the remaining eighteen years of his life and nya. The probability is that Adwaita, like the where at length he died in the 48th year of his majority of his countrymen, was more addicted age in 1534 A.D. His Bengali followers visited to meditation than to action. The idea which him for four months in every year and some of in his mind gave rise to nothing more than them always kept watch over him, for he was indefinite longings when transfused into the now quite mad. He had starved and preached earnest fiery nature of Chaitanya, expanded and sung and raved himself quite out of his into a faith which moved and led captive the senses. On one occasion he imagined that a souls of thousands. post in his veranda was Radha, and embraced it His brother Nityanand was now assumed to so hard as nearly to smash his nose, and to be an incarnation of Balaram, and took his place cover himself with blood from scraping all the 28 second-in-command in consequence. The skin off his forehead ; on another he walked practice of meeting for worship and to celebrate into the sea in a fit of abstraction, and was " Sankirtans" was now instituted ; the meet fished up half dead in a net by a fisherman. ings took place in the house of a disciple Sribas, His friends took it in turns to watch by his and were quite private. The new religionists side all night lest he should do himself some met with some opposition, and a good deal of injury. mockery. One night on leaving their rendezvous, The leading principle that underlies the whole they found on the door-step red flowers and of Chaitanya's system is Bhakti or devotion ; goats' blood, emblems of the worship of Durga, and the principle is exemplified and illustrated and abominations in the eyes of a Vaishnava. by the mutual loves of Radha and Kpishn&. These were put there by a Brahman named In adopting this illustration of his principle, Gopal. Chaitanya cursed him for his practical Chaitanya followed the example of the Bha gavad Gita and the Bhagavat Parana, and he joke, and we are told that he became a leper in consequence. The opposition was to a great was probably also influenced in the sensual tone extent, however, provoked by the Vaishnavas, he gave to the whole by the poems of Jayadeva. who seem to have been very eccentric and The Bhakta or devotee passes through five sucextravagant in their conduct. cessive stages. Santa or resigned contemplation Everything that Krishna had done Chaitanya must do too, of the deity is the first, and from it he passes thus we rend of his dancing on the shoulders of into Dasya or the practice of worship and Murori Gupta, one of his adherents; and his service, thence to Sakhya or friendship, which warms into Batsalya, filial affection, and lastly followers, like himself, had fits, foamed at the rises to Madhurya or earnest, all-engrossing love, mouth, and went off into convulsions, much Vaishnavism is singularly like Sufiism, the after the fashion of some revivalists of modern resemblance has often been noticed, and need times. The young students at the Sanskrit here only be briefly traced. With the latter schools in Nadiya naturally found all this very the first degree is nasut or 'humanity' in which amusing, and cracked jokes to their hearts' con man is subject to the law shara, the second tent on the crazy enthusiasts. tarikat, the way of spiritualism, the third In January 1510, Chaitanya suddenly took it 'arif or knowledge, and the fourth hakikat or into his head to become a Sanyasi or ascetic, and the truth. Some writers give a longer series received initiation at the hands of Keshab Bha- of grades, thus-talab, seeking after god ;''ishk, rati of Katwa. Some say he did this to gain res- love;' m'arifat, insight;' istighndh, 'satisfacpect and credit as a religious preacher, others tion;' tauhid, 'unity;' hairat, 'ecstacy;' and lastly say it was done in consequence of a curse laid fand, absorption.' Dealing as it does with God on him by a Brahman whom he had offended. and Man as two factors of a problem, VaishBe this as it may, his craziness seems now to navism necessarily ignores the distinctions of have reached its height. He wandered off from caste, and Chaitanya was perfectly consistent in Conf. Capt. J. W. Graham's paper On Sufism, Bombay Literary Soc. Trans. Vol. I. pp. 89 et seqq. ; Rajendralala Mittra's valuable introduction to the Chaitanya Chandrodaya (Biblioth. Ind.), pp. ii-iv and xv; also Jones' Mystical Poetry of the Persians and Hindus, Asiat. Res. Vol. III. pp. 165-207; and Leyden On the Rosheniah Sect, &c.,' As. Res. YOL XI. pp. 863-428.-ED.

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4 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. this respect, admitting men of all castes, including Muhammadans, to his sect. Since his time, however, that strange love of caste-distinctions, which seems so ineradicable from the soil of India, has begun again to creep into Vaishnavism, and will probably end by establishing its power as firmly in this sect as in any other. Although the institution of love towards the divine nature, and the doctrine that this love was reciprocated, were certainly a great improvement on the morbid gloom of Siva-worship, the colourless negativeness of Buddhism, and the childish intricacy of ceremonies which formed the religion of the mass of ordinary Hindus, still we cannot find much to admire in it. There seems to be something almost contradictory in representing the highest and purest emotions of the mind by images drawn from the lowest and most animal passions. "Ut matrona meretrici dispar erit atque discolor." So must also Vaishnavism differ from true religion, the flesh from the spirit, the impure from the pure. [JANUARY, 1873. meats. This is called the adhibas. The principal performer then sings one song after another, the others playing the drum and cymbals in time, and joining in the chorus; as the performance goes on many of them get excited and wildly frantic, and roll about on the ground. When the performance is over the drum is respectfully sprinkled with chandana or sandalwood paste, and hung up. Several performances go on for days till a whole Sakha has been sung through, and I believe it is always customary to go through at least one Pallab at a sitting, however long it may be. The Bengali Kirtan in fact resembles very much the Bhajans and Kathas common in the Maratha country, and each poem in length, and often in subject, is similar to the Abhangas of Tukaram and others in that province. The singing of hymns about Radha and Krishna is much older than Chaitanya's age. Not to mention Jayadeva and his beautiful, though sensual, Gitagovinda. Vidyapati, the earliest of Bengali poets, and Chandi Das both preceded Chaitanya, and he himself is stated to have been fond of singing their verses. There was therefore a considerable mass of hymns ready to his hand, and his contemporaries and followers added largely to the number; the poems of the Padakalpataru in consequence are of all ages from the fifteenth century downwards; moreover, as Vaishnavism aspires to be a religion for the masses, the aim of its supporters has always been to write in the vulgar tongue, a fortunate circumstance which renders this vast body of literature extremely valuable to the philologist, since it can be relied on as representing the spoken language of its day more accurately than those pretentious works whose authors despised everything but Sanskrit. The Padakalpataru, to keep up the metaphor of its name throughout, is divided into 4 s'akhas or branches,' and each of these into 8 or 10 pallabas or smaller branches, 'boughs." It should be explained that the kirtans are celebrated with considerable ceremony. There is first a consecration both of the performers and instruments with flowers, incense, and sweet The first Pallab contains 27 hymns, of these 8 are by Gobind Das, 8 by Baishnab Das, 3 by Brindaban Das, the rest by minor masters. Brindaban Das and Parameshwar Das were contemporaries of Chaitanya, the others-including Gobind Das, who is perhaps the most voluminous writer of all-are subsequent to him. Of the hymns themselves the first five are invocations of Chaitanya and Nityanand, and one is in praise of the ceremony of Kirtan. There is nothing very remarkable in any of them. Number 5 may be taken as a specimen, as it is perhaps the best of the batch. Nanda nandana gopijanaballabha, Radhanayaka nangaradyama : So sachi nandana Nadiyapurandara, suramunigana manamohana dhama : Jaya nija kanta kantikalebara, jaya jaya preyasi bhababinoda: Jaya Brajasahacharf lochanamangala, jaya Nadiyabadhu nayana amoda: Jaya jaya sridama sudamasubalarjjuna, prema prabandhana nabaghana rapa : Jaya Ramadi sundara priyasahachara, jaya jaya mohana gora anupa: Jaya atibala balaramapriyanuja, jaya jaya Nityananda ananda: Jaya jaya sajanagaga bhaya bhanjana, Gobinda Dasa asa anubandha. "Nand's son, lover of the Gopis, lord of Radha, the playful Syam: Is Hte, Sachi's son, the Indra of Nadiya, the heart-charming dwelling of gods and saints; victory to him who is love embodied to his own It is many years now since I read Gitagovinda as a text-book at college, but the impression I still retain is that it was in many parts far too warm for European taste.

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JANUARY, 1873.] beloved, hail! hail to him who is the joy of the existence of his well-beloved I hail to the delight of the eyes of his comrades in Braj! hail to the charm of the sight of the women of Nadiya ! hail! hail to Sridam, Sudam, Subal, and Arjun, bound by love to him whose form is as a new cloud! hail to Ram and the rest, beautiful and dear companions! hail to the charmer, the incomparable Gora (Chaitanya)! hail to the mighty younger brother of Balaram! hail! hail to Nityanand (who is) joy (personified)! Hail to him who destroys the fear of good men, the object of the hope of Gobind Das !" I would call attention here, once for all, to what is one of the principal charms of Vaishnava hymns, the exquisitely musical rhythm and cadence. They seem made to be sung, and trip off the tongue with a lilt and grace which are irresistible. CHAITANYA. This hymn is interesting as shewing how completely Chaitanya is by his followers invested with the attributes of, and identified with, Krishna; it has no other special merits; nor anything specially interesting from a philological point of view as it is nearly all Sanskrit. The next six are in praise of the sect itself, of Adwaita, and the principal disciples. That on Adwaita by his contemporary Brindaban Das gives a lively picture of the old Brahman, then follow seven in praise of the Kirtanias or the old master-singers-Bidyapati, Jayadeva, Chandi Das; then four on Krishna and Radha, containing only a succession of epithets linked together by jay jay! The twenty-third begins the adhibas or consecration, and is curious less for its language than for the description it gives of the ceremonies practised. It is by the old masters Parameshwar and Brindaban, with the concluding portion by a younger master Bansi. The poem is in four parts and takes the form of a story how Chaitanya held his feast. It runs thus: 23. Atha sankirtanasya adhibasa. Eka dina pahun hasi, Adwaita mandire basi, Bolilen sachir kumara; Nityananda kari sange, Adwaita basiya range, Mahotsaber karila bichara: Suniya anande hasi, Sita thakurani asi, Kahilen madhura vachana: Ta suni ananda mana, mahotsaber bidhane. Bole kichhu Sachir nandana: Names of Chaitanya's disciples. Suna thakurani Sita, Baishnaba aniye etha, Amantrana koriya jatane: Jeba gae jebajae, amantrapa kari tae, Prithak prithak jane jane: Eta boli Goraraya, agya dila sabbakaya, Baishnaba karaha amantrane: Khola karatala laiya, aguru chandana diya, Purna ghata karaha sthapane: Aropana karo kala, tahe bandhi phulamala, 5 Kirttana mandali kutuhale: Mala chandana guya, ghrita madhu dadhi diya, Kholo mangala sandhyakale : Suniya prabhur katha, prite bidhi kaila jatha, Nana upahara gandhabase: Sabe Hari Hari bole khola mangala kare, Parames'wara Dasa rase bhase: "One day coming and smiling, sitting in Adwaita's house, spake the son of Sachi, having Nityanand with him and Adwaita, sitting in enjoyment, he planned a great festivity. Hearing this, smiling with joy, Sita Thakurani coming spoke a sweet word hearing that with joyful mind the son of Sachi spoke somewhat in regard to arranging the festival. Listen, Thakurani Sita,+ bring the Baishnabs here, making pressing invitation to them: whoso can sing, whose can play, invite them separately, man by man.'. Thus Gora Rai speaking gave orders for an assembly: 'Invite the Baishnabs! Bring out the cymbal and drum, set out full pots painted with aloes and sandal-paste: plant plantains, hang on them garlands of flowers, for the Kirtan place joyfully. With garlands, sandal, and betelnut, ghee, honey, and curds consecrate the drum at evening-tide.' Hearing the lord's word, in loving manner she made accordingly various offerings with fragrant perfumes: all cried 'Hari, Hari' thus they consecrate the drum; Parameshwar Das floats in enjoyment." Of the remainder of the adhibas I give merely a paraphrase omitting the numerous repeti tions. 2. Having prepared the entertainment she invites them, "kindly visit us, to you and Vaishnavas, this is my petition, come and see and complete the feast;" thus entreating she brought the honoured guests, they consecrate the feast. Joyfully the Vaishnavas came to the feast: "to-morrow will be the joy of the great festi-, vity, there will be the enjoyment of the singing Sri Krishna's sports, all will be filled with delight." The merits of the assembly of the devo + Sita was the wife of Adwaita.

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JANUARY, 1873. tees of Sri Krishna Chaitanya singeth Brinda- Mana uchatana, niswasa saghana, kadamba ban Da8. kenine chi: 3. First set up the plantains, array' the full Chorus. Rai emana kene be haila; pots, adorned with twigs of the mango; the Guruduru jana bhaya nahi, Brahman chants the Vedas, the women shout Mana kotha ba ki deba paila : jay I jay! and all cry Hari! Hari! Making the 'Badki chanchala, basana anchala, sambarana consecration with curds and ghi, all display nahi kare: their joy; bringing in the Vaishnavas, giving Basi thaki thaki, uthaye chamaki, bhashana them garlands and sandal-paste, for the celebra khainat pare : tion of the Kirtan ; joy is in the hearts of all, Bayese kibori, rajar kumari, tahe Kulbadha bither come the Vaishnavas, to-morrow will be bala : Chaitanya's kirtan; the virtue of Sri Krishna Kiba abhilashe, badhaye lalase, na bujhi tah Chaitanya's name, and the indwelling of Sri har chhale: Nityanand singeth Das Brindaban. Tahar charite, hena bujhi chite, hat bataila 4. Jay ! jay ! in Nawadwip; by Gorang's chande : order Adwaita goes to prepare the consecration Chandi Dass kay kari anunaya thekechhe of the drum. Bringing all the Vaishnavas with Kaliye phande. sound of " Hari bol," he initiates the great feast. He himself giving garlands and sandal-paste, "She stands outside the house, a hundred converses with his beloved Vaishnavas, Gobind times restlessly she comes and goes: depressed taking the drum plays ta-ta-tum tum, Adwaits in mind, with frequent sighs, she looks towards lightly clashes the cymbals. Hari Das begins the kadamba jungle. Why has Rai (Radhika) the song, Bribas keeps time, Gorang dances at become thus ? serions is her error, she has no fear the kirtan celebration. On all sides the Vaish of men, where are her senses, or what god has navas crowding echo "Hari bol," to-morrow will possessed her ? Constantly restless, she does be the great feast. To-day consecrate the drum not cover herself with the comer of her robe : and hang it up, joyfully saith Bansi sound vic she sits still for a while, then rises with a start, tory I victory !! her ornaments fall with a clang. Youthful in The metre of this last is rather pretty, and I age, of royal descent, and a chasto maiden to therefore give the original of the first two lines. boot: what does she desire, (why) does her longing increase ? I cannot understand her moJaya jaya Navadwipa majh, tives : from her conduct, this I conceive, she has Goranga adeba pana, Adwaita thakura jafia. raised her hand to the moont: Chandi Das says Kare thola mangala saj: with respect she has fallen into the snare of the Having thus concluded the initiatory cere black one (Krishna)." monies in the 1st Pallab, the 2nd Pallab begins This poem vividly expresses the first sympthe real " Kirtan." It contains 26 hymns by toms of love dawning in the girl's heart, and from masters who are mostly of comparatively recent a religious point of view the first awakenings of date. Of the old masters Gobind Das and consciousness of divine love in the soul. It is Chandi Das alone appear in this Pallab. We | difficult for the European mind, trained to draw now commence the long and minutely described a broad distinction between the love of God and series of emotions and flirtations (if so lowly love for another human being, to enter into s word may be used) between Radha and Krishna, state of feeling in which the earthly and sensual and this Pallab and in fact the whole of the first is made a type of the heavenly and spiritual, but Sakha is on that phase called "parbaraga" a large-sonled charity may be perhaps able to or first symptoms of love. In No. 2, Chandi admit that by this process, strange though it be Das represents two of Radha's Bakhis, or girl- to its own habits and experiences, there may friends, whispering together as they watch her have been some improvement wrought in the from a distance (the punctastion refers to the inner life of men brought up in other schools of caesura, not to the sense); thought; and my own experience, now of fourteen Gharer bahire, dande satabarn, tile tile fise years standing, enables me to say that Vaishnavjay: ism does, in spite of, or perhaps in virtue of, * The poet's name is inverted to make a rhyme for Etr- used for in old Bengali, and sometimes for s win tan in the preceding line. simply. The I in this word is the palatal al occasionally She has formed some extravagant desire.

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JANUARY, 1873.] its peculiar modus operandi, work a change for the better on those who come under its influence. Two more hymns on the same subject follow, and in No. 5 Radha herself breaks silence. Kadamba bane, thake kona jane, kemana sabada asi: Eki achambite, srabaner pathe, marmer-hala pasi: Sandhana marame, ghuchana dharame, karile pagali para: Chita sthira nahe, sastha na rahe, nayane bahaye dhara: Ki jane kemana, sei kona jana, emana sabada kare: ARCHEOLOGY OF HASSAN DISTRICT. Na dekhi tahare, hridaya bidare, rahite na par ghare: 7 I have left myself no space to finish this Pallab, or to make remarks on the peculiarities of the language, which in the older masters would more properly be called old Maithila than Bengali. It is nearly identical with the language still spoken in Tirhut, the ancient Mithili, and in Munger and Bhagalpur, the ancient Magadha, than modern Bengali. As the Aryan race grew and multiplied it naturally poured out its surplus Parana na dhare, dhaka dhaka kare, rahe darsana ase: Dase: "In the kadamba grove what man is (that) standing? What sort of word coming is this: the plough of whose meaning has penetrated startlingly the path of hearing? With a hint Jabahun dekhibe, parana paibe, kahaye Urddhaba population in Bengal, and it is not only philologically obvious that Bengali is nothing more than a further, and very modern development of the extreme eastern dialect of Hindi. All these considerations, however, I hope still further to develope at some future time. of union, with its manner of penetrating making one well-nigh mad: My mind is agitated, it cannot be still, streams flow from my eyes: I know not what manner of man it is who utters such words: I see him not, my heart is perturbed, I cannot stay in the house: My soul rests not, it flutters to and fro in hope of seeing him: When she sees him, she will find her soul, quoth Urdhab Das." HERE, there, everywhere are to be found scattered throughout the district the remains of ancient races. Before describing these, however, I would wish to point out what to me appears a grave defect in all reports of such remains. Everybody who has read the interesting papers from time to time printed in the journals of different societies must have observed that the words cairn, kistvaen, cromlech, stone circle, dolmen, are employed by different writers in different senses. The difficulty this gives rise to, in trying to generalize the results of the many examinations made, can only be appretiated by those who have made the attempt. In the October number of the Journal of the Ethnological Society of London 1869, we have a paper by Major Pearse on the raised "Stone Circle" or "Barrow." Here then we have stone circle or barrow as convertible terms. Sir W. Denison in his paper on "Permanence of Type," published in the same journal, calls similar remains tumuli; other writers when describing them use the word cairn. In his Prehistoric Times, Sir John Lubbock has "cromlechs" or stone "circles," while Dr. Lukis applies the word cromlech to all ON THE RUDE STONE ARCHEOLOGY OF THE HASSAN DISTRICT, MAISUR. BY CAPTAIN J. S. F. MACKENZIE, MAISUR COMMISSION. elaborate megalithic structures of one or more chambers. It is needless to multiply examples. The time has arrived when the annals of prehistoric research should be purged of this evil. With a view of making some sort of a beginning the following suggestions are made : BARROW. (A. 8. beorg, beorh, hill mound, sepulchral mound, from beorgan, to shelter.Webster): All mounds raised above the level of the ground without any circle of stones to mark the edge. TUMULI. Similar mounds having a circle of stones either on the top or round the bottom. CIRCLES.-Circles of stones where the enclosed area is on a level with the surrounding ground. The size of the stones which mark the circumference being immaterial. CROMLECH.-Stone structures above or partially above ground and which are surrounded by a circle of stones. DOLMEN. Similar structures but without the circle of stones. CAIRNS.-Heaps of small stones whether surrounded by a circle or not.

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8 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JANUARY, 1873. on the annual day of worship he has the right of presenting his offering of fruit and flowers before every one in the village-aking prece MENHIRS. Standing monoliths whether plain dence even of the Brahmans. The right to the or ornamented. "pujariship" is jealously asserted and often All the above different kinds of remains are gives rise to disputes among relatives. I have to be found in the Hassan district. seldom seen a village temple without the tree known in Canarese as "Kanigalu" growing close by. This tree has a large white flower with yellowish centre, the leaves do not come forth until after the tree has flowered. The flowers which have a strong scent are sacred to the village deities alone, and are never to be seen adorning the altars of the more orthodox Brahmanical gods. The very small size of these dolmens which are used as temples is a peculiarity it is difficult to account for. KISTVAEN. Any stone structure found under the present surface of the soil in barrows, tumuli, or circles. BARROWS. I have as yet only come across four two close together, about 4 miles from Polliam on the Bangalor-Mangalor road; two near Arsikerri in the Harnhalli taluka. I have not had time to examine them thoroughly, but sufficiently so to justify my saying they are bond fide mounds of made earth, the work of men's hands. A peculiarity with regard to those now under notice is that we have two barrows close together, not three yards apart, and where one is round the other long. The proximity of the one to the other, and there being no others in the immediate neighbourhood, would justify our thinking them both the work of the same race. The barrows near Polliam were, it is said, made in order that a Polygar, who belonged to the left hand caste, might from the top make his daily salam to the Raja who lived close by. Near those at Arsikerri is a menhir where, according to the natives of the place, the Polygar's elephant was tied while he and the principal persons of his Court from the top of the barrows watched the public games held in the fields around. DOLMENS.-Throughout the district, no matter how mean its appearance or few its inhabitants, every village has its temple or temples sacred to the "village" god or, more correctly, goddess. None of these temples are large, and many are rude attempts at copies of the temples dedicated to Siva, showing clearly that Brahmanical influence has been at work in that particular village. Still, however strong this influence may be, close to the more modern village temple is always found its prototype, the dolmen, under the protecting slab of which the rude stone representing the goddess Mariamma finds sheiter. These dolmens are formed of three side slabs with one or two slabs for a top. One side is always open, and there appears to be no particular direction for this opening since in different dolmens it faces all the points of the compass. Very few of these true village temples exceed three feet in height; some are only one foot. The best specimens, as is to be expected, are to be found in out-of-the-way villages. The pujari or priest is of the low Holyar caste, and TUMULI. There is a fine specimen of this class close to the ford over the Kaveri near Gunni on the Chenraipatam-Nursipur road. From its size, the trouble expended on its construction, and its position it is evidently the last resting-place of some chief who fell in defending or forcing the passage over the ford. He was not the only one over whose remains a mound was erected: close by are smaller mounds sacred to the memory of minor chiefs whose names and deeds are buried in the long forgotten past. The large tumulus is surrounded by three circles of upright stones. One round the bottom; the other two, about four feet apart, are half-way up the slope. The whole of the surface of the sides is covered with large pieces of white quartz. Time, and "flowers of the stone," as the natives call lichen, have dimmed the lustre with which the quartz once sparkled. But at night in its pristine state, when each facet of quartz helped to reflect the moon's pale but silvery light, the effect must have been striking, and this monument appeared worthy of him to whom it had been consecrated. The principal tumulus rises 15 feet above the crest of the ridge on which it is built. It is almost circular, and the diameter at the top about 75 feet. It is made entirely of blackclay, with here and there a thin layer of sand. We dug a pit down through the centre until we came to the original surface of the ground, but found nothing, not even a kistvaen. The villagers afterwards told us that years and years ago, so their fathers had told them, this tumulus had been examined and a horn and bangle found. CROMLECHS.-I have come across none in this district, but since the neighbouring district of

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JANUARY, 1873.] Kurg is peculiarly rich in such remains, I have no doubt that careful search among the jangals would bring to light some specimens of these remains.* ARCHEOLOGY OF HASSAN DISTRICT. CIRCLES. Large numbers of these are to be found all over the district. Several stones varying in size, but seldom larger than 1 feet, mark the circumference of these circles; the enclosed area is on a level with the surrounding ground or nearly so, and the diameter from 12 to 18 feet. Sometimes, but rarely, two circles, one within the other, are found. These circles are always to be found in groups, the number in each group varies from several hundred to but five or six. Near Fraserpett on the banks of the Kaveri, the best collection is to be seen; here we have several hundred all clustered together occupying as is usual the highest ground in the neighbourhood. On digging below the surface soil we come on the covering slab of a kistvaen, These kistvaens are formed of slabs of granite and have always an opening at one end, large enough to admit of an ordinary-sized man of the present day passing through. They are always full of earth in which are embedded pots of every sort and kind, some of decidedly Etruscan look both in form and appearance, others in no way to be distinguished from the common chatti of the present day; some have three short legs, others have none. Pieces of iron instruments, bones, and a black substance, supposed to be charcoal, are also found. The kistvaen, however, is not always found complete. In some there is nothing but the bottom slab, on which always in one corner are-to be found the pots and other finds. one and one only-I found a stone arrow or small spear-head. Similar remains, containing similar finds, are to be met with not only throughout the whole of Maisur, but the neighbouring districts of Koimbatur and the Nilgiri hills are reported to be particularly rich in this class of remains. They are generally supposed to be burying-grounds of an extinct race. In CAIRNS. A number of these are to be found,they are the graves of persons who have been either killed by tigers or died of leprosy. The common belief is that if the body of a leper is buried, no rain will fall on the lands of the vil lage where this is done. They are therefore always buried under a pile of stones. MENHIRS. From the simple unadorned monolith to the highly-carved monumental stone whose inscription tells why it was erected, we find I am inclined to think they will be found only on or among hills.-ED. Kodu kalu means 'slaughter stones,' see Vol.I. p.872.-ED. 9 great numbers differing in size, in form, and in, appearance. The most common-so numerous indeed as to form a regular class of themselvesare those known to the natives as kodu kallu. Kallu is the Canarese for stone. These are said to have been erected by the Rajas of Kurg to mark the boundaries of their kingdom. They are however found in places where, from other evidence, it can be proved that these Rajas (for in its best days Kurg was but a petty state) never held sway. The explanation given by the natives then cannot be held to be correct. The original meaning of the word kodu has been forgotten, or the word so corrupted that it is impossible from its present form to determine the original word. The similarity in sound between kodu and Kodagu (which is the Kanarese for Kurg) has, I think, given rise to the usual explanation. Such mistakes do arise sometimes. For instance in the Malnad portion of the district, Orchids are called "Situhuvu" (or flowers of the mist). The similarity in sound between Situ (mist) and Sita (Rama's wife or sister) is too much for individuals of a highly imaginative mind who give a long story of how and why they are called Sita's flowers. However to return to the kodu kallu. They are about 3 feet above the ground and always divided into three compartments. The upper generally represents a priest with long and flowing locks officiating at an altar carrying a linga, and on the side is seated the person in whose honour evidently the stone has been erected. The centre compartment has two women, said to represent frail ones of the Hindu paradise, fanning with chauras the central figure. The lower division delineates a battle scene, where the combatants are represented now on foot now on horseback. In one case there is shown an elephant. The most interesting specimen I have met with is one near Arsikerre. It is as usual divided into three compartments but has an inscription in "Halla Kanada" or old Kanarese. The letters are clear and have been read. The date is given as "Chalukya Vikrama" 42. I have come across other kodu kalu bearing inscriptions, but the character is unknown to the natives. There are two or three different accounts given by the natives about the origin of the circles. One, and the most common, that they are the dwelling-places of the followers of the five Pandu princes who, having lost their all by gambling, were obliged to wander among the forests This is probably the era of the Chalukyas referred to in the Tidgundi copper-plate (see Ind. Antig. Vol. I. p. 83), commencing 1076 A.D.-ED.

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10 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. of Southern India. Another that they were built in order to protect the followers of Salivahana from a rain of fire which had been foretold by one of the prophets of the land. All the many accounts agree in ascribing these circles to the handiwork of a pigmy race. The following extracts with regard to the "rain of fire" from Vol. VII. (pp. 278, 279, 289) of the Madras Journal of Science and Literature are interesting: "Through his (S'alivahana's) wickedness there was no rain-a great famine-inuch distress, and one house distant ten miles from any other house; the country little better than a waste benighted wilderness. The ascetics retiring to the wilderness in secret made murmuring complaints to Siva and Vishnu. Siva, to avenge the desolation, solicited from the Adi Parabarama (Supreme Being) a firerain. Athi-seshan beforehand apprized S'alivahana of its approach in a dream. S'alivahana announced to all the followers of Sarvesvarer the coming firerain, and recommended them to build stone-houses, or to remain (on the day fixed) in rivers; by both of which means they would be preserved uninjured by the fire-rain. They followed his advice, some quarrying stones and building houses, others watching on the banks of the largest rivers; and they were all on the alert. S'iva, opening his frontlet eye, sent a rain of fire. S'alivahana's people took refuge in their stone-houses and he himself with THERE is perhaps no other tract in the presidency of the same extent which offers so many points of interest as the Junnar Taluka, called formerly Sivaneri, after the famous fort of that name; and certainly I know of none which contains within so small a space so much variety of climate and production. [JANUARY, 1873. his army on the banks of the Kaveri (here used to designate a river in general) avoided it by plunging in the water. Siva, seeing this, had recourse to the Supreme Being, and by meditating on the five lettered mantra, sent down a shower of mud. Those in stone houses were thereby blocked up and suffocated; those in rivers came out and escaped. 0 00 Junnar is the northernmost taluka of the Puna Collectorate, marching with Nagar, and lies upon a series of mountain rivers which empty themselves into the Ghor, something in the shape of a three-pronged fork. NOTES ON JUNNAR TALUKA, PUNA ZILLA. By W. F. SINCLAIR, Bo. C. S. The prongs are the valleys of three streams which, gradually converging, form in their delta the narrower socket. The southernmost of these, the Mina, rising in the deep glen of Amboli, flows eastward; at first through a narrow but fertile valley, called after it the Minaner. It is as troublesome and capricious in its small way as the Ganges, and plays havoc every year with boundaries, and sometimes with crops, for the first ten miles of its course, changing from one bed to another in the deep lacustrine beds . . . . . . . . . "One instance may be given of the fire-rain of which mention occurs at the commencement of the MS. The Jains have a doctrine that a rain of fire always goes before the periodically recurring universal deluge. But though the aforesaid notion of the Jains may have suggested the idea of fire-rain, yet it seems in the document under notice to be a symbol made use of to denote divine judgments: whether the idea, in this sense, may be borrowed from a well-known historical fact or otherwise, let others determine. o "The fire-rain rather seems to be a symbol of the anger of Siva; in plainer terms, an insurrection against S'alivahana; and if so the shower of mud may have a symbolical meaning also and may help to the meaning of a tradition which states that Uriyur, the capital of the Chola kingdom, was destroyed by a shower of sand or mud." We have here a reason why the houses or kistvaens were made of stone, i. e., to protect their inhabitants from the fire-rain, and how they were filled up by a shower of mud. of clay and gravel, which offer no foundation for any work that might restrain it within due bounds. The ryots are well aware of its character, and accordingly most of the villages are set pretty well back from the stream. In one, however, Nirgude, there is unfortunately a fine temple of Maruti, built upon a knowe, that was probably considered secure, about a hundred years back. But the river, constantly encroaching, had at the time of my visit cut away the ground from under the village to such an extent that it was disappearing at the rate of eight or ten houses a year. Government offered a new site, but the villagers declined to leave Maruti. As it was impossible to found any protecting work in the treacherous substrata, I suppose Maruti is by this time himself in a fair way to join his worshippers in the bed of the Mina. This temple is (or perhaps was) remarkable for its fine cloisters, built, I believe, in the last century by a member of the Kulkarnis family, who had grown rich in the service of Madhaji Sinde on the plunder of Hindustan.

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JANUARY, 1873.] JUNNAR TALUKA. 11 Here is the ford by which, as well as I could learn, Raja Sivaji crossed to surprise Junnar in May 1657, after a mountain march through the jungles of the present Ambegam Peta. The pass by which he entered the Minaner goes by the name of the Kawal Khind, or Crow's Gap, as being more fit for a crow than for any featherless biped. It is however now passed, with much labour, by bullocks. Two miles below Nirgude the trap-rock crops out to the surface, and here is a fine Mughul dam, nearly perfect, but the canal is gone which formerly conducted its water to Baglohor, the garrison garden of the fortress of Sivaneri. From this down, the Mina flows, like a respectable river, in one very rocky bed to Narayanagam, a fine village on the Puna and Nasik road. Here is another dam of unknown age, which, lying broken when we came into the country, has been repaired by the Government, and is now the most successful piece of irrigation that I know of; taking up no ground, costing little for repairs, and water- ing, as well as I recollect, about 8,000 acres from its double canal. We might well attend a little in these matters to the wisdom of "the men of old time, and our fathers that begot us." The Musalman rulers of Western India and the earlier British conquerors built few great tanks; but they covered every perennial stream with Bundaras (weirs) which irrigated each their own village or two, while they encroached not at all on the cultivable land, and any damage a chance flood might do was easily and cheaply repaired. The Mina passes under a good modern bridge past Narayanagam, and joins the Ghop near Pimpalkhera, leaving to its left the fort of Narayanagash. The second stream, the Kukri, springs from a veritable "cow's mouth" carved roughly in the living rock, into a charming little kunda, or natural basin, near the Koli village of Par. Thence it flows northward for a couple of miles, and turns again to the south-east, when it reaches the long narrow valley which terminates at the Nang Ghat. This famous pass is no more nor less than a huge staircase, built in a crack of the precipice that here overlooks the Konkan, & wall of rock 1,500 feet sheer up and down. Curiously enough, this spot, where any one would think the natural limit of Konkan and Dakhan to be pretty well defined, is said to have been in old days the scene of a hot boundary dispate between the inhabitants of Ghatgarh, above the Ghat, and of the nearest Konkan village below. The belligerents assembled on a high point of rock overlooking the contested frontier, and debated for a long time without prospect of coming to any better solution than the fool's argument. At last a Mahar, the liereditary guardian of the boundaries of Ghatgarh, arose and adjured all present by a great curse to fix the boundary where he should stand still. This was agreed to, and he forthwith jumped over the cliff. On the spot where he was dashed to pieces a red stone still commemorates the event, and marks the boundary of the two villages, whose inhabitants perform certain devotions there once a year. The legend is curious as illustrating both the extraordinary love of the Indian villager for a boundary squabble, be the locality ever so well marked out by nature, and the devotion of hereditary officers to the duties of their wattan. The sacrifice of the poor Mahar, a sort of Little Pedlington Quintus Curtius, affords a precedent which might be turned to advantage in Europe. It is possible that rectification of frontiers might not be so much talked about, were it customary to settle them by the happy despatch of foreign secretaries and ambassadors. The Ghat itself, as I have said, is a mere winding cleft in the rock, which was converted into a regular staircase by the energy of a certain Nana Rao. I think that he wrought about the beginning of this century, and is not to be confounded with Nana Fadnavis (Balaji Janardan). However, I speak only from local tradition, and am open to correction. There are several caves about the herul of the Ghat, one of which used as a dharmasala, another generally contains good water, and a third is said in former days to have been a toll-chest, into which the passers-by threw the toll money, to be collected once a day by a karkun. In what golden age of Hindu purity this happened I know not. In the present day no toll is collected, but if it were still thrown into the cave, and respected by men, it would probably be made away with by a numerous breed of small and sacred monkeys, said to be peculiar to the place (which I doubt). Above the Ghat, on some comparatively open ground, are a great number of mounds, testifying, I think, to the former existence on this spot of & considerable town. The modern village of Ghatgarh is nearly two miles off, nestled on the flank of the fort of Jiwdban. This is a huge crag accessible only

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12 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. by one path, which was nearly destroyed by the English in 1818, but a single man can still climb up. There is a curious vaulted magazine at the top. I believe that Dr. Bhau Daji discovered, either here or at the Ghat, some inscriptions relating how a great king had sacrificed in this place whole armies of sheep and goats, hecatombs of horses and camels, and nine elephants. However, I have not seen either the inscriptions or the learned Doctor's papers on the subject. This fort of Jiwdhan forms part of a curious. Pleiades constellation of fortresses called the seven forts of Junnar. They lie something in the shape of the constellation to which I have compared them, and resemble it further in that "Qua septem dici sex tamen esse solent," for the locality of the seventh is very little known, and it was not till after diligent search that I discovered it on a hill over the head waters of the Dudari river, between its valley and that of the Kukri, now in question. It is, as well as I recollect, called Nimgori, and fronts westward over the Konkan with Harichandragarh and Jiwdhan, This latter, being at a corner, forms also part of the southern line of defence, with Chawand, Siwneri, and Narayanagarh, all rising, like it, out of the watershed of the Mina and Kukri. Communications between these six are guarded by a fort called Harsha, commanding a pass from the Kakri valley to that of the Dudari, the next northwards. The whole together NOTES CONNECTED WITH SAHET MAHET. BY W. C. BENETT, B.C.S., GONDA. THE agreement of information derived from wholly independent sources lends their value, if they have any, to the following comparisons of local tradition with known or conjectured historical facts. 1. It is related at Ayudhya that the great king Vikramaditya was visited at the close of his reign of eighty years by a Jogi named Samudra Pal. The magician induced the king to allow his soul to be transferred to a corpse, and himself occupied the vacant royal body, thus acquiring the throne of Ayudhya and Sravasti, which was occupied by his dynasty for seventeen generations. [JANUARY, 1873. form a complete protection to the two great military and commercial routes of those days, vid the Nana and Malsej Ghats, neither of which can be approached by any route not commanded by at least three of the seven. The fort of Chawand, which is the next east of Jiwdhan, is more like a huge broken pillar than a hill, and is, like Jiwdhan and the rest, provided with a vaulted magazine at the top, and, like it, extremely difficult of access, and for the same reason, viz., the destruction of the only gate by our Engineers in 1818. To the east of it lies the village of Keli, whose inhabitants were, according to the local legend, driven out during the Mogalaiammal (imperial rule) by a strange and terrible plague. Men fell down dead at the plough, at their meals, on the road, without any visible cause. After a short time the survivors, who were of the caste called Guravs, the hereditary priests of Siva, concluded that the aborigines of the hills, the Kolis and Thakurs, had enchanted the place, and fled southward 18 kos into the Bhimaner, where their descendants are patels to this day. They have never-such is the pertinacity with which the Dakhani clings to hereditary rights-relinquished their claim to exercise the patel's office in Kelf. In 1871, while the district was in my charge, they renewed their claim, offering to return to live there. I left the taluka on sudden orders, and do not know what was the end of the matter. A king Vikramaditya of Sravasti is mentioned in the Raja Tarangini as the conqueror of Matrigupta of Kashmir, and the best authorities put him in about the middle of the second century. Samudra Gupta of Behar is still better known. Surely this legend affords a very strong confirmation to the conjecture that the local monarchs of Sravasti were conquered by the rising Gupta dynasty; and it goes far to explain the utter desolation, contrasting so violently with the power which it must have had when it could subdue distant Kashmir, which the Chinese pilgrims found a few centuries later at Sravasti. 2. The second tradition is as follows. The king of Sahet Mahet (Sravasti) was a great hunter. He returned one evening from the chase just as the sun was setting, and his queen, fearing that he would lose his dinner, sent up to the roof of the palace the beautiful wife of his younger brother. The sun-god stayed to watch her till she descended, which was not till the feast was ended, As the king rose from table

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JANUARY, 1873.] twilight commenced, and the bells struck one watch of the night. An investigation into the difference between the apparent time and that struck by his servants inspired the king with a determination to see his brother's lovely wife, and his incestuous passion was punished by the ruin of his state. Amidst a terrific storm the city was turned bottom upwards. The Kanungos add that this happened forty years after the defeat at Bahraich of Sayyid Salar, thus making the date 1073 A. D. Pandit Suraj Narayan Acharya of the Sultanpur district, a good Sanskrit scholar, gave me the following information without allowing me to discover the sources from which he drew it. After the fall of the Buddhist dynasty of Kanauj, the Tharus descended from the hills and occupied Ayudhya. The dispossessed Buddhist called in Raja Srichandra of Srinagar in the hills about Badrinath, who drove back the Tharas, and, marching north, founded Chandravatipura, now known as Sahet Mahet. His grandson was the celebrated Suhil Dal who defeated the Muhammadans. Not long afterwards Chandra Deva Sombansi of Kanauj took Sahet Mahet, and the Surajbansis of Suhil Dal's family fled to the neighbourhood of Simla where their descendants still live. Suhil Dal's family were Jains. DEMONOLOGY IN GUJARAT. Lassen in his account of the later dynasties of Kanauj describes an inscription which records NOTES ON WITCHCRAFT AND DEMONOLOGY IN GUJARAT. POLITICAL AGENT, KOLHAPUR. BY CAPT. E. WEST, ASSISTANT DURING some years residence in Gujarat the writer of these notes had frequently occasion to take official cognizance of cases where witchcraft was supposed to have been at work, and made at the time some brief memoranda of the popular opinions on this subject as elicited in the investigation into these cases. From the memoranda thus made the following notes are taken. Lassen's account (Ind. Alt. III., 751) is-" With respect to the victories ascribed to Laxmanasena we should mention that contemporaneously, with him the Rahtors Chandradeva and Madanapala reigned at Kanauj, and their reigns extended, roughly speaking, from 1072 to 1120 A.D. Of the first it is related that he conquered Kanauj, and made a pilgrimage to Benares, a town which must have. belonged to his kingdom, as we cannot assume that aims of piety took him to the town of a hostile ruler. It is therefore possible that Laxmanasena gained a victory over Chandradeva, without subduing the kingdom; on this supposition Laxmanasena must have ruled over the country to the east of Kanauj, or Koshala with its capital of Ayudhya." In a note he refers to an inscription in As. Soc. Ben. Journ. 13 that Srichandradeva, the first of the great Rahtor princes, who came to the throne in 1072 A. D., was protector of the sacred places of Ayudhya and Koshala (i. e. Sravasti).+ Here we have three sources of information, which comparison almost conclusively shows to be quite distinct. From them we gather that the king of Sravasti who defeated the Muhammadans was a Jain (the pandit, confirmed by that part of the local tradition which does not allow him to eat after sunset); that his dynasty was overthrown by Srichandradeva of Kanauj (the pandit and the inscription); and that this happened in 1073 A. D. or about then (the inscription and the local tradition). It is perhaps worth mentioning that a small and comparatively modern Jain temple in Sahet Mahet is said by the villagers to be sacred to Sobhavanath. This can hardly be other than Sambhavanath, the third Tirthankara, who was born at Sawanta, and whose two predecessors and two successors were all born at or near Ayudhya. A curious tradition makes Sudhaniya the grandfather of Suhil Dal, and localizes his conflict with Arjuna, described in the Drigvijaya section of the Mahabharata, at Chandravatipura or Sahet Mahet. The epic hero's death at the hand of Babhruvahana is localized at Manikpur, about a hundred miles south of Sahet Mahet. The fact is worth recording, but any remarks on it would lead to mere conjecture. There are five demons par excellence who are supposed to get possession of unhappy human beings, either of their own accord or through the incantations and machinations of enemies of the sufferers. One of these, who is called Nar Sing Vero, is of the male sex, the others being females and bearing respectively the names Meladi, Shikotar, Dhera, and Dakun. The symptoms that shew vol. X., where Chandradeva is alled the protector of the sacred places of Kasi, Koshala, c. Lassen's explanation of the pig image is exceedingly probable; it is a common proverb Chhatri ka bhagat, na musal ka dhanukh :" you can't make a saint of a Chhatri, or a bow of a rice-pestle; but the traditions of the Kanauj rule in Koshala are too distinct and universal to permit me to accept the conjectural conquest by Laxmanasena. A copper-plate of Jaichand of Kanauj has been discovered in Ayudhya. Lassen Alterthumsk. III. p. 751 and Conf. Colebrooke, Misc. Essays, vol. II. p. 286. As. Resear. XV. pp. 447, 457; and Jour. As. Soc. Beng. vol. X. p. 101.-ED. See my Introduction to the Temples of 8'atrunjaya, p. 4. -ED.

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14 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. the presence in a person of one of these demons vary in almost every case. One woman described what took place in this way. She was returning, she said, by herself, from her father's house to her own village, when there came a sudden violent gust of wind: she got afraid and the demon that moment entered into her. After this she constantly had miscarriages. One night she saw in a dream the demon sitting by her, in form like a human being ciad in a dark kamli, who reproached her with having left it so long hungry, and told her that in consequence of her neglect it had destroyed her children. In other cases the presence of the demon is shown by unaccountable illness and sometimes by delirium. When a person is thus affected, the first thing done is to send for a Bhopa or witchfinder. This is generally a Koli, a Wagri, or a Rawalio, and he almost invariably comes accompanied by a comrade who plays a peculiar kind of drum called the dakla during the incantations. The Bhopa, as a rule, commences by enquiring into all the particulars of the case, and does not fail to ask whether there is any person who has had a quarrel with the sufferer, and who may be supposed either to have cast the evil eye on or otherwise bewitched the patient. The subsequent proceedings vary according to the exigencies of the case and the habits and wants of the Bhopa. Sometimes a dordo or knotted silk cord of five colours is fastened on the patient's arm, and balls called la d us, and in shape like the sweetmeat of that name, are made, a blazing cotton wick being placed among them. These are then waved solemnly round the head of the bewitched person and are afterwards placed outside the village, the theory being that the demon will leave the person and go out to eat the ladus. At other times a goat has its throat cut in presence of the sufferer, the Deva being supposed to drink the blood while the flesh THE peninsula of Kathiawad, or Surashtra, in Gujarat, is the Holy land of Western India. Among its sacred places Mount Girnar, the ancient Ujjayanta, must have been at a very early period a place revered by the Buddhists, who founded their monasteries on its summits, whilst [JANUARY, 1873. becomes the perquisite of the operators. In other cases a cocoa-nut is placed in the name of, and to represent God, and near it are placed a lota with a copper coin in it, some grain, and a brass saucer containing a lighted wick. The dakla is then played continuously and monotonously, the demon being loudly called on to declare itself, and the patient after a time gets tremendously excited, rocks violently to and fro with a measured motion (an action for which Gujarati provides a technical term-y-g), and at last speaks in a hollow voice announcing himself or herself to be such and such a demon, who has been induced by others or has spontaneously entered into the sufferer, and who is only to be got rid of by certain ceremonies. Where no one is suspected of having bewitched the patient a cure frequently follows the performance of the prescribed ceremonies; and if it does not, a complaint is sometimes brought against the Bhopa for breach of contract! A favourite and most efficacious remedy is immersion in the water of the river at Samlajf in Mahi Kanta. When the annual fair at this place is going on, crowds of patients may be seen on the banks of the river in the morning rocking convulsively to and fro with the peculiar motion described above. They are then taken by their friends into the water, which at that season is icy cold, the demon is taunted and abused, and after several immersions the patients are brought to the bank invariably breathless and often cured. PAPERS ON SATRUNJAYA, &c. BY THE EDITOR. I-Kathiawdd and the Jainas. Should, however, any one be accused of having bewitched the sufferer, the consequences are often very serious, the death or mutilation of the accused sometimes resulting. Cases have been known of a reputed witch being burnt alive on the pyre with her supposed victim; and witches sometimes have their eyes burnt out or otherwise destroyed to prevent their casting the evil eye on other unfortunates. their great patron Asoka- the beloved of the gods'-engraved his celebrated edict of mercy and toleration on the rock at its foot. Somanath, on the south-west coast, where tradition says Krishna died, was the site of the temple of Someswar, Lord of the Moon,' the first of the 4

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JANUARY, 1873.] twelve Siva Lingas in India, and the history of the destruction of which by Mahmud of Ghazni is familiar to every reader of Indian history. Dwarka or Dwaraka, in the extreme west of the peninsula, is the most celebrated of the shrines of Krishna, and where he is fabled to have slain Takshak and to have saved the sacred books. And not to mention Tulsi Syam and places of less note, the sacred hill of Satrunjaya, near Palitana, has probably been a sacred place from the earliest times of the Jaina worship, a great tirtha- the first of places of pilgrimage.' S'ATRUNJAYA, &c. The last of these more immediately concerns us for the present; but before referring to its history or buildings, it may be as well to give some notices of the sect whose members have erected its hundreds of temples. van The Jainas or Sravaks are to be found in most of the large towns of the lower Ganges and in Rajputana, but they are most numerous in Gujarat, Dharwad, and Maisur. As their name implies, they are followers of the Jinas or quishers' of sins-men whom they believe to have obtained Nirvana or emancipation from the continual changes of transmigration. With them life, which they do not distinguish from soul,' -and its vehicle matter are both uncreated and imperishable, obeying eternal physical laws, with which asceticism and religious ceremonial alone can interfere. Their ceremonial has therefore no real reference to a Supreme Personal God, and their doctrine excludes His Providence. This at once points to their connection with the Buddhists; indeed there can be little doubt that they are an early heretical sect of the Hinayana school of that persuasion, and probably owed part of their popularity, on the decline of the purer Bauddha doctrine, to their readier admission of the worship of some of the favourite Hinda divinities into their system, and their retention of the tyranny of caste customs. But much of their phraseology is of Bauddha origin: thus their laity are called Sravakas,hearers, the same name as among the most ancient Buddhists is applied to those who 'practise the four realities and suppress the errors of thought and sight, without being able to eman The others were Mallikarjuna, at Srisailam in Telingana Manakala at Ujjain Omkara on the Narmada ; Amares wara near Ujjain; Vaidyanath, at Deograh in Bengal, which still exists; Rameswara at Setubandha in the island of Rameswaram in Madura; Bhimas ankara at the source of the Bhima N. W. of Puna ; Tryambaka near Nasik; Gautamesa, unknown; Kedaresa on the Himalayas; and Visves'wara at Banaras. 15 " " | cipate themselves entirely from the influence of passion and prejudice,' but who, solely occupied with their own salvation, pay no regard to that of other men.' Then the Buddha is constantly spoken of as the Jina or vanquisher;' his exit from existence-like that of the Jaina Tirthankaras-is his Nirvana; both employ the Swastika or S a t y a as a sacred symbol; the sacred language of the Buddhists is Ma ga dhi,-of the Jainas Arddha Magadhi; the temples of both sects are Chaityas; those who have attained perfection are Arhans; and Digambaras or naked ascetics were a Bauddha, as well as a Jaina sect.f. Further, the Jainas indicate South Bihar as the scene of the life and labours of nearly all their Tirthankaras, as it was of Sakya Sinha. Buddha is often called Mahavira-the name of the last Tirthankara, whose father the Jainas call Siddhartha the establisher of faith-the proper name of Buddha,-and both are of the race of Ikshvaku; and Mahavira's wife was Yaso da, as Buddha's was Yasodhara. Moreover Mahavira's is said to have died at Pa wa, in Bihar, about 527 B.C., and Gautama Buddha, between Pawa and Kusinara, in 543 B.c. These coincidences, together with many analogies of doctrine and practice, seem to indicate that the Jainas are of Bauddha origin. Of the history of the origin of the Jainas we know little or nothing. Professor Wilson has the following remarks : The Bauddhas "are said in one account to have come from Banaras in the third century of the Christian era, and to have settled about Kanchi, where they flourished for some centuries; at last, in the eighth century, Akalanka, a Jain teacher from Sravana Belligola, and who had been partly educated in the Bauddha college at Ponataga disputed with them in the presence of the last Bauddha prince, Hema sitala, and having confuted them, the prince became a Jain and the Bauddhas were banished to Kandy... We know that the Bauddha religion continued in Gujarat till a late period or the end of the twelfth century, when Kumara Pala of Gujarat was, converted by the celebrated Hemachandra to the Jain faith, but by the fourteenth century it seems to have disappeared from the more southern portion of the peninsula. t Conf. Hodgson's Illustrations of Buddhism, pp. 48, 218. The Singhalese Buddhists specify twenty-four Buddhas, before Gautama, the same number as that of the Tirthankaras or Jinas.-Conf. Mahanamo in his Tika, in Turnour's Mahawanso, Introd. [8vo. pp. lxii.-lxv.] 4to. pp. xxxii.xxxiv.; Hardy's Buddhism, p. 94. Compare also the first six chapters of the Kalpa Sutra with Bigandet's Legend of Gaudama.

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16 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. According to the information procured by Col. | Mackenzie, "from the establishment at Sravan Belligola, the Jains of the Dakhan were the objects of royal patronage as early as the seventh century before Christ: an inscription cut on a rock is added in evidence; but this testimony is solitary, and is at variance with all other documents. There is indeed, on the contrary, an inscription placing Chamunda Raya in the eighth century of S'alivahana, whilst the only Chamunda of any note-a prince of Gujarat-flourished in the eleventh century of the Christian era. But the strongest argument against the accuracy of the date is, that amongst a very considerable number of Jain inscriptions, or nearly a thousand, there is no other of a similar period. The earliest grants are those of the Jain princes of Homchi, a petty state in Maisur, which commence in the end of the ninth century. From this they multiply rapidly in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, particularly under the Velala Rajas, and extend to the sixteenth and seventeenth under the Rajas of Vijayanagar who, although not of the Jaina persuasion, seem to have shewn liberal countenance to its professors. "To this evidence, which is of the most unexceptionable description, the traditions of the country offer no contradiction. In the Pandyan kingdom the Jains rose upon the downfall of the Bauddhas, and were suppressed in the reign of Kuna Pandya, which could not have occurred much earlier than the ninth or tenth century, or might have been as late as the eleventh. The subversion of the Bauddhas of Kanchi by the Jainas took place, as has already been mentioned, according to some authorities, no earlier than Saka 710 or A.D. 788. The Bauddha temples at Devagond and Vella pollam were destroyed by Jaina princes in the eleventh century. About the same time the Lingawant Saivas put to death Vijala, the Jaina king of Kalyan, and demolished the temples of the sect. Vishnu Verddhana, the Velala Raja of Maisur, was converted to the Vaishnava religion in the twelfth century. It is highly probable, therefore, that the Jaina faith was introduced into the peninsula about the seventh century of the Christian era; that its course south was stopped at an early period, but that it extended itself through the centre and in the west of the peninsula, and enjoyed some consideration in the tenth and eleventh centuries; that it was mainly instrumental in its outset to the declension of the B a uddhas, and that in the twelfth century the joint "According to some traditions, the date of Kuna Pandyan is called 950 of S'alivahana, or A.D. 1028; but there are several reasons for supposing this to be erroneous. The Madura Purana, and its original the Halasya Mahatmya, come down to the end of this prince's reign; and they are attributed to the reign of Hari Vira Pandyan, in 973. Either their date, therefore, is erroneous, or that of Kuns Pandyan is incorrect; but there is every reason to suppose they are not much misplaced."-H. H. Wilson, Jour. R. A. Soc., vol. III. p. 216. [JANUARY, 1873. attack of S'aivas and Vaishnavas put a final term to its career, and induced its decline. There are, however, still many Jaina establishments in the Dekhan, and the religion is not without numerous affluent votaries."+ But whilst it owed its spread in part to the persecution of Buddhism in the eighth and ninth centuries, it may have originated much earlier. One indication of its early origin is perhaps supplied by Hiwen Thsang when he states that " At forty or fifty li south-east of the city (Seng-ho-pu-lo,-Sinhapura) we reach a stupa, built of stone by the King Wu-yeu (Asoka). Near it is a convent which for a long time has not had any devotees. "Near it, and at a short distance from the stupa, they shew the place where the founder of the heretical sect who wear the white garments (svetavasa ?) comprehended the sublime principles that he sought after and began to expound the law. Now they shew an inscription there. t Wilson, Mackenzie Collection, vol. I. pp. lxv-lxviii. On the grounds of M. Stan. Julien's conjectural Sanskrit: "Beside this place they have built a temple of the gods. The sectaries that frequent it submit themselves to strict austerity; day and night they manifest the most ardent zeal, without taking an instant's rest. The law that has been set forth by the founder of this sect has been largely appropriated from the Buddhist books, on which it is guided in establishing its precepts and rules. The more aged of these sectaries bear the name of Bhikshus (mendicants); the younger they call Chami (Sramaneras-novices). In their observances and religious exercises they follow almost entirely the rule of the Sramanas.. Only they retain a little hair on their heads, and moreover they go naked. If, by chance, they wear garments, they are distinguished by their white colour. These differences, and other very trifling ones, distinguish them from others. The statue of their divine master resembles, by a sort of usurpation, that of Ju-lai (the Tathagata); it only differs in costume; its marks of beauty|| (mahapurusha lakshanani) are exactly the same." Elsewhere Hiwen Thsang frequently met with religionists of the Ching-liang-pu or Sam equivalent for white garments' Gen. Cunningham tries to identify Khetas with this place. Svetambara would have suited the translator equally well, if not better. See Cunningham, Anc. Geog., pp. 124, 5. SS The Buddhist devotees wear garments of a yellowish brown. The Chinese has Siang-hao, an expression which, applied to Buddha, includes the 32 signs of beauty (mark characteristic of a great man) which they attribute to him. See Burnout, Lotus de la Bonne loi, p. 552 ft. Stan. Julien, Memoires, I. 163, 4.

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JANUARY, 1873.] matiya school, by which doubtless he designates the Jainas, since they still call their doctrine Sammati. The leading and distinguishing doctrines of the Jainas are the denial of the divine origin and authority of the Vedas; reverence for the Jinas, who by their austerities acquired a position superior to that of even those Hindu gods whom they reverence; and the most extreme tenderness of animal life. Life "is defined to be without beginning or end, endowed with attributes of its own, agent and enjoyer, conscious, subtle, proportionate to the body it animates" -diminishing with the gnat and expanding with the elephant; through sin it passes into animals or goes to hell; through virtue and vice combined it passes into men; and through the annihilation of both vice and virtue it obtains emancipation. The duties of a Yati or ascetic are ten, patience, gentleness, integrity, disinterestedness, abstraction, mortification, truth, purity, poverty, and continence; and the Sravakas" add to their moral and religious code the practical worship of the Tirthankaras, and profound reverence for their more pious brethren." The moral obligations of the Jainas are summed up in their five mahavratas, which are almost identical with the pancha-sila of the Bauddhas:-care not to injure life, truth, honesty, chastity, and the suppression of worldly desires. They enumerate four merits or dharmas-liberality, gentleness, piety, and penance; and three forms of restraint government of the mind, the tongue, and the person. Their minor instructions are in many cases trivial and ludicrous, such as not to deal in soap, natron, indigo, and iron; not to eat in the open air after it begins to rain, nor in the dark, lest a fly should be swallowed; not to leave a liquid uncovered lest an insect should be drowned; water to be thrice strained before it is drunk; and vayukarma-keeping out of the way of the wind, lest it should blow insects into the mouth. The Yatis and priests DESISABDASAMGRAHA. 17 carry an Ugha or besom, made of cotton thread, to sweep insects out of the way of harm as they enter the temples or where they sit down, and a Mohomati or mouth-cloth to prevent insects entering the mouth when praying or washing the images. The proper objects of worship are the Jinas or Tirthankaras, but they allow the existence of the Hindu gods, and have admitted to a share in their worship such of them as they have connected with the tales of their saints. As among the Bauddhas, Indra or Sakra is of frequent occurrence, the Jainas distinguishing two principal Indras-Sukra, regent of the north heaven, and I's ana, regent of the south, besides many inferior ones; and images of Sarasvati and of Devi or Bhavani are to be found in many of their temples. Nor are those of Hanu man, Bhairava, or Gape e a excluded from their sacred places. Besides, they have a pantheon of their own, in which they reckon four classes of superhuman beings, Bhuvanapatis, Vyantaras, Jyotishkas, and Vaimanikas,-comprising-1, the brood of the Asuras, Nagas, Garuda, the Dikpalas, &c., supposed to reside in the hells below the earth; 2, the Rakshasas, Pisachas, Bhutas, Kinnaras, Gandharvas, &c., inhabiting mountains, forests, and lower air; 3, five orders of celestial luminaries; and 4, the gods of present and past Kalpas, of the former of which are those born in the heavens-S a udharma, feana, Sanatkumara, Mahendra, Brahma, Lantaka, Sukra, Sahasrara, Anata, Pranata, Arana, and Achyuta, &c. Each Jina, they say, has also a sort of familiar goddess of his own, called a Sas an adevi, who executes his behests. These are perhaps analogous to the Saktis, or Matris of the Brahmans; indeed among them we find Ambika, a name of Kaumari, the Sakti of Kartikiya, and Chanda and Mahakali, names of Bhavani. THOUGH we have been for a long time in possession of a number of Hindu grammars THE DESISABDASAMGRAHA OF HEMACHANDRA. BY G. BUHLER, Ph. D., EDUCATIONAL INSPECTOR, GUJARAT. Stan. Julien, Memoires de Hiouen Theang, tom. II, p. 164; and my Notes of a Visit to Gujarat, pp. 60, 61. H. H. Wilson, Works, vol. I, p. 807; Asiat. Resear., Vol. XVII., p. 268. Bee Rules for Yatis in the Kalpa Sutra, Stevenson's tranet, pp. 108-114; and especially Nava Tatra, in ib., P. 194 - which treat of the older Prakrits, and though several European scholars have given us excel SH. H. Wilson, Works, vol. I, p. 817; Asiat, Res., vol. XVII., p. 272. For many similar prohibitions see Delamaine On the Brawaks or Jains; Trans. R. Asiat. Soc., vol. L., pp. 420, 421. Amarakosha, I. i. SS 1, 88; and conf. Hodgson, Mustrations, p. 218.

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18 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. lent descriptions of the grammatical structure of these dialects, it is to be regretted that only a very small portion of their stock of words has become known. Our ignorance of the Prakrit Vocabulary is partly owing to the circumstance that, besides the Prakrit passages of the Sanskrit dramas-if we except the Buddhistic Palf writings a portion only of one larger Prakrit work has been edited. Sanskritists are deterred from the task by the paucity and bad condition of the Prakrit MSS. But another equally important obstacle to a fuller exploration of the Prakrits is the entire want of native vocabularies, which could do the same service to the student of the Prakrits as the Amarakosha and kindred works did and still do to the Sanskritist. The method of teaching in the Brahmanical schools, as well as the testimony of various writers, make it certaint that such vocabularies existed and were accessible very recently. But no work of the kind has, to my knowledge, as yet been made known. I am happy to be able, to a certain extent, to fill this gap in our knowledge of the literature of the Prakrits, as I have recently obtained a copy of a Desisabdasamgraha, written by the famous Jaina Polyhistor of the twelfth century, Hemachandra or Hemacharya, which contains about 4,000 Prakrit words, together with explanations in Sanskrit. The MB, of which I have obtained a loan only for transcription, comprises according to the colophon 3,325 slokas (agglomerations of 32 syllables each) on 74 folios. Its date is Samvat 1587. It is correct and in good preservation, except that the upper odges of some leaves have been gnawed by rats, whereby, in one instance two half lines and on several pages a few letters have been lost. It is written in Devanagari characters, but presents the archaic forms of letters usual in Jaina MSS. Hence it is frequently very difficult to distinguish between u and o, between tth and chchh, and between jjh and bbh. Besides the text of the Desisabdasamgraha, which is written in Prakrit Aryas and gives I mean Hala's Gathakosha, a part of which was published, together with a German translation by Prof. A. Weber, in the Abhandlungen der D. M. Ges. 1870. + E. g., of Bhanudikshita, who quotes a Destkosha in his commentary on the Amarakosha, Aufrecht, Oaf. Cat, p. 182a. [JANUARY, 1873. the Desi words with Prakrit equivalents, the MS. contains a Sanskrit commentary. The latter explains each Desi word in Sanskrit, and contains also frequently discussions on doubtful forms. At the end of the explanation of each verse, one or two Prakrit sentences have been added, in order to illustrate the use of the Desis explained. Thus each word is repeated three times. The book is divided into eight Vargas, viz.-I. Svaravarga; II. Words beginning with gutturals; III. Words beginning with palatals; IV. Words beginning with linguals; V. Words beginning with dentals; VI. Words beginning with labials; VII. Words beginning with the liquids ra, la, ra; VIII. Words beginning with sa and ha. The words under each letter are arranged according to their length, and according to their meaning. First come those that have only one meaning, in the order of bisyllabics, trisyllabies, tetrasyllabics, and so forth; and the words having more than one meaning make the conclusion. Both text and commentary are Hemachandra's work as may be seen from the introductory verse:Desi duhsandabha pratyah sandarbhitapi durbodha | A'chartyahemachandrastattam sandribhati vibhajati vai, and from the colophon of the book,-ityachartya s'ri Hemachandravirachita svopajnadhes'isamgraha vrittavaahtamo vargah samaptabl The first four verses of the text give the definition of the term Deef, and define the scope of the work. They run as follows: gamaNayapamANagahirA sahiyapahiyayahiyaMgamarahassA / jayai jiNidANa ase bhAsavariNAmiNI vANI // 1 // NIsesade siparamalapalAvibhaku UhalAulatteNa / virahajjara $ desIsadvasaMgaho vaNNakkamasuhao // 2 // off a fact herg Naya gaolakhaNAsattisaMbhavA te ira ninadvA // 3 // desavi se sabhasiddhIi paNNamANA anaMtayA huti / tamhA aNAipAiyapayaTTabhAsAvisesao desI |4 ||l 'Glory to the language of the Jinendras, which is difficult on account of the employment of parallel passages not explained by the commentators (gama), Tof categories** and of proofs, the secrets of which got to the hearts of the wise, and which comprises all other languages.++ Viraijjai jai-MS. suhasas may also be read suhau. The metre is Gfti or Udgatha. Tatparyabhedinah sadris'apathah ! Naya vastve kades'agrahipah syadvada virodhinobhipriyavishes'ah | naigamasamgrahavyavahar ari justtras'abdasamabhirutdhae vambhatabhidhanah Apara utkarsho yadaa'eshabhashart patvena parina mate yadaha deva daivim nara narim s'abaras chapi sabarim | Tirtyanchopi tairas'chim menire bhagavadgiram | 'evambhuta jinendranam arhatam vant jayatiti" samban dhah |

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JANUARY, 1873.] DESISABDASAMGRARA. 19 2. This collection of Debi words, which is As it may interest many Sanskritists to see easy because they are arranged in alphabetical what the Debt words are like, I subjoin a order, is composed in order to remedy) the con- portion of the words beginning with 7 (a), fusion caused in the minds of students) by the together with their Sanskrit equivalents : astonishment arising from the fragrance of the asaM vistAritamAdaraNIyaM tyaktaM ca Prakrit works. 3. Those words are included here which are arter T T : not explained in (my) grammar, nor known from the Sanskrit dictionaries, nor owe their origin to | aigayaM mArgapazcAdbhAgaH samAgataM praviSTaM ca the power called gauni lakshana (i. e. are not common words used in a metaphorical sense). aiNIyaM AnItam 4. "Endless are the forms that are used in the | aharajuvaI navavadhUH various provincial dialects. Therefore the term Desi is (used here) to denote those words only airANI indrANI vratasaivinI ca strI which have been used since immemorial times in | aharimpo kathAvandhaH Prakrit.' Hemachandra's collection includes, therefore, | aihArA vidyut|| only those words which have been used since immemorial times in Prakrit literature or speech, PETT TYPOT TAETIF: and which cannot be derived from their Sanskrit araca : : Salaala prototypes according to the rules of Prakrit grammars, as well as those Sanskrit words which | aMkAro sAhAyyam have changed their meaning in Prakrit, provided | akAsi paryAptam that the change is not due to a metaphorical use. Ho excludes all Tadbhavas, as well as the | aMkiyaM parirambhaH greater number of the Tatsamas and the substi aMkusaiyaM akushaakaarm|| tutes for Sanskrit roots. These principles have not, however, been strictly adhered to in the el 1976:** body of the work. More than once the example of his predecessors, amongst whom he names aMko nikaTam Gopala and Drona most frequently, has moved the akaMtaM pravRddham author to admit verbal derivatives which ought not to have been included. He discusses every bhakaMdo paritrAtA one of these cases in the commentary, and tries to akasAlA balAtkAra / ISanmattA ca strI excuse his departure from his general rule. In this respect, as well as by the careful examina- BTT YTTET tion of the evidence regarding doubtful words, he shows his scholarly taste and raises himself | akkuTu adhyAsitam far above the common book-makers, who are so ako dUtaH numerous among the writers on the Hindu akoDo chAgaH Sastras. * Des'i sabdena des'is'astr anyuchyante ye cha sanskritabhidhanakosheshu na prasiddha api Nih s'es'hadcsis'ilstranam parimalanens pallavitam predur gaunya lakshanaye valankerachdamanipratipadi taya s'aktyg sambhavanti bhutam kvachid arthasamparkatvena kvachidvarpinupur vinis'chayabhAvena kvachidutanugatik pibaddhas'abder yathe markbe baillo gangatate gasigas'abdasta iha thataya yaktutuhalam tenakulatvam desisabdasamgrahe na nibaddhah Ath kathamavanapabhrashtas'abdapankamagno janah - 1 Des'a vis'esha maharashtrabhiradayasteabu prasiddh - muddharaniya iti paropachikirsbarabbabastena hetuna de yam aga paschat! s'iruppam s'abdanam samgrabo virachyatesmabhiriti s'esbah Nikkaro lajitah utkharuhamvio tukshiptah Laksbane s'abdas'astre siddhshemachandranamni ye Preyando durtab hingo jarah | viddo prapachah na siddhah prakritipratyayadivibhagena da nishpanne Dadha murkha ityevamidayah s'abda yad yuchyeramstetra nibaddhah stade des'avis'eshenimanantatvatpurush&yushen@pi yetu vaijarnpaljaraupphalapisunasanghavollachavajapa na sarvasamgrabah ayatsisasabadayah kathyidinimades'atveda sabitasten tasmadanadipravritt praktitabb bevis'esba evades'i s'abdenochyatell yairdes'ishu pratigribfta apyasmabhims nibaddbah yechs satymapi prakriti pratyay divibhagena siddhau S Has another form airippo. samskritabhidhinakoshesha da prasiddhih By metathesis for achirabhi. yatha amritanirgamachchbinnodbhavamahanadadays- 1 Corresponds to. Sanskrit ankus'ayitam. s'chandradaryaharadishyartheshu Halahas kankellf.

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20 bhakhkaNavelaM surtm| akhkaliyaM pratiphalitam bhakhkavA yAdRk aDigeo yauvanonmatta : agayo dAnava : bhaMgavaNaM roga : aMgavalijjaM aGgavalanam agilA avajJA bhagujjhaharo rahasyabhedI aMguTI avaguNThanam aMgucchalaM aGgulIyam" aggakhaMdho raNamukham ! aggaveo nadIpUra : + nIrasa : / acchAro sAhAyyam marcha atyarthaM zIghraM ca achigharulo dveSyo veSo vA // achivaDaNaM Stammering. achiviyachI parasparamAkarSaNam achiharulo dveSyo veSo vA aMjaniyA tApicche ajarAura uSNam aMjasaM darpaNa: THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. ajualavaNNA amlikAvRkSA: bhajuo saptacchada : * Might be read angatthalam. From agra and skandhah. . ajjao surasa gureTakayoH tRNabhedayoH ajjavasiyaM nirvApitam ajjAgaurI ajju darpaNa : ajjo jinendra : ajha tyo pazvAgata : ajjhao prAtivezmika : ajjhatyo AgataH aggahaNA avajJA aggio indragopakITo mandazyati // agghADo apamArga : ajjho eSaH agghANa tRpta : aGgulinI kaliNIe ajjholiyA kroDAbharaNA mauktikaracanA acalaM gRhaM / uktaM / gRhapazcimamadeza: / niSThura : aTTai aSTAsvaryeSu / kRzo durbalo / gururmhaan| zukaH pakSI / sukhaM saukhym| dhRSTo viyAtaH / alasaH zItakaH / zabdoM dhvani: / nnstypnRtm| aTThakhaNaM pratIkSaNa parIkSaNam to paryantaH | aTThajaMghA mocakAkhyaM pAdatrANam aThThAviyAraM maNDanaM maNDalakaM vA amiyaM puruSAyitaM viparItamitiyakt ajjhapisAo rAhuH ajjharakaNaM akIrtiH ajjhasiyaM dRSTam ajjhassaM AkraSTaH ajjhA astii| shubhaa| navavadhUH / taruNIticAryaH ajjhegI dugdhadohyA dhenuryA puna: punarduhyate / majjhatto pratyAgata: [JANUARY, 1873. aDao matsya: aDakhamyiyaM pratijAgaritam bhaDaNI mArgaH aDavaNA asatI aDayA asatI. Agravegah, f Agmhapa | Agnikaha

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JANUARY, 1873.] THE SHOE QUESTION (PARSI). aDADA balAtkAra: aakkalI kayAM hastaniveza: akachiyAraM acchinnam aDaNo jAra: aNanUM nirmAlyA aNappo khajaH aNarAmao arAta: aNarAho zirasi citrapaTTikA aNArako kSaNarahita: aNahaM akSatam aNahappaNayaM anaSTam aNahArao khanghanimnamadhyam aNADo jAraH aNilaM prabhAtam aNihaM mukhaM sadRzam anIka saMnibham aNualaM prabhAtam aNuA yaSTiH aNaiu zaNaka: ANaM AkRtirdhAnyavizeSazca aNubadhiyaM hikA aNuvajjiyaM pratijAgaritam / / aNuvahuyA navavadhUH aNUsatI anukUla: aNusaMdhiyaM avirataM hikkA aNusUyA AsannaprasavA aNU zAlibheda: aNekajjho cancala: . aNodayaM prabhAtam aNNao taruNo dhUrtI devarazva aNNattI avajJA aNNamayaM punaruktam aNNANaM vivAhavadhUdAnam aNNI artha: kAtyaye aNNiyAzabcazva devrbhaaryaa| ptibhaagnii| pitRssvsaa| aNNosariyaM atikrAntam MEMORANDUM ON THE SHOE QUESTION AS IT AFFECTS THE PARSIS. BY REV. JOHN WILSON, D.D., BOMBAY. A GREAT aversion existe in the Parsi commu- Nature, and particularly of the distinctive Elenity to the taking off of shoes as they enter public ments recognized by the ancients. The earth and or private houses; and on this aversion they al- ocean (as well as light and fire, the heavenly most uniformly act, even though they decline to bodies, and the treasures of the atmosphere) are render the other token of respect,--the uncovering of with them considered sacred, and preserved, accordthe head, customary among tribes and peoples ing to recognized rules, from natural and ceremowho retain their shoes. They are also indisposed nial defilement. to uncover either their head or feet when taking The Parsis, in consistency with the principle now oaths, standing in the witness-box, or engaging in | referred to, consider themselves as guilty of adefilereligious services. Their disinclination to uncover ment of the earth when they touch it with their bare their feet, rests, I am persuaded after much inquiry, feet, except when they are offered bodily to the on the peculiarities of the religious system which earth, with effusions of water made upon them in they observe, and not on mere self-assertion or un- articulo mortis. The Parsis, when praying to fire politeness. All who are intimately acquainted with in their own houses, or when repeating general the Parsis will admit that, in matters of mere cour- prayers, keep on their shoes. tesy, they are a considerate and pliant people. It The Parai Mobeds, when they enter the Atishgah, is in part owing to this feature of their character or sanctum of the Fire-Altar, leave their walking that all along they have been on such good terms shoes without, exchanging them for slippers kept in with our countrymen. readiness at the entrance of the Atisbgah. Besides A marked feature of the Zoroastrian writings. slippers, they may have on stockings when they which the Parsis consider the rule of their belief approach the altar. The slippers they leave at the nd pr..ctice, is Physiolatry, or the worship of margin of the holy place when they resume their shoes.

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22 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. The customs of the Parsis in reference to these matters, I am persuaded, are of great antiquity. I have numerous Sassanian coins and a few medals in my collection. On their reverse they have all a fire-altar with one or two worshippers represented having both their head and feet covered. A plate given by Anquetil du Perron represents a Parsi repeating the prayer of the Kusti, or sacred cincture, with his head covered and shoes on his feet. In describing the Civil and Religious Usages of the Parsis, Anquetil thus writes :-" Les Mobeds sont sans sonliers dans l' Atesch-gah : ils n'ont que des chaussons; ou s'ils se servent de pantoufles, il faut qu'en sortant ils les laissent dans l'Ateach-gah. Les memes precautions doivent avoir lieu a l'egard de l' Izesch-khaneh. Il n'est gueres possible d'aller dans les rues sans que les souliers deviennent impurs, ce qui oblige de les quitter en entrant dans l' Atesch-gah ; et faire trois gams les pieds nuds c'est commettre, a chaque gam, le peche Farman." In corroboration of this statement, he refers to the Parsi Ravaits, or Collections of Traditions and Correspondence (between the Parsis of India and the Zoroastrians of Persia). I have read [JANUARY, 1873. his testimony to the chief Dastur of the Kadami Parsis of Bombay (now holding the office of the late learned Mullah Firoz); and he has certified to me its accuracy. Once on a time the son of Som was seated in his court among his Samants, having made a brilliant assembly. Kanh the Chauhan was also seated there, his long moustaches looking terrible, with Chamand In the collection of fragmentary writings forming the Zendavesta of the Parsis, I do not remember to have met with any passage making express mention of the covering or uncovering of the feet, except when a person is enjoined to lay aside his shoes, as well as to strip himself of his clothes, when he enters water to drag from it a dead body (Vendidad, fargard VI. 56). In the Patits, or Penitential Services of the Parsis, written in old Persian or Gujarati, such expressions as the following occur: -"If I have gone without the Kusti (the sacred cincture), I repent of it. If I have defiled my feet, I repent of it" (Patit Kod, 19). "If I have walked on the earth with only one shoe on, if I have buried corpses in the earth,... if I have gone on, the earth without shoes. . . ., I repent of it" (Patit Irani, 7). Other passages of a similar import are to be found in these Penitential Prayers. Though oaths are allowed to the Parsis, no injunctions about the form of them are given in their sacred books. THE PRITHIRAJA RASAU, OF KAVI CHAND BARDAL EXTRACT FROM THE KANHAPATTI PRASTAV-FIFTH BOOK. WHEN Prithiraja was a minor, Bhola Bhima ruled | Ray, Narsinha, Kaimas, and other warriors. Pry in Gujarat. Sarang Deva was his uncle, whose sons were Pratap Sinha and his six brothers-Arisiiha, Gokaldas, Govind, Harisinha, Syam, and Bhagwan. They were brave warriors, they owned the sway of no master. They slew Rana, the most powerful of the Jhalas. When Sarang Deva died, Pratap Sinha succeeded him, and his brothers served under him. They had five hundred horse. They lived in the Mewas, plundering the Yadava's country. A complaint was made to Bhima, who went against them. He encamped on the bank of a river, and his elephant, bathing in it, was slain by Pratap and Ari Sinha. They killed also the mahaut. When he heard of it, Bhima declared that, though previously he had intended only to seize them, he would now think it no fault to slay them. When the brothers heard this they contemplated leaving Gujarat, meantime Prithiraja sent for them: he gave them grants (pata) of villages and other presents, and treated them with great respect. The seven Chalukya brothers, crafty and bold, remained faithfully in his service, coming one by one they placed his feet on their heads. thiraja shone in the midst as the new moon on the second day of the light half. Around him shone a cluster of stars. Pratap, with his seven brothers, paid obeisance to Prithiraja. He came and sat down opposite to Kanh. The Mahabharata was the subject of talk. Pratap put his hand to his moustache. Kanh Chauhan saw it. He drew his sword, the devourer of many. He cut him where the jane was worn. 'Hu!' 'hu!' sounded through the hall. Pratap foll. Arisinha was enraged: he struck Kanh on the left arm with his sword. Kanh raged like a lion awakened, or a fire having ghi thrown into it. Kunvar Prithiraja rose and retired into his palace. Behind him he closed the door. The fight raged in the hall. Arisinha struck Narsinha on the head with his sword, and pierced Rambha the Bargujar. Seeing this Chamand was enraged. The strife was like a forest conflagration. Kanh slew Arisinha. Govind with a jamdad in his hand furiously attacked the Chauhan. Kanh seized and slew him. Narsinha threw his arms round Harisinha, and others rained blows upon bim, but he threw Narsinha down and got above him. Chamand plunged his sword into his back. Harisifths followed Ari and pierced the mansion of the sun. Well done Chaluk! well done his father and mother! who not even in thought attempted to flee. * About 70 lines descriptive of the army and its march omitted.-J. B.

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JANUARY, 1873.] THE CANARESE COUNTRY. 23 Narsinha throwing the corpse from off him rose. Chaluk to his house and slew him." Kanh replied, Bhagwan attacked him. Narsinha cast his arm "Why laid he his hand on his moustache ?" "O round him and plunged his dagger into his belly : Kanh, if you will attend to what I say our fault will the valiant Bhagwan also fell to the earth; "alas !' be forgotten. Bind your eyes with a bandage." alas!' sounded in the world of mortals: 'victory!' Prithiraja ordered also that any acting like him victory!' in the abode of the Suras. Gokal rushed should suffer the same punishment. He bound on like a furious elephant, or like lightning burst- Kanh's eyes with a gold-worked cloth, and ordered ing from the sky. He threw himself upon Kaimas him to remove it only when at home with his brandishing his gurj. Kaimas cut him down with women or in battle. He made Kanha present. his sword as one cuts & plantain tree. Vishnu sent The story was wafted as perfume by the wind. Garnda to receive him. Madhava Khawas burst Chaluk Bhima heard that the Chauhan had slain open the door and threw himself between the com- the sons of Sarang. He was inflamed with grief batants. Dagger in hand he struck down the Pra- and anger, and wrote to the Chauhan demanding mara. The rage of Kanh was appeased. Hail hai! "bair," which the Chauban declared himself ready Bounded in the darbar. The companions and to grant at any time. Bhima proposed to his servants of the Chaluk, hearing what had happened, officers to advance on Ajmir. Vir Pradhan [or pressed into the hall: they beheld the corpses lying "chiefs and ministers"] represented that in the in their blood. They fell upon Kanh like shooting rainy season it was fitting to remain at home, and stars or like moths rushing to a lamp. They dashed recommended that the Chauhan should be attacked open the doors. Narad began to clap his hands and at Kartik. The Raja agreed : as the time passed the dance; the sixty-four Devis (d'aktis) of the terrible Chaluk's rage abated. The Chauhan, lord of Samcountenance were filling their drinking-cups with bar, remaining at Ajmir behaved like an avatar of blood; Bhairavas and Bhuts sported, Khetrapalas Krishna. also, it seemed as if the Kalpa had come to an end. The servants of the Chalukyas and the Chauhan In S. 1138 (A.D. 1081) Prithiraja mounted the rougnt: their swords flashed like lightning, Sival throne at Dehli, from which Anangapala with his was stringing his necklace; the field of battle was queen had retired to BhadrikAshrama. Garlands of red with blood; the earth shook; human limbs flowers were bound at the doors, and in the ten were scattered over it. Bhuts sounded their drums, directions buffalo calves were sacrified to the local Virs shouted, some piercing the sun's disc attained gods. Shahab-ud-din again attacked him, but was moksha, some passed to swarga : debts contracted defeated by him and captured by Chamand Ray. in a former life were paid off. For two gharis The Sultan was fined and released after a month. (48 minutes) the sword played: a hundred and On a subsequent occasion, Prithir&ja, having disfifty men were slaia by Kanh; the rest fled: the covered property buried in the Khatwan (TTT), brother of Somes'a, raging like Kala, slew the seven & jangal at Nagor, determined, by the advice of brothers of Bhima and was victorious. Then he Kaimas, to call Samarsisha Rawal of Chitror, the was restrained by his friends. Prithirdja bearing husband of his sister Pritha, to assist him, for he of the matter was angry with Kanh. Kanh heard it : feared three enemies--the Ghori Sultan, Jayachand he remained at home and fought not the darbar. of Kanauj, and Bhime. The Ghori, however, made For three days in Ajmir the shops were shut- an attack, but was defeated by Prithiraja and river of blood flowed in the bazar. Samarsifths, and after a month's confinement he Finding that Kanh came not to the darbar, Prithi- was released-paying & fine. The treasure was raja went to his house and said "Why have you then removed from its concealinent and shared done thus ? All will say the Chauhan called the among the Samants, THE CANARESE COUNTRY COMPARED WITH THE COUNTRIES ADJACENT TO IT. TRANSLATED BY REV. F. KITTEL, MERKARA The following lines were written by Sarvagna, mum; all that are born speak indistinctly. The the son of Basava Arabi, & Brahmin. His road to the east is not to be taken (verse 1). father's home was Mistra in the Dharward dis- Roasted corn is cheap; for an obeisance you get triot; but Servagnia was born in a certain village some buttermilk; there are small Bolanam called Ambaldra. He became clever fellow, fruits to suck instead of mangos). Can one deand made verses on various subjects, always clare the east to be rich ? (v. 2.) using the Tripadi metre. He may have lived Whithersoever you look you see thorns of the two centaries ago. miserable Ocymum ; all the people, even when DEBORIPTION OF COUNTRIES. grown up, sponk indistinctly. The north is not (Prous serrion.) beautiful (v. 8). The villages are far from each On ench road are thorns of the shabby Ooy other; water is met with every ten miles; there

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24 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. JANUARY, 1873. is no shade to stand under. The road to the north is not to be taken (v. 4). With your dish of great millet you have many varieties of split pulse and the milk of well-fed buffaloes. Look at the riches of the middle country 1" (v. 5.) With your dish of Panicum you have suitable split pulse and a lump of butter as big as a sling-stone. Look at the means of the middle country 1(v. 6.) You have your cakes of wheaten flour and the milk of the lusty buffaloes, and enjoy the love of modest female. I have not seen the like (v.7). May cake-dust (that does not satiate) fall into the mouth of him who says that the country, wherein Bengal gram and wheat are sown and grown, should be burnt ! (v. 8.) The forest of the west) is full of immature fruits; the country is full of huge trees ; promises are not kept. I have had quite enough of the Hill country (malanadu, v. 9). The climate is damp; bellies are swollen ; ah, why should one go to a country where sinners stir and eat (their food) with wood (ladles-v. 10)? There are green ginger and turmeric ; there are jag- gary and betel; there are good jack-fruits to eat. Can one declare the Hill country to be a good one ? (v. 11.) There is rice water, there is mud, there are hot dwellings, there are wives that are gratifying. Oh, look at the relieving features of the Hill country ! (v. 12.) (But) in this (southern) direction Asuras have been born as men; Dasasira's (Ravana's) enemy has given them their name and rejected the region of the Tigulast (i. e. Tamulians) (v. 13). There are the Kalakuta poison, and such malice as you might experience if you trusted a scorpion. I have had quite enough of the wind of the Tigulas, who are like mean dogs that bark in a deserted village (v. 14). Better than a friend of the Tigulas is a barking bitch; better than the shadow of the Magali treet is the alligator of swallowing habits (v. 15). How shall I tell the self-conceit of the country where reasoning has been born! Sankara's worship (poja) is practised excessively in the south (v.16). In the east is passion (raga), in the north abstract contemplation (yoga), and mere sickDess (roga) in the west ; the south is the residence of sensual pleasure (bhoga, v. 17). In the east people have no proper waists (or perhaps "clothes"), in the north they have no proper words, in the west they are greatly given to anger, in the south they are pompons (v. 18). The east is for whoremasters (vita), the north for jesters (vidushaka), the west for villainous catamites (pithamardaka), and the south for very smart fellows (nagarika, v. 19). The east is for Hastinis, the north for Chitrinis, the west for Sankhinis, and the south for Padminisf (v. 20). NOTES CONCERNING THE NUMERALS OF THE ANCIENT DRAVIDIANS. By Rev. F. KITTEL, MERKARA. Or the mental faculties of the ancient Dravi- guage, wherein it bears the forms Basira, dians their Numerals bear some witness. From sasir, sa vir a, ayira. them we learn that when apparently still free As we have seen, the early Dravidians were from all Aryan influence, they contrived to not behind the body of the Aryas in countcount up to a hundred. The earliest state of ing. To show their way of thinking in produetheir berds and flocks, and of their bartering, ing the numerals, we give the numerals up to did not make it necessary to go higher. In the ten, together with the nearest words indicative same way, not before the tribes that at present of their meaning. The longer forms stand by form the Aryas of the West had left their themselves, the shorter are used only as the first brethren, the later Zoroastrians and Brahmanas, | members of compounds (compare Gondi Nu&c., did these feel the necessity of the number merals in the Indian Antiquary, p. 129). "sahasra." This sahasra was, in course of time, 1. ondu, onru (pronounce : ondu), onji, borrowed from them by the Dravidians, and was OT, or, om, on. onda, ottu, to be also incorporated by them into their own lan- undivided, be one. A unit without a branch." Literally, country of growth (bolavala). The Hindus may there are four classes of woment Tigula means person of abuse." Padminis, Hartinia, Chitrants, and anthile, of which the The Maguli tree of the text is probably the Tamil first is the most perfect-Forbes' Ros Moli, vol. L p. 60. Magil, Maguda, Magila = Mim saops Elongi. -ED. 5 Oar manuscript has sankbe which is corruption (either of manko doubt, or) of sankhy ronsoning or * When the affix da is joined to a short monosyllabic of inkly, the system of philosophy. root with final, the root in this case being or, this liquid 1 Bankars is either Sivs or the Vedanti Bankar (8'- is sometimes changed into the Bindu. Observe do has karlicharya). become ji (in Tula), for which peculiarity compare No. 6.

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JANUARY, 1873.] REVIEW 25 2. irandu, era du, eral, rad du, iru, ral, therefore, seems to convey the idea of ad ir, ir, in, ip. ir, ir, to split. The split- dition, conf. No. 3: further addition. ting off of a branch. 7. elu, el, el, ep. el, el, to rise. A still 3. munru (pronounce : mandu), muru, greater rising. muji, muyyu, mun, mu, m-u, mun, 8. entu, ettu, enma, em, en. en, to mur, to advance, grow. A further advance.f count. Probably "a computation of two 4. nalku, nangu, na ku, na l, nar, even numbers. conf. No. 4. nan, na. In the formation of this word the 9.om-battu, on-ba du, om-bay, oridea of evenness seems already to have guided m-ba. One less than the combination, i. e. the Dravidians, as the nearest root is nal, one from ten.** See No. 10. to be beautiful, nice, sufficient (nangu, 10. pattu, pandu, pannu, padin, pabeauty). An evenness. du, padi, payin, pay, pa. pattu, 5. aydu, ayndu, a nju, aynu, ayn, parru (pronounce : pattu), to come to ayn, a ym, an, ay, ay, aydu, to go ; gether, join. A joining or combination of all to obtain (conf. isu, to make go, throw). The the ten fingers. It counting of the fingers of one hand forms a Hundred with the Dravidians is nur, nugoing or one turn : & turn. ru, nudu. Its root is nun, nun nur, 6. aru, aji aru, ar. Aru as & verb is nur, to become small, fine, pointed, smooth or stated to express the meaning of samarthatva, powdered ; conf. No. 3. Point, extremity of 1. e. to be strong, or to strengthen; the nume- computation, REVIEW MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS, BY H. T. COLEBROOKE, 2nd Ed. suredly those of Mr. Colebrooke, that Indianist Higginbotbam and Co., Madras, 1872. 50 learned and conscientious, that vir nunquam COLEBROOKE's Essays, contributed in the first place satis laudandus, as he has been so justly styled to the Asiatic Researches and the Transactions of by Dr. Stenzler in the preface to his recent the Royal Asiatic Society, are memoirs of the highest beautiful edition of the Raghu Vansa; for we value, and, from their excellence and accuracy, hava do not hesitate to say that, without the excellent from their first appearance been justly regarded as works of Mr. Colebrooke on the Sanskrit lanstandards of reference on the matters to which guage and the most abstruse sciences of India they relate. MM. Abel Remusat, E. Burnouf, and --where he lived thirty years as a member of V. Cousin early brought them to the notice of con- the adininistration-the knowledge, so far complete, tinental savans, and in 1833 M. Pauthier prepared of the language of these sciences, and of the & careful version in French of the five esenys relat- sciences themselves, might have been almost ining to the Philosophy of the Hindus that had definitely retarded in Europe. For, only to speak appeared in the Transactions of the R. Asiatici of the Essays on the Philosophy of the Hindus, Society, adding the Sanskrit texts and numerous Mr. Colebrooke has read all the numerous Sanskrit valuable notes and appendices. In his preface M. works on that philosophy he had succeeded in proPauthier remarked : "If ever memoirs deserved curing, and it is from the methodical extracts and & complete and faithful translation they are as- resumes from these works that he has composed his Here the da appears as du, twice with the Bind optionally al or ayti, syn, aym. before it, 44u being only another form of n du; there rbas become j; see No. 8. Aru mean also "river," are nitya and vaikalpiks Bindus in Dravida. * way." As a kind of analogue of vayiru, banji, belly. The primary root appears to be mu, m (cf. mu + fem e n + ma, this ma being an affix to form du, growth), and thus the first form, according to rule, is verbal nouns ; it generally appears as me. mo + Bindu + du; maru, in this case, is secondary ** In ormba tbe m is the Bindu. form of the root, the ru being frequently used to produce # The first three forms are quite regular, i. e. par + tu such forms.ru has become ji (in Tulu), which change (tu du, conf. ottu under No. 1), par + da (=pandu, see is also seen in 6.nru, ndu has become y yu conf. No. 1). The single d in the three following forms at first padin-payin under No. 10. night looks strange but all difficulty is renioved when conBy the aflix ku a verbal noun is formed. The liquids sidering the form ps in the end. This pa is unchangeable. 1, (n; cf. Ine, ale, airi-Antiquary, p. 228), as seen by k whereas the liquid r falls under the rule of S'ithilatva (cf. and naku, fall under the rule of s'ithilatya, for which see No. 4), i.e. the rule that in many cases a liquid before No. 10.. , 9, dis so slightly sounded that no double consonant is Saydu is sy + da, syndu is sy + Bindu + da, formed, and accordingly bas simply been dropped, so that asja too is ai + Binds + da, the du baving become jo, PA+ da (di) bas remained; .de. erde, breast, baduku. cf. No. 1. The rule is that when to certain long roots, barduku, life. d appears twice in the form of y; see for instance miy (mt) and bey (be), da is joined, the root is under No. 8, and compare the j ( known cognate of g) under shortened an the Bindu put between (mindu, benda) ; Nos. 1 and 6. We add that pankti, wben meaning the numthis rule may also in this case explain the short & before the ber 10, is Tadbhava of the Dravidian pattu, just as Bindu in adu. Wherever the ju (du) is again dropped mukt, pearl, is . Tadbhaya of mutty, and ukti, and at the same time the Bindu is retained the theme is curl, Tadbhava of ruttu

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26 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JANUARY, 1873. memoirs-precious models of exposition and philo- Indian Classes, the Jains, and the Muhammadanssophical analysis-in which the European scholar from the second. Messrs. Higginbotham & Co. of withdraws himself to allow us alinost constantly Madras have now issued & careful reprint of Coleto converse with the Indian writers, which secures brooke's own edition, which, except in the Sanskrit, for these abridged expositions of the philosophical is not only page for page but line for line and litesystems of India the highest amount of confi- ratim the same as the original. This will render dence and accuracy possible." the work very useful to those who have occasion to Colebrooke himself published a selection of his turn up the references to these Essays by more recent Miscellaneous Essays in two volumes in 1837, but writers. We cannot help regretting, however, that the work soon became scarce, and in 1858 a reprint references to other souroes of information have not in small type appeared simultaneously at Leipzig been added. and London, containing thirteen of them, or the A memoir of the author from the Asiatic Journal whole of the first volume, and three essays-On 1 is prefixed. CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEA. KHATRIS. to the Akhada of Nirmal fakirs some lakhs of To the Editor of the Indian Antiquary. rupees. Its management rests with the Mahant SIR, I have perused the letter about Khatris, con- and Panchs of that large body. They lend the money tributed by Mr. J. White, Assistant Collector of on good security to Rajas and Maharajas. The exFuttehpur, and being myself a member of that penses of food, &c., of the whole body, which contains caste (Dehliwal Khatri), I beg to offer a few remarks. several thousand members, dispersed all over Hin The story of Parasuram and the escape of a dustan, are defrayed from the proceeds at the Allahapregnant Kshatriya woman in the house of a Brah- bad and Haridwar fairs. man is generally believed as the origin of the Mr. White says" Khatris themselves allow that Khatris. Every one of that caste looks to the they have comparatively lately come from westward, Panjab as his home, and up to the present time it and this is conclusively proved by the distribution contains the largest proportion of the Khatri popula- of their sub-divisions" (the Panjabi, Lahori, Dehliwal, tion, which gradually lessens as you descend towards Purbi, and, I may add, by one mors--the Agrawal). the east, until it almost totally disappears beyond Panjab, meaning towns beyond Lahor, and Purab, Patna. Only very recently a number of Panjabi meaning towns in the east of Allahabad, Mirzapur, Khatris have, for purposes of trade, settled in Banaras, Patna, &c., which are mostly inhabited by Calcutta. Khatris are dispersed throughout almost all the large towns of Upper Indie, but a Khatri There is no ground for Mr. White's conjecture that they family will scarcely be found south of the Vindhya have, like the Jats, come from some country beyond range. Half a century ago a few families settled at the Indus. Had such been the case, Khatris, like Jats,. Hydrabad when Chandu Lal Khatri was the Nizam's would have been denominated by the Brahmans prime minister. S'udras or Mlechhas. No pious Brahman eats food Judging from their physiognomy, they are of pure cooked by a Jat, but most will if prepared by a Aryan blood. Next to Kashmiris they are the fairest Khatri. I once asked an elderly member of our race in Hindustan ; next to Brabmans they are the family why we, though living at Agra, are called most religious class, reading much of the Hindu scrip- Dehli wals. He explained that his great-great-grandtures. As Guru Nanak belonged to this caste, he is father, having fled from Debli with his family on regarded as the patron or national saint of the the general massacre of its inhabitants by Nadir Khatris. His and his successors' componitions Shah, settled at Agra, consequently by the way of (QT HITT) are looked upon with great reverence and distinction people called them 'Dehliwals.' It may respect, and generally read. The deistical doctrines be fairly conjectured that Khatris, among whom-in and tenets inculcated by the great Khatri reformer order to preserve purity of blood-family relations have considerably influenced their morals, manners, are still most scrupulously enquired into before and customs, weaning them to a great degree from forming marriage connections, might split into many superstitions still clung to by other Hind: divisions, when, from the want of facility of comtribes. This leads some to suspect their being munication, intercourse with one another had pargenuine Hindus. Not only Lahna but almost all tially stopped for hundreds of years. Khatris of the ten successors of Nanak were Khatris. Nanak- Lahor, Dehli, Agra, and Purab married, dined, attendshahi fakirs are reverentially received in our ed social ceremonies with those of their own or families. Chandu Lal used to feed thousands of adjacent towns only, and in the lapse of time have fakirs every day. When he had reached the height grown into distinct divisions. They all have the of his prosperity at the Nizam's Court, he presented same stories and traditions of their origin, the same * Ind. Ant., VOL. I., p. 289.

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JANUARY, 1873.] CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 27 religious and social cerernonies, even the same songs mothers, and orphans, loudly bewailing the loss of among their females and the language peculiar to those dear to them, surrounded the palace asking for them. support. There was no such thing as a pension under It is natural that by long intercourse with Hindus the Muhammadan rule. Promising them to devise and Muhammadans, many customs should be ex- suitable means for their maintenance, Aurangzeb bade changed, and pure Hindi has with them already them go home; and summoned Lallu and Jagdhar, given place to mixed Urdu. As Khatris mostly in- two Khatri chiefs, to take their advice in the matter. habit the Muhammadan capitals-Lahor, Dehli, Agra, The prudent Muhammadan ruler thought of the Lakhnau, &c.-many Moslem customs, as wearing desirability of re-marrying their widows, but they the Sarhi on marriage, the use of shoes by females, said, in reply, that it was beyond their power to in&c., have crept not only into our society, but also troduce the system, though very advisable, until among Kayaths, Agraw&l Banias, Oswals,&c. Khatris they should consult with their caste-fellows on the and Kayaths use a greater number of Persian words matter. A grand meeting of the Khatris of Dehli in familiar language than other Hindus. was called for the purpose. Some agreed and signed I append the following notes, which may interest a bond, but when Lallu and Jagdhar's turn came, some readers they refused until they should get the permission of 1. In the time of Nanak the site on which the now their old mother. They went home and explained commercial town of Amritsar stands, was a forest the whole to her. She tauntingly answered "If with a pond, a solitary place well fitted for retired you are fully determined to introduce the Muhamfakirs. Nanak, once in company with many others, madan Nikah system among us, which shall for went to bathe in it; he dipped in and was lost ever stamp your name with the black stain of hetersight of. His associates gave bim up for lost, and odoxy, select a good old fellow of eighty for my remained there without food and drink, bewailing husband." The youths, thus put to shame, went no the untimely death of their favourite. They searched more to the Panchayat. for his body in the water but could not find it. On The meeting waited Lallu and Jagdhar's return the third day, to their great joy and astonishment, he froin morning till evening ; one of the number in suddenly appeared on the surface of the water with despair taking a stone threw it into a well, repeatsteaming hot Monbhog (a sweetmeat), since helding the words 'aise ki tasi main jaya Lallu aur Bacred to bim, in his right hand and repeating the Jagdhar,' meaning 'let Lallu and Jagdhar go, I words"Wah Guruji ! Dhanyah Guruji. Sath Guru- won't wait any longer.' The sentence has since ji/" meaning Glory to the Teacher. He is blessed. passed into a proverb. The meeting dispersed He alone is true.' The terms signifying God are without deciding the question. On the following day mostly used on solemn occasions and in saluting the report was made of this disregard to the royal one another. His companions, thus convinced of his mandate; the Emperor, in his usual indignation, divine origin, became his proselytes. To comme dismissed all Khatris from the imperial service and morate the miracle the institution of Kadhay& proclaimed that they should never be taken into state Pras'kda ( ST) was established among the employ. Thus thousands were thrown out of busiKhatris. ness and began to starve. One day they suddenly 2. The Khatris are descendants of a warlike race. surrounded the imperial palace, humbly supplicatThe name Khatri occurs in the Indian History since ing the Emperor to provide for their livelihood. the time of Baber when he visited Guru Nanak. Aurangzeb thought it prudent to appease the enThey were constantly employed by the Mughul raged mob. He promised them support, but he was emperors as soldiers. Toder Mall, the celebrated not willing to restore them to their former positions. financier of Akbar. belonged to this caste. Au The next day a royal firman was granted them, rangzeb sent all the Khatri forces on the great conferring on their caste the sole privilege and expedition into the Dekhan against the kings of inonopoly of Dalali, or profession of broker, in the Golkonda and Bijapur and the Marathas. Great bazars of Dehli and Agra. Since that time the prowas the slaughter in the imperial armies ; the Khatri fession, though now humble, has been confined to and Hindu forces were almost annihilated. On the Khatris. Even under British rule, in which freereturn of the camp to Dehli, the widows, sisters, dom of choice is the privilege of every subject, * This ceremony is celebrated by Khatris on occasions celebrator's friends, relations, and neighbours, invited for of marriage or child-birth, and sometimes as a thanks the occasion. When the sermon is over, the presiding giving when blest with prosperity in any dealing, or wben fakir stands up, and with him all the party. He repeats aloud relieved from distress. The Inrge pan in which the the tenets and prayers-adis s'abile composed by Ninakin gloAlonbhog, sweetmeat made with butter, wheat-fiour, and rification of the one Eternal Being without form, Creator sugar, in equal proportions, has been prepared, is placed and Protector of the Universe. At the end of each hymn on a wooden elevated plate and covered with a white sheet. the party joins with the fakir in the acclamation Wak A Nanak Shabi fakir, either quru of the family, or any Guruji ! After this every one presents to the fakir someono else known for his religious knowledge and merit, thing in money (rare) according to his means. The presiding, takes a seat just behind the pan; the Granth ceremony ends with the distribution of the contents of the Saheb or words of Nanak and his followers being reve- pan as a treat (pras'ada) to all present. rentially placed on a wooden stool before him. He reads See my letter on Rajah Toder Mall-Proceedings of from it to the audience, which is chiefly composed of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for August 1872.

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28 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JANUARY, 1873. very few dare intrude upon their rights. A greater number now, finding letters more lucrative, attend English schools and colleges. Not a few of them enjoy coveted posts of trust under the Governinent. KAS'I NATH. Sirsa, Allahabad, 12th Oct. 1872. The same. SIR, Your correspondent Mr. White (Ind. Ant., vol. I, p. 289) wishes for information about the caste of Khatris in Hindustan. He says," One account is that they are sons of a Rajput (Kshatriya) woman by a Sudra father. I am not inclined to place any reliance on statements like this, for the simple reason that every caste which cannot explain its origin invariably invents the Kshatriya theory of paternity." A reference to the Institutes of Manu, chap. V. v. 12, 13, 16, and 28, will show that a tribe called Kshatri existed then and held the same theory of paternity. B. EARLY INDIAN BUILDINGS. To the Editor of the Indian Antiquary. SIR,-On the 4th of January 1871 Babu Rajendralala Mitra read a paper to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, the object of which was to expose certain fallaciesinto which, he believed, I had fallen in treat- ing of the history of Architecture in India. As my answer was easy and obvious, I thought of replying at once, but on second thoughts it appeared more fair to allow the Babu to substantiate his accusations by stating his reasons at full length before doing so, and I thought also that in the interval he might see reason to modify the crude statemente he then put forward. Though nearly two years have elapsed since his paper was read, he has made no signs of resuming the subject, and I am now informed that we must wait till the Greek kalends for the publication of his essay. Under these circumstances, as the matter is of importance to the history of art, I hope you will allow me a brief space to state my reasons for dissenting from the Babu's conclusions. The passages in which they are principally stated are the following " An opinion is gaining ground that the ancient Aryans were not proficient in the art of building substantial edifices with stone and bricks, but that the primitive Hindus were dwellers in thatched huts and mud houses. Mr. Fergusson, who has adopted this opinion, adds that the Hindus learnt the art of building from the Grecians, who came to India with Alexander, and that the oldest specimens of architecture in the country appear to be in the first stage of transition from wood to stone. " It is denied" (by the Babu)" that the Buddhist religion- & mere reformation of the old Hindu faith-could have any influence in originating architecture, and the invasion of Alexander is compared with the British expedition to Abyssinia, in which very little impression was produced on the domestic arts of the Abyssinians. It is difficult to believe that Alexander brought with him any large number of quarriers, masons, and architects, to leave some behind him for the education of the people of this country in architecture, and it would be absurd to suppose that a king like Asoka, who is presumed to bave lived originally in thatched hute, would of his own accord send for architects and quarriere from Greece to build him a palace," &c. My first answer to these accusations is, that there is no passage or paragraph in any works ever written or published by me which, if fairly read with the context, will bear the interpretation here put on it, and I defy the Babu to produce one.t If, however, he will allow me to extend his own simile, I will try and explain to him what I did say. After the fall of Magdals and the death of King Theodore, the English retired on Egypt, which they had taken possession of on their way to Abyssinia ; and during the next seventy or eighty years keep up a continual and close intimacy, both commercial and political, with their former foes, till the acoession of the Great Theodore IV., Emperor of all Central Africa. He formed alliances with the " Chaptaro" kings of France, England, Germany, and Russia, and established missions in their capi. tals at Paris, London, Berlin, and St. Petersburg ; and, from the reports of his agents and constant intercourse with foreigners, this enlightened monarch was led to introduce into his own country some European arts hitherto unknown in Central Africa, but at the same time adapting them carefully to the state and wants of his own people. Substitute Bactria for Egypt, and Asoka for Theodore IV., and you get pretty nearly what I believe, and always have believed, in this matter, but a very different thing from what the Babu represents me as saying or believing. As for the "mud" and "thatch" of the previous part of the quotation, they are entirely the Babu's own creation ; no such words occur in any work I ever wrote, nor any expression in any degree analogous to them. My belief on the contrary is, and always was, that the palaces of the Mauryan kings of Palibothra were at least as extensive-certainly more gorgeous--and probably cost as much money as those of the Mughul emperors of Agra and Delhi, yet they certainly were in wood. I will not ask the Babu to undertake such a journey now, but if he will take the trouble to eximine a set of photographs of the palaces of the Burmese kings at Ava, Amirapura, or Mandalay, or of the 101 monasteries that line the shores of the Irawadi, or of the buildings at Bankok, he will ascribe to Alexander the erection of certain towers in the Kabul Valley, which I believed to be Buddhist monumenta of the third or fourth century A.D.-History of Architecture vol. II, p. 460. * Proceedings Asiatic Society, January 1871. + The only passage I can find in any work I ever wrote in bich Alexander the Great's name is mentioned in connection with Indian art, is when I say that tradition

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JANUARY, 1873.) CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 29 discover the existence of an architecture wholly in ing so old as Chandragupta. The quarriers, masons, wood-above the foundation-infinitely more gor- and architects whom Alexander brought with him geous and more artistic than the pukka palaces of must, consequently, all have been over a bundred Calcutta, to which his knowledge of the art seems years old before they commenced to impart their to be confined. The truth of the matter is, that ex knowledge to the Hindus. Perhaps they may at cept for its one great defect-want of durability- that advanced age have been too feeble to inpart wood is a better building material, especially in their knowledge, or perhaps they had forgotten their hot climates, than stone. It admits of far greater native arts. I must leave to the Babu to explain spaces being roofed, with far fewer points of sup- how this may be ; but certain it is they left no trace port. It admits of framing, and consequently of of their art on anything now known to exist in India. immense economy of material, and it allows of cary- The truth of the matter is, the Babu bas read my ing, gilding, and painting to an extent with difficul | works in a hazy, lazy, oriental kind of way, and has ty attainable in stone. If the Mauryan kings hastily drawn from them conclusions much more in accordance with his own personal feelings than thought only of their own splendour and comfort, without any hankering after brick and mortar im with anything he found in any writings of mine. mortality, they were right to use wood instead of If he follows the same course in future, and does stone, as the kings of Burmah and Siam now do. not read bis Sanskrit works with more care, and quote The Mughul emperors thought of posterity, and we from these with more accuracy than he has done from my works, we may safely predict that anything are grateful to them for so doing, but I would like to see a wooden palace that had been built by Akbar. he may write about the ancient architecture of the Hindus won't be worth much more than the value Fattelipur Sikri would have been & dwarf and of the paper on which it is written. mean in comparison. "The question, however, is not one for argument Langham Place, Nov. 1872. JAS FERGUSSON. but of fact. I have before me some hundreds of photographs of caves in Western India and Bibar Query. of Buddhist rails and gateways--such for instance as I HAVE been lately so fortunate as to discover a those of Sanchi, and of other buildings erected be- | MS. of a Prakrita Grammar, by Subha Chandra, tween 250 B. c. and the Christian era. All these, entitled Sabda Chintamani. The concluding lines without a single exception, are literal copies in stone a re : iti .... sri S'abhachandra virachitayam of the foring of wooden carpentry, and such as nosvopajnas'abda-chintamanivrittau dvitiyasya adhyapeople could have used who had ever seen or been yasya chaturthah padah; samapto 'yam vrittih. familiar with stone architecture. Besides this, all From this it would seen that the MS. is complete. the bas-reliefs at Sanchi, in the first century of the It consists of two adyayas each containing four Christian era, tell the same tale. The basement of padas. Subha Chandra follows Hemachandra's arthe houses, as of our modern wooden bungalow, the rangement of the Prakrita satras, not that of Varssolid parts of the town walls all in fact that can be ruchi, Bhanaba, and others. But he gives Hemacalled engineering are in stone or brick ; all the chandra's stras here and there in a slightly differsuperstructure is even then in wood, like the ribs in ent order, and adds a few sttras of his own ; thus the roof of the caves. These are such patent facts in the beginning of the work, which commences that I do not believe that any one, who will take the with a series of samjna stras (on technical terms); trouble to examine the evidence, can arrive at any a feature which, I believe, is unique in this work other conclusion than I have done. on Prakrita Grammar. It is clearly later than In his haste to find fault, it does not seem to have Hemachandra's Grammar, and appears also to take occurred to the Babu that he was accusing me of notice of later Prakrit formations. saying that " Alexander brought quarriers, masons, I shall feel much obliged to any one who can and architects to teach the Hindus"-Greek archi give me further information on this work; especitecture, I presume-which I never did say; and then ally who Subhachandra was, and when he lived ; and that I stated that the Hindus, during the two centu whether there are any other MSS. of his work ries and a half that elapsed before the Christian era, known to exist, and where. were employed in elaborating a perfectly original style of their own, without any trace of foreign Benares, Nov. 18, 1872. A. F. RUDOLF HOERNLE. influence, except perlaps ornainent here and there which may be Assyrian or Persian. I'am at a loss HULLE MAKKA.U.' to guess how the Babu can reconcile these contra (See Ind. Antiquary, vol. I. p. 380.) dictory staternents, unless it be thus. From the first The head-quarters of this sub-division of a caste tiine I wrote on Indian architecture to the present is a village in one of the talukas of the Bangalor day, I have always asserted that Indian stone archi- district. Single families are to be found scattered tecture commenced with Asoka, 250 B. c. I do throughout the province, the members of which once not know, and never pretended to know, of any build- & year go round their beat collecting their dues. J. R. A. 8. VIIT., P. 38. Picturesque Illustrations of of Architectura, vol. I, p. 5. History of Architecture, vol. Ancient Architecture in Ilindoalan, Intro, p. 2. Llandbook'IL, p. 450 ; and io lectures and papers passim.

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30 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JANUARY, 1873. The Komti (merchant) caste have also "Hulle, plain its various significations, and also to show in Mukkalu," who are called "Kanchala viraru." The what sense it furnishes the name to a distinct caste. "Khanchala viraru" wear red-coloured clothes, and a Commonly, any devotee is called a Gowain, whether breastplate engraved with a likeness of " Virabhad- he lives a life of celibacy or not, whether he roams ra." They are entitled to receive from each Komti about the country collecting alms or resides in a a yearly fee of one fanam, and the usual dues on house like the rest of the people, whether he leads the celebration of marriage, &c. This sub-division an idle existence or employs himself in trade. The of the caste, it is said, owes its existence to the mark, however, that distinguishes all who bear this following circumstance name is, that they are devoted to a religious life. On the 2nd of the moon's increase in the month Some besmear their bodies with ashes, wear their Palguna of the year Prabhava, 2628 after the hair dishevelled and uncombed, and, in some inKaliyuga, Vishnu Verdhana, king of Rajamahen- stances, coiled round the head like a snake or rope. drapura, happened in the course of his conquests These formerly went naked, but being prohibited to arrive at Pennagonde. Invited by Kusuma by the British Government to appear in this fashion Shetti, a member of the Komti or Vaishya caste, in public, bid defiance to decency nevertheless by the king paid him a visit. Struck with the beauty the scantiness of their apparel. They roam about of Vasavamba, the inerchant's daughter, the king de- the country in every direction, visiting especially manded her in marriage. The merchant was placed spots of reputed sanctity, and as a class are the in a fix. It was impossible to decline the proposed pests of society and incorrigible rogues. They honour, while compliance with the demand would mutter sacred texts or mantras, and are notably entail loss of caste. The merchant apparently fond of uttering the names of certain favourite accepted the offer, but secretly he and the heads of deities. Some of them can read, and a few may be the caste determined to commit suicide by burning learned; but for the most part they are stolidly themselves. Mulla, an old and faithful servant of ignorant. Others, of a much higher grade, reside the merchant, learned his master's secret intention, in maths or monasteries, where they lead a life of determined not to be left behind, and begged to be contemplation and asceticism. Yet they quit their allowed to join his master in his self-sacrifice. To homes occasionally, and, like the first-named, underthis the Komtis agreed, and Mulla committed take tours for the purpose of begging, and also prosuicide with them. In consideration of his devotion ceed on pilgrimage to remote places. Most of them to the caste, Mulla's family were created "Hulla wear a yellowish cloth, by which they make them Mukkalu," and their descendants have ever since Belves conspicuous. Fakirs or devotees of both of enjoyed certain privileges. these classes usually wear several garlands of beads A similar sub-division is to be found among the suspended from their necks and hanging low down following castes in front; and carry a short one in the hand, which, (i.) Kurubaru (shepherd). by the action of a thumb and finger, they revolve (ii.) Agasu (washerman). perpetually but slowly, keeping time with the low (iii.) Sevacharra, Gowdagalaru (ryota who utterances proceeding from their lips. They also wear the lingam). bear upon their foreheads, and frequently on other (iv.) Gandigaru, Vokkaliga (a sub-division of parts of their bodies, particularly the arms and the casto which furnishes most of the ryots in chest, sacred marks or symbols, in honour of their Mysore) gods. (v.) And, strange to say, the "Malidigaru," In addition, there is & considerable number of or lowest left-hand caste, and who live by work Gosains, not however separated from the rest by ing up leather. any caste distinctions, who, although by profession The "Hulle Mukkalu" of each caste will re belonging to this religious class, apply themselves ceive alms only from the members of its own parent nevertheless to commerce and trade. As merchants, stock. Beyond learning their names I have been bankers, tradesmen, they hold a very respectable able to glean nothing of their origins. The prin position. Some carry on their transactions on & cipal duty of the "Hulle Mukkalu" appears to be large scale. One of the principal bankers in the learning the pedigree of those members of the city of Mirzapur is a Mahant or high-priest of parent caste in his immediate neighbourhood, which Gosains--a certificate of great wealth and influho carefully repeats when on his beat. ence. J.SF. MACKENZIE. One of the chief peculiarities of this caste is, that 6th December 1872, besides its natural increase from within, it is con stantly adding to its numbers from without-Brah SELECTIONS FROM ME SHERRING'S WORK ON mans, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Budras; the two *HINDU TRIBES AND CABTES." former specially may, if they choose, become Go Bains; but if they do no, and unite with the memGOBAIN. bers of this fraternity in eating and drinking, holdThe term Gosain is so vaguely employed by ing full and free intercourse with them, they are cut Hindas generally, that it beooines necessary to ex. off for over from their own tribes. It is this

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JANUARY, 1873.) 31 CORRESPONDENCE, &c. circumstance which constitutes the Gosains a distinct dependance on the kindness and care of others is and legitimate caste, and not merely & religious thus of the most absolute character, yet they order, are not reduced to want, or even to distress : they The ceremony observed at the creation of a Go- are fed by the Brahmans, and the Gosains, another sain is as follows. The candidate is generally & class of devotees, but of lax principles, and not boy, but may be an adult. At the Siva-ratri fes- restricted to any one caste. The Dandis do not tival in honour of Siva), water brought from a marry, and have no houses of their own. They tank, in which an image of the god has been depo- have literally nothing they can call their own, except sited, is applied to the head of the novitiate, which a diminutive mat to lie upon, a small pillow, the is thereupon shaved. The guru, or spiritual guide, cloth they wear, a stick, and a kamandal or hermit's whispers to the disciple & mantra or sacred text. pot for holding water. The stick they use at the In honour of the event all the Gosains in the neigh- age of fifty, previously to which they are only bourhood assemble together, and give their new disciples, and are not called Dandis. member their blessing; and & sweetmeat called Not a few of this religious order are learned men, laddu, made very large, is distributed amongst them. and devote a large portion of their time to study The novitiate is now regarded as a Gosain, but he and meditation. They are great readers of the does not become a perfect one until the Vijaiya S'astras, such as the Mimansa, Nyaya, Manjuka, Hom has been performed, at which a Gosain, famous and others, and also of the Puranas. Many Brahfor religion and learning, gives him the original mans, even Pandits, or learned Brahmans, come to mantra of Siva. The ceremony generally occupies them for instruction, which they impart freely three days in Benares. On the first day the without the smallest recompense. All classes of Gosain is again shaved, leaving & tuft on the the community pay them the greatest ho top of the head called in Hindi Chundi, but in to worshipping them. They are addressed as Sanskrit, Shikha. For that day he is consider- Swami Ji, that is, master, lord, spiritual teacher. ed to be a Brahinan, and is obliged to beg at Although they are said to worship idols, yet they a few houses. On the second day he is held to be make no obeisance to them. They are singularly & Brahmachari, and wears coloured garments, and independent in all their actions, and make no salam also the janeo or sacred cord. On the third day or sign of respect to any object, human or divine, the janeo is taken from him, and the Chundi is cut TRIDANDI. off. The mantra of S'iva is made known to him, and also the Rudri Gayatri (not the usual one daily A species of Gosains, originally they bore a pronounced by Brahmans). He is now a full Gosain! trident as their emblem ; hence the naine which they assume. This practice, however, has ceased or oanparast, is removed from other persons, and abandons the secular world. Henceforth he is to be observed. They are S'aivas, or worshippers bound to observe all the tenets of the Gosains. The of Siva, and in habits are like Gosains. The Tricomplete Gosains, who have performed the ceremony dandis do not marry. Their bodies after death are of Vijaiya Hom, are celibates. It is customary buried, not burnt. therefore for men not to perform it until they are forty or fifty years of age, as it involves the aban- This class, or order, is of many kinds. Some are donment of their wives and families. Gosains will prognosticators of future events; others lead about eat food in the houses of Brahmans and Rajputs animals of monstrous formation in order to excite only. At death their bodies are not burnt, but are religious wonder and curiosity; others have their either buried or thrown into the Ganges. ears split and wear in them a kind of ear-ring for DANDI. sacred purposes. Persons of all castes can, in these The Dandis ar neither a caste nor a tribe of latter daye, enter the order ; but this was not the Hindus, but are an order of devotees. As they rule originally. Jogis are not particular on the keep themselves very distinct from the rest of the subject of marriage, and some of them take to themcommunity, they demand a separate notice. Their selves wives. At death their bodies are buried; habits are peculiar. One of thent has supplied an and their tombs, termed Samadh, are held in 88appellation for the entire class, derived from their cred estimation, and are often visited by pilgrims for habit of always carrying a staff in the band. Hence idolatrous purposes. the name Dandi, from danda, a stick. They are The term Jogi or Yogi is properly applicable; Brahmans and receive disciples only from says Mr. Wilson, " to the followers of the Yoga or the Brahmans. Patanjala school of philosophy, which, amongst The Dandis do not touch fire, or metal, or vessels other tenets, maintained the practicability of acmade of any sort of metals. It is impossible, there quiring, even in life, entire command over elementary fore, for them to cook their own food like other matter by means of certain ascetic practices." Hindus; it is equally impossible also for them to BRAKHACHARI. handle money. They wear one long unsewn reddish This name is given to a sect of Brahman ascetics. cloth, thrown about the person. Although they are They wear red cloth and the rudraksk, let their hair on principle penniless, yet they do not beg. Their and beard grow, and besmear their bodies with JOOL

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32 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. ashes. They are worshippers of Siva. The Bramhacharis live as recluses apart from their families, and at death their bodies are burnt. The word Bramhachari is also applied to a religious student, to persons learned in the Vedas, and in various other ways. THE HILL TRIBES OF THE NEILGHERRIES. (Madras Standard, Oct. 18.) NEXT to the Badagas, in importance and numbers, are the Kotahs. They live in seven Kotagherries or villages, situated far apart on the hills, so that each Kotah village has its own set of Badagas, for whom they make tools, ropes, baskets, jewels, and whose funerals they attend with their musical instruments. The Kotahs are of very low cacte. they will eat from any one, and do not object to devouring carrion of all sorts; they are not particular how an animal dies, and during a murrain the Kotahs feast and fatten. They cultivate the soil with a little more care than the Badagas, but grow the same grains, &c., and in the same style. They keep cattle, which they sometimes kill for food, but strange to say they do not milk them. Their Shukars (funeral ceremonies) and marriage ceremonies are much the same as those of the Badagas, though they do not spend as much money on those occasions. They are far more independent than the Badagas, and do not care to work for Europeans. Their iron-work is of the coarsest description. They, however, make batchets, adzes, and bill-hooks pretty well, and their neighbours like them better than English tools. They are very keen after game. A few can shoot, and if any one they know to be a good shot gives notice at a village, the inhabitants. will all turn out, yelling and shrieking after sambur, They make a strong durable rope out of buffaloe hide, much sought after by Badagas for fastening their cattle, &c. Their women work up a sort of black clay, found in swamps, out of which they make pots for themselves and neighbours; but of a very inferior kind. One most remarkable circumstance amongst these people is that they actually court venereal disease; a young man who has not suffered from this before he is of a certain age is looked upon as a disgrace! It is hardly necessary for me to say that they are vilely dirty in their habits, and most immoral. Their language is a most discordant jargon, entirely different from that spoken by any other of the bill tribes, and I have heard them boast of the fact that no one but themselves can understand it. [JANUARY, 1873. posed to minister to the wants of their owners in the happy land of departed Todahs. Formerly all the buffaloes a man had were despatched after him. Government has now put a restriction on the number, and the Todahs are not allowed to kill them without notice being given to, and permission obtained from, the authorities. The Todahs greatly object to this restriction; but I know they are really very glad, because the greater number of cattle they have, the more ghee, and consequently the more rupees, are procured. They do not like to have many women amongst them, and it used to be a custom among them to kill all the female children but one which a woman might bear. In former times these murders were perpetrated with much ceremony and feasting; latterly they were more quietly performed, till Government put a stop to them altogether. The Todahs do not, however, seem any better for it. Three and four men are supposed to have only one wife in common. Any children she may bear are common to all. Like the Badagas and Kotahs, they are very immoral. The women do nothing but lounge about the munds, butter their hair and cook. The Todahs eat a variety of greens, the heart of the thistle, fungi, tender shoots of bamboo, and meat, when they can get it. They kill young ball calves and eat the flesh, but will not touch that of grown cattle; they will do anything for sambur or ibex, though they never shoot or capture game themselves. They are terrible thieves, and many sportsmen have lost game through the tricks of their Todah shikaries. Last come the Kurumbas; they are not very numerous about the Neilgherries; they live in horrible dirty villages at the foot of the hills, amongst the thickest forest teeming with jungle fever; they are of the sect known in Wynand as "Jaan" or "honey" Kurumbas. They get this name from their chief employment, which is seeking honey. They used to live almost entirely on roots, but of late years they have found it remunerative to cultivate their soil, and their clearings are much larger than they used to be. They never take more than three or four crops off the same piece. They barn their dead with very little tamasha. Besides supplying the Badagas with the elephant pole required at their Shukars, the Kurumbas have to sow the first handful of grain for the Badagas every season, for which service they receive a small quantity of the crop. Unlike their neighbours, the Kurumbas are a very small, emaciated lot; nevertheless they are very active and will out-walk any other natives. They have incredibly keen eye-sight, gained from constantly watching the bee to its hive. When they find one not quite ready to take, they place a couple of sticks in a certain position; this sign will prevent any other Kurumba from taking the honey ("a rule of their own"), and no Badaga or other hill man would meddle with it on any account, for fear of being killed by sorcery, for they dread the Kurumba more than any wild beast; indeed their fear of them is so great that a simple threat of vengeance has in some cases proved fatal. This, I believe, has originated from Kurumbas having at different times poisoned Badagas in a secret underhand way, so as to make their deaths appear as if caused by supernatural agency. In times gone by, when the Kurumbas of a village became very notorious, Todaha, Badagas, and Kotahs would combine, surround the village at night, and murder all the inhabitants. For following elephants and bison they are invaluable assistants, as they will never lose or mistake a track. They, however, dread the charge of an elephant, and though they will put you near the game very well, they scamper up trees the instant any danger appears; indeed I have known them vanish almost mysteriously when a rogue elephant was in question before a shot was fired. They have a jargon of their own, apparently a mixture of Canarese, Malayalam, and Tamil. RIFLE. Next to these gentry come the Todahs: their men are generally fine handsome fellows, and I have heard some of their women spoken of as beauties. They are,however, a lazy, good-for-nothing lot; they do no work at all beyond tending their buffaloes, cutting sticks, seeking honey and building their munds or villages, for which they certainly choose very pretty sites. They get all their grain from the Bada gas and Kotahs; a good part of it is paid to them as a sort of black-mail, which they used to levy with much rigour and authority; but since their neighbours have got more independent, and know that Government will protect them from injustice, this levy is paid more from custom than fear, and I dare say before long the Todahs will have to buy all the grain they require. The Todahs formerly would not allow the Badagas to graze their cattle in the neighbourhood of their munds: now, however, the latter tribe build kraals far out amongst, and even beyond, the Todah munds, and feed their buffaloes with those of their would-be masters with impunity. They burn their dead without much ceremony at the time, except that the corpse must be burned only at certain phases of the moon. Should a man die on what they consider a bad day, his body is kept in the hut over smoke for 10 or 15 days till a "good day" comes! They afterwards hold a "Kerd" or killing of buffaloes, which are sup

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FEBRUARY, 1873.] THE CHANDEL THAKURS. THE CHANDEL THAKURS. By F. N. WRIGHT, B.A., Oxon., B. C. S. MONG the many tribes that by migration, A desire to obtain relief from an over-crowded home, have established themselves in the Antarbed, the Chandel Thakurs present perhaps as interesting a history as any. The following particulars are derived from two family histories (Banswala)the one belonging to the now extinct branch of Sheorajpur, and the other to that which, first establishing itself in Sachendi, has covered with its numerous ramifications the whole of the south of parganah Jajmau, zilla Kanhpur. The former history is in Persian, the latter in Hindi; and the characteristics of each are so strongly marked, and have so important a bearing on the accuracy of the facts which they relate, that it is necessary briefly to call attention to them. The account contained in the Persian MS. was compiled by order of the last raja, Sati Prasad, in A. D. 1841. The main object of the compilation being an elaborate statement of the rights due to, and the wrongs suffered by, the Sheorajpur raj, little space is devoted to the pre-historic period; but the details of the more recent events are concise and particular. Though, however, the phraseology is elegant, and graceful couplets on the attributes of various rajas break the monotony of somewhat dry detail, the reader is not encouraged to linger till he arrives at the commencement of English rule, when the fortunes of the powerful clan began to totter-their final ruin being accomplished by the disloyalty of their chieftain in 1857, and his imprisonment and subsequent death in a stranger's house. The Hindi MS., also of comparatively recent date, is the compilation of one or more bards; and containing probably the material for many an epic, chanted to admiring and wondering audiences round the village chaupal, it is full of mythical and exaggerated details, which, whatever lustre they may lend to the proud family to which they refer, decidedly lessen our faith in the accuracy of all that is not supported by collateral evidence. While, therefore, the Hindi MS. is of value in so far as it corroborates the more precise record of the Persian document, compiled I have in vain attempted to fix the exact date of compilation: it is probably not the work of one time only. This pedigree I have collated most carefully with others in possession of cadet branches. As it is a mere list of names, I do not give it here. 33 from papers actually in possession of the writer at the time of writing, though lost subsequently in the mutiny, it is to the latter we must look for a trustworthy description of the manner in which the Chandels came to establish themselves so far from their original home. The Chandels trace their origin through Chandra, the moon, up to Brahma, the great creative principle, including in their pedigree historic names, such as Jijat and Pur. From Brahma to Sati Prasad, the last acknowledged raja, 118 generations are numbered; but the various pedigrees collated contain several discrepancies in the earlier names, some of which are noted below. The mythical origin of the Chandels is thus described by the Hindi MS.:"Hemvati was daughter of Indarjit, Gahlwar Thakur, Raja of Banaras; with her at midnight the Moon had dalliance: she awoke when she recovered her senses, and saw the Moon returning to his own place. She was about to curse him, and said "I am not a Gautam woman" (this allusion is obscure), when he replied-"The curse of Sri Krishn has been fulfilled; your son will become very great, and his kingdom will extend from sunset to sunrise." Hemvati said"Tell me that spell by which my sin may be absolved." Chandra said-"You will have a son, and he will be your absolution;" and he gave her this spell- Go to Asu, near Kalingar, and there dwell. When within a short time of being delivered, cross the river Kin (?), and go to Khajrain, where ChintamanSS Banya dwells, and live there with him. Your son shall perform a great sacrifice. In this iron age sacrifices are not perfect. I will appear as a Brahman and complete the sacrifice: then your absolution will be perfect." The fruit of this intrigue was Chandra Varma (called in the Persian MS. Chandra Puras, or Chandra Deo); and the date of his birth is given as Katik Badi 4, Sambat 204. From him to the well-known Parmal Deo, whose fort, Kalingar, was taken by Kutb-ud-din, A. D. 1202 (Sambat 1258), there are, according to the Persian MS., 49 generations; but the Hindi MS. reckons only 23. The chronology of the "Of Hemraj, Brahman in Indarjit's service."-H. Elliot. The descendants of this Chintaman for many years retained the office of Diwan to the Chandel rajas. Elliot's Ind. Hist., II. 281.

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34 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [FEBRUARY, 1873. latter, however, is glaringly incorrect: the dura- tion of the reigns of successive rajas never agrees with the period given in the dates of each succession ; while Parmal Deo's reign is dated 1044 Sambat, or a discrepancy of over 200 years from the date mentioned above. The date given by the Persian MS. of the succession of Sabhajit, son of Parmal Deo, 1223 Sambat, agrees more closely with that of the Hindi Ms. The Persian MS. probably erre in excess of names; as, for instance, when brother succeede brother on the gaddi, and the reign of the second is reckoned as that of a separate generation. It is clear, however, that no correct date can be assigned to any tribe in the long pedigree till the invasion of the Muhammadans.* Chandra Varma, then, the reputed son of Chandra, established his dynasty after a series of battles waged, according to the Hindi MS., by countless hosts of horsemen, who were paid from extravagantly exaggerated treasures in Chande Chandawal in the Dakhan. To him and his successors the same MS. gives almost universal empire in India : he is represented as annually making expeditions with enormous armies and immense treasures, conquering raja after raja, and exacting tribute from the kings of Rum and Ceylon. He, it is said, founded the fort of Kalingar; and branches of his family settled themselves in the Karnatik, in Kallu Kanhur, in Mirat, the Sambal country (Rohilkhand), and Kumaon. The latter ruj was founded by Manikchand, fifth in descent from Parmal Deo, and son of Bihr Deo, who reigned at Kanauj, accord- ing to the Persian MS. ; while the Hindi MS. gives Kandar Varma, grandson of Chandra Varma, as the founder.f It would seem fruitless to endeavour to define the exact limits of the territory actually subject to any one raja (as is attempted in Elliot's Supp. Glossary); for the claims of each to universal empire are mere romance, dexterously coloured by the bard with glowing accounts of huge armies, countless treasures, and innumerable marriages. I divide the history of the Chandels into the following dynasties : The Chande Chandawal. The Chanderi founded by Damkhoh (Persian MS.) Bir Varma (Hindi MS.) The Mahobafounded by Madan Varma (Persian MS.) Man Varma (Hindi MS.) The Kanauj, founded by Sabhajit. The Sheoraj pur, founded by Sheoraj Singh. of these five dynasties, those preceding the Mahoba line are pre-historic. Instead of the 18 rajas of Mahoba given in Elliot's Glossary, the Persian Ms. gives but 8, and the Hindi MS. but 14. I give them here. Man Varma. Gyan Varma. Jan Varma (? Nanda, Ganda--Ell. Gloss.) Gaj Varma. Kil Varma (? Kirat Varma-Ell. Gloss.) Sakat Varma. Bhagat Varma. Jagat Varma. Rahlia Varma. Suraj Varma. Rup Varma. Madan Varma. Kirat Varma. Parmal Deo, after whom the suffix"Deo" was invariably used. of the causes of the several migrations, no satisfactory explanation is given in either MS. If we accept the Mahoba as the only genuine Chandel dynasty, the two preceding dynasties can represent only the settlement of junior branches of original stock in convenient situations. It is, however, quite as reasonable to consider the whole lineage as one, and the migration to Mahoba (which is certainly not the original birth-place of a Chandel tribe, if name is any guide) as induced by the same causes as those that led to the subsequent migrations. With respect to the migration to Mahoba, the Persian MS. says : -" At this time the raja of Kanauj, a Gahlwar, who till this time was rich and prosperous, first frum the blows received at the hands of Rai-Pithaura, and afterwards from the pressure of Shahab-ud-din Afghan Ghori, left his home and established himself in Banaras. Then Sabbajit, by advice of his wazirs and khedives, established himself in Kanauj." The Hindi MS., in a long involved passage attributing the destruction of Kanauj to Prithiraj, says" Then Sabhajit left Mahoba for Kananj." This leaves the impression that the Chandels, finding the reputedly fertile and wealthy Kanauj open wal being eliminated); this sketch, however, is intended to show only what is contained in genuine native historier. + I have endeavogrod, without success, to obtain accurate information on this point. . I regret I have not General Cunningham's account of this interesting race to verify the date, 800 A.D. given by him as that of their rise (it would seem to me to be that of the founding of Chanderi, the rajus of Chande Chanda

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FEBRUARY, 1873.) THE CHANDEL THAKU RS. 35 R AO. PA From this to them, crossed the Jamuna for the fertile him the betel leaf prepared for him daily in his plains of the Doab. home, before the hour of midday meal." 'The Both MSS, are agreed that for eight genera- Hindi Ms. simply says:-" In 1983 Sambat, tions the head-quarters of the clan were at Bheoraj Deo came to Sheorkjpor, and, destroying Kananj, though the year of the migration thither the fort of Radhan, founded Sheorajpur." The is given by the Persian MS. at Sambat 1223, fort at Radhan certainly appears too massive and by the Hindi one as 1180--& comparatively to have served as head-quarters for so brief trifling discrepancy. a time as would appear from the Persian M8. The eight rajas of Kananj were It probably dates from before the Chandel Sabhajit. incursion Gyas Deo. The object, therefore, of this last migration Ghansyam Deo. is not clearly brought out. From the analogy Bihr Deo. of the settlements of Gaur Thakurs in Narh, Lahr Deo. parganah Rasulabad, the Mughuls of Barah Sup Deo. and the Chauhans of Mohana, parganah Ak barpur, zilla Kanhpur, it would seem that the Bas Deo. Meos (Mewas, Mewatis, whose rule is invariably Khakh Deo. Dham Deo. put at 550 years back, as having preceded the existing clans) becoming turbulent and lawless, Sheoraj Deo Pat Deo Lag Deo the aid of the stronger Hindu rajas was acceptfounded Sheo- founded founded ed by the emperor, and grants of land bestowed raj pur. Pachor. Sapihi. upon them for their services. In Elliot's GloseJ. . RAWAT: sary it is said "The Chandels of Sheorajpur From this From this From this in Kanhpur are represented to have received branch descend- branch des- branch des from the Gautams 62 villages in that parganah, ed the cended the cended the having been induced to leave Mahoba after the Rawat of Onha. Rana of Sakrej. Rawat of RA defeat of their chief, Birmaditya,t by Prithiwatpur. raj.". This account of the origin of the Chandel A sort of intermediate, migration was made influence in zilla Kanhpur is not confirmed by from Kanauj to Radhan, where the remains of a either of the MSS.; nor is it perhaps probable large fort overlooking a wide expanse of country that it would be, even if true. It takes, moreover, bear silent witness to departed greatness. The no account of the Kanauj dynasty. The 62 vilPersian Ms. gives the following account: lages, however, are well known to the present "Sheoraj Deo founded Sheorajpur and called day, and formed the raja's talaka under our it after his own name, so that from Kumaon settlements. to Karra (Manikpur) the whole country of 'I have shown above the principal branches of Kananj was in his possession. Since the rule the original Chandel stock; of these, the Pachor of the Muhammadans had been established now. branch is extinct, and the Sakrej branch practifor some time, all the rajas and great men of cally so. The rana still grasps at some remnant the country attended the emperor's court, and of clan-authority, and his attendance at wed-. amongst them Sheoraj Deo, regarding whom it dinge is sought after to give the ceremony eclat." was ordered that leaving Kanauj" (where he was on the death of the rana, those of the brotherprobably too strong) "he was to reside in Tappa hood who still warm to their old nobility meet Radhan and Bilhat, in the parganah of Bithur, and, contributing small presents of grain, clothes, where is "Sita Rasoi.'. Sheoraj accordingly, and money, go through the ceremony of imprint obeying the emperor's order, left the fort of ing the tilake. The other branches stil flourish, Kananj, and first building a fort in Radhan lived the representative of Onha being the picture of there ; and afterwards founding Sheorijpar, he Rajput squire. The last titled occupant of the established his role there. While he lived in Sheorajpar gaddi, accused of disloyalty, Was Kanaujhe had soldiers, horse and foot, namerong stripped of all his landed property--mutilated as as the waves of the ses, so that to enumerate them its value was by the conferment of sab-proprie is impossible. They say that when the Mja went tary rights on the Mukaddame at the last settle for a short time to Karra, horsemen carried to ment and thrown into jail; and after the expira * Zilla Fattehpar. f No such name in the podigree.

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36 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [FEBRUARY, 1873. tion of his sentence he died dependent on the charity of a Brahman landowner, to whom all the sanads were left. Of the original given by Akbar to Raja Ramchandra, I append a traus- lation. The original branches, therefore, possessed themselves of the old parganahs, Sheorajpur, Shooli, and Bithur, and also stretched over the river Pandu into parganah Akbarpur. One branch, however, the renegade branch of Sachendi, remains to be noticed. The Persian MS., which gives a clearer account than the Hindi one belonging to the Sachendi family-Bays, regarding their rise :-"They say that Harsingh Deo, son of Karkaj Deo, a brother of Karchand, who lived at Bihari (? Pyari), on the banks of the Ganges, had a son, Hindu Singh, very strong and great, but infamous for his oppression of the rayats.. At that time Raja Indarjit, hearing of this, was grievously offended. One day that very man, passing through Lachhmanpar Misran, got up & quarrel with the inhabitants, and began to oppress them greatly. The Brahmans complained to the raja, and set forth all the oppresBion they had undergone. The raja, becoming very angry, wrote to him, ordering him to leave his home and seek another country, and wamed him that to eat and drink in this country was forbidden him : it were better he went elsewhere. He then, with all his belongings, went and settled in Tappa Sapihi (v.s.), and became the servant of the Rao of Sapihi. At that time fortune so favoured Hindu Singh that he rose to great power, and built forts in Behnor and Bachendi, and established his rule over a large tract of country, and engaged thousands of soldiers, horse and foot, and obtained victories in many battles waged against him. His fame was noised abroad, and he assumed the title of Raja of Sachendi." From the Hindi MS., however, the family history of the Sachendi line, we obtain the following account of the rise of that family, which overran the whole south of Jajmau, and eventually got the territory under the old family temporarily in its grasp. "The 85th was Gargaj Deo, who had two song-Karchan Deo, by a concubine, and Harsingh Deo, the sister's son of the Tilakchand Bais. When Gargaj Deo died, Karchan Deo and Harsingh Deo disputed about the succession, hearing which Tilakchand came to the rani and desired she would give the raj to Harsingh Deo. She refused, and set Karchan Deo upon the gaddi Harsingh Deo left Sheoraj por, came to Behnor, and founded Bir-( ? Har-)singhpur and a second gaddi." The truth appears to be more with the latter account, Hindu Singh being a descendant some generations distant of Harsingh Deo, and living in the reigns of Indarjit and Hindupat, cotemporary of Firoz Shah, to which rajas, says the MS., "Hindu Singh, in spite of his power, never failed in respect, nor committed so grave an offence as that of his son, Sambhar Singh." Hindu Singh's power indeed became so great, and his contumacy so determined, that the reigning emperor got the Badauria raja to attack him and expel him the country, the great forts of Behnor, Sachendi, &c., being given over to the Badaurias. Sambhar Singh, however, returned 18 years after, and recovered the whole of the lost territory. This same Sambbar Singh rose to such power, that he ousted the young Ribal Singh (who had to fly the country), and obtained title-deeds to the greater part of the country, and established a "Thana in Sheoraj pur." With the aid, however, of Nawab Najaf Khan, Nazim of Nawab Wazir-ul-Mamalik Asf-ud-Daulah, he (Ribal Singh) re-established his authority over the whole parganah of Sheorajpur. Thenceforth the history is but of local interest, the Persian MS. being an account of the raja's relations with the English, and the Hindi MS. a barren list of names, useless except for the purpose of tracing the founding of any particolar village. The above pretends to no scientific accuracy, but is merely a resume of the more interesting portions of two genuine family histories translated by the writer, In reality the Hindi MS. is devoted to the wonderful doings of Parmal Deo and his heroes, Ala and Udal, whose feats absorb quite half the volume. For grace of style (notably in the account of how Hinda pat was persuaded to marry again, though blind, after the death of a favourite son) the Persian MS. is greatly to be preferred, but for a thorough sample of a family history the Hindi MS. is specially valuable, Sanad of Jalal-ud-din Akbar to Rdja Ramchand. Since it has been brought to our notice that from time of old, according to immemorial custom, Rs. 15,000 for support, and one" tinka" per cultivated bigha by right of seigniory from the villages of parganah Bithur, Sirker Kanany, by title of zamindari, have been received by my good friend Ramchandra Chandel, and that he is in possession of full enjoyment of that grant and fees : he has petitioned our majesty that an

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FEBRUARY, 1873.] order be passed that the abovementioned grant and fees, by title of zamindari from the villages above mentioned, according to former custom, be continued in his possession and enjoyment from Rabi; that from year to year, and from harvest to harvest, he may enjoy and possess them; and being a true and loyal servant, may for ever pray for our greatness and prosperity.. Be it ordered, therefore, that all officers and servants, Jagirdaran and Crorian, now and for ever, obeying this order, and accepting those VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL. HAVING, in the introductory essay, given a general view of the subject of Vaishnava literature in its philosophical and general aspect, I propose now, in this and succeeding papers, to analyze more in detail the writings of some of the principal early masters, with special reference to their language. The Vaishnavas are the earliest writers in Bengali, and in them we trace the origin of that form of speech. In Bidyapati indeed the language is hardly yet definitely Bengali: it is rather an extremely eastern member of the wide-spread group of dialects which we call, somewhat loosely, Hindi-a group whose peculiarities are, in the western portion of its area, allied to Panjabi and Sindhi, while in the east they have developed characteristics which find their extreme, and almost exaggerated, expansion in modern Bengali. Very little is known about Bidyapati. Native tradition represents him as the son of one Bhabananda Rai, a Brahman of Barnator in Jessore. His real name was Basanta Rai, and he is mentioned by this name in one of the poems of the Pada-kalpataru (No. 1817). The date of his birth is said to be A.D. 1433, and of his death 1481. These dates are probably correct, as his language exhibits a stage of development corresponding to the beginning and middle of the fifteenth century. He mentions as his patrons Rai Sib Singh, Rapnarayana, and Lachhima Debi, wife of Sib Singh; and in one passage he prays for the "five lords of Gaur" (chiranjiva rahu pancha Gaureewara kabi Bidyapati bhane). From these indications I should place the poet at Nadiya (Nabadwipa), afterwards the birthplace of Chaitanya, Rai Sib Singh and the other "lords of Gaur" being wealthy landowners of 37 rights as free, complete, and fixed, leave them in his possession, nor change nor alter in any respect, nor interfere in any way, nor demand a fresh title. THE EARLY VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL. I. BIDYA'PATI. BY JOHN BEAMES, B.C.S., M.R.A.S., &c. 95 Villages. Radhan... 44 villages. Bharbedi... 6 villages. Bilhat .... 12" Haveli...... 18 Phalphandi 7 " ...... Barua..... 8 73 Note. Of the above, only Radhan and Barua are names of villages: the remainder are local definitions of areas now extinct. that district; and we may accept his language. as a type of the vernacular of Upper Bengal (Gaur) at that period. A considerable number of this master's songs, under his nom de plume of Bidyapati (lord of learning), are contained in the Pada-kalpataru ; and his popularity is probably due to his being only just dead and still in great repute when Chaitanya was born. The reformer is said to have been fond of reciting his poems, as well as those of the Birbhum poets, Jayadeva and Chandi Das, the former of whom wrote in Sanskrit and the latter in Bengali. The printed edition of the Pada-kalpataru is unfortunately very uncritically edited; and the compiler, Vaishnaba Das (or, as modern Bengalis would pronounce his name, Boishtob Das), is a man of very modern date, so that there is reason to suspect that a general modernization of the text has taken place, individual instances of which will be pointed out hereafter. Bengali scholars themselves admit this, and do not deny that the process has been. ignorantly conducted, many a good racy word of ganwari, or village Hindi, having been mangled to make it bear some resemblance to the modern Bengali, with which alone the editor was acquainted. A reconstruction of the text is not possible until the subject has been more thoroughly handled. Working alone in this virgin field, I am especially anxious to avoid all hasty and unsupported conjectures, and shall therefore treat the existing text as tenderly as possible, only suggesting such amended readings as are obviously demanded by the context, and bearing in mind that the great divergence of modern Bengali pronunciation from the ancient standard may have had some influence on the

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [FEBRUARY, 1873. spelling, inasmuch as the poems were handed To-day I will give thee instruction : down orally for a long time before they were First indeed thou shalt sit on the edge of the reduced to writing. couch ; In making selections from this master, we are When thy lover would look at thee), thon to a great extent confined to the amatory portions shalt turn away (thy) neck; of the collection. The contemporaries of Chai- When he touches (thee) with both hands, thou tanya were the first to introduce the chaster shalt put aside (his) hand; poems, which treat of Krishqa's early life in Braj Thou shalt be silent even when he speaks a (goshtha) and Jasoda's maternal cares (batsalya). word ; The pre-Chaitanya writers seldom speak of any. When I shall deliver thee (to him) hand to thing but love of the grossest and most sensual hand, kind. Quickly turning thou shalt seize me tremblingly. In transliterating there is much uncertainty Bidyapati saith-This is delight indeed ; and irregularity in respect of the short final a The tutor of love (am ly, I will teach you the sound. Strictly speaking, though omitted in lesson. prose, it should always be pronounced in verse; II. but if this rule were observed in these poems, (Speech of Krishna's messenger to Radha.) the metre would be destroyed. As a general Jibana chahi jaubana basa ranga, rule, Hindi words end with the consonant, and Tabe jaubana jab supur ukha sanga; words still in their old Sanskrit form sound the Supurukha prem kabahu jani chhari, vowel; thus, we should read jab, ham, but Dine dine chand kala sama bari. backana, not bachan. This rule again, however, Tahun jaichhe nangari kana rasabant, w as is constantly neglected ; and I have therefore Bara punye rasabati mile rasabant. been guided by the practice of the Kirtanias, or Tuhun jadi kalasi, kariye anusang, professional singers, whose method of pronuncia- Chatri piriti haye lakh guna sang, tion depends upon the tune, and has been handed Supurukha aichhan nahi jag majh, down by imunemorial tradition. The Sanskrit 'Ar tahe anurata baraja samajh : v and b are both pronounced b in Bengali Bidyapati kahe ithe nahi laja and I have so written them throughout. The Rap gunabatika iha bara kaja.-I. iii. 4. (63.) text and translation will be accompanied by a Translation. few notes explaining the difficult words or con- i Youth is the greatest delight in life. structions; and I shall conclude with an attempt Youth is then, when with (one's) lover. at sketching an outline of the grammar used Having (once) known the good man's love, when in the poems. wilt thou leave it? Day by day, like the digits of the moon, it grows. (Radha's confidante instructs her how to be Sportive as thou art, just so amorous is Kanh: have at her first interview with Krishna.) By great virtue the amorosa meets the amoroso : Sun, sun, e dhani, bachana bisesh!. If thou sayest, influenced by desire, 'Aju han deyaba tohe upades: Stolen love has a myriad merits, Pahila hi baithabi sayanaka sim, (Yet bethink thee) such a lover there is not in Heraate piya morabi gim, the world : Parasite duhun kare barabi pani, All the denizens of Braj are enamoured of him. Mauna karabi pahun kairate bani, Bidyapati saith-In this there is no shame; Jab ham sonpaba kare kara api This is the great business of a beautiful and Sath se dharabi ulati mohe kanpi. virtuous woman. I Bidy&pati kaha iha rasa sathat, Kamguru har sikhayaba pat.--I. i. 22.(49.)* (Radha's confidante describes her mistress's Translation condition to Krishna.) Heer, hear, O lady, a special word! Khelata ni khelata loka dekhi laj, * The first number is that of the S'Akha of the Pade-kal cf. Horace Epod. + Manum puella suavie opport tao, antrema ef in aponda cubet. pataru; the second, the Pallab; the third, the song; and To wit, the gratification of mensual desires! One canthat in brackets is the consecutive number which runs not help wondering what results such teaching this can through the whole collection, and is after all the easiest to be expected to produce ; fortunately, these parts of the refer to Vaishnava creed are not often sung before women. .

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FEBRUARY, 1873.] VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL. 39 As though the sun and moon rose together driv ing away the darkness. Cho. Ah lady! the moonlight has increased : With what labour how many charms fate has given to thee! Thy budding breast thou coverest with thy robe, showing it a very little ; With how much soever labour thou hidest it, the snowy mountain cannot be hid. Looking sidelong with glancing eye, adorned with collyrium, Like a lotus shaken by the wind, tilted by the Woight of the bees. Quoth Bidyapati - Listen, maiden, know that such as is all this, Rai Sib Singh and Rupnarayan, (such is) Lachhima Debi in truth. Herata na herata sahachari majh. Suna, buna, Madhab, tohari dohai! Bara aparup aju pekhalu Rai; Mukharuchi manohar, adhara surang, Phutala bandhuli kamalaka sang. Lochana janu thira bhpinga akar Madhu matala kiye usai na par. Bhanaka bhangima thori janu. Kajare sajala Madan dhanu Bhanaye Bidya pati dautik bachane Bikasala anga na jayat dharane.--I. iv. 5. (80.) Translation. Sporting, (or) not sporting, on seeing folk (she feels) shame; Beeing, (or) not seeing, (she remains) among her companions. Hear, hear, Madhab, the cry for help to thee! In ill guise have I seen Rai to-day; * The charming brilliance of her face, her tinted lip (Were as though) the bandhuli flowered beside the lotus. (Her) eye like a fixed bee in shape, (Which) drunk with honey flies not away. The slight curve of her eyebrows (is) as though Love had adorned his bow with lamp-black. Quoth Bidyapati-A messenger's word indeed! The budding limbs are not being embraced. The next example is historically interesting as containing the names of the master's patrons. Legend says that Lachhima Debi was to Bidyapati what Beatrice was to Dante, and Laura to Petrarch; and it is hinted that she was something more; but this latter insinuation seems to be contradicted by his attachment to the husband, Sib Singh, so I prefer not to believe it. IV. Sandara badane sindura bindu sauala chikura bhar; Janu rahi sasi sangahi uyala pichhe kari andhiyar Rama he adhik chandrima bhel : Kata na jatane kata adabhta bihi bahi tore del. Uraja ankura chire jhapayasi thor thor darbay ; Kata na jatane kata na gopasi hime giri na lukay. Chanchala lochane bauka nekarini agjana sobha- na tay, vi t h e Janu in dibara pabane pelila ali bhare ultay. Bhana Bidy&pati sunaha jubati e sab e rupa jan, Ray Sib Singh, Rupanarayana, Lachhim& Debi paraman.-III. xxiv. 7. (1852.) i Translation. On (her) fair face the vermilion spot, black (her) weight of hair, (Description of Spring.) Aola pitupati raja Basant, Dhola alikula madhabi panth: Dinakara kirana bhel paugand; Kesara kusuma dharala hema dand, Nripa asana naba pithala pat; Kanchana kusuma chhatra dharu math; Mauli rasala mukota bhel tay, Samukhahi kokila panchama gay. Sikhikula nachat alikula jantr, An dwijakula pashu asish mantr. Chandratap ure kuguma parag, Malaya paban saha bhel anurag. Kunda billi taru dharala nisan, Patala tula asoka dalaban, Kinsuka labangalata eka sang, Heri sisira situ age dila bhang; Sainya sajaia madhu makhyik kul, Sisiraka sabahun karala nirmal. Udharala sarasija paola pran, Nija nabadale kara asana dan. Naba Brindabana rajye bihar ; Bidyapati kaha samayaka sar.-III. xxvi. 7. (1450.) - Translation. The lord of the seasons has come, King -Spring; the bees hasten towards the Madhavi : the rays of the sun have reached their youthful prime: the kes'ara flower has set up its golden sceptre, a king's throne is the fresh conch of its leaves ; the kanchan flower holds the umbrella over his head, its fragrant garland is a crown to him ; in front of him) the koil sings its sweetest note. The tribe of peacocks dances (like) a swarm of bees, (like) another orowd of

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40 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [FEBRUARY, 1873. .. Brahmans reciting invocations and spells. The pollen of flowers floats like a canopy, toying with the southern breeze. Jasmine and bel have planted their standard, with patala, tula, and as oka as generals, kins'uka and clove-vine tendrils along with them : seeing (them) the winter-season flies from before (them). The tribe of honey-bees have arrayed their ranks, they have routed entirely the whole of the winter ; the water-lily has raised itself up and found life, with its own new leaves it makes itself a seat. A fresh spring shines in Brindaban; Bidyapati describes the essence of seasons. VI. E dhani kamalini suna hita bani ! Prem karabi ab supurukha jani. Sujanaka prema hema sama tul, Dabite kanaka dwigun haye mul. Tutaite nahi tute prema adabhut, Yaichhane baphata mpinalaka sut. Sabahu matanga jemoti nahi mani; Sakal kanthe nahi kokila bani; Sakal samay nahe pitu basant; Sakal purukh nari nahe guarant; Bhanaye Bidyapati suna bara nari, Premaka rit ab bujhaha bichari.-I. v. 8. (109.) Translation. O lotus-like lady, hear a friendly word! Thou shalt practise love now, having known a goodman. A good man's love is equal to gold, (like) gold in burning it has double value. In breaking, it breaks not (this) wonderful love : it * In No. I. the following words deserve notice : Baithabi, the Hindi form of the root with old Bengali termination : modern Bengali would be basibi gim. Sanskrit griva. Pahun; this curious word is generally='near, 'Skr. pars've; but it must sometimes be rendered again, and sometimes, as in this instance, it is almost pleonastic. Sathaf. I am not sure about this word. That means generally forin, shape, and in this place we may perhaps render this is delight in (full) shape in true guise, &c. In No. II., the first line is literally having looked at life, youth is the great pleasure, from which the rendering in the text flows naturally. Piriti=Skr. priti. Any one familiar with any of the Indian vernaculars will need no aid in this song. The grammatical forms are given further on. No. III. Strictly speaking, we should read khelat, but the metre demands a final short a. The eighth line is literally 'having made (kive) drunk matala) with honey (madhu) is not able (nd par for pare) to fly (urai for uraite). Bhanas #eyebrow.' Hd jayat dharane is a difficult phrase. It may be najayat, 'does not go,' dharane, in holding is not held or embraced ;' but this is stiff, and I seek for a better explanation. No. I V. SanalaSkr. syamala, Hindi sanwla. The third line means the moonlight has grown brighter from thy presence. In line 4, kata nd literally how much not?'that is, what efforts bas he not made?' jatane-Skr. yatne; bahi, having brought, having collected.' Lukdy-present 3 sing from lukate; lit. 'one does not hide :' this usage is equivalent to a presive. In pabane pelila the pret. still increases like the fibres of the lotus-stalk. All elephants are not of equal breed: not in every throat is the koil's voice : not at all times is the spring season : not all men and women are excellent : quoth Bidyapati--Listen, good lady, now having pondered, understand the ways of love.* I may now attempt to give a sketch, though necessarily little more than a sketch, of the grammar of Bidyapati, regarded as the vernacular of Upper Bengal at the beginning of the fifteenth century. It will be observed that the distinctive forms of modern Bengali have only just faintly begun to show themselves, and where they do occur they are not so much definite forms as incipient dialectic variations. The noun has lost all trace of inflection, The nominative is the crude form or base of Sanskrit. Occasionally, an e is added, sometimes for the sake of the metre, sometimes for emphasis, thusTaichhana tohari sobage (sohage gaubhagya"Of this kind is thy beauty." Apana karama doshe"(Your own deed is (this) fault." The objective case (under which we must include both accusative and dative) is most frequently left without any sign. The context supplies the sense. Chinta na kara koi"Let no one take thought." Ropiva premer bija "Having planted the seed of love." shows indications of its old participial origin : it is here shaken'Skr. piditam. The construction of the last two lines is peculiar : the first line is addressed to Jabatt yuvati, i.e., Lachhima (Lakshmi) Debi herself ; but in the second, Rai Sib Singh would seem to be addressed. The translation above aims at reconciling the difficulty by treating the latter as though he were incidentally introduced out of compliment, 49 usual. No, V. I leave the names of the flowers in their native dress. Most of them are to be found in any native garden, and they seem more natural and poetical in their own names than if we called them by the sweet dog-latin of the botanists. Tastes differ, but I prefer kes'ari and madhavi to Wrightia antidysenterica and Rottleria tinctoria. The metaphor by which the pistil of the kesari is compared to a sceptre, and its wide-spread petals to a throne, will be understood by those who know the flower. Panchama is the fifth note in the native scale of music. The notes are sa, ri, ga, ma, pa, dha, ni. The koil's noto is always compared to pa, or the fifth of these sounds. As I know nothing whatever of music, I can only hope those who do will understand what is meant. In line 9 the dancing of the peacocks is compared to the intricate movements (antra-yantra) of a swarm of bees, and their shrieks, most disrespectfully, to Brahmans reading. Madhu makhyik=Skr, madhumakshika; ksha is in Bengali khya: No. VI. It is only necessary to note the form haye='is,' the original of modern Bengali hay. The grammatical forms are partially explained in the text.

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FEBRUARY, 1873.] In rare cases, however, the modern Bengali ke occurs: VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL. Kanuke bujhai "Having explained to Kanh." The genitive is most usually left unmarked, the word which governs it being placed after it, in the manner of a Sanskrit Tatpurusha compound. This practice is universal with the early Hindi poets, as taila bindu-" a drop of oil;" rasa gana-" song of delight," and the like. Bidyapati's favourite method of forming the genitive is, however, by the addition of the syllable ka; thus Sujanaka piriti pashana sama reha"The love of a good man is firm as stone." Maramaka dukha kahite hay laja "To tell the grief of (my) heart is shame (to me)." Premaka guna kahaba sab koi"Every one will say (it is) the effect of love." This form, in which the final a is not always pronounced, is a shortening of the fuller form kara or kar, which is found-(1) in Bidyapati's pronouns, as takara bachana lobhai, "having longed for his voice;" (2) in the pronouns of the modern Bhojpuri dialect, as ikard, okara; (3) in a few Bengali words, as ajkar kalikar, "belonging to, or of, to-day, to-morrow," &c.; (4) in the plural genitive of Oriya, both in nouns and pronouns, as rajankar, " of kings," ambhankar, "of us," where the rejection of the final r is also common, so that they say and write rajanka, ambhanka; (5) in Marathi surnames, as Chiplunkar of or from Chiplun. There are several passages in Chand in which the genitive seems to be thus expressed by the addition of k only; the context is, however, so obscure, that I fear to quote them in support of the form itself. In the passage quoted above, ropiya premer bija, we have the modern Bengali genitive in er; but this is, I think, an intentional modernization of the copyist. The line would run just as well if we read premak, and this would be more in keeping with Bidyapati's usual style. It is very unusual in his poems to find the genitive in er. The instrumental and locative cases are both indicated by e. Jo preme kulabati kulata hoi "That a virtuous woman should become unchaste through love." Mane kichhu na-gapalu o rase bhola Supurukha parihare dukha bichari "On account of the absence of the lover, having experienced grief." Ambare badana chhapai "Hiding (her) face in (her) garment." Dipaka lobhe salabha janu dhayala"From desire of the lamp as a moth has run" (i.e., flown). Occasionally the Hindi se, 'with,' occurs, but rarely, as it is liable to be mistaken for the Bengali se, 'he.' E sakhi kahe kahasi anuyoge, Kanu se abhi karabi premabhoge"Ah, dearest! why dost thou question (me)? Even now thou shalt enjoy love with Kenh." Here again the e is added to the objective; kahasi anuyoge, "thou dost speak a question;" karabi prema bhoge," thou shalt make an enjoying of love." 41 Kole leyaba tuhunka priya"Thy love shall take (thee) in his arms." Other postpositions are used with the genitive in ka, as majh, 'in,' sang, 'with,' thus: Hatha sane paithaye srabanaka majh-- "Suddenly it penetrates into the ear." Phutala bandhuli kamalaka sang"The bandhuli has flowered with the lotus." Sometimes we have the old Hindi form in hi, which is there used for all cases of the oblique, though properly a dative, as in the line quoted in a former article (I. A., Vol I. p. 324). Jamini banchasi anahi sata"Thou passest the night with another." There is no distinctive form for the plural. When it is necessary to express the idea of plurality very distinctly, words like sab, 'all,' anek, 'many,' and the like, are used. Occasionally also we find gana, crowd,' as a first faint indication of what was subsequently to become the regular sign of the plural in Bengali. We may now draw out our noun thusPrema, love. (emphatic) preme. N. A. D. id. id. Instr. preme, by love. Gen. premaka, of love. Abl. premaka majh, sang, &c., with, by love. Loc. preme, in love. Crude form. premahi, "In (my) mind I nothing considered, being foolish through that love." In the case of nouns ending in short i or u, no special inflections have yet been observed. The 1,6., supurusha, 'good man,' used for Krishna, the lover of Raha; kk for sh as usual in Hindi, though not in Bengali.

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42 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [FEBRUARY, 1873. | Hindi rejects these short vowels, and Bidyapati seems to follow this rule, changing riti into rit, and vayu into bay or bao, Nouns ending in long i and a frequently follow the Bengali mode, and shorten those vowels : so we see dhani for dhani, badhu and bahu for vadha. The pronoun, especially in the 1st and 2nd persons, is singularly Hindi in its general type, leaning towards the Bhojpuri dialect. The 1st person has lost its real singular, which would probably have been either haun or mu, and instead thereof the plural hom is always found. This is the case in Bhojpuri, and is introductory to the universal employment in Bengali of ami for 'I,' thongh this is really a plural, the genuine singular mui being now considered vulgar and banished from polite speech. Thus we have Nari janame ham na karinu bhagi"Born a woman, I have not been fortunate." Ja ti goyalini ham matihin"I am by caste a cowherdess, without wisdom." Aju bujhaba ham taye chaturarTo-day I shall understand thy craftiness." of the oblique case in its most usual crude form, there are several variations : Ki kahasi mohe nidan"What dost thou say to me after all ?" Mo bine swapane na herabi an"Even in sleep thou shalt see no other but me." at me." Ingite bedan na janayabi moy" (Even) by a sign thou shalt not show to me thy pain." We even get a form closely approaching modern Berryali in Bihi more daruna bhel"Fate has been harsh to me." Here the text has probably been modernized ; the poet perhaps wrote mohe. The genitive exhibits the Bengali form. Ki lagi badanas jhapasi sandari, Harala chetana mor" Wherefore dost cover thy face, O fair one ? It has snatched away my senses." Kata rupe minati karala pahan mor " In how many ways did he intreat me !" (Literally "make supplication of me:" minati vinati). Sugandhi chandana ange lepala mon " He rubbed fragrant sandal on my body." In order to avoid lengthening this paper too much, I will for the rest merely give the words which I have found, omitting quotations : 1st Person. Sing. Nom, ha m. | Plural. 14 m. 7 Obl. mo. [hame.] moy. [hamahin.] mohe. more.nl mujh. h & mar. Gen. mor. hamari. The oblique form ased as in the noun for all cases, with or without postpositions. 2nd Person. Sing. Nom, tahun. Plural. tum, tumhi. tunhi. Obl. to, tore. tamahia. tohe. tuya. toy. tujh. Gen. tor. tuhunka. 3rd Person. Sing. Nom. so, se. Plural. (tini.]. obl. ta, tay: t&he. Gen. takar. ta hari. tur. Leaving the subsidiary pronominal forms, which exhibit no striking peculiarities, I proceed to the verb, all the tenses of which have not yet been found, though the principal parts can either be pointed to in various passages, or inferred by analogy. The latter are inclosed in brackets. Root Dharan-holding.'. Present Tense. 1. [dharu), I hold. 2. dharasi, thou holdest. 3. dharai, dhare, She holds. dharaye, dhara, All four forms of the 3rd person are found, and sometimes even a sort of double form in eye, as mageye. Past Tense. 1. dharinu, dharalu, 2. dharali, thou heldest. 3. dharala, he held. Future Tense. 1. dharaba, I shall hold. 2. dharabi, thou shalt hold. 8. dharaba, he shall hold. Imperative. 2. dh&ra, dharaha, bold thou. dharahu, 3. dharak, let him hold. I held.

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FEBRUARY, 1873.] Present Participle. 1. Dharu, holding. 2. Dharat (or dharata), holding. Infinitive. Dharite, Dharaite, JUNNAR TA'LUKA. to hold. This is really the locative case of the present participle dharat, and though it is now used as a regular infinitive in modern Bengali, yet in our text it must in most places be translated as a locative. Thus in song No. I. given above, heraita is "in (his) looking," i.e. "when he looks;" parasite, "in (his) touching," i. e., "when he touches." This sense is retained in the compound present of modern Bengali; thus dekhitechhi, "I am seeing," is dekhite + achhi-"I am in (the act of) seeing." Conjunctive Participle. 1. Dhari, 2. Dhariya, having held. 3. Dhariye,) FOUR miles below the Manik Dho stands the city of Junnar, commonly called Jooner-a typical specimen of an old Mughul garrison town. It lies upon the slope between the river on the north and the fort of Siwner on the south, and fills up altogether a space of about one mile and a half long and one mile broad, besides the usual contingent of garden-houses, mosques, and cemeteries. In the days of Aurangzeb it was for a long time one of the chief posts of the imperial army, frequently of the Viceroy in person, lying, as it did, in the centre of its group of fortresses, blockading the great routes of the Nana and Malsej ghats, and offering every convenience for observing and incommoding the restless Sivaji in his Swaraj. The population of Junnar, exclusive of fighting-men, must in those days have been from 35,000 to 40,000 souls. It now contains about 8,500, and reminds one, within its ample enceinte, of the old pantaloon in "his youthful hose well saved, a world too wide for his shrunk shank." The name Junnar is said to be a corruption of Jund Nagar"the ancient city ;" and indeed it is probable that there has always, since traffic and population got any hold on the country, been a considerable The first of these is the old Hindi form so common in all the poets, the second is the modern Bengali form, the third is an intermediate: form from the older dhariyai of some Hindi poets. No distinction is made between singular and plural; this is very much the case in modern Bengali, and especially so in the rural dialects, thus 43 Sab sakhi meli sutala pasa "All (her) friends meeting slept beside her." Where sutala agrees with the plural noun. Of the 3rd person imperative, a good example is NOTES ON JUNNAR TALUKA. BY W. F. SINCLAIR, Bo. C. S. (Continued from page 12.) Mana rahuk puna jauk parana "Let honour remain, but let life go." I do not, of course, pretend to have exhausted Bidyapati's grammar in these few remarks; but the more salient points have been indicated, partly with a view to fix the master's place in philology, and partly to exhibit the rise of the distinctive formations of modern Bengali. town either on the site or in the neighbourhood of the modern Junnar. In the little village of Amarapura, about two miles east of the present city, there are great numbers of sculptured stones built into wells and tombs, apparently themselves the remains of Hindu temples. In the same place Mr. Dickinson, an English gentleman settled on the spot, found a stone which, I think, has been either a lintel or part of a frieze sculptured with a row of sitting figures, apparently Buddhist. There was within a few years ago an old Musalman Jemadar hanging about the fort of Chakan, 18 miles north of Puna, in whose family, he said, was a tradition that Malik'ul Tijar, when he built the fort, brought a great number of large stones from the temples which he destroyed in Amarapura of Junnar. The Chakan fort itself is very much overgrown with prickly-rer and rubbish, and has been many times besieged, and at least twice mined, since the days of Malik'ul Tijar, which perhaps in part accounts for the fact that I, at any rate, could find no stones there at all corresponding to those of Amarapura. Of an earlier date, probably, than even these ancient remains are some at least of the Bud The Marathi name of the original kingdom of the Bhonslas, lying between the Bhima and the Nira.

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44 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. dhist caves that abound in the hills all round the present city, and at about an equal distance from it. This looks as if there had been somewhere near its site an object serving as a centre to them all-e. g. a bazar where the monks could beg. The best-known is the group called the Ganesa Lena, situated south of the Kukri, and about three miles from the city, in the steep face of a hill which the Hindus call Ganesa Pahar, and the Musalmans Takht-iSulaiman. The Sulaiman in question was not the son of David, but a fakir who lived on the top in former days. This hill is the northeast point of the Hattakeswar range, to be hereafter described. The caves are cut in a ledge of hard rock on its north face, and are in two groups, altogether about a dozen in number, The chief group contains one large vihara about the size of a three-table billiard-room, one end of which is now occupied by an image of Ganapati, or, as a pert young Brahman once put it in my hearing "Yes; we have set up our Apollo there"! This Apollo-not of Belvedere, nor yet of Delos-gives to the hill and the caves the name of Ganesa Pahar and Ganesa Lena respectively, and to the neighbouring campingground that of Ganesa Mal. He is rather a fashionable deity in Junnar, and in my time used to be an object of pilgrimage from considerable distances. East of the large vihara is a beautiful little chaitya, having pillars carved in the Karle style, but with more spirit and execution. The figures are elephants and tigers. The roof has horse-shoe ribs of stone, cut in the living rock; and this, with the superiority of the carving, indicates, I should think, a later date than that of Karle. The other caves are not in any way specially remarkable, unless that one of them contains a spring of very good water, which the pujaris of Ganapati try to prevent chance visitors from drinking. There is a good flight of steps part of the way up to this group, and a rough path the rest of it. The other half of the Ganesa Lena lies about half a mile further east, in a gorge, and is remarkable for the carving of one doorway (in a chaitya), and for the utter inaccessibility of some of the caves. Whether they were originally approached by means of ropes and ladders, or whether the steps have been destroyed by time, I cannot say. At any rate they are a great comfort to birds and bees. There are some inscriptions in these and the other caves, but they [FEBRUARY, 1873. have all, I believe, been recorded by Dr. Bhau Daji, and most of them by other people too. The next group of caves is called the Tulsi Lena, and is situated about three miles south-west of the town. They are, as far as I understand the matter, rather inferior to the Ganesa Lena, but in much the same style, and worth seeing in any case. The third group however, in the south-western face of the fort of Siwner, presents something new, For whereas the pillars of the Ganesa and Tulsi caves were of stone, and hewn, as far as possible, out of the rock, generally with a lotus-head, those of this group appear to have been either of wood or of stone deliberately built up; for they are quite gone, and nothing remains but the capitals in each case carved downwards from the lintel of living rock, and having a hole about one inch in diameter in the centre of the inferior face, as if to receive a point or rivet. The shape, too, of the capitals differs, for these are carved in (so to speak) concentric squares. The remains of a similar pattern in red, yellow, black, and white fresco still remained in 1871 on the ceiling of the largest cavea vihara, not quite so big as that in the Ganesa Pahar, The native legend, as usual, is that the five Pandus hewed out the caves in a night in pursuance of some bargain, that they parcelled out the work among them, and that he to whom this part of it fell was overtaken by morning, and left the pillars unmade, Who the lazy hero was, they cannot tell, but it was not Bhims, for we shall meet with his handiwork further on, In the northeast face of the fort are two more groups of caves, none of which are of any size. They are mostly small viharas, with their fronts supported by lotus-headed stone pillars; and the pendant capital which I have described is not found, as far as I recollect, in any of them. In one, however, the same frescoed ceiling-pattern was in existence in my time, The last of the cave-hills is the Man Mori, a long ridge lying east of the fort, and separated from it by a gap called the Barao Khind. There are three small groups of caves in it, the chief being that attributed to the hero Bhima, and called after him Bhima Sankar, These are not. to be confused with the famous temple of Bhima Sankar built by Nana Fadnavis at the source of the river of that name. The top of this Man Mori hill is the site of a fakir's shrine, with a cistern, said never to run dry; and the same is the case with a similar shrine and eistern on an

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FEBRUARY, 1873.7 JUNNAR TA'LUKA. isolated hill opposite. They certainly did not The architecture matches with that of other dry up in 1871, but that was after a wet year. buildings in the town whose antiquity is proved These springs on the tops of hills are not un- by their inscriptions, and therefore I have little common here: there is a very fine one, for instance, doubt that in this very building was born on the fort of Narayanagash, which lies about the great founder of the Maratha power. It three miles east of the Pura and Nasik road, and is to be regretted that no inscriptions are in forms part of the ridge between the Kakri and existence on the fort. Sayyid Jamal Ali, the the Mina, with which we have been dealing. principal Muhammadan inhabitant of Junnar, The Narayanagash spring has an illegible in- told me that he remembered a Persian inscrip. scription, apparently in Persian. tion purporting to have been engraved by order But the great lion of Junnar is the fort of of Chand Sultana in the mosque still known by Siwner, a huge mass of black rock cresting a her name. He had too, he said, made a copy of green hill-something like an iron-clad on an it many years ago for a European sahib, but Atlantic wave--that guards a double pass the inscription had disappeared in my time. through the range south of the town. The The whole top of the fort is covered with rockrock, as has been already mentioned, 'is honey- hewn cisterns, which contain rain water all combed with many caves, the refuge of hawks through the year, and keep it pretty sweet. The and vultures, pigeons and bees innumerable. late Dr. Gibson used the fort as a saniOn the south side it is approached by nine gates, tarium, and as a place of confinement for his one within the other; and on the north was for- Chinese convict labourers, one of whom was merly a secret passage through the rock leading dashed to pieces in trying to escape over from the Paga, or cavalry cantonment, that lay at the cliff. the base of the hill. The Paga, however, is now The town below contains many remains of marked only by bare mud walls, and a crack in Musalman grandeur. It was supplied with water the cliff shows where the English powder-bags by no less than eight different sets of waterdestroyed the postern stair. The most conspi- works, besides a fine ghat to the Kakri. It is cuous buildings on the top are a large-domed said, and the existing remains in part bear out tomb, and an 'Idgah, erected in honour of some the assertion, that the garrison could, when they old Pirzada. Lower down is a beautiful mosque pleased, fill the moat from some of these sources ; overhanging a tank. The two minarets are united and one of them supplied a curious underground by a single arch, and form a figure of the greatest bath still existing in the city fort or gashi (to simplicity and beauty, standing, as they do, sharp be distinguished from the hill fort of Siwner) against the sky. I have seen no other building This gaphi was 'itself a place of considerable. of this design, and do not know whether it is not strength, with large bastions and a flanker to the unique. The idea is said to have occurred to main gate, which opens north-east. It is now the the architect of the church of SS. Michel et heal-quarters of a Mamlatdar and subordinate Gudule in Brussels, but he was unable to carry judge, and the flanker is given up for municipal it out. This mosque is said to have been purposes. designed by, and afterwards finished in memory In the town itself are some good cisterns of of, Sultana Chand Bibi, the last and heroic various ages, a fine Jamma Musjid, and a rather queen of Ahmadnagar; and the tradition of curious, though not ornamental, building known the place is that it was here that she fell a as the Bawan Chauri, which, as an inscription victim to mutineers stimulated by the gold and on its face records, was built by Akhlis Khan, intrigues of the Mughul. If this be true, it governor of the fort and city, at a date expressed is a most striking instance of historic justice by the line--" This is the glory of Akhlis that he who brought down the grey hairs of Khan ;" but what the date was I have forAurangzeb with sorrow to the grave, the Maratha gotten. The building was very ruinous, and champion Raja Sivaji, was born on the other has probably been pulled down by this time. side of this same fort in, it is to be supposed, There were certain disputes about the proprietorthe heap of now ruined buildings beside the upper ship of this chauri, and many as to the derivagate, still pointed out as having been the tion of the name. Some derived it from the Killadar's house. There are no remains of guard of 52 soldiers stationed there, and some any other building likely to have been used from its having been the head-quarters of 52 as the dwelling of so considerable a lady as sub-divisions of the city. The partiality of natives the wife of the powerful Shahji Bhonsle.' for the number 52 is curious: throughout the

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46 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (FEBRUARY, 1873. Dakhan, for instance, men speak of the little of Ibrahim Khan, the soldier of fortune of " Fifty-two Berars," which we call East and less than two centuries ago, and even hinted West Berar; and Tod quotes a Hindi that an ancestor who had fought for the infidel rhyme against the true believers was not to be boasted "Bawau Barj, chhapan darwaja, of. Hinc (more than from the dearth of copperMaina mard, Naen ka raja." pots) illae lacryme. These Musalinan gentleHowever, it is possible that the name of men of Junnar were my frequent companions in this chauri, a purely colloquial one, may be excursions, and pleasant society enough ; but only a corruption of "Bhawan Chauri," from they had preserved few traditions of the place, and its Martello-tower-like form. In the suburbs, no written records. Junnar, in fact, never got besides the remains already mentioned, are over the sack of 1657, when nearly every private several fine tombs, especially one very large house in the place was burned or stripped, and one said to have been erected over a " Habshi" doubtless many manuscripts and records shared of the Jinjira family. This, however, I doubt, as 118, nowever, I doubt, as the common destruction. The chief families the tomb contains several inscriptions in honour are three-(1) the Sayyids, who are Shiahs, of Ali (now defaced by some Sunni bigot), and I and whose head is Mir Jamal 'Ali, a great do not think any of that family have ever traveller who has done the Hdj, and wanbeen Shiahs. Near to these is a fine garden- dered far in Arabia, Persia, and Turkishouse, said to have been built by the same tan; (2) the Pirzade; (3) the Begs: these Habshi when viceroy, or deputy riceroy here. last two are Sanni families. They used to But the tradition is obviously unreliable, and have fierce battles every Muharram, but the even the property in the garden had been lost peace has been pretty well kept of late years, and abandoned when Mr. Dickinson, mentioned though the old feud still smoulders, ready to above, came here some 30 years ago, and took up break out on the first opportunity. One advanhis abode in the old summer palace, which he tage that I derived from the society of the still inhabits. This place is called the Afiz Bagh Sayyids, who, like all Shiahs, are very particular which Europeans, rightly or wrongly, improve about things clean and unclean, was that I heard to Hafiz Bagh. The garden is now probably the debated with great vigour the question whether best in its way in the Dakhan, containing a man may, or may not, without mortal sin, eat besides all the fruits and vegetables common to green parrot. The prophet, it appears, forbade Western India, many imported from the Antilles his followers to eat that which patteth its foot to by the proprietor, and a little coffee plantation its mouth, but elsewhere he permits them to eat which thrives exceedingly well, as do also oats. every bird that has a craw. Now the parrot Junnar, however, with all its old buildings and fulfils both conditions, and was therefore a subbeautiful gardens (for the Hafiz Bagh is only ject of considerable debate among the Shiah the best among many), is sorely decayed and sportsmen of Junnar. I believe the general poverty-smitten; and a Musalman subordinate opinion was in favour of the legitimacy of parrot of my own once complained bitterly to me on the ground that a parrot in the cold weather of his exile to such a place," where he could not is far too good meat to have been forbidden by get a copper big enough to boil a sheep whole the prophet. The place has no notable manufacat his son's circumcision-feast." This man was ture but that of paper, with which it once in himself a curiosity in a small way, for he supplied the whole Dakhan; but now it is underwas the lineal descendant of Ibrahim Khan sold, except for native accounts, by the contiGardi, the commander of the Peshwa's regular nental papers brought through the Canal. The infantry at the last great battle of Panipat. Kagadis, or paper-makers, are all Musalmans Ibrahim Khan was beheaded by the conqueror and a very rough and turbulent set they are. Ahmad Shah Durani. His son was consoled by If ever a Musalman outbreak occurs in Western the Peshwa with the grant of the village of India, it will be necessary to use the wild Ahde, in taluka Mawal, in jaghir, which the tribes of the neighbouring ghats to hold the family still enjoy. They have the title of Muhammadans of Junnar in check The Nawab, and are very proud of their descent ; | higher classes have lost power and position, the but when this unlucky scion of the line came to lower their employment; and there are the Junnar, he found himself among families of materials for much trouble in the scattered and ancient Muhammadan race who thought but ruinous houses of the old viceregal city. . Since this was written I have beard with great regret of my old friend's death,

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FEBRUARY, 1873.] COORG SUPERSTITIONS. COORG SUPERSTITIONS. By Rev. F. KITTEL, MERKARA. In a country like Coorg (Kodagu), where, by sticks surmounted with silver, silver knives, the side of the Coorgs (Kodaga) and their low- common knives, &c., are kept there by way of caste (Poleya) servants, about 52 different Hindu memorial. A male ghost is called Karana, a tribes (or castes) have been settled for many female one Sodalichi or Karanachi. years, it is not easy to find out which of their All ghosts, whether male or female, are superstitions the Coorgs brought with them at thought to be troublesome; females even more the time of their immigration, and which were so than males. The Sodalichis have an unpleasant imported afterwards. Their superstitions, how- habit of smiting children with sickness, and someever, show Maleyala, Tulu, Kannada (Canarese), times also adult male and female members and Brahmana elements. of the house. On various occasions during the The Brahmans who are domiciled in Coorg year, with a view to appeasing the deceased, rice, have succeeded in introducing Mahadeva and arrack, milk, and other delicacies are placed Subrahmanya (under the name " Iguttappa"), for them in one of the wall-niches of the house, in entirely brahmanizing the worship of the or in places close to it; and once a month a river Kaveri, in having temples erected and idols fowl or two are decapitated at the Kaymada. set up, in spreading Paoranika tales, and in But pampering of this sort is said often to fall usurping to some extent the paja at the places short of its purpose. In such cases a man of of Coorg worship. They have been greatly the house may profess to become possessed of assisted by the Lingaites in these successful one of the ghosts. He then puts off his headendeavours, especially in the introduction of the dress, walks to and fro in the house, and appears Linga Tulus still manage to smuggle in their to be in a trance. While in this condition he demons; Maleyalas have made themselves is asked what is to be done to satisfy the ghosts; indispensable at demon and ancestor worship, and as the representative of the ancestors, he is and are also increasing the number of demons; presented with meat and drink (especially arrack). and Maisurians, at certain times of the year, These gifts are called Karana Barani. bring a Mari Amma and carry it through the Neighbours are also allowed to come in and put country to have the people's vows paid to it. questions to the possessed one. (A) COORG ANCESTRAL WORSHIP. Another cereniony called the Karana Kola, Ghosts, i.e., the spirits of their ancestors, are i.e., ghost-masque, conducted with the object of believed by the Coorgs to hover inside and out- finding out the particular wishes of the ghosts, side of their dwellings, and to give endless | is performed every second or third year, and occatrouble if not properly respected. For their use sionally also every year. For this affair a Maleya Kaymada,* & small building with one apart- Ala performer is invited to the house (either a ment, or in some cases with a mere niche, is Panika, Banna, or Maleya); and at night he puts generally built near the house; or a Kotat al on, one after another, five or more different sort of bank, is made for them under a tree, in costumes, according to the number of ancestors the fields where the family's first house has especially remembered at the time. Arrayed in stood. A number of figures roughly beaten in these dresses he dances to the accompaniment of silver plates, bronze images, and sometimes also a drum beaten by a companion, and behaves as figures on a slab of pot stone, are put in the if possessed by the Coorg ghosts. After each Kaymadas to represent the ancestors; and Kola, or mask, he leaves the house with a fowl, * Kaymada means "field-building, and also "building This decapitation is, as it appears, performed only when near at hand." the ghost of Asjappa (ie, father, grandfather), a renowned + Koga, in this instance, seems to mean "place of assem- Coorg hero, is thought to visit the Kaymada. At nuptial blage;" the Talus call it Kotti." and funeral ceremonies it is customary to decapitate & pig Kerana, in Canarese, means "the black or dark one;" but in front of the Kaymadi. Once a year some of the Coorge it may be a Sanskrit term meaning "agent," "chief," in place some food in the burial-ground (Titangala). Such which sense it is used to denote the living heads of families. offerings are sometimes called "Kalaya" or "Kalaja," which It is, however, not impossible that the last-mentioned term may mean "spirituous, liquor," as a libation of arrack meaning has been attached to the word by brahmanical has always to accompany them (cf. the so-called Sansk influence. Sodalichi means "& female of the burning- term Kalya). ground;" Karapachi," a female of the Karanas." Sodalichi || Barani is probably identical with Sanskrit Parapa, inay be an imported word, as we have the ancient Coorg term Tatangas, i.e., burial-ground. Burying the dead is custom " breakfast." ary among the Coorge. Kola occurs also in Tamil.

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48 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [FEBRUARY, 1873. a cocoanut, fried rice, and other eatables, and some arrack, and offers them in the court-yard. When in the state of trance, various questions are put to him by the people of the house, and also by neighbours. The food given him during the performance is also Karana Barani. The masks having been finished, a pig, fattened expressly for the purpose, is decapitated in front of the Kaymala, either by the Maleyala, or by a Coorg of the house pointed out by him ; its head is put for some minutes in the Kaymada, and it is then taken back and given to the Malevala. The rest of the pig and the bodies of the fowls (the heads belonging to the Maleyala performer) are made into curry for the benefit of the house-people. Where there happens to be no Kaymada, the pig-offering is made at the Karana Kota. Females also behave now and then as if possessed by ancestral spirits." While thus affected they roll about on the ground, but they do not give utterance to any oracular responses. Sometimes threats are sufficient to cast out the ghosts ; at other times it is found necessary to call in sorcerers, either Coorgs or others, who, with the accompanying recitation of certain formulas, beat the possessed, or rather the ghosts, as the people think; and if this procedure proves ineffectual, the presenting of offerings (bali) is then resorted to. (B) Coorg DEMON WORSHIP. Male and female demons, called Kali,t are held to be even more injurious than ancestral ghosts. One of the bad tricks of the Kulis is their carrying off the souls of dying people. Whenever sore trials arise in a house, and strange voices are thought to be heard in and near it, a Kaniya, i. e., astrologer (in this case a Maleyala), is enquired at regarding the cause. If he declares that some relative of the house has not died in the natural way, but has been killed, and the soul carried off by a demon belonging to the house or to the village, or to some other village, a Kuli Kola, i. e., demonmasque, has to be performed for the liberation of the soul. As such a masque, however, takes place only at fixed periods (at a place called Kutta once a year, at other places once every second or third year), the master of the house ties some money to a rafter of the roof of his house, as a pledge of his willingness to have the masque performed at the proper time, or to go * It may be remarked here that people are said to become possessed not only by ghosts, but also by demons to one ; or he ties his brass plate up there and eats his rice from plantain leaves, to express his humble obedience to the demon. If the time for the demon-masque has come, one of the previously mentioned Maleykla performers, or in his stead a Tulu Paleya, is sent for ; and when he arrives he goes through the ceremony in the court-yard. Demon-masques are held either in the name of five Kalis (Chamundi, Kalluruti, Panjuruli, Galiga, and Goraga, called the Pancha Bhatas), or in the name of three (Kallugutti, Panjuruli, and Kalluruti), or in the name of one (e.g. Chamundi). Several of the demon-masques are performed in the same manner as the ghostmasque, already described, the food which the performer takes in his trances being called Koli Barani. The liberation of the soul is effected thus : the performer, when representing the demon that has committed the theft, is begged to let the spirit loose ; he generally refuses at first to listen to the request ; but in the end he throws a handful of rice on such members of the household as stand near him, and with this action he gives the spirit over to them. The spirit alights on the back of one of these members of the family, who then falls into a swoon, and is carried by the others into the house. When, after a little while, consciousness is restored, the ancestor's spirit is considered to have joined the assembly of the other spirits. If the liberation is to be obtained at the demon-masque of the village, or at that of another village, a man of the house goes to the performance, and presents a cloth to the performer, for which he receives in return a handful of rice, a piece of a cocoanut, or some such trifle, which is thrown into his lap, the spirit at the same moment coming and mounting the man's back. He has then to run off with his burden without looking backwards ; but after a while the spirit relinquishes his seat, and follows him quietly into the house and joins its fellowspirits. The final act at a demon-masque is the decapitation of pigs either by the performers, or by Coorgs under their superintendence. One pig only is sacrificed if it is merely a house affair ; but several must suffer if the ceremony is performed for a village, or for the whole country, at the place called Kutta. Pigs must be killed in front of the so-called Kali Kota (fowls are killed upon it); and the general demon-masque of (Kali), and 80-called deities. t Kali means " wicked one;" it occurs also in Tamil.

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FEBRUARY, 1873.] a village or of the country has to take place at the Kuli Kota. The heads of the fowls and pigs are given to the performers, and the trunks are taken home to be prepared for dinner. The demons have their Kotas everywhere, near to and far from the houses and villages. A stone on an earth-bank under a tree sometimes represents a body of them, sometimes only one of their number; at other places one demon THE MENHIRS OF HASSAN. THE MENHIRS OF THE HASSAN DISTRICT. BY CAPTAIN J. S. F. MACKENZIE. FROM all the information I have been able to glean, the Menhirs of the Hassan district may be divided into the following classes : 1. Maste Kallu.-These are rare. From three to four feet high, adorned with the simple figure of a woman, they mark the spot where some devoted wife has sacrificed herself on her husband's pyre, Transient as the flames in which she perished has been the woman's fame; her history and her name are lost. No inscriptions are ever found on such monumental stones: there is the figure of a woman, and nothing more. 2. Kodu Kallu (slaughter-stones).-These, as I have before observed, are common all over the district. Several are to be found in almost every village, but their history has been forgotten. They are usually divided into three compartments, but not always; for on the Mulnad we find only an armed man and his wife. The divisions between, and by the side of, the panels, in which are sculptured the three stages of the important event in the hero's history which the stone is intended to commemorate, often bear inscriptions in the old Canarese character. Now that the oldest form of this character has been deciphered, the reading of these inscriptions ought no longer to be the riddle it has been. The linga is always delineated in the upper compart ment. This proves that the men who were slain were Sivabactaru (followers of Siva). The Bellala kings (A.D. 1000) were not followers of Siva; and since their time no kings of that faith have ruled the country. Either, then, the court religion differed from that of the masses, or these stones were erected before the time of the Bellala kings. Judging by the character of the inscriptions, I should say they date from 800 to 1000 A.D. 3. Toda Kena Kallu.-These are rare. They are found near the village-gate, and have a charm 49 is represented by several stones. Here and there stone-enclosures are found around the Kotas, and the Kotas themselves vary very much in size. Demons are not fed except at masques, and on the performance of particular vows in the latter case no Maleyalas or Tulus are required. Demons' food is arrack, fowls, and pigs, all three articles being much liked by the Coorgs themselves. engraved upon them. This charm, it is supposed, averts or removes the cattle disease from the village once a year; the villagers assemble to worship it, when 101 of each of the following articles are presented-viz., pots of water, limes, plantains, betelnut, betel leaves, and copper coins. 4. Kari Kallu.-This is a plain, unhewn stone found inside and close to the village-gate. Neither figure nor inscription is ever found upon it. It was set up when the village was first formed. Once a year the headman of the village, or his henchman-the Kulwadi-presents an offering to this stone. 5. Vyasana-tolu Kallu (Vyasana's armstone). These are rare, and are generally close to the Mutt (monastery ?) of some Saiva priest. The following story from the Skanda Purana is said to account for the origin of these stones:Vyasa was once asked by his disciples Who is the first and greatest-Vishnu or Siva?" Vyasa replied" Vishnu." Those of his disciples who preferred Siva expressed an unwillingness to be satisfied unless Vyasa would make this statement on oath, in presence of the god, in the temple of Iavanath, Vyasa agreed to do so, and, raising his right hand, began to take the oath before the god. This was too much for Busievara, who could not stand his master being reduced to the second place, He therefore drew his sword and cut off Vyasa's arm. The holy man appealed to Vishnu to restore the arm he had lost in attempting to assert his superiority, The god appe.ed and told his disciple that he was helpless in the matter, since Ievara was undoubtedly his superior. Vyasa now returned to Ievara and begged that the arm which had offended might, as a punishment, be tied hereafter to the leg of Busva (the bull, Siva's vehicle). To this Ievara agreed, and supplied Vyasa with a new arm.

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50 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. It is still the custom, when the god Ievara is being taken out in procession, to tie an arm made of cloth to the foot of the bull, carried on a high pole in front of the god. The Vaishnava Brahmans object to this badge of superiority being flaunted in their face; and whenever sufficiently powerful, they prevent the observance of the custom. This strong objection on their part, and the power they have acquired in the country, may account for the small number of stones of this class now to be found. What the man and woman, generally shown under the upraised arm MARASA VAKKALIGARU OF MAISUR. BY V. N. NARASIMMIYENGAR, BANGALOR. THE Marasa Vakkaligaru form a large and important sub-division of the rayat class in the province of Maisur. They are to be found chiefly in the talukas of Nelamangala, Doddaballapura, Devandahalli, Chickaballapura, Gumminayakanapalya, Malur, Hosakot, Kolar, and Bangalor. They are a hardy and industrious people, their principal occupation being agriculture. Small colonies of these rayats are also to be found in other localities, whither enterprize and the hope of gain have allured them. There is a very peculiar religious rite performed among these people. Their women offer as sacrifice to Bhairava Linga, or Bhandi Devaru (the Saiva Phallus so called), the first joints of their right-hand ring and little fingers, which are cut off by the village carpenter. It is proposed to trace the origin and rationale of this practice. It must be stated in limine that Colonel M. Wilkes has noticed this rite in his History of Maisur (Madras Ed. of 1869, vol. I. pp. 272 and 273). Without the Puranic element, the popular version is as follows: [FEBRUARY, 1873. (see Illustration), are intended to represent, I know not; and no one can enlighten me on this point. 6. Hanumantta Kallu.-This stone has nothing to do with the god whose name it bears, but is connected with a marriage privilege of the goldsmith caste. The goldsmiths, being of the left-hand caste, are entitled to only 11 posts to the awning erected during marriage in front of the house. But in those villages where this stone is to be found, the goldsmiths have the right, provided the awning is erected close to the stone, to use the full number of posts, viz., 12. Once upon a time in the remote past, there was a great Rakshasa, named Bhasmasura, who wished to become invincible. In the orthodox manner he performed "tapas" in honor of Siva for countless ages. That god, pleased with the devotion and asceticism of his worshipper, appeared to him in propria forma, and asked him what he wanted. The Rakshasa begged Siva to place in the palm of his right hand the fiery eye (Phala natra) which the god wears on his forehead. No sooner asked than granted; but the sceptical giant maliciously attempted to experiment with the boon on the very grantor thereof. Awakened to the peril of his situation, Siva thereupon ingloriously fled, the vindictive Rakshasa pursuing him everywhere. The fugitive god, after vainly hiding himself successively in castor-oil and jawari plantations, took refuge in a "Linga Tonde" shrub, and at last became invisible to his pursuer. It happened that at this time a Marasa Vakkaliga cultivator was at work in a neighbouring field, and Bhasmasura enquired of him the whereabouts of Siva, who had all along appeared in the disguise of a Jaugama. The wily rayat, true to the instinct of self-preservation, did not give any reply, but simply pointed his forefinger to the shrub in which Siva was concealed. The god was on the point of being annihilated by the giant placing his hand on his head, when Vishnu came to the rescue, and manifested himself to the Rakshasa in the form of a lovely maiden, meretriciously dressed. The Asura, who was notorious for lust, and for the most unbridled indulgence of his evil passions, forgot all about Siva and his destruction, and attempted to ravish the enchanting houri before him. She, however, recoiled from the pollution of his touch, and told him to wash and purify himself first. In following the command of his enchantress, the Rakshasa found all the seas, rivers, wells, &c., dry as if by magic. There was however a small pool of water on a rock close by, and the maiden relented so far as to advise him to pour three handfuls of water on his head. In his mad passion, the giant forgot himself so far as to place his hand on his own head, in the act of pouring the water over his person, and was instantaneously consumed to ashes. The pusillanimous Siva now emerged from his hiding-place, and in thanking Vishnu for

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FEBRUARY, 1873.] MARASA VAKKALIGARU. 51 his deliverance from so imminent a danger, was in his turn bewitched by the unearthly beauty of the creature standing before him. He accordingly embraced her, and the result was the immediate production of three Lingas, respect. ively called Jinne Linga, Kalle Linga, and Bhairava Linga, which were the very embodiment of Siva's essence. He thereupon assigned the first to the Jains, the second to the Kurubars, and the third to the Marasa Vakkaligaru for worship. It only remained for Siva to punish the traitor whose treachery had very nearly put an end to his own existence. He accordingly condemned the rayat to cut off his forefinger, which was the offending member, as atonement for his sin. The poor rayat did so without hesitation. In the meantime his wife appeared on the scene, and petitioned the god to accept her own ring and little fingers in lieu of her lord's forefinger, as the loss would be too great to men, who are required to labour with the hand for their bread. Siva was greatly pleased with the self-sacrifice of the rayat's wife, and granted her petition. It is the progeny of this virtuous woman who observe the vow to the present day. The place where the wicked giant was burnt to death may still be recognized by a hill in the Kolar taluka, called Siti Betta, where there is a mine of Vibhuti, or sacred ashes. Such is the history of the origin of this singular rite, giren by a class of itinerant beggars called Pichiguntadavaru, who form a living encyclopaedia of such traditions, and whose tales are implicitly believed by the Marasa Vakkaligaru, who are themselves unable to account for the strange custom, The episode in the Bhagavata, which relates to the rise and fall of Bhasmasura, or more appropriately Vrikasura, is totally different from the above story; but, as stated at the outset, the popular impressions on the subject which prevail among the ignorant Marasa Vakkaligara are alone described here. These people may roughly be classed under three heads-viz., (1) those whose women offer the aforesaid sacrifice; (2) those who offer & golden substitute; and (3) those who do not perform the rite. These sections, however, freely intermarry with one another, and it is only in the performance of the sacrifice that the differ- ence between them exists. Class I. embraces exclusively worshippers of Bhairava Linga, or Bhandi Devaru. The ceremony is performed by women after they become mothers. The modus operandi is as nearly as possible the following - About the time of the new moon in Chaitra, & certain propitious day is fixed by the aid of the village Joyisa, or astrologer, and the woman who is to offer the sacrifice performs certain ceremonies, or puje, in honor of Siva, taking her meals only once a day, in the evening. For three days before the final operation, she has to support herself with milk, sugar, fruits, &c.all substantial food being eschewed. On the day appointed, a common cart is brought out, and is painted in alternate stripes with white and red ochre, and is further adorned with streamers, gay flags, flowers, &c., in imitation of a car. Sheep or pigs are slaughtered before it, their number being generally governed by the number of children borne by the sacrificing female. The cart is then dragged by bullocks, preceded by the usual music, the woman and her husband following, with new pots (karaga), filled with water and small pieces of silver coin, borne on their heads, and accompanied by a retinue of 'frionds and relatives. The village washerman has to spread clean clothes along the path of the procession, which stops near the boundary of the village, where a leafy bower or shed is prepared, with three pieces of stone installed in it, symbolizing the god Siva. Flowers, fruits, cocoanuts, incense, &c., are then offered, varied occasionally by an additional sheep or pig. A wooden seat (Mane) is then placed before the image, and the sacrificing woman places upon it her right hand, with the fingers spread out. A man holds her hand firmly, and the village carpenter, placing his chisel on the first joints of her ring and little fingers, chops them off with a single stroke of his right hand. The pieces lopped off are thrown into an ant-hill (Hatta), and, as soon after as possible, the tips of the mutilated fingers, round which rags are bound, are dipped into a vessel containing boiling gingili til (oil). This operation, it is believed, prevents bleeding and swelling, and accelerates the cure. The fee of the carpenter is one kanthirayi fanam (four annas eight pies) for each maimed finger, besides presents in kind. The women undergo the barbarous and painful ceremony without a murmur, and it is an article of the popular belief that were it neglected, or if nails grow on the stumps, dire ruin and misfortune will overtake the recusant family. Staid matrons who have had their fingers maimed for life in the above manner, exhibit their stumps with a pride worthy of a better cause. At

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52 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. the termination of the sacrifice, the woman is presented with cloths, flowers, &c., by her friends and relatives, to whom a feast is given. Her children are also placed on an adorned seat (Hase), and after receiving presents of flowers, fruits, &c., their ears are pierced in the usual manner. It is said that to do so before would be sacrilege. Class II. consists of a section of the Marasa Vakkaligaru who, after performing the foregoing preliminaries, substitute for the fingers a piece of gold wire, of the same value as the carpenter's fee above stated, twisted round the fingers in the shape of rings. Instead of cutting the fingers off, the carpenter removes and appropriates the rings. Class III.-Some families of the Marasa Vakkaligaru have altogether repudiated the worship PYAL SCHOOLS IN MADRAS. BY THE LATE CHARLES E. GOVER, M.R.A.S., MADRAS. BUILT against the front wall of every Hindu house in Southern India, and I believe it is so in other parts of India also, is a bench about three feet high and as many broad. It extends along the whole frontage, except where the house door stands. It is usually sheltered from sun and rain by a veranda, or by a pandal or temporary erection of bamboo and leaves. The posts of the veranda or pandal are fixed in the ground a few feet in front of the bench, enclosing a sort of platform: for the basement of the house is generally two or three feet above the street level. The raised bench is called the Pyal, and is the lounging-place by day. It also serves in the hot months as a couch for the night. The raised pavement is termed the Koradu. Koradu and Pyal are very important portions of every house. There the visitor is received; there the bargaining is done; there the beggar plies his trade, and the yogi, sounds his conch; there also the members of the household clean their tecth, amusing themselves the while with belches and other frightful noises. It is, however, of a nobler use of the Koradu and Pyal that this paper shall speak, as may be gathered from its title. [FEBRUARY, 1873. of the Bhandi Devaru, and owe their allegiance to Vishnu in his several manifestations of Tirupati Venkataramanasvami, Chennarayasvami, Kadari Narsinhasvami, &c. They do not therefore undergo the revolting sacrifice. Enveloped as this tradition and practice are in the haze of antiquity, it is difficult, if not almost impossible, to account for them. The Bhagavata is silent regarding the part which the Marasa Vakkaliga is said to have played in the foregoing legend in the destruction of Vrikasura. Under these circumstances, a suggestion may be made. that the origin of the practice may not improbably have been in some attempted feminine rebellion against the authority of the "lords of the creation," and in the consequent measures. to suppress it. Every village has its school; a large village will have several. It need hardly be said that there are no special school-buildings, no infant galleries, no great black-board, no dominie's desk. No: the most convenient and airy Pyal is chosen. It must have a good Koradu. Usually it is the headman who lends his for the purpose, for the headman's house ought to be the best in the village. In the northern Telugu districts each village has a "Kotham" or meeting-place in a central spot, like the "mandu" of a Kargi village. In that case the school meets there, under the pagoda mantapam, or even in a thatched shed. But in the Tamil country the school is in the Pyal. When the lads come of a morning, they sit in line upon the Pyal, leaving the Koradu for the teacher and for their own passage. In the great towns a great conflict rages between the new-fangled English Anglo-Vernacular schools and the Pyal schools. There is no denying that the latter are going to the wall. Even in the larger villages the Anglo-Vernacular school is pushing forward and elbows the more humble institution out of the place. In time a Pyal school will be as rare as the megatherium. Before it loses its pristine vigour or remodels itself after the English fashion, let us see what it is like, what it teaches, what it leaves undone. I have a weakness for these out-of-the-way aspects of native life, and have found such pleasure in studying this particular feature, that I feel as if I too had sat at the feet of the irritable Pandit, had studied his strange arithmetic, and been soundly rapped on the knuckles for having dropped a syllable in trying to repeat the Kural by rote. They instruct in the three "R's," the first two very fairly, but of arithmetic only the very elements are taught. On the other hand, much time is often given to construing beautiful but obscure poems written in the high dialect, and, except as moral teachers, of little use in the concerns of daily life. The average number of children in each school is less than twenty-one, and it is, therefore, quite impos. sible for adequate teaching power to be employed. There is no apparatus beyond the sandy ground, certain small black-boards, and some kajans. A sort of discipline is maintained by a constant and often severe use of the cane. Unruly or truant boys are coerced by punishments that partake of the nature of torture. They are compelled to sit or

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PYAL SCHOOLS IN MADRAS. FEBRUARY, 1873.] stand in cruel postures. Their legs are fettered. Hand and foot and neck are bent together and held fast by iron ties. A log fastened to a chain hangs from the waist, or is slowly dragged behind. The Pyal school is, however, so important an item not only in education, but in the social and religious life of the people, that a somewhat detailed description of its actual work must be of great interest, and may prevent rash interference with a time-honoured institution. It will be well to consider first the payments made by the scholars. To show this clearly, I propose to exhibit them under two aspects those paid in a school for the well-to-do, and those in a school for the poor. We will suppose the son of a respectable good-caste writer to be sent for the first time to the nearest Pyal school, the teacher of which will almost certainly be a Brahman. A lucky day must first be chosen, and then the teacher comes to the new pupil's house together with all his scholars. Before the boy is handed over to the master, paja to Ganapati or Ganes'a is performed by the family purohit, and then to Sarasvati, the goddess of learning, in the presence of the lad's father and male relations. Then presents are distributed to Brahmans, and fruits, sugar, &c., to everybody present. The school-master is placed sitting in a conspicuous part of the room, and then is presented with flowers, sandal (chandan), fruits, and a pair of cloths; one of which is twelve cubits long, and the other six cubits, the cost of both being about 1 rupees. The teacher then puts the cloths on, seats himself by the side of the proposed scholar, causes him to repeat a prayer to Ganes'a, asking for wisdom, and that his course of study may be fortunate and successful, and makes him repeat the whole of the alphabet three times. Next a flat vessel containing dry rice is brought in, and the teacher guides the finger of the pupil, so that he may write in the loose rice the names of the deity they serve, whether Vishnu or Siva. Then the ceremony concludes. All the school-boys are presented with beaten rice, Bengal gram and sugar mixed together, a handful each; the monitor or senior boy, who acts as the teacher's assistant, receiving also a few pice. Now the boy proceeds in procession to the school, where he is again made to repeat the alphabet three times. The procession then returns to his home, and they disperse for the day. With the next day commences the ordinary school career of the boy. It has also been agreed between the teacher and the father how much is to be paid monthly as the school fee. This sum varies with the means of the parent, but never exceeds eight annas a month. Sometimes, however, it happens that the ceremony described above is postponed till the pupil has learned the alphabet. In that case no monthly fee is paid, but when the alphabet is fully known and the ceremony takes place, a more handsome present is given, which is supposed to include all school fees up to that date. It may be supposed that the latter method is most conducive to progress on the part of the pupil, but it is directly contrary 53 to the precepts of the so-called S'astras. In both cases a fee is regularly paid after the date of the initiating ceremony. This, however, does not include all the gains of the master. He receives presents at certain festivals throughout the year, especially at Pongal and Dasera; and on every 15th day he receives from the father of each pupil a gift of betel and pan; every Saturday he receives half a pollam of lamp oil; and every morning on his return from breakfast each pupil must bring a bratti or cow-dung cake. Beyond all these, at every major feast throughout the year, the teacher receives from each house half a measure of rice, curry-stuff, &c., while at Dasera and Pongal he has in addition a money present. The Dasera is specially distinguished, seeing he receives the Pongal present doubled, and, in addition, some days before the feast, he raises a subscription among his pupils to pay the expense of Sarasvati and Ayda Paja, which festivals occur during the Dasera. Besides all these periodical presents, there are others which are supposed to stimulate the teacher to make every effort for the early advancement of his pupils. Thus, when any new book or chapter is begun, he receives an anna or a fanam from the boy who makes this one more step in his instruction. This fee is sometimes rebelled against, but not successfully, for it is also the custom of the teacher to give a sort of holiday to the whole school on the occasion, and, if the present be not given, the holiday is withheld, and thus the lads bring pressure on each other to ensure the necessary gift. The ceremonial at the Dasera feast deserves particular attention. A month or two before the feast begins, a number of songs are committed to memory by the pupils, under the guidance of the teacher. By the arrival of the feast the series is learnt by all the boys, who have also been taught how to sing each song to a particular tune. In some schools the lads are also taught to dance what is called the Kolattam. This derives its name from the fact that the dancers move to the beating of sticks, of which each lad has two. They are about eighteen inches long, and are fancifully painted. The lads draw up in a double line, facing each other, and, with a stick in each hand, coinmence singing, keeping time by striking the sticks held by them. As they sing and strike they move about in a sort of dance. All this is taught them by the teacher in the ordinary school hours, and should be properly practised in time for the Dasers. On each day of the feast the lads dress themselves in their best, holding in their hands paper spears, daggers, painted staves, &c., and go in procession to those of the pupils' houses where the school teacher expects a suitable present, and also to the houses of the well-to-do friends and relations of the pupils. Arriving at a house, the pupils seat themselves in the hall or on the pyal and koradu, and sing the songs they have learnt, dancing also the Kolattam if they have been taught it. The head of the house is then expected to give the teacher a handsome

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54 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. present, and bestow sweetineats upon the boys. This sort of thing goes on till the list of expected donors is gone through. Thus ends the long list of presents which, in a respectable school, enable the master to hold a suitable position in the community. Things are different in a Pyal school for the children of the poor. Here no entrance fee is offered, nor any monthly payment until the alphabet is fully mastered. Nor is the customary present made on commencement of a new book or chapter. A small payment is made each month of, say, one or two annas, and a tiny present every fourteenth day. The same ritual is performed at Dasera as in the more respectable school, but the gains of the master are smaller in proportion, and similarly for each festival throughout the year. The daily bratti is given and the weekly oil. Combining all sources of income, the teacher of a respectable Pyal school with about twenty-five pupils will receive from 15 to 25 rupees per mensem, while his fellow labourer in a poor locality will not receive more than from 5 to 10 rupees. In Musalman schools no monthly fee is charged, and the teacher is entirely dependent on presents. Thus, whenever a new chapter of the Koran is commenced, the pupils should give from four annas to as many rupees, according to the wealth of the family. At the commencement of every festival, as the Muharram, Shab-i-barat, Ramazan, Bakri 'Id, &c., the teacher also receives presents-not more than four annas or less than one fanam. Once a week, on the day before the sabbath, every pupil must also reward his teacher with two pies, just previous to the weekly half-holiday on that day. When the Koran is finished, the teacher receives a handsome gift, according to the means of the parent, including generally a pair of new cloths, shawls, or a silk khabu or cloak, as worn by the priests. The gift of a shawl or khaba is supposed to express deeper honour or greater thanks than a mere money present, as it especially denotes that the donee is a person of high respectability or learning. Beyond all this, the father of each child must send with him as large an entrance donation as his circumstances permit, together with a present of sweetmeats to be distributed among the school-boys. It is not easy to estimate the Musalman teacher's receipts from the school alone, seeing that it is the teacher's duty also to perform all religious ceremonies in the houses of those who entrust their children to his care, and for each of these he receives a certain present of money, cloths, or food. It is evident, therefore, that the teacher must be a highly respectable person, and I am informed that none but really learned men of good descent are permitted to set up as teachers. Their gains correspond with their position, and are considerable for so poor a community, varying usually between rupees 15 and 30 per mensem. [FEBRUARY, 1873. arithmetic, and memoriter work in the high dialect and Sanskrit. Taking the first-named subject, it must be noted that all the text-books are in the high dialect, and that ordinary modern Tamil, &c., is not taught at all. The books used in almost every Tamil school are -The Kural of Tiruvalluva; Only four subjects are taught in a Pyal school, whatever its character. These are reading, writing, Attisudi of Auveiyar; Krishman-thudu; Panchatantra; Ramayana of Kamban ; and Kada Chintamani. The grammatical portion of study is drawn from the Nannul, and the Nighantu. In Telugu schools the list is different, and includes-Sabhaparva; Saptamaskanda; Sumati Shataka; Nulu Pakyanano. There is no grammatical instruction in Telugu schools corresponding to that from the Nannul in Tamil schools, but the Telugu Amaram takes the place of the Tamil Nighantu. Some of the books in both lists have been printed, and, if the price is small, printed editions are used, otherwise the teacher alone has the book itself, and from that he daily copies on kajan the portion required for the next day's work. When the pupil becomes pretty dexterous in writing with his finger on sand, he has then the privilege of writing either with an iron style on kajan leaves, or with a reed on paper, and sometimes on the leaves of the Aristolochia Indica, or with a kind of pencil on the balaka, hulligi, or kadala, which answer the purpose of slates. The latter is most common in Telugu districts. The palaka, or hulligi, as it is called in Canarese, is an oblong board, about a foot in width and three feet in length. This board, when planed smooth, has only to be smeared with a little rice and pulverized charcoal, and it is then fit for use. The kadala is made of cloth, first stiffened with rice water, doubled into folds resembling a book, and it is then covered with a composition of charcoal and several gums. The writing on either of these may be effaced by a wet cloth. Each school day, after 2 o'clock, the pupil copies the morrow's lesson from the teacher's kajan on to the palaka or portable black-board, which the parent must provide for his son, and which has to be blacked by the pupil as often as is required, usually three or four times a day. The pencil used is made of soft gypsum or balapam, as it is called in the vernacular. Having copied his lesson, the pupil carries it first to his master, who hears hin read it two or three times, making the necessary corrections both in writing and verbal delivery. The palaka is then carried home, its contents learnt by heart, and next morning the lesson must be repeated from memory to the teacher. This exercise is a very profitable one, as it teaches how to write, how to read, improves the memory, and stores it with the best literature of past ages. To deliver the lesson, the boys go one at a time to the teacher, hold the palaka before them with its front to the teacher and its back to themselves, thus by one act refreshing the teacher's memory, proving their own, and preventing fraud. In this way every pupil obtains a thorough

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FEBRUARY, 1873.) PYAL SCHOOLS IN MADRAS. 55 knowledge of four or five of the great classics of Writing is taught in the very best possible modethe language, and becomes perfectly able to read his in conjunction with the reading lesson. The pupil vernacular. It is not very certain that any other begins his writing lessons when he commences to system will produce much better results, except in learn his alphabet. He is spared the drudgery of the points about to be considered. In one respect the wretched system that custom makes necessary the system is better than that adopted in European in every English school, -the weeks of dreary labour schools for the poor. The classic books thus inaster- on unmeaning strokes, pot-hooks, and hangers. ed are also the moral law of the nation, and exhibit His first lesson is a complete letter, and thus he can system of ethics of the highest character. Always feel that every day he makes real and useful excepting the Bible, I know no western book in progress. common use which can compare with the Kural, The alphabet is almost everywhere written with Auveiyar, and most of the other books so employed the finger on the sanded groupd. All future writing In fact, all observers are agreed that the Kural forms is done either in the mode described above-writthe real moral code of the country. It does noting the morrow's lesson on the palaka-or subsefall within the scope of this paper to show whether quently with the style on kajan, and in the more or how far the adult population follow the rules respectable schools with an English pen on paper. thus learnt in youth, but there can be no doubt as In connexion with this subject, another point of to the benefit that must follow such moral training. great excellence in the system of education practis The inain evils of the system described above are ed in a Pyal school must be mentioned. It cannot two : the books read are all in the high dialect, be better introduced than in the words of Mr. Setonand hence, both in the collocation and the form Karr, the well-known civilian judge in Bengal. of the words themselves, are altogether different Referring to the Bengal Pyal schools, he says: from the language the lads must speak and hear in "These (indigenous) schools do supply a sort of their after-life. Hence their study corresponds information which ryots and villagers, who think pretty fairly with that of Latin in an English at all about learning to read and write, cannot and school. It needs no argument to prove that, will not do without. They learn there the system if the books studied were written in modern of baniya's accounts, or that of agriculturists. Tamil, the time spent in learning would be They learn forms of notes-of-hand, quittances, much more profitably employed, seeing that now leases, agreements, and all such forms as are in the lad leaves school untrained in the language constant use with a population not naturally dull which he must meet with in ordinary life, in the and somewhat prone to litigation, and whose social vernacular journals, and in all the living forms of relations are decidedly complex. All these forme modern thought. All western books that are trans- are taught by the guru from memory, as well as lated at all are rendered into the modern dialect, complimentary forms of address; and I lave heard and there ought to be no barrier to prevent any a little boy, not ten years old, run off from memory person at once appretiating them. Really effective A form of this kind with the utmost glibness. This education must march with modern language and boy, like many others, had never read from a book modern ideas. in his life. On these acquirements the agricultural A great deal of time is also lost, seeing that it is population set a very considerable value. It is the impossible for a child to make such progress in a absence of such instructions as this which, I think. dead language as he could in a living one. In has led to the assertion, with regard to some districts, studying the Kural, for example, more time is given that the inhabitants consider their own indigenous to the commentary than to the text, because, with- schools to be better than those of Government. out the former, the latter is obscure. The result is | I would have all forms of address and of business, much the same as if, in English schools, the reading | all modes of account, agricultural and commercial, lessons were always in Ortulum or the Saxon collected, and the best of their kind printed in Chronicle. cheap and popular forin, to serve as models. I A third evil lies in the fact that the system almost would even have the common summons of our precludes simultaneous or class teaching, and this is criminal or revenue courts printed off." a necessary element of rapid progress. It should I Much the same mode is followed in Madras. In not be forgotten, however, that the individual addition to the regular teaching thus referred to teaching now given effectually prevents that resi- it is common bere for the teacher to borrow from duum of confirmed idlers, and therefore ignorant his friends all the up-country letters he can hear lads, which is the one drawback of the system of of. These are carried to the school, read, copied, class teaching in ordinary hands. The Pyal modo studied, and explained. Reading them is no easy turns out every pupil a fair scholar - though at a matter. The vernacular current band is as different great waste of labour. The class system ensures a from the printed character as German hand-writing fnuch higher average, but permite confirmed from the Roman type of books. English influence dullards. has been steadily exercised against this current I have referred at this length to reading, because band, and in many districts it is passing away this subject is the key of the whole system, and superseded by the printing character. It is doubt the other lessons will not require much attention. ful whether this is an advantage, as we may consider

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56 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [FEBRUARY, 1873. for ourselves by imagining how we should get on candidates could at all decipher the writing. All if compelled to do all our writing in Roman charac- had been well educated and all could speak and ters, keeping the letters separate from each other. write English, yet not one out of four could read However this may be, the learning of the current their own language in that form which should be hand is a most important item of a iad's education. most familiar to them. Mufassal candidates could In English schools this subject is altogether neglect- generally read, thongh even among them those who ed, and it is most assuredly a grievous evil. For had been taught in good English schools were inost example, the work of the Census office is mainly deficient. The total number of candidates was expended on schedules written in the vernacular of probably not less than 1,000, and yet there was the various districts. Being compiled by the village immense difficulty in obtaining 200 persons even karnams, who are practised writers, the entries are tolerably at ease in vernacular writing. It is subusually in a clear current hand, far superior to mitted that in the national system of education which ordinary English writing. Yet when applications India is now slowly providing for itself, every were made for employment, and candidates were means should be taken to ensure thorough instrucexamined as to their power of reading the schedules, tion in vernacular reading and writing, substituting it was discovered that not one out of four of Madras | the modern for the ancient dialect. REVIEW A GRAMMAR OF THE URDU OR HINDUSTANI LANGUAGE, teach him how to break it down into the ordinary by John DowBox, M.E.A.B., Professor of Hindustani, style of the natives. It is a pity that the book Staff College. Trubner & Co., London. 1872. is so destitute of philology. Although intendThis little book appears, from advertisements that ed for learners, there is no reason why even have appeared since it was issued, to be the first they should not bave a clue given them now of a series which Professor Dowson proposes to and then. You may either teach a boy on the publish for the benefit of students of the Urdu dogmatic principle "This is so, learn it, and never language-the principal medium of commanication mind why," or you may tell him-"The reason between mun of all races and classes in India. In of this apparent irregularity is so-and-so." Of the looking through the neatly-printed pages, it is two methods the latter will certainly make his difficult to avoid envying the present generation task easier, and probably also pleasanter. In the of learners. We in our time had no such books as book under aotice, for instance, the subject of these. Lucidity of expression, descending at times genders might have been treated in a much fuller almost to the colloquial style, an admirable clear- and more intelligent manner. Although in geakness of arrangement, and careful study of all the ing, gender is to a great extent neglected, yet it is recorded forms of the written language, are appa- necessary to know the main rules; but Professor rent on every page; while the beauty of Stephen Dowson has hardly made any attempt to explain Austin's well-known type enhances the pleasure of them. reading. Seeing how much the author bas made The subject of declension, however, is fully and of his materials, one cannot but wish he had had ably treated ; and the author has not fallen into the better materials to work on. How long is rubbish temptation, so cominon to grammar-writers, of maklike the Bagh-o-Bahar and the Tota Kahani to be ing one declension into half-a-dozen on account of allowed to hold the chief place, in the estimation some trifling peculiarity, which is in most cases of scholars in Europe, amongst Indian classics? inherent in the base of the noun and is not a -books written to order for English students by declensional feature at all. Objection may be taken pedantie manshis, who wrote up to a given set of to the way in which the form of the plural pronoun rules which they invented for themselves, and of the 1st person, hamon, is spoken of; this form which have never had, and probably never will being very rarely used by good speakers, and conbave, any influence on the native mind, or currency demned as barbarous by men of taste, as it is among any but our own countrymen. If some one certainly indefensible from & philological point of would only send home twenty books taken at random view. The Prakrit amhe, from which ham is out of the masses issued by Munshi Nawal Kishore derived, makes no oblique form amhanam from of Lucknow, there would be more true vernacular which hamon could be derived. The same holds Urdu of the purest kind found in a fiftieth part good of tumhon, though in a less degree. of them than in all the stilted pages of the Araish-j- No less able and admirably lucid is the treatment Mahfil and the rest put together. Still we must of the verb, in which all the numerous combinations take things as they are. From this book of Pro- which this supremely flexible language possesses fessor Dowson's the student in England would are drawn out in a logical and transparently clear certainly learn a very accurate and not inelegant sequence. 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FEBRUARY, 1873.] CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 57 verbs with ne-a construction which, it should be Our space will not allow us to go page by page noted, is rejected in speaking by at least one-half through this interesting book. The syntax is partiof those who use the language. It is, however, cularly good, bringing out in the clearest and most wrong to call the form of the conjunctive parti- refreshingly intelligent way, in spite of occasional ciple in -as kiye, liye, &c.-" an irregular misapprehensions, the many-sided expressiveness of form," it being in reality the original form of a language which has no parellel for vivacity and this participle, and derived from the locative of graceful turns of phrase, except in the most the Sanskrit past participle in ta, as krite, yate, &c., polished Parisian French. We conclude, then, by and some centuries older than the modern forms in congratulating Professor Dowson on having writke, kar, and larke. In fact, a group of ancient and ten by far the best Urdu Grammar that has yet much-used verbs has retained the older form, which appeared, and having thus rendered the acquisition has almost dropped out of use in other verbs. of the most elegant and useful of all the Indian It is amusing to see the respect with which, on | vernaculars both easy and pleasant to the student ; page 113 (note), the inaccuracies of the Bagh-o- and if he pursues, as we hope he may, his task of Bahar and its fellows are treated. They are elevated editing a complete series of educational works, wo to the dignity of a crabbed passage in Thucydides, would recommend him to write to some one in India and the blunders on the ignorant munshi are treated for a selection of genuine native works, such as with the same respect as we should accord to the are current among the people, and not to content genvine phrases of the idiomatic Greek historian. himself with the threadbare and indecent trash The construction with ne is really so modern and which Forbes has raised to the position of Classics. artificial an invention, that it is extremely common Professor Dowson's Grammar is a distinct advance to find natives misusing it. on Forbes; his texts should also be an advance.-J.B. CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEA. REMARKS ON PARTS X. AND XI. is also of the greatest interest. Last winter Burnell too By Pror. WEBER, BERLIN. found a copy of the same work in Telinga character: a comparison of both versions will no doubt yield To the Editor of the Indian Antiquary. much critical help for the restoration of the text, and Sir-I beg to offer you some observations on Nos. for the correction of Somadeva's later work. There X. and XI. of your Indian Antiquary, as they are very can scarcely be a doubt that the Bhutabhusha of full of important and interesting communications. Gunadhya's original composition, according to I begin with the paper of B. G. Bhandarkar on the Dandin's testimony on the Pais'achabhasha, in which Date of Patanjali. Clever as it is, it is a great pity it was written according to Kshemendra and Somathat its author was not aware that I treated the deva, is but a Brahmanical slur on the fact that same subject ten years ago in my critique of Gold- Gunadhya was a Buddhist and wrote in Pali stucker's "Panini" (Indische Studien, V. 150 ff.). (Mr. Gorrey, in a very clever critique on my paper on Patanjali's mentioning the Pushyamitra Sabha the S'aptas'atakam of Hala, in the Journal Asiatique, (thus, Pushyamitra, not Pushpamitra, is the name, Aout-Sept. 1872, p. 217, arrives at nearly the according to the northern Buddhists) and the Chan- same conclusion; even Somadeva's work contains dragupta Sabha is already noticed there. But the some direct allusions to the Buddhist Jatakas question regarding his age does not depend upon (65, 45, 72, 120 ed. Brockhaus); and the Buddhist this only, but has further light thrown upon it when character of many of its tales is quite manifest we adduce and criticise the testimonies of the (see my Indische Streifen, II. 367). The more we VAkyapadiya and the Bajatarangin as quoted learn of the Jatakas, the more namerous are the by Goldstucker; and the final conclusion at which I stories shown to be which are found in India arrive is, that Patanjali lived about 25 after Christ. for the first time, and never afterwards appear in There is, after all, only one point in this argument the Brahmanical fable-and-tale collections. Some of which requires further elucidation. Kern, in his them are originally AEsopic, borrowed by the Budexcellent preface to his edition of Varahamihira's dhists from the Greeks, but arranged by them in their Brihat Sanhita (pp. 37, 98), refers the passage own way (see Indische Studien, III. 356-61). "arunad Yavano Madhyamikan," not to the Bud- The passage from Kumarila's Tantravirttika, dhist sect of that name, but to & people in middle which forms the subject of Burnell's very valuable India, mentioned in the Brihats. 14,2 (see also communication, was pointed out previously by Sankshepas'ankarajaya, 15, 156, in Aufrecht's Cata- Colebrooke (Misc. Essays, I. 315). That the Andhra logue of the Sanskrit MSS. of the Bodleian Library, and Dravida Br&hmans were in early times fully p. 2586). engaged in literary pursuits, is manifest from the Bahler's paper on the Vrihatkath of Kehemendra fact that, according to Skyana, the last (tenth)

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58 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [FEBRUARY, 1873. book of the Taittiriya A'ranyaka is extant in two recensions which go by their name. Sashagiri Sastri's paper on Vikramaditya and Bhoja is rather superficial ; his assertion that the Brihatkath & is believed to be the same as he Khathasarit Sagara, and that the author of the Vasavadatta inust therefore have flourished in the twelfth century, as he mentions the Brihatkatha, is particularly misplaced in this number, which contains, some pages before, Buhler's excellent remarks on the same subject. His paper on Kalidasa in No. XI. is better, especially as it contains some very valuable inform- ation regarding a hitherto unknown work attributed to a person of Kalidasa's celebrated name, and the commentary on it by a Nichulakaviyogindra. I send you herewith my papers on the Jyotirvidabharana. In the first of them (page 727) I have pointed out the passage in Mallinatha's commentary on the Meghadata, where he speaks of the poet Nichuln as a friend, and of Dinnaga as an adversary, of its author, and intimates that the fourtoenth verse of that poem contains an allusion to both of thein; and in the same paper I have also tried to deduce the consequences which would result from such a fact. The present discovery of a Nichulakavi as writing a commentary on a lexicographic production of a Sri-Kalidasa, and doing this at the instigation of a "Maharaja Bhoja," is indeed very curious. Which of the many Bhojas may be meant here? The Bengali Kirtans published by Beames in the same number are of the highest interest, as well as his notes and remarks on them. It is, for instance, a very curious coincidence that Bhojpuri, Bangali, and Oriya, that is to say, three quite modern Hindu dialects, have resorted again to the same expedient for the formation of the future tense as old Latin did more than 2,000 years earlier, vis., to the agglutination of the present tense of . Such an occurrence, or, one ought to say, recurrence, is a striking evidence of the inherent consanguinity of the Aryan race and language, and of the inveterate and unchangeable character of them both. Bhandarkar, in his paper on the date of the Mahabharata, makes good use of the Mahabhashya. And I hope shortly to be able to follow him, as soon as I get the edition of this work issued this summer in Banaras. I have always considered the publication of this work as one of the greatest services which could be rendered to Sanskrit philology, and I am very glad that it has come at last, It is true that, according to the statements of Hari's Vakyapadiya, as given by Goldstucker in his "Panini," and corrected by Stenzler and myself (Indische Studien, V. 166, 187), and according to those of the Rajatarangini, I. 176, IV. 487 (ibid. V. 166, 167), the Mahabhashya in its present form appears to have undergone much remodelling by "Chandrachary&dibhih." But still its testi- mony will always be of great value, though not perhaps exactly decisive for Patanjali's time itself. I am very curious to know if really no direct allusions to the Ramayana will be met in it, as this would be very favourable to my conjecture regarding the comparatively late age of this work. With regard to the Mahabharata, the mentioning of Janamejaya and Dushyanta is not restricted to the Aitareya Brahmana, which alone is adduced by Bhandarkar, but they are mentioned also in the S'atapatha Bralmana, which contains moreover (partly relying on the Vajas. Sanhita and coinciding with the Taitt. Sanhita, and the Kathaka) quite a number of allusions to other names and personages who play a prominent part in the story, especially in the great war of the Mahabharata, viz., Nagrajit, Satanika, Amba, Ambika, Ambalika, Subhadra in Kampila (?), Arjuna and Phalguna (but as names of Indra!), Bhimasena, Ugrasena, and Srutasena asthree brothers of Janamejaya (compare Indische Studien, I. 189-207, and my lectures on Indian Literature (1852), pp. 110, 130-33, 175-7). The Kathaka has a legend about Dhritarashtra Vaichitravirya (Indische Studien, III. 469). The S'ankhayana sutra (XV. 16) speaks of an expulsion of the Kurus from the Kurukshetra, "Kuravah Kurukshetrad chyoshyante." There can be no doubt, therefore, that in the time of this work, as well as in that of Panini, the main story of the Mahabharata had already firm existence, and probably also even then in a poetical form. The Buddhist legends, too (I mean those treating of Buddha's life-time and his jatakas, former births), contain direct allusions to some of these and to other personages of the same epic circle. But all this does not help to fix the age of the Mahabharata itself, which has grown out from the songs of the minstrels at the courts of the petty rajas of Hindustan, and probably got its first form (it contains itself a tradition (I. 81] that formerly it consisted only of 8,800 verees) under the hands of either a Vainampayana or a Pards'arya (see my Indische Skizzen, p. 36), at a time when a race of Pandava kings was reigning in India (Indische Studien, II. 403), and in friendly connection with the Yavatia kings of north-western India; for the Yavanadhipa Bhagadatta, king of Maru and Naraka (very probably Apollodotos, about 160 before Christ), is called by Krishna "an old friend of the father of Yudhishthira Mahabharata, II. 578; Indische Studien, V. 152), and is mentioned repeatedly as supporter of his sake. The age of the grihya shtra, in which the passage occurs-Sumantu Jaimini-Vaisampayana-Paila-s'htra-bb­a-bharata-mahabharata dharmacharyah .. tripyantu-is itself uncertain : the corresponding passage in the Sankhayana-gribys omits the words "bh&rata-mahabharata-dharmacharyah" (compare my lectures on Ind. Lit., pp. 56-57), which may be a later addition. That the word "mahabharata" is mentioned also by Panini, I have pointed out very early (Indische Studien, I. 148); but I remarked at

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FEBRUARY, 1873.] the same time that it does not signify there a work of that name, but very probably a person, just like th Mahajabala and the Mahahailihila mentioned in the same sutra along with it. According to the scholion it is to be taken as a masculine. "In connexion with ahava, yuddha, or taken as a substantive, with a word for war supplied" it means: "great war of the Bharata"-M. Bh. V. 4811; "yuddha, XIV. 1809 (Petersburg Dictionary). After all, the first direct testimony of the existence of an epic work treating of the same subject as our Mahabharata remains still as yet that passage from Dio Chrysostomos about the "Indian Homer." CORRESPONDENCE, &c. Your paper on Narayana Swaini is also very interesting and instructive. With best wishes for the continuance of your highly welcome and valuable undertaking, I am, &c., A. WEBER. Berlin, 28th Nov. 1872. NOTE ON THE ABOVE BY PROF. RAMKRISHNA G. BHANDARKAR. THROUGH the courtesy of the Editor of the Indian Antiquary, I have been permitted to see Professor Weber's letter, which contains notices of my article on the Date of Patanjali, and of my paper on the Age of the Mahabharata. This is not the first time the Professor has been so kind to me. One of my humble productions he has deemed worthy of a place in his Indische Studien. While, therefore, I am thankful to him for these favours, I feel bound to consider his remarks on my articles, and to reply to them. Professor Weber thinks it a pity that I should not have been acquainted with his critique on Dr. Goldstucker's "Paniui." I hardly share in his regret, because the facts which I have brought forward are new, and my conclusions are not affected by anything he has said in the review. He certainly brought to notice, in that critique (as I now learn), the occurrence in Patanjali of the expression "Pushpamitra Sabha." But Professor Weber will see that my argument is not at all based on that passage. I simply quoted it to show that even Patanjali tells us that the Pushpamitra he speaks of in another place was a king, and not an ordinary individual or imaginary person. My reasoning in the article in question is based on the words iha Pushpamitram Yajayamah. This is given by Patanjali as an instance of the Varttika, which teaches that the present tense (lat) should be used to denote an action which has begun but not ended. Now this passage was noticed neither by Professor Weber nor by Dr. Goldstucker; and hence the trouble I gave to the Editor of the Antiquary. The passage enables us, I think, to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion as to the date of Patanjali, since it shows that the author of the Mahabhashya flourished in an 59 the reign of Pushpamitra. And the conclusion based on this and on one of the two instances pointed out by Dr. Goldstucker, viz., Arunad Yavanah Saketam, agree so thoroughly with each other, that they can leave but little doubt on the mind of the reader as to the true date of Patanjali. But I must consider Professor Weber's argument for bringing Patanjali down to about 25 after Christ. The two instances brought forward by Dr. Goldstucker contain the name Yavana; and a king of that generic name is spoken of as having besieged Saketa, commonly understood to be Ayodhya. This name was applied most unquestionably, though not exclusively, to the Greek kings of Bactria. The Yavanas are spoken f, in a Sanskrit astronomical work noticed by Dr. Kern, as having pushed their conquests up to Saketa; and Bactrian kings are also mentioned by some classical writers as having done the same. Looked at independently, this passage leads us to the conclusion arrived at by Dr. Goldstucker, that is, it fixes the date of Patanjali at about 150 B. C. But the other instance contains, in addition, the name Madhyamika. The Buddhist school of that name is said to have been founded by Nagarjuna, who, according to the Rajatarangini, flourished in the reigns of Kanishka and Abhimanyu, that is, a few years after Christ. This instance then brings the author of the Mahabhashya to some period after Christ. Here then is a case resembling those which are frequently discussed by our Pandits, in which a Sruti and a Smriti (or a Sruti and an inference) conflict with each other. The Brahmanical rule is that the Sruti must be understood in its natural sense, and the Smriti so interpreted as to agree with it, that is, any sort of violence may be done to the Smriti to bring it into conformity with the Sruti, and the inference must be somehow explained away. Now, in the present case, Professor Weber's Sruti is the instance containing the rame of the Madhyamikas. But the word Yavana, occurring in it and in the other instance, cannot be taken to apply to the Greek kings of Bactria, for the dynasty had become extinct a pretty long time before Christ. Professor Weber therefore thinks that by it is to be understood the Indo-Scythic king Kanishka, who reigned before Abhimanyu. But Kanishka cannot be regarded as having oppressed or persecuted the Madhyamikas, for he was himself a Buddhist. This objection is obviated by the Professor by the supposition that he must have persecuted them before he became one of them. I must confess this argument appears to me to be very weak. It has many inherent improbabilities. In the first place, I do not see why the passage containing the name Madhyamika and the name itself should be regarded as so much By the way, I prefer the form "Pushpamitra" to "Pushyamitra," as the latter appears to me to be a mislection for the former, which might easily occur, 4, p, being often by careless scribes written as q, y.

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60 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. FEBRUARY, 1873. the Buddhists before he himself became a convert, is a mere supposition, not supported by any reliable authority. Kanishka is also not mentioned anywhere as having carried his conquests up to Saketa, while, as before observed, the Yavanas are mentioned by Hindu writers, and the Bactrian kings by Greek authors, as having done so. The truth is that the name "Madhyamika" has been misunderstood both by D. Goldstucker and Professor Weber; and hence, in giving Dr. Goldstucker's argument in my article, I omitted the portion based on that name. The expression arunad Yavano Madhyamikan makes no sense, if we understand by the last word, the Buddhist school of that name. The root rudh means "to besiege" or "blockade;" and the besieging or blockading of a sect is something I cannot understand. Places are besieged or blockaded, but not sects. I am aware that Professor Weber translates this verb by a word which in English means "to oppress;" but I am not aware that the root is ever used in that sense. By the word "Madhyamika" is to be understood the people of a certain place, as Dr. Kern has pointed out in his preface to his edition of the. Brihat Sanhita, on the authority of the Sanhita itself. We are thus saved the necessity of making a string of very improbable suppositions; and in this way Professor Weber's argument, based as it is on the hypothesis that the Madhyamikas alluded to by Patanjali ere the Buddhist sect of that name, falls to the ground. The first of Dr. Goldstucker's passages (the word "Yavana" occurring in both of them), and the passage I have for the first time pointed out, taken together, determine the date of Patanjali to be about 144 B. C. And this agrees better with the other passages pointed out by Dr. Goldstucker. For if Patanjali lived in the reign of the founder of the S'unga dynasty, one can understand why the Mauryas and their founder should have been uppermost in us thoughts; but if he lived in 25 A. D., when the Andhra Bhritya dynasty was in power, one may well ask why he should have gone back for illustrating his rules to the Mauryas and Chandragupta, and passed over the intermediate dynasties of the S'ungas and the Kanvas. more important than the other passage and the name Yavana. Why may we not rather take our stand on this latter name, and the mention of the conquests of the king so designated up to Saketa, and interpret the word Madhyamika by the light thus thrown upon it? And the passage I have brought forward is, I think, so decisive, and agrees so well with this statement, that some other explanation must be sought-for of the name Madhyamika; but of this more hereafter. In the next place, we have to suppose that the most important period of Nagarjuna's life was passed in the reign of Kanishka, that he lived so long in that reign as to have founded a school, and that in that reign the sect assumed the name of Madhyamika, and grew into such importance that its fame spread so far and wide, that even Patanjali in the far east knew of it. From the words of the Rajatarangini, however, it would appear that Nagarjuna and his disciples or school rose into importance in the reign of Abhimanyu, the successor of Kanishka; for the words are-" About that time (i. e., in the reign of Abhimanyu) the Bauddhas, protected by the wise Nagarjuna, the Bodhisattva, became predominant." And in the same reign, we are told in the history of Kashmir, the Bhashya of Patanjali was introduced by Chandracharya and others into that country. In the Vakyapadiya also it is stated that in the course of time it came to pass that Patanjali's work was possessed only by the inhabitants of the Dakhan, and that too only in books, i. e. it was not studied. Afterwards Chandracharya brought it into vogue. Now even supposing for a time that the Bhashya was written in the reign of Kanishka, i.e., about 25 A.D., fifteen or twenty years are too small a period for it to have come to be regarded as a work of authority, to have ceased to be studied, to have existed only in books in the South, and to have obtained such a wide reputation as to be introduced into Kashmir, a place far distant from Patanjali's native country and from the Dakhan. Even Professor Weber is staggered by the shortness of the interval; but instead of being thus led to call in question his theory or the soundness of his argument, he is inclined to doubt the authenticity of the texts brought forward by Dr. Goldstucker. Besides, he gives no evidence to show that the name Yavana was applied to the IndoScythic kings. I am aware that at different periods of Indian history it was applied to different races; but this vague knowledge ought not to be sufficient to lead us to believe as a matter of fact that it was applied to these kings. And the generic name by which they were known to the author of the Rajatarangini was Turushka. This name is not unknown to Sanskrit literature, for it occurs even in such a recent work as the Visvagunadars'a. I cannot, therefore, believe that Patanjali could not have known it, if he really lived so late as in the time of those kings. And that Kanishka persecuted As to my paper on the Age of the Mahabharata, I have to observe that it was written with a certain purpose. Colonel Ellis, going upon the authority of the Gowja Agrahara grant, trauslated by Colebrook in 1806, and again by Mr. Narasimmiyengar in Part XII. of the Indian Antiquary, had referred the composition of the Mahabharata to a period subsequent to 1521 A.D., and had asked the Asiatic Society of Bombay to make inquiries as to whether the ashes of the Sarpa Sattra instituted by Janamejaya could be found by digging for them at Anagundi, with which the Colonel identified Hastinapur; and whether the remains of the palace, in which Bharata, the son of Dushyanta and S'akuntala, was crowned, were observable at the

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FEBRUARY, 1873.] CORRESPONDENCE, &c. place. My object, therefore, was to show that the Mahabharata was far more ancient, and that it existed at and before all the well-ascertained dates in Sanskrit literature. It was not meant to collect all possible evidence, whether certain or doubtful, for the existence of the poem. Had I thought of doing so, it would have taken me much longer time than I could spare, and some of the books to which it would have been necessary to refer were also wanting. I have not even brought together all the passages bearing on the point to be found in Patanjali's work. But I am content for the present to leave the task to the well-known industry and acuteness of Professor Weber. WEBER ON THE DATE OF PATANJALI. [In order that our readers may have all the evidence before them, a translation is here appended of that portion of Professor Weber's critique on Goldstucker's "Panini" which refers to the Date of Patanjali.-Ed.] At the close of Goldstucker's essay [Preface to the Manavakalpasutra] we find an enquiry into the date of Patanjali (pp. 228-38). In the first place, from mention being made in his work of the Maurya, it is pointed out, and indeed thereby established, that he could not have lived before the date of this dynasty. The passage in question is of great interest, and would imply besides, according to the view of Patanjali, that Panini also lived after that time! It is as follows: Patanjali, in commenting on the rule V. 3, 99: jivikarthech & 'panye, "in the case of a lifesustenance-serving (object, which is an image (pratikrita u is still to be understood, from 96), the affix ka is not used), except when the object is saleable,"-gives the following explanation (according to Goldstucker, p. 229): apanya ity uchyate, tatredamna sidhyati, s'ivah skando vis'&kha itikim karanam mauryair hiranyarthibhir arch&h prakalpitah | bhavet tasu na syat | yas tv etab sampratipujarth&h, tasu bhavishyati "In the case of a saleable, e. y., Siva, Skanda, Visakha, the rule does not apply the affix k a being used in such cases). The gold-coveting maury a had caused images of the gods to be prepared. To these the rule does not apply, but only to such as serve for immediato worship (i. e., with which their possessors go about from house to house [in order to exhibit them for immediate worship, and thereby to earn money], Kaiyyata)." From this it appears that Patanjali is undoubtedly of opinion that Panini himself, in referring to images (pratikriti) that were "saleable," i. e., by their sale afforded sustenance of life (jivikArtha), had in his eye such as those that had come down from the Maurya! Be this as it may, the notice is in itself an exceedingly curious cne. If it were at all allowable, we might understand the word maury a here as an appellative, meaning "sculptors," or something of the kind; as indeed seems to be the opinion of Nages', whose text, however,is corrupt (maury & h vikretum pratimas'ilpavantas is somewhat ungrammatical). But the word cannot be shown to bear such a meaning in any other passage. And the part. perf. causativi goes rather to prove that the Maurya were not themselves the actual makers of the images, but only caused them to be made ; although, to be sure, this cannot be laid down positively, seeing that causativa frequently appear also quite as new verba simplicia, and there are several instances of this precisely in the case of the root kalp. And if, in support of the view that the word refers to the Maurya-dynasty, it should further be adduced that Patanjali in other places also makes frequent mention of the covetousness of leings (cf. Ballantyne, pp. 234 and 315 : Gargas Satam dandyantam | arthinae cha rajano hiran y en a bhavanti, na cha pratyekam dandayanti), yet on the other hand it is not easy to understand how kings, in order to earn their livelihood and only on this condition is the example relevant to the shtra), should have caused inages of the kods to be prepared or exhibited for sale! But if, consequently, we cannot as yet quite rid ourselves of some amount of uncertainty, whether we are really to understand by the word maurya in this passage the dynasty of that name, there can at all events be no doubt with regard to the fact itself, that Patanjali did not live until after their time. The proofs which establish this, and which have been overlooked by Goldstucker, are contained in two examples which Patanjali adduces with reference to & varttika in I. 1, 68 (Ballantyne, p. 758): Pushyamitrasabha, Chandraguptasabha. Even if the latter example (which recurs also in the Calc. Schol. on II. 4, 23) does not absolutely establish that he lived later than the time of the Maurya, yet the former affords quite conclusive proof of this; and we learn at the same time from this passage, that the bearer of the name Pushy&mitra who founded the Sunga dynasty, succeeding that of the Maurya, was not merely a general (senapati), as he is called in the Purana and in the Malavikagnimitra, but really & king (reigned, according to Lassen, 178-142 B. C.); for Goldstucker cannot well have any doubt as to the identity of the two Pushyamitras. The date of Patanjali may, however, be still more definitely fixed. The lower limit is determined by a passage from the Rajatarailgini, adduced first by Bohtlingk, according to which Abhimanyu, king of Kashmir (reigned, according to Lassen, 45-65 A.D.), rendered some service to the text of the Mahabhashya, of which we shall presently speak more in detail. We cannot, therefore, come any lower down than his time. 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62 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. jali gives in commenting on a varttika on III. | 2, 11. The rule refers to the use of the imperfect anadyatane, "when something is no longer present;" the vart tika adds that it is used "paro'kshe cha lokavijnate prayoktur dars'anavishaye | also with regard to something which is not (any longer) visible, but is perfectly well known, and which has been seen by the speaker himself, or might have been seen (literally, "falls within the sphere of his vision"); and as examples of such a case, Patanjali quotes two sentences :-arunad Yavanah Saketam, "the Yavana oppressed Saketa," and: arunad Y a va no Madhyamikan," the Yavana oppressed the Madhyamika." Both of these circumstances, therefore, when Patanjali gave these examples, must have belonged to the then immediate past, and have been still fresh in the memory of the people; as appears certain also from the tenor of the contrary examples which he quotes. Now, according to Goldstucker's assumption, the Yavana who besieged Saketa, i. e., in his opinion, Ayodhya, must be identical with Menandros (reigned, according to Lassen, 144-120 B.C.), of whom Strabo expressly records that he extended his conquests as far as to the Yamuna, while of no other Greek king of this period are so extensive military expeditions known. Patanjali must therefore have lived between 140 and 120 B. C. It is not possible, however, to bring into any kind of harmony with this view the second fact which Patanjali records of the Yavana, ciz, his oppressing of the Madhyamika. For the founding of the Buddhist school of this name is continually ascribed to Nagarjuna (see Buruouf, Introduction, p. 559; Lassen II. 1163; Koppen II. 14, 20; Wassiljew, p. 314). Now, we find, no doubt, conflicting statements with regard to the date of this renowned teacher; but, so far as the present inquiry is concerned, we need not concern ourselves either with the determining of this point, or with the intricate question regarding the actual date of Buddha's death; but we have simply to abide by the notice, overlooked by Goldstucker, in the Rajatarangini (I. 173, 177; see also Lassen II. 413), according to which Nagarjuna is held to have lived under the same Abhimanyu, to whom, in the same passage (I. 176), is ascribed so peculiar care for the Mahabhashya. For if we accept the latter statement as correct, we cannot well refuse to receive the former, also recorded in the same verses immediately before and after. Both stand and fall together. Relying on this passage, then, we are now in fact restricted to very narrow limits. For even if, as seems undoubted, it must be assumed that, in Abhimanyu's time, Nagarjuna was already advanced in years (which seems to be testified by the high reverence and the wide-reaching influence which, according to the words of the Rajatarangini, he enjoyed under that king); if, therefore, his founding of the Madhyamika-school may have taken [FEBRUARY, 1873. place much earlier, yet we must not date back this circumstance at the highest more than about 40 years before Abhimanyu began to reign; for it would be hardly credible that at a still earlier period of life Nagarjuna could have gained so prominent a position as to have been able to become the founder of a school. Between the years 5-45 A. D., according to Lassen's reckoning of Abhimanyu's coming to the throne, the following events must therefore fall-1. The besieging of Saketa by a Yavana; 2. The oppressing of the Madhyamika by the same or another Yavana; 3. The composition of the Mahabhashya; and between the years 45-65, lastly, 4. Abhimanyu's care for this work :-all this indeed only on the double assumption that the reading "madhyamikan" is correct, and that the name of the school, according to the Iudian tradition, did not exist until after its being founded by Nagarjuna. And now, as regards what I have marked as No. 1, the oppressing of Saketa by a Yavana, such an occurrence, if we are to understand thereby the besieging of Oude by a Greek king, is certainly not even conceivable as having happened at this period, seeing that the last independent Greek king of the Indian Mark ceased to reign, according to Lassen II. 337, about the year 85 B. C. The name "Yavana," however, passed over from the Greeks to their successors, the IndoScythians; and since in No. 2 we see this name used in describing an occurrence which, according to what is stated above, cannot have taken place till about 100 to 85 years before Christ,-seeing further that the occurrence in No. 1 must be essentially synchronous with that recorded in No. 2it follows that it can have been only an Indo-Scythic prince who had besieged Saketa shortly before Patanjali gave this example. Assuming now that by Saketa we are really to understand Ayodhya, as is certainly probable, then Kanishka (reigned 10-40 A. D., according to Lassen) is undoubtedly the only one of these princes-as indeed of all foreign princes before the Moslims-of whom so extensive a military expedition is (not merely conceivable, but even) not improbable; compare what Lassen, II. 854, records regarding the extension of his power toward the east. It is true that what Patanjali in No. 2 records of the oppressing of the Madhyamika by the Yavana, does not seem to be applicable to Kanishka, inasmuch as he is specially known as one of the principal promoters of Buddhism. On the one hand, however, we have also the still later information (in Hiuen Thsang J. 107, see Lassen II. 857) that Kanishka, during the earlier years of his reign, was hostilely disposed toward Buddhismand it is just from this earlier period of the reign, as we shall see below, that Patanjali's statement seems to date; on the other hand, is it possible that the statement refers only to special oppression of the Madhyamika in the interest of the Hinayana ?

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FEBRUARY, 1873.] CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 63 as indeed the perpetual contest between this latter and other Buddhist schools (cf. Hiuen Thsang I. 172) gave occasion to the great council held under Kanishka, which was intended to effect a reconci- liation. And although, according to the Rajataren- gini, Nagarjupa's influence was in full bloom under Abhimanyu, yet it would still have been quite possible that under his predecessor, Kanishka, the predominant feeling might have been hostile to Nagarjuna, asin point of fact the latter appears never to have had any share in the council held under the presidency of Pars'va and Vasumitra. With respect to No. 3, the composition of the Mahabhashya, we will in the first place bring forward here what can be gathered from other sources regarding the author, Patanjali. According to Goldstucker, the names Gonika putra and Gonardiya, with which in two passages of the Mahabhashya the view in question is supported, are to be referred to Patanjali himself, seeing that the commentaries (Nages'a on "Gonik@putra," Kaiyyata on "Gonardiya") explain them by the word " bhashyakara." As a matter of fact, Patanjali never speaks in the first person, but he is always spoken of in the third person, and his opinion is several times introduced by tu (pas'yati tv acharyah, in Ballantyne, pp. 195, 196, 197, 245, 281, 303, 787): it is also quite possible therefore that the words "Gonardiyas tv aha" do really refer to Patanjali. Ono only, however, of those two identifications can be correct; the other must to all appearance be false. For according to & communication for which I am indebted to Aufrecht's kindness, Gonardiya and Gonikaputra are two different persons, whom Vatay Ayana, in the introduction of his Kamasutra, celebrates side by side as his predecessors in the teaching of the ars amandi : in a very surprising fashion: the one, namely, as author of a manual thereon, showing how one should behave in this matter towards one's own wife; the other as author of a work treating of the proper procedure in reference to strange women: Gonardiyo bharyadhikarikam, Gonik&putrah paradarikam (namely, kamasutram samchikshepa): Bee Aufrecht, Catalogus, p. 215. In the body of the work Gonardiya is specially quoted five times, Gonikaputra six times. It would be delightful to get here so unexpected a glimpse into the private life of Patanjali. It may serve to get our minds at rest with reference to his moral character to remember that it is only the comparatively modern Nages's who identifies him with the Don Juan Gopikaputra, while by Kaiyyata, almost a thousand years earlier, the contemporary of the author of the Trik&ndas esha and of Hemachandra, he is compared with the honoured Gonardfya. As regards the name of the latter, Goldstucker, pp. 235-286, calls attention to a passage of the Kasika, I. 1, 76, in which the word "Gonardiya" (or "Gonardiyas," as the Calo. Schol. has it) is adduced as an instance of a place situated in the east (prach&m dese); and also to the circumstance that Kaiyyata sometimes designates Patanjali as "Acharyadesiya," i. e., as countryman of the Acharya, or rather, contrasts him with the latter, i. e., Katyayana, the author of the Varttika; and that as Katyayana belonged to the east, Patanjali is also hereby assigned to the east. Mention should also have been made here of the special statement :-Vyavahite 'pi purvasabdo vartate, tad yatha, purvam Mathurayah Pataliputram (Ballantyne, p. 650) "Pataliputra" lies before Mathura, which is intelligible only in the mouth of a man who lived behind Pataliputra, and consequently decides for the eastern residence of Patanjali. In case, therefore, that "Gonardiya" is really to be understood as his name, the word can in fact be referred only to that "pracham des'a," not to the Kashinirian kings called Gonarda, as Lassen's opinion is, II. 484, and still less to the people of the same name mentioned by Varkhamibira, XIV. 12, as dwelling in the south, near Dasapura and Kerala. Now, according to what has been remarked with reference to Nos. 1 and 2, the work of Patanjali must have made a name for itself with great rapidity, in order to have been able to be introduced into Kashmir so early as in the reign of Abhimanyu. We come back again to this question further on : meanwhile we turn to what is in fact a highly inte. resting representation of the history of the Mahabhashya, which Goldstucker adduces for the elucidation of that verse of the Rajataraiigini which refers to the services rendered to the cominentary by Abhimanyu, from the second book of the V&kyapadiya of Bhartrihari, containing the so-called Harik&riks. After this long digression on this passage, which seemed to be demanded by its importance, we turn now again to the proper question which is specially engaging our attention here, and on account of which it was was cited by Goldstucker. There can evidently be no doubt that the recovery, described therein by Hari, of the Mahabhashya by "Chandra and the others" is the same to which the statement of the Rajatarangif I. 176 (some five or six centuries later) refers regarding Abbimanyu's caro for the work :Chandrach&ryAdibhir labdh(v) 4" dee'am tasmat tadagannam Pravartitam mahabhashyam, svain cha vyAkara nam kritam Now, when Goldstucker translates "After that Chandra and the others had received command from him (Abhimanyu), they established a text of the Mahabh­a, such as it could be established by moans of his MS. of this work, and composed their own grammarl," this translation rests partly upon an application, demanded by nothing in the passage, of the meaning which, without sufficient grounds, he has attached to the word Agama, vit., "M8. ;"partly upon the quite gratuitous assumption

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64 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [FEBRUARY, 1873. that such a "MS." received, according to the Vakyapadiya, from Parvata, came "into possession of Abhimanyu" by the hands of Chandra and the others. In my opinion we have to abide simply.by Lassen's conjecture : tad-agame (Loc.), "after they had received from him the command to come to him;" and indeed this appears to me quite indubitable when we take also into consideration the second passage of the Rajatarangini, IV. 487, already quoted by Bohtlingk, in which it is said of Jayapida (reigned, according to Lassen, 754-85), des'antarad &gamayya vyachaksh&nan kshama patih pravartayata vichhinnam mahabhashyam svaman dale "From another land bade come explainers thereof the earth-prince, And brought the split Bhashya is the kingdom new into vogue." And the combination, occurring here, of pravartayata with svamandale, definitely decides that in the first passage also (I. 176) pravartitam is to be understood as meaning, not the "constituting of a text," but the "introduction" of the work into Kashmir; and, consequently, the wbole of Goldstucker's polemic against the hitherto received conception of this verse is shown to be perfectly idle and groundless. And, moreover, Bhartrihari's representation by no means leaves the impression that all that is recorded therein could have taken place within the short period of about 30 years; and yet, according to what has been said above on Nos. 1 and 2, regarding the passages "arunad Yavanah Saketam" and " arunad Yavano Madhyamikan," it is not easy to account for a longer interval between the composition of these passages and the introduction of the Mah- bhishya into Kashmir; wo obtain this interval, to wit, when, in the absence of every other fixed point, we strike the mean between the dates already found, 5-45 and 45-65 A.D., and consequently fix the composition of the Mahabh­a at 25 A.D., and Abhiinanyu's care for the same at 55 A.D. The question therefore naturally arises, whether possibly those two examples may not have come into the text only through "Chandra and the others,"-originally therefore do not come from Patanjali at all? That the restoration of a text lost for a time--and this, according to the Vakyapadiya, was really the question at issue-in the fashion which Indian scholars are accustomed to employ, would not take place without interpolations on their part, is, to say the least, extremely likely; and there fore we cannot well call in question the possibility that even the two passages referred to above may belong to such interpolations. But in that case the entire ground on which we stand with reference to this question becomes so unstable and uncertain, that we gladly hold by the assurance that these passages may just as likely be genuine. The very poculiar manner in which, in the Mahabhashya throughout, Patanjali is spoken of in the third person, is certainly remarkable, and might easily lead to the supposition that the work, as wc popsess it, is rather a work of his digciples than of Patanjali himself (compare what is said in the Acad. Vorles., p. 216, regarding two other cases of the kind). This is not, however, absolutely necessary: the example of Caesar shows that such a practice may be employed even when the author is speaking of himself; and therefore it would certainly require very special evidence to prove such a conclusion. If, in reference to this, it could be established that in the Mahabh­a-I can speak naturally only of the compa. ratively small portion to which we have access in Ballantyne's elition-cases are found in which a series of proof-passages are cited only with their initial words, while the text of the passages follows afterwards in extenso, together with a detailed explanation, yet on the other hand such self-commentaries are by no means uncommon in Indian literature; and, in consideration of the remarkable amount of detail with which even the Mahabhashya otherwise treats its subject, not in the least degree surprising: the brief exhibition of the proof-passages finds, too, its quite corresponding analogue in the peculiar use of the work for closing a discussion by versus memoriales which gathet up in brief what has been already said. It would be presumptuous to pronounce at present on the completo authenticity of the existing text of the Mahabhishya, when we have access to only 80 small a portion. And in the preceding discussion I have only sought to show that, in so far as we are at present acquainted with its contents, there exist no directly urgent grounds for doubting its authenticity. In the meantime, the two passages adduced by Goldstucker : " arunad Yavanah Saketam" and "arunad Yavano Madhyamikan," may be regarded as furnishing sufficient evidence for determining the date of Patanjali; and on that evidence it would appear-on the assumption that Lasgen's chronology is correct--that the date oust be fixed not, according to the opinion or Goldstucker, at 140-120 B. C., but probably at about 25 after Christ.

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MARCH, 1873.] THE KULWADI. THE KULWADI OF THE HASSAN DISTRICT. BY CAPT, J. S. F. MACKENZIE, MAISUR COMMISSION. T OOKING at him in his official position, l'intruder's cloth, tie up some salt in one corner U the Kulwadi is the village policeman, the of it, and turn him out. This is supposed to beadle of the village community, the head-man's neutralize all the good luck which might have henchman ; but as the "epresentative of that accrued to the trespasser, and avert any evil despised and outcaste race--the Holiar, he which might have befallen the owner of the house. appears most interesting. Tossed to and fro in At Mailkota, the chief seat of the followers the great sea of immigration which passed over of Ramanuja Acharya, and at Bailur, where the land, he, who once held the foremost place there is also a god worshipped by the three in the village circle, has, with each successive marked Brahmans, the Holiars have the right wave, sunk lower and lower in the social scale, of entering the temple on three days in the until to-day we find him but a hewer of wood year specially set aside for them. At Mailkota and a drawer of water. In the rights and they have the privilege of pulling the car. privileges which yet cling to him, we, how- These are the only two temples in Maisur ever, get glimpses of his former high estate, where the Holiars are allowed in. The followand find proors that the Holiars, or lowest ing is, according to the Brahmans, 'the reason right-hand caste, were the first to establish why':-"On Ramanuja Acharya going to Mailvillages in this part of the country. The kota to perform his devotions at that celebrated Kurabas, or jungle tribes, may have been the shrine, he was informed that the place had aborigines, but, naturally of a wandering dis- been attacked by the Turk king of Dehli, position, they confined themselves to the chase. who had carried away the idol. The Brahman They have no part or parcel in the village immediately set out for that capital; and, on cornmunity; the Holiars, on the other hand, arrival, he found that the king had made a have, and through their representative, the present of the image to his daughter; for it is Kulwadi, occupy a prominent position. As a said to be very handsome, and she asked for body, they are the servants of the ryots, and are it as a plaything. All day the princess played mainly engaged in tending the plough and with the image, and at night the god assumed watching the herds. One of the members of his own beautiful form and enjoyed her bed; this despised caste is generally the priest to for Krishna is addicted to such kinds of the village goddess, and, as such, on that annual adventures (Buchanan, vol. I. p. 342). Ramanuja day when all hasten to pay their offerings at Acharya, by virtue of certain mantras, obtained her shrine, takes precedence of the twice-born possession of the image and wished to carry it Brahman. off. He asked the Brahmans to assist him, but Every village has its Holigiri-as the quarter they refused; on which the Holiars voluninhabited by the Holiars is called-outside teered, provided the right of entering the temple the village boundary hedge. This, I thought, were granted to them. Ramanuja Acharya was because they are considered an impure race, accepted their proposal, and the Holiars having whose touch carries defilement with it. Such posted themselves between Dehli and Mailkota, is the reason generally given by the Brahman, the image of the god was carried down in twentywho refuses to receive anything directly from four hours." When Ramanuja Acharya first the bands of a Holiar. And yet the Brahnians appeared in this part of the country, we know consider great luck will wait upon them if they that the religion of the Bellala court was Jaina, can manage to pass through the Holigiri with- while, from the number of temples still extant, it out being molested. To this the Holiars have is clear that the religion of the great mass of strong objection, and should a Brahman the people was the Saiva. Ramanuja Achary attempt to enter their quarters, they turn out introduced a new religion-the Vaishnava. It is in a body and slipper him, in former times it more than probable this story was invented by is said to death; members of the other castes the Brahmans to conceal the fact that the may come as far as the door, but they must | Holiars, by receiving a privilege denied to other not-for that would bring the Holiar bad luck religions, had been bribed into becoming followenter the house. If, by chance, a person hsppens ers of Vishnu. If this is correct, then we may to get in, the owner takes care to tear the assume that the Holiars, as a class 400 years

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66 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MARCH, 1873. ago, were of some importance. But to return to the Kulwadi, all the thousand-and-one castes, whose members find a home in the village, unhesitatingly admit that the Kulwadi is de jure the rightful owner of the village. He who was, is still, in a limited sense, " lord of the village manor." If there is a dispute as to the village boundaries, the Kulwadi is the only one competent to take the oath as to how the boundary ought to run. The old custom for settling such disputes was as follows :-The Kulwadi, carrying on his head a ball made of the village earth, in the centre of which is placed some water, passes along the boundary. If he has kept the proper line, everything goes well; but should he, by accident, even go beyond his own proper boundary, then the ball of earth, of its own accord, goes to pieces, the Kulwadi dies within fifteen days, and his house becomes a ruin. Such is the popu ich is the popu- lar belief. Again, the skins of all animals dying within the village boundaries are the property of the Kulwadi--and a good income he makes from this source. To this day a village boundary dispute is often decided by this one fact. If the Kulwadis agree, the other inhabitants of the villages can say no more. In the Malnad - the hilly portion of this district, where the ryots are more or less given to the chase-there is a peculiar game-law. Should a wounded stag, started in the village, happen to die within the boundary of another, the Patel of the latter village is entitled to his share of the game, although he has taken no part in the chase. When--in our forefathers' days, as the natives say-a village was first established, a stone called "Karu Kallu" is set up. To this stone the Patel onva a year makes an offering. The Kulwadi, after the ceremony is over, is entitled to carry off the rice, &c., offered. In cases where there is no Patel, the Kulwadi goes through the yearly ceremony. This "Kau Kallu," a plain Menhir, is not to be found in all villages; but on enquiry it will be found that such are but offshoots from some neighbouring parent village. But what I think proves strongly that the Holiar was the first to take possession of the soil, is that the Kulwadi receives, and is entitled to receive, from the friends of any person who dies in the village, a certain fee, or, as my informant forcibly put it, "they buy from him the ground for the dead." This fee is still called in Canarese nela haga-from nela, the earth, and haga, a coin worth 1 anna 2 pie. In Munzerabad, tire ancient Bullum, the Kulwadi does not receive this fee from those ryots who are related to the head-man. Here the Kulwadi occupies a higher position; he has, in fact, been adopted into the Patel's family, for, on a death occurring in such family, the Kulwadi goes into mourning by shaving his head. He always receives from the friends the clothes the deceased wore, and a brass basin. The Kulwadi, however, owns a superior in the matter of burial fees. He pays yearly a fowl, one hana (4 annas 8 pie), and a handful of rice to the agent of the Sudgadu Siddha (" lord of the burning-grounds"). These agents, who originally belonged to the Gangadikara Vokkaliga caste--the caste whence the great body of ryots is drawn-have become a separate class, and are called, after their head, "Sudgadu Siddharu." They are appointed by the lord of the burning-grounds," whose head-quarters are somewhere in the Bababodin hills. They intermarry among themselves, and the son succeeds the father in the agency, but has to be confirmed in his appointment by the head of the caste. The agents have each particular tracts of country assigned to them. They receive a monthly salary of from Rs. 2 to Rs. 3, and are allowed to pay, out of the collections, their own expenses proper. The balance once a year is paid into the treasury of the Phala Swami["he who eats fruit only"), as their master is called. These agents engage in agricultural pursuits, but, when so employed, must put aside the sacred dress in which they are to be seen when on a tour. The distinguishing badge by which these persons can be known is the wooden bell, in addition to the usual metal one, they always carry about; without this no one would acknowledge the agent's right to collect the fees. The following account of how and why the Kalwadi has to pay these fees was given to me by a very old man I met one day, when on his beat:- In the days of Harshachandra Maharaja, Vishvamitra and Vasishtha, two holy men who had taken up their quarters in a burial-ground, were busy one day discussing the king's merits, It was generally said that the king never, under any circumstances, broke his word ; and Vishvamitra was determined to try if the king was really as good a man as people made him out. Disguised as a beggar, he called at the palace, and refused to go away until he had seen the king in person.

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MARCH, 1873.] THE KULWADI. 67 Harshachandra came out, and, in reply to the and took up his quarters under a tree which beggar, promised to give him whatever he wanted. grew in the burial-ground. The leaves of this The beggar said--" Give me as much money tree are used by the Brahmans for plates. The as will cover a tall man standing on an Saukar, who had bought the queen and her son, elephant." The king emptied his treasury, but disgusted at getting little or no work out of the to no purpose; the sum was insufficient. He boy, ordered him one day to go and collect leaves sold everything he had, and yet he found himself for the dinner. The lad went into the burialshort of the measure. For Vishvamitra had, by ground, and began picking leaves from the tree; means of rats, undermined the ground, so that as while so doing the snake came out, the lad was fast as the money was piled up, that below went to bitten, and died. The mother, hearing of this, fill up the rat-holes. He now sold his wife rushed to the burial-ground, and, after the first and only son, but this was of no use, for the burst of grief, began busying herself in making money thus realized did not cover the measure. preparations for burning the body. Too poor In despair, the king had it published abroad that to buy wood, she set about collecting what he would hold himself the slave of any person, she could find on the ground. The king, who who, by fulfilling the promise he had made to had from the first recognized his wife and son, the beggar, would extricate him from his dif- would not allow his affections to interfere with ficulties. No one came forward. The king his duty to his master, and sternly demanded was obliged to follow Vishvamitra all over the proper fees. The unhappy mother, who the country. In the course of their wanderings had not recognized her husband, told him she they came across Vir Baraka, the Kulwadi was a slave, and had no funds. Nothing would of the capital, who had amassed a large appease the strict agent, who cut the wife down fortune from the burial-fees. Seeing the king's with his sword. The gods, pleased with the pitiable state, the Kulwadi offered to pay the manner in which Harshachandra had conducted money. After some words, the beggar accepted himself, thought it was time to interfere. They to hold the Kulwadi responsible, and made appeared on the scene, restored to life both over the ex-king to him as a slave. Vir mother and son, and offered to reinstate the king Baraka (Baraka was the name by which in all his former wealth and power. The king the Kulwadi was called at the capital Kaliyan- declined, and begged he might, with his wife and purapattna), asked what were the terms of the child, be allowed to accompany the gods to their promise; being informed, he filled a bamboo of paradise. To this they agreed, and were just the required height with money, and made this setting out, when every ghost, goblin, demon, sum over to Vishvamitra, who had to be satisfied devil, &c., started up, and, since there was no with getting what the strict letter of the longer a person to look after the f'ecs, threatened promise only entitled him to receive. The to keep the gods company. The gods would Kulwadi now appointed the ex-king his agent not hear of this; they therefore appointed two for the collection of the fees. persons to collect the focs. Calling the Kulwadi The following were the fees payable in the into their presence, they ordered him to pay good days of old : these Siddharu a yearly fee of a fowl, a "hana," 1. Nela haja, the ground-fee. and one day's rice. 2. Hari haja, a fee for tearing the winding- Vir Baraka, purse-proud and arrogant, sheet. laughed when he heard the small amount of the 3. One hun (=Rs. 1-12) placed in the remuneration, and said " What is that for me? mouth of the corpse. I could give them gold untold, and none the 4. One hana (=1 anna 2 pie) placed on worse would I be." The gods were liighly disthe navel. pleased, and cursed him in the following lines :5. The winding-sheet. " Hale kambale ; lake gudige; 6. A handful of coarse sugar. Utturmara mane umbo gadige ; 7. 12 cocoa-nuts. Prapti agale." 8. 12 betel leaves. Which may be translated :9. A half ser of rice. " An old kambale for clothing; a stick in your 10. A third of an anna of incense. hand; Vishvamitra, however, had not yet done with The leavings of betters you'll eat in this land." the king; he was determined to test him further. That the curse has been fulfilled, few who He accordingly transformed himself into a snake, I have seen the Kulwadi will dispute.

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68 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MARCH, 1873. The present chief of the caste is said to be a descendant of the persons appointed by the gods. There is a belief among the people that if a death occurs in a house on a Tuesday or & Friday, another death will quickly follow, anless a fowl is tied to one corner of the bier which carries the deceased to his long home. This fowl is buried with the deceased. Those castes who do not eat fowl replace it with the bolt of the door. This may account for why a fowl forms a portion of the burial-fee. The only caste, so far as I can learn, in which the custom of placing a coin in the mouth of the deceased is still practised, is the Vokkaliga; the coin must be a gold one. The body is always buried with the feet to the north. The word Kulwadi ("he who knows the ryots") is derived from kula- the technical term by which a ryot cultivating government land is known. In the word kula we find crystallized a story of other days. One of the Bellala kings, whose devotion to religion had gained him the favour of the gods, had been presented with a | phial containing "Sidda rasa,"-a liquid which converted iron into gold. On this the king determined to abolish the payment of the land-tax in coin, and ordered that each ryot should pay into the government treasury the "gula," or plough-share, used during the year. All the iron thus collected the king turned into gold. In the course of time the initial g has become k, and from the custom of paying the " Gula," the ryot came to be called a " Kula." ON THE SUB-DIVISIONS OF THE BRAHMAN CASTE IN NORTHERN ORISSA. BY JOHN BEAMES, B.C. S, M.R.A.S. As a slight contribution to our knowledge of and the divisions of the two classes are fairly the divisions of caste in India, a subject still represented in most parts of the district, though involved in much obscurity, the following remarks the southern class is less numerous than the on the gotras, or families, of the great Brahman northern. The former are held in greater caste in this part of Orissa may be found useful." esteem for learning and purity of race than the Tradition relates that the original Brahmans latter. of Orissa were all extinct at the time of the rise The S'renis are divided, first, according to the of the Ganga Vansa line of kings, but that Veda, whose ritual they profess to observe, and 10,000 Brahmans were induced to come from Kanauj and settle in Jajpur, the sacred city on 1.-SOUTHERN LINE. the Baitarani river. The date of this immigration is not stated, but the fact is probably his 1. Rig-Veda. torical, and may have been synchronous with the GOTRA. UPADRI. well-known introduction of Kananjis Brahmans Basishtha. Sarangi. into the neighbouring province of Bengal by Mahapatra. King Adisura in the tenth century. 2. Sama-Veda. When the worship of the idol Jagannath began Kasyapa ..................Nanda. to be revived at Puri, the kings of Orissa induced Dharagautama ......... Tripathi. many of the Jajpur Brahmans to settle round Gautama .................. Udgata, vulgo Uta. the new temple and conduct the ceremonies. Parasara ................. Dibedi, vulgo Dube. Thus there sprang up a division among the Kaundinya ............... Tripathi, vulgo Tihari. Brahmans; those who settled in Puri being called the Dakhintya Sreni, or southern class, 3. Yajur-Veda. and those who remained at Jajpur, the Uttara BharadwajaSreni, or northern class. This latter spread a. Bharadwaja ...... Sarangi. all over northern Orissa. Many of the southern 6. Sambhukar ......... Misra. Brahmans, however, are also found in Balasor ; c. Landi .............Nanda. * This brief article was put together from notes made at different times, and something similar was supplied by me to Dr. W. W. Hunter and has been printed by him in the appendix to his work on Orissa. The above article, trowever, exhibits the classification more fully and clearly han Dr. Hunter's note, and contains some additional facts which I have learnt since the appearance of that work. + The date is not certain. Babu Rajendralal Mitra fixes it at about A.D. 964.-Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal, vel. XXXIV., p. 189. This ought to come before the Same-Veda, but my native informants stick to it that the Sama-Vedis rank above the Yajur Vedis. I record the fact without understanding the reason. $ The great Bharadwaj gotra is divided into the three septs here given.

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MARCH, 1873.] PATANJALI'S MAHABHASHYA. 69 Atreya a. Dattatreya .........Ratha. . Krishnatreya ...... >> Haritasa ..................Mahapatra. >> ..................Dasa. Kauchhasa ............... >> Ghtitakauchhasa ...... >> Mudgala ................... Satpaths, vulgo Pathi, also vulgo Satpasti. Batsasa ................... Dasa, Acharya, Misra. Katyayana ............... Sarangi. Kapinjala ...............Dasa. II.-NORTHERN LINE. 1. Rig Veda. Not represented. 2. Yajur Veda. Katyayana ...............Panda. Sandalya.................. Krishnatreya ............ and Dasa, Bharadwaja.............* Barshagana ............... Miera, Kaphala .................. " Gautama..................Kara. 3. Atharva-Vedi. Angirasa ................... Upadhyaya, vulgo Upa dhya. Of lower branches, and considered inferior to the above, are Sankhyayana ............ Mahanti. Nagasa ................... Dasa, and Mahanti. In explanation of the upadhis, I would state that they are, so to speak, the surnames of each gotra; for instance, a Brahmar of the Kasyapa gotra, whose personal name was Radha Krishna, would be known and spoken of, and speak of himself, as Radha Krishna Nand; Patit Paban, of the Katyayana gotra, is Patitpaban Sarangi; and so on. The commonest surnames are Panda and Mahapatra in Balasor ; probably because the families of the gotras to which they belong have multiplied more extensively there. Some of the upadhis given above are very rare in Balasor, as Tripathi, Ratha, Dube; the others are common enough. Some of them are also borne by other castes. Thus all the Karans, a class corresponding to the Kayasthas of Bengal, have the surname Mahanti, in the north contracted to Maiti. This fashion of caste surnames has been extended to the lower castes also : thus we have among the artizan castes the titles Patar, Rana, Ojha, Jena (a very low name, chiefly used by Pans, and other impure castes), Raut, Kar, De, and the Bangali names Ghosh and Bose (Basu). These names, where they are the same as those borne in other provinces, are used by lower castes. Thus Ghosh and Basu in Bangali are highly respectable kayastha names, in Orissa they are borne by Rajus, Gokhas, and other low castes. The cowherd class, the Gwald of Upper India, are here called Gaur or Gaul, and take the surnames Behera, Palai, Send, &c. Behera seems to have been adopted from the English, as it is this class that furnishes the well-known Oriya bearers' of Calcutta. But to return to the Brahmans,the gotra names, it will be seen, are for the most part patronymics from well-known Rishis, and are identical with many of those still in use in the North-Western Provinces. This circumstance seems to add confirmation to the legend of the origin of this caste from Kanauj. A Rishi's name occurs also among upadhis in one instance; Sarangi being from Sanskr, Sarngi, patronymic from Sringa Rishi. Panda is hardly a gotra upadhi, being applied to all Brahmans who officiate as priests. PATANJALI'S MAHABHASHYA BY PROFESSOR RAMKRISHNA GOPAL BHANDARKAR, M.A. PUSHPAMITRA. the roots yaj and others. This Patanjali explains SINCE I wrote last on the subject, I have thus :-"Pushpamitra sacrifices (yajate), and discovered a third passage in the Mahabhashye the sacrificing priests cause him to sacrifice (i.e., in which Pushpamitra is spoken of. Panini in to be the sacrificer by performing the ceremonies III. 1, 26, teaches that the termination aya, for him). This is the usual or uninverted order technically called ni, should be applied to a root of using the forms. But by Panini's rule the when the action of causing something to be done order ought to be Push pamitra causes (the is implied. Upon this, the author of the Vartikas priests) to sacrifice, and the priests sacrifice.'" observes that a rule should be made to provide This objection is removed by the author of the for the use of the causal and primitive forms in Vartikas himself, by saying that the root yaj, the uninverted or the usual order in the case of signifying several actions, the usual or unin

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70 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. verted order is provided for, and no new rule is necessary. How it is so, Patanjali tells us as follows:-"Yaj denotes several actions. It does not necessarily signify the throwing of the oblations into the fire, but also giving money, or providing the means of the sacrifice. For instance, they say 'O how well he sacrifices,' in the case of one who provides the means properly. That providing of the means, or giving money, is done by Pushpamitra, and the sacrificing priests cause him so to provide or so to become the sacrificer. In this sense, then, Pushpamitra sacrifices (yajate), and the priests cause him to perform it (yajayanti)." This is the uninverted or the usual order. In the sense of throwing the oblations into the fire, the other is the correct order." In this instance we see Patanjali speaks of the sacrifices of Pushpamitra as if he were familiar with them; and by itself this passage shows that he could not have lived long after him, certainly not so long as 175 years after, as Prof. Weber makes out. But the other instance pointed out in page 300 vol. I. of the Antiquary, in which his sacrifices are spoken of as if going on, shows that he lived in Pushpamitra's time. The three passages, then, in which his name occurs, are perfectly consistent with, and confirm, each other. PATANJALI'S NATIVE PLACE. Indian tradition makes the author of the Mahabhashya a native of a country called Gonarda, which is spoken of by the grammarians as an eastern country. The Matsya Purana also enumerates it amongst the countries in that direction. The position of Patanjali's native place, whether it was Gonarda or some other, can, I think, be pretty definitely fixed by means of certain passages in his work. In his comments on III. 3, 136, the two following passages occur: -Yoyam adhva gata a Pataliputrat tasya yadavaram Suketat- Of the distance or path from Pataliputra which has been traversed [such a thing was done in] that part of it which is on this side of Saketa;' and yoyam adhra a Pataliputrad gantavyas tasya yat param Saketat Of the distance or path up to Pataliputra which is to Pan. III. 1, 26. Katya, agafa: Patan. yayAdiSu cAviryAso vaktavya: / puSpamitro yajate yAjakA yAjayauntIti / tatra bhavitavyaM puSyamitrI yAjayate yAjakA yajantIti / Katy waity wife arautuva | Patan. yatyAdiSu cAtriparyAsa :siddha: / kuta: / nAnAkriyA [MARCH, 1873. be traversed [something will be done in] that portion which lies on that side of Saketa.+ In these two instances we see that the limit of the distance is Pataliputra, and that it is divided into two parts, one of which is on this side of Saketa, and the other on that. Saketa, then, must be in the middle, i.e., on the way from the place represented by this' in the expression this side,' to Pataliputra. This place must be that where Patanjali speaks or writes; and it must, we see, be in the line connecting Saketa and Pataliputra on the side of it remote from Pataliputra. The bearing of Oudh from Patna is north-west by west; Patanjali's native place, therefore, must have been somewhere to the north-west by west of Oudh. Prof. Weber thinks he lived to the east of Pataliputra; but of this I have spoken elsewhere. Let us now see whether the information thus gathered can be brought into harmony with the tradition mentioned above. The exact position of Gonarda is not known; but if it really was Patanjali's country, it must have been situated somewhere to the north or north-west of Oudh. Now, there is a district thereabouts which is known by the name of Gonda, and there is also a town of that name about 20 miles to the north-west of Oudh. According to the usual rules of corruption, Sansk. rda () is in the Prakrits corrupted to dda (), but sometimes also it is changed to dda (3). Gonarda, therefore, must in the Prakrit assume the form Gonadda. Hasty pronunciation elides the a, and, in the later stages of the development of the Prakrits, one of the two similar consonants is rejected. The form is thus reduced to Gonda, which is the way in which it is now pronounced. General Cunningham derives Gonda from Gau la.SS But, so far as I am aware, there are no instances of the insertion of a nasal in a Prakrit word, when it does not exist in the corresponding Sanskrit one. It appears, therefore, very probable that the district of Gonda in Oudh was the ancient Gonarda, and had the honour of giving birth to the great author of the Mahabhashya. THE NATIVE COUNTRY OF KATYA'YANA. Prof. Weber is of opinion that Katyayana was one of the eastern grammarians, and Dr. yayarthatAt / nAnAkriyA pajerarthA: / nAvazyaM yajivi : prakSepaNa eva vartate / kiM tarhi tyAgepi vartate, &c. I omit the grammatical details of this as not necessary. See Var. Prakr. Praka. III. 26. SS Anc. Geog. p. 408, and Arch. Surv. vol. I., p. 327.

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MARCE, 1873.) DATE OF SRI HARSHA. Goldstucker agrees with him. But it is a ques. tion whether the distinction between northern or castern grammarians, which Panini mentions, really existed in the time of Katyayana. But to whatever school of grammarians he may have belonged, supposing such schools existed in his time, it appears, from a passage in the Mahabhashya, that the author of the Vartikas was a Dakshinatya, i.e., a native of the South or Dakkhan. In the introduction to the Mahabhashya* occurs a passage, the sense of which is this :"If a man, who wishes to express his thoughts, does so by using some words or other simply from his acquaintance with the usage of the world, what is the use of grammar? The object of grammar is to restrict the liberty of speech in such a manner that religious good may arise from it; just as is done in the affairs of the world and in zoatters concerning the Vedas. In the world we find people saying 'a domesticated cock should not be enten, a domesticated pig should not be eaten.' Things are eaten for the satisfaction of hunger. Hunger, however, can be satisfied even by eating dog's flesh, and such other things. But then though it is so, a restraint is put on us, and we are told such a thing is eatable and such a thing is uneatable. * . . In the same manner, while one is able to express his thoughts equally by correct or incorrect words, what grammar does is to restrict him to the use of correct words, in order that religious good may arise from it." Now, this is Patanjali's explanation of two vartikas, the latter of which is yatha laukikavaidikeshu, i.e., 'as in the world and in the Veda.' On this Patanjali's remark is Priya-taddhita Dakshinatyah yatha loke vede cheti prayoktavye yatha laukika-vaidikeshviti prayunjate, i.e., the Dakshinatyas, i.e., people of the South or Dakkhan, are fond of using (words wit affixes, that is, instead of saying yatha loke vede cha, they say yatha laukika-vaidikeshu" (i.e., instead of using the words loka and veda, they use derivatives from them, formed by affixing the termination ika). This clearly means that Katyayana, the author of the vartika in which the words laukika and Vaidika occur, was & Dakshinatya, THE DATE OF SRI EARSHA. BY KASHINATH TRIMBAK TELANG, M.A., LLB., ADVOCATE, HIGH COURT, BOMBAY. In my article and letter on the date of the points out two circumstances tending to show Nyayakusumanjali in the Indian Antiquary that the main facts" related by Rajasekhara, (voi. I. pp. 297 and 358), the question of the the Jaina writer who gives us this account of Sri date of Sri Harsha, the author of the Naishadha Harsha, are strictly historical." I will take Charita and other works, came incidentally his second circumstance first. It is that " Rajaunder consideration; and in my letter I made sekhara's narration agrees in some important a reference to the conclusion which had been details with the statements which Sri Harsha arrived at on that point by Dr. J. G. Buhler, as makes regarding himself in his own works." I knew it from a summary of his paper on the Now, I cannot attach much weight to this cirsubject. I have since seen the whole of his cumstance; for, surely, even a Hindu biographer, paper on the age of the Naishadha Charita void of the "historical sense," could not afford of Sri Harsha, and although I cannot say that either to ignore or to contradict such well-known my view on the subject continues quite unshaken, autobiographical statements as those to which I still think that the question cannot yet be re- Dr. Buhler alludes. Running counter to such garded as finally settled. statements, a biography may, in the majority In the first place, then, the authority upon of cases at any rate, be safely put down as a work which Dr. Buhler relies for the date of Sri of romance. But it does not therefore follow, Harsha gives an account of him, which, as the I think, that the repetition of them in a work is Doctor himself very truly remarks, " is in many | proof of the remaining statements being trustdetails obviously fanciful."+ And though I am worthy. Had the case been somewhat different willing to concede that this circumstance may -had the statements coincided with what some easily be too much insisted on, it must be elaborate historical investigation had brought acknowledged that this account should be re- out, or with facts which could be reached only ceived with considerable caution. Dr. Buhler by a course of bona fide historical research-the * Ballantyne's Edn. pp. 54, 56. published in a separate pamphlet. Page 5.-My references are to the essay as recently Page 6

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MARCH, 1873. coincidences would, of course, have been of con- siderable moment. As it is, those coincidences appear to me scarcely to warrant the conclusion which it is sought to base on them. The second circumstance pointed out by Dr. Buhler is, that "it might be expected that Rajasekhara, who lived in the middle of the fourteenth century, could obtain trustworthy information regarding & person who lived only about 150 years before him." This I fully admit. But be it noted that Madhavacharya also lived in the middle, or rather somewhat before the middle, of the fourteenth century. And barring all other considerations, which, I think, will lead us to assign the palm of superiority to Madhava, it cannot be denied that Madhava must have had access to at least as trustworthy information on this matter a3 any author of the Jaina persuasion; and, as I have pointed out in my paper, Madhava makes Sri Harsha-the Khandanakara-- contemporary of Sankaracharya. Whom, then, shall we believe? Regarding the biography of a Hindu poet, is it more likely that the Jaina Suri or the Hindu Acharya erred? True, Madhava may have wished to exaggerate the greatness of Sankara's powers by making him engage in a controversy with Sri Harsha, and representing him as coming off victorions in the conflict; but it is still difficult to regard this as a suffi- cient explanation of this very gross anachronism, if anachronism it be. Add to this, further, that such credit as there may have been in a controversial victory over Sri Harsha, had been already reflected in great measure on Sankara's name by Sri Harsha's own respectful mention of that great philosopher. It must also be remembered, as pointed out by Dr. Buhler himself, that Rajasekhara's historical knowledge is found to be at fault in two places in this very piece of biography-firstly, with respect to the relationship existing between Jayantachandra and Govindachandra; and se- condly, with respect to the king who was ruler of Kasmir in Sri Harsha's time. This last erroneous statement, I think, takes a very great deal from Rajasekhara's credibility in the matter. Furthermore, according to this account, Sri Harsha wrote his Khandanakhandakhadya some time before he so much as contemplated the * Boo Prof. Cowell's Introduction to the K ymdnjali, page 10, and authorities there referred to. + Soo Indian Antiquary, vol. I. p. 229. Pages 6 and 8. Naishadhiya. Now it is, I think, rather hardalthough not quite impossible-to reconcile this circumstance with the words used by our author in one part of the Khandana. He says in that place :-"And in the Naishadha Charita, in the canto on the praise of the Supreme Being, I have said that the mind," &c., &c. This assertion in the original is put in the past tense. And when Dr. Buhler mentions another circumstance which is related by Rajasekhara in his Prabandhakosha, and after characterising it as "at all events consistent with that of the Sri Harsha Prabandha," goes on to contend that it corroborates this latter, I can scarcely persuade myself that others will concur in this. The consistency of all parts of a romance with each other cannot by any means be regarded as an argument for its truth. Adverting to the passage which is said to be quoted in the Sarasvati Kanthabharana from the Naishadha Charita, Dr. Buhler says that the passage may have been interpolated subsequently to the time of its author ; and I learn from him that the passage in question does not occur in the Oxford copy of the Sarasvati Kanthabharana. If this be so, it will, to some extent, weaken the argument based upon it. Dr. Buhler's authority for the statement about the Oxford MS. is probably, however, the elaborate catalogue of Professor Aufrecht. If so, I would point out one or two circumstances which seem to me to be worthy of consideration here. Dr. Hall says distinctly that the Naishadhiya is cited in the Sarasvati Kanthabharana. On the other hand, Dr. Aufrecht's Catalogue which, it may be observed, was published long after Dr. Hall's edition of the Vasavadatta -is simply silent as to any quotation under the name either of Sri Harsha or the Naishadhiya. But Dr. Aufrecht does not go so far as to say categorically that the quotation does not exist in the copy inspected and catalogued by him. On the contrary, what he does say seems to me to take from this negative testimony of silence a considerable portion of its value. "Major vero," says he in his article on this Kanthabharana itself, " distichorum pars unde desumta sit hucusque me latet."** This being 60, it may very well be that even in the Oxford copy of the Sarasvati Kanthabharana, the quota, Page 28, referred to in the Indian Antiquary, vol L. P. 29948 yawafaa chavegaaf rage F. Page 7. Vasavadatta, Prof. p. 18. Page 208

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MARCH, 1873.] tion from the Naishadhiya may exist; and yet, from the name of the author of the stanza quoted not being there mentioned, Dr. Aufrecht may have been unable to recognise its origin. And to this circumstance I am inclined to attach particular weight, because Dr. Aufrecht, unless I misunderstand him, has in one part of his catalogue cited the words THE DATE OF SRI' HARSHA. saptarSihasta citAvazeSAvyadhovivasvAnparivartamAnaH * apparently without recollecting that they form part of the sixteenth stanza of the first canto of Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava. Having said this much, I have only to add that if it should turn out that the quotation does occur in the Oxford MS. of the Sarasvati Kanthabharana; Dr. Buhler's conjecture will lose much of its value. And if the question, as it will then be, is reduced to one of the comparative probability of the quotation from Sri Harsha being interpolated, and of Rajasekhara's account being erroneous, many will, I think, be inclined to hold that it is, at all events, safer to trust to the fact of the quotation, than to any opinion about the accuracy of a Jaina biographer. It is only proper that I should add a remark here about Dr. Buhler's identification of the Jayantachandra mentioned by Rajasekhara as the king in whose reign Sri Harsha flourished, with the king Jayachandra who is known to history. When I first read the abstract of Dr. Buhler's paper given in the Indian Antiquary, I remarked that the learned Doctor's argument proceeded upon the assumption' that that identification was correct. Now that I have read in extenso the grounds on 'which Dr. Buhler arrives at that conclusion, I must say that the reasoning appears to me-I will not say conclusive, but certainly very cogent, and the assumption' of the identity has surely very good warrant. I now proceed to another point. In the preface to his edition of the Das'arupaka, which, as usual, bristles with the most varied items of information, Dr. Fitz Edward Hall says:"At the foot of page 71 begins a stanza which an intelligent pandit assures me [he] has + Page 36. Page 110 b. Indian Antiquary, vol. I. p. 257. The stanza (p. 9, Calcutta edition, and p. 129 of Pandit newspaper for 1867) is set out in full in Dr. Aufrecht's Catalogue in the section on the Prtuanna 73 read in the Prasanna Raghava. If this be so, we may have some clue to the age of the Gita Govinda." This observation of Dr. Hall's, it will be remarked, is not very positive. Professor Weber, however, who repeats it, is somewhat less cautious. Speaking of the Prasanna Raghava, he says:-" According to Hall (Preface to the Dasarupa, p. 36), a verse from this drama is quoted in Dhanika, and it must therefore be placed before the middle of the tenth century."+ If these remarks had been correct, we should probably have been able to add something valuable to our materials for inquiry in the present matter. For in the introduction to this excellent drama-a printed copy of which I have recently obtained from Calcutta-a certain poetical muse; and this Harsha, as I am Harsha is mentioned as the delight of the inclined to believe on various grounds, is more probably the Harsha of the Naishadhiya than the Harsha whose name is connected with the two dramas of Nagananda and Ratnavali.SS However that may be, I think there must have been some mistake in the information received by Dr. Hall. For first, I think, the stanza itself alludes to an event which cannot possibly be alluded to by any character in a play on any part of Rama's history, except by a gross anachronism. The stanza runs as follows: rat papa puraHsthalI miha kila krIDAkirAto haraH // kodaNDena kirITinA sarabhasaM cUDAntare tADitaH // conaf zugyi tentaret querna || mandaM mandamakAra yena nijayo dordaNDayo meNDalam // The sense is not quite complete here, but it may be thus freely rendered : "He who gradually folded up his own big arms into a circle, on hearing this wonderful story of the lord of Subhadra (i.e., Arjuna) in the Himalaya Mountain, namely "Look at this spot in front of you; Here, of old, Mahadeva, who had become a Kirata in sport, was hit hard on the crest by Kiritin (ie., Arjuna) with his bow." Now this clearly refers to the story of the rencontre between Siva and Arjuna, an event which was yet in the womb of futurity, while Raghava Nataka, p. 142. It is remarkable that the ame of Bhavabhuti, the poet of whom the Prasanna Raghava most often reminds one, has no place in this list. But I do not think any conclusion can be safely based on this fact.

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74 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MARCH, 1873. the age of Rama's incarnation lasted. And | Das'arupaka ;SS and this commentary in its secondly and this is of greater importance I have not been able to discover the stanza after looking through the whole of the drama for it, and after having once before read it. At present, therefore, we cannot in this investigation press to our aid the mention of Harsha by Jayadeva. earlier pages abounds with quotations from the Venisan hara, which must, therefore, at that time have been old enough to be regarded as fit for quotation. Hence it would seem to result that the date of the migration of Bhatta Narayana must be put back a century or so; but this still, only on the hypothesis that this Bhatta Narayana is identical with the author of the Venisan hara. If so, and again taking Babu Rajendralala's identification of the poet Sri Harsha to be correct, it will follow that the Babu's conclusion as thus adjusted will be supported by the two different lines of argument suggested in my letter. The date of Sri Harsha is casually alluded to in Professor Cowell's Preface to Mr. Palmer Boyd's Translation of the Nagananda Nataka. But the Professor, after first remarking that his age is uncertain, simply refers to the conjecture of Babu Rajendralala Mitra upon it, and then adds" But I find, from a notice in the first number of the Indian Antiquary, that Dr. Buhler of Bombay has recently fixed his date. in the twelfth century." Having regard to what has been said above on this point, this remark of Professor Cowell's cannot, of course, be considered satisfactory. Babu Rajendralala identifies this Sri Harsha with the Sri Harsha who went over to the court of Adisura, in company with others, one of whom was Bhatta Narayana, the author of the Venisanhara Nataka. But the Babu adds that "this assumption, probable as it may appear, is, it must be admitted, founded entirely upon presumptive evidence, and must await future more satisfactory research for confirmation." The period of this migration of Harsha and Narayana is fixed by Babu Rajendralala in the middle of the tenth century-by a calculation, however, which admittedly can give a result but roughly correct. But it seems clear that, if the Bhatta Narayana, who was received at his palace by king Adisura, was the author of the Venisanhara, the date fixed by Babu Rajendralala for his migration must undergo some modification. For about the middle of the tenth century, if not earlier, lived Dhanika, the author of the commentary on the The net result of this investigation may be thus stated:-The Jaina biographer's account, albeit it has some points in its favour, cannot be much trusted. On the other hand, the fact of the Naishadhiya being quoted in a work which, at the latest, dates from the beginning of the eleventh century; the fact of the work of a poet, probably contemporaneous with Sri Harsha, being quoted in a work dating from a still earlier period; the fact of an exceedingly well-known and well-informed writer of the fourteenth century making Sri Harsha the contemporary of a philosopher who flourished some six centuries or more before his time:these facts indicate a period which is about two centuries earlier than the period to which the Harsha Prabandha, assigns the subject of its narrative. And although the considerations here adduced against Rajasekhara's statement do not fix with any precision the date towards which they seem to point, still they are of value, at least to this extent that they show pretty clearly that the question of the date at which Sri Harsha flourished is not one which can be regarded as finally settled even by the circumstantial narrative of the Harsha Prabandha. *See page 12. Journal of the A. S. of Bengal, No. III., 1864, p. 326,alluded to by Prof. Cowell. Ibid., p 327. See Hall's Das'arupa, Pref. pp. 2, 3,-with which should be coupled Hall's Vasavadatta, Pref. p. 50 addendum to p. 9, notes 1. 12. See pp. 16, 18, 19, &c., and see Wilson's remarks in his Hindu Theatre. See Babu Rajendralala's paper above referred to, p. 326.

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MARCH, 1873.] EMBASSY TO CHINA. AN EMBASSY TO KHATA OR CHINA A.D. 1419. From the Appendix to the Rouzat-al-Ssafa of Muhammad Khavend Shah or Mirkhond. TRANSLATED FROM THE PERSIAN BY EDWARD REHATSEK, M.C.E. In the year 820 (A. D. 1419), the pious defunct well-known king Mirza Shah Rokh sent an embassy to Khata under the leadership and direction of Shady Khajah, who was accompanied by the royal prince Mirz a Baysanqar, Sultan Ahmad, and Khajah Ghayath-uldin, the painter, who was a clever artist; he ordered the first-mentioned Khajah that notes in writing should be taken, from the day of their starting from the capital of Herat till the day of their return, concerning everything they might experience; such as the adventures they should meet, the state of the roads, the laws of the countries, positions of towns, the state of buildings, the manners of kings, and other things of this kind, without adding or omitting anything.. Khajah Ghayath-ul-din obeyed the above orders, and, having consigned everything he saw to his itinerary, presented it on his return: the following account of the strange and wonderful events the envoys met with, and all they saw, has been extracted from his diary; but the responsibility rests with the travellers. (May 31st), they arrived in a place called Saluyu subject to the jurisdiction of Muhammad Beg, where they remained for some time, so that some who were servants of the Shah of Badakhshan, and had lagged behind, were enabled to rejoin them. They started from that place on the 22nd (June 4th), and crossing the river Langar, met the next day the governor of A'los, Muhammad Beg Sultan Gurkan, who was the son-in-law of Shah Jehan, and whose daughter had been married by Mirza Muhammad Jogy; and on the 28th of the same month (10th June) they entered the Jalgah of Yalduz and the A'yl of Shir Behram, and in that desert they found solid ice of the thickness of two fingers, although the sun was in the sign of Cancer. On the 8th of Jonady the second (20th June), they heard that the sons of Muhammad Beg Wahy, who were the ambassadors of A'wys Khan, had been plundered; this circumstance put the [other] ambassadors on their guard, so that they continued their journey, crossing rivers and climbing over mountains, in spite of the rain, which continually poured from the clouds, and the abundant dews; and they arrived at the end of the month (11th July) in the city of Tturfan. They found that in that country most of the inhabitants were polytheists, and had large idol-houses, in the halls whereof they kept a tall idol. On the 2nd of the month Rajab (13th July), they departed from that place, and arrived on the 5th (16th July) in Qara-Khajah; on the 10th of the month (21st July). Khatay writers came, who wrote down the names of the ambassadors and the number of their men. On the 19th (30th July) they made a halt in the district of Ata-Ssofy, where one of the high princes of Tarmad had constructed [for himself] a corner [of refuge], and had cast the anchor of permanency; they, however, beat the drum of departure from it, and arrived on the 21st (1st August) in the town of Qayl, where Amir Fakhar-ul-din had built a high, very costly, and ornamented mosque, but near it the polytheists had constructed a large and a small temple with wonderful pictures, and on the gate of the idol-house they had drawn two Dyws in the act of fighting with each other; the governor of Qay was an extremely handsome and affable young man, whose name was Haykal Taymur Babery. After leaving Qay 1, they travelled 25 stages, and obtained water every alternate day; and on the 12th (August 22nd) they met in that boundless desert Son of the celebrated conqueror Tamerlane. 75 They started from the capital Herat on the 16th of Dhulqadah (Dec. 3rd) on their journey to Khata, and arrived on the 9th Dhulhejjah (Dec. 27th) in Balkh, where they remained, on account of the great falling [of snow?] and the severe cold, till the beginning of Muharram of 823, and arrived on the 22nd of that month (Feb. 7th) in Samarqand. Mirza Olugh Beg had already before this despatched his own ambassadors, Sultan Shah and Muhammad Bakhshi, with a company of Khata people. The envoys from Khorasan remained in the town of Samarqand till the ambassador of Mirza Syurghatmesh arrived from Era q, the ambassador of the Amir Shah Malak came from Ardvan, and the ambassador from the Shah of Badakhshan, Tajul-din, joined them. Then they left the town of Samarqand in company of the Khata envoys on the 10th Ssafar (25th Feb.), and having passed through Tashkant and Byram, they entered among the A'yl of the Mughuls, and when they arrived, the news came that A'wys Khan had attacked Shir Muhammad Oghllan, and that on that account disturbances had arisen among the A'l 68, but that afterwards peace had been restored.. Amir Khodadad, who enjoys great authority in that country, met the ambassadors and treated them well; and on the 18th of Jomady the first

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They made a list of all the servants each, ambassador had; and insisted that their number should be given correctly and not exaggerated, because every one who tells falsehoods will lose his honour. The merchants had been enrolled as menials and performed services; accordingly the list was compiled as follows: Amir Shady Khajah and Kukchah, 200 men. Sultan Ahmad and Ghayath-ul-din 150 60 50 50 the painter A'rghdaq Ardun Taj-ul-din 13 The ambassadors of Mirza Olugh Beg had proceeded in advance, and the couriers of Mirza Ebrahim Sultan had not yet arrived. On the 16th of Shaban (Aug. 26), Wamek Wajy, who was the governor of that region, prepared a great banquet to which he invited the ambassadors; they went to his Yurt, where they found the Khatay people assembled in great numbers as is their wont, in line after line, so that no created being could pass through them, except at four doors which had been left on the four sides of the quadrangle which enclosed a large space. Within this space there was a high pavilion of the extent of one jarib [space that will, if sown, produce 385 mudds or 768 pounds of corn]; a great tent was pitched there with two Khatay lances standing in front of it, and with its borders tucked up like a royal seat. There was also a wooden kiosk [standing on four pillars] and sheds, so that within that space of one jarib the sun could not shine. Beneath these two lantes, the seat of Wajy had been placed, with sofas on both sides of it. The ambassadors took their seats on the left and the amirs of Khata on the right, because the latter consider the left side to be more honourable than the right, since the position of the heart, the sovereign of the human frame, is on the left. 12 27 17 [MARCH, 1873. dried fruits, cakes, fine bread, and nice confectionery wra pped in paper and silk. Opposite, there was a royal buffet erected in an elevated place, filled with. China bowls and goblets of crystal or silver; on the right and left of the buffet were places for vocal and instrumental performers with orghanan, fiddle, fifes, and drums of various kinds. There were also handsome youths adorned like women with their faces painted red and white; they wore earrings of pearls, and represented a theatrical performance. In the open space, as far as the four doors, stood soldiers dressed in coats, who were so dignified and stately that they never moved a single step forward or backward. The people were seated according to their dignity; the governor of the feast handed the cups round to amirs and envoys, whilst the actors, who wore pasteboard-masks, representing various animals, that concealed their features so well that not even their ears or necks could be seen, went on with their performances; and cup-bearers served out the beverages according to the distich : Throw away the lasso intended for Behram's game; take the cup of Jem; For, I examined this plain; it contains neither Behram nor his onager. Some moon-faced and tulip-cheeked boys attended, who bore pitchers of delicious wine, whilst others held, on the palms of their hands, platters full of sugarcandy, grapes, nuts, peeled chesnuts, lemons, with onions and garlic preserved in vinegar, and likewise sliced cucumbers and water-melons; whenever the amir gave a cup to any, one of them brought dishes for him to select whatever confectionery he liked. They had also constructed the figure of a stork, in which a boy was enclosed who moved his feet according to musical time, and also leapt about in all directions to the astonishment of every one present. After spending that day from morn till even in joy and amusement, the travellers again resumed their journey on the 17th Shaban (Aug. 27th), and arrived after a few days in Qar a w ul. Qara wul is a very strong fort among the mountains, and can be entered only on one side by a road which also leads out of it on the other. The garrison took the name of every one of the travellers, who after leaving Qarawul arrived in the town of By kju, where they were lodged in the large guard-house which was over the gate of the city; there the whole baggage was taken away, registered, and again returned to them. They obtained whatever food or drink they needed, as well as nice furniture with carpets; and a sleeping dress of silk, with a servant to wait on him, was given to every man; and the travellers were treated in this manner in all the guard-houses. As far as the city of Khata they met with the same hospitality. Bykju is a great town, surrounded by a high wall; its form is a square, and it contains spacious Before every one of the ambassadors and amirs, a table was placed with ducks, fowls, cooked meat,

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MARCH, 1873.] bazare, each of which is 50 statute cubits broad, regularly swept, and sprinkled with water. In most of the houses tame pigs are kept, but in the butchers' shops sheep and hogs hang side by side. There are many bazars and thoroughfares, the latter being covered by extremely handsome pavilions with Khatay-Muqranus. Along the ramparts of the town there is a covered tower at every twenty steps. The four gates in the four walls of the town face each other, and although the road from one to the other through the town is long, it appeared to be short en account of the extreme straightness of the street; over each gate a story is built with a pavilion. EMBASSY TO CHINA. In this town there were numerous idol-houses, each of them occupying an area of nearly ten jarib. They were all built of burnt bricks, and provided with very fine and clean carpets on the floors. At the doors of the idol-houses beautiful boys were standing proffering invitations of amusement and entrance. From this place to Khan Balygh [Peking] which is the capital of the Emperor of Khata, there were ninety-nine Yam, each of which was in good condition. Every Yam contained a town and a Qusbah [district]. Between every two Yam there were several Qara w, and Qaraw means a building sixty cubits high, always guarded by two men and so placed that the next Qaraw is visible from it, so that in cases of emergency, e. g., the appearance of an enemy's army, they may immediately light a bonfire; and thus information from a distance, which requires a three months' journey, is conveyed to Khan-Balygh in 24 hours. In connection with the arrangement just described, the Kydy-Qu may be mentioned, who carry letters and relieve each other. The Kydy-Qu are horse-couriers established at various distances; their orders are that, whenever they receive any written despatches, they must immediately carry them to the next Kydy-Qu, so as to bring them to the notice of the Emperor without delay. The distance from one Kydy-Qu to the other is ten Qarah, sixteen of which make one statute farsang [a league of about 18,000 feet]. The Qaraw is so garrisoned that ten men take the watch by turns [of two]; whilst the Kydy-Qu men are compelled to dwell constantly at their station, where they possess houses and cultivate fields. The distance from Bykju to Qamju, which is another district, and larger than By kju, amounted to nine Yam, and there Ankjy, who is the highest Wajy of those regions, was the governor. Each Yam contains four hundred and fifty horses and carts, with boys to take care of the horses; these boys are so numerous that they take the waggon ropes upon their shoulders and pull them. To each cart twelve persons are appointed, and no matter how great the rain or the cold may be, they do not slack 77 en their pace in drawing these vehicles; all these boys are of pleasant conversation and of very fair complexion; the horses kept in readiness for envoys are saddled and bridled; they have also whips. In every Yam, sheep, ducks, fowls, rice, honey, flour, and all kinds of vegetables were kept ready. In the towns banquets were prepared for the ambassadors in the Dusuns, by which name they call their reception-balls. In every Dusun in which a banquet was prepared, a dais was placed in front of the royal buffet, and curtains suspended; then a man used to stand by the side of the dais and spread out a very clean and nice felt cloth beneath it, on the upper portion whereof the ambassadors took their station, all the other people standing behind them in lines, as is customary with Musalmans when they hold prayers. Then the individual posted at the left uttered an invitation thrice in the Khatay language, when all the people sat down at the table and began to eat. On the day Ankjy made the banquet for the ambassadors it was the 12th of Ramazan (Sept. 20th). At Qamju there was an idol-house 500 cubits long and as many broad, containing an idol 50 cubits high; the length of its foot alone was 5, and its circumference 21 cubits; on the head and back of this idol others were placed, and the temple was adorned with pictures and figures that moved, so that the beholder imagined they were alive. Around that idol-house there were buildings like the apartments of a caravansera; all of them, however, contained gold-embroidered curtains, gilded chairs, sofas, chandeliers, and pitchers, to be used in banquets. In this city was also another building which Moslems call " a sky-wheel." It is an octagonal kiosk which consists of 15 stories, each of which contains verandas with a Khatay-Mugranus, and small as well as large chambers; around the verandas there are all kinds of pictures; among these there is one representing a prince sitting on his throne, surrounded on the left and right by attendants, slaves, and girls. Beneath this kiosk there were some statues which supported on their back this structure, which is 20 cubits in circumference and 12 high, the whole being made of wood, but so gilded as to appear a mass of solid gold. From a subterranean apartment, an iron axis, standing in a socket of iron, rises and passes through the kiosk, in the top of which its upper extremity is fixed, in such a manner that at the least touch the whole of that large kiosk turns around this axis. In this city all the presents brought by the ambassadors for the emperor were taken away from them, except a lion, which Pehlvan Seullah, the lion-keeper, was allowed himself to take to the court of the emperor. The nearer the ambassadors approached Khan - Balygh the more careful did the governors and Daroghahs of the various Yam become in their attentions and hospitalities; they arrived every day in Domes.

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78 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MARCE, 1873. a Yam and every week in a town, and reached on the 4th Shawal (Oct. 12th) the river Qaramun, which is of the same size as the Jayhan (Oxus). This river is spanned by a bridge of 23 boats chained together. Every chain is as thick as a man's thigh, and ten cubits of it are on the land on both sides, and are attached to iron-posts of the thickness of a man's body, fixed in the ground on the bank. The boats are moreover made steady by hooks and other chains, and are covered with planks; the whole being level and immoveable, so that the ambassadors crossed the river without the least difficulty or in convenience. On the other bank of the river there was a large town full of inhabitants and buildings : there the ambassadors were feasted more splendidly than anywhere else. The town also contains a temple, the like of which does not exist in any place they had hitherto visited; it contains likewise three taverns (kherabat), adorned with beautiful girls; and although most of the Khatay women are handsome, this town is on account of their surpassing pulchritude surnamed the abode of beauty.' Resuming their journey, they arrived on the 11th Dhulqadah (Nov. 18th), after passing through several towns, near a water which is twice as broad as the Jayhun; this they safely crossed in a ship, as well as several others, partly in boats and partly by means of bridges, reaching Ssadyn - Qur on the 27th of the same month (Dec. 3rd). This is a large city inhabited by a countless population. It contains a large temple with a corpulent brass-idol, which is gilded and 50 cubits high. This idol has so many hands that it is surnamed the "thousandhanded," and is very celebrated in the Khatay country. The foundation is very wonderfully made of cut-stone, on which this idol and the whole building rests; around the idol rise galleries and verandas in several stories, the first of which reaches a little beyond the ankle, he second does not go as high as its knee, another passes above the knee, the next goes up almost to the waist, the next reaches the breast, and so on up to the head. The top of that building is surrounded by mugranus, and is so.covered that it is looked at with astonishment, and the whole number of stories which may be reckoned from within and from without, amounts to eight. The idol is in a standing position ; its two feet, the length of each of which is 10 cubits, stand on the two sides of the foundation, and it is stated that about one hundred thousand donkey-loads of brass were consumed in that work. There are other small idols of mortar and colours, at the side of each of which there are chapels with figures of monks and Jogis sitting in their cells, employed in religious observAnoes. There are also pictures of lions, tigers, dragons, and trobe produced by the pencil of magic. The paintings on the walls of these idol-houses are executed with extreme skill, and the chief temple is higher than any other building ; this town podcased also a turning kiosk, larger and more elegant than that of the town of Qamju. The ambassadors travelled daily four farsangs, and arrived on the 8th of Dhulhejjah (Dec. 14) at the gate of Khan-Belygh. They obtained sight of a very large and magnificent city entirely built of stone, but as the outer walls were still being built, a hundred thousand scaffoldings concealed them. When the ambassadors were taken from the tower, which was being constructed, to the city, they alighted near the entrance to the Emperor's palace, which was extremely large; up to this entrance they proceeded on foot by a pavement f ormed of cut-stone, about 700 paces in length. . On coming close they saw five elephants standing on each side of the road with their trunks towards it; after passing between the trunks the ambassadors entered the palace, through a gate near which a crowd of about a hundred thousand men had assembled. Within the precincts they found them. selves in a spacious, pleasant, airy court-yard, where they saw, in front of a kiosk, a basement about three cubits high, supporting a colonnade with three doors, the central one being the highest and serving for the Emperor to pass through, whilst the people went through the lateral doors ; above the kiosk there was a stage for the big drums; two sentries stood on it waiting for the Emperor to step upon the throne. On that occasion about 300,000 men had assembled, and 2,000 musicians were performing & vocal concert in the Khatay language and singing the praises of the Emperor, whilst 2,000 stood with staves, javeling of steel, lances, swords, war. clubs, and others held Khatay fans in their hands. All round were elegant houses with high columns, and the pavement was of cut-stone. When the sun had gone up, the band which was waiting for the Emperor on the top of the kiosk commenced to strike the great and the small drums, and to play on the musical instruments. Then the chief door was opened and the people rushed in quickly. According to the custom of the Khatays, to see the Emperor means 'to run.' After passing through the first court-yard, they arrived in the second, which was also extremely spacious, but of more pleasing aspect; it contained also a larger kiosk than the first, and a throne of a triangular shape measuring about four cubits Con each side) was placed in it, and covered with a gold-embroidered yellow atlas Khatay carpet, with figures of the Symurgh and other birds on it. On this throne a golden chair was placed, near which the Khatays were arranged in lines, so that Toman A mirs (commanders of 10,000 men) stood nearest, then the Hezarah (of thousands), and then the Ssadah (of hundreds) in great numbers, every one holding in his hand a board one statute gas in length and one-fourth of it in breadth, and not looking on any other object except on these boards. To the rear of these stood soldiers in countless numbers, dressed in coats, holding lances and bare swords in their hande, in lines so silent that it seemed they were not even breathing.

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MARCE, 1873.] EMBASSY TO CHINA. 79 After an hour the Emperor came out from the Harein, and a silver-ladder with five steps being placed against the throne, he mounted it and sat down on the golden chair. His stature was of the middle size ; his beard was neither long nor short ; nevertheless about two or three hundred hairs of it were so long that they formed three or four ringlets. On the two sides of the Emperor, to the right and left of the throne, two girls, beautiful like the moon and splendid like the surr, with ambercoloured hair, whose countenances and necks were not veiled, and who had great ear-rings, sat with paper and pen in hand, and watched to write down whatever the Emperor would say, to be presented to him on his return to the Harem, subject to his revision, and afterwards expedited into the chancery to be properly arranged. In fine, after the Emperor had taken his seat on the throne, the ambassadors were brought forward back to back with the prisoners. First of all the Emperor examined the prisoners and criminals, who 'were seven in number; some had two branches on their neck [to pinch it], others were tied to a long plank through which their heads protruded, every one had a guard who kept hold of the prisoner's hair with his hand, waiting for the order of the Emperor. Some of them the Emperor sent to prison, and others he ordered to be killed, as there is no governor or Darogah in the Khatay dominions who has a right to coudemir a culprit to death. The crime a man commits is written, together with the sentence, on a piece of board and tied round his neck, and he is, according to the religion of the in. fidels, chained and despatched to Khan-Baly gh, not being allowed to stop in any place till he reaches the foot of the throne. When the business with the culprits was completed, the ambassadors were brought to the throne, and when they were at a distance of fifteen cubits from it, an amir fell on his knees and read & statement about the ambassadors, which had been drawn up in Khatay characters on & sheet of paper, the contents whereof were :-That they had made a long and distant journey from Shah Rokh and his sons, and had brought various presents for the Emperor, and were desirous to pay homage and to obtain a look of condescension. After that, Mullana Yusuf Qadzy, who was one of the amirs and courtiers, and presided over one of the twelve Imperial Ministries, came forward with Beveral Moslems, who were linguiste, to the arnbansadors, and told them first to bend down low, and then to touch the ground thrice with their heads. The ambassadors obeyed, and took into both hands the letters from His Majesty Shah Rokh, from the Jenab Baysanqar, and from the other princes, which they had, according to the advice of the courtiers, wrapped in yellow atlas, as it is the custom of the Khatays that everything which belongs to the Emperor must be enveloped in yellow silk. Then the above-mentioned Mullana Yusuf took the letters from them and handed them to the chamberlain, who, in his turn, gave them to the Emperor. Then the following seven of the ambassadors were brought near to the throne, viz., Shady Khajah Kukchah, Sultan Ahmad, Ghayath-ul-din, A'rghdaq, Ardwan, and Taj-ul-din, all of whom fell on their knees. The Emperor first inquired about the health of the reigning Sultan Shah Rokh, and asked whether Qara Yusuf had sent an ambassador with presents. The reply was :-"Yes, and your Wajys have seen that his letters, as well as his gifts and offerings, have likewise been brought." He further asked : -" Is the price of corn high in your country or low, and the produce abundant ?" The answer was "Corn is extremely plentiful, and provisions are cheap beyond all expectation." He continued :-" Indeed, if the heart of the king be with God the Most High, the Creator will confer great benefits upon him" He added :-"I have a mind to send an ambassador to Qara Yusuf, and to ask from him some fine rece-horses, for I have heard that there are good ones in his country." He also asked whether the road was safe ; and the ambassadors replied "As long as the government of Sultan Shah Rokh exists, people will be able freely to travel." He continned "I am aware that you have come from a long distance ; rise and eat some food." Accordingly they were taken back to the first court-yard, where a table was placed before every man. After they had finished their din their dinner, they returned, according to command, to the Bamkhanah, where they found every apart. inent furnished with a fine bed and cushions of atlas, as well as slippers and an extremely fine morning-gown of silk, a sofas a fire-pan, and beautiful mats spread on the ground; they saw many more apartinents of this kind, and every man obtained one for his use, as well as a pot, a cup, a spoon, sherbet, and raisins. Every person received a daily allowance of ten sirs of mutton, one duck, two fowls, two inann of flour according to the statute measure, one great bowl full of rice, two ladles full of sweetmeats, one vessel with honey, and onions and garlic, as well as of salt and various kinds of vegetables, and lastly, one platterful of confectionery. They had also several beautiful servants. The next day, which was the 9th Dhulhejjah (Dec. 15th), an equerry inade his appearance in the morning with a number of saddled Lorses, and said to the ambassadors :-"Get up and mount; this day the Emperor gives a banquet." Accordingly they were led away and made to alight on their arrival at the gate of the first palace, and on that occasion thure were about 300,000 persons near it. When the sun had gone up, the three doors were opened, and the ambassadors were taken to the foot of the throne, where they were ordered to make five salutations in the direction of the throne of the] Emperor. After that, they were told to go out, and

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80 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. to answer any calls of nature, because afterwards it would be impossible to do so during the banquet. Accordingly the ambassadors dispersed for a while, and on coming together again they were led through the first and the second court-yard which contains the throne of the sovereign, and entered the third. This was a fine enclosure paved with cutstone; it contained a tent in which a large throne could be seen, with three silver-ladders placed against it; one in front, one on the right, and the third on the left; with two chamberlains standing, whose mouths were bandaged up to the lappets of the ears with strong paper; and on the throne there was a small table with many legs, all of which were of gold. The columns, wood-work, and bridges of that building were all painted and varnished in such a manner as to excite the amazement of skilled artists. Tables with food, confectionery, and bouquets of flowers had been placed before the Emperor, on whose right and left respectable Wajys were standing with quivers and girded swords, and their shields suspended from their shoulders. In their rear stood soldiers, some with halberts and others with drawn swords. On the left side a place had been prepared for the ambassadors, whilst in front of the Emperor, near the tent, the buffet for the big kettle-drum had been arranged, and near it a man had taken his position on a high bench, having by his side the musicians standing in lines. In front of the throne stood also seven umbrellas of seven different colours. Beyond the tent-ropes on the right and on the left 200,000 armed men had taken up their position. At the dis. tance of an arrow-shot, a place ten cubits long and ten broad, enclosed by walls of yellow atlas, had been set apart for arranging the food of the Emperor; and the beverages were also there. Whenever food or drink is brought for the Emperor, all the musicians begin to play on their instruments; the above mentioned seven umbrellas are quickly brought, the food is placed in a box, covered, and carried to the Harem, before which a large curtain is suspended, having a silken rope on each side, which being drawn by the two chamberlains standing at the sides, the curtain is folded and the door opened. After everything had been prepared for the assembly, the door opened in the manner just described, the Emperor came out, and the music began, but as soon as he was seated it became silent. At the height of ten cubits above the head of the Emperor there was a large bouquet made of yellow atlas by way of a canopy, as well as four dragons fighting with each other. When the Emperor had taken his seat, the ambassadors were brought forward, and saluted him five times as they had been instructed; after that they returned and sat down near their own tables. Besides what was already on the tables, every hour new dishes were brought containing meat, lamb, ducks, and chickens, and beverages were also served out. [MARCH, 1873. Meanwhile various performances were going on First, a company of beardless youths, beautiful as the shining sun, their faces painted red and white like females, with pearls in their ears and dressed in gold-embroidered clothes, holding in their bands bouquets of roses and tulips of various colours, manufactured of paper and silk, performed various dances in very artistic manner. After that two boys, ten years old, were tied on two planks, and a man, stretching himself on his back on the ground, lifted up both his feet, on the soles of which several large bamboos were placed; then another man took his position on these bamboos, holding in his hands several [short ones], which he arranged above each other, and placed on the topmost one a boy of 10 or 12 years of age, who performed various tricks, throwing away gradually all the bamboos till he arrived at the last, on which he continued his play, until he suddenly left the bamboo, so that everybody thought he was falling, but the man who was stretched on the ground, jumping up, caught him in his arms in the air; and in this manner other games were also carried on. The assembly was protracted from the morning till the first prayers. In this court-yard there were also ravens, crowe, and others, which picked up the fruits thousands of birds, such as pigeons, ring-doves, and refuse from the dinner without being afraid of the people, nor did any person injure them in the least. On the termination of the banquet, the Emperor gave presents to the speakers [actors], and then the people dispersed with his permission. The ambassadors had sojourned five months in this city, and had daily received the same provisions as on their arrival without any diminution or increase. On several occasions banquets had been arranged for them, in each of which the performers displayed other tricks. On the day of sacrifices [which falls on the 10th festival with due solemnity in the company of Dhulhejjah] the ambassadors spent that blessed Musalmans at the mosque erected by the Emperor for them. On the 18th Dhulhejjah (Dec. 23rd) some criminals were, by order of the Emperor, taken to the place of execution. The Khatay infidels register their judicial court, which is very useful; they are the crime and the punishment of every culprit in moreover so scrupulous according to their laws and customs with reference to delinquents and culprits, that if in one of the courts of justice, of which the Emperor has twelve, the accused individual has not been condemned, and has been found guilty in eleven, he may still escape punishment; but a man is often imprisoned from six to eleven months, and not punished until his accuser arrives and the crime can be brought home to the perpetrator. On the 27th Muharram (1st Feb. 1421), Yusuf Qadzy sent some one to the ambassadors with messages that, as on the morrow the new year would begin, the Emperor was to enter the new

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MARCE, 1873.] EMBASSY TO CHINA. 81 camp, and that no one was to put on white clothes, ever, the Khatay astrologers had ascertained that which are among them the sign of mourning. the house of the Emperor would be in danger of During the night of the 28th the Emperor despatch. conflagration, and on that account no orders for ed a man to convey the ambassadors to the new illumination had been issued, nevertheless the amire camp, which was an empty building. That night met according to ancient custom, and the Emperor the inhabitants had lit in their shops and houses 80 gave them a banquet and made them presents. many candles, lamps, and torches, that one would On the 13th Ssafar (Feb. 17th) an imperial mes ave said the sun was shining. In that camp senger arrived and took the ambassadors to the gate nearly one hundred thousand men from the coun- of the first palace, where more than 100,000 people tries of Cnin, Khata, Ma-Chin, Qalmaq, Tibbet, were assembled. At the door of the first kiosk & and others had congregated; the Emperor gave a gilded throne had been placed, and, the door being banquet to his amirs, and the ambassadors were opened, the Emperor took his seat on the throne, Beated without the throne-hall. There were about and the assembled multitude prostrated their heads 200,000 men present who bore arms, and boys per to the ground. After that another throne was formed all sorts of extraordinary games and dances. placed opposite to that of the Emperor, and his The distance from the ball of audience to the end of proclamation was placed thereon ; this document the buildings was 1,925 paces. All these edifices was taken up by two men, one of w had been constructed of stones and burnt bricks, a loud voice to the people ; but as it was in the the latter being made of China-earth; there was Khatay language, the ambassadors could not undercarpeting which extended to a distance of nearly stand it: the contents were however as follows: * 300 cubits. In stone-cutting, carpentry, and paint- "This month three years have elapsed sinoe the ing the artizans of that country have no equals. Emperor's feast of lanterns, and another feast of In fine, the banquet was terminated about mid-day, lanterns has arrived. All culprits receive amnesty, and the people went to their houses, except homicides. No ambassador is to go anyOn the 9th of the month Seafar (Feb. 13th), horses where." After this document had been read, somewere brought in the inorning and the ambassadors thing nicely enclosed in a golden capsule was affixed were mounted on them. Every year there are some to it by means of a cord of yellow silk; which days on which the Emperor eats no animal food, I was also wrapped round it and served to lower it and does not come out from his retirement, neither down, whereon an umbrella was held over it, and, is any man or woman admitted to his presence. He whilst the people marched out with it from the spends his time in an apartinent which contains nokiosk, the musicians played until they arrived at idol, and says that he is worshipping the God of the Yam, whence the proclamations are sent to heaven. On the day when the ambassadors were taken out, the Emperor had come forth from his When the first quarter of the moon commenced retirement, and his procession to the Harem was as to appear in Rabyr the first, the Emperor kept falfollows The elephants were fully caparisoned and cons in readiness and again sent for the ambassamarched in pairs before the golden Sedan-chair in dors. On that occasion he said "I shall give which he eat, the standards of seven colours, and falcons to him who has brought fine horses for me." troops to the amount of 50,000, accompanied the Then be gave three falcons to Sultan Shah, the cortege as a van and rear-guard. Another Sedan- ambassador of Mirza Olugh Beg; three to Sultan chair was carried on the backs of men, and such a Ahmad, the ambasador of Mirza Baysanqar; and music was made as cannot be described in words, 80 three to Shady Khajah, the ambassador of the progthat, in spite of the extraordinary crowd, no other perous sovereign [Shah Rokh] ; all of which he then sounds except those of musical instruments could be surrendered again to his own falconers to take care heard ; and after the Emperor with that pomp and of till the time of departure. The next day he again solemnity had made his entrance into the Harem, the Bent for the ambassadors and said: "An army people returned to their own homes. is marching to the frontier and you may also acAt that season the feast of lanterns takes place, company it, and thus reach your country." Turnwhen for seven nights and days in the interior of ing to A'rghdag, the ambassador of Syurghatmesh, the Eunperor's palace a wooden ball is suspended he said: "I have no more falcons, and even if from which numberless chandeliers branch out, I had some, I would give none to thee, because thou Bo that it appears to be a mountain of emeralds; hast allowed thyself to be robbed of the gifts the thousands of lamps are suspended from cords, and king bad sent me; and it is likely thou would'st be mice are prepared of naphtha, so that when a lamp robbed this time also." A'rghda replied: "If your is kindled the mouse runs along those ropes and Majesty will graciously bestow & falcoupon me, lights every lamp it touches, so that in & single no one shall be able to take it away from your moment all the lamps from the top to the bottom of servant." The Emperor said :-" Then remain here the ball are kindled. At that time the people light till two other falcons arrive, and I shall give them many lampe in their shops and houses, and do not to thee." condemn any one during those seven days (the On the 8th of the month Raby the first (13th March courts of justice closed ?). The Emperor makes 1421). Sultan Shah and Bakhshy Malak were called, presents and liberates prisoners. That year, how and each of them received eight ingots of silver,

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82 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY [MARCH, 1873. thirty royal robes, two horses, one of which was Baddled, one hundred javelins, and five Khatay girls, except that Bakhshy Malak obtained one ingot less; also the Empresses made presents to the ambassadors. On that day the ambassador of A'wys Khan with 250 men obtained an audience from the Emperor and paid him the customary homage; the courtiers provided them with royal garments, and rations were assigned to them. On the 13th (March 18th) the Emperor sent for the ambassadors and said to them :-"I shall depart on a hunting expedition, and shall perbaps stay away for sone time. Take charge of your falcons, lest you lose them." According to this command the birds were surrendered to them, and the Emperor went to the case. During his absence a royal prince arrived from the country of Tamna; the ambassadors paid him a visit on the 18th (March 23rd), and found him sitting on the eastern side of the Emperor's house, which was, according to custoin, adorned with tables laid out; they ate some food and came out again. In the beginning of Raby the second (March 25th). the ambassadors received information that the Emperor had returned from the hunt, and that they inust go out to meet him. Accordingly they mounted their horses, but when they reached the Yamkhanah, they found Mullana Yusuf Qadzy sitting on his horse in a state of great melancholy and dejection, and, asking for the reason of his sadness, he whispered to them "The horse sent by His Majesty Shah Rokh has thrown the Emperor whilst hunting, which event made him so angry that he ordered the ambassadors to be taken back in fetters to the city of Khata [Peking)." At these words the arnbassadors became much distressed and confused. In the camp of the Emperor, where they bad alighted in the night, they perceived a wall built around it, which was 400 cubits long and as inany broad, the wall itself was four paces broad and two cubits high ; it had been built up that night. They built the wall of green trees and left two gates in it; in the rear of the wall, which was plastered with mud, a deep fosse could be seen. At the gates armed soldiers were standing, and within the [en- closure of the wall were two square tents, each 25 cubits long and supported by four poles ; around them stood snaller tents and sheds of yellow and gold-embroidered atlas. As the ambassadors were yet 500 paces distant, Mullanu Yusuf said to them :"Get down froin your horses and reinain on this spot till the Emperor comes." Then he went alone forward, and when he arrived near the escort of the Emperor, he alighted and found hiin sitting with Lyllajy and Jan Wajy, and blaming the ambassadors; both of these men, however, as well as Mullana Yusuf Qadzy, touched the ground with their heads, aud interceded, representing to him that the ambassadors were not guilty, since their king, to whose government no damage would be done in case these men should be killed, was obliged to send a good horse, but that on the contrary His Imperial Majesty, who was far and near celebrated for his mercy, would be accused of an act of tyranny for punishing in this manner ambassadors who were not guilty according to any code of laws. The Emperor approved of this argument of the well-wishers, and gave up his intention of punishing the ambassadors. Accord ingly Mullana Yusuf went joyfully to them and said "God the Most High and Glorious has taken mercy on you, poor fellows, and the Emperor has graciously pardoned the transgression you have not committed." Afterwards the Emperor came near, mounted on a tall black horse, with white legs, which Mirza Olugh Beg had sent him. He wore & red gold-embroidered dress, and rode slowly, having an Okhtaji on each side ; his beard was encased in a wrapper of black atlas and he was accompanied by seven small Sedan-chairs, which were covered and contained girls sitting in them : there was also one large Sedan-chair borne on the shoulders of seventy men, and escorted by numerous mounted troops on the right and on the left, no other person daring to move a single step forward or backward, and the interval from the people was always 20 steps. When the Emperor had arrived nearer, the ambassadors made demonstrations of respect at the instigation of Jan Wajy and Lyllajy and of Mullana Yusuf, and the Emperor said to them "Mount your horses !" Accordingly the ambassadors departed in the cortege of the Einperor, who had by way of complaint said to Shady Khajah that the presents of horses and other animals sent with the other offerings ought to be good ones, and added : "On account of my affection for thee I rode the horse thou hadst brought when I was on the hunting ground, but it was so vicious that it threw me and injured my hand." Shady Khajah apologized and represented that the horse was a souvenir from His Majesty, the Lord of the two conjunctions, the Arair Tayinur Kurkan, and that the king Shah Rokh had sent. it as a present to the Emperor to show him respect." This excuse the Emperor accepted, and marched to the capital, in the vicinity of which great crowds of men were assembled uttering good wishes and praises of the Emperor in the Khatay language, and amidst this display of power and glory the Emperor alighted at his own palace, whilst the people returned to their homes. On the 4th of Raby the second (April 8th), an imperial messenger came again, and said to the ambassadors whilst he took them away :-"This day the Emperor will give you presents !" When they arrived at the foot of the throne, they observed that the Emperor had heaps of gifts collected around him, which he distributed to the ambassadors as follows :-To Shady Khajah ten ingots of silver, thirty robes of atlas, with seventy pieces of cloth, and various other presents; to Sultan Ahmad, to Kukjal, and to A'rghdaq, severally, eight ingots of silver, sixteen robes of atlas, and other things. To Khajah Ghayath-ul-din, to Ardvan, and to Taj-ul-din, severally, seven ingots of silver, sixteen robes of atlas, and other articles. When the ambassadors

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MARCH, 1873.] EMBASSY TO CHINA. 83 had received these gifts, they returned to their lodgings, and the ambassadors of Mirza Olugh Beg had also received presents, as was already mentioned. At this time one of the ladies of the Emperor who was beloved by him happened to die, but the fact was not published before all the preparations for mourning had been completed, so that her death was not known before the 8th Jomady the first (May 11th) : it happened also by the decree of God that, during the night which preceded the morning of her interinent, the new palace of the Emperor was struck by lightning, so that the prediction of the astrologers (mentioned above) was fulfilled. An edifice eighty cubits long and thirty broad, supported by coloured pillars so thick that a man could not embrace one of them with his arms, W88 completely burnt; the fire spread also to a kioek which was sixty cubits distant, and consumed likewise the Harem-Serai of the Emperor. In the neighbourhood 250 houses were burnt to ashes, with & number of men and women. In spite of all the efforts of the people, the conflagration could not be subdued till the time of] second prayers ; the Emperor, however, and the amirs did not concern themselves about it, because, according to their religion, that was considered one of their fortunate days in which they did no business. The Emperor went to the idol-house, where he engaged in supplications and wailings, saying " The God of heaven has become angry towards me and has burnt the locality where my throne is, although I have done nothing, and committed no act of tyranny." This grief made him sick, and on that account it has not become known how the lady of the Emperor was buried. It is related that in Khate there is a mountain appointed for the burial of grand ladies, and when one of them dies, she is taken to that mountain and put into a dukhmah (sepulchre] ; her private horses are also let loose on that mountain, to graze at their own pleasure, and to be molested by nobody. In that dukhmah [cemetery], wbich is extremely spacious, inany female attendants and chamberlains, who draw salaries, spend their lives and die there ; but in spite of all these arrangements for the interment of the [imperial] ladies, it bas, on account of the catastrophe of this fire, never become known in what manner the above mentioned lady was buried. Meanwhile the malady of the Emperor increased day by day, and his son took his place in the administration of the government, the ambassadors also obtained leave to depart, and started from Khad-Balygh in the middle of Jomady the first (18th May 1421); several Wajye accompanied them, and the Khatays did them the same service on the return-journey, with reference to the provisions and other matters, as on their coming. In the beginning of Rajab (July 2nd), they arrived in the town of Bangan, wlfen high and low came out to meet them ; on account of the imperial mandate, however, they abstained from examining the baggage of the ambassadors, although according to law they ought to have done so to see whether some things were not exported contrary to the rules. The next day they gave a banquet to the ambassadors with many demonstrations of civility. From this place they again started and arrived on the 5th Shaban (5th Aug.) in Qaramun, which they again left, and arrived every day in another desert, and every week in another town, where they obtained a public repast and again departed. On the 24th Shaban (24th Aug.) they arrived in the town of Qamju, where everything taken from the ambassadors on their first arrival. by the Khatays, was again restored to thein without addition or diminution. In this town they remained during seventy-five days, and leaving it on the first day of Dhulhejjah (Nov. 27th), they arrived on the 17th (Dec. 3rd) in the town of Bokju, in which place the ambassador of Mirza Ebrabim Sultan, who had arrived from Shyraz, and the envoy of Mirza Rustum, who was coming from Esfahan, met the ambassadors of His Majesty Shah Rokh, and asked then for inforination conceruing the manners and customs of the Khatays, which was given to them. On the month Muharram of the year 825 (the 1st Muharram fell on the 26th Dec. 1421), they left Bokju and went to Quyl, where the authorities inforined them it was the custom of the Khatay people to register the names of travellers on their return from, just as on their arrival in, the country. After they had been searched and examined, they left Qayl, and selected the road through Chal on account of the insecurity of the highways, and arrived after much trouble on the 9th of Jomady the first (May 1st) in the town of Khotan, after leaving which they passed on the 6th Rajab (June 26th) through Kashgh ar, and on the 21st (July 11th) they passed over the heights of Andag &n, where some of the ambassadors selected the road through Khoreshn and others through Samarqand; in the beginning of Ramazan (Aug. 19th) they arrived in Balkh, and on the 10th of the same month (Aug. 28th) they reached the capital city Herit, whore they wero admitted to the honour of kissing, the carpet of His prosperous Majesty the Kha'g han Shah Rokh (may God increase his fame); and were made happy thereby.

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MARCH, 1873. PROGRESS OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH IN 1870-71. [From the Annual Report of the Royal Asiatic Society, June 1872.] In their-Report to the Society read on the 30th of time to be exbibited in the International Exhibition May 1870, the Council expressed some disap- of that year. As, however, no description and no pointment at the result of the expeditions sent lists accompanied them, there existed no means of at the expense of the Government of India to ascertaining from what temples they were taken, procure representations of objects of antiquarian nor what parts of any temples they represented. interest in Orises and at Bordbay. They are All that could therefore be done was to build them now, however, happy to report that a second up into what was called a trophy, mixed up with expedition, under the sole control of Mr. H. H. Mr. Terry's casts from Bombay, and some from Locke, the Principal of the Government School Dr. Hunter at Madras. When any descriptive lists of Art in Calcutta, was sent to Orissa in the spring or any further information reaches us with regard of the present year, and has been attended with to these casts, we may be able to form an estimate complete success. Mr. Locke has inade and safely of their value ; at present the materials do not exist brought back to Calcutta casts of all the principal in this country for any such appreciation. In like sculptures in the Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves, manner a set of drawings of details of architectural and photographs from these casts, made in January ornaments made by the pupils of the Schcol of Art last, have already reached this country, and exhibit were sent home and exhibited in 1871 ; but as only A series of sculptures as full of interest as any that the name of the pupil who made it was inscribed have yet been brought to this country or are known on each drawing, we are still in ignorance of what to exist in India. these drawings are intended to represent. In general character, some of these sculptures One set of the photographs made by the party very much resemble those from the gateways of the who were sent down in 1868-9 reached this country Sanchi Tope, and may be as old, if not older. The about six weeks ago, and are in private hands. principal subject, lithographed by Prinsep in 1838 So far as can be ascertained, they are the only from a drawing by Kittoe,o is now found to be copies which have yet reached this country; but, as repeated twice over. The bas-relief of it in the Rajonly the names of the temples are attached to them, Rani Cave is ruder than the Sanchi sculptures, and though they are very admirable as photographs, the the first impression consequently is that it may be information they convey is limited to those who more ancient. That in Ganesa Cave-the one were previously acquainted with the objects they drawn by Kittoe-bears much more resemblance to represent. Greek art. A curious question thus arises, whether Mr. Terry's casts from Bombay, as mentioned we are to consider the latter as the direct production above, arrived simultaneously with those from Benof Yavana or Baktrian artists, which afterwards gal, just in time for exhibition in June 1871. As degenerated into the ruder art of the Raj Rani they were accompanied by plans and sections of the sculptures, or whether the ruder were afterwards building from which they were taken, as well as the improved into the more perfect forms under foreign photographs, there was no difficulty in understanding influence. At present the materials do not seen to their position or appreciating their value. The exist for answering these questions, though they result of this expedition does not, however, we are are of extreme interest to the history of ancient sorry to observe, seem to have encouraged the GoIndian art, and as bearing on the influence, more or vernment of Bombay to make any further attempts less direct, which foreigners exerted on its first in that direction, and no further expenditure seems formation. to have been made by them for archaeological It is also understood that Mr. Locke's party has purposes. brought away fresh impressions of the celebrated Meanwhile, however, we are happy to be able to " Aira" inscription in the so-called Hasti cave, first report that Mr. James Burgess continues succesefulnoticed by Stirling, and afterwards so successfully ly his archaeological labours. In addition to the deciphered by Prinsep. As it seems to be the oldest splendid work on Palitana, noticed in our report of of the inscriptions in the Lat character, if any ad 1870, he has since published a similar work on the ditional information can be obtained regarding its Temples of Somnath, Girnar, and Junagarh, illustratcontents, it will be a most interesting addition to ed by 41 photographs by Sykes, and accompanied our scanty stores of authentic documents for the by descriptive letter-press; and another work, of elucidation of early Indian History. almost equal interest, on the Cave Temples of In the spring of the year 1871, a set of the casts Elephanta, with elaborate descriptive texts and obtained by the party sent down to Orissa in 1868-9 photographs of all the principal sculptures. He reached this country, and, owing to the delay of & has also visited and prooured photographs of the month in opening the Indian Annexe, they were in Caves of N&sik, Karla, Bhaja, and Beds&; the last * J. 4. 8. B., vol. 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MARCH, 1873.] being the oldest yet known to exist on the western side of India, dating probably from early in the second century B.C. These and other researches were undertaken with reference to a large and comprehensive work he has undertaken on the Cave Temples of Western India, which will be published, when complete, by the India Office-the Home Government of India having, with their accustomed liberality, undertaken to defray the cost of the work. ORIENTAL RESEARCH. In Madras, Dr. Hunter continues his career of usefulness. During the past year he, with his pupils, has made a complete and much more perfect set of photographs of all the Rock-cut Temples and Rock Sculptures of Mahavellipore, or the Seven Pagodas, and, having turned up some fragments broken off from the great rock-cut bas-relief, has proved incontestably that it was dedicated to Serpent-worship, and that only; though probably of a comparatively later date to other examples known. He has, besides, procured numerous photographs and casts of other interesting temples and sculptures throughout Southern India. From private sources it is understood that General, Cunningham is pursuing assiduously, and with considerable success, the researches he was appointed to undertake; as, however, no report has yet been issued, the Council are unable to communicate to the Society any information regarding the results hitherto attained by him.. The operations of the Trigonometrical, Geological and other Surveys of India, are carried on more vigorously than ever, and their results are made public from time to time through reports and maps. To those unable to follow the details of official accounts, Mr. C. R. Markham's Memoir on the Indian Surveys affords a highly interesting and instructive historical sketch of the progress of operations of the various survey establishments. While so much is done by the Government towards a scientific exploration of India, it is a matter of regret that the archaeological operations in Ceylon, the promising aspect of which we were able to point out in our last report, have since come to a stop. Two works recently published by Indian officers of more than ordinary experience have added greatly to our knowledge of the history, manners, and institutions of the people in some parts of India, viz., Dr. W. W. Hunter's "Orissa," being the continuation of the same author's "Annals of Rural Bengal ;" and Mr. E. Bowring's " Eastern Experiences." Of the latter work, which treats chiefly of Mysore and Coorg, a second edition has already appeared. In Mr. J. Fergusson's "Rude Stone Monuments" some light is also incidentally thrown on the ancient architectural remains of eastern countries. Of the Durga Paja, or chief national festival of the Hindus of Bengal, Mr. Pratapachandra Ghosha has given a full and interesting account; and Mr. J. Garrett has published a Classical Dictionary, 85 which is intended to embody the information we possess regarding the mythology, literature, and manners of ancient India. This manual, though necessarily imperfect as a first attempt, will no doubt prove a useful book of reference to the general reader. The Council have observed with satisfaction the appearance of Mr. Burgess's Indian Antiquary, a monthly magazine, which may prove a useful medium of communication on matters of Indian research, and is calculated to awaken in English civilians, no less than in intelligent natives, a sense of moral obligation which will urge them to take each his share in the elucidation of the manifold problems of Indian history. It is a matter for congratulation to our Society that the number of native gentlemen desirous of joining us has been steadily increasing for some years past, and the Council rejoice to see them appear among the contributors to Mr. Burgess's periodical, side by side with the names of some of our best scholars in India. The Pandit, a monthly periodical, issued by the Benares scholars, is continuing its course of usefulness in furnishing hitherto unpublished Sanskrit texts and English translations of Sanskrit works, a2 well as notices of Benares MSS..... The search for Sanskrit MSS. and examination of libraries in India has been carried on with signal success during the past twelvemonth. Of Rajendralala Mitra's Notices of Sanskrit MSS. three fasciculi have hitherto been received, describing for the most part sectarial and Tantrical works. Dr. G. Buhler has just issued, for the Bombay Government, the first part of a Catalogue, or rather classified list, containing 1433 entries of some very important works, chiefly Vaidic. This list, when complete, is to include upwards of 12,000 MSS., and will be very useful to Sanskrit scholars, giving, as it will do, a pretty complete survey of the MSS. contained in the Brahmanical libraries of the Northern Division of the Bombay Presidency. This, however, is merely intended to serve as a kind of index to a fuller notice of the various MSS., which is now being prepared on the model of the Calcutta Catalogue. Meanwhile the survey is carried on as briskly as ever; and Dr. Buhler already mentions that, since the compilation of the catalogue now printing, he has received further lists containing about 5,000 entries. The Brahmanical MSS. in the larger libraries of his division are estimated by him at upwards of 30,000. This, however, does not include the Jaina books, which are much more numerous, and may probably amount to four or five times that number. As this branch of Hindu literature is as yet very imperfectly known, Dr. Buhler proposes to give, in the first place, a list of the oldest works, the Sutras, with a brief alysis of each and a general survey of the

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86 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. whole literature according to Jaina writers, and afterwards the contents of the principal libraries. The Sanskrit collection at Tanjor has now been thoroughly examined by Mr. A. Burnell, who is about to communicate the result of his labours in a Catalogue raisonne, to be printed in England. The process of cataloguing Oriental MSS. has been carried on not less vigorously in this country. The catalogue of Arabic MSS. at the India CROMLECHS IN MAISUR. (From a Memorandum by Capt. R. Cole.) WHEN on duty as Officiating Inam Commissioner of Maisur at Perisandra, which is situated in the Kolar district, about 48 miles on the road from Bangalor to Haidarabad, I happened to be riding across country, and found a monolith of which a rough outline is given (figure 1) in the accompanying sketches of the various specimens of ancient pottery found by me on the occasion. This monolith stood 11 feet 4 inches above the surface, and was 3 feet broad, with a thickness varying from 8 inches to 1 foot 3 inches. In the centre was marked (a and b) the forms of "Surya" (sun) and "Chandra" (moon), and below, as shewn in the sketch, were faint outlines of four lines with a few bars at right angles, which looked as if they had formed some inscription. Knowing that such monoliths were coeval and co-existent with those strange stone-cists, the origin and use of which have been matters of mere conjecture, I looked around for those magic circles of stone which generally surround the cromlechs. I soon found them in the vicinity, and, on making further enquiries, I found 54 cromlechs near the adjoining village of Mashalli. [MARCH, 1873. Office Library-including the hitherto entirely unknown Bijapur collection-which is in course of compilation by Dr. O. Loth, is all but complete. The catalogue of the magnificent collection of Sanskrit MSS., from both Northern and Southern India, is also progressing rapidly, though, on account of the large number of works to be examined and described, several years must elapse before it will become accessible to students. I found them all exactly similar to those I had discovered in Kurg. They consisted of stone-cists, formed by single slabs of granite on the sides, and flagged at the bottom by similar slabs, with a large superincumbent block of granite, which was rough and unhewn. On digging away the earth in front of the east face, I found the same circular, or semicircular orifice, which formed the opening to the cist. These stone chambers were completely filled with earth, well rammed in by the action of time and floods, as of the deluge; and the curious specimens of antique pottery were found, as usual, piled up in the corners to the west, or opposite the entrance. The same small round vessels, vases on tripods, curiously but elegantly shaped vases of an egg-like form, impossible to stand by themselves, and larger round chatties, with smaller basins and plates, were also found in these cromlechs, as delineated in the sketch. Some of these vessels, which were of the usual red or black clay, well burnt and highly polished, were ornamented with circular lines round the neck and top. One (figure 10) had round it an elegant beading, consisting of successive arrow-headed lines between two rings. In one of these cromlechs I found the only specimen of a handle (figure 7) I have yet come across. There.. was also a curiously shaped article (figure 5) in the shape of an elephant's tusk, which was made of a more whitish clay and not polished. It was partly hollow, and had an orifice at the centre (a). Figure 12 represents the exact size and form of three teeth, which were found close to the vessels; and figures 13 and 14 are evidently remnants of stone implements. Figure 15 represents a strange article, which I have never found before. It is half of a round hollow ball of burnt and polished clay, with a short handle, and a small round opening into the ball at the junction of the handle and ball. The finest vessel, however, I have yet discovered is delineated in figure 2. It is perfect with the exception of a small portion of the rim of the month, and has not a crack or flaw in it. It stands 2 feet 9 inches high, and is 5 feet 11 inches in circumference at the centre. It is elegantly shaped, and has a beading of oval rings between two lines, which do not join, but terminate in two knobs 4 inches apart, from which five oval rings are carried in a curve as noted in the sketch. The mouth is 3 feet 6 inches in circumference, and the neck of the vase is 2 feet 10 inches round. I am not aware that a finer specimen of such antique pottery has been found hitherto. Figure 3 is a fine vessel of the same size, but not of such an elegant form, and was made of unburnt clay. I have never before come across any that were not well baked. I regret to say that it has already fallen to pieces. The following were the dimensions of the interior of the cromlechs excavated by me : No. Length. Breadth. Depth. Feet. inches. Feet. inches. Feet. inches. 1... 11 5 2... 8 4 3... 6 0 8 2 The dimensions of some of the superincumbent slabs were noted as follows: No. Length. Feet. inches. 8 1... 12 2... 8 3... 11 8 4 Breadth. Feet. 8 6 10 9 0 0 8 2 Thickness. inches. Feet. inches. 0 #1... 10 4 to 8 inches..

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MARCH, 1873.] CROMLECHS IN MAISUR. 87 The diameter of the orifice, which forms the entrance, is generally about 1 foot 8 inches, and the superincumbent slab projects from 1 to 2 feet over the entrance. On breaking up my camp at Perisandra, and moving across the low range of rocky hills which separate that portion of the Chikka Ballapura taluk from the adjoining taluk of Gudibanda, I came across two cromlechs standing in bold relief on the top of a rocky eminence, looking as if they had formed the altars on which human sacrifices had been offered up to that "Unknown Being" who has been recognized from the earliest time by the instinctive nature of man as the great Creator and Founder of all things. These were perfectly empty, and of the same size and dimensions as those which I had elsewhere found buried below the surface of the earth. I found a few similar structures, located in the same manner on a rocky summit, in the depths of the Kurg forests, and only in one place. I then threw out the suggestion that they may have formed sacrificial altars. Further on, by the side of the new road to Gudibanda, I found a few more cromlechs which I had also excavated, and was rewarded by finding a perfectly new form of vessel (figure 16), which was circular at the top and terminated with a sharp point at the bottom. Vessels of the usual shape were also found in them, as also a round Vase, which stood 1 foot 8 inches high, and was 4 feet 6 inches in circumference at the centre. The rim forining the mouth was ornamented with three deeply-cut parallel lines. Whilst at Guaibanda, I discovered the contents of another cromlech, which had evidently been disinantled by the Waddars, or stone-masons, who had worked in that locality for years past. A few feet off the main road, and on a short cut to the village of Wobasandra, the surface was of hard gravel, and I observed that it was curiously marked with fine black veins. On examining these finelydrawn lines, it struck me that the shape was like those of the top rims of the vases usually found in cromlechs. I had the earth loosened all round, and found that my conjectures were right. The top and side slabs of the cist had apparently been removed, and the roadway worn down to a level with the mouths of the vessels below. I may add that fragments of bones were also found in these cromlechs. On approaching the town of Kolar, near the third mile-stone from the place, I observed the circles of stones which indicate the presence of cromlechas, and, on near approach, I found them to be, as usual, in the centre of the circles, with the top flag just visible above the surface. I caused them to be excavated, but found no vessel intact. On the fragments of the upper portion of the vessels, however, I observed more ornamentation than I had ever met with before. I have attempted to delineate them, and it will be observed that they consist of rectan- gular or rhomboidal shaped figures caused by lines Bunk in the surface of the rims. These rims, I may observe, stand out in relief, and project about or of an inch above the surface, whilst the lozengeshaped figures above or below are sunk in the surface of the vessel. Figure 18 pourtrays an exact fragment, and the lozenge-shaped figures are found above the raised rim, whilst in the others, figures 19 and 20, they are below. Figure 21 had only four lines parellel to each other, with the centre lines closer to each other. I also found in this locality eight small round pieces of the same inatorial as the vessels, much in the shape of medals. The exact size and thickness of each are given in figure 22. Their use can scarcely be imagined, unless it be assumed that they were used for purposes of counting, and that they had formed the coins of a period when the precious metals were not in use. The only other fragment worth noticing was a short piece of a tube, figure 23, like the neck of a goglet. En route from Kolar and about two miles from the rising town of Bowringpete, I came across somo more of these circles of stone, which usually denote the presence of these strange stone-cists below the surface. I found here, however, for the first time in Maisur, that the circles were not single, but consisted of two concentric circles. There were no stone-cists to be found withiu the circles, and in ono alone I found the east slab with the circular orifice, which indicates that the stone Waddars had been at work and carried off the slabs. About two miles further to the east, and near the village of Margal, there were some more cromlechs, in which there were only small fraginents of earthen vessels; but a number of bones and pieces of iron were found. One piece of iron (figure 24) measured 11 inches by 54 inches at the bottom, and evidently formed the end portion of some implement. It was about of an inch thick in the centre, but had evidently formed a sharp edge at the end. Other fragments of iron were portions of a rod, and looked as if they formed a spear or javelin. The diameter of the smallest circle of stones observed by me was 13 feet, and the largest 24 feet. In these stone chambers was also found a sort of pestle made of soft "balapam," or soap-stone. Its shape is pourtrayed, half size, in figure 27. The shape would lead us to suppose that it had been used as a pestle ; but it is so exceedingly soft and friable, that portions of itself would be ground up too if used as a pestle. The surface is also sinooth to a degree, and shews that it has not been so used. Held at the thin edge, it might be used as a formidable weapon of offence for hurling at a foe. There were several fragments of iron weapons (figuree 25, 26, 28, and 29) also found, which are giveu half size. Figure 28 would look like the handle of a dagger. The natives have an idea that the fragmonts (figures 25 and 29) formed the iron chuppal or sandal, which, some of them assert, the Pandus used to wear, though on what authority I cannot find

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88 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MARCH, 1873. out. Figure 30 is much harder, and looks more like steel than anything I have yet found. Professor J. Oldham, LL.D., when President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, delivered, in September 1869, a most interesting lecture on the results of my excavation on the Muribetta hill in North Kurg, and compared the cromlecbs of Kurg with the Pandu kolis in Malabar. From the description given in his suggestive notes on the subject, it would appear that the Pandu kolis of Malabar are chambers purposely excavated in the rock below the surface, generally in the laterite, which abounds in that district, and are merely covered with a mushroom-shaped rock. The cromlechs of Kurg and Maisur, however, are not excavations, but actual structures, consisting of a large flagstone of granite at the bottom, with four similar slabs (all hewn and made to fit) forming a stonecist, the superincumbent stone being a large unhewn block of granite. This block is generally found in the centre of the circle of atones, with the top just visible above the surface, or about a foot below it. The stones forming the circles are buried from 1 to 3 feet below the surface, and project above from 1 to 2 feet. In a few of the circles I have come across, no stone-cists or chambers have been found, though I have dug down to & depth of 8 feet; but remnants of vessels have been found, apparently buried without the usual stone receptacle for them. The circles on the Muribetta hill were of this description, and the miniature vessels were found buried, as far as I remember, at the foot of a large stone opposite the entrance, and the two upright slabs arched above, alluded to by Dr. Oldham, were apparently the entrance to the enclosure formed by the circles of stones, and not to any chainber. On that occasion was discovered the only metallic object yet found, consisting of a peculiar shaped disc of copper, covered with a thin plate of gold. I may here remark that the same traditions existed amongst the people here as in Kurg. Some declared that these structures had formed the residence of the pigmy race known as Pundarus ; whilst others asserted that they had been the tombs of the Pandavas, whose exile and wars with the Kauravas are so graphically described in the great Hindu epic poem of the Mahabharata. The Kurge lay claim to their country having been the original "Matsyades'a," or " raj of Virat," and point out a site near the tombs of the rajas of Kurg at Merkara as that of the palace of Virata Raja, in whose capital the Pandavas took refuge in the thirteenth year of their exile, as narrated in the Mahabharata. I have heard the expression in Maisur of the Kurgs being imbued with "the essence (or spirit) of the Pandus." I am aware that the districts of Dinajpura in Bengal and Gujarat in Bombay both claim the same distinction, the modern town of Dholka in the latter being declared to be on the site of Matsya Nagara or Viratapura ; but it is a strange coincidence that the rajas of Kurg have borne, even up to the time of our conquest of the province, the name of Vira Raja. It is impossible, however, to fix the exact geographical positions of many of the localities depicted in those ancient poems, which have doubtless received embellishments at the hands of their Brahmanical compilers. In each country and in each dynasty it became of importance to trace some connection with the incidents narrated in their great poem ; and I may mention that the village of Kaivara in the Sidalaghatta taluk of the Kolar district, is here said to have been the site of the town of Yekachekra, in the vicinity of which Bhima is said in the poem to have had his mortal combat with the Asura Baka; and local tradition asserts that the adjoining hill of Kaivara, or Rhaimangarh, as it is styled by the Muhaminadans, was thrown on the top of the giant, and that his blood oozes out to this day. It is a remarkable fact that a reddish, bituininous matter oozes ont from a fissure near the top of the hill, and flows down the side of the rock for a few days in each year,- I believe in February. Local tradition ascribes the name of Hidimba, the man-eating A'sura, to the giant buried below the hill; but this episode in the life of Bhima occurred before the five brothers went to the city of Yekachekra, which Mr. Wheeler has shewn, in his great work on the Mahabharata, to have been the modern city of Arrah in Bengal. I trust that these remarks may not be considered out of place, but they are offered in the same spirit as led the poet Warton to remark on our own great Druidical remains of Stonehenge Studious to trace thy wondrous origin, We muse on many an ancient tale renowned Bowringpete, 18th July 1871. Rob. COLE. THE ASIATIC SOCIETIES. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. 180--1872. The first paper in this part is on the Buddhist and may also be regarded as a companion paper Remains of Bibar' by A. M. Broadley, and may be to those by the same author which appeared in the regarded as an amplification and continuation of his Indian Antiquary last year. Of Vrindavana he papers in vol. I. of this journal, with lengthy ex- writes, tracts from Julien's Hiwen Thsang, Beal's Fah- " At the present time there are within the limits Hian, Bigandet's Gaudama, &c. of the municipality about a thousand temples, inThe second paper is on the Tirthas of Vrin- cluding of course inany which, strictly speaking, are davana and Gokuls' by F. S. Growbe, M. A. merely private chapels, and fifty ghata constructed

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ASIATIC SOCIETIES. MARCH, 1873.] by as many Rajas. The peacocks and monkeys, with which the place abounds, enjoy the benefit of special endowmente, bequeathed by deceased princes of Kota and Bharatpur. There are some fifty chhattras, or dole houses, for the distribution of alms, and extraordinary donations are not unfrequently made by royal and distinguished visitors. Thus the Raja of Datia, a few years ago, made an offering to every single shrine and every single Brahman that was found in the city." "But the foundation of all this material prosperity and religious exclusiveness was laid by the Gosains, who established themselves there in the reign of Akbar. The leaders of the community were by name Rupa and Sanatana from Gaur in Bengal. They were accompanied by six others; of whom three, Jiva, Madhu, and Gopal Bhat, came from the same neighbourhood; Swami Hari Das from Rajpar in the Mathura district, Haribans from Deva-ban in Saharanpur, and Byas Hari Ram from Orcha in Bundelkhand. It is said that, in 1570, the emperor was induced to pay them a visit, and was taken blindfold into the sacred enclosure of the Nidhban, where such marvellous vision was revealed to him, that he was fain to acknowledge the place as indeed holy ground. Hence the cordial support which he gave to the attendant rajas, when they declared their intention of erecting a series of buildings more worthy of the local divinity. "The four temples, commenced in honour of this event, still remain, though in a ruinous and sadly neglected condition. They bear the titles of Gobind Dava, Gopinath, Jugal-kishor, and Madan Mohan. The first named is not only the finest of this particular series, but is the most impressive religious edifice that Hindu art has ever produced, at least in Upper India. The body of the building is in the form of a Greek cross, the nave being a hundred feet in length, and the breadth across the transepts the same. The central compartment is surmounted by a dome of singularly graceful proportions; and the four arms of the cross are roofed by a waggon vault of pointed form, not-as is usual in Hindu architecture-composed of overlapping brackets, but constructed of true radiating arches as in our Gothic cathedrals. The walls have an average thickness of ten feet, and are pierced in two stages, the upper stage being a regular triforium, to which access is obtained by an internal staircase. At the east entrance of the nave, a small narthex projects fifteen feet; and at the west end, between two niches and incased in a rich canopy of sculpture, a squareheaded doorway leads into the choir, a chamber some twenty feet deep. Beyond this was the sacrarium, flanked on either side by a lateral chapel; each of these three cells being of the same dimensions as the choir, and, like it, vaulted by a lofty dome. The ge The derivation of this word is a little questionable. It is the local name of the actual Brinds grove, to which the town owes its origin. The spot so designated is now of very 89 neral effect of the interior is not unlike that produc= ed by St. Paul's cathedral in London. The latter building has greatly the advantage in size, but in the other, the central dome is more elegant, while the richer decoration of the wall surface, and the natural glow of the red sandstone, supply that relief and warmth of colouring which are an lamentably deficient in its Western rival. "There must originally have been seven towersone over the central dome, one at the end of each transept, and the other four covering, respectively, the choir, sacrarium, and two chapels. The sacrarium has been utterly razed to the ground, and the other six towers levelled with the roof of the nave. Their loss has terribly marred the effect of the exterior, which must have been extremely majestic when the west front with its lofty triplet was supported on either side by the pyramidal mass of the transepts, and backed by the still more towering height that crowned the central dome. The choir tower was of slighter elevation, occupying the same relative position as the spirelet over the sanctus bell in Western ecclesiology. The ponderous walls, albeit none too massive to resist the enormous thrust once broughtto bear upon them, now, however much relieved by exuberant decoration, appear out of all proportion to the comparatively. low superstructure. As a further disfigurement, a plain masonry wall has been run along the top of the centre dome. It is generally believed that this was built by Aurangzeb for the purpose of desecrating the temple; though it is also said to have been put up by the Hindus themselves to assist in some grand illumination. In either case it is an ugly modern excrescenee, and steps should be at once taken for its removal. "Under one of the niches at the west end of the nave is a tablet with a long Sanskrit inscription. This has unfortunately been much mutilated, but enough remains as record of the fact that the temple was built in Sambat 1647, i. e., A. D. 1590, under the direction of the two Gurus Rupa and Sanatana. The founder, Raja Man Sinha, was a Kachhwaha Thakur, son of Raja Bhagawan Das of Amber, founder of the temple at Gobardhan, and an ancestor of the present Raja of Jaypar. He was appointed by Akbar successively governor of the districts along the Indus, of Kabul, and of Bihar. By his exertions, the whole of Orissa and Eastern Bengal were re-annexed; and so highly were his merits appreciated at court, that, though a Hindu, he was raised to a higher rank than any other officer in the realm. He married a sister of Lakshmi Narayan, Raja of Koch Bihar, and at the time of his decease, which was in the ninth year of the reign of Jahangir, he had living one son, Bhao Sinha, who succeeded him upon the throne of Amber, and died in 1621 A. D.+ There is a tradition to the effect that Akbar at the last, jea limited area, hemmed in on all sides by streets, but protected from further encroachment by a high masonry wall. + Vide Professor Blochmann's Afn-i-Akbarf, p. 341.

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90 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. lous of his powerful vassal, and desirous to rid himself of him, had a confection prepared, part of which contained poison; but caught in his own snare, he presented the innoxious portion to the raja, and ate that drugged with death himself. The unworthy deed is explained by Man Sinha's design, which apparently had reached the emperor's ears, to alter the succession in favour of Khusrau, his nephew, instead of Salim. "In anticipation of a visit from Aurangzeb, the image of the god was transferred to Jaypur, and the Gosain of the temple there has ever since been regarded as the head of the endowment. The name of the present incumbent is Syam Sundar, who has two agents resident at Brindaban. There is said to be still in existence at Jaypur the original plan of the temple, shewing its seven towers; but there is a difficulty in obtaining any definitive information on the subject. However, local tradition is fully agreed as to their number and position; while their architectural character can be determined beyond a doubt by comparison with the smaller temples of the same age and style, the ruins of which still remain. It is therefore not a little strange that of all the architects who have described this famous building, not one has noticed this, its most characteristic feature: the harmonious combination of dome and spire is still quoted as the great crux of modern art, though nearly 300 years ago the difficulty was solved by the Hindus with characteristic grace and ingenuity. "It is much to be regretted that this most interesting monument has not been declared national property, and taken under the immediate protection of Government. At present no care whatever is shewn for its preservation: large trees are allowed to root themselves in the fissures of the walls, and in the course of a few more years the damage done will be irreparable. As a modern temple under the old dedication has been erected in the precincts, no religious prejudices would be offended by the State's appropriation of the ancient building. If any scruples were raised, the objectors might have the option of themselves undertaking the necessary repairs. But it is not probable that they would accept the latter alternative; for though the original endowment was very large, it has been considerably reduced by mismanagement, and the ordinary annual income is now estimated at no more than Rs. 17,500,+ the whole of which is absorbed in the maintenance of the modern establishment." From his account of Gokula we make the following extract: "Great part of the town is occupied by a high hill, partly natural and partly artificial, extending over more than 100 bighas of land, where stood the old fort. Upon its most elevated point is shewn a small cell, called Syam Lala, believed to mark the spot where Jasoda gave birth to Maya, or Joga The above tradition is quoted from Tod's Rajasthan. Of this sum only Rs. 4,500 are derived from land and [MARCH, 1873. nidra, substituted by Vasudeva for the infant Krishna. But by far the most interesting building is a covered court called Nanda's Palace, or more commonly the Assi Khamba, i. e., the Eighty Pillars. It is divided by five rows of sixteen pillars each into four aisles, or rather into a centre and two narrower side-aisles, with one broad outer cloister. The external pillars of this outer cloister are each of one massive shaft, cut into many narrow facets, with two horizontal bands of carving: the capitals are decorated either with grotesque heads or the usual four squat figures. The pillars of the inner aisles vary much in design, some being exceedingly plain, and others as richly ornamented, with profuse, and often graceful, arabesques. Three of the more elaborate are called, respectively, the Satya, Dwapar, and Tretayug; while the name of the Kaliyug is given to another somewhat plainer. All these interior pillars, however, agree in consisting, as it were, of two short columns set one upon the other. The style is precisely similar to that of the Hindu colonnades by the Qutb Minar at Delhi; and both works may reasonably be referred to about the same age. As it is probable that the latter were not built in the years immediately preceding the fall of Delhi in 1194, so also it would seem that the court at Mahaban must have been completed before the assault of Mahmad in 1017; for after that date the place was too insignificant to be selected as the site of so elaborate an edifice. Thus Fergusson's conjecture is confirmed that the Delhi pillars are to be ascribed to the ninth or tenth century. Another long-mooted point may also be considered.as almost definitively set at rest, for it can scarcely be doubted that the pillars, as they now stand at Mahaban, occupy their original position. Fergusson, who was unaware of their existence, in his notice of the Delhi cloister, doubts whether it now stands as originally arranged by the Hindus, or whether it had been taken down and re-arranged by the conquerors; but concludes as most probable that the former was the case, and that it was an open colonnade surrounding the palace of Prithiraj. "If so," he adds, "it is the only instance known of Hindu pillars being left undisturbed." General Cunningham comments upon these remarks, finding it utterly incredible that any architect, designing an original building and wishing to obtain height, should have recourse to such a rude expedient as constructing two distinct pillars, and then without any disguise piling up one on the top of the other. But, however extraordinary the procedure, it is clear that this is what was done at Mahaban, as is proved by the outer row of columns, which are each of one unbroken shaft, yet precisely the same in height as the double pillars of the inner aisles. The roof is flat and perfectly plain, except in two compartments, where it is cut into a pretty quasi-dome of concentric multifoil house property; the balance of Rs. 18,000 is made up by votive offerings.

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MARCH, 1873.] ASIATIC SOCIETIES. 91 circles. Mothers come here for their purification on the sixth day after child-birth-chhathi-puja-and it is visited by enormous crowds of people for several days about the anniversary of Krishna's birth in the month of Bhadon. A representation of the infant god's cradle is displayed to view, with his fostermother's churn and other domestic articles. The place being regarded not exactly as a temple, but as Nanda and Jasoda's actual dwelling-house, Europeans are allowed to walk about in it with perfect freedom. Considering the size, the antiquity, the artistic excellence, the exceptional archaeological interest, the celebrity amongst natives, and the close proximity to Mathura of this building, it is perfectly marvellous that it found no mention whatever in the archaeological abstract prepared in every district by orders of Government a few years ago, nor even in the costly work compiled by Lieutenant Cole, the Superintendent of the Archaeological Survey, which professes to illustrate the architectural antiquities of Mathura and its neighbourhood. "Let into the outer wall of the Nand Bhavan is a small figure of Buddha, and it is said that whenever foundations are sunk within the precincts of the fort, many fragments of sculpture-of Buddhist character, it may be presumed-have been brought to light: but hitherto they have always been buried again, or broken up as building materials. Doubtless, Mahaban was the site of some of those Buddhist monasteries which the Chinese pilgrim FaHian distinctly states existed in his time on both sides of the river. And further, whatever may be the exact Indian word concealed under the form Klisoboras, or Clisobora, given by Arrian and Pliny as the name of the town between which and Mathura the Jamunk flowed-Amnis Jomanes in Gangem per Palibothros decurrit inter oppida Methora et Clisobora-Pliny. Hist. Nat. vi, 22-it may be concluded with certainty that Mahaban is the site intended. Its other literary names are Brihad-vana, Brihadaranya, Gokula, and Nanda-grama; and not of these, it is true, in the slightest resembles the word Clisobora, which would seem rather to be a corruption of some compound in which 'Krishna' was the first element : possibly some epithet or descriptive title taken by the foreign traveller for the ordinary proper name. General Cunningham in his 'Ancient Geography' identifies Clisobora (read in one MS. as Cyrisoborka) with Brindaban, assuming that Kalikavartta, or Kalika's Whirlpool,' was an earlier name of the town, in allusion to Krishna's combat with the serpent Kalika. But in the first place, the Jamuna does not flow between Mathura and Brindaban, seeing that both are on the same bank; secondly, the ordinary name of the great serpent is not Kalika, but Kaliya ; and thirdly, it does not appear upon what authority it is so boldly stated that " the earlier name of the place was Kalikavartta. Upon this latter point a reference has been made to the great Brindaban Pandit, Swami Rangachari, who, if any one, might be expected to speak with positive knowledge ; and his reply was that, in the course of all his reading, he had never net with Brindaban under any other name than that which it now bears. In order to establish the identification of Clisobora with Mahaban, it was necessary to notice General Cunningham's counter-theory and to condemn it as unsound; ordinarily the accuracy of his research and the soundness of his judgment are entitled to the highest respect. "The glories of Mahaban are told in a special (interpolated) section of the Brahinanda Purana, called the Brihad-vana Mahatmya. In this, its tirthas, or holy places, are reckoned to be twenty-one in number as follows: Eka-vinsati-tirthena yuktam bhurigunanvitam. Yamal-arjuna punyatamam, Nanda-kupam ta thaiva cha, Chinta-harana Brahmcndam, kundam Sarasvatam tatha, Sarasvati sild tatra, Vishnu-kunda-sananvitam, Kurna-kupam, Krishna-kundam, Gopa-kupam tathaiva cha, Ramanam-ramana-sthanam, Ndrada-sthanam era cha, Putand-patana sthanam, Trindvarttikhyapatanam, Nanda-harmyam, Nanda-geham, Ghatam Ra mana-saminakam, Mathurandthodbhavam-kshetram punyam pdpa prandisanam, Janma-sthanam tu Sheshasya, jananam Yoga maya/a." In connection with this paper it may be mentioned that Mr. Growse has addressed the Government of the North-West Provinces, representing that the destruction of the temple of Govind Deva would be a national and irreparable loss, which immediate steps for its preservation can alone avert. "The Taj at Agra has been declared national property as the finest specimen of Muhammadan architecture, and it is in every way highly desirable that the saine course should be followed with reference to this building as the recognized master-piece of Hinclue architecture." He accordingly suggests "that the Government address the Maharaja of Jaypur, representing the exigency of the case, and enquiring whether he is prepared himself to undertake the repair of the building, or whether he will cede it to the State as national property. The latter plan would be far preferable : and it is probable that if the Maharaja himself undertook the repairs, he would not only repair but also renovate, and further again devote it to religious service, by which means it would become closed to Europeans. As regards the temple of Harideva at Gobardhan the remedy is simpler. One compartment of the roof still remains as a guide for restoring the remainder, nor are funds wanting. The village of Bhagosa is a permanent endowment, and it has been decided in the Civil Court that the revenue must be expended strictly on religious uses, and cannot be appropriated by the shareholders as private income.

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92 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MARCH, 1873. Accordingly there is already a deposit of more than Rs. 3,000 in the local treasury, and nothing more is required but a definitive order that this sum, and what shall hereafter accrue, shall be devoted, under | Government'supervision, to the restoration, until such time as it is thoroughly completed." The Lieutenant-Governor has promised to act upon this suggestion. REVIEW ESSAYS ON EASTERN QUESTIONS, by WM. GIFFORD one devoted to the Mahometan Revival (Fraser, PALGRAVE, Author of "Central and Eastern Arabia." February 1872), which was written on the perusal of (London, Macmillan & Co. 1872.) Hunter's Our Indian Mussalmans, to which it forms THIS handsome volume of Essays is very appro a sort of supplement. "Its object is to show calmpriately dedicated to the Earl of Derby, "whose ly, and without sensational exaggeration, how wideguidance of England's foreign policy has been spread and deep-rooted is the present revival of always marked by & statesmanlike insight into Islam, particularly in that part of the world which character and race." There are ten Essays here may be looked upon as its stronghold, the Asian reprinted :-Three on "Mahometanism in the Turkish Empire. Hence it is natural to infer Levant" from Fraser; from the same periodical with what caution and steadiness of statesmanship there are other three, entitled "The Mahometan we should deport ourselves towards such maniRevival," "The Monastery of Sumelas," and "The festations of it as arise within the circle of our Poet 'Omar;" two from the Cornhill, called "The own dominion; though I have purposely abstained Turkomans and other Tribes of the North-East froin specialized conclusions." To quote briefly - So Turkish Frontier," and "The Abkhasian Insurrec- strong, indeed, is the bond of union supplied by the tion ;" one from the Quarterly on "Eastern Chris- very name of Islam, even where that name covers the tians ;" and one from Macmillan on "The Brigand most divergent principles and beliefs,that,in presence Ta'abbet Shurran." of the 'infidel,' the deep clefts which divide Soonnee "To expect," says the author, " that the collec- and Sheeah are for a time and purpose obliterated; tion of a few Essays and their republication and the most heretical sects become awhile amalgacan have any material effect towards removing mated with the most uncompromisingly orthodox, erroneous ideas, or substituting exacter ones, about who in another cause would naturally reject and the Mahometan East of our own times, would be disavow them. Very curious in this respect is the presumptuous indeed. Yet even these writings evidence afforded by Mr. Hunter, nowhere more so may in a measure contribute to so desirable a result; than in the light he throws, almost unconsciously it would seein, on the true character of the sofor correct appreciations are, like incorrect ones, called Wahhabee movement, spreading from the formed not at once, but little by little. . . . These rebel camp of Sittana to Lower Bengal, and reconEssays, taken together, form a sketch mostly out centrating itself in the centres of Maldah, and at line, part filled in, of the living East, as included Patna in particular. Here we have the most within the Asiatic limits of the Ottoman Empire. simple and rigid form that Islam has ever assumed, Now, as for centuries past, the central figure of namely, the puritanical Unitarianism of the that picture is Islam, based on the energies of Arabia Nejdean Wahhabee, combined with all that the and the institutions of Mahomet, propped up by the Nejdean Wahhabee, as such, would most condemnmemories of Chaliphs and the power of Sultans, I mean, the superstitious belief in a coming Mahdee,' and though somewhat disguised by the later in the idea of personal and, so to speak, corporeal virtue crustations of Turarian superstition, still retaining and holy efficacy in the 'Imam' of the day, and lastly, the chief lineaments, and not little of the stability with the organised practice of private assassination, and strength, of its former days. Round it cluster a practice long held for distinctive of the free-thinkthe motley phantoms of Eastern Christianity, in ing Isma'eleeyeh and their kindred sects among the digenous or adventitious ; and by its side rises the Rafidee heretics. ... Islam is even now an enormous threatening Russian colossus, with its triple aspect power, full of self-sustaining vitality, with a eurplus of Byzantine bigotry, western centralization, and for aggression, and a struggle with its combined eastern despotism. This group, in its whole and energies would be deadly indeed. Yet we, at any in some of its details, I have at different times rate, have no need for nervous alarm, nor will its endeavoured to delineate; and if the pencil be an quarrel, even partially, be with us and our Empire, unskilful one, its tracings, so far as they go, have so long as we are constantly faithful to the practical the recommendation, not perhaps of artistic grace- wisdom of our predecessors, that best of legacies fulness, but at least of realistic truth." bequeathed to us by the old East India Company." Mr. Palgrave has an uncommon knowledge of Speaking of Indian legal difficulties--"Where the religious and social manifestations of Muhamma- plaintiff and defendant, testator and legatee, are danism in India, Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey. Per- alike Muslims, let matters be between them in haps the most instructive of all these Essays is the la court cognizant of Muslim civil law, and re

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MARCH, 1873.] CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 93 gulated as near as may be after Muslim fashion; and let the legal officers of such courts, from the highest to the lowest, be invested with all the sanc- tion that our own Indian Government, the only one on Muslim, no less than on non-Muslim, principles competent to do so within Indian limits, can give A Kazi-el-Kuzat in each Presidency, with a Sheykh- Ielam at Calcutta, nominated by the Government, salaried by Government, removable by Government | -all conditions, be it observed, of the Sheykh-Islam and of every Kadi in the Ottoman Empire itselfendowed with the appropriate patronage for subordinate appointments, but requiring for the validity of each and every nomination our own confirmatory sign and seal ; good Muhammadan law colleges and schools, conducted under our supervision, and maintained on our responsibility : these are what would give us a hold over the most important, because the most dangerous, element in our Indian Empire, such as nothing else could give : a hold that the disaffection, did it ever occur, of others from within, or the assaults of rival powers, not least of infidel ones, from north or elsewhere without, would only strengthen. "Let us be wise and understand this, and not incur the reproach of those, rulers too in their day, who could not discern the signs of the times. We can no more check or retard the Muhammadan revival' in India than we can hinder the tide from swelling in the English Channel when it has risen in the Atlantic. The Revival' is a world-movement, an epochal phenomenon; it derives from the larger order of causes, before which the lesger laws of race and locality are swept away or absorbed into unity. But we can turn it to our own advantage; we can make the jaws of this young-old lion bring forth for us honey and the honey-comb. And this we can do without in the least compromising our own Christian character as & Government or as a nation. The measures required at our hands in our Indian heritage pre simply mercy, justice, and judgment; and these belong to no special race or creed; they are the property of all, Christian and Muslim alike-of West as of East, of England as of Mecca." No finer contribution has recently been made on a question of vital importance to the government and destinies of India.-A. H. B. CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEA. ON INDIAN DATES. to its kings what I believe to be their true date To the Editor of the Indian Antiquary. though, in dcing this, he differs to the extent of Sir-So much of our knowledge of the medieval 300 and 400 years from Wathen, Dowson, and history of India depends on the correct decypher almost every other recent writer on these subjects. ment of inscriptions on rocks and stones or copper All this is bad enough, and renders inscriptions plates, that it is of the utmost importance, not only per se nearly useless for the purpose of fixing the that their meaning, but more especially their dates, dates of buildings or events; but it would be a fearshould be tested by every available means. The ful aggravation of the case, if, besides the difficulinscriptions, it must be confessed, have hitherto ties attaching to the initial date, it should turn out proved of very little use in settling our chronology, that, either frora negligence or design, the dates in or affording dates for buildings, and this state of the inscriptions were so falsified that they could things must continue until orientalists can agree not be depended upon. I have recently been led to among themselves as to the eras from which they suspect that this is the case in more instances than are dated. So long, for instance, as Mr. Thomas is one ; and it seems so important that it should be of opinion that the Sah kings date their coins ascertained whether this is so or not, that I request and inscriptions from the era of the Seleucida you will allow me an opportunity of laying the (311 B. C.); Mr. Justice Newton from that of case before your readers. The first case I wish to Nahapana, practically Vikramaditya, which is a refer to, is the well-known copper-plate grant of favourite with others (56 B. C.); and Dr. Bhau Daji Pulakes'i I. of the Chalukya dynasty, dated in 411 from the Saka era (78 A.D.)-we have some 400 years S'aka, or 489 A.D. This was first brought to the among which to choose for the date of the famous notice of the learned by Sir Walter Elliot, in the repairs of the Palesini bridge. In like manner, till 4th volume of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic it is agreed whether the Guptas began to reign Society, p. 7, et seqq. ; but even at that early date he 318 A. D. or were then exterminated-and those saw the difficulty of reconciling this date with the who have treated this subject are about equally circumstances narrated in the inscription, and theredivided on this point-we have at least a couple fore proposed (page 12) to substitute Saka 610 for of centuries to veer and haul upon for all the dates Saka 411. of this period; and, except Lassen, I know of no When I wrote on the subject in 1869 (J. R. A. S., distinguished orientalist who has fairly lovked on new series, volume IV. p. 92), this appeared to me both sides of the Ballabhi difficulty, and assigned too violent a correction, and I suggested substituting * Conf. Ind. Art. vol. I. p. 61.-ED.

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94 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MARCH, 1873. 511 for 411 ; and if the facts are as stated in the inscription, and Pulakes'i I. was the grandfather of Pulakes'i II., which I see no reason for doubting, some such correction as this seems indispensable, but not to a greater extent than 100 years. If this were the only inscription in which an error had been detected, it would be of little consequence; but on reading. Dr. Bhau Daji's very unsatisfactory analysis of the inscriptions published by the Committee of Architectural Antiquities in Western India, a second occurs, in which the falsification is even more evident. At page 315, J.B.B. R. A.S., vol. IX., an inscription of Pulakes'i II. is quoted, dated S'aka 506, or A. D. 584. This inscription, of which a second abstract is quoted (page 199) in the same volume, tells us how he fought with Harsha Vardhana, the Siladitya of Hiwen Thsang, and speaks of their wars in the past tense. Now we happen to know, not only by inference from Hiwen Thsang, but from the more precise testimony of Ma-twan-lin (J.A. S. B., vol. VI. p. 68), that these events took place between the years 618 and 627; and consequently, as this inscription could not have been written till after the last-named year, its date is certainly 43 years too early, or more probably 50 years at least. Besides this, another inscription was quoted by Mr. Eggeling at the last meeting of the Asiatic Society,o dated in the third year of the second Pulakes'i's reign, Saka 534 or A. D. 612, which I have no doubt is the correct date (J. R. A. S. N. S., vol. IV. p. 94). Here then we have two important inscriptions, one of which requires a correction of about 100 years, the other of about 50, to bring ring them into accordance with known historical events : and what I want to ask your learned readers is, whether they can offer any solution of this difficulty, or whether, on the contrary, we must be prepared to meet with such falsifications again in other places ? Unfortunately the long dates in this inscription do not help us in this matter. At page 315, Bhau DAji states them as follows:-Kaliyuga 3855, and from the war of the Mahabharata 3730, and consequently shewing an interval of 125 years between these events. Now, applying our usual Kaliyuga equation, 3101 B. C., to these, we have 754 A. D. for the first, which is much too late, and 629 for the second, which certainly is so near the correct date that it might be adopted as final, if we felt sure it is in the inscription. But at page 199, Dr. Bhau Daji, with a glaring want of correctness, gives a very different version of matters, and, that there may be no mistake this time, gives his dates in words, not in figures. According to this last version, the beginning of the Kaliyuga is placed 3506 before the date of this inscription, and the Bharata 3855 years before the same time. In other words, the Mahabharata was fought out in the Treta Yuga, and the interval between these two events was 349 years instead of 125, as we were told in a previous paragraph. Fortunately we know too well the cause of these modern discrepancies, and can apply the correction. With the more ancient ones, it is not so easy.t In conclusion, allow me to express an earnest hope that, before long, some competent antiquary will visit Iwalli and Badami. The inscription above discussed shews the building on which it is found to be the oldest structural temple known to exist in Western India, and, if Stirling is to be depended upon, cotemporary with the great temple at Bhuvanes'war in Katak, which is the oldest known temple in Eastern India. If, too, the inscription No. 12 in the Badami cave should turn out to belong to the sixth century, as Dr. Bhau Daji conjectures from the form of the characters, it will throw a new light on the history of cave-temple architecture in the West. From such imperfect data as I have at my command, I would guess these caves to be considerably more modern ; but we sadly want plans and architectural details of this most interesting group of monuments; while, except from the sequence of architectural details, I know of no mode by which dates can in India be ascertained with even proximate certainty. JAS. FERGUSSON. Langham Place, 30th Jan. 1873. ON THE INTERPRETATION OF PATANJALI. SIR.-In' the extract from Prof. Weber's critique on Dr. Goldstucker, given in the Indian Antiquary, vol. II. p. 61, there are several points, besides the main one I took up (at page 59), which require notice. From the passage about the Mauryas quoted by Dr. Goldstucker, Prof. Weber infers that Panini, in making his rule V. 3, 99, had in his eye .such images as those that had come down from the Mauryas. How the passage supports such an inference, I am at a loss to see. Pauini in that - A siatic Society. Jan. 20.--Mr. J. Eggeling, the Secretary, submitted translations of, and notes on, & number of Sou h Indian inscriptions, with a view to Bhew what materials are available in England for improving our knuwlenge of the history of the Dekhan. These material: were stated to consist partly of original copper-plates in the possession of the Society, the India Office, British Museum, and private individuale, especially Sir W. Elliot. Tbe dynasty which receives most light from these documents is that of the Chaluk yas. Of the Eastern or Rajamahendri branch especially, there are in Sir.W. Elliot's volume of impressions] several highly important franta, containing complete chronological records of that line from the first king, Vishnuvardhana, the Hunchback (about A. D. 604 to 622), to Amma Raja, who reigned in A. D. 945, being hen ten years old. Regarding the Kalyani line also, these materials contribute some valuable information (one grant of Satyasraya being dated in the third year of his reign, S'aka 534, A. D. 612), as they do regarding nearly every dynasty of the Dekban. One inscription, containing in the introductory a'lokas a list of the solar race, supplies thirteen name of princes of a branch of the Chola dynasty. Athenam, Jan. 25, 1873, p. 118. t To prevent its misleading. I may as well point out that in inscription 8, p. 316, the date is misprinted as 789 A. D. : it ought to be 889.

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MARCH, 1873.] CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 95 satra tells us that the termination ka appliod to the naines of objects, in the sense of images of those objects, is dropped in cases when the images enable one to earn his livelihood, but are tot salcable. Upon this Patanjali observes that, because the word unsaleable' is used, such forms as Sicah, Skun lah, and Visallat (in which the terminntion ku is dropped) are not valid. Why not? Because the Manryns, desirous of obtaining gold, itsed, or applied to their purpose, i.e., sold, objects of worship. Sinee, then, these triz., images of Siva, &c.) were solel by then, they were parya, orsaleable, aud hence the termination ka should not be dropped. It may not be dropped in those cases (i.e., the proper forms must be Sivaka, &c.), says Patanjali, but it is dropped in the case of those images which are now used for worship. This interpretation of the passage is consistent and proper. Prof. Weber understands it to mean, that the only cases in which the rule about the dropping of the termination does not apply, are those of images will which the Mauryas were concerned. But that it is inapplicable to all images that are saleable, is clear from the passage itself, and the two coininentaries on it. Kaiyata distinctly says that the role does not apply to those that are sold, and gives S'irakan Vilirinile as an instance. What Patanjali means to say is that the termination ka should be applied to the names of the images sold by the Mauryas, according to Panini's rule; but the rule is set aside in this case, and the wrong forms Siva, Skanda, and Visakha are used. Nagojibhatta expressly states-tatra pratyaya-sravanam ishtameveti vadan sutrasyoddharanam darg'ayati (i. e., saying that the use of the termination there is necessary, be points out an instance of the rule). Now, in all this there is not only nothing to slow that Papini had the images sold by the Mauryas in view, but that the names of those images violate his rule. Dr. Goldstucker's interpretation of this passage is also not correct. In the next place Prof. Weber thinks that the word Acharya in such expressions as pas'yati tvacharyah, occurring in the Mahabhashya, applies to Patanjali. It appears to me that Prof. Weber has overlooked the context of these passages. In all these cases the &sharya meant is clearly Panini, and not Patanjali. I will here briefly exainine two or three of the passages referred to by the Professor, for I have no space for more. In the first of these, the question Patanjali discusses is this :- Which is it that is used in the term an occurring in the sutra ur an raparah, i. e., does an here mean only a, i, and u, or all the vowels, semi-vowels, and h! He answers by saying that then in this case is clearly the first, and not the sccond, that is, that which is at the end of the sutra a, i, un, and lience an signifies only the vowels a, i, and . And why is it to be so understood ? The shtra ur an ruparuh means, when an is substituted for ri, it is always followed by F, that is, if, for instance, you are told in a shtra to substitute a for ri, you should substitnte not a alone, but ar. Now, the reason why, in this shtra, an siguifies the first three vowels only, is that there is no other significate of the more comprehensive term an, that is, no other vowel or any semi-vowel or h which is ever substituted for ri. "Why not? there is," says the objector. One instance brouglat forward by him is explained away, and another that he adduces is Matrinam. In this case, by the sutra nami, a long vowel, i.e., ri, is substituted for the short ri. Ri is a significate of the more comprehensive an, and not of the less comprehensive. Hence, then, the objector would say the an, in the shtra ur an,&c., is the more comprehensive one. But, says the siddhanti, this is not a case in which the substitute has an added on to it. Does it follow from Panini's work itself that no ris to be adiled ? For aught we know, Panini may have meant that should be added in this case also. Now, the evidence from Panini for this is in the shtra rita iddhatoh. This is the reason, says the siddhanti, 'why the word dhatu is put in the sutra,- that in such cases 88 Matrinam and Pitrinam, which are not dhatus, ir may not be substituted for the long ri. If the long vowel subatitute in Matrinam had an r foHowing it, it would not be necessary to put the word dhatu in this sutra, for Matrir would not then be an anga 'or basef ending in ri, and such bases only are intended in the sutra rita iddha toh. The use of the word dhatu then shows that "the Acharya sees that in Matrinam, &c., the long substitute has not an following it, and hence ho uses the word dhatu in the stra." | Now, it is evident from this that the Acharya is Panini, for the acharya is spoken of as having put the word dhatu in the shtra for a certain purpose. The author of the statras being Panini, the acharya meant must be he himself. In the same manner, in the passage at page 196 (Ballant. edition), Pinini is intended, for the Acharya is there spoken of as having put i after ri in the stra urrit. Similarly, in Page 197, the acharya is represented as having used twice in the pratyahara stras. The author of these stras, then, is meant there. And I may say that, so far as I have seen the Bhashya, the word acharya used in this way applies either to Panini or Katyayans, and Patanjali never speaks of himself as acharya. Thirdly.-Prof. Weber's interpretation of the vartika parokshecha loka,&c., is differene from Dr. Goldstucker's and nine. But he will see that our interpretation is confirmed by Kaiyata and Nagojilbatta. He seems to take paroksham in the sense of the past.' wrong or not good. It ought to be anantyuttad, as in the new Banaras edition. Pas'yatitvucharyo natre raparatvam bhavati tato dbtu agrahanm karuti. * The reading in the Banaras edition is archyah, and not archal. + Antyatvdd, the reading in Ballantyne's Mahabhasbya, is

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96 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MARCH, 1873. (See Elliot's Historians, by Dowson, Vol. I. p. 3, and note-also the map at page 32; and at page 30 the same itinerary in al-Istakehrt; also in Idrisi at page 85). The last-mentioned geographer says: "They fish for pearls here. It is in the vicinity of Bara, a small island on which some cocoanut trees and the costus grow." Can any explanation be given of this? The passage looks as if it might contain some light on the Perimula of Pliny, which was according to his indications-(1) the chief mart of India, (2) the seat of a pearl-fishery, (3) somewhere on the west coast, and (4) certainly anything rather than Manar, as Lassen makes it. But Patanjali's own explanation is param akshnoh paroksham (that which is turned away from the eyes, i. e., not seen), and one of his quotations from other writers about the sense of the word is kudya-katantaritam parokshamo (that which is hidden from one even by a fence), both of which show that the only essential sense of the word is 'a thing not seen by the speaker.' Dars'ana-vishaya, the Professor interprets by 'a thing once seen, or that once fell within the range of the speaker's vision ;' but if it has been once seen, it can never be called puroksha in the sense which is always attributed to the word. Fourthly.-Prof. Weber quotes from Patanjali the passage mathurayah Pataliputram purvam, and infers that the author of the Mababh­a lived to the east of Pataliputra. His interpretation of the passage seems to be Pataliputra is first and Mathura afterwards. But the natural sense is Pataliputra is to the east of Mathura,' as it is, or rather was, as a matter of fact. That Patanjali lived, not to the east of Pataliputra, but to the northwest of Saketa, I have shown in a separate article. Lastly, Dr. Goldstucker and Prof. Weber understand the word ucharyades'iya used by Kaiyata in some places in the sense of countryman of the acharya.' It is not annatural that an antiquarian, looking for historical facts in what he reads, should interpret his author the ; but it is not natural that a Hindu commentator, caring only for his subject, and not at all for history, should use such an expression to contrast one of the authors he comments on with another. Ho will look to the scale of estimation in which he holds them. To the Hindu grammarian the greatest acharya is Panini, next to him is Katyayana, and next to this latter is Patanjali. If it is necessary in one place to contrast one of them with another, he would naturally use some such expression as acharya and acharya the younger. And this appears to me to be the sense of the word, and a Hindu would naturally understand it thus. It is derived, according to Pan. V. 3, 67 ; but the sense ought not to be taken as an unaccomplished teacher, as Dr. Goldstacker does, but a teacher who is lower in the scale, or the younger teacher. And that Patanjali was ro is plain. That there is very great reason te believe that Patanjali and Katy&yans did not belong to the same country, I have shown elsewhere. RAMKRISHNA G. BHANDARKAR. NOTES 1. I HEARTILY accept the Editor's correction about the true identity of Supara (see Vol. I. p. 321). I was not aware of the survival of the name near Waski, and I followed Ibn Haukal's data, which present the itinerary as follows: Carbay to Sabarah, 4 marches (1 parasang from the sea.) Sabarah to Sindan, 5 , (do. do Sindan to Saimur, 5 * Seo the Mahabhashya under Parokshe lit. III. 2, 115. 2. The following, short extracts from Valentyne's History of the Dutch East Indies may be of interest to many of your readers, as an item in the history of the "Discovery of Sanskrit." That very industrions and intelligent author, after referring to what had been written by the chaplains, Abraham Rogerius and Philip Baldaeus, concerning the Hindu religion, proceeds:-"We do indeed find many things in those two books concerning the religion (of the heathen); but yet by no means all that it would be well to know. And the sole cause of this is that neither of those gentlemen understood the Sanskrit language (which Rogerius calls Samscortams, and which others call Girandam or Kerendum), in which language the Vedam, or Holy Law book of these heathens, is written. And thus they had no power to read or translate the Vedam, and thereby to lay open before the eyes of the world this religion in its real essence and on its true foundation, .... Above all, it would be a matter of general utility to the coast that some more chaplains should be maintained there for the sole purpose of studying the Sanskrit tongue,t the head-and-mother tongue of most Eastern languages, and once for all to make an exact translation of the Vedam, or Lawbook of the Heathen (which is followed not only by the heathen on this coast, but also, in whole or in part, in Ceylon, Malabar, Bengal, Surat, and other neighbouring kingdoms), and thereby to give such preachers further facilities for the more powerful conviction of the heathen here and elsewhere, on their own ground, and for the disclosure of many mysteries and other matters with which we are now unacquainted. . . . . This Lawbook of the Heathen, called the Vedam, had in the very old times 4 parts, though one of these is now lost.... These four parts were named Roggo Vedam, Sadura or Issoure Vedam, Sama Vedam, and Tarawan or Adderawana Vedam."-Keurlyke Beschryving van Choromandel, pp. 72, 73 in Vol. V. Palermo, Dec. 26, 1872. H. YULE, Colonel. + "De Sanskritse taal."

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MARCH, 1873.] CORRESPONDENCE, &c. Query. THIRTEEN miles north of the city of Dacca is a village called Uttarkhan, with an old tomb said to be that of Shah Kabir. His descendants possess a sanad dated A. H. 1047 (1637), conferring a piece of land rent-free on "Khandesh 'urf Burhanpur Kabir Wali Agha." In addition; he was allowed a sum of money, which, with the rent of the lakhiraj land, amounted to eight rupees a day. Can any of your readers give further particulars regarding this Shah Kabir? The last king of Khandesh was Bahadur Shah, or, as he is styled by Prinsep, Bahadur Khan Turki, who, after the conquest of his country by Akbar in A. D. 1600, was imprisoned in Gwalior. Was Shah Kabir his son? JAMES WISE. Dacca, 20th Feb. 1873. REMARK ON THE NOTE CONCERNING ANCIENT DRAVIDIAN NUMERALS.* THE Dravidian tribes along the crests of the Eastern Ghats, and those who inhabit the interior of the country between the Godavari and the Mahanadi, are notably deficient in the art of counting. Towards the north, where their speech has been influenced by Uriya immigrants, the higher numbers are adopted from that language; and about the Godavari, where the Telugus have come among them, the aborigines have made use of Telugu for this purpose. I give a few examples :Koi-Orrote, Irruvar, Muvvar, Nalar, Aivvar, A'ruvar, Veduvar, Ennunidi (Tel.+), Tommidi (Tel.), Padi (Tel.), &c. Gadaba-Moi, Umbar, Iyen, Mun, Mulloi, Tiyir, Sat (Uriya), A't (Ur.), No (Ur), &c., &c. Kerang Kapu-Moi, Umbar, Ingi, O, Malloi, Turu, Ga, Tammar, Santing, Go'a, Gommoi, Gombaru, Gongi, Gouk, Gominali, Gotturu, Gogu, Gottamar, Gosanting, Salgam, &c. Pengu Porja-Ruan, Ria, Tia (Ur.), Char (Ur.), Panch (Ur.), &c., &c. Durwa Gonds-Undi, Rand, Mund, Nalu, Hanig, Harung, Sat (Ur.), A't (Ur.), No (Ur.), &c., &c. Selliya Porja-Undre, Rundi, Mundri, Nalge, Aidu (Tel.), A'ru (Tel.), &c., &c. Tagara Porja-Vakat, Irudu, Mundu, Nalu, Chendu, Soitan, Sat (Ur.), A't (Ur.), &c. These tribes are classed as Dravidian and Kolairean, the Kerang Kapu and the Gadaba being of the latter strain, and the rest of the former. Of the Dravidians, none can count in their own language beyond 'seven.' The Penga Porja, indeed, has had to borrow a word for three.' No attempt has yet been made to study the derivation of these words; but if the Koi has a word signifying 'to be nice' or 'to be beautiful-which I am inclined to See Ind. Ant. Vol. II. p. 24. Tel. Telugu. Ur.= Uriya. 97 doubt akin to his expression for 'four,' I shall, on its discovery, derive it from Nalur, and not Nalar from it. The numeration of the Kerang Kapus seems to be better developed than that of the Gadabas. The two belong, evidently, to the same family; and it is curious that the Gadaba, when casting about for an expression for 'seven,' should have taken an Uriya word, and not one of the dialect akin to his own. It will be seen that the Kerang Kapu has a decimal notation. I am inclined to think that this idea must have been borrowed from the Aryan type, as I have a list of Gadaba numerals which betray a leaning towards a quaternary notation. In the table alluded to, eight' is called Vumbarupunja, i.e., 2-4, and 9 Vumbaru-punja-moi, i.e., 2-4-1. H. G. T. Vizagapatam, 10th Feb. 1873. THE SAURASHTRA SOCIETY. A SOCIETY has been formed in Kathiawar for the purpose of investigating the geography, natural history, ethnology, antiquities, and folklore of the peninsula. The officers and chiefs of the province, and many of the Pandits and men of learning and influence among the natives, are joining, and hopes are entertained that the Society will facilitate the efforts of antiquaries in Bombay and elsewhere, at least so far as pointing out to them the places that ought to be examined. PARJANYA, THE RAIN GOD. [As represented in the hymns of the Rig-Veda, v. 88, and vii. 100, 101.] I. Parjanya laud with praises meet; The fertilizing god extol And ble-s, of living things the soul, Whose advent men, exulting, greet. II. In steeds a charioteer has spurred, His watery scouts before him fly. Far off, within the darkening sky, The thundering lion's roar is heard. III. Fierce blow the blasts, the lightnings flash, Men, cattle, flee in wild affright. Avenging bolts the wicked smite; The guiltless quake to hear the crash. IV. Malignant demons stricken lie; The forest's leafy monarchs.tall Convulsed, uprooted, prostrate fall, Whene'er Parjanya passes by. V.. Urge on thy car, Parjanya, haste, And, as thou sweepest o'er the sky, Thine ample waterskinst untie To slake with showers the thirsty waste. This image is, of course, found in the original. It is well known that in Eastern countries, skins are used for preserving wine and carrying water.

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98 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. VI. Now forth let swollen streamlets burst, And o'er the withered meadows flow: Let plants their quickening influence know, And pining cattle quench their thirst. VII. Thy wondrous might, O god, declare; With verdure bright the earth adorn, Clothe far and wide the fields with corn, And food for all the world prepare. VIII. But 0, we pray, Parjanya kind, Since now our harvests, drenched with rain, Invoke the Solar powers in vain, Thy waterskins no more unbind. Edinburgh, Sept. 13, 1872. J. MUIR. [MARCH, 1873. in order to get information about it. The place, however, still remains, but as a small village with a scanty population of schismatic Nestorians; it is inland from Cranganore, and a few miles to the north of Angamali. The Jesuits appear to have built here a seminary and church dedicated to St. Thomas soon after 1550, and in consequence of the results of the Synod of Udayompura, presided over by Alexius Menezes, Archbishop of Goa, in 1599, it became a place of great importance to the mission. Sanskrit, Tamil, Malayalam, and Syriac were studied by the Portuguese Jesuits residing there with great success,+ and several important works were printed, of which, however, we have only the names left us as recorded by F. de Souza and others, and still later by Fr. Paulinus. The last tells us that:" Anno 1679 in oppido Ambalacatta in lignum incisi alii characteres Tamulici per Ignatium Aichamoni indigenam Malabarensem, iisque in lucem prodiit opus inscriptum : Vocabulario Tamulico com a significacao Portugueza composto pello P. Antem de Proenca da Comp. de Jesu, Miss. de Madure." The first Malabar-Tamil (? Malayalam) types had been cut by a lay brother of the Jesuits, Joannes Gonsalves, at Cochin, in 1577. Ambalacatta was destroyed by order of Tipu, when his army invaded Cochin and Travancore; a true barbarian and savage, he spared neither Christians nor Hindus, and to him attaches the infamy of destroying most of the ancient Sanskrit MSS. which time had spared in 8. India. Brahmans have yet stories current, how in those times their ancestors had to flee to the forests with a few of their most precious books and possessions, leaving the remainder to the flames. A. B.-in Trubner's Record, Oct. 31. DEFINITION OF FO OR BUDDHA. EARLY PRINTING IN INDIA. THE art of printing was introduced into India by the Gos Jesuits about the middle of the sixteenth century, but they printed only in the Roman character at first. Father Estevao (ie., Stephens, an Englishman), about 1600, speaks of the Roman character as exclusively used for writing Konkani, and the system of transcription which he used in his Konkant Grammar (Arte de lingoa Canarin) and Purann is really worthy of admiration. It is based on the Portuguese pronunciation of the alphabet, but is accurate and complete, and has been used by the numerous Konkant Roman Catholics of the west coast of India up to the present time. In the seventeenth century the Jesuits appear to have had two presses at Gos; in their College of St. Paul at Goa, and in their house at Rachol. Few specimens of their work have been preserved, but there is ample evidence that they printed a considerable number of books, and some of large size. About the end of the seventeenth century, it became the practice at Gos to advance natives to high office in the Church, and from that time ruin and degradation began, and the labours of the early Jesuits disap-intelligent nature."-" Where is this nature to be found ?" rejoined the king. "In the knowledge of Fo," answered the disciple; "that is, in the understanding which comprehends intelligent nature." The king reiterated the question-"Where does it reside then ?" The disciple replied-"In use and knowledge."-" What is this use?" said the king, "for I do not comprehend it." Poloti replied" In that you speak, you use this nature; but," added he, "you do not perceive it on account of your blindness."-" What," said the king, "does this nature reside in me ?" The disciple replied"If you knew how to make use of it, you would find it throughout you; since you do not use it, you cannot discern it."" But in how many places "WHAT is Fo?" asked an Indian king of a disciple of a saint of Hindustan named Tamo. This disciple, whose name was Poloti, replied-" Fo is nothing else than the perfect knowledge of nature peared. Literature was entirely neglected, and the productions of the early presses were probably used as waste-paper by the monks, or left to certain destruction by remaining unused and uncared for on their bookshelves. There is, however, in the Cochin territory a place quite as famous as Goa in the history of printing in India. Often mentioned by travellers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Ambalacatta (i.e., Ambalakkadu, or "Churchwood") is not to be found on the maps, and recent inquirers have supposed that the site is forgotten, and that inquiry was useless. The late Major Carr appears to have arrived at this conclusion after visiting Goa This verse, which has been mainly suggested by the (in Scotland) disastrous rains of the present season, is justifed by a brief reference in a verse of one of the hymns (v. 88, 10). The German Jesuit Hanxleden, who died at Pasar (in S. Malabar) in 1732, possessed a comprehensive knowledge of Sanskrit literature.

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MARCH, 1873.] does it reveal itself to those who use it ?" inquired the king. "In eight," replied the disciple, adding as follows:-" Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, speaking, and walking are our corporeal faculties; but there is yet another faculty in us and throughout us, which includes in itself the three worlds, and comprehends all things in the small space of our bodies. This faculty is called nature by wise men, and soul by fools." The king then became converted; and having sent for Tamo, by the advice of Poloti, embraced the religion of Fo, whose mysteries were fully explained to him by the saint.-Asiatic Journal, vol. xxi, 1826. MISCELLANEA. EXTRACTS FROM SHERRING'S 'CASTES."* KAYASTHS. THE Writer caste comes somewhere at the head of the Sudras, or between them and the Vais'yas. Nothing is known decisively respecting its origin; and although disputation on the subject seems to have been unbounded, no satisfactory result has been arrived at. The Kayasths themselves affirm that their common ancestor, on the father's side, was a Brahman; and therefore lay claim to a high position among Indian castes. But the Brahmans repudiate the connection, and deny their right to the claim, giving them the rank of S'udras merely. Wilson, in his Glossary, states that they sprang from a Kshatriya father and a Vais'y a mother, but gives no authority for the assertion. According to the Padam Purana, they derive their origin, like the superior castes, from Brahma, the first deity of the Hindu Triad. The Brahmans assent to this; but add that it was from the feet of Brahma, the least honourable part, from which they imagine all the Sudra castes have proceeded. The Kayastha as a body trace their descent from one Chitrgupt, though none can show who he was, or in what epoch he existed. They regard him as a species of divinity, who after this life will summon them before him, and dispense justice upon them according to their actions, sending the good to heaven and the wicked to hell. The Jatimala says that the Kayasths are true Sudras. Manu, however (X. 6), states that they are the offspring of a Brahman father and a Sudra mother. With so many different authorities it is impossible to affirm which is correct. 99 accountants to all classes of the community, official and non-official. Thus it comes to pass that the influence and importance of the Kayasths are felt in every direction, and are hardly equalled in proportion to their numbers by any other caste, not excepting even the Brahmanical. As revenue officers, expounders of law, keepers of registers of property, and so forth, they are extensively employed; indeed they regard such duties as theirs by special birthright, while other persons who may discharge them are, in their estimation, interlopers. These views are rudely dealt with by the liberal Government of India, which shows no respect to persons or castes, and selects for its servants the best qualified individuals. Nevertheless the Kayasths adhere to the notion in spite of the difficulty of defending it. In point of education, intelligence, and enterprise, this caste occupies deservedly a high position. A large number of Government officials in Indian courts of law, and of waqils, or barristers, belong to it; and in fact it supplies writers and The proportion of men able to read and write in this caste is, I believe, greater than in any other, excepting the Brahmans. They are eager in the pursuit of knowledge, and send their sons in large numbers both to the Government and missionary colleges and schools in all parts of the country. I understand that a considerable number of the women of this tribe can read; and that it is esteemed a shame for any man of the caste not to be able to do so. In regard to their position in Bengal, Mr. Campbell, in his "Ethnology of India," makes the following observations :-" In Bengal," he says, "the Kaits seem to rank next, or nearly next, to the Brahmans, and form an aristocratic class. They have extensive proprietary rights in the land, and also, I believe, cultivate a good deal. Of the ministerial places in the public offices they have the larger share. In the educational institutions and higher professions of Calcutta, they are, I believe, quite equal to the Brahmans, all qualities taken together; though some detailed information of different classes, as shown by the educational tests, would be very interesting. Among the native pleaders of the High Court, most of the ablest men are either Brahmans or Kaits; perhaps the ablest of all, at this moment (1866), is a Kait." Speaking of the Kayasths in Hindustan Proper, in contradistinction to Bengal and other parts of India, his remarks are of value. "Somehow there has sprung up this special Writer class, which among Hindus has not only rivalled the Brahmans, but in Hindustan may be said to have almost wholly ousted them from secular literate work, and under our Government is rapidly ousting the Mahomedans also. Very sharp and clever these Kaits certainly are." * Continued from page 82,

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100 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MARCH, 1873. The Kayasths are notorious for their drinking and gambling propensities. On special occasions many of them devote day and night to these vices, by reason of which the caste loses inuch of that respectability which its talent and education would otherwise secure. These terrible evils well illustrate, however, the bondage of caste. Whatever any caste sanctions, whether it be right or wrong, its members are in honour bound to carry out. This accounts for the prevalence of these two pernicious habits among the Kayasths. The caste upholds and sanctions them, so that I believe he would be regarded as a renegade who should not, on great occasions, indulge in them. Yet a few persons are to be found here and there-in the caste, who altogether spurn such habits; and to keep themselves quite pure, as they imagine, from pollution, neither drink spirits, nor gamble, nor eat flesh. They are termed bhagats, or religious persons, and wear the sacred thread, and the kanthi or small necklace of beads. Should they, at any time, fall into tempta- tion, these sacred objects are taken from them. There is one other evil to which this tribe is addicted, which indeed is not peculiar to the Kayasth caste, but is cherished, more or less, by all casts of overy degree. This is the inordinate expense incurred at marriage festivals. Some meinbers of the Kayasth caste, the 8rf. Bastabs in particular, indulge in such expenses to a most extravagant and ruinous extent. Men with an income of ten rupees a month, will spend three hundred, and even five hundred, at the marriage of their daughters, which they borrow at the enormous interest of twenty-four per cento per annum, or more, and under the burden of which they lie for many years, and at their death band down, perhape, to their children. Great and most laudable efforts have been made of late in Banaras, Allahabad, and other cities in the North-Western Provinces, to bring not only the Kayasths, but all the principal castes, to agree to a great diminution of marriage expenses. This, it is hoped, will faci- litate marriage; and lessen, if not wipe out, the crime of infanticide so prevalent among certain castes; and give to Hindu girls, not only a better chance to live, but also a more honourable, because less expensive, position in native society. The Kayasths are called Devi-putra, or sons of Devi, a term used to express a female divinity in general. In other words, they pay more homage to female deities than to male; though why, I am unable to say. They hold Brahmans in great respect, more so, perhaps, than other castes; although every caste, from the highest to the lowest, reverences the Brahmans even to worshipping them. This tribo is divided into twelve sub-castes, which are really independent of one another, as, with the exception of the Mathurs, the first on the list, they do not intermarry, nor eat cooked food together. They may smoke together, however, from the same cocoa-nut hukah--& condition of considerable liberty. They may all likewise drink spirits with one another indiscriminately. For some unexplained reason, it is the privilege of all the subcastes below the first to intermarry with it, although they are not permitted to intermarry with one another. The sub-castes are descended, tradition affirms, from one father, Chitrgupt, and two mothers-one the daughter of Suraj Rishi, the other the daughter of Surma Rishi. From the first inarriage four sub-castes have, it is said, proceeded, and the remainder from the second. There is also half a caste called Unai, commonly appended to these twelve, sprung, it is asserted, from a concubine of Chitrgupt. But the Kayasths proper do not associate with its members. Yet they are always spoken of as Kayasths. So that, in public Hindu estimation, there are twelve and a half castes of Kayasths. It should be stated, however, that the impure Unai sub-caste of Kayasths is devoted to trade, and does not pursue the special occupation of the Writer caste. Tas KAYASTHS OF BENGAL. From the manuscript on Hindu Castes by Babu Kishori Lal, a native of the North-Western Provinoen, I learn that there are four separate clans of Kayasths in Bengal, the names of which are as follows 1. Kewas. 3. Sirdatt. 2. Newas. 4. Abni. For the correctness of this list I am unable to vouch. It certainly does not agree with one which I have received from a respectable Bengali Kayasth of Bendras. He states that the Bengali Kayasths are divided into eleven clans, three of which are Kulin, and are of higher rank than the rest. 17. Palit. 2. Bhose, 8. Sen. 3. Mittr, 9. Singh. 4. De. 10. Das. 5. Datta 11. Guhs. 6. Kor. 1. Gbose, kulins.

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APRIL, 1873.] DIALECT OF THE PALIS. ON THE DIALECT OF THE PALIS. By G. H. DAMANT, B.C.S., DINAJPU'R. S be from the peculiar cus Atoms and isolated position of the Palis, they Pauna, chari, earthen pots. Damal, a raised path across rice-fields. Kainta, the portion of land which adjoins a house. use many words and forms of expression which would not be understood by an ordinary Bengali. Their pronunciation in itself is very indistinct and difficult to follow; the letter r they seem quite unable to pronounce, and ignore it altogether when it is an initial; again in many words they insert an initial h-thus ami, the personal pronoun I, is invariably pronounced hami, with a strong accent on the first syllable; and the common expressions ei sthane, se sthane are corrupted into hiti, huti. The use of the common forms of the personal pronouns is very rare, except in speaking to superiors. Among themselves they always say mui and tui. Some of the forms they use as terminations of tenses and verbs are curious. In place of ami jaibo, 'I shall go,' a Pali will sa say mui jam, or, if he is speaking to a superior, hami jamo. For chhilam, I was,' they say achhilam. The plural form gula is used instead of the common Bengali forms dig or gan. I have appended a list of Pali words, which appear to have been hitherto unnoticed, in the hope that some one may be willing and able to give satisfactory explanations of them. In some instances I have ventured to hazard derivations, but they are mere conjectures. These words have been selected from a list of several hundreds, from which I have eliminated all that I could derive with certainty from either Sanskrit, Bengali, or Hindi. Pa ila, patil, names for a large kind of earthen pot. Noka, painch, the young shoots of a plantain tree. Nuki, the young uncurled leaf of a plantain tree. No ka and nu ki may possibly be both derived from lukana, 'to be hid,' n and being constantly interchanged. Laga te-first, 'near;' second, 'quickly;' in the first sense undoubtedly de.ived from la gana. Patipela, the inner apartments of a house. Sandar, the land which adjoins the front door of a house. Can this be a corrupted form of Sk. sin had wara, the principal gate of a house? Batkhura, the sitting-house. Dahunki, a small trowel. Lelan, to cut grass with a dahunki. f Hir, a field of sugar-cane. Jhakpara, to fall senseless. af Nadari, a newly-married woman. It may be a mere corruption of Sansk. nabodha. Karoy, the person who arranges a marriage; answers to the ordinary Bengali word ghatak. Labarang, a cloth made of two pieces af sewn together. Harang, a kind of purdah formed of split bamboo, used in place of a door. 101 Kahin, widow-marriage; answers to the Musalman nika. ft Khuti, an earthen jug. G&bur, an old woman. Galan, to search. Phaik, many. Bhunti, a torch made of straw. Hoko: this word is used by the Palis as the name of some kind of evil spirit. I have not been able as yet to ascertain precisely what they mean by hoko, but it appears to be a spirit of the air. Pakshipayal, plural of bird. I cannot explain payal, unless indeed it is a mere repetition of pakshi, like jal tal. Jukale, if; probably. Sk. yat kale. Kheri, thin. Dhareya, a mouse. Saley, a rat. ar Saleh a, idle. Nengar, the rope attached to a plough. Kuris, a club, mace, cudgel. Tui, the roof-tree, top of a house.

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102 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [APRIL, 1873. faur Sikhai, the thread tied round the IT Nanga, a small cloth four cubits in length. loins to which the neng ti is attached. 34 Dud u ya, cloudy, overcast. 441 Sam da, father of a son's wife or daugh- atara sant a o, storm with rain ; also wet, ter's husband. Possibly a corruption of damp. Can this be connected with Bambandhi. santaran, swimming ? TUE, a Phokdai, pelka, different TE Kanjiyal, the inner part of a plannames for a kind of curry. tain tree, cf. Sk. k anjika. TE Pajhal, the Pali word for nengti. 37317 Dodana, to enrage. & Kach k at a, to cut through an ail or division between rice-fields. T6, 16 Bang bang. open (of a door). TUIT TE Gadhaing, bahunka, a bam sfer Anta, near. boo which is put over the shoulder to f319 Dikana, to be assembled. carry burdens. Gad haing, I am told, s Phoksali, wife's eldest sister. is an Assamese word; and b a hunk a #itara Soratana, to scratch. may be a corruption of the common Bengali word bank. HET Mokcba, skin. ATT Katara, a plank attached to an oil-mill Sinj a, the dried stalk of the jute plant. on which the driver sits. I Gedana, to abuse. Test Guld, the block of wood inside the mill acar Perta, the handle of a plough. which squeezes the oil from the seeds. * Ghoka na, to threaten. Saya, a piece of wood attached to the Hit Sa sa na, to converse. gula. Bat Chheunt-used in two senses--first, a # Jhantka, a kind of comb. piece of sugar-cane; secondly, a woman's grarka H&tais, an axe. cloth. In the first sense it is probably TT Chasipa, a candle-stick. connected with the root chhid, to split; Kachulu, red powder used at the Holi in the second, with chhad, to cover; festival. but the corruption is remarkable. # Bhom, a smell. HET Bhusi, the hollow beneath a rice-pounding ATIK Maroi, a catcherry or sitting-house. machine. Hadh kara, to mock. Karar Daimire, to thresh corn with oxen. Mare is the common Bengali mara; To Bhelguli, many. but d a i I cannot explain. FRA Kimkim, difficult. ET Mush, ashes. This word may be connected gly Jhamp, a kind of cloth. with the Sk. root mush, to steal, but the 26 Tengana, & mouse. connection is not obvious, cf. dh yulmushi, the act of cleansing a house ! REICH Hisim, difficult. after child-birth. are Ahor, an outcry. Wat Bankar, broken rice. ATE Sagai, a relative; also a nika marringe. ah Jama, a muzzle put on cattle. E Hesa, flesh. ABHINANDA. THE GAUDA. BY G. BUHLER, Ph. D. AMONGST the poets, whose works are quoted works, I found that they contain several by Sarngadhara in his large collection of statements regarding the family of the author, elegant extracts,' is & Gauda called Abhinandu which are not without importance for the history, or Abhinandana. Two works of this author, the and especially the literary history, of India. I Ramacharitramahakavya and the Kadambari- think, therefore, that it will not be useless to kathasara, are marked in my Catalogue of MSS. publish a separate notice of this little-known poet. from Gujarat, fascicle II. p. 102, no. 187, and The Ramacharitra is by far the most extensive p. 128, no. 6. When I lately examined these of his two productions. The MS. inspected

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APRIL, 1873.] ABHINANDA THE GAUDA. 103 which appears to be at least four hundred years Abhinanda's boasting about his work is not old, contains portions of thirty-six Sargas, viz. quite groundless. His style is easy and flowing, Sargas I.-VI. 82; Sargas XV. 20-XIX.1; the and simpler and more intelligible than that of latter portion of Sarga XXII. ; Sargas XXIII. most of the later. Sanskrit poets. Should a XXIX.; a large portion of Sarga XXX., and complete MS, of the Ramacharitra turn up, I it Sargas XXXI.-XXXVI. 19. The leaves are would be well worth printing. in great confusion, and Sargas XVI. 40--XVIII. Abhinanda's second poem, the Kadambarihave been placed last. The first verses of the kathasara, has less literary value, but greater poem run thus : historical importance. The MS. which is menAtha malyavatah prasthe kamukasya viyoginah | tioned in my Catalogue, and the perusal of which Durnivara srusamvego jagama jalada gamah #11 I owe to the courtesy of Mr. Nilkanth Ranchod, Sasama vpishtir meghinam utsange tasya bhu- is very old and in excellent preservation. It bhritah 1. contains an epitome of the Kadambart of Virarama na ramasya dharasamtatir asrunah 121 B Ana and of its continuation by Bana's The work, as appears from this specimen, is unnamed son. With the exception of the last written in Anushtubh slokas. It treats, as its stanzas, the metre is throughout Anushtubh, and title indicates, of the history of Rama, but only the style is, as simple and easy as that of of that portion of the hero's adventures which the Ramacharitra. Its most important part is follow the rape of Sita, i. e. of his war against the introduction, vs. 1-12, in which the poet and conquest of Lanka. At the beginning and at gives some account of his family. It runs as the end of several cantos, Abhinanda praises follows: his patron, the Yuvaraja or prince-royal Hara. Sarasvatyai namah varsha, whom he calls the son of Vikra Sriyam dadhatu vah saurerdvaye tulyasramah mabila (Vikramasilanandana), III. 99), kramahi and the moon of the lotus-forest-like family of Ye chi dau goshpadam paschat trailokyam kraSridharmapala. He tells us also that matascha ye 11 this prince made after Hala, the author Sarasah sadalamkarah prasadamadhure girah of the Saptasati or Gathakosha, a collection of Kantastatajayantasya jayanti jagatam guroh 1 2 stanzas from various poets. The exact words of the text are Gunoddyotanadipanam satar na param ujjvaNamah sriharavarsha ya yena hAladanantaram lam . Svakoshah kavikoshanam &virbheviya sam YAvanmalinam apyesham karmadpishteh prasabhritah dhanam 31. Praise to the illustrious Haravarsha, who, Gunopi krisah prathate prithurupyapachiyate I. after Hala, collected his own Kosha in order to Pripya sidhukhalau chandrah pakshaviva sitmake known the treasures of poets.' sitnu 14||. In several passages he also praises himself Saktirni mabhavadgando bharadvajakule sthiand his work. Thus we read at the end of tahi. Sarga XVIII. the following verse, which probably Darvabhisa ramasadyn kritada raparigrnhah 58 was intended to conclude the whole poem: Tasya mitra bhidhanobhuda tmajastejasam nidAchandrasuryam nidadhe jagatsu vyasasya yad. hihi vajjanamejayena Janena doshoparamaprabuddhenarchitodayah Eshobhinandasya mahaprabandhah kshonibhuja Sa saktisvaminam putram avapa srutisalinan bhimaparakramena | Rajnah karkolavansasya mukta pidasya mantri*This great romance of Abhinanda has nam 17. been established in the world, to last as long as Kalyanastaminamisya Fa navalkya ivabharat sun and moon endure, by the princ. of awe. Tannyal Suddhayogarddhinirdhutnbhavnknima. inspiring bravery, just as V yasa's (Mahi- shahi bharata was established) by Jana meja ya.' Agadhabridnyattasmit parmesvaramanganami * II. 1.106; III. 99; XXII. end XXIII. 90; XXVIII.mnd. Since writing the above I lar: heard that oue of my + XXVIII. end-after the colophon: Sridharmapalakas anteprima copy of the kairavakananenduh...... Vijayate yuvarijadevah.

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104 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [APRIL, 1873. Ajayata sutah kantaschandro dugdhodadhe- just as the moon was produced from the milk riva 19. ocean. 10. He begat a son, who gladdened men's hearts, named Jayanta, to whom Sarasvati, the giver of poetry and eloquence, belonged manifestly as his own. 11. To him, who openly bore as a second name the title 'the scholiast,' was born a son, known as Abhinanda. Putram kritajananandam sa jayantam ajijanat Vyakta kavitvavaktritvaphala yasya sarasvati # 10. Vrittikara iti vyaktam dvitiyam nama bibhratah Sanuh samudabhut tasmadabhinanda iti srutah 11. Kavyavistarasamdhanakhedalasadhiyam prati Tena kadambarisindhoh kathamatram samuddhritam | 12. "Praise to Sarasvati! 1. May the steps of Sauri, accomplished with equal labour, both those which first he made when stepping over the (path of the cow), and those which he made when striding through the three worlds, give you prosperity. 2. Glory to the lovely, pleasingly sweet song of my father Jayanta, the teacher of the worlds, (to that song) which is full of sentiment and possessed of true ornaments.' 3. There is nothing more resplendent than good men, who shine through their virtues (guna) just as lamps shine through their wicks (guna), since their faults even serve to adorn the aspect of their works (just as lamp-soot serves to adorn the eye). 4. Small qualities even increase, and great ones even decrease, according as they reside in good or bad men, just as the moon increases or decreases according as she reaches the white or the black half of the month. 5. There was a Gauda of the family of Bharadvaja, called Sakti, who went to Darvabhisara and married there. 6. To him was born a son, named Mitra, whose appearance was worshipped by those who had obtained the true knowledge after destroying their sinful desires (just as the rising sun [Mitra] is worshipped by men after they have been awakened at the end of the night). 7. He obtained a son, learned in the revealed texts, Sakti sva min by name, who was the minister of Muktapida, a king of the Karkota line. 8. His son was Kalyanasvamin, who, like Yajnavalky a, destroyed the stains of (this) existence by the acquisition of pure Yoga. 9. From that deep-hearted man was born a son, called Kanta, an ornament of the creator, Ind. Alt. III. 1017. 12. He has extracted from the ocean of the Kadambari the story only, for the sake of those who are too lazy to undergo the trouble of reading that extensive poem." In considering the several items of information contained in the extracts given above, it will be most convenient to begin with those furnished by the Kadambarikathasara. From this work it appears that Abhinanda-for this, and not A b hinanadana, is the form of the poet's name which occurs in my MSS.belonged to a family of Gauda or Bengal Brahmans, who claimed descent from the sage Bharadvaja. The sixth ancestor of the poet, Sakti, emigrated to and settled in Darvabhisara. Abhisara, the country of King Abissares, is, according to Lassen,* a province to the south of Kashinir, whilst Darva lies to the north-west of the same kingdom. General Cunningham+ places Abhisara also to the north-west of Kashmir, and the fact that Abhinanda as well as Kalhana (e. g. Raj. IV. 711) form a compound of the two names, indicates that both regions lay close together and probably formed a political unit. Without entering further into the question of their exact geographical position, it will suffice for our purpose to state that Darvabhisara lay on the frontiers of Kashmir, and formed part of that kingdom down to the reign of Utpalapida, the last of the Karkota kings. S'akti's family must soon have risen to influence in its new country, as his grandson is stated to have been minister to king Muktapida of the Karkota dynasty. The Naga or Karkota family occupied the throne of Kashmir from the beginning of the seventh to the end of the ninth century. The first Karkota king was Durlabhavardhana, who reigned thirtysix years. His son and successor was Durlab h a ka or Prata pa ditya, who ruled for + Anc. Geog., Maps V. and VI.

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APRIL, 1873.] ABHINANDA THE GAUDA. 105 fifty years. Three sons of this king, Chandra- | Secondly, a passage of the fourth Taranga, pida, Tarapida, and Lalit aditya, in which the sons of Durlabhaka-Pratapaditya successively occupied the throne. Chandra- are enumerated, shows likewise, if rightly interpida, the eldest of them, is stated to have preted, that the two names designate the same reigned eight years and eight months. He was person. We read Raj. IV. 39-43: murdered by his brother Tara pida, who Kramena cha prajapunyais chandrapiqabhidham enjoyed the fruits of his crime during four years, sutam one month, and six days. The latter was suc- Prasoshta parthivavadhur nidhanamiva mediceeded by Lalit aditya, one of the most ni | 391 powerful kings of Kashmir, whose reign extend- TasyAbhijanamalinyam svachchhair achchedi ed over more than thirty-six years. It was tadgunaih under this latter prince that Saktisvamin held Sana makakamaih karshnyam Akarottham maoffice. For Muktapida is only another name neriva | 40 of Lalitaditya. Dhimad gadhamalimasachchhuchi payah sute Since the truth of this latter fact has not, as ghanasyodgamo far as I know, been recognized, and Lassen, on Lohasyatisitasya jatir achalat kunthasmamathe contrary, declares Mukta pida and lam arat Lalit aditya to be two different persons, Kimchatyantajadajjalad dyatimato jvaladhvajaI may briefly state the grounds on which my syodbhavo statement is based. Firstly, Kalhana, who in the Janmavadhyanukarino na mahatam satyam svabeginning of the fourth book of the Rajata bhavah kvachit | 41 || rangini gives the series of kings as exhibited Tarapidopi tanayah kramat tasyam ajayata above, viz. Durlabna vardhana, Durla Avimuktapidanama muktapidopi bhupateh || 42 || bhaka-Prata paditya, Chand rapida, Vajradityodayaditya lalitadityasamjnakah Tara pida, Lalita ditya, in his resume Pratapadityajah khyataechandrapidadayopi te of the history of Kashmir, VIII. 2525b seqq., || 43 | uses the following words: "And, in course of time, the wife of the Baladityasya jamata kingt bore, i consequence of the subjects' tato durlabhavardhanah | 2525 merit, a son called Chandrapida, just as Sunurdurlabhakas tasya chandrapidobhavat the earth (brings forth) a treasure. tatah 40. The uncleanness of his descent was deTara pidonujanmasya muktapidosya chanujah stroyed by his pure qualities, just as the black2526 ness attaching to the diamond when it comes Bhupavastam kuvalayapido dvaimaturosya cha out of the mine (is destroyed) by the particles Vajradityah sutaut rajno muktapidasya tatsutau of the polishing-stone. 1 25271 41. The rainy season produces clear water "The son-in-law of Ba laditya, Dur. from deup-black smoke-like mist; very bright labhavardhana, followed next. His son metals come as dull ore from the mountain. (?) was Durlabhaka; then followed Chandra- Besides, the resplendent fire is produced from pida, (then) his younger brother Tar&pida, the exceedingly dull water. Forsooth, the naand (next) his (the latter's) junior, Mukta- ture of great (persons or things) does not depida. Kings were next Kuvalay Apida pend on their origin. and his half-brother Vajraditya, the sons 42. From that (queen) were born, saccesof King Muktapida. The sons of him (i.e. sively, a (second) son of the king, called T & raVajraditya) were," &c. pida, and a third) Mukt & pidas, whose In this passage the name Lalit Aditya name (ought to have been) Avimukt & pidoes not occur at all, but in its stead Mukta- da, i.e., he whose diadem is never taken off. pida. 43. These sons of Prata paditya are * Lassen, Ind. Alt. III. 992 seqq. + Suto-Calc. edition. Mukt&pida might be interpreted to mean, 'he 1 This wife' was Narendraprabha, who, originally mar whose diadem is taken off. Hence Kalhana, bearing in ried to a Vanid called Nona, had been ceded by her husband mind the greatness of this ruler, says his name ought to to King Pratapaditya. Her position seems to have been have been Avimuktapids. The proper translation of Mukrather that of a favourite concubine than that of a legiti- tapida is, however, he whose diadem contains pearls.' mato wife : see verse 40.

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106 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. also known by the appellations 'Vajraditya, Udayaditya, and Lalitaditya.' Iassen understands the last two verses, quoted and translated above, to indicate that Pratapaditya had seven sons, whose names were Chandrapida, Tarapida, Avimuktapida, Muktapida, Vajraditya, Udayaditya, and Lalitaditya. But that interpretation is inadmissible on philological grounds, and is refuted by the summary of the Kashmirian history in the eighth Taranga, as well as by an independent Chinese account of some of the Karkota kings. For a Chinese writer, first brought to light by Klaproth,+ states that Chentolopili of Kashmir sent several embassies to the Chinese Court in order to ask for help against the Thibetans, and received the title king' from the emperor. The same authority asserts that Chentolopili's successor Mutopi likewise sent an embassy. Lassen has pointed out the identity of the names Chentolopili-Chandrapida, and Mutopi-Muktapida. He has also shown that the embassy said to have been sent by Mutopi did fall in the times of Lalitaditya. Though, after what has been said above, it is impossible to agree with him in assuming that Muktapida might have been the foreign-secretary of Lalitaditya, and for this reason might have been considered by the Chinese the sender of the embassy,|| his arguments that the embassy of Mutopi was sent in Lalitaditya's times, go towards confirming my view, viz. hat the two names belong to the same person. If, then, Saktisvamin lived under Lalitaditya, his tenure of office must have fallen in the second quarter of the 8th century A.D. According to Troyer's, Lassen's, and Cunningham's calculations, the beginning of Lalitaditya's reign is placed in the last decade of the seventh century, in 695 or 693, while H. H. Wilson fixed it in 713.SS None of these dates is, however, tenable, as the Chinese historian states that Chandrapida's first embassy arrived at Pekin in 713, and that the same king received the grant of his title in 720. It must be considered a settled principle for Indian historians that dates given by Chinese writers are to be Ind. Alt. III. 992. + Lassen, Ind. Alt. III. 993, note 1. Lassen, Ind. Alt. III. 996. il Ind. Alt. III. 996. [APRIL, 1873. relied on in preference to any calculations based on the statements of Hindu chroniclers. Hence General Cunningham has lately corrected his. former adjustment of the chronology of the Karkotas. He now admits that if a title was granted to Chandrapida in 720, that prince-even if due allowance is made for the time wl: ch the transmission of the intelligence of his death from Kashmir to Pekin would require-must have been alive in 719. Consequently Tarapida's death and Lalitaditya's accession cannot have taken place before 724. But to return to Abhinanda's family, his father Jayanta also seems to have been a person of some note. He was a poet and a commentator, probably, of the Sutras of the Asvalayanasakha of the Rigveda. For a Jayanta is quoted in an Advalayanagrihy a karika, and some years ago, in a list of MSS. from Nasik, I came across a Jay antavritti on the Asvalayanasutras. Unfortunately I did not secure the book. But it would be worth while to look out for it, as Ja yant a is certainly older than any other known commentator of Aevalayana. As regards A b h in and a himself, he cannot be placed later than 830-850 A.D. The duration of a generation in India is little more than 26 years. If, therefore, Abhinanda's fourth ancestor, Saktisva min, lived under Muktapida about 725, we shall have to add, say, 110 years to that date in order to obtain our poet's age. Abhinanda seems to have lived not in Kashmir, but in Gauda, the country of his forefathers. This is indicated by his surname, 'the Gauda,' and by the fact that the name of the ancestor of his patron, Dharmapala, is not to be found among the Kashmirian kings, but belongs to a powerful monarch of the Pala dynasty of Gauda. Lassen places this Dharma pala about 815. I am unable to trace the Yuvaraja Haravarsha the compiler of a Kosa of poetical extracts, as well as his father, Vikramasila. Lastly, I may mention that Abhinanda was apparently a Vaishnava, as he invokes Sauri in the Mangalacharana of the Kadam barikathasara. SS See Prinsep's Useful Tables, p. 245. Anc. Geog. p. 91. Aufrecht, Oaf, Cat. 405a.

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APRIL, 1863.] THE SEVEN PAGODAS. 107 "THE SEVEN PAGODAS. BY THE REV. MAURICE PHILLIPS, L.M.S. The celebrated rock-cut temples at Mavalive- by half-civilized Kurumbars, who had embraced ram, commonly known to Europeans as the the Jaina religion, brought to them from the "seven pagodas," have from time to time at- north. It is further stated that both Kulattracted many visitors, and called forth many tungachola and his son, after much fighting, notices in the journals of scientific societies as conquered the Kurumbars, and, by way of fixing to their origin and antiquity. a stigma on the conquered country, changed its Mavaliveram is the name of a now small vil- name from Kurumbabhumi to Tondamandalam, lage situated close to the sea between Covelong | "the land of slaves ;" and having cleared the and Sadras, in the vicinity of which are great forest founded the celebrated Kanchipuram masses of hill-like rocks abounding in excavations (Kanjevarem) as the capital of his new kingdom. of curious temples of varions shapes and sizes, Kulattungachola was a great warrior who with figures in high relief representing Hindu besides conquered the Telingana country. And mythology. The most celebrated of these are fortunately there are two local records in the Rathas, a cluster of fine monolithic temples Telugu among the Mackenzie MSS. which of a pyramidal shape, differing in size, and enable us to fix the date of his reign. One states covered with ornamental sculptures. that he conquered the country in San. Sake All the sculptures are representations of Brah- 1093 (A. D. 1171), and the other records the manical mythology, chiefly taken from the Ma- gift of some charities in S. S'. 1065 (A.D. 1143). habharata, such as the Vamana and Varaha It is evident then that Kulattangachola lived incarnations of Vishnu; Krishna supporting the in the twelfth century of the Christian era, monntain of Govardhana in order to shelter his and as he must have conquered the Kurambafollowers from the wrath of Indra; the penance bhumi, in which Mavaliveram is situated, either of Arjuna ; Dronachari and the five Pandavas; before or after the Telingana country, we cannot Dharmaraja's lion-throne, and the bath of Drau- be far wrong in placing his conquest of the padi ; Vishnu recumbent on the thousand-headed former in the second half of the twelfth century Sesha; and Durga's eonfliet with Mahishasura. A.D. At that time the inhabitants of MavaliveThere are also figures of Brahma, Siva, and ram were Jainas, and as the sculptures show no Ganesa. traces of Jainaism, it may be concluded that If the inscriptions, both in Tamil and Sanskrit, they were not then commenced. found on some of the rocks, and which have Again, it is stated that Adondai (A. D. been translated, contained dates or gave any 1160-80) brought Brahmans from the north to account of the commencement of the sculptures, be accountanta in his new kingdom, the Tonit would be easy to ascertain their age. But da mandalam, from which it would appear unfortunately those inseriptions only mention that there were no Brahmans there before. the names of the Rajas or Governors in whose Now the present temples at Mavaliverim are reign grants of land were made to the temples; Brahmanical Allowing then a period of 100 and as those names cannot be identified with years for the Brahmans to suppress Jainais any line of Rajas, or with any contemporary and establish their own anthority, as a monuevent to which a date can be attached, they af- ment of which we may suppose they caused the ford no clue to the probable-age of the sculp- temples to be out, the date of their commencetures. There are a few scattered facts, however, ment cannot be placed earlier than the 18th in the Mackenzie MSS. which, when collected century A.D. and compared, enable us, with some degree of In the reign of Sundara Pandya, which apcertainty, to ascertain their age. pears to synchronize with Marco Polo's visit to It is stated that before the time of Kulattunga- India, the Jainas were finally expelled from the chola and his illegitimate son Adondai, the Pandya country, i. 6. about A. D. 1800. Now, whole district bounded on the north by the Pe- considering the proximity of the Tondamandanar, on the south by the Palar, on the east by the lam to the Pandya kingdom, and the influence sea, and on the west by the Ghate, was occupied which the one necessarily exerted on the other,

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108 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [APRIL, 1873. it is reasonable to conclude that the reaction against the Jainas in the Pandya kingdom would be either preceded or followed by a reaction against it in the Tondamandalam, and vice versa; and that the expulsion of the Jainas from the one would pretty nearly synchronize with their expulsion from the other. I find also that Mr. Fergusson, judging from different data altogether, has arrived at the same conclusion; for he says (History of Architecture, Vol. II. p. 502) that the Rathas were * carved by the Hindus, probably about 1300 A.D." That Mavaliveram in ancient times was a large city, the capital of a kingdom, and the seat of the ruling sovereign, is, I think, very probable. The name in the Sthalapurana is simply Mallapuri ; hat in the inscription near the Varasvami temple, given by Sir Walter Elliot, it is enlarged into Mamallapuram by prefixing the Sanskrit adjective Maha. Mallapuri means the city of Malla,' and Mamallapuram the city of the great Malla.' According to the Mackenzie MSS. Malla is the patronymic title of a northern tribe of mountain chiefs, who sprang from the aboriginal inhabitants, and who were non-Aryan. Probably their descendants are the low-caste Mallas of the present day, who dwell largely in the Kadapa, Belari, and Karnul Districts. That in ancient time they were a conquering and a ruling race is very evident from the many villages which bear their name, as well as the many Rajas whose hononrable distinction was " Malla Rayer." Probably then the Mallas were the founders of Mamallapuram, and called it after their own name. That they ruled there before the Kurumbars is evident from the fact that the town was called Mamallaparam about the time of its conquest by Kulattungachola, as appears from an inscription dated $. 1157 at the neighbouring village of Pavarakkarana's Choultry, where the name occurs, and also from the no less obvious fact that the adjective Maha prefixed to it indicates the predominant influence of Brahmans. The Mallas were either subdued by the Kurumbars, and a malgamated with their conquerors, or they were one and the same people bearing different names in different periods. That both were aboriginal non-Aryan inhabitants there can be little doubt. Now contrasting the present abject state of the Mallas, Kurumbars, Khonds, and other aboriginal tribes, with their former power and enterprise, we cannot fail to conclude that the time when they ruled and conquered must be very remote. The appearance of such extraordinary and costly rock-cut temples in a sequestered spot like Mamallapuram is itself strong presumptive evidence of the former existence of a large city. It is prima facie incredible that any man, or body of men, would select an isolated uninhabited spot for the execntion of some of the best works of art in India. The present village would scarcely accommodate the workmen and their families who were engaged on the works. The idea of Dr. Babington, that the place was first procured by the Brahmans as an Agrahara, and that they employed stone-masons at their own cost from time to time to ornament the rocks with the excavations and sculptures which we now find, is an idle conjecture. Who ever heard of Brahmans doing any great public works at their own cost ? The most rational supposition is that when the King embraced Hinduism, the Brahmans prevailed upon him to adorn the old capital by excavating these tem. ples. The application by Brahmans of the legend of Mahabali to Malla the king of Mallapuram, and their endeavour to identify the one with the other, is to my mind no mean proof of the former existence of a large city, the capital of a kingdom. Mahabali was a Raja, living in the Tretayuga, who, by penance and austerity, had obtained possession of the whole universe, including heaven, earth, and hell, so that he was a universal monarch. He became so elated by his greatness that he omitted to perform the eustomary religious ceremonies to the gods. Vishnu, in order to check the influence of so bad an example, became incarnate in the person of a wretched Brahman dwarf, and in this form. appearing before Mahabali asked as a boon as much of his wide possessions as he could compass in three steps. This the king readily granted, upon which the dwarf grew larger, and continued to expand till he filled the whole universe, thus depriving the insolent monarch of all his possessions except hell, which he was allowed to keep. Where this legend originnted I do not know. It probably represents the victory of Hindus of the Vaishnava sect over some powerful non-Aryan king. But the ap

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APRIL, 1873.] plication of it to the king of Mamallapuram naturally leads us to conclude that there must have been some similarity between him and the Asura Mahabali. Now had Mamallapuram not been a noted city, and its sovereign a powerful raja, the shrewd Brahmans would not have ventured to pass off a fraud so palpable that it could not fail to be detected. KANARESE POETRY. The shore temple, so close to the sea that the surf in the calmest weather dashes against the doorway, with the usual stone pillar in front of such temples lying in the sea, as well as fragments of images, large quantities of stone, and broken bricks lying about, some partially buried in the sea, plainly show that at one time buildings existed to the eastward which have been destroyed and overwhelmed by the sea. Had the sea held the same relative position to the shore temple at first as it does now, it is impossible to believe that the temple would have been formed so near to it. The situation of this temple, therefore, and the remains of ruins towards the sea, plainly indicate an encroachment of the sea, and the overthrow of a city. Such traces of a large city destroyed by the sea are confirmed by tradition. Besides the Brahmanical tradition mentioned by Mr. Chambers, it is stated in the catalogue of the Mackenzie MSS. that the whole coast from Mailapur or St. Thome, down to Mamallapuram, was overflowed by the sea, and that many towns were destroyed. This tradition is confirmed by the appearance of a ruined city about two miles north of Mamallapuram, as mentioned by Sir W. Elliot. There is nothing impossible in the supposition and tradition that the sea has encroached on the land. That there has been a great convulsion of nature is proved by the unfinished state of the temples, and the great rent in one of the largest rathas. Not one of the temples is finished. How is this to be accounted for better than on the supposition that a great earthquake lowered the coast and extended the bed of the Kanarese poetry is divided into two great divisions, "Akshara Vritta" and "Matra ON THE RULES WHICH GOVERN KANARESE POETRY. BY CAPTAIN J. S. F. MACKENZIE, MAISUR COMMISSION. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, (Dr. W. Smith's ed.), vol. I. p. 192; and conf. Carr, The Seven Pagodas, pp. 163, 163.-ED. sea? What else could have rent the massive ratha, probably very far below the surface of the ground, and lowered all the rest? To imagine that the rock was cracked wha the workmen were engaged in cutting it is not admissible. Neither is it reasonable to think that such work would have been commenced upon a rock that was already rent in two, for the "marks of the mason's tools are perfectly visible in the excavated parts on both sides of the rent in such a manner as to show plainly that they have been divided by it." It is no objection to this theory to say that the rock-cut temples at Elca are also unfinished, though there are no indications that their completion was prevented by an inundation of the sea. It is considered, I believe, that the date of these rock-cut temples synchronizes with those of Mamallapuram. Is it not reasonable therefore to suppose (knowing the superstitious feelings of the Hindus) that those who were engaged on the temples at Elora, having heard of the submersion of Mamallapuram, took fright and left the work for ever? 109 Mr. Gubbins, has pointed out (Jour. As. Soc. Ben., vol. xxii.) that in classical days the extremity of the peninsula was the entrepot of commerce between the East and the West. Gibbon says, "Every year about the time of the summer solstice, a fleet of an hundred and twenty vessels sailed from Myos-Hormos, a port of Egypt on the Red Sea. By the periodical assistance of the monsoons, they traversed the ocean in about forty days. The coast of Malabar, or the island of Ceylon, was the usual term of their navigation, and it was in those markets that the merchants from the more remote parts of Asia expected their arrival." There is nothing in the Malabar coast to exclude the idea that these fleets carried on merchandise with Mamallapuram, for Malabar is a vague term, applied till lately to the Tamil-speaking inhabitants of the peninsula. The theory that it might have been the Maliarphat of Ptolemy is not improbable. Vritta," which in their turn have many subdivisions. + Manarpha emporium, v. 1.-ED.

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110 "Akshara (from the word for a letter) Vritta" is determined by the number of letters in each line (pada) of the verse, and may consist of any number of letters from 1 to 26. THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. Each different number of letters in the line is known by its own particular name or "chhandassu." Thus we have in all 26 chhandassus. Each chhandassu again may be subdivided into any number of vrittas, increasing in number as the letters do. The number of vrittas of which any given chhandassu can consist is found by beginning with one and doubling successively for as many times as there happen to be letters in the line. Twice this result gives the number. For example, if the first line consists of three letters, then we can have in that chhandassu 8 vrittas, i.e. 1 doubled is 2; twice 2 are 4; twice the result 8. That line which is called Mahasragdhara has twenty-two letters. By the foregoing rule, this chhandassu can be subdivided into 40,94,304 vrittas; only two however are in common use. This will give some idea of the enormous number of vrittas which could be formed. The total number is said to be some millions. 125 2nd bruti rvaan maanNn there 4 5 Before examining any chandassu, however the "gana" must be explained. Every three letters form a gana, so that in a line of 9 letters we have 3 ganas; in a line of 10 letters we have 3 ganas and one letter; in a line of 12 letters we have four ganas, and so on. The surplus letters are always at the end of the line, and if it happens to be II. III. IV. V Vuu 1st brtaa| lyaaNkhNdd dolllloobi | pjin 4 5 5 8 3rd craa jNcood jNcoody mogly 4 ` [APRIL, 1873. long it is technically called "Siva," if short "Vishnu." Those letters are long which have the long vowels, such as a, e, u, which are followed by (:) aha or () sonne, and letters though short themselves which precede a double letter; for instance is short in itself, but from its preceding the double t it becomes lengthened. It will thus be seen that the three letters which form the gana may be all three long, all three short, or a combination of long and short. there the Each of these combinations-8 in all-has its own particular name and is sacred to its own particular god. 1. (Ma) gana, sacred to the earth, is three long, 2. (Ya) gana-(water) is one short, two long, u 3. (Ra) gana (fire) is 4. Lagana-(wind) is u 5. Tagana-(sky) is 6. Jagana-(sun) is 7. Bagana-(moon) is 8. Nagana (heaven) u uu The order in which these ganas find a place in the line determines the vritta to which that piece of poetry belongs. In each vritta the ganas follow one another in their own proper order. Each verse consists of four lines. As is the first line, so must all the remaining three lines be. No difference can be allowed. Take an example from the Mahasragdara Vritta": 4th Here we have 22 consonants in all, divided into 7 ganas and one letter which being long is "Siva." The figures above the lines refer to the position in the line of each gana; those below the line to the kinds of gana. In each line it will be seen that I. and V. consist of two short and one long letter. This is the Lagana V. VI. VII. vrrN suujiy maaddive | sN 4 3 3 ddyri| rvidee neNdukaaNnoNddiyaa vee de 3 smt | rnnnN kNddu alliNdaabN 8 4 3 drdiN| dNbkki yiNdoNdi sutp | rkeyiN 4 5 5 8 4 3 WD koNdduku idrdm iN idrdv 3 or (4). The II. and III. are two long and one short letter. This is the Tagana or (5). The IV. is three short letters. This is the Nagana (8). The VI. and VII. are a long, a short, and a long letter. This is the Ragana (3). The last letter being long is Siva. In order to belong to any particular vritta

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APRIL, 1873.) KANARESE POETRY. 111 Kanda Padya, 12, 20, 12, 20. it is not sufficient that the line have the same number of ganas; it is absolutely necessary that he kinds of ganas should follow one another in the order special to that vritta. For in- stance, in the Mahasragdara Vritta the order must be, 4, 5, 5, 8, 4, 3, 3, Siva. In the "Manene Vsitta" we have the same number of consonants and ganas, but since the kinds of ganas come in the following order : I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. Siva, the vritta goes by another name. And so on through all the thousand and ono vrittas. Each has its own name and special rule. One point requires special notice. It is common to both the great divisions "Akshara Vritta" and "Matra Vritta," and is the one essential in all Kanarese poetry. Without this, lines, however well written and correct in every other respect, would not be considered poetry by the Kanarese critic. If the four lines of the Kanarese verse given be examined, it will be seen that the second consonant in each is the game. It is in this verse r. This is technically known as "Ade Prasu." Whatever the second consonant of the first line is, the second consonant of the succeeding lines constituting a verse must be the same. This is a sine qua non in Kanarese poetry. The difficulty of always finding a suitable word with the second consonant the same has given rise to a poetical licence by which certain consonants are allowed to stand for one another. This is called "Mitra Prasu," and the following consonants are held to be interchangeable : ka kha ga gha with one another. cha chha ja jha with one another. ta tha da dha with one another. ta tha da dha with one another. pa pha ba bha with one another. sa sha sa with one another. ra la la with one another. Again in some verses we find the last consonant is the same in every line of the verse. This is in Kanarese poetry called "Antya Prasa." It is not essential, but those verses which have the Antya Praga are, caeteris paribus, considered finer and more finished. The Matra Vritta is the second great divi- sion. In it the number of accente, not consonants, in each line are looked to, the different subdivisions being determined by the number of accents in the line. The same rules which determine the length of the accent in the gana of the Akshara Vritta apply to the consonants in the Matra Vritta, viz., consonants with long vowels, as a e, ; those preceding a double letter; and those followed by sonne or aka, are long. All others are short. The Matra Vritta is subdivided into three"Kanda," " Satpade," and " Areya." The Kanda consists of verses of four lines. The first and third lines have 12 accents, the second and fourth 20 accents. As long as the total number of accents in a line is correct, it is immaterial what the number of consonants are. For example, iake a verse of the Kanda: Uv-uv-vw tnsullll vrunn mNgunnaa. Uv -u-v u - v- - uvenu tirpr nrgunnNgllN durgunnN || venu tirp baas rcit. v-- vu-u-u-- vnaavu tillislaarsnaatnejivN In the first lir, we have eight short accents and two long (four short): total 12. In the third line we have six short and three long : total 12. In the second line we have eight short and six long : total 20. In the fourth line six short, seven long: total 20. A long accent, called "guru," is equal to two short accents, called "lugu." The proper number of accents in the lines is always expressed by the number of short accents such line may contain. It will be observed that the second consonant in each line of the above verse is the same, and happens to be n. But the vowels attached to this letter are not the same in all four lines. In the first line it is na, short; in the fourth nd, long; in the second and third nu. The vowel only determines the length of the consonant, and has nothing to do with the great rule that the second consonant in each line must be the same. The second subdivision of the Matra Vritta is the Satpade or verse of six lines. The Satpade consists of six classes. The number of accents in each class varies. 1. The Sara Satpade must contain the following number of accents in each line : 1st-8, 2nd 8, 3rd-14, 4th--8, 5th-8, 6th -14.

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112 THE INDIAN ANTIQUABY. [APRIL, 1873. - Vv v v v = v - " 2. Kusuma has 10-10-17-10-10-17. 3. Boga-12-12-20-12-12-20. 4. Bamene-14-14-23-14-14-23. 5. Parevardeene-16-16-26-16-16-26. 6. Vardika-20-20-32-20-20-32. The third line, it will be seen, is in every case one and a half the first plus two. Take an example :knnddd nuddi yeNdupeekssis. 14 -Uvuvvwvvvv 03800030x3 8 30 d. 14 -Uv -uv-uv-u-vuknnddi ydrpnnvdllde bheedH nidke 23 --vuvu -uvsumos P3 o 14 - vvvv-uvpnn mtigllu eellur dnaa, 14 nirnyisidenu korte iddre mnnisuvdo aduu 23, | The number of lines in which the second consonant is the same is six. This tells us the verse belongs to the Satpade. Now by counting the number of accents in each line we find that the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th lines have 14 accents; the 3rd and 6th lines have each 23. The verse then is of the Bamene subdivision of the Satpade. The last subdivision of the Matra Vritta is the Areya. Like the Kanda the Areya is a verse of four lines. The 1st and 3rd lines of the Areya verse must have 12 accents each. The number of accents in the 2nd and 4th lines determines the minor subdivision of the Areya to which the verse belongs. The subdivisions are (i.) Geta, where the 1st and 3rd lines have 12 accents, 2nd and 4th have 18. (ii.) Uppa Geta: lst and 3rd lines-12 &c. centa, 2nd and 4th lines--15. (ii.) Sun Geta : 1st and 3rd lines have 12 accents. The 2nd and 4th do not agree in the number of accents. When the line is long enough to require it there is a rest or caesura in the middle. This is called Yete. In the more perfect verse where a rest does occur, the initial consonant of the word following such rest is the same as the initial consonant of the line. This is not an essential, but, like the use of the Antya Pragn, the verse in which it is found is considered more finished and perfect. THE CALENDAR OF TIPU SULTAN. By P. N. PORNAIYA, B.A., YELUNDURU. It may be a matter of surprise to many that which the number of days in the month is deTipu Sultan of Maisur, generally known as an termined is peculiar. A partial explanation is illiterate person, invented a Calendar, differing afforded in the following extract from the preface from the ordinary Muhammadan one, and which to Richardson's Dictionary English, Persian, he always used in officially addressing the various and Arabic :functionaries that served under him. It is not "The Muhammadan year is lunar. The known at what time precisely he introduced his months consist alternately of twenty-nine and calendar, but it is believed by Colonel William thirty days. To the last an intercalary day is Kirkpatrick that he did so, some time between added eleven times in & period of thirty years, January and June 1784 A.D. and these are abounding years. Thirty-two Tipu allowed the week to have the usual years of the Christian are nearly equal to thirtynumber of seven days, but the month was three Muhammadan years." changed, for though the number of them in the The difference will be obvious from the folyear was twelve, yet it differs from both the Euro- lowing table, which shows the Hindu names pean and Hindu month in the number of days corresponding to the months of Tipu's Calendar, that each contains. The principle according to and also the signs of the Zodiac. * Vide Select Letters of Tippu Sultan, by Colonel William Kirkpatrick. London, 1811.

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APRIL, 1873.] Months. 1. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NAMES. Ahmedy Hmdy Behary bhry Ja'fury j`fry .... Daray dry Hashemy h shmy Wasay ws`y Taluy Tnwny Tedy w sy CALENDAR OF Izedy yzdy ..Byaszy byDy Days in each TABLE A. Corresponding Signs of the Zodiac. Hindu months. TIPU 29 Chaitra. Mesha.......al Ahmedy. 30 Vaisakh 30 Jaishthu 29 Ashadha Kataka 29 Sravana Simha... 30 Bhadrapada... Kanya Dzuburjudy 29 Aswuynja Tala Hydery... 30 Kartika Vrishika... 29 Margasirsha.. Dhanussu. 30 Pushya 29 Magha.. 30 Phalgun Colonel Kirkpatrick says:-"! -"Though the foregoing names are not absolutely unmeaning, yet they would not appear to have had any appropriate signification attached to them, with the exception of the first, called by one of the names of Muhammad, and of the eighth or Hydery, which might possibly have been so denominated in honour of the Sultan's father, as Tuluy might likewise have been in allusion to its being the month in which the Sultan himself was born." SULTAN. With respect to the last column in the table, Colonel Kirkpatrick says that the first arrangement was after some time superseded by another; the Sultan having, as there is reason to believe, made a second reform of the calendar in A.D. 1787-88. The latter alteration would not appear to have extended further than to the substitution of new names for the months and years in the place of those first assigned to them. I have said that the principle according to which the number of days is determined is peculiar. If the table be examined, it will be seen that while the last seven months consist of twenty-nine and thirty days alternately, according to the Muhammadan system, in the first five months that rule is not observed. It differs also from the Hindu year, because the months of that always consist of thirty days, or rather tithis (fafer) as they call them. The point of interest in the names of the months is that the initial letter of each denotes its place in the calendar, according to the well Names of the months according to "the subsequent revision." Vrishabha Mithuna... Kumbha... Mina Makara, Rehmany. .Behary bhry .Taqy tqy .Sumry thmry .Ja'fury j`fry .Hydery Hydry .Khusrowy khsrwy Deen dyly .Dzakiry dhkry 20 10 known notation called Ubjud, which assigns a certain numerical power to every letter in the alphabet. There being no single letter to express either eleven or twelve, the first two y Rady rdy .Mahany rbny Baszy added byDy Izedy and yzdy letters of together denote the place of each respectively. in the order of months. Thus 113 (Alif)+(ye)=1+ 10 = 11, and (BE)+(ye) = 2 + 10 = 12. The verse after the first word of which the notation is named, as well as the numerical power assigned severally to the letters composing it, is thus given in Richardson's Dictionary under the word Ubjud. 0+15 3 J 50 s 597 ba 4 10 00 bjd 1234 vai e rii khkhkh Richardson's explanation of the word Ubjud is as follows:-"The name of an arithmetical verse the letters of which have different powers from one to a thousand. This was probably the ancient order of the alphabet." The verse itself is formed by just writing together the letters, in order of the Arabic alphabet, in groups of three or four or more, as in the first instance pleased the whim of the contriver. Each letter has a numerical signification attached to it, as is the case in the Roman system of notation. This Ubjud notation applies only to the series of names first given by Tipu Sultan to the months. The

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114 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [APRIL, 1873. m m D Z dh r z s kh d j b t th n w hy l m q rw G f of thel the first year of Hindu new names given in the subsequent revision and lunar years accord, seven returns of the inpossessed the same property as the old, namely, tercalary or supplementary month are required that of severally indicating the number of in the course of nineteen years. Now from the the year and the order of the month by 36th to the 53rd of the cycle (both inclusive) is virtue of their numerical power. The nota- a period of nineteen years, in the course of tion, however, subsequently used was, as I learn which seven leap years occar, viz. five which from Colonel Kirkpatrick, different from the are clearly ascertained, and two which have been Ubjud. It has been called i Ubtas, an assumed. But, notwithstanding this apparent unmeaning word formed by a combination of the conformity, the two reckonings do not coincide first four letters of the Persian alphabet. By when, according to this rule, they might be the Sultan himself, however, it was called us expected to do so. The reason of this discre(Zar) The notation is this pancy no doubt is that though the months established by Tipu were ordinarily called lunar, they were not strictly so; six of the twelve months of the year consisted of thirty and the other of twenty-nine days each. And therefore the common year of 354 was neither iunar nor solar." The difference between the two schemes con I am sorry I am aot able to give the entire sists in this; in the Ubjud the numerical powers list of the years composing the cycle. The following list however contains the names of the of the letters depend on their orderin the arbitrary seventeen years over which Tipu's adminisverse referred to; whereas in the Ubtus or Zur tration extended; and these are all that I am they depend on the order of the letters in the able to collect from the work referred to. alphabet. The eleventh and twelfth months are indicated here again, as in the former scheme, Yearl Name in Name in Corresponding Correspon ding with by the first two letters of their respective names, Cycle. scheme. cycle. A. D. ra being re + alif = 10 + 1 = 11, and rub Te + be = 10 + 2 = 12. 36 Jebal .. Rubtaz. Subhakrita... 1782-83 37 Zuky ... Sukh . There were also intercalary or supplementary sobhakrita... 1783-84 Uzl 1784-85 months, called by the Sultan (S1) zayad, ad Julo Duraz... Visvavasi ... 1785-86 hika in Sanskrit. As I have not met with Dullo Busd ... Parabhava ... 1786-87 any clue to the principle on which this was Ma Shu Plavanga ... 1787-88 42 Kubk .. Sara ... arranged, I satisfy myself with the bare proof of Kilaka 1788-89 43 Jum Surab ... Saumya ..... 1789-90 its existence. A letter to Kumruddin Khan is Jam Sheta ... Sadharana ... 1790-91 dated 28th Extra-Ahmedy, corresponding with 45 A dam. .Zuburjud Virodbakkrita 1791-92 the 14th of April 1785 A. D., and another 46 Wuly ... Sehr ... Paridhvi ... 1792-93 letter addressed to Barhanuddin on the 23rd 47 Waly .. Sahir ... Pramadicha. 1793-94 48 Kankub. Rasikh. . Ananda ..... 1794-95 April of the same year is dated 8th Regular 49 Kuwakib Shad ... Rakshasa ... 1795-96 Ahmedy. This instance serves as a proof of 50 Yum ... Hirase! Nala 1796-97 the existence of the intercalary month, and war. 51 Dawam. Saz.... Pingala 1797-98 rants the inference that this month always pre- 52 Humd... Shadab . Kalayukti ... 1798-99 ceded the regular month--for what reason does Hamid.. Barish.. Siddharti ... 1799. not appear. I come next to the year. The mode of cal | The remarks regarding the meaning of the culating years is by cycles of 60, as it is with names of the months apply also to those of the Hindus and with all the peoples of Southern years. They have, as before, the property of inIndia except the Muhammadans. The number of dicating the order by their initial letters. For, days is 354. Colonel Kirkpatrick says taking any name at random, say pf (Adam) "It is a known rule that to make the solar the order of it would be according to the Ubjud * The Persian letter being excluded from this scheme as well as from the Ubjud, the Persian letters and are in like manner omitted in both. the second scheme. thi | Krodhi ..... 53

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APRIL, 1873.] SERVICE TENURES IN CEYLON. 115 notation, 45th. Thus ! + + = 1 + 4 + 40 = 45. The corresponding name of the second scheme saj (Dzuburjud) will number the same, according to the Ubtus or Zur notation thus-; + + + + 3 = 20 + 2 + 10 + 5 + 8 = 45. Now taking the two different notations we have merely to substitute letters of those notations to the number we want to indicate. For example, take numbers 57 and 28, which are not in the table given above, or in Col. Kirkpatrick's work. I suppose their names would be according to the first schemeji (nuz) and is (kaza) respectively; and according to the second scheme or the Ubtus notations (sukh) and laj (zukha) respectively. For = u + j = 50 + 7 = 57, and 21st = 3 +; + 1 = 20 + 7 +1 = 28 scheme. Foute=50 + 7 = 577 2nd &j= i + <= 20 + 7 + 1 = 28 scheme. These are not the only names that may be given them, for there may be as many others as there are component parts to 57 and 28-a pleasant algebraical problem! Therefore any names I give may not be those given to them by the Sultan. There is a resemblance between this calendar and thnt in use in Southern India, commonly named "the Malabar" cycle. To the years composing this cycle the Sultan appears to have given new names, as he did to the months of the year. Among several of the Brahmanical secta of Southern India it is still in vogue to have an adhika masa, or extra month, once in the course of thirty months. The numerical order of the years was the same as in the era of the Hejira; and the Sultan was satisfied with the mere change of the appellation. He gave to it the name of "the era of Muhammad," and he sometimes called the same the "Mauludi era." The latter does not seem very applicable, for Mauludi means birth, and the difference between the Prophet's birth and his flight to Medina from Mecca is nearly thirteen years. SERVICE TENURES IN CEYLON. (From the Reports of the Commissioner for 1870 and 1871.) The Service Tenure Ordinance, No. 4 of 1970, Besides the land thus held by the ordinary peahaving for its object the abolition of predial serf. sant proprietors, there were the estates of the dom in the Kandyan Provinces, and the payment, crown, of the church, and of the chiefs. These in lieu of services, of an annual money-rent, was are known as Gabadagam, royal villages,-Vihabrought into operation on the 1st of February ragam and Dewalagam, villages belonging to Bud. 1870, by Proclamation dated 21st January 1870. dhist monasteries and temples (dewala), and The Ordinance requires the Commissioners to Nindagam, villages of large proprietors. These determine the following points : last either were the ancestral property of the (1) The tenure of every service panguwa, whe- chiefs (pravenigam), or were originally royal ther it be Praveni or Maruwena. (2.) The names, villages bestowed from time to time on favourites so far as can be ascertained, of the proprietors and of the court. In these estates, certain portions, holders of each praveni panguwa. (3.) The nature known as Muttetta or Bandara lands, were reand the extent of services due for each praveni tained for the use of the palace, monastery, or panguwa. (4.) The annual amount of money-pay. manor house, while the rest was given out in ment for which such services may be fairly com- parcels to cultivators, followers, and dependents, muted. on condition of cultivating the reserved land, or Here, as generally in oriental countries, the performing various services from the mogu menial king was the lord paramount of the soil, which to mere homage, or paying certain dues, &c. These was possessed by hereditary holders, on the con- followers or dependents had at first no hereditary dition of doing service according to their caste.' title to the parcels of land thus allotted to them. The liability to perform service was not a personal These allotments, however, generally, passed from obligation, but attached to the land, and the father to son, and in course of time hereditary maximum service due for a holding large enough title was in fact acquired... to support an entire family was generally the There were thus two distinct sources whence labour of one male for six months in a year. the claim to service was derived. The right * A panguwa is a farm, allotment, or holding; a praveni panguwa is an hereditary holding; marawena panguwa is defined by the ordinance to be an allotment "held by one or more tenanta-at-will."

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116 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [APRIL, 1873. of the king as lord paramount of the soil, whence originated a strictly feudal system; and the right of the crown, the church, and the chiefs, as landlords, to services in lieu of rentin other words, to a service-rent instead of a money-rent- system closely resembling emphyteusis... The public burdens fell on those who held on the feudal tenure. They guarded the barriers and passes into the hills; they served as soldiers, cut timber for public purposes, and executed public works. To ensure the dae performance of these services, a careful register was kept of every separate holding, and the holdings were placed under the several public departments, the heads of which were responsible to the king for the proper distribution of the labour available for carrying on the public service of the country. The non-feudal tenant, or emphyteuta, if he may be so called, cultivated the land whence the palace, monastery, or menor-house was supplied with corn; he provided domestic officers and servants of every grade, from the seneschal of the palace to the cook-boy of the kitchen at the manor house, and rendered personal service of every kind, for which he was paid wages in land... It is with these two classes of tenants--the tenants of the temples, and the tenants of private proprietors--that the present Ordinance has to denl; and the claim of the temples and proprietors to receive a fair equivalent in the shape of a money-ront in lieu of the services is fully recog. nized. These services are of every imaginable kind-- some simply honorary, some of the most menial and laborious description, the lightest being usu- ally paid most highly, while the heaviest are generally rewarded by enough land to afford only a baro subsistence, and precisely the same services are often paid in the same village at different rates : for instance, for sixty days' service in the kitchen one man will hold an acre of land, an- other two acres, and a third only a few perches. n fact the services have become attached to the land in the course of many generations, according to the pleasure of many landlords, and to the varying necessities of many tenants. Large farms have been bestowed on younger branches of a house, on tho condition of a mere nominal recogai. tion of allegiance. A family of faithful servants has been liberally provided for by a grant of part of an cstnte, in full belief in the continued faithful performance of the customary service. In times of famine or scarcity, starving supplicants have with difficulty obtained from a landlord a small plot of land barely sufficient to maintain life, and, in return for it, have agreed to perform heavy and laborious services. Again, the tenant having originally no right in the soil, some landlords have in times past arbitrarily divided the original al. lotments into two or, sometimes, four portions, requiring for each sub-division the whole service originally required for the entire allotment, thus raising the rents sometimes twofold, sometimes fourfold. The result is that there is no system whatever. The extent of the services has no necessary relation to the extent and value of the holding : in some cases the landowners have been careless and negligent of their interests, and receive less than 5 fair equivalent for the dominium uile of their land; in others the services rendered exceed a fair rent for the land. It fol. lows that to assess the money-value of the existing services would be to continue an arrangement which is unsystematic and opposed to the true interests of the people, being in some cases, as regards the interests of the landowner, wasteful and unprofitable, in others unduly heavy on the tenants; and it is to be remembered that if a money-rent were fixed, based absolutely on the present money-value of the services (if that could be ascertained), it would bring out with such dis. tinctness and prominence the inequalities, irregu. larities, and unprofitableness of the system which has grown up in the course of many generations, that in a short time it would be impossible to resist the inevitable demand for a revision of th3 money-ront assessed in this unequal and unsystematic method... On the estates of the chiefs and large landowners (Nindagam) the services, as already indicated, are of the greatest possible variety. Chiefs and Madiyanselk perform various honorary services. WelAlls tenants cultivate the home farm, accompany their lord on journeys, take their turn on daty at the manor house. Duray tenants carry baggage and the lord's palanquin, while the Wahumpuray carry the palanquins of the ladies of the family, and also provide for the service of the kitchen; and though there is a complete absence of equality and system in the remuneration given for domestic services, all such services are provided for with the utmost care. A chief with Several villages will draw his cook or his bath-boy for two or three months a year from one village from another for four months, from a third for one month, &o., carefully arranging to have one on duty throughout the year. There are the potter to make tiles and supply earthenware; the smith to clean the brass vessels, and repair and make agricultural implements; the chunam-burner to + See Brackenbury's Report on the Land Tenure in Portugal, Pt. I, pp. 176-179.

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APRIL, 1873.] SERVICE TENURES IN CEYLON. 117 supply lime; the dobi or washerman; the mat- weaver (Kinnaraya); and the outcast Rodiya who buries the carcases of animals that die on the estate, and supplies ropes, &c, made of hide and fibres. Others supply pack-bullocks for the transport of the produce of the fields, and for bringing supplies of salt and oured fish from the towns on the coast. The relations between the proprietor and tenants are generally of friendly character, and when the connection has remained unbroken for many generations a strong feeling of attachment exists, and it is to this that may be attributed the readiness with which the proprietors have assented to the adoption of the view propounded by the District Judge of Kandy (Mr. Berwick), that the mere fact of the present holder being a son or heir of the tenant who preceded him, and died in posBession, raises a presumption of praveni, i. e., hereditary title, which presumption is directly opposed to Kandyan tradition. Nevertheless the chiefs and priests have been generally willing to waive all dispute as to the hereditary title, on being asBired of the continuance of the customary services, or the payment, in lien, of a fair rent... The tenants on estates belonging to the Baddhist monasteries keep the buildings in repair, cultivate the reserved fields, prepare the daily offerings of rice, attend the priests on journeys, &c. A remarkable case of religious toleration which has become known in the course of the Service Tenures inquiry is perhaps deserving of mention. The tenants in the village Rambukandana, belonging to the ancient monastery of Ridi Wihare, are all Muhammadans. The service which they render to that establishment is confined to the payment of dues and the transport of produce, &c., and has no connection with the services of the Buddhist Wihare, and their own lebbe or priest is supported by a farm set apart by the Buddhist landlords for that purpose. There are thus Muhammadan tenants performing without reluctance service to a Buddhist monastery, and that monastery freely supporting a priest for its Muhammadan tenants. The head of this monastery has from its foundation been a member of the Tibbotuwwe family. This is the most important of the numerous private livings in Ceylon. When one of these becomes vacant, before one of the family to which it belongs has been ordained, here, as in England, a temporary incumbent is put in, who generally serves as tutor to the young heir. On the Dewalo lands the service is most complicated and peculiar, the part which cach tenant has to take in the annual processions being minutely defined, and it is to this that the popularity of the Dewale service is owing. These processions afford the ordinary villagers the only opportunities for a general gathering, and for taking part in a pageant and a show, and above all it is on these occasions that the social distinctions, to which the Kandyans attach great importance, are publicly recognized..... There is one question connected with the Wihare and Dewale estates which must before long force itself on the consideration of Government. There is no means of ensuring the due application of the rents from these estates to their legitimate purposes. The labour which should be employed on the repair of the ecclesiastical buildings is frequently taken for the erection of private buildings of the priests and lay incumbents, and the dues are often not accounted for. The complaints of misappropriation of the temple property are frequent. Even the land is sometimes sold to ignorant purchasers, and when the services are commuted, this misappropriation, if not checked. will increase, to the serious demoralization of the priests and Basnayakas. If the revenues are not devoted to their original purpose, they should be employed in education or otherwise, for the benefit of the people, and not be appropriated to the personal use of Buddhist priests and Basnayakas. In a village near Badulla, nearly the whole of the land is in the hands of one family, which holds the office of Basnayaka of the Dewale to which the village is said to belong. But the Dewale is in ruins, the processions are not conducted, and the Government gives up its tithe only to enrich a It is necessary to again call attention to this question, as the evil is daily growing greater, and, with its growth, demoralizing the people, and di. minishing the value of the public lands set apart for ecclesiastical purposes. lu the course of the past year a very serious case a.me to the knowledge of the Commissioners. The Dambulu wihara is, as is well known, a shrine held in great reverence * The most celebrated of these processions is the Pershers, which takes place at Kandy in Raald (July-August), commencing with the new moon in that month, and continning till the full moon. It is a Hindu festival in honour of the four deities, Natha, Vishnu, Kataragama (Kandasv&mi), and Pattini, who are held in reverence by the Baddhists of Ceylon u dewiyo who worshipped Gautams, and are seeking to attain NirvAna. In the reign King Kirtisari (A. D. 1747-1780), a body of priests who came over from Siam, for the purpose of restoring the Upsampada ordination, objected to the observance of this Hindu ceremony in Buddhist country. To remove their scruples. the king ordered the Dalada relic of Buddha to be carried thenceforth in procession with the insignia of the four deities nevertheless, the Peraher is not regarded as a Buddhist ceremony. Report for 1870.

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118 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (APRIL, 1873. by the Buddhists, and it is a place of great interest, own pockets. This is only one example out of worthy of being maintained as a historical monu- many; and nothing can be more injurioue, ment, being the only rock-temple of any impor- nothing more demoralizing, than for the people to tance in Ceylon, and possessing painted roof 500 frauds of this kind committed by trustees of which is the best example of Buddhist art in the temple property go unpunished. It is not easy island. To this wibars belong large and valuable | to suggest a remedy for fear of the outcry, "The forests, which should be preserved for supplying Government is supporting Buddhism, &c. &c.".. the necessary timber for the maintenance of the It would be well if this question could be dealt buildings belonging to the wihera, and also for the with merely as 1 matter of good government, benefit of the wihara tenants--to whom the wild untrammelled by the odium theologicum. It is honey, jungle ropes, and pasture for cattle, to be simply the question of preserving for the public found in these forests, are of considerable those public lands at present set apart for religious value. The incumbent of the wihara, without purposes, which, unless closely looked after, will regard to the interests of which he was the gradually become lost to the public altogether. In guardian, sold to a low-country carpenter all the the course of the past year there have been two imvaluable timber in one of the large forests and portant judgments delivered by the Supreme Court, omitted to pay the money into the wihara chest. which it may be useful here to notice. The first is Complaint was made to the Commissioners, but known as the Adam's Peak Case. In 1853 the they had no power to act. They however called Crown relinquished the right to appoint to Buddhist the attention of the ecclesiastical authorities to the offices, but the power of removal was retained... matter, and the incumbent has been called upon If these judgments were publicly known and to pay in to the credit of tho wihara upwards of understood, and if the powers which they declare PS170, probably less than a third of the amount he to exist were systematically exercised, much has received. It is doubtful whether he will pay might be done to check peculation and embezzleeven this. Certainly he will go unpunished. The ment; but it is doubtful whether any real good can people know that their priest has committed the be effected unless some such supervision is greatest crime a Buddhist can commit, for, in exercised over the temple property here as is their language, "he has robbed Buddha." They found necessary in the case of Friendly Societies know also that he has committed a great offence in England. There can be no security against against our laws, having appropriated to himself fraud until the temple lands are placed in charge the property of which he was the trustee. The of a Government officer, at any rate to the extent Buddhist authorities will not seek to remove him, of no lease or agreement being valid unless it be because they cannot act without the aid of our entered in his office, and until all trustees of temCourts. The tenants will not act, because they are plo property are required to send in annually, to afraid to take steps against a man of influence a Government officer, accounts showing the with money at command. Others will not act, revenues, whether in kind or in money, and details because the expenses would come out of their of the expenditure.f ARCHAEOLOGY OF MAISUR. From the Report of the Administration of Mysore for 1871-72. The Province abounds with inscriptions onscriptions, of which the Beguru stone, in the stone or copper, recording royal benefactions and Government Museum at Bengalur, may serve as other public gifts; the historical data derivable a specimen. In others of Jain origin, as in the from which are perhaps the most authentic extant, rock inscriptions of Sravana Belagola, they are while at the same time they throw much light | more like the Lat and old Pali forms. Towards on the earlier forms of the language, and furnish the cast the Grantha character, with some admixother collateral information of considerable in ture, is frequently met with, as in the Kolar terest. But in the case of inscriptions of prior Amma temple. date to the year 1000 of the era of Salivahana, A number of these basanas have been deor 800 years ago, a difficulty presents itself in the ciphered and translated from photographs. A strange and obsolete characters of the writing. catalogue is further being prepared of all inscripThese are found in many cases to resemble the tions to be found in the country, with the view of letters of the Western Cave and old Gujarat in selecting for translation such as appear to be of * See Ind. Antiq., vol. I. p. 189 ffg. + From the Report for 1871.

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APRIL, 1873.] REVIEW 119 most importance, or in greatest danger of deface- the Editor of the Indian Antiquary. The followment by the hand of time. A similar registering stones, with inscriptions of a similar character, is stated to have been made in the reign of have recently been discovered in the Nandidurg Chikka Deva Raja (1672-1704); but the collec- Division,--two stones at Betmangala, which have tion was unfortunately either lost or destroyed been converted into village deities; two large when the Province came under Muhammadan slabs on the site of the ancient city of Aralkotu. rule. near Srinivaspura, probably intermediate between At Sravana Bellagola, famous for its colossal the Sravana Bellagola and Beguru inscriptions ; statue of the Jain god Gomatesvara, there are and a large slab of a more recent date on the site several inscriptions cut in the rock, on the top of old Bidalaru, near Goribidantru. of the smaller of the two hills. The character is Some burrows of considerable dimensions have a very ancient form of Kanarese, fac-similes of also been discovered in the Hassan District, but which have been submitted to Pandits through 1 none have yet been opened. REVIEW THE PROSODY OF THE PERSIANS according to Saif, agree, as Professor Blochmann has hirself had Jami, and other writers. By H. Bloohmann, M.A.- Occasion to observe and point out: although, after Calcutta, 1872. all, Persian poetry, like English, is scanned accord. Professor Blochmann has given a new proof of ing to sound rather than orthography; hence his acurate scholarship, not merely by editing the ear is in reality the best guide. Sir W. Jones Saifi's Prosody and Jami's Qafiyah, but by correct- expressly states (Works, Vol. VI. p. 437, ed. 1799) ly translating and enriching them with his own that the measure of the Leila wa Majnun of notes. "The Prosody of the Persians" is no Hatefy, which enabled him to correct a number of doubt intended for a school book, to be explained lines in it, was embodied in the words in mi. by competent teachers. The Hints and Exercises bus imperare debet. (pp. 94-101) are most excellent, but it is to be feared It is not merely interesting, but proper and insufficient for any, except very bright students, if very necessary, that students should know accuread without a master. The solutions are merely rately to what metre & piece of poetry belongs references to the various metres according to 1 and it may be presumed that the minute way of which the examples given are to be scanned, but marking out the feet with their constituent parts if each example of these metres had itself been hinted at above would materially aid correct fully explained, the scansion of the exercises from scansion, without which the whole science of prothe Gulistan would have been easy to the dullest. sody is nothing. It would not give much A metre, if it is to serve as a model, ought to be trouble to present some idea to Orientals of the mantreated nearly in this way --The feet of which it ner of scanning by means of long and short marks, consists are to be written as usual, and also the and to show them that numerous as their feet are, line or lines to be scanned. Beneath this the feet they have all their equivalents in Latin and Greek are to be written with their constituent parts 8a. prosody. Perhaps it would be sufficient to give bab, watad, facilah, properly marked as moved or those only which correspond to the eight original quiescent, and the line to be written under them feet of the Arabs, thus:--Bacchius, iambo-sponexpressly for the purpose of scansion; dislocating deus, iambo-anapaestus, trochaeo-spondeus, amthe words to suit the feet, omitting the letters phimacrus, spondeo-iambus, anapaesto-iambus, and elided, and writing those which must be pro- Bpondeo-trochaeus. nounced and scanned. Something of this kind is As far as Europeans are concerned, Professor done only in one instance (on p. 6). This manner Blochmann has supplied a real want, since the will perhaps not be considered too pedantis if it few works which have been written on this subbe remembered how intricate scanning appears to ject are now mostly out of print, and he has done beginners, and that writers on scansion are on a very great service to all the lovers of the sweet some points themselves like doctors who dis- tongue of Eran.-E.R.

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120 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. ASIATIC SOCIETIES. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, November and Decembeer 1872. Near Humayun's tomb a short way from Dehli is that of Jehanara Banu Begum, which, says Mr. F. Cooper, "is deserving of respect on account of the virtues of her whose ashes it covers. She was celebrated throughout the East for her wit and beauty, and her name will ever adorn the page of history as a bright example of filial attachment and heroic self-devotion to the dictates of duty, more especially when viewed in contrast with the behaviour of her sister Roxanara, who, by aiding the ambitious designs of Aurangzib, enabled him to dethrone Shah Jehan. The amiable and accomplished Jehanara not only supported her aged father in his adversity, but voluutarily resigned her liberty and resided with him during his ten She years' imprisonment in the fort of Agra. did not long survive her father, and there are strong suspicions that she died by poison. Her tomb is of white marble, open at the top, and at the head is a tablet of the same, with a Persian inscription inlaid in black marble letters." The following is from the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal: Princess Jahanara was the second daughter of Shahjahan by Mumtaz Mahall (the Taj-bibi'), and was born on Wednesday, 21st Cafar, 1023 [23rd March, 1614]. She is called in Muhammadan his. tories Mustatab Begum, or Begum Cahib,t and died at Dihli on the 3rd Ramazan, 1092 [6th September, 1681, A. D.], in her sixty-eighth year. Like many of the imperial princesses, she was not married. She disliked her younger brother Aurangzib. Her numerous charities gained for her a good name. Regarding her death, the Maisir i Alamgiri says "On the 7th Ramazan, His Majesty received a report that the angelic queen of the angels of the world of good and pious deeds, Jahanara Band Begum, had died at Dihli on the 3rd. She was buried in the courtyard of the mausoleum of Shaikh Nizamuddin Aulia, where she had before built a tomb for herself. His Majesty [Aurangzib] was much afflicted by the death of his elder sister, and ordered that the naubat (music at sunrise, &c.) should not be played at Court for three days." The inscription is hw lHy lqywm bGyr sbzh npwshd khsy mzr mr khh qbr pwsh Grybn hmyn gyh bs st lfqyr@ lfny@ jhn p. 108. Guide to Dehli, So also Bernier in the beginning of his work. He gives a long chapter of on-dits and court-scandal about her. [APRIL, 1873. ar mryd khwjgn chsht bnt shh jhn pdshh Gzy thr llh brhnh snh 1092 He is the Living, the Lasting! Let no one cover my lonely grave With gold or with silver brocade: Sufficient for me is the cover of turf Which God for the poor has made. The poor, the perishable, Jahandra, the disciple of the Chisht Saints, I daughter of Shahjahan Padishih i Ghazi-May God enlighten his evidence! A.H. 1092. The verse contains an allusion to the practice of the Muhammadans to cover the tombs of saints with costly cloths, or at least with a white sheet, as may still be seen in many dargahs. J. W. B. Martin, Esq., communicated the following: At the village of Barantpur, in Zila' Bhagalpur, there is being built at present a shrine, at which immense numbers of Hindus assemble during the Durga puja, to offer up kids, &c., to Chandi, the supposed goddess of the place. At this place, a long time ago, were found a few black stones, a carving of a woman rather larger than life, a figure of a warrior on what appears to be a tiger and is called by the natives Budhai (this figure is rather damaged), and a few stones such as were let in as threshold stones in grand native buildings of ancient date. On one of the latter is an inscription. Mr. John Christian has kindly translated it for me. The characters are what they here call Debachar and Mithilachar. On my inquiring from the villagers if they knew anything of the antecedents of the place, I managed to get a little information, which I add. In the old days, when the former shrine was in its glory, a Musalman encampment was formed to the north of Barantpur, and the troops therein were under the command of a powerful general. This general one day, being excited by drink, determined to humble the pride of the goddess and disgrace the religion of the Hindus, and ordered his darwan to go and ask the hand of the goddess Maheswari in marriage. She, guessing that their intention was merely to disgrace her by so mean a union, and knowing that her people were unable to cope in war with the Mughuls pretended to consent to the union, but proposed certain condi tions, which were that the Mughuls should in one night, before cockcrow, make a fort of certain To which also the renowned Mu'inuddin i Chishti of Ajmir belongs. He was looked upon as the patron of the Imperial family.

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APRIL, 1873.] CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 121 dimensions and a hundred tanks in its vicinity, and should offer a black kid at her shrine. The fort was made, ninety-nine tanks were dug, and the hundredth tank was nearly completed; the kid was being led towards that shrine, in order to be ready to be offered on the completion of the hundredth tank, when the goddess, transforming herself into a cock, crew. The conditions not having been completed, the marriage was not performed. The Mughuls, however, frightened at her power, fled from this portion of the country. The fort allud. ed to I have seen, as also the tanks; the fort is situated near the village of Uti. The tanks, although I have not counted ninety-nine, exist in great numbers, but appear to have been dug merely to obtain earth for making the earthwork of the fort, which extends over about one square mile of ground. About the centre of the oblong-shaped site is a spot very much higher than any other portion of the fort. There are no legends which explain when or why this shrine was neglected as a place of worship, but it is quite clear that for a long time such was the case; for comparatively lately the stones I have described were dug up, and a Goala built a shed over them, and from this time all castes of natives have continued to worship Mahesvari there, under the name of Chandi. From the first Goala family which looked after this shrine, sixteen hundred families now exist in the villages adjacent to Barantpur. These Goalas are called Debahar, the exact meaning of which is not known, but it is only a man of this class who can attend to the duties of this shrine. This class of Goala did not exist till the stones were discovered, nor do they exist, as far as I know, in any other part of India. I should here tell you that the goddess or figure of the woman is only half visible, the natives being afraid to unearth it. To the south-west of the place where the goddess stands is an immensely deep, perfectly round tank, from which, rumour says, all the water used for the shrine was taken. The whole of the land round is high, but the natives decline to allow it to be dug. Inscription on a granite door-frame found in Baraptpur, March 1872 : The conquering Sarba Singha Deba, who is adorned with all good qualities, the blessed of Mahesvari, the joy-bestowing moon of the lotus lineage of Budhesa.' CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEA. ON PROF HOERNLE'S THEORY OF THE | page of any drama which does not clearly prove GENITIVE POST-POSITIONS. this. In my opinion it is not possible to weld Sir, The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Ben- into one all post-positions of the modern languages, gal (Part I. No. 2.--1872) contains four essays of as Prof. Hoernle does. As for the genitive postProf. Hoernle's "in aid of a Comparative Grammar | positions in the Bangali and Oriya languages, it is of the Gaurian languages." The greatest interest easy to prove that Prof. Hoernle is in error. He attachos to the second essay (pp. 124-144), in derives them from a Prakrit word kerakd or kerika, which Prof. Hoernle endeavours to prove that the which he asserts to be only found in the MrichchhaSansksit participle krita is, in one form or katikd, and even there only about fourteen other, the original of the genitive post-positions in times. This sweeping assertion, twice repeated, the modern Aryan languages of India. Prof. is at variance with fact. I have noticed thirtyHoernle no doubt shows a considerable amount of eight passages where this word occurs in the acumen, but it is unfortunate that his acumen is. Mrichchhakatikd, viz. (ed. Stenzler) p. 4, 3, mama not supported by a more thorough knowledge of kerakena; p. 21, 21, attanakelik&e; 37, 13; palakethe Prakpit language. Thus (at p. 154) he in- laam; 88, 3, attakerakam; 53, 20, vessajanakerako; stances several times a Prakpit word 'bhramarako', 63, 16,ajjuakerao; 64, 19, ajjassa kerako; 65, 10, tassa and apparently is unaware that some of his inter- kerao; 65, 11, attakeraar; 68, 11, amhakerakam; 74, pretations, which he believes to be new, are very 8, attanakeraketti; 88, 27, attanakeraketti ; 90, 14, old and have been refuted long ago. Every Pri. mama keria; 95, 6,-keriae ; 96, 21, kassa kelake; 96, krit scholar will be struck by the assertion (at p. 22,-kelake; 97, 3,-kelake; 100, 18, kassa kerakam 141) that the Prekfit of the plays is founded upon 100, 20, aijachaludattaha kelake; 104, 9, appano the Satras of Vararuchi. On the contrary, it is a kerikar; 112, 10, kelake; 118, 17, attarakelake; well known and often discussed fact that the 119, 5, beppakelake; 122, 14, mama kelak&do; 122, Prakrit of the plays is far from being the same as 15, mama kelikdim ; 130, 10, attamakelakehin ; 132, that taught by Vararuchi, and there is scarcely a 4, mama kelake ; 132, 16, mama kelakae ; 133,2, The name of this general is said to have been 'All Khan, and his speedy retreat has given rise to a proverb used in this part of the country. If person is unsuccessful in an undertaking, people say, "Wah, Al Khan ki karnt hai."

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122 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. mama kelakam: 139, 16, attanakelaka; 146, 16, mama kelakam; 152, 6, tavassinie kelaka; 153, 9, ajjacharudattassa kerakaim, 164, 3, attanakelikae; 164, 8, mama kelikae; 167, 3, attanakelikae; 167, 21, mama kelika; 173, 9, ajjassa kelake. Among all these thirty-eight passages I cannot find in Prof. Stenzler's edition the one alluded to by Professor Hoernle where a form ppakelaka is said to occur. Prof. Hoernie doubtless alludes to p.119,5,but all the MSS. have there bappakelake,as given in Stenzler's edition. Professor Stenzler remarks in a note that the Calcutta edition has pyakelake (sic!), which is translated by 'prakrita. Now it must be remembered that from this very form ppakelaka, which does not really exist, Professor Hoernle derives the whole meaning of keraka itself, and that all his arguments as to the meaning of keraka are taken from this imaginary word. This alone would be sufficient to invalidate the deductions of Professor Hoernle. But besides this, keraka, it is true, does not occur so often in any other play as in the Mrichchhakatikd; but there are nevertheless several examples of it. It is found twice in the Sakuntalam (ed. Chezy) p. 114, 1; bhattake tava kelake sampadam mama jivide; and p. 152, 12, mama kerake udae; also Malavika. p. 23, 9 (ed. Tullberg), parakeram tti karia; Malatimddhava (ed Calc. 1866), p. 104, 12, tassa jjevva keraassa attano sarirassa; Mudrdrakshasa, p. 9, 12 (ed. Calc. 1831), attano jjevva keraassa Dhammabhaduassa gharam hodi; and in Hala (ed, Weber) A 17,-maha mandabhainte keram. There is not the slightest reason for the supposition of Professor Hoernle that the use of this word was "slang:" it is employed even by the Sutradhara, Mrichchh. 4, 3, who in all probability was a Brahman, and on the other hand, the police officers in Sak. p. 110, 5, who certainly belong to the "slang-people," do not use kelaka, but its Sanskrit equivalent kiya. Nor is there an adjective noun kerika: keraka forms a regular feminine kerikd, and wherever kerikd occurs it is of course in connection with a feminine: conf. Mrichchh. 21, 21; 90, 4; 95, 6; 104, 9;167, 21; and in Mrichchh. 132, 16; 139, 16, kelaka must be corrected into kelikd. Professor Hoernle thinks keraka has its origin in the Sanskrit participle krita. This opinion was expressed long ago by Professor Hoefer in his paper De Prakrita Dialecto (Berlin, 1836, p. 35), and Professor Lassen in his Institutiones Linguae Prakriticae, p. 118 (conf. p. 247 and Appendix, p, 58) has proved beyond all doubt that this interpretation cannot be adopted. There are but very few, and even those few most doubtful examples, in which a Sanskrit ri has changed into a Prakrite; and even if we admit the fact, krita would never become kera, but only keta. [APRIL, 1873. Now Prof. Lassen has given the right interpretation in deriving it from the Sanskrit karyam, which accounts for all the facts, and has been adopted by Prof. Weber (Hala, p. 38) as in accordance with the laws of the Prakrit language. In the principal Prakrit dialect of the plays the substantive karyam, which originally was a part. fat. pass., generally changes into kajjam, and is then used here and there in the same sense as keram. Thus for instance, Ratnavali (ed. Calc. 1871, p. 20, 12): jai pathiadi na bhumjiadi ta mama edina na kajjam i.e. "therefore I had nothing to do with it," "it does not concern me;" Mudraraksh. (ed. Calc. 1831, p. 9, 2):-panamaha jamassa chalane kim kajjam devehim annehimh i.e. "what have you to do with other gods P" "what do other gods concern you ?" In the Pali language 'kichcham' is employed quite in the same way as the Prakrit 'kajjam. 'Several examples are given by Mr. Childers in his excellent Pali Dictionary (s. v. kichcho). The same signification is found in keram, Malav. 23, 9, where the learned and accurate Shankar P. Pandit (p. 28,2) ought to have writtten with the best MSS.: .: parakeram tti karia. The word 'parakeram' is here equivocal; the sentence means as well "because it belongs to another" as "because another ought to do so." Like artham and nimittam, so we see keram used in Hala, A 17: maha mandabhainie keram, "for the sake of me an unfortunate girl," and also kajjar 'in Mudrara. 39, 11: annanam kunai kajjam, i.e. "it (the bee) does it for the sake of others." Thus 'kajjam" and 'keram' are in every respect identical. Later, kera' was changed into a mere simple adjective noun meaning "belonging to," and then assumes the Prakrit affix 'ka, so that parakereka and attanake. raka or attakeraka answer to the Sanskrit parakiya and dimakiya, Professor Hoernle believes that in some of his examples keraka has become a sort of affix. If this be true it ought not to be inflected as it really is. One instance like Mrichchh. 38, 3: ajjassa attakerakam edam geham, might have warned him. The use of keraka nowhere differs, even in the slightest, from that of all other adjective nouns: all the cases of keraka are found except the dative and vocative, the want of which need not be explained; even the genitive occurs: Mudrar, 9, 12; Malatim: 104, 12; and the plural is found in Mrichchh. 122, 15; 180, 10; 152, 6; 153,9. Like all the other adjective nouns, keraka has masculine, feminine, and neuter; indeed it is often perfectly pleonastic; but there is noth ing extraordinary in that, it being quite in accordance with the Prakrit of the plays. People of lower condition like a fuller and more individual sort of speech and to emphasise their own dear selves.

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CORRESPONDENCE, &c. APRIL, 1873.] Thus we see very often "nija" used, where it might as well be omitted; for instance Urvast (ed. Bollensen) 68, 111, 126, and Urv. 31: niasarire, and Mudrar. 94, 8: aham piam gehar gamissam the word "nija" is used quite in the place of the pronoun "mama." The participle "gada" is frequently employed instead of a case, e.g. Urv. 21, 13:-uvvasigadam ukkantham vinodedu bhavam; or Sdk. 78, 15: taggadena ahilasena. Not a whit different from the use of keraka is that of sandha, e. g. Urv. 21, 8:-kasanamanisilavattasanaho adimuttaladamandavo; conf. 84k. 123, 5; Malav. 5, 9; and so of many other adjective nouns. Prof. Hoernle gives an example of how he thinks the genitive in the Bangali language has originated. He maintains that the genitive of santana was originally santana kerako. We must stop here. I have shown above that all the cases of keraka occur, and that it is always inflected. It is utterly impossible therefore to adopt a form santana kerako, Prof. Hoernle might as well say santana kerake or kerakam or kerakassa, &c. This only depends on the preceding or following substantive and the sense of the whole passage. We have no right whatever to insist upon any special case or a noninflected form. For the same reason, all the other derivations as santanakera, santanaera, &c. are mere phantoms. The word keraka is far too modern to undergo so vast and rapid a change as to be curtailed to simple "er". The singular participle kulu, in Mrichchh. 31, 16, mentioned by Prof. Hoernle, is not a participle but the regular imperative. The termination ra is certainly peculiar to the Prakrit language. Prof. Weber (Hala, p. 68) quotes a good many real Prakrit adjective nouns in ira, to which we may add "uvvellira" (Urv. 75). This might have contributed to such a curtailing as this, but Prof. Hoernle ought not to have overlooked the fact that in the more modern dialects keraka is always changed into kelaka. As for the other languages I do not intend to go into details here. But to show that Prof. Hoernle's deductions are not more probable, I point out the Gujarati postpositions. He derives them from a form kunno or kinno, which he supposes to have been a later or more vulgar form of the participle krita. Now we know from Vararuchi, XII. 15, that kunai is a poetical form, and not applicable in prose passages: it occurs often in the poems of the Saptasati, but never in the dramas, except in verse: conf. Ratnavali, p. 19, 1; Nagananda, 29, 5; Mudrdr. 39, 11; conf.Prataparudriya(Madras, 1868), p. 120, 11; Pingala, v. 3. Nowhere is a participle kunno or kinno found, and if it were it would not be modern and vulgar, but ancient and highly Indian Antiquary, Vol. I. p. 247. 123 poetical. I cannot therefore indulge with Prof. Hoernle in the hope that he has succeeded in proving beyond doubt that the participle krita is, in one form or other, the original of the genitive postpositions; on the contrary, I believe that his theory cannot be sustained. London, February 1873. Dr. R. PISCHEL. BHAVABHUTI'S QUOTATION FROM THE RAMAYANA. To the Editor of the Indian Antiquary. SIR,-In his essay on the Ramayana, Prof. Weber gives the verses quoted by Bhavabhati in his Uttara Rama-Charita from the last chapter of the Balakanda of the Ramayana, and points out the corresponding verses in Schlegel's and the Bombay and Serampore editions, which resemble Bhavabhati's only in substance. In Gorresio he says, there is nothing corresponding to them. But about the end of the chapter immediately previous to the one to which Prof. Weber refers us, there are these same verses in Gorresio, identical in all respects with those quoted by Bhavabhuti except apparently in two small words which are eva (in the last line of the first verse) and tu (in the last line of the second verse) in Bhavabhuti, and abhi and hi in Gorresio. But the difference in the case of the first word at least is rather a difference between Gorresio and the Calc. edn. of the. Uttara-Rama-Charita, and not between Gorresio and Bhavabhuti, for in an old MS. of the play existing in the Elphinstone College Library I find abhi instead of eva. But while Gorresio's edition agrees almost thoroughout with Bhavabhuti in this point, there is a material difference in another. Bhavabhuti quotes the verses as from the last chapter of the Bala-Charita, but in Gorresio they occur in the last but two, while in Schlegel and the Bombay edition the corresponding verses, though considerably differing in language, occur in the last. On comparing the several editions, one finds that Bharata's departure to the country of his maternal uncle, which is despatched in five verses in the other editions, in Gorresio is expanded into almost a chapter, of which it forms the first 44 verses. The remaining four verses of this chapter occur in the other editions after the five verses about Bharata. The last chapter, again, in Gorresio, which describes Bharata's doings in the country of his uncle, and his sending a messenger to his father, is wanting in Schlegel and the Bombay edition. And since these additional chapters contain no new incident except the sending of the + Gorresio's Ramayana, Vol. I. p. 298.

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124 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [APRIL, 1873. messenger (which has very little to do with the Dravidian numerals, at least up to 10, are original story), they are probably interpolations. and not taken from the Sanskrit, a riew which, RAMKRISHNA G. BHANDARKAR. regarding 5 and 10, had been called in question by a well-known scholar. How clearly the Dravidians SERPENT-WORSHIP. are marked out by their numerals! That the SIR.-In his Essay on " Vasta-yaga and its Penge Porjas, Tagara Porjas, and Durwa Gonds bearing upon Serpent and Tree Worship in India," use Uriya words for some of the lower numbers published in the Journal of the Bengal Asiatic is curious indeed, and the cause of their doing so Society (Part I. No. 3--1870), Babu Pratap Chan deserves thorough inquiry. Is there any unsurdra Ghosha, B.A., asserted that no templo has mountable objection to the supposition that the ever been raised by Aryans for the sole worship Dravidian numbers known to be used by them are of the Serpent in India, though the Hindus enter the remnant of a complete set P or that by a more tain a kind of respect for the allegorical characters intimate intercourse with the tribes the original Ananta and Vasuki. Now in Prayag (Allahabad) an series may still be found to exist among them ? It ancient temple still stands dedicated solely to the may have been necessary for the tribes to adopt worship of the Ndga Vasuki. Perhaps it is the only some numbers from their neighbours, who by way one of its kind in the N. W. Provinces, for I have of intercourse learned to know and use a few of have seen none elsewhere, not even in Benares. theirs, but did not care to acquire and use all. It is called by natives Raja Vasuk or Dusadowmddh. Concerning the Kois and Selliya Porjas, I sbould The spot is associated with several legendary like to know whether their having borrowed some traditions, one of which is that Brahma, in ages Telugu words is a fully established fact P The sogone by, performed there the sacrifice of a thousand called Telugu words may be as original with them horses, -hence its sacredness. The temple is as with the Telugus, and prove that the two tribes beautifully situated amidst a grove of trees, once lived in a more favourable position in union overlooking the Ganges, which flows just under with their kinsmen, the Telugus, and also with it. The scenery is charming. It is a massive the other large Dravidian tribes. It is interestbuilding on an elevated terrace, and looks quite ing to observe that the expression for "one" in new, for we learn that a hundred years ago it Koi is orrote, in Togara Porja--vakat, in Teluguwas all repaired, and the pakka stone ghat under it okati, the Koi being next to the root. The tom constructed by the millionaire of Daraganj, a (another form of om, the first part of "nine" in detached village of Allahabad lying on the bank Koi aud Teluga) does not appear in other dialects of the river. The image of the Naga Vasuki is before 19. carved out of a black stone set in the front wall of With reference to Dravidian derivations, I take the temple, and is about a foot and a half high. It is the liberty to state the Dravidian rule that a noun neatly sculptured as a hooded snake standing erect may be formed by simply lengthening the verbal when enraged. There are other idols of less note. root; the inverse process would be against the A large fair is held here on Nagapanchami, to spirit of the language. On this rule restu the which many of the Hindus from Allahabad and derivation of ndlu, ndiku (Koi nalur, Darwa Gond neighbouring villages come, to secure the double ndir, Togara Porja--ndlu, Telugu-ndlugu, ndgu). merit of bathing in the sacred stream and wor. The root nal, to be lovely, is very common with the shipping the serpent-god on the auspicious Southern Dravidians; a root akin to it is nat, to occasion. The temple is resorted to by every be fragrant. Both roots have been adopted by the pilgrim to Praydg, with whom it is a belief that Aryas, as a study of the words beginning with the merit of bathing in the sacred confluence their letters in a Sanskrit Dictionary will show. of Ganga and Jamuna is not complete until he (Some of those words are to be referred to the visits the temple of the king of Serpents. Pilgrims Dravidian root nad, to be erect, to be planted; de to other sacred places in India take Ganges water L=1.) from this place only, as it is considered purer F. KITTEL Merkara, 25th March 1873. than elsewhere in Praydg. KAGINATH. THE GUJARAT LION. Sirsa, Allahabad, 2nd December 1872. It is erroneous to suppose that the Kathi wad (Gujarat) Lion is maneless, although in the speci. NOTE ON DRAVIDIAN NUMERALS. mens I have seen the mane has been consider. I have read with much interest the remark onably shorter and of lighter colour than that of the the note concerning ancient Dravidian numerals African species. One that I shot, supposed to (Ind. Ant. II. 97). It corroborates the view that the have been eight years old from its containing that

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APRIL, 1873.] MISCELLANEA. 125 is a dos a number of lobes in its liver, had the hair covering the back of the head and neck not more than a few inches long. The dimensions of this animal taken as it lay dead on the ground were as fol. lows:Length from nose to tip of tail...... 8' 10" of head and body alone...... 511" ,, of tail ......................... Height at shoulder ...................... Girth of neck ............................. - chest ..........................4' 1" fore-arm .................... Length of hair on mane ............... 5" In appearance its colour is very much like that of a camel or a female nilgae, and I have on one occasion, when at a distance, actually mistaken a lion for the latter animal. From its colour it derives the name by which it is known in most parts of Gujarat, "Untia-Bag" or "Camel-coloured tiger." In the Gir however it is always called "Sawaj," a name that I do not think is known out of Kathiawad. The male is rather darker than the female and is a little heavier about the head and shoulders, the female being very much the same shape as the common tiger. Their habits are somewhat similar to those of the tiger. They always travel at night, leaving their daily restingplace about sunset. Their first visit is generally to the water, after which they wander about in search of food, often going many miles over hill and dale in their nightly peregrinations. In pasing from one favourite resting place to another they generally make use of the best roads the country affords, and I have often met their footmarks going for miles along the road I have been myself traversing; and if one did happen to travel in that country on a fine moonlight night, I can imagine nothing more likely to occur than a chance rencontre with one of these forest-kings. They feed chiefly on nilgae, sambar, and wild hog, a single blow of their paw generally sufficing to break the back of the largest animal. They sometimes commit considerable depredations on the herds of buffaloes that are taken into the Gir for grazing. Owing to the great heat, the cattle are generally allowed to wallow in the mud and lie under trees during the hottest part of the day; and at night they are driven out to graze. As a rule they keep together, in which case they are never disturbed by the lion; but if by chance & sick one should lag behind, or should any wander away to a distance from the rest of the herd, the lion, if there be one near, is sure to bag it, how ever big and powerful it may be. As long as the herd keeps together, however, there is no fear, as the lion dare not attack. If the kill be made early in the evening and the lion be hungry, he will at once commence eating it, but will always leave it about daylight and go and rest for the day at some secluded spot in the neighbourhood, either down near the water in the shade of karanda and other trees, or, what is perhaps more common, he will go on the top of some neighbouring hill where he may get a cool breeze, and where he lies out in the open under the shade of a big stone or, when procurable, of a large banyan tree. When disturbed he does not slink away like a tiger or panther, but walks or runs upright without any attempt at concealment. Being very nearly the same colour as the ground and of the scorched leafless trees with which these hills are covered in the hot weather, it is very difficult to see him before being seen oneself; and this generally happens, owing to the frequent absence of undergrowth in these jungles before the sportsman gets within range. I have never heard an authentic instance of an unwounded lion attacking a man, but when wound. ed I should say that their ferocity would fully equal that of the tiger. It is a curious fact that not a tiger or a bear exists in a wild state in the whole of Kathiawad. Panthers however are very numerous in the Gir as well as in other parts of the country. As far as I know from my own experience and from inquiries I have made, I am of opinion that there are not more than fifty lions in the whole country. The female generally has two cubs, but probably, as is the case with other animals of the kind, there are three born-it being supposed that the firstborn is always devoured by the mother. Capt. H. Trotter, R.E., in the Report of the G.T. Survey, 1871-72. A HUMAN SACRIFICE. It is the belief of all Orientals that hidden treasures are under the special guardianship of supernatural beings. The Singhalese however divide the charge between demons and cobra capellas. Various charms are resorted by those who wish to gain the treasureg. A pujd is to sufficient with the cobras, but the demons require & sacrifice. Blood of a human being is the most important, but, . As far as it is known, the Kappowas have hitherto confined themselves to a sacrifice of a white cock, combining its blood with their own, drawn by a slight puncture in the hand or foot. A Tamil has however improved on this, as our readers will see by the following case, now in the hands of the Justice of the Peace. Some kulis of Agravatte were led to believe that a vast treasure of gems was secreted somewhere in the neighbourhood, and consulted their Kodangt on the subject; he heartily joined in the

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126 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [APRIL, 1873. project of searching for the gems, and undertook a few hundred yards of the town, is the sacred to invoke the demon in charge, and point out the tank, full of sacred fish," where the founder of exact locality where the gems were lying. For the Sikh religion, Baba Nanak, is said to have this purpose he made an 'Anganam' composed of rested during one of his long pilgrimages 300 ingredients supposed to produce a magic varnish, years ago, and struck with the palm of his hand a which when rubbed on a betel-leaf would show rock whence immediately burst forth a capital the locality of the treasure, and allow of the stream which has never ceased to flow. Visitors Kodangi having a personal interview with his are shown the impress on the north wall of the Satanic Highness. In these invocations it is tank of his five fingers, and this gives rise to the always customary for the priests to go into fits, name by which it is commonly known, Punja which, from being feigned, often become (unin- Sahib. tentionally) real. In this case the Kodangi ap- Sportmen must beware of fishing within a cor. pears to have beer uuusually favoured by the tain distance of this tank, or they will find them. Devil, who revealed to him all secrets, including selves in difficulties, the fish in and around it the fact that the sacrifice of the firstborn male of being religiously dedicated to the memory of the a human being was the only means of attain pious Guru ! ing the coveted treasure. This revelation was They will not however be disappointed by the Bo explained by the Kodangi to his three part- prohibition, for within half a mile of the town runs ners, one of whom having a firstborn son,' at a stream where excellent fishing can be obtained. once objected (blood was here stronger than By the side of this and other brooks water-cresses avarice), and withdrew from the co-partnership. grow in great abundance. A few ferns are also to The other three were determined on making their be found near the numerous flour-mills which are fortunes (!) and again consulted the oracle, when turned by the smaller channel or "kuttas" falling the Kodangi insisted on a human sacrifice as the into the larger stream at the bottom of the valley. only mode of obtaining the riches. The same Following its course for three or four miles till it evening the firstborn of the objecting party was joins the river Haru, the sportsman will not fail missing. He at once informed the Superintendent to bring home a capital dish of young Marsir, of the estate, and search was made for the boy. The ruins of some old Muhammadan buildings The police were informed, and Inspector Davids as well as the tonb of one of the Queens of the and two constables proceeded to the spot and Emperor Jehongir, are to be seen at the north side apprehended the Kodangi and another on suspi- close beneath the hill on which the shrine stands; cion. Next day the poor boy was found in a bush for this little valley with its neighbouring garden with his throat cut, and every appearance of the of Wah was always a favourite resting-place of the blood having been taken to ensure Old Nick's' Mughul Emperors during their annual migrations grace. One of the partners has disappeared, and to Kashmir. So recently as A. D. 1809, the hills he is supposed to have been the cut-throat. The to the south formed the boundary of the Kabul case is adjourned till the apprehension of the dominions in this quarter of Hindustan. Wah absconding party. This shows & depravity derives its name from an exclamation said to have amongst the Tamils not hitherto known to the been attered by the Emperor Akbar on first seeing planters.--Ceylon Times, its beauty, "Wah! Wah!" From the Trunk Line a good broad road turns off near the town to Haripur and Abbottabad, disHASSAN ABDAL. tant 24 and 41 miles respectively. Travellers from Hassan Abdal is a small town of less than 5,000 the south would however find it preferable and inhabitants, exactly halfway between Rawal Pindi shorter to turn off for Hazarah at Kala Serai, 8 miles and Atak (28 miles from each). south, near to which is the site of the ancient Prettily situated near the base of a range of hills, Taxila occupied by Alexander's army upwards of on the crest of which stands the white shrine of 2000 years ago. the Kandahari Saint, Hassan Abdula-or "Baba Coins, pieces of sculpture, heads, and other Wali," as he was generally called, it looks down relics have been occasionally disinterred from many upon a small fertile valley, through which meander feet beneath the surface, and the Lahor Museum several small rivulets shaded by the weeping now contains several figures in plaster of decided willow, oleander, mulberry, and shisham trees. Greek origin, which were obtained from this site Near the source of these streams, which is within by the Civil authorities.-Indian Public Opinion.

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MAY, 1873.] AUTHORSHIP OF THE RATNAVALI ON THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE RATNAVALI. BY G. BUHLER, PH. D. R. FITZ EDWARD HALL, in his introduction to the Vasavadatta, has brought forward various arguments to show that the king named in the Ratnavali as its author is not, as Professor H. H. Wilson supposed, King Sriharshadeva of Kashmir, but Sriharsha of Kanoj, otherwise called Harshavardhana, and that, consequently, the play dates, not from the 12th, but from the 7th century A. D. The substance of his argumentation is this. While several commentators on the Kavyaprakasa, viz. Vaidyanatha, Na gesa, and Jayarama, state, with reference to Mammata's words, "Dhavaka and others re-. ceived wealth from Sriharsha and others," that Sriharsha or King Sriharsha paid Dhavaka highly for composing and selling to him the Ratnavali, another scholiast, Sitikantha, substitutes Ban a's name for D havaka's. There are strong reasons for supposing that B an a rather than Dhavaka is the correct reading in the passage from Ma mmata, and the real name of the poet who wrote the Ratnavali for Sriharsha. For, firstly, no poet called Dhavaka is mentioned in any of the collections of elegant extracts' accessible (to Dr. Hall), while Bana is well known. Secondly, a stanza from the Ratnavali is found, word for word, in Bana's Harshacharita. It is certain that the verse is not an interpolation in either of the two works, and "downright plagiarism of one respectable author from another is unknown." Thirdly, we know for certain that Bana was patronised by, and even an intimate friend of, a king called Sriharsha, whose history he wrote in the Harshacharita. This Sriharsha is the same as Harshavardhana, the cotemporary of Hiwen Thsang, who lived in the beginning of the 7th century.' Though the force of Dr. Hall's arguments is undeniable, and I, for one, have always been inclined to accept his conclusion, still many 'conservatives' will object to it, because tradi P. 15 seq. To these may be added Nrisimha T hakkura, who says: Dhava kandma kavih svakritim ratnavalim nama natikim vikriya sriharshan&mno rajnah sakald bahutaram dhanamavipeti purana vida udaharanti. Nrisimha quotes N&g esa and can hardly be called an independent witness. 127 tion seems at least to be strong on the side of Dhavaka, and weak on that of Bana. I say advisedly that it seems to be strong on Dhavaka's side, as I think it highly probable that the three Pandits adduced by Dr. Hall are not independent witnesses. They belong apparently to one and the same, viz. the Benares-Maratha, school. Besides, Dr. Hall has very justly pointed out how reckless modern Pandits are in repeating, without verification, statements or passages which they have read. It might further be urged that dh () for (a) v, and (vaka) for n (T) are not uncommon clerical mistakes. But I am now enabled to bring forward further direct traditional evidence tending to weaken the story about Dhavaka. I have lately obtained a copy of a commentary on the Mayurasataka, which states in plain terms that the Ratnavali belongs to that Sriharsha who was the patron and friend of Bana. This work is the Bhavabodhini of Madhus u. dana of the Panchanada family, son of Madhava bhatta and pupil of Balakrishna, who wrote in Vikrama samvat 1711, or 1654 A.D. at Surat.SS The beginning of his account of the origin of the Suryasataka runs thus:--- Atha vidvadvrindavinodiya ilmsivriddhavadanid viditah srisaryasatakapradurbhivaprasangastavat prochyate sa yatha | milavarajasyojjayinirajadhanikasya kavijanamurdha nyasya ratnavalyakhyanatikakarturmaharajaSriharshasya sabhyau mahikavi paurastyau bana mayurav astam! tayormadhye mayurabhattah evasuro binabhattah kadambarigranthakarti tasya jamita | tayoh kavitva prasange parasparam spardhasit banastu purvam eva kadichid rajasamipe samagato rajua mahatya sambhivanaya svanikate sthapitah kutumbena sahojjayinyam sthitah | kiyatsvapi divaseshvatiteshu kavitvaprasange tatpadyani srutva mayurabhatto rajna svadesad a karitah | ityadi. This has actually been done by Mahesachandra, the Calcutta editor of the Kavyaprakasa; see Weber, Ind. Streifen, I. 357. SS The MS. in my hands is a copy of that mentioned in my catalogue of MSS. from Gujarat No. II. p. 94, no. 146.

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128 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MAY, 1873 "Now, for the amusement of the learned, the stanzas addressed to that deity. No menaccount of the composition of the illustrious tion, however, is made of the Jaina Suri Century addressed to the Sun,' is narrated, as | Manatunga, who plays so great a part it has been learnt from the mouth of the illus- | in the account of the commentary on the trious ancients. It is as follows. Two eastern | Bhaktamara. poeta, called Bana and May u ra, lived at the Madhusudana's account, learnt from the court of Maharaja Sriharsha, the chief of mouth of the illustrious ancients,' and written poeta, the composer of the NatikA called Rat- down a thousand years after Harshavardhana's navali, who was lord of Mala va and whose and Bana's times, of course cannot claim any capital was Ujjain. Amongst them Ma- higher authority than any other of the thousand yhrab hatta was the father-in-law, and and one literary anecdotes which delight the PanBanabhatta, the author of the Kadambari, dits of our days. It contains undoubtedly some was his son-in-law. They were rivals in poetry. grains of truth, as it associates Sribarsha with But B &na bhatta had before, at some time or Bana and Mayura. It is probably inaccurate in other, approached the king, had been honour- making Ujjain Sriharsha's capital. For ably settled near him, and dwelt with his family though, according to the Harshacharita, Rajyain Ujjain. After the lapse of some time the vardhana, Sriharsha's elder brother, conquered king heard, on the occasion of a poetical recital, Malava, neither that work nor Hiwen Thsang's some verses of Mayura bhatta and called account of his stay with Harsha shows that that him from his country," etc. monarch actually resided there. The importance The remainder of the story agrees with the of Madhusudana's story lies in this, that it posextract from an anonymous commentary on the sesses an authority equal to that of the statement Bhaktamarastotra, adduced by Dr. Hall, Vasa- of Mammata's three commentators about Dhavadatta p. 8, and narrates how, in punishment vaka, and consequently tends to discredit the of a licentious description of his daughter's latter. The various reading given by Siticharms, Mayura became a leper and was kantha gains in importance, and Dr. Hall's indecored by the Sun after composing a century of pendent arguments are strengthened. NOTE ON A BUDDHIST CAVE AT BHAMER, KHANDESH. BY W. F. SINCLAIB, Bo. C. S., KH ANDESH, The fort of Bhamer, in the Nizampur deva, who has here a temple of considerable size Peta of Khandesh, lies about 30 miles W. by N. and unknown antiquity. This tank and another of Dhulia as the crow flies, and consists of two are dry; the only one retaining any water is a steep rocks lying nearly at right angles to each little lake called the Raj Talao, which local traother, and rising from the centre of a plateau dition holds to be bottomless, and to have an unwhich separates the valleys of the Kan and derground communication with a spring called Burai rivers. the Go kur Pani, about three miles away The hollow between them, facing south, is on the further or northern side of the fort. enclosed by two semicircular and concentric | There are several caves visible in the eastern ramparts, within the lesser or innermost of which and larger hill, and one in the western. This lies the macht or cantonment, while the outer latter is a small plain vihara, resembling some protects the town or kasba. Each of these has of those at Junnar; the first two in the eastern but ono gate, and there is no other approach or castle hill are apparently mere cellars and but by a steep and narrow footpath between the reservoirs of the same class as those at Lalling two hills, called the K&f&i Bari. The space near Dhulia, and probably of no great antithus enclosed is of about 100 acres, and seems to quity; but on entering the third, above the havo formerly contained about a thousand houses doors of which I noticed some carving, I was besides several fine wells and cisterns; but surprised and delighted to find myself in a there are now about a dozen resident families, vihara much resembling, but for its small size, half of them Bhills and Mhars. There are three some of those at Ajanta. I had, unfortunately, large tanks, one of which is sacred to Maha- no means of measurement with me; and the

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MAY, 1873.1 SRAVANA BELLIGOLA. 129 caves are too fall of water and debris to admit of pacing, but I estimate the length of the ve. randa at about fifty feet, and it is five deep. This veranda terminates at each end in a cell, and communicates by three doors ornamented with scrollwork, with as many square caves. These have no inner communication. The roofs are supported by pillars about eight feet high, hewn in the living rock, of a pattern very like what I have seen at Ajanta. About one-third of the pillar is square (the corners terminating in a sort of leaf), surmounted by an octagonal band, as this in its turn is by a circular one; and then the same arrangement is repeated : from the base of the last circle a triangle rises into the capital. The ceiling is crossed by broad joists intersecting at right angles at, and be- tween, the pillars. I failed to detect any image or inscription, or any sign of plaster or painting, but I had no light and my inspection was necessarily brief. The westernmost cave opens by a hole inches square into a large pit or cistern, which the villagers say was a dungeon; and this hole was used to feed the prisoners through. The pit is about fifty feet long by thirty wide, deep, and open at the top along the whole of one side, but there are no steps down into it. I should think it was originally made to hold water, which is bad and scarce on the rock ; but it may afterwards have been used as related. There is another cave on this southern side of the hill, and three or four on the northern ; but they are all of the same class as those first entered. I know of no other Buddhist cave within sixty miles. SRAVANA BELLIGOLA. 3Y CAPT. J. S. F. MACKENZIE, MAISUR COMMISSION. Five miles from Chenraipatam, in the Total height to the bottom of the ear ...500 Hassan District, Maisur, is the small town of From the bottom of the ear to the crown Sra vana Belligola, famous for its co- of the head (not measured), about ... 6 6 lossal statue of the Jaina god Gomatesvara. Length of the foot ........... The town lies between two rock-y hills,' and Breadth across the front of the foot ...... is but a mean collection of houses whose inha- Length of the great toe ............... bitants gain a precarious living by working in Half girth at the instep ..................... brass and copper. The larger of the two hills is of the thigh ..... crowned by the statue, 561 feet high, and From the hip to the ear .................. cut out of one solid block of gneiss. It is a coccyx to the ear ............... striking object and can be seen for miles. The Breadth across the pelvis nude figure of the god differs in no way, except , at the waist ........................ in size, from the other statues of the same god From the waist and elbow to the ear ... which are to be found, now no longer re red, armpit to the ear ................ here and there throughout the district. High Breadth across the shoulders ............... square shoulders, curly hair, flat nose, thick lips, From the base of the neck to the ear ... and small waist, are here faithfully, but on a Length of the forefinger..................... large scale, represented. middle finger ............... 5 Onoe in twenty years the great ceremony of 3rd finger....................* washing the god is performed. The last occa- 1 4th finger .................. 2 8 sion was in the early part of June 1871. To The statue is surrounded with buildings, perform the ceremony a platform is erected which prevent the full figure being seen until Mr. Scandon, who happened to be on the spot, one is close up to it. This of course destroys took advantage of this to measure the different the general effect, but the head and shoulders parts. Unfortunately before he could complete as viewed from the opposite hill impresses one the work some of the priests interfered. This with a trange feeling of awe. Calmly gazing is, I believe, the first and only time buch me away into space, the statue fully realises the surements were taken. Those now given may idea of perfect repose which the sculptor aimed be relied on as correct. at. One of the local legends has it that M&. SANTOS

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130 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. ya, the carpenter of the giants, at Ravana's request, was the sculptor. In the name Sravana Belligola is crystallized a story of bygone days. "Chamundaraya, after having established the worship of this image, became proud and elated at placing this god, by his own authority, at so vast an expense of money and labour. Soon after this, when he performed, in honoar of the god, the ceremony of Pan chamrita Sna na (or washing the image with five liquids-milk, curds, butter, honey, and sugar), vast quantities of these things were expended in many hundred pots, but, through the wonderful power of the god, the liquor descended no lower than the navel, to check the pride and vanity of the worshipper. Chamundaraya, not knowing the cause, was filled with grief that his intention was frustrated of washing the image completely with this ablution. While he was in this situation, the celestial nymph Padmavati, by order of the god, having transformed herself into the likeness of an aged poor woman, appeared, holding in her hand the five amritas in a Belliyagola (or small silver pot) for washing the statue, and signified her intention to Chamundaraya, who laughed at the absurdity of this proposal for accomplishing what it had not been in his power to effect. Out of curiosity, however, he permitted her to attempt it: when, to the great surprise of the beholders, she washed the image with the liquor brought in the little silver vase. Chamundara ya, repenting of his sinful arrogance, performed a second time, with profound respect, his ablution, on which they had formerly wasted so much valuable liquids, and washed completely the body of the image. "From that time this place is named after the silver vase (or Belliyagola) which was held in Padmavati's hand. Sravana (eramana) is the title of a Jain Sannyasi, and as this place is the principal residence of these Sannyasis the people call it Sravana Belligola."* [MAY, 1873. historical records are fully supported by the tes timony of monuments and inscriptions, the latter of which are exceedingly numerous in the South and West of India. Most of these are very modern -none are earlier than the ninth century. An exception is said to exist in an inscription on a rock at Belligola, recording a grant of land by Chamunda Raya to the shrine of Gomatievara, in the year 600 of the Kali age, meaning the Kali of the Jains, which began three years after the death of Varddhamana. This inscription, therefore, if it exists, was written about fifty or sixty years before the Christian era. But it is not clear that any such record is in existence, the fact resting on the oral testimony of the head Pontiff at Belligola: even if it be legible on the face of the rock it is of questionable authenticity, as it is perfectly solitary, and no other document of like antiquity has been met with." The following account of the history of this place is taken trom the local "Sthala Purana" : "Chamunda Raja, king of Dakshina Madura, and the descendant of Jaina Kshettri Pandu, set out with his family, escorted by an army of infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots, with a view of visiting the god Gomatesvara (500 bilu high) at Padana-pura, and the 1254 other gods in the smaller temples scattered throughout the surrounding country. En route he came to Sravana Belligola Kshettra, having heard a good deal about the god Gomatesvara (18 bilu high). He repaired the ruined temples, and among other ceremonies had that of sprinkling the god performed. He appointed Siddhantacharya as Guru of the math, to conduct the daily, monthly, annual, and other processions. He established in the math a chattram whe food, medicine, and education were provided for pilgrims. He appointed men of his caste to receive with due respect the devotees and pilgrims of all three castes who should resort to the place from Dehli, Kanakadri Svitapura Sudhapura, Papapuri, Champapuri Sammidagiri Ujjayantagiri, Jayanagara, &c. For this purpose certain villages, giving an annual revenue of 196,000 pagodas, were made over to the temple. He fixed sila sasanas in the four directions in the Chaitra month of the year Vibhava-605 of Kaliyuga, or the 1215th year after the death of Vardhamanasvami. This endowment was maintained by his descendants for 109 years. It is difficult to fix the date of the statue. If the inscription exists which is referred to in the following extract from H. H. Wilson's Works (Vol. I. p. 332), then would the date be B.C. 50 at least, for that is the year when the king granted the land:--- "The conclusions founded on traditionary or As. Res., vol. IX. p. 266; and conf, Buchanan, Mysore, &c. vol. III. P. 410.-ED.

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MAY, 1873.) SRAVANA BELLIGOLA. 131 "Afterwards from the Saka year 444, Prajot- patti Pandu Raya and his descendants appointed Kundacharya to manage the affairs of the temple, and continued the charitable endowments for 90 years. "Again from Saka year 564, one Virapandya Raya and his son appointed Siddhantacharya to the temple for 80 years. They also gave inam lands to the temple. Then followed Kuna Pandu Raya, who appointed Amalakirti Acharya to the temple. This king however changed his religion and destroyed the charities established by his predecessors. He and his family were ruined. "At this time certain princes belonging to the family of Chamunda Reya who governed the provinces of Halebidu, Bilikere, Kadanahalli, Aukanahalli, &c., built small temples at Gomatapura Bilukere, Biliulli, Halebidu, and set up an image Gomatesvara, the height of two men, on the hill of Gomatapura, and gave for the maintenance of worship the villages called Sravanahalli, Jinnahalli, Gomatapura, and Padenahalli. They also, in order that the discontinued worship at Sravana Belligola might be renewed and continued, gave eight other villages, and appointed Amalakirti Acharya to manage the affairs. This they continued for 67 years. "From the Saka year 777, Bheva, this country fell into the hands of the Hayasa la Belala kings who were Jaina Kshatriyas ruling over the country of Hayaskla. Aditya, a descendant of this house, having heard of the excellence of the place and the beauty of the idol, paid a visit to it, and had the ceremony of sprinkling the god performed. He gave villages (out of those that had been given by Chamunda Raya) yielding & revenue of 96,000 pagodas, and appointed Somanandyacharya to carry out the worship properly. "Afterwards, Amalakirti Belala made over to the temple lands yielding 5,000 pagodas, and appointed Tridamavibudhanandyacharya as head of the math. This continued for 49 years, "Another of the Belala kinge, named Ango Raja, continued the same for 56 years, and appointed Prabhachandrasiddhanta charya to manage the affairs. After this Pratapa Bella nominated Gunachandracharys to manage the affairs. This continued for 64 years. "Udyaditya Belala, Vira Belala, and Gan. garaya Belala each continued the worship by granting lands yielding 5,000 pagodas. Bettavardhana Belala gave an inam of land yielding 50,000, and continued the worship for 31 years under the management of Shubhachandracharya. "In the Saka year 1039, Durmukhi, Bettavardhana, under the taunts of his favourite concubine and the arguments of Ramanujacharya, received Taptamudra' (mark of the religion) and thus became a convert to the Vaishnava religion. He then changed his name to Vish. nuvardhana, and, with a bitter hatred against this (Jaina) religion, discontinued or abolished all the indms, destroyed 790 Basti temples and set up Pancha Narayanas, viz.--Chenniga Narkyana at Belira, Kirti Narayana at Talakadu, Vijaya Narayana at Vijayapura, Viranarayana at Gadugu, and Lakshmi Narayana at Haradanahalli, transferring to these all the 'svastyas' or indms that had been formerly given to the Basti temples. He built the tank at Tondamiru from the stones of the destroyed Basti temples, and called it Tirumala Sagara. Having abolished different kinds of Jaina inams, viz:* Agraharas,' 'Punarvarga svastyas, Man. nias,' &c., he established below this tank Tirumulasagara Chatter for the feeding of RAmangja kuta assembly of RAmanuja seota). He gave the name of Melukota and Tirunarayanapura to the village of Dodds Garuganahalli, constructed several temples and places, and caused steps to be erected to the hill of Melukdta. After he had continued in this course for some timo, when unable to bear the devadroha,' or sin against the gods, the earth opened, and all the villages and lands near Adugaru in the Bekara Taluka were swallowed up. When the news thereof reached the king Vishnuvardhana, he called together his wise men and inquired of them why this thing had come to pass. The learned men told him it was because of the number of Jaina temples he had destroyed. He then called together all castes of people and offered Santi (sacrifice) and worship to the gods, but all in vain. The people of the other sects said that a remedy should be sought for from the Jainas alone. But the king, having changed his religion, would not ask the Jainas for the reme. dy. Ho tried again to remove the evil by going to great expense, but it was of no use. He failed again. Thinking that further delay would cause the ruin of their country, all the people went to the king, who, with

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132 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MAY, 1873. his guru, Ramanujyacharya, proceeded to Belli. Deva Raya, his son Mallikayima Raya, and others go!a and earnestly requested the Jaina priest who ruled the country as tributary to Dehli, Shubhachandracharya to try and find a remedy. also continued, as their ancestor Harihara Raya, The priest replied, "Why are you come anto giving an inam of 3,000 pagodas. After these, me? Are there not men of other religions ? Krishna Raya, a natural son of one of the above Go unto them.' Then the people of other reli- kings, and his son Sriranga Raya and others, gions and the king said, 'We have tried but are eleven descendants, who ruled at Srirangapatam unable to effect a remedy.' They promised if he np to the year Saumya, 1531 of the Saka era, would do this thing for them, then would they contributed an inam of 1,000 pagodas. give all their Birudu (insignia) to him, restore "In the year Sadharana or 1532, Raja Vadiyar, the province of 12,000 (pagodas), and continue. sovereign of Maisur, took possession of Srirangathe Dharma (worship) undisturbedly. They patam. He ruled for eight years, during which also said they would cause Sila Sasanas' to he contributed an inam of 1,000 pagodas as Sribe erected to this effect. Upon this the priest ranga Raya. His son and successor was Narasaconsented and caused certain kinds of worship raja. His son Chararaja Vadiyar ascended the and penances to be performed. He then sent throne in the year of the Kaliyug 1540 and ruled for 108 white pompkins, filled them with man- for twelve years. In Sukla, or 1550, Chamaraja trams or sacred words, and threw one every Vadiyar succeeded and ruled the country for day into the gap, which gradually filled up until eight years. Then Imadiraja Vadiyar came to only half a pumpkin remained. Then the people the throne, and governed the country for only of other religions gave over their insignia to two years. In Pramidi or 1562, Kanthirava the priest and got Sila Sasanas made, giving the Narasarija Vadiyar succeeded and ruled for priest the title of Charukirtipanditacharya.' twelve years. All these five sovereigns continued The particulars of these circumstances are to be for 51 years to allow the temple an inam found in the Adagurd temple. The land still land of 1,000 pagodas. In the year Sarvari, bears the mark. Traditions of the place handed 1582, Drda Devaraja Vadiyar succeeded to down from father to son corroborate the above. the Maigur throne, and during his adminisSasanas were then erected, one at Belligola and tration of fourteen years, having heard of the one at Melukota, to the effect that both the Ra- excellence of Gomatesvara, he paid a visit to manujya and Jaina sects should henceforward Belligola on the 10th of the moon's increase in act friendly with each other, that in case of the Pushya month of the year Paridhavi, worship, &c. at Belligola being interrupted, the 1595, gave away large sums of money, granted Vaishnavas should maintain it by a subscription the village of Madane to the math of Charukirtiof one fanam per house, and vice versa. Inams of panditacharya, besides continuing the inam land 12,000 pagodas in land were given, and Charu- of 1,000 pagodas granted by his predecessors. kirtipanditacharya was entrusted with the ma- In the year Ananda 1597, Chikkadevaraja Vanagement of the affairs of the temple. diyar succeeded. He subdued the countries of "After some time when the people of Dehli in Korala, &c. and ruled with vigour for thirtyvaded Sonthern India and took possession of it, one years. He also visited Belligola, had the Maisar also fell into their hands, and the Dhar- ceremony Mastakabhishika' performed, conma or Inams were discontinued in the year siructed a pond called Kalyani, with a pyramidDhata, 1259 of the era. This province then be al tower and a prakara or wall round it, and came subject to the kingdom of Anegandi. Its repaired several Chaityalayas' or Jaina temking, Bukkura ya, set out to inspect his newly ac- ples, besides continuing the inams of 1,000 paquired province, and on arriving at Belligola godas and the village of Madane to the math. In saw the statue and granted an inam of 3,000 Parthiva, 1627, Kanthirava Raja, son of Chikka pagodas for the worship, &c. His son Sanga- Deva Raja, ruled the country for eight years, ma Ruya and grandson Harihara Raya followed during which time both the village of Madane his example and appointed Charukirtipandita- and the 1,000 pagodas inAm land were still concharya to the management of the affairs. tinued to the math, whose affairs were presided Twelve of the descendants of Harihara Raya, over by the priest Charukirtipanditacharya. Dodviz: Pratapa Ramad ya Raya, his son Pratapa. dakrishna Raja Vadiyar ascended the throne in

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MAY, 1873.] Vijaya or 1636 and reigned for thirteen years. He also visited Belligola, and after causing 'Mastakabhishika' and worship to be performed to the deity, and effecting repairs, granted the village of Kabbal in addition to Madane, and that of 1,000 pagodas, and appointed Charukirtipanditacharya to the management of the temple affairs. On the accession of Chamaraja of Chikkanahalli in the year Virodhikrit or 1654, he ruled only for three years. After him Imadikrishna Raja Vadiyar succeeded in the year Ananda or 1658, and during the 30 years of his reign he continued the charity granted by his predecessors, viz. land of 1,000 pagodas and the two villages Madane and Kabbal; he died in the year Vijaya or 1688. His successor was Bettada MENHIRS OF MAISUR. LEGEND OF THE MENHIRS OF MAISUR. BY V. N. NARASIMMIYENGAR, BANGALUR. Under this head Captain J. S. F. Mackenzie mentions the Vyasana Tolu stones (Vyasa's arm) at page 49 of the Indian Antiquary Vol. II. I have met with several of these stones standing isolated near the town of Anantapur in the Nagar Division. Indeed the locality bristles with interesting archeological remains. In the daily round of Vaishnava religious rites, a sloka is repeated commemorating the incident to the truth of which these imperishable stone monuments bear testimony. It runs as follows:Satyam Satyam Punas Satyam, Udhdhitya bhujamnchyat Veda chchastram param nasti, Nadaivam keeavat param. "It is declared (by Vyasa) with arm aloft that there is no other sastra but the Veda, and no god but Kesava (Vishnu). This is the truth over and over again." 133 Chamaraja Vadiyar, during whose reign Haidar acquired influence, and the charity was continued as before, viz. 1,000 pagodas land and the two villages to the math. In the year Visvavasu, 1708, Tipu attached all Devadayas' and 'Brahmadayas,' i. e. inams granted to temples and Brahmans, which included the lands and villages granted to this temple: then the English under General Wellesley and Kulis captured Srirangapatam on the 30th or new-moon day of Chaitra Bahula of the year Siddharti 1721, and restored Maisur to His Highness the Maharaja Krishna Vadiyar on Sunday the 13th of Jeshta Bahula of the year Siddharti, and appointed Purnia as Divan, and they remained in Srirangapatam." The legend concerning Vyasa losing his arm for his stedfast belief, and his alleged recantation, seems to have been engrafted upon the original story, by the Lingayats, who are known as uncompromising foes of the Vaishnavas. It is exactly like the legend in which one of the Chola or Pandya kings, noted for his bigotry, is said to have coerced a Vaishnava sage into signing a declaration admitting Siva's supremacy in the world of the gods. The declaration was in this form : Sivat parataram nasti: There is none above Siva. The equally stubborn Vaishnava, notwithstanding the horrible penalty which hung over him like the sword of Damocles, viz. deprivation of sight, ventured to add to the declaration the line Drona masti tatah param, The measure Drona is larger than that called Siva, The allusion being a play upon the word Sivam, which means a small measure. These legends may be accepted for what they are worth as indicating the bitter hostility between the rival sects of Saivas and Vaish navas. With the chronology here given, compare the list in Prinsep, Useful Tables (Thomas's ed.) pp. 281-3; see also Buchanan, Mysore, vol. III. p. 408, et passim.-ED.

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134 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. MAY, 1873. PAPERS ON SATRUNJAYA AND THE JAINS. BY THE EDITOR. II.-The Tirthankaras or Jinas. Continued from page 17. The Jaina Tirthankaras or Arhantas only twelve yojanas from the site of Moksh a or -images of one or more of whom figure in final liberation. His next birth was as Vrisha. every temple--are twenty-four in number, each | bha the Tirthaikara, the son of N Abhi having his separate chinha or cognizance, usu by Maru Devi, king and queen of Saketa. nagar. His incarnation was announced by the ally placed under the image, and many of them fall, morning and evening for six months, of three distinguished by the colour of their complexion, 04, hundred and fifty millions of precious stones. -sixteen being yellow, two red, two white, two The goddesses Sri, Kri, Dhriti, Kirtti, blue, and two black. In the temples, however, Budhi. and Lakshmi.were sent by Deven. the images are generally of white marble, with 1 dra to wait on Maru devi, during her pregeyes made of silver and overlaid with pieces of nancy, and feed her with the food of the Kalpa, glass. The following is a list of these saints, or all-bestowing tree of heaven, and at his birth, with the principal particulars related of Devendra and all the inhabitants of every di. each : vision of the universe came to render homage. Devendra bathed the child with the contents 1. RISHABHANATHA or ADINATHA, called also of the tree of milk, and gave him the name of Na bheya, Yuga disa, Yuga dijina, Vrishabba." + Rishabha Deva, Kausalika, Adis. He is represented as of yellow or golden comvara, and Vrishabha Sena, of the race plexion; has the bull (Vrisha) for his chinha or of Ikshwa ku, was the son of Nabhi by cognizance, Chakresvari for his sasanaMaru-devi. In the Adi Purana, a Jaina devi. According to the commentator of the compilation ascribed to Jinasena Acharya, Kalpa Satra, he was born at Kosala or Ayowho is said to have lived in the reign of Vi. dhya, towards the end of the third age. He kramaditya, but who was probably much was the first king (Prathama Raja), first an. later,-Gautama the disciple of Mahavira choret (Prathama Bhikshakara), and first saint relates to Srenika the king, the birth and (Prathama Jina and Prathama Tirthankara). actions of Vsis ha bha. His stature, it is pretended, was 500 poles According to this authority,"Vrishabha was (dhanush); and when he was inaugurated king first born as Mah & bala Chakravartti; be his age was 2,000,000 great years (purva varsha). ing instructed in the Jaina doctrines, he was next He reigned 6,300,000 years; and then resigning born in the second heaven as Lalita nga Deva. He was next born as Vajrajang ha, son of V& the empire to his sons he withdrew to a state of jrab & hu, king of Utpala Kata, a city on abstract purity: and having spent 100,000 years the Sitoda, one of the rivers of Mahameru, more in passing through the various stages of Having in this existence given food to & Jaina austerity and sanctity, he attained nirvana on a mendicant, he was born as a teacher of that faith mountain named Ashta pada, according to named Arya. From thence he returned to the Hemachandra the same as Kailasa, others second heaven as Swayamprabha deva, say on Satrunjaya, 3 years 8} months before the and was again born a prince, the son of the Raja end of the third age. Besides his children by of Sasinimahanagara, by the name of Su. other wives, Rishabha had twins by each of his vedi. He again became a divinity as Achyu. wives Sumangala and Sananda, -by the tendra, presiding over the 16th Swarga or former & son Bharata the first Chakravarttit heaven. He was then born as Vajran&bhi, son of Vajrasena, king of Pundarikini. -and a daughter Brahmi; by the latter a nagara; having obtained great purity, he was second son Bahubali, and Sundaria born as Sarvarthasiddhi Deva, in a part daughter. The saint had altogether a hundred of the upper world above the 16th heaven, and children, for whose instruction he invented all * Wilson, Mackenzie Coll. Vol. I. pp. 144, 145. --the 16th, 17th, and 18th Jinas; Sagera, the son of Sumitra; Subhms called KArtavtrys; Padma, son of Pad+ Satrunjaya Mahatmya, I. 60. The twelve Chakra. mottars; Harishens of Hari; Jays of Vijaya; and Brahvarttis are: Bharata Arshabhi; Maghavan, son of Vijaya; madatta of Brahme; all of the race of Ikahwdku.-ColeSanatkumara, son of Asvasena; Santi, Kuntha, and An, brooke, Essays, Vol. II. 217; Asiat. Ros., Vol. IX. p. 315.

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MAY, 1873.] THE TIRTHANKARAS. 135 the arts and sciences. Thus he taught drama- Siddhartha, is also of yellow complexion : tic poetry to Bharata, grammar to Brahmi, he has an ape (plavaga ) for his characteristic and arithmetic to Sundari. It may be noticed symbol; and Kalika is the goddess who that Rishabha and his father and son occur in serves him. His stature was 300 poles, and the Paranic lists, where N Abhi is the son of his age 5,000,000 years; he was born at AyoAgnidra king of Jambudvipa son of Priyadhya, and his nirvana took place on Samet vrata, king of Antarveda. The kings of Sikhar, ten lakhs of krors of sagaras of years various other nations also derived their descent after the preceding. from him. The Mahatmya says Vimala va 5 . SUMATI, song of Megha and Manhana was the first of the ancestral fathers. I gali , also of yellow complexion, has a curlew His son was Chakshushman a father of (kerauncha) for his cognizance and Mahakali Abhichandra, whose son Prasenajita was for his Devi. He was born at Ayodhya, lived the father of Maradeva, also called Nabhi ; 4,000,000 years, and his moksha occurred also and at the end of the third spoke of the Avasarat Samet Sikhar, nine lakhs of krors of sagaras piri age, the Lord of the World, through his om after the fourth Jina. nipotence, took birth in the womb of Nabhi's wife 6. PADMAPRABHA was son of Sridhara by Marudevi, under the name of Rishabh a, or Susima ; born at Kausambhi, of the same Vrish a bhasena. It is Rishabha's image race as the preceding, but of red complexion. erected by Bahubali that imparts its peculiar His mark is the lotos (abja), and his Devi is sanctity to Satrunjaya.t Syam. His height was 200 poles, and his 2. AJITANATHA was son of Jitas Atru by | age 3,000,000 years. His death took place also Vijay & ; of the same race and coinplexion as on Samet Sikhar 90,000 krors of sugaras after the first; he was also a native of Ayodhya, and the fifth Jina. has an elephant (gaja) for his cognizance, and 1 7. SUPARAVA was the son of Pratishtha Ajitabala as his Sa sana devi. His stature by Prithvi, born at Benares, of the same was 450 poles, and he lived 7,200,000 great line as the preceding and of golden colour; bis years. His nirvana took place on on Samet cognizance is the figure called sikhar or Mount Parsvanatha in West- Swastika in Sanskrit, and ern Bengal, in the fourth age, when fifty lakhs of Satya in Gujarati. His Devi lorors of oceans of years I had elapsed out of was Santa, and he lived the tenth kror of krors. 2,000,000 years, his nirvana on 3. SAMBHAVA Was son of Jitari by Se. Samet Sikhar being dated na: of the same race and complexion as Risha- 9,000 krors of sugaras after the preceding. bha; his cognizance a horse (asva); his Sasa- 8. CHANDRAPRABHA was son of Mahasena na-Duritari; his height 400 poles: he lived by Lakshman & , and was born at Chandri. 6,000,000 years ; he was born at se wanta, pur; of the race of Ikshwaku, but of fair or white and attained moksha on Paravanatha hill, thirty complexion : his sign is the moon (bas), and lakhs of krors of sagaras after Ajita. his devi, Bhrikuti: his height was 150 poles; 4. ABHINANDANA, the son of Sambara by and he lived 1,000,000 years : and his entrance * Prinsep, Usef. Tab., p. 382 n., p. 233 ; also Wilson, Conf. Stevenson, Kalpa Satra, p. i.; Moor, Hindu PanVishnu Purana, pp. 162, 163, and note on p. 164. theon, pp. 337. 338; Hodgson's Illustrations, p. 48, No. 82. + Weber, uber das Catrunjaya Mahatmyam, pp. 36, 27, The sectaries of the mystic cross or Swastika, or 'doe tors of reason,' were the followers of the Pon religion, which 1 "In the second chapter, [of Hemachandra's Vocabu- prevailed in Tibet till the general introduction of Badlaryl which relates to the heavens and the gods, &c., the dhism in the ninth century. Their doctrine, named Bon sathor, speaking of time, observes that it is distinguished ghu tsios, has still professors in Kham yul or Lower Tibet. into Avasarpint and Utsarpinl, adding that the whole Their founder was Chen raebs. Some believe the doctrine to period is completed by twenty kotis of kotis of sdgaras, have been introduced from China, and consider it identical or 2,000,000,000,000,000 oceans of years. I do not find with the discipline of Lao-tse. Ita followers are called that he anywhere explains the space of time denominated Taosse in Chinese, and in the time of F Hinn appear to sagara or ocean. But I understand it to be an extravagant have existed also in India. - The Tao s named Ai is in estimate of time, which would elapse before a vast cavity Banskrit Tapasvi, and is stated to have visited the infant filled with chopped hairs could be emptied, at the rate of one Baddhs and drawn his horoscope. Conf. Remusat Fod piece of hair in a century: the time requisite to empty such Kuod K, pp. 208, 230, 231; Laidlay, Pilgrimage of Fa cavity, measured by yojana every way, iss palya, and Hian, pp. 300, 218, Asiat. Res. vol. i. p. 883; Csoma de that repeated ten kotis of kotis (or 1,000,000,000,000,000] Korod, Dictionary of the Tibetan Language, pp. 36, 94: of times is sagara."-Colebrooke, Essays (1837), Vol. Sykes, Jour. Roy. Asiat. Soc. pp. 310, 884, or Notes on the II. p. 216; Asiat. Researches, Vol. LX. pp. 818, 814 State of Ancient India, pp. 66 and 88.

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136 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. into moksha or beatitude, took place 900 krors of sagaras later than the seventh Tirthankara. 9. PUSHPADANTA, also named Suvida, was the son of Supriya" by Rama: he was born at Kakendrapuri, of the same race and complexion with the last; his mark is a makara or crocodile, and his Devi is Suta raka. His stature was 100 poles, and his life lasted 200,000 years. He was deified on Samet Sikhar ninety krors of sagaras after Chandraprabha. 10. SITALA, the son of Dridharatha by Nanda, was born at Bhadalpur; of the same race, and with a golden complexion: his sign is the mark called Srivatsa, and his Sasanadevi-A e o ka. His stature was ninety poles, and his life 100,000 great years; his deification on Samet Sikhar dates nine krors of sugaras later than the preceding. 11. SEEYANSA, or SRI ANSANATHA, was the son of Vishnu by Vishna; of the same race and complexion, born in Sindh, with a rhinoceros (khadge) for his cognizance. His devi was Manavi. He was eighty poles in stature, and lived 8,400,000 common years, dying at Samet Sikhar more than a hundred sagaras of years before the end of the fourth age. 12. VASUPUJYA or VASUPADYA, or VASUPUJYA SVAMI was son of Vasupujya by Jaya; born at Champapuri, of the same race, with a red complexion, having a buffalo (mahisha) for his mark, and Chanda for his devi. He was seventy poles high, lived 7,200,000 years, and attained nirvana at Champapuri fifty-four sagaras after the eleventh Jina. [MAY, 1873. after the preceding. The following translation from the Chamunda Raya Purana respecting him may be given as a specimen of the legendary lives of these hierarchs : "Padmaratha the Arusu of Arishtapura, of Airavata Kshetra, in the Mu. dana Mandira (or Eastern Meru) in the Dhata Kishanda Dvipa, receiving religious instructions from Sva y amprabha Jina, he became disgusted with the world, and transferring the kingdom to his son Ghanaratha, he adopted a penitential life, read through the eleven Angas, and contemplated the sixteen Bhdvanas or meditations, he acquired the quality fitting him for becoming a Tirthankar: pursuing his religious penance, he quitted his body, and was born in the Achyuta Kalpa in the Pushpottara Vimana as Achyutendra, with a life of twenty-two sagaras, of the stature of thirty cubits, of subdued appetites, perfectly contented with his fate, with a knowledge penetrating as far as to the seventh lower world, he was enjoying the happiness of that world. Afterwards Jay asy&ma Devi, the consort of Simhasena Maharaja, of the Kayapa Gotra, of the lineage of Ikshv&ku, the ruler of Ayodhyapura, in the Bharat Kshetra of Jambudvipa, on the 1st day of the month Kartika, under the star Revati, about break of day, saw the sixteen dreams, and also that of the elephant, entering in at her mouth, which she mentioned to her consort, who was in Avadijnyani, and getting the interpretations of them from him, she was happy, and Saudhermendra performing the happy ceremony of descending from heaven on earth, Achyutendra became impregnated in the womb of the Queen. At that time on the last palla of ten sagaras of the term of Vimala Kirttakar, when virtue had faded one-third, he was born on the 12th of the dark half of the month Jyeshta, under the star Revati, in the Pushpa Yuga, and saw Dhermendra performing the happy worship of being born in the world, and as the new-born infant was born with Ananta Dnyana, or illimitable wisdom, he called him Ananta Tirthankar, and returned to his residence: his life was to continue for three millions of years, his stature 100 cubits, and his colour golden: his childhood comprised a period of seven hundred and fifty thousand years: his reign continued for fifteen hundred thousand, after which on a certain day seeing a meteor fall, and considering that this life would be dissolved in the same manner, he be 14. ANANTA, or ANANTAJITA, was son of Sinha sena by Suyasa or Jayasyama, and born at Ayodhya. His sign is a falcon (syena); his Sasana Devi was An kus a ; his height was fifty poles, the length of his life 3,000,000 years, and his death nine sagaras So Colebrooke,-Hemachandra has Sugriva,-Abhidhana Chintamani, 37 (ed. Boehtlingk and Rieu), p. 7. 13. VIMALA was son of Kritavarman by Sy am a, was born at Kumpalapuri; of the same race and of yellow complexion. He has a boar (sakara) for his characteristic, and Vidita was his devi; he was sixty poles high, lived 6,000,000 years, and was deified on Samet Sikhar thirty sdgaras later than the twelfth Jina. 1

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MAY, 1873.] THE TIRTHANKARAS. came disgusted with the world, and Lokantika | Priyananda Devi, with whom he enjoyed Deva gave him religious instruction, on which he transferred his kingdom to his son Arinjaya, getting into the conveyance called Sagaradatta, he went to the Sayetthuka Vana, perform. ing six fastings, in company with 1000 Princes, he adopted a penitential life on the 12th of the dark half of the month Jyeshta, in the evening under the star Revati, on which he acquired the fourth degree of knowledge, and on the next day went to Ayodhyapuri to beg, and Visshoka Nripa, of the colour of gold, granted alms, on which the five wonders were exhibited, and after 12 years had expired, in dumb contemplation, he obtained to the Kevaladnyana under an Aswattha tree in the abovementioned garden, on the last day of the dark half of the month Chaitra, in the evening under the star Revati; Saudherma Indra performed the happy ceremony of becoming a Kevaladnyani, and giving him the 1008 virtuous names, he returned. He had 52 Ganadharas from Jayadhama downwards. 1,000 Purvadkaras. 39,000 Sikshakaras. 4,032 Avadijny anis. 5,000 Kevalis. 8,000 Vicriurdis. 5,000 Manapariyagnyani. 2,00,000 Vadis. 1,08,000 Aryakaras from Survasi down wards. 2,00,000 Sravanas. 4,00,000 Sravakas, Devas and Devis, without number. Quadrupeds and birds without number. With all these, inculcating religious morals in the world for 12 years less than seven hundred and fifty thousand years, in Ary a Kshetra, after which coming to Sumeru Parvai, and leaving his Samopasaranam, and in company with 500 Munis remaining in the Prathama Yuga for one month, on the first quarter of the night, of the last day of the dark half of month Chaitra, under the star Revati, Ananta Bhatta ka obtained beatitude and Saud herma Indra performed the Pari Nirodna Kalyana Puja, and dancing with happiness, he returned to his dwelling. The Story of Suprabha the Baladeva and Purushottama the Vasudeva, the descendants of Srimad Ananta Tirthankar: 137 Sushena, the king of Padmapura, in the Bharata Kshetra, in Jambudvipa, had 500 consorts: the state queen was called every felicity. One day Chandrabhashana, the Adhipati of Malaya de sa, coming to this city from motives of friendship, saw the queen and fell deeply in love with her, and made use of every stratagem and carried her away with him. The king (Sushena) became very much grieved at this misfortune, and said, I am really unfortunate, and have not performed any virtuous action: he then forsook the world, and after remaining some time thus, he went one day to Srey&msa Ganadhar, and obtained from him the state of an ascetic, and performed the penance of Simhavikririta, and wishing as the accomplishment of his penance, that he might be reborn in his next birth, with so much beauty that he might be admired by all who saw him, and that there should be none to oppose his authority: remaining for one month in this state and with this wish, he quitted his body, and was born in the Sahasrara Kalpa as a god (Deva) and enjoyed every felicity there for 18 sdgaras of years. Afterwards Maha Bala, the Arasu of Anandapura in the eastern hemisphere of Ja mbudvipa, becoming disgusted with the world went to Prajapalana Jaina, and obtained the rules of asceticism from him, and performed the penance of Simhavikririta, and in the perfect state of a Sanyasi quitting his earthly frame: he was born in the Sahaerdra Kalpa, the pleasures and happiness of which world he enjoyed for 18 sdgaras of years. Soma Prabha Raja, having descended from the Mahendra Kalpa, ruled over Dvaravtipatana, situated in the Bharata Kshetra in Jambudvipa, with a life of 42,000 years: his size was 90 yards in length, his State Queen was called Jayavati, who on a certain night dreamt an auspicious dream: on the Bhadrapada Nakshatra, Maha Bala Cherra was born to her by the name of Suprabha, and to another of his consorts named Sit&, Susena Cherra was born by the name of Parushottam a, they were both surnamed Baladeva and Vasudeva, the former was of a white colour, and the latter of a blue colour; they were each of the height of 50 yards, their lives were to last for five hundred thousand years, and they were ruling over the kingdom of their father. In course of time Madhu Kaita bha, the king of Varanasi Patana in the Kasi Desa, sent word to them to become tributary to him, but they being unwilling to pay tribute, drove away the ambassadors, whose sovereign on hear. ing of the indignity they had suffered, assembled his army and came to give them battle: on meeting he flung his chakra at Purushottama,

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138 which so far from hitting him, came and stood near him: Purushottam a then picking up the chakra in his turn, flung it at Madhu Kaitabha who was slain by it; after which he became Adhipati of three Khandas, and ruling over the kingdom for some time, Purushottama on his dissolution, leaving his body, his soul went to hell, but Suprabha after the death of his brother being much grieved, went to Somaprabha Kevali, and received initiation from him, and acquiring the state of a Kevali, he obtained beatitude. Madhu Kaita bha also after his death went to hell.* THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. 15. DHARMA was son of Bhan u by Suvrata, and was born at Ratnapuri: characterized by the vajra or thunderbolt: his devi was Kandarpa; he was forty-five poles in stature, and lived 1,000,000 years: he was deified four sagaras after the fourteenth Jina. 16. SANTI was the son of Visvasena by Achira, born at Hastinapur; he has the antelope (mriga) for his cognizance. His Sasana was Nirvani; he was forty poles in stature, lived 100,000 years, and died two sagaras later than the preceding.+ 17. KUNTHU was the son of Sara by Sri, of the same race and complexion as the last, was also born at Hastinapur. His Sasana was Bala; his cognizance is a goat (chhaga); his height was thirty-five poles, and his life 95,000 years. His nirvana is dated in the last palya of the fourth age. 18. ABA was the son of Sudarsana by Devi; his mark is figure Nandyavarta; the called FF he was of the same race and complexion, and born at the same place as the preceding; his Sasana was Dharini: his stature was thirty poles, his life lasted 84,000 years, and his nirvana was 1,000 krors of years before the next Jina. 19. MALLI was son of Kumbha by Prabhavati; of the same race with the preceding, but of blue complexion; his mark Wilson, Mackensie Coll., vol. I., pp. 148-152. The life of this Jina is the object of a separate work [MAY, 1873. being a water-jar (ghata); he was born at Mithila, and his Sasana Devi was Dharanapriya; he was twenty-five poles high, lived 55,000 years, and was deified 6,584,000 years before the close of the fourth age. 20. MUNISUVRATA, SUVRATA, or MUNI, was son of Sumitra by Padma, of the Harivansa race, and of black complexion; he was born at Rajagriha; has a tortoise (kurma) for his cogni. zance, and Naradatta for his devi; his height was twenty poles, and his age 30,000 years. He died 1,184,000 years before the end of the fourth age: 21. NIMI was son of Vijaya by Vipra; born at Mithila, of the race of Ikshvaku; figured with a golden complexion; having for his mark a blue water-lily (nilotpala), and for his Sasana, Gandhari Devi. His stature was fifteen poles; his life 10,000 years; and his apotheosis took place, like the preceding eight Jinas, on Samet Sikhar or Mount Parevanatha, 584,000 years before the expiration of the fourth age. 22. NEMI, or ARISHTANEMI, was the son of King Samudra vijaya by his queen Siva; of the Harivansa race, of black complexion, with the conch (sankha) for his symbol, and Ambika for his Sasana Devi. The Kalpa Sutra says he was born in Sravan, the first month of the rainy season, under the constellation Chaitra, at Soriyapuri, which Stevenson supposes to be Agra, but which is generally believed to have been a town in Kathiawad. It is said that he excelled in all kinds of athletic exercises and was of invincible strength. His cousin Krishna was also of superhuman strength, and was able to blow a large conah from which it was believed no other person could produce a blast. One day Neminatha saw it lying on the ground, and asking why that toy was lying there, he took it up and blew such a blast upon it as qure alarmed Krishna who began to enquire who it was that could blow upon his sankha? On finding it was his cousin, he became jealous of him as a rival, and accordingly directed his hundred gopis to excite amorous thoughts in Neminatha and shame him into marriage, thinking intercourse with women the only way to put down his strength. The gopis began to tease him and tell him as he was grown up to manhood entitled Santi Purana.-Colebrooke, Essays, ut sup. p. 211 n., Asiat. Res. IX. p. 308.

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MAY, 1873.] he ought to marry. At first he refused, but after a deal of reviling and reproaching he consented, and Krishna selected for him Rajimati the daughter of Ugrasena of Girnar, whose palace is still shewn, being a ruin near the Junagadh fort beside the Bhumriyo kuo. When the wedding day came and Neminatha approached Junagadh, he saw a flock of sheep and herds of cattle collected to be sacrificed for the people that had assembled to celebrate the wedding; the sheep were bleating piteously, and, struck with pity for them and the vanity of human happiness, and to save the lives of so many animals, he resolved to become an ascetic, gave up the world, and retired into the Girnar hills, followed by his intended bride, and there they both led a platonic life. The place on the Ujjinta peak where he is said to have died is considered sacred, and has a chattri erected over it where his pagla or footprints are shown. Rajimati resided in a gupha or cave to the south-west of the Neminatha Chattri.* THE TIRTHANKARAS. "He became an ascetic at the age of three hundred, at Dvaraka (Magadhi Baravavae). He lived seven hundred years as an ascetic,-in all a thousand years. He was only fifty-five days an imperfect ascetic." The date of his death was 84,000 years before the close of the fourth age. To him the mango-tree is sacred. 23. PARSVA or PARAVANATHA was son of King Asvasena by Vama or Bam a Devi; of the race of Ikshwaku; figured with a blue complexion, having a hooded snake (seshaphani) for his cognizance, and is often represented as sitting under the expanded hoods of a snake with many heads, much like the socalled Naga figures at Ajanta and elsewhere. The Parsvanatha Charitra states that whilst Paravanatha was engaged in his devotions his enemy Kamatha caused a great rain to fall upon him; but the serpent Dharanidhara eame, and, as Seva nagari, oversha owed his head as with a chhatra. In the Satrunjaya, Mahatmya Dharana the Naga king is re This account, by a Jaina priest, agrees with that given in the Satrunjaya Mahat. Sarg. XIII. tStevenson, Kalpa Sutra, p. 98: In the Uttara Purana of the Southern Jainas, Krishna is styled Trikhandadhipati, or lord of three portions of the world, and he is the disciple of the Tirthankara Neminatha.-Wilson, Mack. Coll. vol. I. p. 146. "The life of this celebrated Jina, who was perhaps the real founder of the sect, is the subject of a poem entitled Parivanatha Charitra."-Colebrooke, Essays, ut sup. II. 212; Asiat. Res., vol. IX. p. 309. It was written by 139 presented as approaching to worship Pareva while engaged in his second kayotsarga or profound meditation, at Sivapuri in the Kausambaka forest, and holding his outspread hood (phana) over him as an umbrella. From this the town obtained the name of Ahichhatra.SS His Sasanadevi was Padmavati. He was born at Bhelupura in the suburbs of Varanasi (Benares); married Prabhavati the daughter of King Prasenajita; and, according to the Kalpa Sutra, "adopted an ascetic life, with three hundred others, when he was thirty years of age, and for eighty days he practised austerities before arriving at perfect wisdom. He lived after this seventy years less eighty days. his whole term of life being one hundred years, after which he obtained liberation from passion and freedom from pain. He wore one garment, and had under his direction a large number of male and female ascetics." His death took place two hundred and fifty years before that of the last Tirthankara (i. e., B. c. 777). He died while, with thirty others, performing a fast on the top of Mount Sammeya or Samet Sikhar. 24. VARDHAMANA, also called V IRA, MAHAVIRA, VARDHAMANA PRABHU, &c., and surnamed Charama tirthakrit, or last of the Jinas, and emphatically Sramana or the saint. He was the son of Siddhartha by Trisala, T of the race of Ikshvaka and family of Kasyapa; born at Chitrakot cr Kundagrama, and described as of a golden complexion, having the lion (sinha) as his cognizance. His Sasana was Siddhayika devi. His life is the subject of the Kalpa Sutra, which professes to have been composed by Bhadraba hu Sva mi of Anandapura, now Badnagar, in the reign of Druvasena, 980 years after the death of Mahavira, -i. e. A. D. 454. Mahavira's paternal uncle was Suparava, his elder brother Nandivardhan a, his sister (mother of Jamali)-Sudara an a. His wife was Yasoda, by whom he had a daughter named Anojja and Priyadarsan a, who became Briddha Tapa Gachha in Samvat 1654, and occasionally calls this Jina by the name of Jagannatha.-Delamaine, Asiat. Trans. vol. I. pp. 428-436. SS Mah. XIV. 31-35 Compare Bigandet, Legend of Gaudama, 2nd ed. p. 99 (1st ed. p. 69); Hardy's Buddhism, p. 182. Stevenson's Kalpa Sutra, Chap. VII. pp. 97, 98. See the story of his birth in Max Muller's Hist. Sansk. Liter. p. 261, quoted from the Kalpa Satra, pp. 35, 36, also an account of his life in H. H. Wilson's Works, vol. I. pp. 291-804.

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140 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MAY, 1873. the wife of Jamali. His father and mother frequently mentioned than the others, and their died when he was 28 years of age, and he con- statues are more numerous. tinued for two years afterwards with Nandi. Besides the Tirthankaras of the present (Ava. vardhana: he then departed to practise sarpint) cycle of the world's duration, they Austerities, which he continued twelve and a reckon also twenty-four each of the past and half years as a sage only in outward disguise : future (Utsarpint) renovations or cycles. Heas a Digambara "he went robeless, and had no machandra gives the names of the whole fortyvessel but his hand." Finally he became an eight in the following lines :Arhat, or Jina, being worthy of universal ado- Utsarpinyamatitayam chaturvinsatirachatam ration, omniscient, and all-seeing; and at the Kevaladnyani Nirvani Sagaro-tha Mahiyasah || nge of seventy-two years he became exempt from Vimalah Sarvanubhatih75ridharoDatta tirthaall pain for ever. This is said to have occurred krit | at Pa wapuri or Pa pa puri near Raja- Damodara! Sutejasch" Svamyatho Munisuvragriha at the court of Hastipala, three tah | and a half months before the close of the fourth 138umatih Sivagati schaiy15 Astago thal6Nimisage or Dukhamu Sulchamd in the great period varah 1 named avasarpini. "On the night on which 17 AnilosVasodhara khyah1(r)Kritargho tha'Jinethe adorable ascetic here was delivered from svarah | pain, Gotama Indra bhuti, the chief of 219uddhamatihasivakarahSyandana echatha his perfectly initiated disciples, had the bonds of Sampratih affection by which he was tied to his preceptor Bhavinyan tu Padmanabhah"SuradevahSuparscut asunder, and attained infinite, certain, and vakah | supreme intelligence, and perception." This "Svayamprabha scha'Sarvanabhatir Deva"Sruevent the Gujarat Jainas date 470 before the todayau Samvat of Vikrama, i.e. B. c. 526"; others ap. Pedhilah'Pottilasch&pi10Satakirti echa?!Suvra. parently 512 years before Vikrama, or B. c. tahl 569+; the Jainas of Bengal 580, and those of 1- Amamo nigh"Kashayascha nish"Pulako tha Maisur 607 before Vikrama, but probably by nir! Mamah mistake for the Saka era, which would bring these 16 Chitraguptah 17 Samadhi scha!!Sanvara schal latter dates to B. c. 502 and 539 respectively. & Yasodharah | Adiswara, santi, Nemi, Parswa, and Vira, the 20 Vijayoal Malla Devauch.Anantavirya echa first, sixteenth, and last three Tirthankaras are Bhadrakriti regarded as the principal jinas: they are more Evam sarvavasarpinyatsarpinishu jinottamah || THE LEGEND OF RISHYA SRINGA. BY V. N. NARASIMMIYENGAR, BENGALOR. In one of the deepest and most romantic glenstions are among the most valuable, consisting of of the Maisur Malnad, formed by the buttresses supari, cardamoms, rice, &c. Territorially, the of the Western Ghats, is nestled the shrine of village of Kigga is in the Koppa Taluka of Sringesvara of Kigga. The locality is extreme-| the Nagar Division. There is a tradition atly picturesque, and the habits and enstoms of taching to this shrine to the effect that no the inhabitants are very primitive. The soil is drought will ever approach within 12 gavadas rich, and, though thinly scattered, the peasants of the god. In seeking the origin of this tradi. are by no means over-industrious. The produc- tion, the following legend has been gathered. * Cont. Stevenson, Kalpa Satra, pp. 86, 90, 91, 99, 96. Ertevkmi, and Sriastagn, and the affir ji is usually added to + Prinsep's Useful Tables (1858), p. 166. each. To most of the names of the Future Jin the affix is nathayanama, and the 6th, 7th, 15th, 21st and 22nd are 1 Kalpa Satra, prof. p. iii. respectively onlled Srljivaders, Srutodanatha, Mamanmu. $ Weber would bring down this date to 848 or 849 B. C. natha, Srl Mallinkths, and Sjina deva. See Brigga, Cities iTber Catr. Mahat. p. 12. of Gujarashtra, p. 340. * Abhidhana Chintamani, 58-70. In other liste, the TA gavada is popularly known to be about 12 English 8th, 11th, and 15th of the Past Age are styled Sridetta, mile.

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MAY, 1873.] RISHYA SKINGA. 141 It is scarcely necessary to remark that the was his own flesh and blood, and conveyed it to people of the country accept its truth. But his Asrama, where he brought the child up, simpler explanation may easily be arrived at. feeding him with his own fare of roots, leaves, The temple is built close to the eastern base of &c., and performing over him the prescribed rites, the Western Ghats, and as their gigantic peaks such as Nanakarana, Jatakarma, Upanayana, intercept and appropriate the precious burden &c. When the boy was about twelve years of the clouds during the S. W. monsoon, the old, Paramesvara and Parvati were one day locality happens by a simple natural law to be taking an airing in the celestial regions, athighly favoured with rain. The local priest- tended by their retinue of evil spirits, ghosts, hood, with a view to enhance their own import- and devils, and were much surprised to find ance and gains, have turned the natural pheno- a child in such company. They alighted on menon to their own advantage, clothing it with the spot, and blessed the boy, investing him a religious and supernatural garb. with the varam, or power of destroying faVibhandaka Muni, son of Kasvapa, son of mine and drought within twelve yojanas of Kasyapa, who was the son of Marichi Brahma, his abode. consulted his father as to the choice of the "Once upon a time, when Romapida* Maharaja best place for tapas, and was directed to the was ruling the kingdom of Anga, it was overspot in which the river Tungabhadra runs in taken by an unusual drought of twelve years' three different directions. Vibhandaka there- duration, and the people were in great suffering, upon went in search of such a place, commenc- no food or drink being procurable for men or ing from the source of the river, and after pass- cattle. At this juncture the divine Rishi Sanating various tirthas and holy spots, arrived at kumara, who has the privilege of visiting the Sringapura (modern Sringeri), and identified it earth whenever the fancy seizes him, went to see with the locality ordained by his holy father, from the afflicted country and its unfortunate ruler. the Tungabhadra there making three different He was duly received by the Raja, and informed sweeps in its course. The Rishi here perform- him that if the young Rishya Spinga, son of ed the rite of tapas rigorously for three thousand Vibhandaka Muni,t could be induced to visit the years, and its severity (lit. jvala, flame) pene- country of Anga, it would get rain in abundance, trated Indra's heaven and seriously disturbed and regain its usual prosperity. Romapada its denizens. They in a body complained of it (hare-footed) could make nothing of this inforto their ruler, Indra, who directed one Chitra- mation, and consulted all the wise men in his sona to interrupt the fiery tapas of Vibhin. dominions on the subject. They referred to their daka. Chitrasena thereupon conveyed Indra's sacred books, and told him that the Asrama of behests to Urvasi (the head of celestial frail Vibhandaka was situated on the banks of the beauties), who then went to the Rishi's Asrama Tungabhadra river, which was in the southern or hermitage. The ascetic was then absorbed in direction. The advisers moreover expressed dhyana or contemplation. Towards evening their own inability to bring Rishya Sringa to (pradosha) Vibhandaka went to bathe in the river, Anga, but suggested that the Raja should emand was deeply smitten with the celestial nymph ploy dancing-girls of surpassing beauty to allure whom he encountered on the road. He after the young Rishi to the desired place. Acting wards proceeded to the river, and performed upon this practical suggestion, Romapada sent his ablutions. About the same time a doe came several lovely women of equivocal character, to drink in the river and unconsciously imbibed with large supplies of scents, cloths, jewels and the washings of the ascetic. The animal imme. wealth, and directed them to conduct Rishya diately became great with young, and in time was Spinga to his capital, by every means in their delivered of a human male child, with the un- power, whether fair or foul. They at first estaugnal addition of two horns like those of the deer. blished a depot at a place called Narve, and, The mother ran away directly after, and Vibhan. taking advantage of Vibhandaka's absence from daka, who arrived at the river-side about that the hermitage, gradually initiated the unsophistime, heard the wailing of the infant. By second ticated young Rishi in the pleasures of the sight (divya jnanam) he perceived that the child world, escaping from the certain malediction of * The Ramayana has Lomapada.-ED. + Conf. Max Muller, Hist. Sansk. Lit. p. 144.- ED.

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142 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. the father to their own retreat at Narve. The enchanted young man one day asked his enchanters the object which prompted their unusual attentions. They gave him highly beguiling pictures of the wealth and beauty of their own country, and invited him to go with them to enjoy the same. The young Rishi was completely overcome by the artifices of these deluders, and consented. Taking advantage of the father's absence at the river-side, the dancinggirls took Rishya Sringa with them and started for Angadeea. In the mean time the longwithheld rains descended upon that country, and there was soon joy, plenty, and prosperity in it. Romapada took a large retinue about halfway and met Rishya Sringa, and conducted him to his capital, where every honour and worship was paid to him. Some time after, the Maharaja praising the Rishi very much, offered to give him his daughter, Santadevi, in marriage, and the offer was accepted. The wedding came off with due pomp and eclat, and the happy bridegroom dwelt for some time in the country of his adoption. About this period, Dasaratha, king of Ayodhya, was in deep distress from the absence of an heir to his throne. Narada paid him a visit, and, divining the cause of his host's dejection, advised him to invite to his court the Muni Rishya Sringa, who would bring about the realization of his wishes. Dasaratha did accordingly, and Rishya Sringa conducted a yajna (sacrifice) called Putra Kameshti in which the god Agni came out of the sacrificial fire, and handing a cup of Paramanna (Payasa), told the Raja to distri bute its contents among his wives, whereby he would get four sons, named Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata, and Satrughna.+ The god thereupon vanished out of sight. Dasaratha followed the directions of Agni, whose prophecy was duly fulfilled. Rishya Sringa soon after returned to his father's old Aerama, but did not find him there. His father's disappearance afflicted him very much, whereupon Vibhandaka emerged from the Linga of Malahanisvara. The son was overjoyed, paid him due reverence, and asked him where he could best conduct tapas. Vibhandaka referred him, however, to Maha Vishnu, who was living in the Sahyadri hills. Rishya Sringa was accordingly proceeding in that direction, when [MAY, 1873. he was benighted on the bank of a stream near Nirmalapura (modern Nemmar.) He stopped there to perform his evening religious rites, when a Rakshasa named Vyaghra (tiger) rushed upon him with the object of swallowing him up. The holy man thereupon threw a drop of water upon the Rakshasa from the nail of his little finger, and instantly the demon quitted the body of the tiger, and begged the Rishi to tell him what he should do. Rishya Sringa directed him to go to Sarvesvara (a Lingam so called), and by doing so the quondam tiger attained moksha (salvation). 'Next day Rishya Sringa proceeded to the Sahyadri, and performed tapas there for seven years in honour of Maha Vishnu. That god told him to go to an incarnation of Siva, called Chandra Sekhara, at the foot of the Sahyadri mountain, The Rishi went to the spot indicated, and peered at it through the darkness with half-closed eyes. Hence the place is called Kigga, from Kiggannu, the half-open eye. The Rishi again per. formed tapus, and Chandra Sekhara appeared before him and asked what he wanted. Rishya Sringa begged that Parameevara would absorb himself within his (Rishya Sringa's) soul. Accordingly Paramesvara became one with Rishya Sringa, whose name also became celebrated in the world.' The Ramayana says-beneath wide-spreading creepers and climbing plants, and in their boats. See Wheeler, Although this spot is not exactly on the bank of the Tungabhadra, still the Paranas say so, as the rivers Nandini and Nalini flow respectively from the left and right of it, and join the Tungabhadra at Nemmar. It will be perceived from the foregoing that the interested Brahmans have woven a marvellous story, however preposterous, round a plain natural fact. This legend has been extracted from the Skanda Purana. A portion of the same is related, in somewhat different language, in the Mahabharata Aranyaparva, (Adhyayas 110 to 113.) Also in the Ramayana Balakanda (chapters 9 to 17). On the back part of many temples of note there are at present well cut representations in relief of the manner in which the privileged Rishya Sringa was conveyed from the quiet of his father's hermitage by the creatures who were sent on the mission by Romapada. The accompanying cat is a copy of the one in the temple Hist. of India, Vol. II. pp. 12, 18.-ED. + Conf. Wheeler, Hist. Ind. Vol. II. pp. 21, 22.-ED,

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MAY, 1873.] HINDU PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK. 143 of Gopa lasvami in Devandahalli, and fairly represents all similar sculptured figures. The Rishi is represented with a deer's head ! Narve is still a village, and goes by that name. It is about 12 miles from the shrine at Kigga, which is itself about 6 miles from Sringeri, the seat of the great Sankaracharya. It only remains to say that the Linga in the temple is a long cylinder, over three feet above ground, and some part of it must besides be buried under the Pitham. Its surface is rough, and the credulous are asked to believe, with the aid of the light reflected from a large mirror, that the inequalities on the Linga are nothing less than the actual avatars of Siva, his consort, and his bull! There are some fine carvings and inscriptions in the vicinity. The shrine is largely endowed with lands, partially free from government revenue. It would be difficult to find lovelier and more enchanting scenery than that which the traveller suddenly comes upon in these re The Tungabhadra above referred to is only the Tunga-far above its confluence with the Bhadra. HINDU PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK, AND GREEK PRONUNCIATION OF HINDU WORDS. BY DR. A. WEBER, BERLIN, Translated from the German by E. Rehatsek, M.C.E. It is well known that in consequence of Alexan- India, and conversely many Indian ones came to der's campaigns the Greeks, for a considerable the West. Now, the form in which they appear time, maintained close relations with India. Greek in both localities bears the stamp of the pronunsovereigns reigned during more than two centa. ciation of the time, and may therefore throw a ries in the north-western provinces of India, and certain light thereon; that light cannot of course even far down in Western India; Greek ambas. be very decisive, inasmuch as in general but very Badors were sent to the courts of Hindu kings; scanty auxiliary means, c. g. legends on coins in Greek merchants, Greek art and science, influenced the imperfect and difficult Aryan characters, are at Hindu life directly, partly from the Panjab and our disposal; and further, because in the receppartly through Alexandria. This influence wastion and subsequent transmission of foreign undoubtedly more considerable than is usually vocables their phonetic values were retained merely supposed; it extended itself not merely to practical in a general way, while at the same time they sufbranches, e.g. to the coining of money,* to archi- fered considerably both from popular etymological tecture, to dramatic representations, to astrono- assimilation to words current in the vernacular, mico-astrological notions, &c., but also to purely and from unintentional deterioration in the mouths mental divisions of knowledge, such as the trans- of the unlearned. mission of various western narratives, fables, tra- I desire the following data concerning this subditions, and other legendary or religious matters. ject to be considered merely as a first attempt In return for this, various Indian materials as well waiting for, and in need of, being supplemented in as intellectual products found their way through many ways. It is hoped that the systematic excommerce from the East to the West; but although cavations begun lately in India in the ancibnt the influence of the West upon India may have Greek dominions will produce a rich harvest of dominated in pre-Christian times, it seems, on the coin-legends, and will be lucrative also in other other hand, that in post-Christian ones (exceptions analogous respects. May a propitious star guide of course also existing) Hindu influence upon the the archeological expedition lately started to those West had conversely a stronger current. Many localities under Cunningham's skilful direction, and possessions which had originally come to the may thereby the conception of a Corpus inHindus from the West now again migrated back, scriptionum Indicarum, executable only but in the new shape which they had meanwhile in India, appear so feasible to the leading powers assumed in India. of the Indian Government that this pium desideThus it could not fail to happen that nnmbers of rium, so long and painfully felt in scientific circles, Greek words and names should find their way to at last be brought to a completion ! * Even the silver coins of the Guptas show Greek oor ers, the shipwrecked Tambalos was bronght, "was & traita. 'friend of the Hellenes and esteemed their science." (Lassen, + The king of Palibothra, to whom, in the first century of Ind. Ait. K. III. 264.)

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14+ THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MAY, 1873. I. GREEK NAMES AND WORDS AMONG HINDUS. First of all I mention the names of the GraecoBactrian kings contained in the above-mentioned coin-legends deciphered by Prinsep, Las. sen, Raoul Rochette, Wilson, Tho. mas, Cunningham, Dowson, Rajen. dra la la Mitra and others, in connection with whatever else may here be available bearing on historical personages, &c., from contemporaneous documents, i.e. the inscriptions of Piyadasi and those from the period of the Indo-Skythian kings. Here it is to be kept in mind that the language of the documents in question is a kind of Pali, or rather Prakrit, and that therefore its words are influenced by the peculiar phonetic laws of this stage of the language, which, among other things, does not admit of ai, ar, and, as a rule, of no group of consonants which does not consist of homogeneous consonants. Also the terminations of the names, mostly standing in the genitive form, were obliged to conform to the Indian declension, whereby they underwent many changes and degradations. Initial a usually remains unchanged, thus : Alikasunari (PAXcEavpos), Antikona and Antiyoka in the inscriptions of Piyadasi, AkhabiyasaApx Brov, Agathuklayasa-Ayabox covs, Ayasa-- Acout Ayilishasa-ACicout, Atimakhasa-Ayripaxou, Atinvidarasa-Apriudopou, AntialikidasaAvrial kidov, Apaladatasa-Apoloduro, AmitasaApuvrov, artamisiyasa (of the month prepris), apiraesa (P of melatos). In the same manner a medial a remains so, as, besides in the above, also in Maga in the inscriptions of Piyadasi, in Epadrasa-Emavepov, Eukratidasa -Eukpatidou, Hipastratasa-IoapaTou, Kaliyapaya-Kallos, Menadrasa, Minan. dasa-Mevav&pou, Patalavatasa-Ilavracoros, Spalirieasa-malipoovt, Stratasarpatos, stratega -otparnyos, panemara (of the month mavepos) tsattikasa (P of Eav ukos). e appears as e in Hermayasa-'Epuatou, Heliyakloyasa-HALOK cou, Menadrasa, panenasa; -as i in Artimidarasa, apirassa, Minandasa. Pilashinasa- D evou, Teliphasa, -Telepov;-as a in Agathuklayasa, Akhabiyasa, artamisiyasa. is always represented by i, thus Ajilishasa, * To these especially pertain the Macedonian names of months, for the discovery whereof upon them we are indebted to Cunningham and Dowson. In the inscription of Takhti Bahi lately discovered by Dr. Leitner, the reckoning is, according to Dowson's decipherment, in Indian months. See Trubner's Amer. and Oriental Record, June 1871, p. 188. + As Skythian name this strictly belongs further on, to p. 148. Accordingly, in this portion of India at least, the In. dian a itself had an obscured pronunciation nearly allied to 0. With this circumstance it agrees that Panini, who was precisely of this district, actually mentions a double pronunciation of a, one open and the other close, in ognse- Antikona, Antiyoka, Dianisiyasa - Alovuorov, Diyamedasa-Aloundov, Johilasa - Zwilov, Heliya kleyasa, Hipastratasa, Kaliyapaya, Nikiasa-NIKLOV, daisisasa ( of the month datorios.) o appears as o in Antiyoka, Antikona;-as u in Turamaya - IITOAeuauos in the inscriptions of Piyadasi; Agathuklayasa;-in the rule above as af, thus Apaladatasa, Dianisiyasa, Diyamedasa, Hipastratasa, Hiliyakleyasa, Kaliyapaya, Pilashinasa. v is rendered by i, as Lisiasa-Avolov, Amitasa, Dianisiyasa. n appears throughout as e, as in Heliylealeyasas, Diyamedasa, Teliphasa, stratega. w is transcribed by o in Johilasa, -by & in Atimidarast. at appears as ai ((r)) in daisisasa (facsimile wanted); alo as aya in Turamaya, Hermayasa, as ae in apiraesa (P facsimile wanted). ao appears as o in Yonal of Piyadasi,- co as ava in Patalavatasa. av is represented by a or rather o in Maasa or Moasa (and even as Mogasa)-Mavov, v by e-u in E-ukratidasa. With reference to the consonants, there is to be noted the representation of (by j in Johilasa, by y in Ayasa, Ayilisasa, by sh in Pilashinasa, by ta (P) in taattika, by th in Agathuklayasa, by p in Pilishinasa, by ph in Teliphasa, x by k in Antiyoka, by kh in Akhabiyasa, Atimakhasa,--the groupe k , kp, OTP, OT, OT, are preserved in Heliyakleyasa, Agathuklayasa, Eukratidasa, Stratasa, stratega, artamisiya, Spalirisasa ;-Ak is represented by lik in Antia. likidasa ;-vis now and then omitted (probably only graphically, by omission of the hook over it) before , 8, as Atimakhasa, Menadrasa ;-of the initial mt only the T remains in Turamaya ;-- was pronounced as di, thus Dianisiyasa, Diyamedasa, Hardening is perceptible in Antikona, Maka (nearly Maga),-substitution of r for 1 in Turamaya, apiraesa. Let us now turn to the words which may be pointed out in Hindu Literature. Of the names adduced above, the only one that can certainly be shown in it is that of Menander, but in the form Milinda,-namely in the PAli-texts of quence whereof he sets up 14, and not a, the standard for the quantitative relations of the) othet vowels. See Ind. Stud. IV. 119, V. 92. In other parts of India the matter probably stood differently see below, pp.148, 149. Although the Greek legend itself appears once on e coin as 1.0-: (see Thomas, Catalogue of Bactrian Coins, London, 1866, p. 14;) the same has no Indian legend. The name Yons, or rather Yavana, for laoves, was however known to the Hindus at any rate before the time of Alexander, f.e. during the earlier Persian were, in which also Indians took part as auxiliaries against the Greeks; on the name itself see my remark in Kund's Zeit. achri, v. 221.

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GREEK WORDS AMONG HINDUS. MAY, 1873.] the southern Buddhists; at the same time with him also the name of his birth-place and capital Alasan da (or - sadda), i. e. Alegavopeia is mentioned. Possibly also, as Lassen assumes, the name of the Mlechha-or rather Parasika-king Megha which occurs in the drama Mudrarakshasa, contains a reminiscence of the old royal title peyas Barikeus, because, although this drama itself is comparatively modern, the author of it may probably have drawn the materials for it from ancient sources, and the name Basili (i.e. doubtless Bartheus) actually occurs, according to Schiefner, among the northern Buddhists. As I have also already ventured further to surmiset that the royal name Jaloka, Jalaukas in the Kashmir chronicle is referable to Zeleukos, it is further possible also that their Amita, Amitaba, is connected with Auvvras. The buildings of Asura Maya immortalized in the Mahabharata reminds us of the edifices of IIrolepatos, and the former moreover has perhaps inherited only from Ptolemaios the astronomer a portion of his later reputation as a teacher of astronomy, just as also finally the powerful Yavana king Kaserumant, in the Mahabharata, doubtless represents only a faded reminiscence of the kaurap of post-Christian centuries, transformed by a fanciful popular etymology. Two of the above names are preserved to us, perhaps in a direct translation, Apollodotos namely as Bhagadatta,SS and Demetrios, as Datt&mitra,|| the first appearing in the Mahdbharata, as a Yavana king, and the second as a Sindhu-Sauvira king. Of the Roman age there is, strangely enough, besides the name Romaka, T nothing but the word dindra-denarius. Whether thateri in Ebn Haukal is referable to srarnpos or Terpa-, or, according to Dowson's recently ex See my Ind. Skizzen, pp. 83, 84. + See my dissertation on the Ramayana, p. 33. [Ind. Antiq. Vol. I. p. 240.] I Ind. Skizzen, p. 88; jalaukas, "leech," and ka serumant, "endued with a spine," are but little suitable really to have been original names of kings. Indeed, Lassen derives Jaloka from jayaleka (II. 273). The transformation of Turamaya into Asura Maya may per haps be recognized as due to the political tendencies of those times. According to Von Gutschmid's supposition. Comp. Ind. Stud. V. 152. Thus according to Lassen. On his town Demetrias Dattamitrt, see Ind. Skizz., pp. 82, 83; my translation of the Malavikagnimitram, Pref. p. 47; and my Dissert. on the Ramayana, p. 77 [Ind. Antiquary, vol. I. p. 179]; from it a Yonaka, son of Dhammadeva, makes his appearance as a donor of pious gifts in the inscriptions of a Buddhist temple [Jour. Bomb. B. R. As. Soc. vol. V. p. 54]. In the inscriptions mentioned in the preceding note, mention is made also of the gifts of a Romaka, son of Velidata. In the great Jataka collection (see Westergaard, Catal. der Orient. MSS. der Kopenhag. Bibl., p. 39) also a Romakajatakam is mentioned (III. 8, 7, no. 145 pressed opinion, has nothing to do with Greek, remains undecided. In dramma the word 8paxun was preserved down to late times. The words khalina, bridle-xalivos, and surunga (in the Mahavanso and Mahabharata) a mine-shaftauptys, refer probably to bellico-political relations with the Greeks. Here I recall to mind also my surmise (Ind. Stud. IX. 380) concerning the remarkable statement of the Paniniya Sikshd, v. 6, on the salutation of the Surashtra women (Saurashtrika nari): ara according to one and ta kra according to the other recension,-that the reading ought to be khera, or rather that it is to be borrowed from the second hemistich, and that therein a reference to the Greek salutation xape is to be sought.* Not so much to political as to commercial relations the words kastira-kaarsirepos,+ kasturikastoreion,kargu---kegkhros, weld ink-melas, gamita samida-repidarist, Hind. mulva-polussos SS, are indebted for their acceptance. Esop's fables are probably responsible for the two words lopdkaalopex and kramelaka--kamelos, both of them connected with Hindu words or rather roots. The most numerous appropriations belong to the astronomico-astrological domain. In the first placeas already observed, by Asura Maya-who, according to later traditions, lived in Romakapura -is possibly meant PIrolepatos the author of the Almagest; further by Manitt ha perhaps Mave@wv the author of the Apotelesmata is to be understood;|| at all events by Paulisa a Pavlos is meant,-probably Paulus Alexandrinus, in whose Elraywyn almost all the technical astrological terms which have passed into Sanskrit may be identified, whence probably we ought to recognize it as the basis of the Paulisa-siddhanta which unfortunately exists only in scanty and insufficient 272). Perhaps this text may again afford desiderated information on Roman relations. (Comp. below the data from the Baverujataka.) Surashtra-Eupaorpa was long subject to Greek dominion. The oldest coins of those parts show Greek types and letters; the princes were satraps of the Greek kings, and reckoned, Thomas states, according to the era of the Seleucides.-Yavana girls still appear in the dramas of Kalidasa as attending to the personal wants of kings, and probably they saluted them also with the salutation of their Yavana language; comp. also Introd. to my Transl. of the Malavika. pp. 35, 46, 47. (It may be remarked that already T's. V. 3, 7, 2 mentions a female body. guard.). + From Karasionpos ? see. Ind. Skizzen, pp. 75, 89. Because the assumption that these (comp. simila, similago) are old Indo-Germanic words is suspicious even from the meaning. Wheat-flour was scarcely known to our Indo-Germanic ancestors. SS Comp. Pott in the Zeitschrift fur d. K. des Morg. IV. 261;-kupya, a base metal, can hardly be said to have anything to do etymologically with cuprum. Kern (Introd. to Vardha Mihira's Brihat Samhita, p. 52) once thought also of Manilius.

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146 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MAY, 1873. quotations. The following words, namely:anapht-avaon. (kokera-- yokepws, Apoklimadroxy, ara-'Apns, asphujit--'Appodern, ittham (itthasi Dr. Bhau Daji, ithusi Muir)-ixus, kendra -Kevtpov, kemadruma-xpnuario uos, t kona-Kpovos Frikona- payvos, kaurpya-okoprios, kriya-kpios, janitra-Superpov, jituma-818uuos, jika-Svyov, jyau-Zeus, taivuri-Taupos, taukskika--Toorns, drikana drekana---dektyos, durudhari-Sopuopua, duschikyat-rutkov, dy Anam dyutam---8vrov, panaphari 'etapopa, pithena---apdevos, mesranta-uerovpimur, liptii-entn, rilpha rishphii-putn, leyaleur, vesi-Duos, Sunophii-cunun harija opucav, hibuka-'Uroyeloy, kimna perhaps himra?) 'Epuns, heli-'Htos, kridroga-vopoxoos, hori-'apa. Lastly, it must at any rate be observed that, induced by homophony, the Hindus transferred to their Krishna many legends &c. about Xplotos which reached them, or which they had themselves become acquainted with in the West. From what has preceded, with reference to the second group of Greek words which can be pointed out in Hindu literature, the following conclusions as to phonetic relations may be drawn :-a appears as a or a in Alasandil, Basili (?), Amita ), anaphu, a poklina, ara, asphujit, hemadruma,t jamitra.drikina, panaphard, pathena, mesirana, sunaphul, hora, kasira, kastari, khalina, thateri), dinara, dramma, Manittha (P),-as e in vesi, -as i in Milinda ; as a in Alasandd,--as e in dhokera, kendra, drekana, pdthena, mesurana, leya. Megha (?), meli, -as i in jimitra, tiptd, Himna, Milinda, -as ri in doikana,-and is dropped in panaphara; Iasi in dpoklima, usphujit, ittham, trikona, kriya, jituma, rispha, vesi, harija, Besili (?), khali. na, kastira, -as u in kemadruna, surungi. o as o in &kokera, dpoklima, kona, hridroga, -as u in dsphujit, durudhara, hibuka, Hind. mulea,as au in kaurpya, taukslika, -as a in durudhard, panaphara, harija ; v as i in hibuka, Amita ),-as ri in kridroga, -as u in jituma, durudhard, duschikya, sunapha, surunga, -as u in jaka, -as yu in dyuna, dyuta ; nas e in kramelaka, kemadruna, heli, -as i in dindra ; w as o in trikona, hord, Romaka, lopala, -as u in kasturi ; ai as d in Akokera, -as e in kherdn (?), kasoru mant (P for kesar-), -ano as aya in Asura Maya (and Turaniaya); av na dou in tavuri,--as au in Paulisa, ev as an in jyau, Jalaukas(); ou as u in mesurana. With reference to the consonants, it is to be observed first, as to the dentals, that 8 before or rather with i appears as j, thus dsphujit, jimitra, jituma, whilst in dyuna, dyuta, a y is inserted between 8 and v;- is represented by j in harija,juka, by jy in jyau ;-o appears as 8 in Basili (?), Kaserulmant (?), surunga, mesirani, sunaphui, as & in vesi, Paulisa, as j in Jalaukas (?).-Of the aspirates appears as thin pathena,-x as tth in ittha - as pk in anapha, panaplard, synaphd, as hph or shph | in rihpha, rishpha, as sph in dsphujit, as dh in duradhard, as v in vesi, -x as ke in lemadruma (?), as kh in kherin (?) khalina, as ech in duschikya, as g in hridroga. of the liquids, I stands for in Milindo, for 1 in Asura Maya (?).-Hardening occurs in ulkokera, trikona, jituma, juka; on the other hand softening occurs in kendra, kemadruma (), du chikya, hibuka, hridroga. The assimilation to like or homophonous Sanskrit words has evidently been much in operation hero, as in trikona, duschikya, kemadruma, hidroga, Kaserumant, Jalaukas, Asura Maya. A comparison of the results obtained from both groups of words--that is, of those authenticated by contemporaneous documents and those which can be pointed out in Hindu literature,-showg as a deviation in the second that the o is not so often rendered by a as in coin-legends; and also the occasional representation of by U, the regular representation of v by (more rarely by i), the rendering of av by uv, of av bye (?), of du by au ; lastly, the Zetacization of 8c into jin appears in . both groups as e. II. INDIAN NAMES AND WORDS AMONG GREEKS. Here we have to deal partly with politico-geographical and other names, and partly with articles of commerce and objects of daily life. The names of wares came first to the West, in part very early -long before Alexander-and either, like the name India itself, through Persian, with the form transmuted according to Persian phonetic laws + * Dr. Bhau Daji seeks under the name of the Yavaneenioi Logluphialuaga, Or rather Sphujidluaga kai Speusippos --See Journ. Royal As. So. I. 409 (1865), but Kern Introd. to Var. Mih., p. 48).an 'Appodius. Mr. Hermann Jacobi, who is now engaged on an edition of the Laghujataka, informe me that Kevo popia would rather answer to kemadruma, which with its denominative Kevod popro occurs in Proclus, Porphyrius and Manetho. 1 This word, protected by the Laghujdtaka I. 17 (Ind. Stud. II. 281), appears by Muir in J. 48. S. of Beng. XIV. 811, as du chikatha, and has further been corrapted in Las Ben, IV. 843, to fichakatha. Kern, Introd. to Var. Min., p. 29. Comp. Ind. Stud. II. 281 n. T Comp. the otherwise inverted representation of by I. Comp. herewith, before everything else, Lassen's Ind. Alt. K. I. 1-352, II. 580.899., III. 1-386. + Namely h (as spiritus lenis) for s, thus in Syr. hendu 'Ivoos sindu, for h, for 1 (Comp. e. 9. aleo La sen, II. 559, a to Hypobarus and Martichoras).

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HINDU WORDS IN GREEK. MAY, 1873.] as druzon, briza for vythi, peperi piper for pigpali, vapdos for nalada, or through PhoenicioBabylonian commercial intercourse, as agaru ni dyalloxov, kapi-pio knros,+ karpasaxaprasos, kunkuma-cp curcuma kpokos, maddra (P)-madelkov Boellov. Marakataspapaybos we may assume was probably borrowed earlier from the Semitic: SS in the case of kalama -kalapos (borrowed in Arabic 5) halm,' and in bana-kavassos, ' hemp,' on account of the transposition of sound, perhaps a cognate origin dating from Indo-Germanic times, may be assumed.|| In this place, however; only those words will suit our purpose the Indian origin whereof and we shall have to take up many Prakrit forms of them -is either quite, or at least approximately, ascertained, whilst numerous other names and words, with which such is not the case, must be excluded. Firstly, articles of commerce, or rather mineral, vegetable, and animal substances, and of daily tife in general, belong to the following class of words: upala--opallios ; kapphara (? karpara)-kamphora, kushtha-KOOTOS Costus, *kajuaphala (katukaphala) --karuophullon, *atubkari-kattubourine, *khinnavari-cinnabari; graha-ypaas; chandana-ravdava santalon ; tamalapattra-malabathron, tala-tala, deva-denos (deunos, basileus), ndrikela-argellia (P Margellia), * nlla---nilon ; *pattrapapikd-patromamyn, bhutari-Bourupov (asafoetida), mushkamoskhos; veluriya-belurros, berullos, sakkhara ( ? karkard)--sakkhari sakkharon, saguna-sacon sacondion sagenon, saphena-sapenas, singavera Of these Minayeff alone has discovered lately the first direct trace, namely, in the Baverujatakam (Jat. IV., 34, 9 no. 334) according to the Comm. of Buddhaghosa. (5th cent. A. D.) It contains a legendary report of repeated voyages of Indian merchants to Bavera (Babiru of the Old Persian cuneiform writing 3) where they brought, on the second occasion, the first peacock for sale. See Me langes Asiatiques of the Imp. Russ. Academy, Vol. VI. 1871, p. 557 seqq. It is mentioned also in the Bible that among other things the Phoenicians in Solomon's time brought also peacocks from Ophir (Abhtra). (Here I may incidentally observe that I do not think n is connected with sikhin, because the latter word can scarcely have meant a peacock at the time here intended. Also the word togei, supposed to be Malabarian, which has been enlisted for this connection, can scarcely have originated from sikhin, rather perhaps some Dakhani word, which in that case might very well be the root of the Hebrew word). The form Baveru, with r instead of l, here of course militates against a Phoenician, but rather for a later Persian mediation in the legend; otherwise the final u here, as well as in the Babiru of the cuneiform writing, is probably a remnant of the Semitic nominative sign. This word, curiously enough, occurs in the form kafu certainly, as early as the hieroglyphs of the 17th cent Conf. Joh. Dumichen, The fleet of an Egyptian queen of the 17th century, Leipzig, 1868, Plates II, and XIV. The l of the words for agaru and madara (?) bears witness to their transmission through Semites, not across Persia-Hereto belongs also the name Ophir (Abhira) itself, which of course does not occur in Greek. 147 (sriigavera)--ziggiberi, surd-(rogkho)-soura, eulvari (sulvari)-sulphur. Among geographical names the following occurtt-adhisattra (Ahichhattra ?)-Adecora@pos, Anuradhagrama-Avovroyrapmov, andhomatt-AvSaparis, Andhra-Andarae, Andhrasta nta-Avdrasimoundou, Abhisara- Abisares, -ssareis (Bessapear?), Abhira-ABnpia, Ambattha AmbashthaAussarai Aussaorai, Aemaka-Asmagi, AsvakaAssakenoi, Deiknt---Akesines.., * asta (West) Astakampron. Ikshumatt Onparis,SSSS Iravati-Yaparis 'Povadis Udraotes, <Page #162
148 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MAY, 1873. baga Sandarophagos$s, Chandravatf-Sandrabatis, I (Surpdraka ?)-Souppara, Phthdra (44)-Sudroi, SaraChola Chora-Sora. Sena (ea-)-Sourase tou, Sona (Sona)-Sonos. Takahaeila-Taxila, xaphana (ethakara)-Tagara, *Saparna-Separnos, Saray-Sarabos, SaketaTlphala-Tagganoi, taba88a (tarathma)-Tabassoi, Sagenda, Sdrang a-Saragges, Sindhu-Sindus Sintabasa (tapasa)-Tabarw, Tambapannt (Tamrapar- thos Sindimana, Sindoalia, eipanta-simoundou, Sikaka)-Taprobane, * taran guala-Turannoboas,88 Ta- ladida (Sullaladoira)--Sielediba Siala, Berendivi, Imagd-Tamasis, Takalitti (Tamaliptt)-Tamalites, Surdshtra-Surastrene, Suudstu-Soastos, e <Page #163
MAY, 1873.] HINDU WORDS IN GREEK. 149 ORDAThRO-arta or ardha (P) + athira, OPDAGNO-| sulphur, Stoura ;-by eu in Penkela ; by @ in Kophen, ardha +agni or verethraghna * P see Benfey in Supayaonvos.] Z. d. D. M. G. VIII., 450 8eqq., 460 8egg. e, and latin e, stands for ein Bazodeo, belurros, Hence the following results are to be drawn. Keteus, Kekeoi, Kerebothres, Meros, 'Ozene, Sageda, Firstly, as to the vowels : Bapenas, Sourasenoi, Sophagasenos, Khaberis;-fer ai || a stands so regularly for a, d, that there is no need in Hmodos;-for i in 'Aberia (with 'Abiria), Bessaof adducing examples ;--for o in Ilarrala-potala, reon (?);-for w in sagenon (2) --for ava in Kovdoyarns, Pandae, --for aya in Bucar- [Indian e is also further represented by 6, as tion. above.] [Indian a is further represented by o, as in 'Avov. o stands for o in 'Andomatis, .osamba, Lonibare, rogrammon, 'Amitrokhates, 'Erannoboas, 'Ottoro-, Kam: Sonos, Sora, Tosalei;-for au | in Poros, Morieus ; bistholoi, Kanogize, Kokko-, Kondokhates, Kommenases, -for aoa in 'Emodos;-for ta in Sopeithes. Modoura, Mophis, Sandrokuptos, Jomanes,-by in al, a stand for i (ut sup.);-ai, aw for dva, in Erennesis, Derdoi, Kommenases, Kerebothres, Methoria, Peulelaitis, Udraotes ;-1o for aua in 'Imaos ;-eo Semnoi ;-by-in ziggiberi, Lonibare, Sisikuptos ;-by for eva in Deopalli ;-au for a in Glaukanikai, n in bouturon 1 (bhtdri), Durbaioi, (karuophullon, Glausae, Kaumara, Mausolos;-ou for a, a, (ut sup.), Nelkunda (nflakantha P); by ou in simoundou, Andou for n in Ouxentos ;-euo for eva in deuos. barios, sulphur (Bulgari) ;-by o in Mophis, Mau- [Indian o is moreover represented by a, 0, 0, - solos, Tho representation by a is however by far an also by o, w (as above); in l'apouas for Gaurt, the more prevalent). there is probably a transposition from l'aoplas ?] * stands for a (as above), for aya in Kykeot, for Next with reference to consonants, the freana in Ouxentos, for tin Erannoboas; Nelkunda, for quent use of B is to be noted. This letter occurs m in Polemios (Pulumdi), for e in argellion (R), for pin Bibasis, <>, Gondaloi; for an $ in Odormboerae, Bolinge, by exchange with u) in Sarabos. Colube, Poros ;-for ana in Poros, Malloi. (The Indian v is further represented by ph in sulv stands for d, i (as above), for u in Brauppos, phur ;-by the rough aspirate in Udaspes, Uphasis;karuo-, kattu-, Kaspapuros, Kulindrine, oxudrakai, by the Bmooth aspirate in 'Erennesis, 'Ossadios, oxumatie, Sandrokuptos, Sisikuptos, Sndroi, Suras Soanos, Soastos ;-by ou in Ouindion, Porouaroi. trene. Besides va appears as w,-ava as a, EUR, 0, ao, w, [Indian w is represented also by ,, (as above), aua a8 ai, ao; A8 oua in "Ronados (Irivatf),-eva 88 by ou (Latin s) in Ouarsa, Anouro-, Boudnas, Boudda, eo, euo (as above)]. bontnron, <Page #164
150 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MAY, 1873. Spassaya, dvdp.ITIS, Exp1, V&POKUITOS, Gavranov, as well as of also for ch in II (ai,--and for 8 as in Zudadpns, teyye Sepe, Bacoono, and for j, as in Bu. (avriov, Kavoycn, Chun. [ch is also represented by Ti in Taoravns-by in txandanun; its representation by k in Kandaloi is perhaps to be rejected, and we ought to read rovdA01 ;---chh appears as in Bipuyu (R).] of the semivowels p.is not only used for , but also for the lingual (t or rathor * as 'Avdoua. plos, 'Ivd18.1p1, kapvopulloy, Lapin, Av.Supe (?) Zapayayos (P) Balcokovpos (R) In Kol you is put for , in castrov for n. (By adopting Lassen's explanation the lingual tenuis in kartuSoupion would be represented by TT; in Katara, Tabava, the stands for ), tth; in Nekuvda the nth is represented by v8, shth in Kaussuofola by . In Acapouva y is rendered by dt, in the same way dhy by 8. in Madravdivos, Ovudtov;--for see above.] Of the aspirates, & appears for t in Sameons, for th, th, tth, th, in Ivdanpatan, Kalala, Kakoulus, KauBuo Bolot, Medopa, llaudava, once for dh in Stvdos, Op for thr, tr in Adecora@pos, Knpeso@pns, palapa pov, Da.BoOpa, Hapa:- stands for p in 'Yqaris,for bh in Kuony, Savoapopayos, pulirat,--for his Mogus Maois,--for v in sulphur;---x stands for k in xassnpis, Kovdoxarns, pod xos, --for kh, kkh, in Aayev assaons, Koh you, Xarpiacot, cakxapi,--for gh in Apet. poxares,--for h in Bpaxuavat. And as to the Indian aspirates-kh, khh (from shk) are represented by KX, X, as well as by k alone, as in--cinnabari. IIevket ;-gh appears as x,--ch as (as above); nth is transliterated as vd in Nel kuva, sth, shth as or in roupa, 'Aussaorai, KOSTO, IlarioTava ; --dh as 8 only in Suvos, as 8 in 'Adercapos, Andarae, 'Av&pa, 'Avdwars, l'adapos, X8o. Sindus, Madlavdivou, Obudov, as (probably it had first become h in the Indian and then) it had dropped out in 'Avoupo; - ph is rendered by p in sapenas-bh appears as B, 0;-h fell out entirely as in Mavados, Bpquayapa, or appears as the smooth aspirato as in 'Huwdos 'EpavvoBias, 'Iuaos, -Boas, ypaal, Maaypaupov, Mais, Stayal, as the rough aspirate) h in Hemodus, or as . x (as above).] Aspirating occurs in Kov8oxarns, kaupopa, Ewmelons, 'Yaois, Xassnpis, as well as in the use of 8p for tr, ttr (as above), whilst this has conversely been omitted in leukela, cinnabari, Bapyaa, 62penas, through the representation of bh by b, as well as frequently by th, nth, sth, dh, ndk (as above). Hardening takes place in Kovdoxarns, sacon (P), Farruhov, SaxdPOKUNTOS, SLOKUITOS ; but more frequently softening, which howover are mostly reducible to Praksit forms; compare the remarks on B, as further also 'apyetka (P) Bapuyaca, Zada8pns, Kapoy 59, Kuppadon, AapBayai, Mazagae, 'Oogadoy matporateyn, Zapayavos (P), 'Ydaoms. From to the nature of the case, the result of this juxtaposition of Indian vocables occurring in a Greek dress is of greater importance to the prononciation of Indian (see the remarks on a, u, on the palatals, linguals, and aspirates) than of Greek words. For the latter nevertheless, inter alia, also the soft pronunciation of b (for ), of (for 8); on the other hand the hard pronunciation of (for th, tth); further the almost constant use of n for e: and lastly the preferential toe of v for u, as well as of au for au, appear interesting.t REVIEW. traditions and incidents in Indian history, be LOTUS LEAVES; or Poems chiefly on Ancient Indian ginning with scenes from the story of Rama and Subjects; by H. C. Dutt. --Calcutta, 1871. Sita, and coming down to the capture of Torna by A volume of poems in the English language by Sivaji. Those into whose hands this little book may a native of India is still somewhat of a novelty; fall must not expect to find anything very striking but this is not the first time that the author of or original in the treatment of these subjects, but the collection before us has appeared before the | they will find everywhere smooth and pleasing public in verse. His name will be familiar to versification, and considerable skill shown in the some of our readers as one of the contributors to adapting of the measure to the varying character the well-known Dutt Family Album," which was of the themes. Special mention may be made of so favourably received in England a few years ago. the little poem entitled The Bridal of Draupadi, in In the "Lotus Leaves" he has attempted to embody which that famons story is reproduced with sufin a poetical form some of the more remarkable ficient fidelity and much liveliness. ** In Aapadpa., Kuuvdp.vn, yet anr is added to the dental sound (comp. drekana for dekavos). + Monatsbericht der Konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaf ten zu Berlin (Dec. 1871), pp. 613-632.

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MAY, 1873.j 151 NOTES AND MISCELLANEA. NOTES AND MISCELLANEA. ON ATTRACTION AND REPULSION, From the Methnawy of Jeltdi-al-dyn Ramy: 1st Duftur No. I. Because they are aggrieved at your life. They possess the electrum and reveal it, Then they entice your straw, your nature vile; But when their grand electrum they conceal Your resignation quickly turns revolt! E, REHATEEK. chwn Hkhymkh `tqdy khrdh st zmyn chwn zrdy st khsh an byD khft s pl chwn bmnd yn khkhdn mHyT asmn yn dr myn hr dr m`lq tnd ply pr br`l myrwd ny br sfl fy gft khz jdhb mh Hkhymsh an hw ndr bmnd shsh z jht qyr rykhtr z mqn Tys chwn 'rykhtr 'khy mnd drmyn b Sf asmn dkhr khft n khy khshd dr khwd zmyn tyrh r jht myknd z shsh blkhh df`sh `Sft dr myn bmnd t khml hl khTr zdf` ps jn fr`wnn bmnd ndr Dll ps zdf` yn jhn w an jhn mndh nd yn byr hn by yn w an sr khshy z bndgn dhwljll znkr drnd z wjwd trmll chwn pyd khnnd khhrb drnd w shyd khnndh tr sty kh chwn pnhn khnnd khw by khwysh khnnd TGyn tr tslym zwd THE MAHA MAGAM AT KUMBHAKONAM. The town of Kumbhakonam is the scene of one of the greatest of Hindu festivals, the Maha Md. gam,' which is celebrated once in twelve years, and to which people from all parts of India repair, to obtain remission of their sins by washing in the waters of the Ganges, which (according to Hindu legend) are brought, in some miraculous manner to the sacred tank on the south-east side of the great temple. This tank, which is known as the Mahd Magam tank, is supposed to possess miraculous virtues at this particular season, for the goddess Gangd is said to visit the tank once in twelve years to cleanse herself from the pollution contracted by her, in consequence of so many thousands of human beings bathing in her waters and leaving their sins behind them. The purifier comes here to be purified, and at the same timo to purify the multitudes of pilgrims and devotees who flock to Kumbhakonam on this auspicious occasion, that they may wash in the sacred stream and be clean. The legend given of the origin of this festival is briefly as follows: The grandsons of a certain king of the solar race who reigned in the ancient town of Ayodhya were commanded by their grandsire to carry to the eight corners of the earth a horse which had been offered in sacrifice, according to the peculiar rites of the Hindus appointed for the Aswamedha Yajna. The object in sending round this horse was, it would seem, that all the kings of the earth might do homage to it, such homage being reckoned a token of submission to the great sovereign of the solar race who had offered it in sacrifice. During their journey the horse was ono night stolen from the princes by the god Indra, who concealed the animal in the lower world close by the spot where a Rishi was performing pen ance. After a long search the princes discovered the horse where it had been concealed, and, ima. gining that the ascetic was the person who had made away with it, they immediately attacked him, while he was still deep in his devotions. The ire of the otherwise meek Rishi was roused by this sudden and sacrilegious violence to his person, and darting fire from his eyes he consumed his enemios, reducing them to a heap of ashes. Through the intercession of the aged grandsiro, and, subne When a small sage professed the belief That heaven is an egg and earth its yolk, An asker asked: "How does the earth abide In this great ocean of the firmament, A lamp suspended in the welkin vast? Does it ide neither down nor up at all P" The sage replied: "The attraction of the sky From all directions keeps it in the air ; As dome of loadstone molten standing fair Holds iron with itself suspended high." The man rejoining said: "Can heaven pure Attract this sinful melancholy earth P It so repels it from all sides alike To fix it amidst awful hurricanes!" Thus the aversion of the blessed saints In aberration fetters impious men In the repulsion of this world and next For either hopeful pledges they have none. You spite the servants of the Lord Most High

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i52 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MAY, 1873. quently, of one of his descendants named Bhagi. in India seldom see. The whole of the tributary ratha, the ascetic withdrew his surse, adding that princes, chiefs and noblemen, within a certain the souls of the princes whom he had destroyed radius of Haidarabad, assembie at the head of their could only reach the abode of the blessed after dependants for the inspection of the Prime Ministhey were cleansed in the waters of the Ganges ter, Sir Salar Jang, pay homage to the Nizam, and which flowed upon the crest of Siva. This deity undergo a species of "muster" previous to the was next invoked on behalf of the unfortunate vic- disbursement of the annual government stipend tims of the Rishi's wrath, and at his command the for the maintenance of the troops they keep up. waters of the Ganges flowed upon the earth, and The "Lungus" of 1873 took place on the 5th the ashes of the dead princes mingled in the sacred March. A writer in the Madras Mail says that all stream. When Siva commanded Gangd to flow present were conspicuous for their magnificent upon the earth, the god also decreed that whoever and costly dresses, whilst their dependants, horse washed in her waters should be cleansed from the and foot, contributed to an amusing spectacle. pollution of sin, and, in order to remove from the Uniforms of all ages, Oriental as well as European, goddess Ganga the stain of pollution she would were exhibited: coats, wristpieces, and morions thus contract, he commanded her to visit the sa- of chain-mail; Saracenic head-pieces with their cred tank at Kumbhakonam once in twelve years, spikes of steel and chain-mail curtains; buff coats when she could cleanse herself from such pollution. of tough ball's-hide; coats with tarnished epaulettes The festival of the Mahd Mdgam occurs in the and wings of five and twenty years ago; shakos vear Magha during the month named Magha, and huge-topped and befeathered; the bearskin of during the occurrence of the full moon in or some long-forgotten commander of a "grenadier about the asterism Magha." During this festival company;" long swallow-tailed coats of the Christy the pilgrims to Kumbhakonam bathe first in the Minstrel type, worn without continuations of any waters of the Mahd Magam, thon in the tank of kind. Motley and numerous as the dresses were, the Golden Lotus (Pon thamarei thadagam) and, in weapons the diversity was greater still. You lastly, in the river Kaveri. There are twelve saw bell-mouthed petronels of the time of the first temples at Kumbhakonam, each having its presid. James, an arquebuss or two, crossbows with daning deity, the chief of the twelve being Kumbha- gerous-looking bolts, matchlocks, flint and stoel Swaram. These twelve deities are placed in their muskots of various degrees of efficiency: swords respective cars and dragged each round his own of every age, shape, and nation. Yonder a curved temple. They are all then carried on the shoul scimitar; here the long straight blade of a knight ders of men in grand procession, with banners, of Malta. Knives more or less richly ornamented incense, and fireworks, to the great tank, on the appeared in the kamarbands of high and low, banks of which are erected twelve shrines, one for but the arm most fancied seems to be a double the reception of each idol. In the shrine which is muzzle-londing gun or rifle, many of which were built in the centre of the tank certain ceremonies carried in the hands of the noblemen seated on are then performed, the trident being planted elephants. Long, light, bamboo lances were adoptwithin it and besprinkled with holy water and in- ed by the majority of the mounted retainers, with, censed by the officiating guru. After the comple- in some cases, a carbine slung behind the back. tion of these ceremonies, the people, who stand Throughout the day there was music for the Euroaround the tank in anxious expectation, make a peans present.-Friend of India. sudden plunge into it, as if the healing virtue would affect only the first who entered. A correspondent writing to us regarding this festival AJANTA CAVES. Bay8,-"I am told that about 33,000 people are About five and twenty years ago the Court of expected to visit Kumbhakonam during this Ma- Directors of the late E. I. Company, with the ha Mdgam, and judging from the number of spe- liberality that so distinguished it, resolved to cial trains that the G.S. I. Railway run, both by Becure faithful transcripts of the wonderful fresday and by night, I believe there is no exaggeration coes in the Ajanta Cave Temples. Accordingly, in the statement."--Madras Times, Feb. 12. Major R. Gill was employed, with the necessary establishment of assistants, and in the course of a number of years he sent home nearly thirty A FESTIVAL AT HAIDARABAD. large and faithful copies of almost all the best Once a year, on "Langar Day," the city of portions. Of these, twenty-two or more were Haidarabad presents a scene characteristic of that | placed in the Sydenham Crystal Palace, where Oriental grandeur, wealth, and fondness of display they were destroyed by fire about six years ago. which historians and travellers chronicle but we No copies, tracings, or photographs were taken

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MAY, 1873.] : of them before sending them to be exhibited-and finally burnt and all we possess of this magnificent series of facsimiles are woodcuts, on a very small scale indeed, in Mrs. Manning's Ancient India-of two of the pictures and of eight detached fragments of others. Fortunately five or six of Major Gill's large paintings had not been sent to the Crystal Palace, but were afterwards found among the stores and are now hung in the corridors of the India Office. NOTES AND MISCELLANEA. Most of the frescoes have suffered much since they were copied by Major Gill,-some have almost, if not entirely, disappeared. Still representations were made to Government to attempt rescuing some portion of what still remains, and Mr. Griffiths of the Bombay School of Art was accordingly deputed to visit them and report on the feasibility of copying them. His report has not been published in extenso, but the following extracts from it are of interest : "They are not frescoes in the true acceptation of the term, nor do they appear to correspond to the Italian Fresco secco,' where the entire surface of the wall was first prepared for painting on, and then thoughly saturated with lime-water before the painting was commenced, as the groundwork upon which the paintings at Ajanta were executed would, I think, hardly admit of this treatment. The groundwork, which appears to be composed of cowdung with an inimixture of pulverized trap, was laid on the roughish surface of the rock to a thickness varying from a quarter to half an inch. To increase the binding properties of this ground, rice-husks were introduced in some instances, especially in the ceilings. Over this ground was laid the intonaco of thin, smooth plaster, about the thickness of an egg-shell, upon which the painting was executed. This thin coating of plaster overlaid everything, the mouldings, the columns, the ornamental carving, and the sculptures,--and enough remains to show that the whole has been closed. "Many of the paintings, as far as the hand could reach, have been wantonly defaced, hacked, and scratched in every direction, leaving not a square inch perfect. Bats by the thousand have done their work of destruction by clinging to the upper portions of the walls, and, to complete the havoc, water was percolating through the rock, converting some of the paintings on the walls and ceilings into a black unintelligible mass. It is surprising how these paintings have existed for so long under such treatment, when others which were not half their age have perished despite the care that was taken of them. "The paintings in Cave No. I. are in a better state of preservation, and are more intelligible 153 than those in any of the other caves. There are fragments of figures, some of them larger than life-size, of which the faces and hands are painted with vigour and expression; and although they are only shadows of what they were originally, still, I think, they are worthy of being copied. Portions of the ceiling to this cave are in a very good state of preservation, and were there nothing else remaining of the paintings this ceiling alone would be well worth copying, as being a marvellous piece of work and a school of art in itself. It is divided into panels, which are filled with painted fruit, such as mangoes, pineapples; in others are elephants, buffaloes; parrots,-all most delicately drawn. The panels are divided by bands filled in with the fret-guilloche and the patera, of infinite variety in design. "I need hardly remark that the work of copying will be attended by many difficulties. But I am of opinion that no effort should be spared to obtain records, however slight, of what remains of the paintings of these famous caves. A few years hence the originals will be entirely obliterated; and I consider it will be a loss to art if some record be not made, even of the fragments that remain, of the works of these old Buddhistic artists, who evidently were keenly alive to the pleasures derived from, and who thoroughly understood the principles of, Decorative Art in its highest and noblest sense." The Government of India having sanctioned an expenditure of Rs. 5,000 for this purpose, Mr. Griffiths and a party of students went to Ajanta early in the cold season, and it is satisfactory to learn that all of the ceiling worth copying, and four pieces of the wall-painting of Cave I. have been successfully copied. It is to this cave also that most of the paintings at the India House belong. To the paintings at Ajanta, however, belongs only a part of the interest attaching to the remarkable remains there: in the architecture of the various caves is to be read a remarkably extended record of the history of the development of that art during a period of from five to eight centuries, and which could be fully supplemented from other groups of Buddhist remains in the Bombay Presidency and contiguous provinces. Materials for the illustration of Buddhist art at Ajanta and elsewhere exist at the India House and with private individuals, and in April 1871 J. Fergusson, D.C.L., F.R.S., laid before the Secretary of State a proposal for completing and utilizing these, and offering to edit the work for publication. This offer was at once accepted and referred to the Bombay Government to arrange for completing the materials and carrying into effect, but nothing has since been done in the matter.

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154 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [MAY, 1873. CASTES OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. Dr. H. V. Carter to his "Report on the Prevalence and Characters of Leprosy in the Bombay Presidency" has added an appendix giving short notices of all the castes mentioned in the returns. "The details it supplies," he remarks, "are of the simplest, and without pretence : such of the information as is not commonly available has been obligingly furhished by the Magistrates of Kanara, Khandesh, Thana, Dharwar, &c. and many probable discrepancies are referrible to the varying customs of the same castes in different provinces." "The subject of caste," he adds, "is full of instruction to the antiquary and the ethnologist : it is & mine as yet little worked, but which holds information sufficient, by analysis of details, to explain many curious anomalies in the opinions And condition of the existing native races, if not to throw light on their origin and descent." The list is arranged alphabetically, but we extract the accounts of some of the castes without reference to such arrangement: "Koli.- A caste of low rank, embracing numerous tribes who are still most numerous in the mountain ranges running parallel to the sea-coast, and par excellence a hill-people; dwellers in the jungle or forest; most numerous of all such in the Bombay Presidency; they exist in large numbers in Gujarat and the Konkan and in the adjoining central districts of the Dekhan, but not beyond these limite: their proper locale would seem to be the Western Ghats and prolongation northwards (18 to 24 N. Lat.); they also occupy the sea. board; it would appear us if their continuity had been disturbed by intrusions of the Bhills,' coming from inland forest hills along the banks of the Tapti and other rivers opening into the Gulf of Cambay; hence in Khandesh Bhills' occupy the ghets and hilly ranges, the Kolis' being found in the plains, as a reflux from the south. The Kolis of Gujarat are thus almost separated from those of the Vindhya Ghats; their history and present condition differ somewhat also; for a few formed alliances with marauding Rajputs, and their descendants claim the title of ThAkure; and in this fertile province some of the Kolis have become admirable and prosperous farmers. Coast- wise the race has maintained its place as fishermen, boatmen, and sailors: they make salt. In Lat. 20deg Kolis again predominate on both sides of the ghets: they are chiefs in the Dhangs; Patels, &o. in the Mawals; the name Thakur is retained, but is not now associated with any preference apart from means: here, too, in the Dekhan a large section of 'Kolis' have become incorporated with the population on the plains ; they occupy a humbler position than the Talabdi * Kolis' in Gujarat, but have a recognised place in the village establishment, being watchmen, water-carriers, boatmen, fishermen, messengers, do; those have made the first long stride towards complete civilization. On the hills their brethren are still a rude people, living by selling jungle produce, cultivating a little land, and keeping & few cattle. All are very ignorant, but not unintelligent. Kolis are subdivided into numerous families (or kuls) all of which are perfectly distinct; the families form orders or classes, which under climatic and historic influences have acquired their present distinctive characters; eventually, doubtless, the whole race will become assimilated, without being decimated in process, for the people are apt. "Ambigdr.-A Koli caste of boatmen, watermen. and fishermen, in S. India; they belong to the recognised and more civilised division of Kolis. "Patanwaria.-A Koli' tribe of Gujarat, originally nated from Patan-Anhilwada, the Hindu capital of Gujarat; their rank in the Koli caste is not the highest, as they eat the flesh of buffaloes ; they are cultivators and labourers and sometimes village watchmen. " Bhul Kahdr.--A widely-spread caste of rather inferior rank, whose occupation is to carry palkis, dolis, water-skinis, &c.; to act as porters : they also catch and eat fish: they bear some resemblance to Kolis,' and have latterly been suspected to be also aborigines; they eat flesh and drink spirits: they are an ignorant but industrious class. Buchanan describes them as of Telinga descent: and adds that distillation of rum is one of their proper occupations. "Kharwi.--A caste in Sonthern Konkan and Kanara, who are fishermen and palki-bearers, also crews and mates of native craft : they speak Marathi and Kanarese, and in that respeot are noted to differ from Bhtis' or 'KAh&rae;' numerous : of rather inferior rank, and partakers of all kinds of food, &c. The name is indicative of their connexion with the sea. " Dharald.-In Gujatat; an inclusive term for people who habitually wear arms and pay for the privilege : in most villages they are Kolis and Pagis: in a few only Rajputs and SipAhis also : some are in independent circumstances : and all are probably the descendants of former successful soldiers. "Machi.-In Surat, of the Koli caste: fisher. men, chiefly; & rude, ignorant, and intemperate race, said to be short-lived. "Wagri.--An offset, probably, of the Koli tribe, who retain primitive habits, and are mostly hunters and snarers of game and wild animals, whose voice and calls they can closely imitate : some make, earthen toys, &c. They are widely distributed; some are lepers in Gujarat, where they are probably more numerous than in the Dekhan and Southern India. In appearance they are, often at least, of a true aboriginal type: their language appears to be the vernacular of the province they inhabit."

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JUN, 1873.) NAGAMANGALA COPPER PLATE INSCRIPTION. 155 NAGAMANGALA COPPER PLATE INSCRIPTION. BY LEWIS RICE, BANGALORE. THE inscription of which a translation is to them, in his literal translation of the Konge 1 given below was found in a temple at Desa Rajdkal, expressly says, "Throughout the Nagamangala, the chief town of a taluq document the word used is Congu.desa.ll" of the same name, and 30 miles north of To return to the grant. It confirms the Seringapatam. It is well engraved on six plates statement in the Merkara plates of an alliance of copper, about 10 inches by 5, held together between the second Madhava and the Kaby a thick metal ring bearing on the seal the damba king Krishna Varmma, the former figure of an elephant. having married the latter's sister. There is not The grant which it records was made by A word about the adoption of a son by Vishnu Prithivi Kongaai Maharaja of Vi.Gopa, nor of the reign of a king named Dinjaya Skanda vara in the 50th year of his dikaru Raya, both of which are mentioned reign, the year of SAlivahana 699 (A.D. 777), in the chronicle. From this period of the Meron the application of Prithivi Nirg. kara plates to the date of the present grant the ganda RAJA, for the support of a Jain list of kings agrees with that generally received, temple erected in the north of Sripura by his as far as Bhd Vikrama, whose reign began wife Kundavvi, a grand-daughter of the in A. D. 539. His successor appears from the Palla vadhiraja. grant to have been Vilanda, having the title The inscription begins with an account of the of Raja Sri Vallabh & kh ya, which in Kongu or Chera kings, almost identical the chronicle is given as the title of the brother with that given in the Merkara plates* as far as under whose advice he acted in the government these date, namely, to A. D. 466. The varia- of the country, (younger brother and named Valtion is principally in the name of the first king, la vagi Raya according to Prof. Dowson, who is here called Kodgani Varmma elder brother and named Vala Vicya Raya Dharmma Mahadhiraja, while the sixth according to Mr. Taylor). In reality he was king is called Kogaai Mahadhiraja. king de jure as well as de facto. The younger The form Kongani occurs but once, in the brother, on the other hand, is here called Nava name of the king who made the grant. The Kama. If this be the next king, he must be different ways of spelling this name may be of the same as Raja Govinda Ra ya of the little importance, but are interesting in connec- chroniolo. We then have mention of a Ko. tion with yet another form which struck me at gani Maharaj & whose other name was the time I saw it as suggestive. This was on Simeshwara (?). This evidently points to a stone inscription in Coorg, containing a grant the Sivaga Ma ha ra ya of Dowson and by Satya Va kys Kodgini Varmma Siva Rama Raya of Taylor. His grandson, Dharmma Maharajadhiraja, whom I according to the chronicle, was a Prithivi take to be the third in succession after the Kongani Mahadhirkja ruling in A. D. donor in the present instance, and ruling about 746. This is the name of the present donor, A.D. 840. If from the similarity in the names and by taking the intervening names of Bhima Kongu and Kongani we may infer that Kopa and Raja Kesari as mere epithets they were liable to the same changes, and that of this king, which is permissible, the grant and the former was sometimes written Kodgu, we the chronicle are brought into agreement. have a very near approach to Kodagu, the Prithivi Kongani must have began existing name of the country which Europeans to reign in A. S. 649 (A. D. 727). It is no have corrupted into Coorg. I am aware that small matter to obtain a fixed date for the comProfessors Wilsont and Dowsont give the name mencement of a reign, and also to learn that it as Kongs, but the Rev. W. Taylor replying was prolonged to the unusual term of 50 years* Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 864. Mad. Jour. Lit. and Sc. vol. xiv. pt. i.p.3; & conf. p. 45. t Mack. Coul. I. 196, and Ind. Ant. ut rup. p. 860.. As Dindikara Raya does not fall in the line of descent, Jour. R. 4. Soc. vol. VIII. p. 2. or Ind. Ant. uts, D. 861. it wm scarcely to be expected that his name should be Cat. Rais. Or. MSS.

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156 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (JUNE, 1873. how much longer we do not know. Being the Vardhana. On attaining to man's estate he grandson of his predecessor, this king mast have renewed the contest with the Palla vas, in come to the throne at an early age, and hence which he was finally successful, cementing his there is nothing improbable in the duration as power by a marriage with a princess of that signed to his reign. The thing to be noticed race, and transmitting the kingdom thus founded is the absence of the minute details regarding to his posterity." the date of the donation, which are usually The rivalry, however, was not thus ended. found in inscriptions. The name of the cycle For I have a Chaluky a inscription in which year is not given, nor the day of the month or the first Vikram a ditya is stated to week, nor any astronomical conjunction. But have become the possessor of Kanchipurat notwithstanding the absence of these particu. by the conquest of Pallava Pati, whose lars the date of the grant accords perfectly insults threatened destruction to the dynasty with what we know of the history of this king resembling in purity the rays of the moon," i.e. We are next introduced to a province named the Chaluk yas, who were of the soma Nirggunda. This I conceive to be the name vansa or lunar line. that occurs in connection with one of the wit The next king, Vinayaditya Satyasnesses to the Merkara plates, but which, from his raya, who began to reign A.D. 680, is described being there described as a seryant, I conjectured as having "destroyed the power of Traimight mean nirganta, the village waterman. rajya Pallava in the same manner as the The position of Nirggunda I do not know. heavenly general of Blendra Sekhara | smote Wherever it may have been, the tributary king down the excessively-grown might of the of the region had married the grand-daughter Daityas." Previously to this, however, we find of the Palla vadhiraja. I am not aware from the present inscription that Pallaventhat anything definite has been published as to dra Narapati had suffered defeat from the chronology and succession of the Pallava Raj A sri Vallabhak hy & of the kings. The following are a few scattered Kongu line. notices of the dynasty. I have also met with two stone inscriptions of Sir Walter Elliot says t: "Previous to the the Palla vas, but so worn from age as to be arrival of the first Chalukya in the Dakhan almost illegible. On one of them the name Nothe Pallevas were the dominant race. In lambadhi Raja has been doubtfully made the reign of Trilochana Palla va an in out. vading army, headed by Jaya Sinha, sur The character in which the inscription now named Vijayaditya, of the Chaluk ya. translated is engraved bears much resemblance kula, crossed the Nerbudda but failed to to that found in the Buddhist stupa of Amaraobtain a permanent footing. Jaya Sinha vati with the addition of the characteristic seems to have lost his life in the attempt, for letters of the Hala Kannada or Ancient Kanahis queen, then pregnant, is described as rese, namely, the vowels, the four forms of l and flying after his death and taking refuge with two forms of r. These are denoted in the transBrahman called Vishnu Somayaji, in literation thus - whose house she gave birth to a son named Raja Sinha, who subsequently assumed r=r= 0;pi =* = b; r = 0; 1= = 0; the titles of Rana RAya and Vishnu 1!= = ;=ca; and L = . II. TRANSLITERATION [I.] Svasti jitam bhagavata gata ghana gaganabhena Padmanabhena. Srimaj Jahnaveya kula mala vyomavabhasana bhaskarah sva khadgayka prahara khandita mahafila stambha labdha bala parakra moddrana . Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 365, note T. + Numismatic Gleanings,' Madras Jour. of Lit. and Sc., N. 8., vol. IV. pp. 78, 79, quoted Jowr. R. As.. Soc., New Series, vol. I. p. 251. 1 Conjeveram, 8. of Madras. Kumaraswami. Siva.

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JUNE, 1873.] NAGAMANGALA COPPER PLATES. 157 rigana vidaramopalabdha vrana vibhushana vibhushitah Kanvayanasa gotrah brimat Kodgani Varmma Dharmma mahadhirajah. Tasya putra pituranvagata guna yukto vidya vinaya vihita vrittah samya k-praja palana matradhigata rajya prayojano vidvat kavi kanchana nikashopala bhuto niti sastrasya vaktri prayoktri kusalo dattaka sutra vritteh praseta sriman Madhava mahidhirijah. Tat putrah pitsi paitamahi guna yuktoneka chaturddanta yuddha vapta chatar udadhi salila svadita yasah srimadd-Hari Varmma mahadhirajah. Tasya putro dvija guru devata pujana paro [II.] Narayana charananudhyatah eriman Vishnu Gopa mahadhirajah. Tat putrah Tryambaka cha ranambhoruha rajah pavitri kritottamangah sva bhuja bala parakrama kraya krita rajyah kali yaga bala pankayasanna dharmma vrishodharana nitya sannaddhah sriman Madhava mahadhirajah. Tat putrah Srimat Kadamba kula gagana gabhakti (sti) malinah Krishna Varmma mahadhriajasya priya bhagineyo vidya vinayati saya paripuritantaratmi niravagraha pradhana kauryyo vidvatsu prathama ganya Ariman Kogani mahadhirajah. Avinita nama tat patro vijfimbhamana sakti trays Andarih Alattap-Paurulare Pelnaga rajyaneka samara mukhamakhahuta sura purasha pasupahara vighasa vihastiksita kritantagnimukhah kirantajuniya panchadasas sargga [III.] dikonkaro Davvipita na madheyah. Tasya putro durddanta vimardda mimpiditam visvambha radhi panchali male makaranda punja pinjari kriyamana charana yugala nalino Mushkara nama namadheyah. Tasya patraschaturddasa vidyastanadhigata vimalamatih viseshato nava koshasya niti sastrasya vaktri prayor k tri kusato ripa timira nikara nirakaraaodaya bhaskarah Sri Vikrama prathita ni. madheya h. Tasya putrah aneka samara sampadita vijrimbhitadvira Daradana kulibaghatah Vrana samruda svasthyad vijaya lakshana lakshikrita visala vaksha stalah samadhigata sakala sastradhi tatvassamaradhita tri varggo niravadya charita pr(?)ati dinam abhivarddhamana prabhavo Bhu Vikrama namadheyah. A pichah nana heti prahara prathighatita bhattaran kavattithita srigbharasvada ma [IV.) mmatadsh (?) ipisiti virani??de sammarddha sime sa?met Pa(?) llavendrai narapatim aja yad yo ViJandabhidhane Raja Sri Vallabhakhyas samara sata jaya vapta lakshmi vilasah. Tasyanujo nata narendra kirita koti ratnarka didhiti virajita pada patmah lakshmya svayam vritapatir Nava KAma nimi sishta priyorigana darana gita kirttih. Tasya Kogani maharajasya Sim(?)esh(?)varapara n imadheyasya pautrah samavanata samasta simanta makuta tati ghatita bahula ratna vilasa damara dhanushkhanda mandita charana nadha mandato Narayane nihita bhaktih sura purusha turaga nara varana ghati sanghalta diruna samara sirasi nihitatma kopo Bhima Kopah. Prakata rati samaya samanuvarttana chatura yavati jana Loka dhurtto Loka dhurttah sudardharaneka yuddha murdhna labelha vijaya sampadahita gaja gha [V.] ti kesari Raja Kesari. Apicha. Yo Ganganvaya nirmmalambaratala vyabhasana prollasanmartandori bhayankarah subhakaras sanmargga rakshakarah saurajya samupetyarajya savitarajanyattarottamo raja sri purushasvira vijayate rijanya chudimanih Kamo Ramom sa chepe Dasaratha ta

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158 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JUNE, 1873. nayo vikrame Jamadagnyah prajye virye Balarirbbahu maha sira visva prabhutve Dhane sah bhuyo vikhyata saktisphutataramakhilam prana bhajam vidhata dhatra srishtal prajanim patir iti kavayoyam prasamsanti nityam tena prati dina pravritta maha dina janita punyaha ghoshamukharitamandirodarena sri purusha prathama nimadheyena Prithuvi Kongani mahirijena. Ashti navatyattare shatchhateshu saka varshesh vartitesh-vatminah pravarddhamana vijaya virya samvatsaro pancha sattame pravarddhamine Manyapuram adhiva [VI.] sati Vijaya Skandivare sri mula mulasarnibhinandita Nandi Sanghanvaya Eregitturnnimni gano Malikalgachchho svachchhatara guna kira pratati prahladita sakala Lokah chandra iv.iparah Cha n dra Nandi nima gurur isit. Tasya sishyas samasta vibudha Loka pariraksha na ksha ) mitma sakti Paramesvara lalaniya mahimi kumaravadvitiyah Kumira Nandi nima munipatirabhavat. Tasyantevisi samadhigata sakala tatvirttha samarpita budha sirdha sampat sampidita kirttih Kirtti Nandyachiryo nima mahimunis samajani. Tasya priya sishyah sishya jana kamalakara pra () bodhanakah mith yajnana santata sanuta sasanminittaka saddharinma vyomivabhasana bhaskarah Vimala Chandracharyas samudapidi Tasya ma (VII.] harsherddharmmopadesanayi srimad bana kalakalah sarvva tapa mahinadi pravahah bihadanda mandala akhanditari mandala dramashanddo Danila prathama nimadheyo Nirgunda Yuva R.ijo jajie. Tasya priyatmnjah atma janita naya visesha nisseshi krita ripp Lokah Loka hitah madhura O m anohara charita' charitirtta trikarana pravrittih Parama Gula prathamadheya Sri Pri thuvi Nirganda Rijo jayatar Pallavidhi Raja priyatmajayam Sagara ka[la] tilakat Mara Varmmano jati Kundavvi nimadheya bhartri bhavana a[vi]rbhabuva bharya taya sa tata pravrittita dharmma kirsay.i nirmmittaya Sriparottara disam alankorvvate Loka tilaka dhamne Jina bhavaniya khanda splutita nava samskira deva puji dina dharmma pravarttanarttha tasye va Pri [VIII.) thivi Nirggunda Rijasya vijiipaniyi Maharajadhiraja Paramesvara Srija sahita Deve na Nirganda vishayantarpati Ponnalli nima grimas sarvva parihiropeto dattah. Tasya simantarani puryvasyam disi Nolibelada belgal moradi purvva dakshinasyam disi Panyangere dakshi nasyam disi Bc Igalli gereya Dila geroyi palladi kadal dakshinapaschimayindisi Jaidarakeyya be Igal mordu paschimiyandisi Henkevi taltavayara kere paschimottarasgandi[si] Punusoya Gottagali kalkuppe uttarsyandisi Sama goreya pallada permurikke uttara purvvasyandisi Kalambetti gatta. Ishinyangani kshetrintarini dattivi(ni), Dandu samudrada rayalu| kirudara mege padirkkandugam Mannampaleya cre Nallu Rijarppiludirkkandagam Srivuradi Da [IX.] nda gamandara tandada paduva yondu tinda Srivurada vayala! Kammarggattinalli irkandu gam Kalani perggereyi kelage aru gandagam Erepuli gereya koyilgodeda irppatta gandugambbede aduvu Srivurada badagana paduvani konulan Devangeri madaman aididam muvattadindu maneya manetanam. Asya dina sakshinih ashtadasa prakritayah

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JUNE, 1873.] NAGAMANGALA COPPER PLATES. 159 [X.] Asya danasya sakshinah shaanavati sahasra vishaya prakritayah. Yogyapahartta Lo(bha) t mohat pramadena va sapanchabhirmmahadbhih patakais samyuktovabhava(ti) yo rakshati sapu nyabhagbhava(ti). Apichatra Mana gita sloka svadattam paradattam va yohareta vasundharam shasht irvarsha saha srani vishtayam (jaya] jayate krimih. Svandatumsumabachchhakhyai duhkhamanyasya palanam. Danam va palanamveti danachchhreyonu pala(na)m. Bahubbirbbasudha bhukta rajabhi8 Sagara dhibhi yasya yasya yada bhumis tasya tasya tade phalam. Devasvant uvisham ghoramnavisham visham uchyate visham ekakinam hanti devasvam putra pautrakam. Sarvva kaladharabhuta chitraka labhijnena Visva Karmmicharyenedam sasa nam likhitam. Chatush kanduka vrihi bija(?)matram dvi kandu ka kangu kshetram tadapi brahmadeyam iva rakslaniyam. III. TRANSLATION May it be well. Success through the adorable Tryambak all having by personal strength 'Padmanabha, resembling (in colour) the and valour purchased his kingdom, daily eager cloudless sky. A sun illumining the clear firma- to extricate the ox of merit from the thick mire ment of the Jahnavi race, + distinguished of the Kali Yuga in which it had sunk, was for the strength and valour attested by the great Sriman Madhava Mahadhiraja. His pillar of stone divided with a single stroke of son, the beloved sister's son of Krishna Lis sword, adorned with the ornament of the Varmma Mahadhiraja, who was the sun wound received in cutting down the hosts of to the firmament of the auspicious Kadamba his cruel enemies, was Srimat Kodgani race, having a mind illuminated with the increase Varmma Dharmma Mahadhiraja of of learning and modesty, of indomitable bravery the Kan va yanasa gotra. His son, in- in war, reckoned the first of the learned, was heriting all the qualities of his father, possessing Srimin Kogan i Mahadhiraja. His a character for learning and modesty, having son, named Avinita, possessed of the three obtained the honours of the kingdom only for powers of increase, who had brought anxiety the sake of the good government of his sub. to the face of Yama(r) on account of the smallness jects, a touchstone for testing) gold the learned of the residue left after the countless animals and poets, skilled among those who expound and offered to him as a tribute, (viz.) the brave men practise the science of politics, the author of a consumed in the sacrifice of the face of the many treatise on the law of adoption, was Sriman wars wagod for the kingdoms of A ndari, AlatMadhava Mesh Adhiraja. His son, pos tur, Paurulare, Pelnaga, equal to Kirktar. sessed of all the qualities inherited from his jana, the mighty master of the fifteen creationst father and grandfather, having entered into war and of tle syllable om, was called Duvvinita. with many elephants (80 that) his fame had His son, the lotuses of whose feet were tasted the waters of the four oceans, was Srimad dyel with the balls of honey shaken from the Hari Varmma Mahadhiraja. lines of bending bees, the clustering savages, His son, devoted to the worship of Brah- rubbing against one another, had the illustrious mans, gurus and gods, praising the feet of Nara. name of Mushkara. His son, of a pure yana, was Sriman Vishnu Gopawisdom acquired from his being the abode of Mahadhirkja. His son, with a head puri- fourteen branches of Icarning, an embodiment fied by the pollen from the lotuses t' feet of of the nine treasures, I skilled among those who * Vishnu. Jahnavt kula-Ganga kula or vanda. * Gorl of death, judge of the dead, the Indian Pluto. Might also be rendered the donor of lands to the + The reference is not understood. Dattaka line. Vishna. Siva. 1 Nara-kola-nava niddhi, the nine treasures of Kusakti traye-these are prabhu fakts, mantra fakti, bera, god of riches, vis. padma, mahapadma, fankha. and usaha fakli, or the powers of sovereignty, of counsel, makara, kachchhapa, mukunda, nanda, rila, kharva. It and of energy or perseverance. is uncertain what these are.

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160 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JUNE, 1873. by name. teach and practise the science of politics, a doms, . rising sun in dispersing the clouds of darkness lord over kings who were wed to fortune, A his enemies, bore the celebrated name of Srishining head-jewel to the brow of kings, in the Vikrama. His son, whose breast being healed bow on his shoulder like Kama or Ra ma of the wounds inflicted by the discus weapon of the son of Dasaratha, in bravery a Pa. Darada na-exulting in his growing bravery rasn rama, in great heroism Baldri, & in displayed in many wars---bore on itself the em- great splendour Ravi, fl in government Dhablems of victory, possessed of the quintessence of nesa, of a mighty and splendid energy, all the sciences, having gained the three objects the most glorious all-in-all, to all things of worldly pursuit, the glory of whose virtuous living Brahma himself, the king whom all the life each day augmented, was Bhu Vikrama poets in the world daily praise as the crea tor Brahma, that Prithu vi Kongani Moreover, he who was eager to drink the Maha raja, the middle of whose palace stream of blood issuing from the door of the continually echoed the sounds of the holy breast of the Bhattara (or warriors) forced open ceremonies which accompanied his daily rich by his numerous weapons . . . . gifts, among the favourites of fortune named he who had subdued the Pallavendra N a- the first, the Saka year 698 having passed, and rapati,t and was named Vilanda, was the 50th year of his glorious and powerful reign Raja Sri Vallabh a kh ya, in the enjoy- being then current, t residing in M & nyapura ment of fortune obtained by ictory in a hundred in Vijaya Skand a vara;- . fights. His younger brother, whose lotus-feet In the village named Eregittur in the were i radiated with the brilliance of the jewels gronp of Malik algachchha, rejoicing all the in the crowns of numerous prostrate kings, who world with his combination of the rays of auwas to fortune as a husband chosen by herself, psicious good qualities, resembling another chanbeloved of the good, whoso fame in destroying dra (or moon), was there a guru named Chanhostile kings was the theme of song, was named dra Nardi, of the Nandi Sangha race Nava Kama. The grandson of that (?) praised of all the highest protectors of the Sri Kogani Maharaja, whose other name was Mala (Jains). His disciple was a munipati Simeshvara (?), the groups of the toes named Kumara Nandl, whose ability was of whose feet were illuminated with a rainbow worthy of protecting the assembly of the light from the rays of the jewels set in the learned, a second Kumara worthy to rejoice bands of the crowns of prostrate kings, who the heart of Parames vara (otherwise, the had fixed his faith on Nar a yana, || raging greatest sages). His disciple was the great with fury in the front of war s horrid with the muni Kirti Nandy acharya, who underassault of heroes, horses, men, and elephants, stood the essence of all sciences, who had acquirwas a Bhima Kopa. No less a captivator of ed the fame of possessing wealth but for the asthe glances of young women the most skilled insembly of the learned. His dear disciple was the joyful art of love than a subduer of theworld, Vimala Chandracharya, the beloved of laden with spoils of victory gained in many the lotus-lake of the disciples, a sun in illuminmost arduous wars, a lion to the herd of elephants ing the sky of the virtuous actions of good men the hostile kings, he was a Raja Kesar.. daily praised for their grert learning. Moreover, a sun greatly illumining the Through the instructiuns in law of this clear firmament of the Gange race, a terror to great rishi, having become like the embodiment hostile kings, a protector of the fortunate ways of the sound of a twanging bow, like the of good men, who having obtained the name embodiment of the flood of the river of all of a good king shone like a sun over all king- penance, the sceptre of whose powerful arm . Trivarga-these are artha, kama, dharina, or wealth, $ i.e. the jewels were large ones. pleasure, and virtue or religious merit. Vishnu. Samara sirassu. + This name is uncertain, as the greater part of the line has evidently been altered and the original letters written * Indra. + The sun. over, so that what appears is almost illegible. I Kubers. Akhilam. 1 This name has apparently been altered in the plate. |Ashta navaty-uttare shatch hatesh faka warshesh. The above rendering is doubtful, as the middle letters are vartitesh atmanah pravarddhamana vijaya virya samout of focus in the photograph. vatsare panchasattame pravarddhamdne.

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JUNE, 1873.) THE HILL OF SAPTA SRING. 161 had broken down the groups of trees the hos- north-east, (viz.) in the plain of the Dandu tile kings, was Dundu, first of the name, the Samudra a small garden of 12 kanduga? ; in Nirganda Yuva Raja. His beloved son, the share of Nallu Raja, the chief of Man. who through his knowledge of politios had nampale, 2 kanduga; on the west of the destroyed without exception the groups of histanda t of the Dundu chief, one tanda; in enemies, a friend to all the world, of a life plea- Kammargatti, in the plain of Srivura, sant to be heard of, making good use of thought, 2 kandugas; under the Kalani large tank 6 word, and deed, was Parama Gula, first of kanduga; in the pasture-land of the Erepuli the name, the Sri Prithuvi Nirgunda tank 20 kanduga, this is dry-cultivation land; Raja. His wife, born of the beloved daughter and as a site for a house 80..... in of Palla vad hiraja by Maru Varmma, the north-west corner of rivora in the midan ornament of the Sagara Kula, was Kundle of Derangeri. davvi by name. In her husband's house did Witnesses to this gift: The 18 existing she grow up, daily promoting works of merit; chiefs . and she erected a Jain temple, an ornament to Witnesses to this gift: The existing chiefs the north of Sripura, a glory to all the of the 96,000 country l. world. Whoso through avarice seeks to resume this For the repairs of any cracks or defects gift incurs the guilt of the five great sins. in which, for erecting any new portions, for the Whoso maintains it acquires all merit. Moreworship of the god, and for the gifts and cha- over by Manu hath it been said : Whoso by rities-on the representation of that Pri- violence takes away land presented by himself thivi Nirggunda Raja-the Mahara or by another shall be born a worm in ordure jadhiraja Paramesvara, united with his for sixty thousand years. He who makes a gift queen) Ssija superior to Lakshmi, made a grant has an easy task; the maintenance of another's of the village of Ponnalli, belonging to Nir- gift is arduous. Bnt to maintain a gift is more gunda, with freedom from all imposts. Its meritorious than to make one. boundaries :-On the east, the white stone rock The earth has been enjoyed by SA gara and of Nolibela; on the south-east, Panyan. other kings. According to their (gifts of) land so gere; on the south, the bank of the watercourse was their reward. Poison is no poison, the proof the Belgalli-tank and the Dilla -tank; on perty of the gods that is the real poison. For the south-west, the rocky ground of white stone poison kills a single man, but a gift to the gods at Jaidar & ke; on the west, the tank of the (if usurped) destroys sons and descendants. By Henkevi weavers ; * on the north-west, the Visva Karmma charya, an abode of all piles of stones at Punuse and Gottagala; learning, skilled in painting pictures, was this on the north, the great bend of the watercourse sasana written. Though it be but four kanduka of the Sama tank; on the north-east, the Ka. of rice seed ... or two kanduka of wasto la mbetti hill. land, it should be protected in the same manner And he further gave other land on the as a gift to a Brahman THE HILL OF SAPTA SRING. BY W. RAMSAY, BO. C. 8. "Sapta Sping," or, as it is called in some maps, of the Western Ghats, and separating the disbut erroneously, "Chattar Sing," is one of the trict of Khandesh as it formerly stood, on the highest points in the line of hills commonly north, from the plains of Nasik, to the sonth. known as the Chandor range, running due The range is a remarkable one, presenting a east and west, at right angles to the main line series of perpendicular basalt faces to the south, * Taltuvdyaru, vapposed to be the same m tantuva- Ashtadata prakritayah. Shannapati sahasra vishaya prakritayah. The name Kan inga, w much land as takee khanduga, or of "the 96,000 country or country yielding revenge about three bushels of seed. of 96,000 pagodas, was Gangavadi, as we learn from other I The wignification of this term is not known. Perhape inscriptions, but where situated I have not been able to it is form of tana, . place. This last verse is obscure. yari. discover.

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162 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. intersected by openings at intervals, with spurs more or less gradual running down to the valley of the Girna to the north. The range may thus be described as a continuous series of basalt blocks, mainly of even height, presenting a uniform steep face on one side, viz. the south. The range is again capped in the case of almost each block by vast masses of bare basalt rising from the centres of the lower and large masses, and assuming all sorts of strange forms and appearances, as of castles, pinnacles, &c. Sapta Sring forms one of these blocks, presenting an almost perpendicular face to the south, but with one or two spurs trending to the northward. The average height of the plateau is about 1800 feet above the plain to the south, and more than 3000 feet above the sea. About the centre of it rises a bare rook of no thickness, but about half a mile in length, somewhat curved, highest at the two ends and depressed in the centre, giving the appearance of a wall with towers at each extremity. But at every turn the rock assumes a new appearance, and imagination must supply what the pen would fail to depict. The highest point rises over 900 feet above the plateau, and the rock is perpendicular on all sides but one, where it has somewhat crumbled away, and grass has sprung up among crevices. The name Sapta Sring is derived from a supposed idea of there being seven horns or peaks to the rock, but the eye fails to see the appropriateness of the title. The hill is ascended by a good but steep bridle-road from the north; from the south a steep footpath leads up part of the way, ending in a flight of stairs carved out of the rock-face. Such is the rock of Sapta Sring, the abode of the goddess Devi, in whose honour a great fair is held every year at the full-moon of the month of Chaitra. The goddess herself resides in a cave at the base of a perpendicular scarp, the summit of which is the highest point of the hill, and her dwelling is approached by a zigzag staircase of 465 steps, built in the steep "talus" of debris which has formed all round the rock, and is now overgrown with thick scrub jungle. At the foot of the steps lies the village, if it may be so called, consisting of three or four Gaolis' huts, two nagarkhanas, and three dharmasalas for the accommodation of pilgrims. The place is well supplied with water from springs, which have been built up with masonry sides [JUNE, 1873. and with steps leading down to the water, and are known by distinctive appellations, such as Kali Kund, Surya Kund, Datatre Kund, &c. &c. Some are used for drinking, and others for bathing purposes, some possibly for both! Last, but not least, comes the "Sivale Tirtha," or bathing-place sacred to Siva. It is a small stone-built tank, not above 40 yards square, and nowhere more than four feet deep; yet thousands of pilgrims manage to bathe and wash their clothes in it at the fairtime, and appear to think themselves cleaner and better for the process, though to the eye of the profane observer the water rather resembles pea-soup in colour and consistency. Not far from the Sivale Tirtha is a frightful precipice, known as the "Sit Kude." The rock overhangs at a height of more than 1200 feet clean above the valley below. Over this Tarpeian rock human victims are said to have been hurled in ancient days. Nowadays the mild but pious Hindu contents himself with sacrificing a living but generally very thin kid, commonly in fulfilment of some vow. Looking down the dizzy height the eye discerns the mangled fragments of the poor victims being devoured by the vultures and other birds, who no doubt duly appreciate the piety of the offerers. The Sivale Tirtha is said to have been constructed by the "Senapati " of the Satara Raja during the beginning of last century. On one side of it stands a temple called Siddhes var, now mostly in ruins, but with a dome still standing, and boasting some rather elaborate stone carving. Under the dome stands a linga, and in front of it (now in the outer air) is the usual carved Nandi or bull. The temple is one of those built of large cut blocks, without mortar, and ascribed to superhuman agency. "Bibisan, " brother of Ravana, being sick, was cured by the celebrated physician Himad Pant. The latter being asked to name his reward mentioned his modest wishes, viz. that 350 temples should be erected in one night, and this was duly effected by the Rakshasas: of these the temple in question is one. Not far from the dharmasala above noticed stands a samadhi or tomb of one of the Rajas of Dharampur, his name apparently unknown. It is in the form of one of the ordinary domecapped temples of Mahadeva, and contains the usual emblem of the god inside; it is built

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June, 1873.] THE HILL OF SAPTA ARING. 163 in good style and has some neat carving, but is Devi cut off his head, and out of the trunk prosadly in need of repair. A sadhu by name ceeded the Demon himself, and a long struggle Gaud Svami is said to have lived here a ensued, during which the Rakshasa once flew century ago as a devotee of the goddess. The right through the rock, and an opening is said Dharampur Raja was his chela or disciple, and on to exist at the present day, marking the spot. one of his visits to his guru died, and the samadhi Eventually he too was slain, and hence the above described was raised to his memory goddess received the title of "Mahismardani," There is a fine old "Baoli" adjoining, said or the buffalo-slayer. After this the earth was at to have been built by Gaud Svami. The above peace, and Devi henceforth took up her abode in are the chief points of interest on the hill, but her cave, and became a general object of worship. there are numerous minor objects of adoration A sort of portico was added to the cavern in various places, chiefly figures of Maruti or at the beginning of last century by the Ganpati, the favourite deities of the Marathas in Senapati of Satara, and the present plain these parts. structure was recently built by the present The origin of the hill of Sapta Sring was on Chief of Vinchur. The solid flight of steps this wise :-Lakshmana, after being wounded by leading up to it is said to have been built an arrow from the bow of Megnath or Indrajit, by & savkar of Nasik, about a century ago. son of Ravana, despatched Hanuman to procure At certain intervals one meets with images certain healing herbs from the hill of Girja Ma- of Ramchandra and Hanuman, Krishna and * hatma, situated in Paradise. Hanuman duly Radha, and in one or two places the tortoise is reached the hill, but, being devoid of all medical carved out of a flagstone: these were, no doubt. knowledge, was quite ignorant of what parti- designed as halting-places to serve as a pious cular herbs he should select, and accordingly excuse for the weary pilgrim to stop and take solved the difficulty by taking up the hill bodily breath in the course of his ascent. The sight is on his shoulders and transporting it to earth; on curious during fair-time, for besides able-bodied the way, however, portions of the mountain kept pilgrims the siek and halt are dragged up in falling away, and one of these alighting in these hopes of a miraculous cure, and barren women regions became the hill of Sapta Sring. "Now in numbers go to pour their vows before the there were giants," or at least Rakshasas," in the shrine of the goddess. All bring offerings of earth in those days," and the earth may well be some sort-grain, flowers, cocoanuts,' or money, said to have been filled with violence." The according as they are disposed. The daily serHindu Triad resolved upon a remedy, and out vice of the goddess consists in bringing her of their own combined essence produced the bathing-water from the Surya Kund previously goddess" Devi" or "Mahalakshmi." Devi having mentioned, and laying before her offerings of been called into existence was located in a cave khir (cakes of rice, milk, and sugar), turi of the rock, and it lay with her to rid the earth (cakes of flour and ghee), preserves, and so of the Rakshasas. Devi was supposed to have forth. After having been presented they bebeen created in 31 portions-one called "Maha- come the perquisites of the "Bhopa," a heredilakshmi" and seated at Kolhapur, another called tary guardian of the shrine. "Mahasarsati" or "Tokai" at Tuljapur, a third | Doubtless much of the merit of the pilgrimcalled "Mahakali" seated at Matapur, and lastly ages lies in the bodily labour endured in asthe remaining half at Sapta Sring, known as cending the hill and steps : in addition to the Sapta Sring Nivagni. above, there are three different paths round the At the three first-mentioned places different mountain, which are footed by the more devoutceremonies are observed in the worship of the one a sort of goatpath round the base of the goddess, bat at Sapta Sring the forms are all scarp, a second of greater circumference on the combined. lower plateau, and a third round the base of But to return to Devi and her work. Two the mountain below, which latter is said to be of the Rakshasas, Shumbh and Nishumbh his nearly 20 miles in circuit, passing through the brother, she killed without much difficulty. A narrow valleys which isolate Sapta Sping from third, named Mahisagur, so called from having the rest of the range on the east and west. the form of a buffalo, gave her greater trouble. The summit of Sapta Sring is said to be

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164 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (JUNE, 1873. inaccessible to ordinary mortals, but on the her head & vessel of water to the goddess. night of the full-moon of Chaitra the Patil of An allowance of Rupees 150 a month is also Burigar (a neighbouring village) ascends, paid by the same benefactor for the goddess's and at sunrise next morning is seen to plant a service. The other nagarkhana, called Chandorflag. How he ascends, or how he descends, iskar, was built by a former Divan of Sindhia & & mystery, the attempt to unravel which would savakr of Chandor, who also added a nem nuk be immediately punished by loss of sight. A pair of Rupees 95 a month ; & nemnuk of Rupees of binoculars, however, enabled the writer to 35 a month was added by one Daji Saheb track the footsteps of the flag-bearers, who Kibe, a savkar of Indor. were two in number, during their descent, which Further, the revenues of a village called in places is certainly most perilous, and practi- Chand kapur were alienated for the seryice of cable only to feet devoid of shoes, and capable the Devi by the Peshwa in the time of Gaud of grasping monkey-fashion. This perilous Svami above mentioned. These funds are office has been filled by the same family from administered by different agents, and there is father to son for generations, and though a son is also a Panchayat who exercise some sort of is never wanting, other children if born die superintendence over the "personal property" young : such is the story told. of the goddess, her ornaments and so forth. The Opposite Sapta Sring to the east, but divided money offerings of pilgrims become the pro(as before described) by a deep ravine, lies the perty of certain families, in certain fixed shares, hill called Mark und De va, with a rocky while one of their number, the Bhopa, receives top not unlike the Matterhorn in shape, as seen as his perquisite all eatable offerings. The from the west. This is said to have been the story is told that a former turbulent jaghirdar abode of a Kishi in ancient days, whose spirit of the neighbouring town of Abhona, facetiously after his demise, took up its dwelling in the rock: called "Tokerao " or "the Hammerer" (prehis present occupation is to recite the Paranas cisely as King Edward I. was termed Malleus for the edification of Devi, who is said to be Scotorum)," used always to be harassing and an attentive listener; this idea may have origin. plundering the pilgrims, until he was bought off ated in the echoes, which are very remarkable. by a fixed payment of half the offerings made to The image of Devi resides in a natural the goddess on 72 fixed days of the year. cavern or hollow in the rock. The figure is This arrangement is still in force, the allowance about eight feet in height, carved in relievo out being enjoyed by the two widows of " Tokerao." of the naturel rock, and is that of an ordinary This is not the only occasion on which the woman, save that she has 18 arms, 9 on each goddess has had to yield to vulgar mortals ; side, ench hand grasping a different weapon. could a pen blush, it would do so in relating She wears a high crown not unlike the Pope's how the sanctity of Devi has recently been tiara, and is clothed with a "choli" and a "sari" invaded by the myrmidons of so very human round her waist and limbs. She has a different an institution as the Civil Court. Sad though enit for each day of the week; she is bathed it be, it is still a fact that at this very moment every day, using warm water two days in the a mere ordinary mortal, "juptee Karkun," is week. In front of her is planted her ensign, in possession of all the property of the goddess, vis. a Tribula or trident painted red: there are owing to a demand made by "a claimant" also the usual accompaniments of bells, lamps, against the present Bhopa. At this very moand so forth. A silver noge-ring and necklace ment a handsome set of ornaments, the gift of are the only ornaments in daily use. The the Gaikwar, and valued at not less than whole figure is painted bright red, save the eyes, Rupees 30,000, are lying in the hands of the which are of white porcelain. Near the base "Panchayat" at " Wani," who are afraid to of the steps leading to the temple are two trust the goddess with her own, lest it should nagarkhanas; one, called Barodekar, was be swept into the devouring meshes of the law. built by Gopalrao Mairal of Baroda to comme- After this great fall from the sublime to the morate the alleged miraculous cure of his wife, mundane we make our best bow to "Devi," who having been a helpless cripple was sud- and wish her safe delivery from the hands of denly enabled to walk up the steps carrying on her friends and their legal squabbles.

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JUNE, 1873.) REMAINS IN MEKRAN. 165 REMAINS IN MEKRAN. BY CAPT. S. B. MILES, POLITICAL AGENT, MUSCAT. The province of Mekran is remarkably poor in very scanty and bad, for the best part of a year. archaeological remains of every kind, there not be- The construction of this dam is generally as: ing, so far as I know,any extensive ruins or archi- cribed by Europeans to the Portuguese, but it tectural monuments anywhere to be found in it. appears to me of much more ancient date, and is From this circumstance we may be justified perhaps due to one of the Persian monarchs. in concluding that Mekran has never been in No information can be gathered from the in state of civilization, and that the inhabitants habitants on the subject, as the Baluches are have ever remained in the same state of poverty singularly wanting in national traditions of any and semi-barbarism in which they now are. kind likely to throw light on their past history. The canses of this are probably not far to About a hundred miles to the W. of Guadar, seek; the general sterility and unattractiveness near the village of Tiz, are some curious and of the country, its hilly nature and want of interesting caves, which I had last year an opwater, are sufficient to account for its disregard portunity of visiting. The village of Tiz is by more advanced and energetic races, and for situated in a small valley, and is closely enviits not being permanently occupied and settled roned on all sides but one by ranges of hills. in by them, while it has also laboured under the In the range to the N. E. of the town, and about additional disadvantage of lying out of the two hundred feet above the plain, is a circular general highways of commerce. But these chamber with a large entrance, evidently causes, though they have successfully preserved artificially excavated, opening on to a small it from development and progress, have not been platform. The diameter of this chamber is about able to protect it from being frequently invaded twelve feet, and in the centre of it is a rectangaand plundered by various conquerors. lar block of stone or masonry seven or eight feet The names of several cities and walled towns long with a small dome on it; in front of the are enumerated by Arrian as having existed on block is an opening leading to a cavity underthis coast and in the interior at the time of neath. There is no inscription, but it appears Alexander's march through it, and subsequently to have been intended for a tomb. The face of by Ptolemy and Marcian, but no traces of these the rock to the left has been smoothed and towns now remain to indicate their sites, and it covered with plaster: this is covered with scribis probable they were merely of the same rude blings and symbols (the swastika and tribula) and temporary character as the forts and ham- in Gujarati, done by the Hindu traders of the lets of the present day. neighbouring port of Charbar, who believe the Among the few memorials of ancient vigour caves to be of Hindu origin, and are in the still to be seen is a hewn-stone band or dam of habit of resorting to them. Below this, to the considerable extent on the top of the "Batel" | left again, is another smaller chamber neatly or high headland forming the peninsula at excavated and chunamed, but quite empty. Guadar. This band has been admirably built The platform is made of kiln-burnt bricks and across a declivity or ravine, draining a large mortar, and has apparently formed part of some portion of the surface of the hill, which is very building or structure which has been destroyed, flat. The huge sandstone blocks of which it is or has disappeared by the disintegration and composed have been very regularly and com- falling away of the sandstone rock. Some pactly placed, and are so morticed or dovetailed distance away to the right, the ta of the cliff together, without any cement being used, as to is perfectly smooth and perpendicular, and at form a barrier of great strength and solidity, the foot of it is a spacious natural cavern, the which though now partly in ruins is still service- month of which is now almost entirely blocked able, and after the winter rains usually retains up by huge fragments of rock and debris. In a large body of fresh water. It has been supple- shape this cavern is semicircular, and it is, I mented by a modern band of sand thrown up at should think, about a hundred yards in circum8n angle to it. The reservoir thus formed ference, but the roof is rather low. It appears usually lasts the inhabitants of the town of to have been used as a temple. The roof and Guadar, where the water obtained from wells is sides, which bear signs of being greatly eroded

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166 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (JUNE, 1873. by water, have been covered with a coating of stroyed by man. Close by is another low cavern, mortar or chunam, which is still adhering in hollowed out by water apparently, but said to some places. In the centre is a low wall, four be an artificial subterranean passage cut through or five feet high, of thick chunam, forming a se- the range of hills to a hamlet on the other side; micircular enclosure, and inside this is a small I satisfied myself, however, that it was natural angle or step of chunam; this is all that re- and led only a few yards. The inhabitants mains of the building or structure, whatever it have a legend attached to these caves, attributwas. The ground is covered with pieces ing them to a former Baluch queen, who is said of mortar so very thick and solid that it is to have resided in them and dug the passage evident the temple has been purposely de- through the hills. ON A PRAKRIT GLOSSARY ENTITLED PAIYALACHHI. BY G, BUHLER, PH.D. In the January number of this journal (vol. the words denoting collection, heap,' 17 and II. p. 17) I announced the recovery of Hema- 18%, and in the second half of the eighteenth chandra's Desisabdasamgraha, the first work of verse the author says: "Now we will declare the its kind which ever had fallen into the hands words occurring in the Gathas' (itta he gahatthe of a European Sanskritist. By another stroke hi vannimo vathupajjae). After this fresh of good luck I am now enabled to give a notice exordium, he begins his enumeration with the of a second Prakrit Kosha which precedes terms for salvation (19), & person saved Hemachandra's work by two centuries. This (195), Vishnu (20%), siva (20b), Kartikeya is the Paiyalachhi na mamala, i.e. Prakritalak- (21), gods (211), Indra (224), Balarama (226) shmih, the wealth of the beauty of the Prakrit Yama (23), Kuvera (236), Vaya (24a), Garuda. language. In the MS. bought, the title is spelt (24), snake (25), Daityas (256), cloud (26), Payalachhi and Payayalachhi. But the fact that air (26), water (27%), river (27), earth, in the first verse (see below) payalachhi must (28), Rahu (286), etc. contain eight matras, and the circumstance that The words given in the Paiyalachhi are not Hem. Desst. 1. 4 has the form paiya for prakrita, exclusively Desis, but include many Tadbhavas prove the correctness of myemendation. and Tatsamas. Many of the Desis given occur The MS. contains about 240 granthas and is also in Hemachandra's Sagraha. But somewritten of 67 folios a 34 lines a 46-48 Ak. times their forms slightly differ in the two sharas. It is perhaps a hundred years old, and works. I have not found any quotation from its characters are Jaina-Devanagari, the Paigalachhi in the Desisamgraha. The Paiyalachhi namamala is written in the The author of the Paiyalachhi has not given Arga motre and constructed on a principle simi. his name. But he states in the concluding, lar to that of the Amarakosha. It gives strings unfortunately corrupt, verses of his work, of synonyms for substantives, adjectives, and that he wrote in Vikrama 1029, or 972-3 adverbs, each string filling usually a verse or a A.D., at Dharanagara, under the protection of half-verse. The principle on which the synonyms the king of Malava. In the ninth and tenth have been arranged is not very intelligible. centuries under Munja and Bhoja, Dhara was The book is not divided into chapters or sec- a great centre of literary activity, and it is tions, and no attempt at order is apparent, remarkable that Dharmasagara in his Theravali, First have been placed the synonyms for Brah- as well as other Jaina authors, state that in that mi (v.1), Parvati (v. 2), sun (v. 3), moon very same year Dhanapala wrote in the same place (v.4), 'fire (v. 5), love (v. 6), ocean (v.7), a Desina mamala. I should have been inclined to elephant (v. 8), lotus (v. 9), bees (v. 10), identify the latter work with the Paiyalachhi, woman (vs. 11 and 12). Then follow some ad- were it not that Hemachandra quotes Dhanajectives and adverbs, vs. 13-16. Next come pala several times and that his quotations are * Vilkamakalassa gae aunattisuttare sahassa mmi ImAlava nam antima vann& ndammi jassa kamaso tenes& viram narindadh Adie ludie mannakhedammi 11 db aranayarlo pa. des! || kavvesu ye ye saddA bahusukaihim vajjhanti te itthad. riddiena magge thiyde anavaijo kajakanatthavihine sun. mao mai ramantu hine sahiyay&nam iti pyayalachhndi cart nama dhij de llaino andhajanan kirvakulasattipay. mamala samapta II.

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JUNE, 1873.) A PRAKRIT GLOSSARY. 167 not traceable in my MS. In conclusion I give cha grahapatitvam aditya eva radhath na sasiniti the text of the fourteen first verses of the Paiya- nayar grahapatisabdasamudbhavah. lachhi with the equivalents of the Prakrit words Dhumaddhao huyavaho vibhavasu payao sihi in Sanskrit, as far as I have been able to make vahnil them out. analo jalano dahano huyasano havvavaho ya Il Namiuna paramapurisam purisuttamanabhi 6|| sambhavam devam MS. huyasaho.- Metre : Arya.--Subject : Fire. vuchham pa ialachhitti namamalam nisamehi Sanskrit equivalents: dhamadhvaja, hutavaha, 11111 vibhavasu, pavaka. Sikhin, vahni, anala jvalana, dahana, hutasana, havyavah. Payalachhi tti...... namamalar, MS. against Mayaraddhao anango rainkho mammaho the metre, which is Arya. Translation. kusumabanol Bowing to the Supreme being, that lord who Kandappo panchasaro mayano sarhkappasprang from the navel of Purushottama, I propound "the wealth of the Prakrit language." MS. rainkho ...... kandappa sakappajoni, against Listen. met. - Metre : Arya.-Subject : Cupid. Sanskrit Kamala sano sayambhu piyamaho ya paramit. equivalents: makaradhvaja, ananga, ratinatha, thi......| manmatha, kusumabana, kandarpa, panchasara, thero vihi virancho payavahi kamalajoni ya madana, sankalpayoni. II 211 Mayaraharo sindhuvai sindhu rayanayaro s&The first half-verse is mutilated, metre Aryd or lilarasi | Upagiti. paravaro jalahi taramgamali samudda ya || 811 Subject : Brahma.-Sanskrit equivalents: ka- MS. taralamalt ag. met. Metre : Arya. Subject : malasana, sayambhu, pitamaha, parameshthin, Ocean. Sanskrit equivalents: makaradhara, sin sthavira, vidhi, virinchi, prajapati, kamalayoni. dhupati, sindhu, ratnakara, salilarasi, parkvara, ja. Dakhkayani bhavani selasua pavval uma gori | ladhi, taramgamalin, samudra. Ajja dugga kali siva ya kachchhayani Pilo gao mayagalo mayango sindhuro kachandi il 3 11 renu ya MS. varakhkayani ...... mori-the first against doghatto danti varano kari kunjari hatthi || 811 the metro.-Metre: Arya.-Subject: Parvati. M8. pflagaa ...... mayago ...... kunjari hari. ag. Sanskrit equivalents : dAkshAyani, bhavant, baila- met. Metre Arya. Subject : Elephant. Sanskrit suta, parvatt uma, gaurt, Arya, durga kalt, biva, equivalents : pilu (an Arabic loan word), gaja, katyayant, chandi.-Hem. Desf. I. 8. com. : ajj& | madakala, matanga, sindhura, karenu, dvighata (P) gauriti kechit samgsihnanti. dantin, varana, kunjarin, hastin. Hem. Desi. Akko tarani mitto mattando dinamani pa. quotes in the Com. on VI. 29 (422) and gives, yango ya V. 43 (273), dugghutto as a synonym of hasti. Abhimayaro pachchuho diyasayaro ahsumali Amburuhan sayavattam saroruham pundaya | 4 | riyam aravindam M$. asumAlf ag. met.--- Metre : Aryd. Subject : raivan tamarasam mahuppalam pankaya Sun. Sanskrit equivalents : arka, tarani, mitra, Dalinam || martanda, dinamani, patanga, pratydaha, divasa- The la of madhuppalam has been destroyed by kara, amsumalin; abhimayaro is doubtful to me. an insect, and the reading is conjectural though Hem. Dest. VI. 5 (307) pachch dho ravimmi. not doubtful. Metro: Arya. Subject: Lotus. Indu nisa yuro sasaharo vihu gahavai rayani. Sanskrit equivalents: amburuha, satapattra, saronaho 1 ruha, aravinda, rajiva, tamrarasa, madhatpala, mayalanchhano himayaro rohinframano sisi pankaja, nalina. chandro|| 5 | Kullamdhaya rasao bhinga. bhasali ya maMS. idd ...... ganahavai...... ramani against met. huyara alino and sense. Subject: Moon. Sanskrit equivalents: indindira darena dhuyagaya chhappaya bhaindu, niskkara, basadhara, vidhu, grahapati, raya. mari || 10 11 ninAtha, mrigalanchhana, himakara, rohinframana, MS. indidira ag. met. Metre : Aryd. Subject : gasin, chandrs. The Prakrit forms of the last two Bees. Sanskrit equivalents and etymologies : kdwords are doubtful.-Hem. Debi. II. 94 (274) : ga- lamdhaya, ras&pa drinking with the tongue or from haval g&myasasisu...... gabavai graminah sastras, to sound P (bhringh, madhukara, ali dvi.

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168 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (JUNE, 1873. repha, dhautakaya P shat pada, bhramari.-Hem. Sanskrit equivalents: Svach shhand, udd&ma, Dest VII. 2. (447) gives rasau bhramrah, rasau nirargala, muktaka, vispinkhalita, niravagraha, sabdoyam ityanye, yadyopalah. Alirapi raslo Bvair&,* nirankuca, alpavasa. - syat.--Hem. Desl. VI. 99 (398) has bhasaro; Ruiram munoraham ramma abhiramam Hem. Dest. I. 80 indindirammi iddando, and Com. bandhura manujja cha iddando bhramarah kaischidindi(n) dirasabdopi lattham kantam suhayam manoramam charu desya uktah asmabhistu samskritepi darsanad ramaniijam || 13 || anaya bhangya nibaddhah. Hem. Debi. V. 56 MS. latthakantam ...... ramanijjam cha ag. met. (296) bhamare dhungadhuyagaya dhamang&; the Metre : Arya. Subject : lovely. Sanskrit equivafirst and last apparently =dhamranga. . lents :-ruchira, manohara, ramya, abhirama, Rama ramani simantini bahu vamaloyana bandhura, manojfia, --, kanta, sukhada, manoravinaya ! ma, charu, ramaniya. Mahila juvai abala angane nari---||11|| Hem. Desi. VII. 26 (472) says : latto anya The second half-verse appears to be mutilated. sakto manoharah priyamvadascheti tryarthah. Metre : Arya. Subject: Woman. Sanskrit equiva- Sasinam saniyam mittham mandarin alasankulents : rama, ramani, simantini, vadhd, v&malo dan maralan cha chana, yuvati, abalA, angana, nari. khelam bhikuyam sairam visattham mentharam Sachchhanda uddama niraggala mukkala vi- thamiyam || 14 || sankhalia MS. visatthamentharam ag. met. Subject : slow Niravaggahi ya sayara nirankusa hunti ap- -Sanskrit equivalents : mpishta = marshita, pavasa 11 12 11 manda, alasa, - - markla, svaira, visrasta (P) Metre : Arya. Subject : A self-willed woman. I manthara. COORG SUPERSTITIONS. BY REV. F. KITTEL, MERKARA. The Demons in Coorg.* I. MALES.-1. Ayyappa (Ayya-Appa), t arrak in a leaf. The hill-Ayyappa stands nowi. e. Lord-father, a name at present explained as adays on the boundary between the Kalis if Ayyappa were the lord of the universe. I (Demons) and Devas (Deities), as is indicated think it originally means Demon-master, Appa by the fact that no swine-the gifts thought being a very common honorific. If a person particularly fit for Karanas (Ghosts) and falls under his influence (drishti), he will Demons-are offered to him. To some of the become ill. Ayyappa is also called Malejungle-Ayyappas Brahmans are sent once a Deva, i e. Fill-god, and Beto Ayyappa, year; others are served only by the Coorge-with i. e. Lord-father of hunting, and his favour is such the Brahmans have nothing to do. Some sought for hunting expeditions. His stone, Coorgs say that in a few places a buffalo is tied on a small platform (dimba kafla), is met with in up, in Ayyappa's name, in the jungle (i. e. jungles and gardens. Here and there a whole killed ?). jungle is dedicated to one of his stones, and out with the Tamilas, Ayyappa is called Ayyanar, of such jungles superhuman sounds are said by and receives also swine as offerings; the Tulus some occasionally to proceed. On his plat- call him Ayyappa form models in wood and clay of bows, arrows, 2. Another name of Ayyappa in Coorg dogs, horses, elephants, &c. are laid as gifts. is Sastav u or Sarta vu. It is also found When a hunt has been successful, an Ayyappa among the Tamilasll and Tulus (Sdstavu), both stone is presented with a cocoanut and some rice, of whom consider its bearer to be the master of and, according to others,also with a fowland some Demons. In Coorg he is a stone within or * No bigoted Coorg would dare, and no Bralaman would, put the Ayyappa and Kalis under the same heading with the Demons. + Ay, Ayya, in honorific title among the Dravidians dians frequently affixed to proper names, like "Appa." May it be connected with arya? I Bali is the specific name for "bloody sacrifice" with the Dravidians; the root bal means to be strong, able, firm or tight, and is very common. Bala and Bali of Sanskrit literature may be Dravidian. & Ziegonbalg's Genealogie der Malabarischen Gutter, p. 151. | Sitta, 8&st. See Zieg. pages 150, 153, 154, 186. The names of this Demon remind one of Siva's appellations-Santa, Serv.

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COORG SUPERSTITIONS. JUNE, 1873.] outside a temple, with a Brahman Pujari, and only at some distance from his Paja-seat receives fowl-sacrifices from the hands of the Coorgs. Among the Talus he holds about the same position; among the Tamilas he seems to bear more of the Demon character. 3. Kutti Chatta, a pure Demon that is found also among the Tamilas and Tulus. It means "the small Chatta (or Satta)." 4. Karu Vala, i. e. he of the black sword. This is a Maleyala and Tulu Demon. 5. Guliga (the Kulika of Sanskrit dictionaries), a stone under a jack or other tree with abundant sap. The Coorgs have this Demon in common with the Tamilas and Tulus. By the Tamilas he is stated to be one of the eight Serpents supporting the eight angles of the world; but this idea is not familiar among the Coorgs. One thing, however, connects him with serpents also in Coorg, viz. the notion, though not at all general, that where a Guliga is, also a Nata or Naga stone ought to be.t Guliga means either "he of the pit," or perhaps "he who is united" (so as to be ringled ?). One or more Coorgs of the house to which a Guliga belongs go to it once a year with one of the three above-mentioned Maleyalas, who breaks a cocoanut, kills a fowl, and offers some arrak (his reward being a quantity of rice). This is done with the object of averting contagious cattle-disease. If it happens that the Brahmans declare, and are believed, that some Guligas have become impure, they are sent to cleanse them with water-for which performance they are presented with some rice. To the Nata stone, once a year, puja is per formed by a Brahman, and people from the neighbouring Coorg house go and light lamps to it. 6. Koraga. This and the next are expressly stated to have been introduced by the Tulus. It may mean "he who cuts into pieces," or "he who dries up"-perhaps the sap of the body, or also "the snorer." 7. Kallugutti (Kallu-Kutti), i. e. he who strikes with stones. Throwing stones at houses They are: Vienki, Ananta, Takka (Taksha), Sankhapala, Guliga, Padma, Maha Padma, Karkotaka. Probably on very few of the Coorg Naga stones is the form of a serpent. Should, after all, in spite of Professor Benfey's ingenious guess (naga snaga, snake), NAga be Dravidian? NAta means smell, stench. There is a jungle tribe in Tulu called the Koragas, who make baskets and mats of split bamboos. 169 and people is thought to be a trick of certain Demons. 8. Panjuruli (Panji-Uruli), i. e. pigrider. Among the Tulus, from whom he no doubt came, he is represented by an idol on the back of a pig. Brass images of Demons are most frequent with the Tulus. 9. Kuranda, i. e. perhaps "the blind one," or "the shaky (unsteady) one." He is a specific Demon of the Coorg Holeyas or out castes. 10. Tammacha. A jungle and hunting Demon that receives bloody sacrifices, but no pigs. He is especially the Demon of the Male Kudiyas, i. e. hill-inhabitants, and is said to sow the cardamom seeds: these spring up whereever a big tree is felled in certain parts of the Western Ghats. II. FEMALES. 1. Chamundi or Chaundi (Chavu-Undi),SS i. e. either "death-mistress," or "she who preys upon death." Her name translated into Sanskrit is Mari, the killer. She is also named Masani (Smasan i), the woman of the burial-place. This Chamundi is always a mere stone, which is sometimes enclosed in a small temple but for which there never is a Brahman Pajari. She has three other appellations: Bete Chamundi, i. e. Hunting-Chamundi, Kari Chamundi, i. e. dark Cha mundi, and Puli Chamundi, i. e. Tiger-Chamundi. Another name is Bete Masani, and a stone of this appellation is kept by some people in their houses to invoke for hunting purposes. 2. Karingali (Kari-Kali),|| i. e. the dark black one. She has only one place in Coorg, viz. at the village Kutta, where she is represented by some stones in an enclosure. She is so terrible that no Coorg of the old school likes to utter her real name; she is therefore generally called "the deity of Kutta." An Okkaliga, i. e. a Kanarese peasant, is her Pajari.T At her yearly masquerade (Kola, the Canarese tere) Botta Kurubas (hill-shepherds) and Maley as use to dance, but no Coorgs. Regarding the animals to be decapitated on that This Demon is throughout Dravidian. KAli's root is Kar, Kal, to be black; Krishna probably belongs to this same root. With the Tamilas the Pajaris at the pagodas of Durga are Pandaras, a class of agricultural labourers or Sadras. The Coorgs are peasants or Sadras themselves.

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170 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. occasion in Kutta I had unfortunately been misinformed when I wrote my first article.* Karingali has been raised so high as to be offered no pigs, but only fowls !-possibly from the fear arising from publicly declaring her to be a demon. 3. Badra Kali, as Ka duBadra Kali 4. e. the Badra Kali of the jungle. She has a Brahman as Pujari; but near her place is another stone at which either the Coorgs themselves, or by their order, Maleyas offer fowls and goats. She has this character also among the Tulus, who once a year send a Brahman to serve her; sometimes the Brahman (against his caste-rules) orders a bloody sacrifice. By putting the epithet Bhadra (propitious, happy) to Kali the Brahmans may have tried to change the demon's character: Bhadra means also "gold"-conf. No. 10. 4. Kundamme (Kunda-Amme), i. e. hillmother: not general. 5. Karingora ti (Kari-Korati), i. e. the dark Korati. Korati is also among the Tulus. She appears to be a female form of Koraga: see Males, No. 6.t 6. Kalluruti (Kallu-Uruti), i. e. stoneroller. She and the next are pointed out as having been imported by Tulus. 7. Nuchchutte (Nuchchu-Utte), i. e. probably "she who feeds on broken grains." 8. Nanjavva (Nanju-Avva), i. e. poisonmother. She and the next two are demons of the Coorg Holeyas. 9. Nili Avva, i. e. black mother. Nili is the name of a crafty demon among the Tamilas. 10. Ponnan galamme (Ponnu-an-kaluAmme), i. e. mother with the bright (or golden) foot-sole. But is she not likely to be the same as the Tamila A n gali,Angalamme?SS Then the translation might be: Mother Kali, who is the bright incubus (conf. No. 3). Other Coorgs pronounce the name Pannan galamme; in this case the composition might be Pannan-kaluAmme, i. e. mother of strong feet, or, according There are many Coorgs that have never acquired the knowledge of such particulars. Vide ante, p. 48. + In Tamila a female basket-maker who at the same time divines by cheiromancy is called Kuratti. [JUNE, 1873. to the Tamila reading, Mother Kali who is the impetuous incubus. III. BIRAS. Another class of beings whom the Coorgs believe to exist is still to be mentioned, viz. the Biras. They are said to be human souls transformed to demons. Such people as die a violent death are likely to become Biras. Biras have their stones at which bloody sacrifices are offered (fowls and also pigs). Zieg. p. 186. Regarding this Afig&lamme, see Zieg. p. 164 seqq. Viras? or Bhairavas? Pey (i. . wicked), the Tamila word to denote a Deities, sometimes called Rain-gods. The so-called Deities (deva, devi) of the Coorgs are known by their being connected with regular temples (tirike, lit. sanctuary), Brahman Pajaris, and partly with idols. They are partly demons in a Brahmanical garb, partly entire importations. Such of them as are represented either by stones or by images, or by both, are the males Ayyappa and Mahadeva (Omkaresvara, Linga), both being nearly identical; and the female Badra Kali. Occasionally a face is painted on Mahadeva's stone. As a temple-deity also Ayyappa is the patron of huntsmen; he receives the same hunting implements as the jungle-Ayyappa*; his bloody sacrifices (or rather those connected with his host of Demons) are performed by the Coorgs at some distance from the temple, the Brahman Pajari remaining in the temple. Mahadeva is quite modern Brahmanical, as no animals are killed for him. The temple Badra Kali (also called Pogodi, Pavodi, a tadbhava of Bagavati) is considered by some Coorgs to be one with Chamundi. Her bloody sacrifices, consisting of fowls, goats, and buffaloes, are made in the vicinity of her temple. About every second year a buffalosacrifice takes place. The decapitator is a Paruva (Meda), an outcaste who makes bamboo mats and baskets and beats the big drum (hembare) at certain festivities. Also the Tamilas hire a Pariya (i. e. drummer) to perform the decapitation at their Badra Kali sacrifices.+ In the Tulu country the peasants (Banta, Gauda), though employing the Paruvas at masquerades, male devil, Peychchi, being a female of them, is not found among the Coorgs and Tulus. The feminine form strongly reminds one of Pisachi, a word that is known and used everywhere in the South. It may be remarked here that, as a rule, at all places connected with Coorg superstition, Trisalas (tridente) are found. + Zieg. p. 172.

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NOTES ON NATURAL HISTORY. JUNE, 1873.] decapitate the buffalo themselves. With the Coorgs the Paruva is superintended by the Mukkatis, i. e. arrangers, who are either Coorgs or other Sudras. Near the source of the Ka veri river is the temple, and within it the idol of K a veri Amma, i. e. Mother Kaveri. The service of this deity is quite Brahmanical, and my opinion is that the deity is an importation from the plains. The Amma's Tantris, or owners, are Tulu Brahmans. I do not find that the Coorgs are water-worshippers, though they have adopted also something in this respect from the Brahmans; and besides they have no tangible profit from this river in their own country. Another deity with purely (Tulu) Brahmanical puja, whom some people declare to be NOTES ON NATURAL HISTORY. I.-SNAKES. BY W. F. SINCLAIR, Bo. C. S., KHANDESH. It is the common belief of Khandesh, the Dekhan, and Central Provinces that the amphisboena or slow-worm, (mandup) changes its head to its tail, and back, every year. Also that its bite causes leprosy. At Christmas 1870, I shot a short, thick, clouded snake known as Jogi (I suppose because it is lazy and venomous). My police orderly, a Maratha from Anjanvel in Ratnagiri, said: "There are lots of these in my country. If they bite a man or a buffalo, he swells up to the shape of this snake, and spots like those on the snake come all over his body." The beaters, Thakurs of the Ghats, knew nothing of this belief, though they held the snake in so much dread that one man threw away the stick with which he had crushed its head. I have often met with this snake in the Dekhan and Khandesh, und never found this belief current anywhere above the Ghat; but it is certainly poisonous. Compare the snake in Dante by whose bite a man was turned into a snake and vice versat. In the year 1865, or thereabouts, a snake with fur or hair upon its body is said to have appeared near Bhima Shankar, the source of the Bhim a river in the Sahyadri hills. It is described as having been about four feet long, and covered with a soft curly wool; and the people worshipped it for a season until it disappeared, My informant was very * Ziegenbalg, p. 8, 171 identical with Subrahmanya, is Iguttappa (Igutta-Appa), i.e. Father Igutta. He is prayed to for rain, and invoked at the harvest-festival. Might this deity not be the same with the Tamila Veguttuva-avatara, i.e. the Buddha-avatara of Vishnu ? Besides V eguttava the form Vegutta is also correct. It seems to be quite certain that many centuries ago the Coorgs, and with them most probably others of the Dravidian tribes, were mere ghost and demon worshippers without any ray of light to alleviate their fear. Have Brahmanical innovations in any way ameliorated their spiritual condition, or has even the contrary taken place? The discussion of questions of such a character is of much interest. Merkara, 22nd April 1873. hazy about dates and details. Perhaps the creature was suffering from some furry fungous disease, such as fish are liable to. The little river Yel, on the high plateau, known as the Pet Pathar, in Taluka Kher of the Puna District, is inhabited by great numbers of D h a man s, the large water-snake with yellow netlike markings on his back. The belief of those parts is that the Dhaman is powerless to injure man or beast except the buffalo; but if a buffalo so much as sees a Dhaman he dies of it-the idea of the basilisk! Further east it is sometimes believed that the Dhaman drowns bathers by coiling round their limbe. It is really quite harmless to any creature above the size of a water-rat. The natives of the Ghats hold a small snake called the Phursa in much dread; and the Bombay Government have honoured it by bracketing it with the cobra, and putting a price on its head. The Kolis, who ordinarily bury their dead, have so great an abhorrence for four sorts of death that they will not bury the victims of any of the proscribed means of exit from this world. Three of the four are cholera, small-pox, and the bite of the Phursa. The fourth I have forgotten; but in these cases they make forks of saplings, pick up the deceased, and pitchfork him over the nearest cliff. + Inferno, c. XXV.

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172 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (JUNE, 1873. With all this, I have never been able to find out satisfactorily what the Phursa is*. I have been shown at least a dozen different snakes by that name, the most of them tree or water snakes and as harmless as frogs. A long thin yellow snake called Korad is. much dreaded in the open stony parts of the Puna district. The people say: "He does not give a man time to drink water." This is certainly the most active ground-snake I have seen. LEGEND OF VELLUR. BY DINSHAH ARDESHIR TALEYARKAN, SECRETARY, KATHIAWAR EKSAMPI RAJASTHANI BABHA. If a traveller in Southern India is induced to dered unwholesome by the growth of woeds and visit Vellar, it is specially because of its forts and the rubbish which continually falls into it, would its temple. We ascended one of its hills called be drinkable in time of need. There are lasting "Sajra," on which there still exists an ancient springs in it. fort. There is a sort of rough track which leads | Besides Sajra there are other hills close to it. to the summit in about an hour. Surveying the On two of these are also ruined forts. The hightown from this height, you find it lying close upon est of all is Gojra, whose peak is narrow and the base of the Sajra, irregular, scattered, and pointed. To ascend Gojra is much more difficult. closely surrounded by high hills except towards A tunnel is built in it, which, it is said, leads to all the north. There you find the broad bed of the the other mountains, but no one ventures to go in. river Palar stretching as far as the eye can reach. These hills, forts, &c. were one of the principal Over it runs a lengthy viaduct of about a means by which the former rulers used to defend hundred low archos. The river is dry, but here themselves. The height, the positions, and the and there are canals dug for cultivators, dhobis, and number of the hills were sufficient to harass the others. The expansive bed and the beautiful most patient. bridge lying amidst numerous glittering nalas Besides these forts, at the extremity of Sajra testify to the dimensions to which the river at hill below, is another fort built of large black tains during the rains. Before the bridge was slabs, which is oblong, occupying about four built intercourse with the surrounding places was miles; a very wide ditch surrounds it, full of pure very difficult: it took & whole day to cross the water. river, and four pairs of bullocks were required to Inside the fort are found the offices of the drag a laden cart through it. We have scarcely Small Cause Court, Sub-Magistrate's and Teh. seen another town so picturesquely situated. sildar's Kacheris, Pension, Post, and other It is pleasantly buried amid clumps of trees of | Offices. In the middle is an open space where'a various sorts. Interspersed here and there about building was erected by Government many years the outskirts of the town are paddy and sugar. ago, in which to confine princes who fell pri. cane fields. Above all is a fort, but nothing soners into their hands. As you enter the fort, of it remains except the surrounding walls. Bro- opposite you stands a large Hindu temple which ken cannon lie here and there half-buried. Large in extent and workmanship excels both the balls are also found scattered and rusting. You grand temples of Konjivaram. It has several sometimes alight on artificial caves. In the very gigantic "Mandap3" of superior carving. In centre of the peak there still exists a deep tank. them are many dark cells for gods. The gods of The water in it, though unused for years and ren. this temple were those who lived in water, hence Natives are generally very ignorant of natural history, tapers suddenly, sharp-pointed ; length 2 inches. The and often give the Erst name that occurs to them for any colour, the head very dark, obscure, green, without of the less common plants or animals. The Phursa is spot. The trunk (including the tail), almost black, with a species of Lycodon, the 'Gajoo Tutta' (Kaju Pata) a dark-greenish cast. The ridge of the back variegated of Russell, who describes it as a Coluber, "the head broader with about twenty narrow spots, composed of longitudinal, than the neck, ovate, depressed, obtuse. The first pair short, dusky-yellow, white and black lines. Along the of lamina between the nostrils, small, sub-orbicnlar; the sides, and half down the tail, are interrupted rows of short, next, pentagonal; the middlemost laming of the three be- white lines; and from the head to the anus, on each side tween the eyes, broad-lanceolate; the last pair, semi-cordate. close to the scuta, there is & regular row of black dota. The mouth small; the lower jaw shorter than the upper. The scuta and squama are of a bluish white colour." In an The teeth below, numerons, close, reflex; two palatal rows observation, he remarks that the "colour resembles the above, close also and numerous, but the anterior in the Gedi Paragud" of the Coromandel Coast, which is the marginal row, longer than usual. The eyes lateral, small, Maner or Manyar (Bungarum candidum) of the Konkan, orbicular. Nostrils close to the rostrum, gaping. The "but the variegating spots are very different," and "from the trunk round. The scales, broad-ovate, imbricate. Length Want of poisoning organs it may be inferred that it is not 14. inches. Circumference near the head, 14 inch the 80 formidable as, by the natives, represented." (Account thicket part of the trunk about 8 inches, and diminishes of Indian Serpents, p. 22).-ED. inconsiderably till near the tail. The tail very small,

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JUNE, 1873.] LEGEND OF VELLUR. 173 here are wells all about. Streams of water for cleansing the teeth. He daily went to Kai. run continuously underneath the temple. There Is Hill to worship the Dharmalinga, from whom is one portion of the temple in which you cannot he wished to know all about his lot. He intended go without a guide and torch ; it consists of seven to stay where he was, if he was thereby to become rooms built one beyond another. happy, otherwise he purposed to go and live in This temple went out of the hands of the Hin- Senohi near Tanjor. On the tenth day the two dos about the commencement of the Muhammadan brothers were attacked by PAlagar marauders, but rule in Vellar. No idol is left in'it; half a dozen Bimardi and Timardi fought so boldly against public offices are located in it; the richly carved them that they retreated. On hearing this the black massive "Mandaps" have been white- Raja was much pleased, and the two brothers were washed; the whole building has been disfigured. entrusted with numerous Silladars. The villagers The following story will tell how this curious also rendered them any aid they needed. At this temple and fort were erected. stage of affairs one of the cows of Bimardi was It is said that when this place was a desert it delivered of a call. It was as white as milk; but was resided in by a god named Jallgandi Ishwa- its horns, nose, tail and hoofs were black. Its teats rar; Ganga Gauriaman was the goddess. The were five. When it grew it never went in comsmall bill or Durgam was their frequent resort. pany with the other cattle. It went to graze The Palar river was then called Chir and was on alone, and returned alone. It was delivered of a the north. To the south was the village of Wela- calf, but did not allow it to drink milk. Bimarpadi. To the east was Palakonda RAnmaldi di was surprised to find that daily when the cow mountain. To the south-east was Dharmalinga returned in the evening it came with empty udler. Malasi mountain. To the west was the tank of Nor was the herdsman able to explain this, but SAdipari. Everything within these boundaries one morning he followed the cow wherever it was "Welankud," or forest. Chola Raja was went. The cow went on till it came near a small then reigning, who haul acquired much fame. island, to which it went crossing the water. Im. A person named Eatumardi used to live in the mediately after this a serpent came out of a hole. sacred city of Palavansa, on the banks of the It had five months, by which it drank milk from Krishna river. He had two sons, Bimardi and the five teats of the cow. After the serpent had Timardi, whose statues are yat at the sides of the dono drinking, the cow returned to its master's temple gate. They are also found inside the tern. place. Bimardi was much affected by this sight. ple in various attitudes. Their mother died soonH e considered both the occurrence and the after giving thom birth. Eatumardi bal four locality as sacred. On the morning of the followBons by his second wife. His wealth consisted in | ing day he crossed the water and went near the cattle, and they were by thousands. Soon after hole of the five-mouthed serpent. There he pray. celebrating the marriages of his sons Le malo ed to know what were the wishes of the serpent. two divisions of his wealth ; ono was given to Bi. After this he fell fast asleep. A figure then ap. mardi and Timardi, and the other was divided pearod to him in his dream and said to Bimardiamong the four sons by his socond wife, wlio "My name is Sambasivam. That cow which commenced quarrelling with and even concerting you possess is created by me. I drink its milk the death of their two half-brothers after the death and am pleased. I therefore wish you all sucof their father. Hereupon the two brothers cess and happiness!" Bimardi answered-"I do abandonod their homes with their families and not care for life or happiness, but am anxious their cattle. In course of their journey they always to remain in your service, and I am also halted at a place called Tirum, whence water was anxious to porpetuate your namo; with that desire conveyed for the god Sriranganaigar, who was I wish to construct a temple and a fort." The god living in Palikonda. Hearing of the fame of roplied: "Why need you do this? I am not any Chola Raja and the sacredness of the hills in luis way known, and wish to remain so:" Bimardi possession, they went to Kailaspatnam; and repeated, however, his prayers with mncla suppli. Bimardi besought the Raja to give him some land cation. The Deva then asked; "Well, if your for cultivation. The R&ja, seeing he had come wishes be so strong, whence can you bring all tho with immense cattle, gave him as much land as he wealth to build the temple and fort? What wished in Welapadi to till and to rear his cattle. money have you got for this purpose ?" "All my This place was called Welapadi, because it was wealth consists in the 8,700 head of cattle I posfull of trees 'named welam which furnished sticks sess; I shall sell them and carry out my object." A different legend is given by Lieut. H. P. Hawkes in the Madras Journal of Literature and Science, vol. XX.p. 274, bearing some slight resemblance however to this.-ED.

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174 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JUNE, 1873. The god was much pleased to hear this, and orties with her. The Raja was consequently so much dered Bimardi to erect a temple and fort, and enraged against him that he instantly ordered said to him-"When I was living with Wenkata his hands and feet to be cut off, and his maimed Saprumal on the hill of Dharmalingamalai, that body to be cast on the aforesaid hill from which god placed one foot on the Dharmalinga Hill Bimardi had his stones. Sarangadram did not and the other on the Tripati Hill, and went to take this undeserved cruelty to heart, but spent Tripati. In the place on which he placed his first all his solitary hours in devotion to his god. foot there lies immense wealth, of which you may Consequently his hands and feet were replaced, take as much as you can in the course of seven days and the hill was also benefited by his meritorious and seven nights." So saying the serpent return- sufferings, in that any extent of stones extracted ed to his hole. Bimardi awoke from his dream, from it was in no time replaced. and implicitly believing everything that he had | Now to return to the story of the fort and the heard and seen in his vision, the first thing he did temple. They were all completed within the was to place a line of labourers from the hole to fixed time. The sacred cars were also ready. the hill mentioned by Sambasivam. Bimardi The first worship was held on the appointed day afterwards repaired to the summit of the hill, and the appointed hour. The god was named where he repeated what the god Sambasivam had 'l Jalagantha Isvarar, and fairs in the temple were uttered. All of a sudden, golden coins now flowed held every year, and the number of pilgrims and out, which Bimardi's men began to carry one worshippers constantly increased. after another. On this rews reaching the Meanwhile, Bimardi besought an interview Raja he summoned Bimardi into his presence. from his god, which was granted: he comBimardi informed him of all that had occurred. menced thus-"I am simply a shepherd and The Raja was so gratified to hear all this that he tiller; I have no capacity for administration. I rendered his best assistance in getting the aforesaid beseech thee therefore to appoint one who is fit jungle cleared for Bimardi. As the jungle was to conduct a raj and to keep all affairs in conbeing cleared, it so happened that a hare appearednection with the temple in a prosperous state, so and made a certain sort of round several times that I may have more time to spend in your and then disappeared. Bimardi was lost in as- devotion." To this the god answered--"There is tonishment. He implored his patron god to one Wenkatdevamahariar, the son of Pargonacquaint him with the meaning of what he saw. dama Pirawadardevamahariar, who maintains & He was informed in his dream that he should lay thousand Brahmans daily. He is a fit person the foundation of the fort as the hare had pointed for the raj; go and tell him to undertake the out. Bimardi lost no time in complying with management." A dispute was now raging bethis behest. The foundation was laid in the tween Wenkat and his brother as to the distribuSukla year 1190 of Salivahana's Sagartha-varsha. tion of certain villages between them. Vellur The month was Panguni, and the date 19th. The was also added to these villages. The two god further ruled that the whole structure should brothers agreed to proceed to the Melkatachalabe finished within nine years, and he be installed in pularaisna temple in the Maisur Zilla, and the year Isvara and on the 19th date of the month there to cast lots and abide by the result. of Panguni. Bimardi on laying the foundation Wenkat got Vellur. On leaving his father's earnestly expressed his desire to carry out all palace to repair to Vellor, he met with what was these commands. The stones required for the considered a very good omen, which was in the structures were sent by Bimardi from a bill form of a maid-servant who was preparing torch named Palikonda, which was 12 miles distant, and es in the palace. The result of his connection where Sriranganaigar used to sleep-pali meaning with her at this moment, which was justified and bed, and konda to take. The more stones were unavoidable in consequence of the coincidence, was extracted from this quarry the more inexhaustible that she gave birth to a son, who was, according to it proved. This mystery is explained by another the law of the times, proclaimed heir-apparent to story which may be told here. There was a Raja the raj. He was named Krishna Devamahariar. named Dharma Raja. He had a son who was noted Wenkat reigned three years and gained a name for unrivalled beauty. He had a step-mother who for uprightness: He granted Wanandurgam became hopelessly fond of him. She once called and Chitaldurgam, lying to the east of Velhim to her and tried by every means to make him lur, to his washerman and shoemaker, and made make love to her. Sarangadram hereupon left his other similar grants to his deserving subjects. stepmother in great disdain. With a view now to After this he abandoned all his possessions and ruin him, she told her husband Dharma Raja that business, and retired into a jungle where he led the this his son had attempted to take improper liber. life of a hermit. The Rayars or the descend.

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JUNE, 1873.) THREE COPPER PLATES. 175 ants of Wenkat ruled 234 years in twelve dy. The mother of Abdul Ali Khan seeing the palace nasties. It is still believed of Wenkat that he filled with serpents, insisted on his surrendering wanders in the jungle, and will some day again rule the fort to the Marathas. He did 80 accordingly, over the place. A Pathan succeeded these Ra- and removing three miles from Vellur there yars. The Pathan was succeeded by his son founded a place termed Abdulwaram. The rule Abdul Ali Khan, who ruled 25 years. The fort of these Marathas lasted 35 years, and their sons of Vellur was now besieged by the Marathas ruled 20 years more. A Musalman named Zulfikr headed by Tukojirao and Silojirao, who espied Khan took the fort by force and ruled 22 years. blood flowing ont of stones a mile away from the Zulfikr Khan was succeeded by a Maratha named fort. They began to worship it, and a god named Sivajirao, who had besieged the fort for three years, Puliyar issued saying -"I have been residing here and who remained on the gadi for 30 years. The for long." The Marathas hereupon built a pago. rule of his son lasted 22 years. After this Pada, Sambagavinagar, over this stone, and began than Daud Khan, coming from Dehli, made inroads performing daily ceremonies. A village was also on Vellar and Arkat, the administration of which established here of the same name. This god he entrusted to his Vazir, and then returned to told them in a dream that if they wished to con- Dehli. The Vazir and his descendants enjoyed the quer Vellur they should worship Sarpayagam. sovereignty for 45 years. Now commenced the Thereupon proceeding to the river they built a rule of Wallajah for 3+ years, and Arkat and place called Barindavanam for the purpose. As Vellur remained in the hands of his descendants prayers began to be offered here, serpents com- until the British power appeared. Such is the .menced moving about in the fort of Vellur. | local legend. THREE COPPER PLATES FROM THE KRISHNA DISTRICT. The Acting Collector of the Krishna District few notes added from Sir W. Elliot's Gleanhas forwarded three copper Sasanams to the ings respecting this dynasty :Madras Government, presented by the Zamindar I:-SRI RAMULU. of Nazid. The largest of the three was found Aking called Kabja Vishnu Vardhanudu, older about a year and a half ago in the Mokasa vil | brother of Satya Sri Vallabhudu, of the Manalage of Edern, near Agiripalli, where the Zamin vyasa gotra or tribe, who was a descendant of a dar lives, by a man ploughing; and the others Rishi called Hariti, who got the kingdom by virtue were found in the time of the present Zamin- of the boon of Kausika, who was nourished by dar's father. The writing on all is a mixture seven mothers named Bhamhi Maheswaryadi, and of Telugu and Sanskrit. The plates are in the who was a votary of Shanmukhudu, who Government Central Museum. The following possessed an emblem of the boar which he obtained translations were made in the Collector's by the grace of the godt and which could subjugate all enemies, who had his body purified by an office. The first and most important, gives some ablution at the end of an Asvamedha and who was a particulars of the Eastern dynasty of Chalukyas ornament of Chalukya race, reigned over the earth descended from Kubja Vishnu Vardhana, or for eighteen years. Vishnu Vardhanudul, son of Vishnu Vardhana 'the Little' or Hunchback,' Indraraja, his elder brother, reigned for nine years. the younger son of Kirtti Varma, and brother His son, Manga Yuvarija, for twenty-five years. of Satyasraga of the Kalyani dynasty,-who His son Jayasinharaja, for thirteen years. His established for himself a new kingdom by the half-brother, king Kakatis, for six months; Vishconquest of Vengi. His successors extended nu Vardhanudu, elder brother of Kakati, for their territories northwards from the Krishna thirty-seven years, after defeating his brother; his son, Vijayaditya Bhattarkud, for eighteen to the borders of Orissa, and ultimately fixed years; his son, Vishnu Vardhanudu, for thirty-six their capital at Rajamahendri, now Rajamandri. years; his son, Vijayaditya Bhupati, T after fight. Their emblem was the Variha linchhana or ing 108 times within the space of 124 years with Boar-signet. Some orthographical mistakes in the force of Gangarattu, and after constructing the following versions have been rectified, and a 108 Siva temples, left this world for heaven after * He conquered Vengi. A. D. 605. See Sir W. Elliot in .. | Vishnu Vardhana III.-the fourth king of the Eastern Mad. Jour. Lit. Sc. vol. xx. p. 81.-ED. line of Chalukyas.-ED. Svimi Mahigena,' according to Sir W. Elliot. Kokkili, in Sir W. Elliot's list.-ED. 1 Bhagavan Narayana.-Elliot. Narendra Mriga RAja, in Elliot's list.

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176 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (JUNE, 1873. a reign of forty-four years. His son, Vishnu "This should not be annoyed by anybody. He Vardhanudu, knowing the rules of castes, conquer- who does so is considered as one that has commit. ing his foes, and becoming the chief of his tribe, ted the five great sins-Veyasula. Up to this reigned for one and a half years. His gon, Vijay- time many granted gifts of lands and many had ditya, who became king of all kings, who conquered them granted. Whenever the gifts are accepted many heroic kings, and who shone with great splen. by the donees, to them they really belong. He dour, who had the power of Siva, who, by the induce- who usurps the land given either by himself or by ment of Ratta Bhupati, beheaded Venga Bhupati, others will be born as a worm in the human excreburnt his kingdom, reigned for forty-four years and ment for 60,000 years." left this world for heaven. Afterwards the king. dom of Vengu Bhupati was usurped by the kinsmen II:-SRI SHOBHANADRI. of Ratta Bhupatit His younger brother, Chalukya One by name Vijayadityadu, a sovereign of Bhimadhipudu (who had another name of Drohar. the Chalukya family, grandson of Vikrama Rama junudu), and son of Vikramadityudu, protecting Bhupati, and son of Vishnuvardhana Mahrija, all people in general, reigned for thirty years and gave at the time of a solar eclipse one khandrika left this world for heaven. His son, Vijayadityudu, of rent-free land, sufficient to be down with twelve inheriting the kingdom, which is replete with khandis of korra seed (Panicum Italicum), to a comfort and every blessing, in his nonage conquer. Brahman named Padma Bhattarakudu, of the viled many foes during his father's lifetime by the lage of Minamina, who is of Kasyapa gotra (Apastrength of his arm. After his father's death, too, stambha sect), grandson of Tukasarma Trivedi and he conquered many of his foes and left this world son of Danaserma Trivedi; the land being boundfor heaven. His son, Udyadityudu, I bearing also ed on the east by Korraparu polemera (or boundthe name of Rama Raja Mahendrudu, and possess- ary), on the south by Pataka, on the west by ing all the powers of a king, the abilities of a prime Rumati, on the north by Ren ukavadi. minister, &c., and excelling the glory of his ancestors, one day in his reign seated himself on his III:-SRT SOBHANADRISA. throne, sent for the Gsihastas (householders) of Svayambhuva Mansva, who was kept and saved Kauteruvadi and addressed them thus :-"In the on the ark of the Earth at the general deluge by the family of that warrior who was the best person of the Sapreme Being who assumed the form of a fish Pattavardhani family, who was a follower of Kub- and preserved the world, is born first of the kings javishnu Vardhanudu, who was well known by the of solar race. Bh&giradhudu, who, after many name of Kadhakampa, and who in battle conquered years' tapas or self-mortification, conquered Siva Dudardudu, and brought all his banners, titles, and brought to earth the Ganges, the gem worn &c., Somadityudu was born. He begat Prithivi- on his head, is the king of solar race. Ikshvaku jaya Raja. His son, this KuntAdityuda, who is the and other kings, by whose valour Devendrudu servant of my father, Vijayadityudu, who obtained enjoyed the kingdom of heaven, was born in the the title of Uggivelagaudu,' who is feared by solar race which deserves adoration. Kakucha enemies, conquered my foes at the very moment Bhupati who rode apon Devendrudu who assumed he heard the sound of their battle-drums, and, the form of a bull, Raghamah&raja who rendered pleasing me, proved himself loyal subject. the weapon of Indra useless, and Sri RamachanTherefore, the village called Guntur, with its drudu who built a bridge over the sea and killed twelve villages, is given by us to this man. May Dasakanttuda, having been born in that race, the this be known to you. glory of that race cannot be too much extolled. "Its boundaries are-On the east by Gonguva, In that race King Arikaludu is born lineally, who on the south by Gonayuru, on the west - by Kalu begat Kalikalada, whose history excels that of Cheruvula or tanks, on the north by Matupalli. former kings tha:-He used to bathe every "The boundaries lying in the middle of these day in Ganges water brought by the hands villages are-On the east Potarayi, on the south- of kings in succession. He conquered all the east Pedda Kalumulu, on the south Kurvapudi, kings between the Kaveri and Setu (the bridge at on the south-west Peruvati Kurva, on the west Rameswaram), and subjugated them. He refused the western bank of Polugunta, on the north-westa platter (to be employed in worshipping the god) Polakangonda Mona Durga Bhagavati, on the north which is suitable to be accepted, and which was Matapalliparu, on the north-east Chamaraingunta. sent by Bhojar ja. He dorided with his toe the VijayAditya II. or Guna-gunanks Vijayaditya, con- I No such name occurs in Elliot's list: the enconsor of quered Kalinga.-Elliot, ut sup. Vijay Aditya III. Was Amma Raja, who probably reigned In A. D. 978, Taila Bhupa II. or Vikramaditya III. of about A.D. 900.-ED. Kalyani restored that monarchy which had been for some $ This appears to be Vijayaditya IC. of the preceding time usurped by the Ratta Kula.-Elliot, ut sup. p. 79. grant.-ED.

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JUNE, 1873.] ARCHAEOLOGY OF BELARI DISTRICT. 177 eye in the forehead of Pallavabhupati, and he has certain other qualifications. In the reign of Nata Bhimudu and other potent kings born in the family of the said Kalikaludu, the earth had been prosperous for a long time. Somabhupati, son of Duhutta Narayana Ramablupati of the same family, who is the emblem of Supreme Being himself, subdued many neighbouring kings and begata son named Prince Gangadharabhupati by his wife Surambika. Gangadharabhupati, devoting him. self to the god and Brahmans, begat a son, Bhakit- bhupati, who resembles Parijata (the name given to all the flowers resembling in scent the jessamine), which exhales a sweet scent over all the earth, and who is a votary of Siva, by his wife Irugamba, who is the daughter of Kamabhupati of the lunar brace, and sister of Vahupati. Bhakitbhupati, deserving as he is to be adored by many kings, wore the badges or the honourable distinctive marks of " Gandabherunda," which is fit to repel all lions of foes (i.e. kings' foes), and of "Rayavesiya bhujanga," which is fit to compel all kings to leave off their haughtiness and be submissive, and so he continued to reign. One day, while he was proceeding on his royal tour, he happened to meet on a hill a Brahman hermit named Visvanadhudu, who is well versed in Vedas, and finding him to be zealously engaged in divine con templation, and, as such, an emblem of Siva, saluted him. He remained there for some time with devoutness. On Monday, the 15th of the waxing moon of Kartika, Salivahana Saka 1277, he gave with pleasure to the said Visvanadhudu, who is steadfast in devotion and a great hermit of the Kausika gotra, the village of Kadavakolanu, which is replete with complete comfort and every blessing and with the eight sources of pleasure. The village is bounded on the east by a large ant-hill, on the south-east by Chintajodupallam, on the south by a Vagu or watercourse, on the south-west by Madetopuna Nandikambbam, on the most by Doni Marn, on the north by a Kunta or pond, on the north-east by the boundaries of Bommada and Makkala. The said king having given to the aforesaid worthy Brahman the village of Kadavakolanu, within the above-mentioned notable limits, thought the descendants of his family would be meritori. ous. May this sasana, inscribed to notify the gift of the village called Kadavakolanu, endure until the end of time! As bestowing the gift is common to all kings, this deserves to be preserved by you for ever. Ramachandrulavaru will frequently pray all kings that commit anything to affect this gift. - Proceedings of the Madras Government, Public Department, 7th April 1873. ARCHAEOLOGY OF BELARI DISTRICT. (From the Belari District Manual, by J. Kelsall, M.0.8.) Toe finest specimens of native architecture are presenting hunting-scenes and incidents in the to be seen at Hampi, the site of the ancient city of Ramayana. The four centre pillars are of a kind Vijyanagar. These ruins are on the south bank of black marble handsomely carved. The flooring of the Tangabadra river, about 36 miles from Be- of the temple, originally large slabs of stone, has lari, and cover a space of nearly nine square miles. been torn up and utterly ruined by persons in At Kamlapur, two miles from Hampi, an old tem- search of treasure which is supposed to be buried ple has been converted into a bangal, and this both here and in other parts of the ruins. The is probably the best place to stop at when visiting use of another covered building close by, with the ruins. Many of the buildings are now Bo numerous underground passages, has not been destroyed that it is difficult to say what they were ascertained. It also is covered with basso-rilievos, originally meant for, but the massive style of in one of which a lion is represented. At a little architecture, and the huge stones that have been distance is the building generally known as the employed in their construction, at once attract " Elephant stables," and there seems no reason to attention. Close to Kamlapar there is a fine doubt that it was used for this purpose. Two stone aqueduct, and a building which has at some other buildings, which with the elephant stables time or other been a bath. The use of the arch form roughly three sides of a square, are said to in the doorways, and the embellishments used in have been the concert-hall and the council-room. decorating the inner rooms, show that the design Both, but especially the latter, have been very fine of this building was considerably modified by the buildings. Musalmans, even if it was not constructed by | Not far off are the remains of the Zenana, surthem altogether. A little to the south of this is a rounded by a high wall now in a very dangerous very fine temple, of which the outer and inner condition, and beyond this again the arena where walls are covered with spirited basso-riliovos re- tigers, elephants, and others animals were pitted

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178 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (JUNE, 1873. against each other for the amusement of the court. | all are about half a mile lower down the river. This is the account given by tradition, and, judg. One dedicated to Vithal, a form of Vishau, is said ing from the character of the sculptures surround- to be equal in its architectural detail to anything ing the place, it is probably the true one. The at Elors. The roof is formed of immense slabs animals fought on the ground, and the king and of granite gupported by monolithic columns of the his suite watched them from elevated platforms of same material richly carved, and twenty feet high. stone. The buildings in which these beasts were Close by are similar buildings dedicated to Viraconfined cannot now be distinguished, but the bhadra and Ganesa. In the centre of the Vithala stone trough at which they were watered still temple is the stone-car of the god, supported by remains. The trough is a monolith, which has stone elephants, and about 30 feet high.* unfortunately been slightly cracked in turning Talpatri (population 7,869) is built on the right it over to look for treasure. Its dimensions are bank of the Penner river, which flows close under414 x 3 x 2 faeet. neath its walls. According to tradition, it was Leaving these, the road passes through a few founded by Ramalingam Nayudu, a subordinate paddy-fields towards the river. There are fine of the Vijayanagar kings, about 400 years ago. stone buildings all round and the debris of count- The village was first called "Talepalli," having less houses of stone and brick. On the left is a been built in a grove of palmyra trees, and this mutilated monolith representing Siva with a cobra was afterwards corrupted into Tadpatri, He also with outstretched hood over his head. Siva is built the fine temple dedicated to Rama Iswara. represented se led, and the statue is about 35 feet The other temple, on the river-bank, called that of high.. It has been much damaged by Tipt's Chintardya, was built by his grandson Timma troops, who have broken off the nose and one of the Nayudu, who also founded several other villages arms. Close by are two fine temples between in the neighbourhood. These two temples are which the road passes, but which are remarkable "elaborately decorated with sculptures representfor nothing but the enormous size of the stones ing the adventures of Krishna, Rama, and other which have been used in their construction. Mass- mythological events. Among the bas-reliefs is a es of cut granito, many of them 30 feet in length figure holding & Grecian bow, rarely seen among by 4 in depth, are seen high up in the wall, and no Hindu sculpture." The temple on the river-bank explanation can be given of the mode in which is by far the finest, but was never finished. The they were placed in their present position. Gopuram of the other temple was struck by lightAbout 100 yards beyond this place, the crest of ing about 30 years ago and split in half. After the the hill is reached, and from it a magnificent pano- battle of Talikota, the country round Tadpatri Wus ramic view is obtained. Immediately below, the subdued by the forces of the Katb Shahi dynasty, river Tangabadra flows through a gorge between and & Muhammadan Governor was appointed. the rocks, and on the opposite bank are high rugged Afterwards the town was captured by Morari granite hills. Parallel with the river is the main Rao, and still later by Haidar Ali. The situation of street, lined with temples and palaces and some Tadpatri is low, and in the rains and when the modern houses. Small patches of paddy and river is in fresh the worst parts of the town are sugar-cane cultivation serve to give colour to the under water. The main street, though narrow, is Boene. At one end of this street, which is about straight, and the houses on each side of it well half a mile long and fifty yards in broadth, is a and substantially built. Another good street large pagoda in good repair, which is the only might be made along the bank of the river, and one in which service is still kept up. A channel ca service 18 still kept up. A channel the embankment necessary would have the effect from the river runs through the centre of it, and of preventing the river from undermining the is led through the room used for cooking, so Rama Iswara temple, as it now does. The streets that at all times there is a supply of fresh running in the rest of the town are small and crooked, water. At the other end of the street is a large and lined with squalid mud houses, built without figure of Hanuman, the monkey-god, while the any attempt at regularity. The road from Kadwhole is commanded by a high hill composed of dapah to Beldri passes at the rear of the town, irregular granite boulders, on the summit of which as does also the railway, though the station is at a large temple has been erected. The view from Nandelpad, about 2 miles off. Tadpatri has althe top well repays the trouble of the ascent. ways been a great trading centre, and on this Parallel with this main street, but a little further account, and also on account of its peculiar sancfrom the river, is another, equal in size, but with tity (one authority reckoning it next to Benares), fewer fine buildings in it. The finest temples of it has always been a thriving and populous town.t pp. 290-292. Ibid. pp. 48, 49.

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ARCHEOLOGY OF BELARI DISTRICT. JUNE, 1873.] At Lepakshi, in the Hindipur taluqa, is another large temple, said to have been built by Krishna Rayal. The roof of the large hall here is supported by about forty pillars, two of which do not touch the ground but are suspended from the roof. So at least the attendant Brahmans tell you, and prove it by passing a cloth between the pillar and the ground. The space between the pillar and the ground is about half an inch, and the trick is managed so adroitly that, unless the action is closely watched, the cloth really appears to be passed completely underneath the pillar. As a matter of fact each of these two pillars has one corner resting on the ground. The natives will not admit that it has always been so, but attribute this sinking to the act of an engineer some thirty years ago, who endeavoured to find out how such solid pillars were suspended, and injured them in the course of his experiments. About a hundred yards away is a colossal monolith, a Basava or stone bull. The story is that the coolies employed on the great temple being dissatisfied with their wages struck work and retired to consult. They chanced to sit down on a rock, and while debating the question began to hack it with their tools. The masters gave in in an hour and the coolies came down from their rock, when it was found to have assumed the form it now has. Of more recent buildings, the pagoda at Pennahoblam, on the left bank of the Penner, and the Jamma Masjid at Adoni, are perhaps the best specimens of Hindu and Muhammadan architecture. The temple of Anantasaingudi, near Hospet, is worthy of mention, and is of interest to engineers and architects from the peculiarities of its construction. At most of these places there is an annual festival. Nearly every village has its car-feast in honour of its patron deity, but the great festivals are held in the vicinity of the splendid pagodas and shrines, of which a brief account has been given.* The general opinion seems to be that the attendance at the Hampi. festival is decreasing year by year. About fifteen years ago it was estimated that 100,000 people were present, five years ago it was 60,000, last year it was doubted if 40,000 people attended. The reason of this has never been satisfactorily explained, and it is the more remarkable, because in former years cholera invariably broke out among the assembled pilgrims, while during the last five years, in which sanitary precautions have been adopted, the festival has not been accompanied by this scourge. One reason possibly is, that the people do not like these sani The chief festivals are:-at Hampi in Hospet taluqa, in honour of Virupakshapa Svimi about 15th April; at Kotur, in Kudlighi, in honour of Bas&pesvara Svami, 27th Feb.; at Mailar, in Hadagalli, in honour of LingApa Svami, 179 tary measures; they object to leave their bullocks at some distance outside the walls, to be obliged to bathe in certain places, and to get their drinking-water from others; they dislike being interfered with, and though the better informed readily admit the benefits that result from these measures, and value their immunity from epidemic disease, yet they, as well as the great mass of the people, would prefer to have none of them, and keep away rather than submit to them. During the last three festivals it has been found very difficult to get enough people to drag the car from one end of the street to the other, according to custom. One of the superior magistrates always attends this festival; medical assistance is sent out from Belari, and Rupees 600 is annually allotted for clearing out wells, &c., and for other necessary purposes. After Hampi the festival held at Mailar is the best attended. It is held after the harvest, and the people encamp in the fields, being spread over a space about a mile square. The Tangabadra is close by, so that there is an abundant supply of pure fresh water, and, as there is no necessity for the pilgrims to crowd together as at Hampi, disease does not often break out. There is one custom which is peculiar to this festival. On the great day, in the evening, when the worship is completed and the offerings made, the deity deigns, in the person of a child, to lift the veil of the future, and in the presence of the assembled thousands to utter one sentence prophetic of future events. A little child is held up on the shoulders of the priests, and, closing in his arms the iron bow of the god upheld by the priests, he utters the words put into his mouth by the god. The words uttered in 1869 were, "there are many thunderbolts in the sky," and the words were greeted with a murmur of joy, as implying probably a good supply of rain in the coming year. Great faith appears to be placed by the people in these words heard at these times, and, as there seems to be the same vagueness about them as characterized the utterances of the Delphic oracle, it is probable that their faith is never put to any severe test. The sentence uttered the year before the Mutiny,-"the white ants are risen against," is now recalled by many in proof of the far-seeing power of their god "There were present at the festival about 5,000 bandies, 23,000 head of cattle, and not fewer than 40,000 people." (Report of Mr. Clogstoun, Assistant Collector, in G. O., 3rd March 1869.)+ 14th to 16th Feb.; at Kuruvalli, Harpanhalli, in honour of Goni Barappa Svami, 12-14th March; and at Manchala, Adwani, in honour of Ragavendra Sv&mi, 14th August. Ibid. pp. 292-295,

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180 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JUNE, 1873. Inscriptions and Sasanams. of considerable elevation. The summit of this The numerous inscriptions at Hampi have all, at hill or mount is rounded, and the surface partially one time or another, been deciphered. A list of covered with scanty patches of dry grass, from them, with translations, will be found in Vol. XX. which crop out masses of tufaceous scoriae. The of the Asiatic Researches, appended to an essay by hills around are composed of a ferruginous sand. Mr. Ravenshaw, B.C.S. ... There are several stone in which minute scales of mica are found long inscriptions in the Hali-Kanarese character disseminated, but this mound is evidently com. at Kurgodu, in the Belari Taluqa, but they are so posed of very different materials, and when struck worn with age as to be in many places illegible. it emits a hollow cavernous sound. Some have An inscription on the wall at Kenchengodu, in thought it of volcanic origin, but Captain Newthe same tAluqa, is not of much interest, for it bold thought it more likely to be the remains of only gives the names of the village officers at the an ancient furnace. The local tradition is that time the pagoda in that village was built. There this mound is composed of the ashes of an enoris another long inscription on a stone lying on mous Rakshaga or giant, whose funeral pile this the tank-band at Ohikka Tumbul, which has never was. The giant's name was Edimbassurali, and been deciphered. In such places as Belari, Guti, he was living here, when the five sons of king Raidlarg, Harpanhalli, and Pennakonda, where Pandu visited the country. The giant's sister inscriptions might have been expected, none are fell in love with one of them, named Bhimnow to be found. There has indeed once been an sena, and instigated him to kill her brother, inscription on one of the rocks at Guti, but it is who was opposed to the alliance. Another almost obliterated, and hardly two consecutive account is that a great battle acccompanied by letters can be made out. Diligent search would fearful loss of life was fought here. After the doubtless result in the discovery of other inscrip- conflict the wounded and the dead were gathered tions or dedications, the existence of which is together and placed so as to form an enormous unsuspected or unknown beyond the limits of the funeral pile, which was then fired. These ashes, or village where they are. whatever they are, effervesce when treated with In connection with the subject of this chapter, dilute sulphuric acid, and thus show traces of mention must be made of a peculiar hill about eigh- carbonate of lime. Colonel Lawford thought the teen miles from Belari. Captain Newbold was ashes were such as were found at funeral piles, the first to call public attention to it, and his and very dissimilar to those formed in lime-kilns. account will be found at page 134 of No. 18 of the Dr. Benza thought it was limestone slab, but Journal of the Madras Literary Society. certainly not pamice-stone, or in any way of volcanic About three miles beyond Kodutanni, and close origin. "The stone is white and osseous-looking, to the Antapar pass, on the right of the road, there and internally porous and reticulated." There are is a small hill about fifteen feet high and four two smaller mounds at the foot of the Copper hundred in circumference, and surrounded by hills | Mountain MISCELLANEA. NOTES ON EARLY-PRINTED TAMIL BOOKS. Some little time ago when reading Fra Paolino year 1679, at Ambalacate, on the coast of Malabar, Bartolomeo's Voyage to the East Indies the fol. From that period tie Danish missionaries at lowing passage attracted my notice, as indicating Tranquebar have printed many works, a catalogue a circumstance in the history of printing in this of which may be found in Alberti Fabricii Salutacountry which, as far as I was aware, was un ris Lu Evangeli, p. 395." known : That the books mentioned as having been print. "The art of printing, in all probability, never ed at Ambalacatta, in the Cochin territory, in the existed in India. # # # The first book printed Tamil character, had a circulation in their time in in this country was the Doctrina Christiana of the Tamil country, seems evident from the follow. Giovanni Gonsalvez, a lay brother of the order of ing extract from Sartoriu' Diary for 1732, with the Jesuits, who, as far as I know, first cast Tamu. which I fell in also in the course of reading. On lic characters, in the year 1577. After this ap- & visit that this Danish missionary paid, in compeared in 1578 a book entitled Flos Sanctorum, pany with others from Tranquebar, to Paleiacatta which was followed by the Tamulic Dictionary [Pulicat, 23 miles N. of Madras), in February of of Father Antonio de Proenza, printed in the that year, he states: "The Malabar Catechist * pp. 295, 296. Conf. Ind. Antiq. vol. II. p. 98.

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JUNE, 1873.] EARLY TAMIL BOOKS. 181 . showed us a transcript of a Malabar [Tamil] book was printed at Tranquebar in 1714. The other entitled Christiano Wanakkam, ' Christian Worship, part, completing the New Testament, came out printed in 1579 at Cochin, in the College of the in 1715. Mother of God,' for the use of the Christians on Tamil type continued to be cast in Halle for the the Pearl-fishery Coast. And so, no doubt, was purpose of aiding the Indian mission work. As another Malabar book, which we have seen in the we have already seen, Ziegeubalg's Grammatica possession of a Romish Christian at Tranquebar, Damulica, a small quarto of 128 pages, was printed of which the title is: "Doctrina Christam, a ma- there in 1716, which, though superseded by other neira de Dialogo feita em Portugal pello P. Marcos modern grammars, is interesting as the first attempt Jorge, da Companhia da Jesu : Tresladada em lin. to reduce the principles of the language to the gua Malavar ou Tamul, pello P. Anrique Anriquez rules of European science, and is valuable for the da mesma companhia. Em Cochin, no Collegio matter it contains. But the work was written in da Madre de Dios, a os quartoze de Novembro, de Latin, and never having been reprintod has beAnno de MDLXXIX.". come very scarce. Two other works were also As transcripts began to be made so long ago as printed at Halle in Tamil for the use of Native the early part of the last century, it is hardly pos. Christians in this country: one in 1749, the Horsible to expect that any copy of these early-printed tulus Paradisaicus translated from the German of books may now be found, especially as the paper John Arndt, one of the most spiritual and search then used was not likely to be of a very durable ing writers of the Pietists as they were called, and kind. printed in four parts in small 8vo, comprising 532 Ziegenbalg, in the preface to his Tamil Gram- pages; and the other a translation of another pomar (Grammatica Damulica] which he printed at pular German book by the same author, de Vero Halle in 1716, mentions that Tamil types had been Christianismo, which appeared in 1751, and concut at Amsterdam in 1678 for representing the sists of 399 pages of the same size as the former. names of some plants in the large work Horti Both these books obtained wide popularity in this Indici Malabariciy which appeared in six large country, and copies of them were to be found some volumes, but, whether from inexperience or care- ten or twenty years ago in old Native Christian lessness, the characters were so dissimilar to those families, where they were treasured as heirlooms. of the language, that he says the Tamils them- Founts of Tamil type were all this time also cut selves did not know them to be Tamil. The at- in India, and a long series of publications in the tempt, however, made at Halle in 1710 to produce language was issued from the Tranquebar Press. Tamil types seems to have been more successful As it is not intended to furnish a Bibliographical for Ziegenbalg's Tamil Grammar was printed there Index in this paper, I omit the mention of these. in 1716, and the Tamil characters are represented In 1761 the Madras Government presented the pretty fairly in it, though there was great room Vepery missionaries with a Press taken at Pondifor improvement. Fenger, in his "History of cherry from the French, and in 1793 the Christhe Tranquebar Mission," thus records this at- tian Knowledge Society in London sent out a tempt :-"The people there, though unacquainted Press to the Vepory Mission, and stores were conwith the Tamil language, succeeded in making tinued to be furnished from England by the So. some Tamil lettors, which they hastily tried, and ciety. The Vepery Mission Pre88-or as it is now sent out to Tranquebar; where the first part of better known as the Christian Knowledge Society's the New Testament, as well as other things, was Press, Vepery, Madras-has from that period, with printed with them. This sample, the very first two intervals of cessation from 1810 to 1819 and thing ever printed in Tamil characters, was the again from 1861 to 1866, been in operation with Apostles' Creed: and the friends in Halle, when varying degrees of activity, and is now the forethey despatched it with the printing-press, re- most agency in South India for the accurate and quested soon to be requited by a copy of the New elegant printing of Christian books and tracts in Testament in Tamil" (p. 87). The translation the vernaculars. of the New Testament into Tamil had been com C. E. K. menced by Ziegenbalg on Oct. 17, 1708, two years Madras, April 21, 1878. after his arrival in the country, and brought to completion on March 21, 1711. Meanwhile the NAKED PROCESSION. supply of Tamil type from Hallo enabled him to At the Sifihastha jAtra, lately held at Nasik, bring out the first part of the New Testament, one of the religious or quasi religious ceremonies containing the Gospels and the Acts, which is a procession of naked devotees, men and women. Notices of Madras and Cuddalore in the last Century from the Journals of the Earlier Missionaries, p. 106. London: Longmans, 1868.

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182 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JUNE, 1873. I believe a few fig-leaves are used to satisfy very sensitive feelings, but practically the people are naked or nearly 80.-Report by L. Ashburner, CS.I. THE COORGS. Regarding the custom of polyandry said by Mr. Burnell * to be followed by the Coorgs, I feel constrained to state that its existence at any time is far from being proved. Whether polyandry may have occurred occasionally in former times, or may do so in these days, is of course a different ques. tion altogether. The Coorg custom of several nearly related families living together in the same house is certainly connected with its peculiar temptations. In bygone times, however, there was the custom of so-called "cloth-marriages." In these & man gave a cloth to a girl, and she accepting it became his wife without any further ceremonies; he might dismiss her at any time with. out being under the least obligation of providing either for her or the children born during the connection. This custom was abolished by one of the Lingavant Rajas, who, being unable to obtain as many girls for his harem as he wished, from wanton selfishness put a stop to it. The Rev. G. Richter in his Manual of Coorg (p. 41) says' tiger-weddings' take place among the Coorge. As this idea seems to spread, I take the liberty to mention that it has been wrongly inferred from the name given to a festivity, the name being nari mangala. In translating mangala in. to English its possible meaning marriage was hastily adopted, whereas in this case it means nothing but joyful occurrence; nari.mangala-tigerfeast. This last meaning of mangala has also as part of the Coorg compounds ett amangala, bullock-feast, and mane.mangala, house-feast. Merkara, 13th March 1873. F. KITTEL. shwnd Tlb r hm Sfyn Sf dr dr hm tyrh kn jdhb bwdnd yr bshnd znkhyn r hm zny kr ftd b rwmyn r rwm chshm chwn bsty tr tsr khrnt nwr chshm z nwr rwzn my shkhft tsy'h tw jdhb nwr chshm bwd zwd pywndd bnwr rwz t br chshm bz r t sr khyrd mr tr bw khsh dnkr chshm dl bbsty n tqDy dw chshm dl shns byqys Dyy jwyd khw y chwn frq an dr nwr by thbt t sr wr dt khshdy chshmht frq an dw nwr pydr bs dr t sr my ard mr nr ps w chw mytwnd mr mn bngrm pykhrm bd y w jdhym lyq ON ATTRACTION AND REPULSION. No. II. Translated by E. Rehatsek, M.O.E. Meenawy of Jellal-al-dyn Ramy, 2nd Duiftur. All things attract each other in the world, The heat allares the heat, and cold the cold, A foolish portion fascinates the fools, The well-directed the remainder lure; The igneous attract the hell destined, The luminous draw on the sons of light; Also the pure attract the immaculate, Whilst the melancholy are courting pain; The Zangi from the Zangi friendship seeks; A Roman with a Roman gently deals. With closed eyes you are dismayed indeed Because the light of day rejoiced the eye; The eye's assimilation caused your grief, It longed quick to join the light of day. If eye again be thus dismayed to you, The heart's eye you have closed ! Why not indulge That heart-proclaiming bent of your two eyes Which longs for infinite brilliancy P When absence of those mundane fickle lights Distressed you, your eyes you opened! Thus separation from eternal lights Dismay will bring to you ; then cherish them! When He calls me I must investigate, Am I to be attracted or repelled P dr jhn hr chyz chyzy jdhb khrd khrm khrmy r khshyd w srd srd khshd my bTlnr bTl qsm rshd hl khshnd my bqynr jn bnd nry nr mr nrn Tlbnd nwrynr mr nwryn Specimens of 8. Indian Dialects, No. 8, Kodaga, pret. p. ii.

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JULY, 1873.] ON COPYING INSCRIPTIONS. ON COPYING INSCRIPTIONS. HE two great desiderata in Indian ArcheTHE ology at the present time are-a connected history of Indian art, and a collection of the Inscriptions. So far as Architecture at least is concerned, the want, we believe, would soon be supplied by the only writer able to do full justice to the subject to interpret correctly its history and development, and to read therein the record of the past-were the materials only available. But they are not: nor is there much promise at present of their soon being forthcoming. To the inscriptions, on the other hand, the attention of many labourers has been directed. Our knowledge of the early history of India is so extremely meagre, that those interested in it long since naturally gave their attention to the numerous existing records of this kind. Thus Lassen rote fully twenty years ago,-"the only hop perhaps of replacing the want of documents and annals... and of filling up the many lacunae in the history centres in the Inscriptions. Their high importance as a supplement to the history imperfectly transmitted to us, and as a means of fixing the eras of dynasties, was recognized and called attention to by him who laid the foundation of the knowledge of most branches of Indian Antiquities,-namely, Colebrooke, who himself also edited and translated several inscriptions with his usual accuracy. The learned Society, one of whose greatest ornaments he was, possesses in its Transactions most of the communications of this sortt; and several of its members have by these acquired imperishable merit in the investigation of Indian Antiquities. It is no slight to others if here I only specialize James Prinsep, who not only himself deciphered the oldest forms of writing, and edited more inscriptions than any one else, but who knew also how to incite his fellows to search for and communicate them." After enumerating some of the more remarkable, he justly adds, "as to the inscriptions collected, we are indebted for the knowledge and preservation of these ancient monuments of the country not so much to the care of Go p. 238. See Asiat. Res. vol. IX. p. 398, or Misc. Essays, vol. II. In the Asiat. Res. vol. I. printed at Calcutta in 1788, five inscriptions are given, three of them translated by C. Wil kins; and the first mention is made of the Asoka inscriptions, at p. 879. Lassen, Indische Alterthumskunde, vol. II. pp. 42 to 45. 183 vernment as to the zeal and care of isolated individuals; who have hence acquired the merit of securing them from the destruction to which so many others have fallen a prey, and have thus contributed as far as they were able to their preservation. In order to utilize those collected for the purposes of science, it would be necessary that a scholar qualified by requisite knowledge should arrange and edit them, which however could only be accomplished were the Indian Government to allow a subsidy for the labour. That, however, will probably remain a pium desiderium, though such an obligation is much more incumbent on it than editing the cuneiform inscriptions was on the French Government, or the collecting and elaborating the Greek and Latin inscriptions on the Prussian Academy of Sciences."+ The list of workers in this department is thus briefly summarized by Mr. A. C. BurnellSS: "The Portuguese at Goa took some inscriptions on stone to their native country, but Sir Chas. Wilkins was the first to explain one (at Cintra), about the end of the last century. The earlier volumes of the Asiatic Researches contain several interpreted by Wilkins, Jones, and Colebrooke, and in the later volumes H. H. Wilson contributed many valuable articles on this subject. The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal about forty years ago made (by the articles by J. Prinsep, Dr. Mill, and others) immense progress, and of later years the same Journal, the Journals of the Royal Asiatic Society and of the Bombay Society, have often done much to advance the study of the Sanskrit inscriptions of India, and the names of Mr. Norris, Professor Dowson, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Bayley, Dr. Bhau Daji, and Babu Rajendralal Mittra need scarcely be mentioned as most diligent and successful decipherers. In the South of India an immense number of inscriptions xist in the socalled Dravidian languages, many of which are not inferior in antiquity or interest to most of the Sanskrit and Prakrit inscriptions of the SA few suggestions as to the best way of making and utilising copies of Indian Inscriptions. By A. C. Burnell, M.C.S., M.R.A.S., Madras, 1870. The contents of this well-considered little pamphlet are so deserving of attention, and of being made more widely known than they as yet seem to be, that the greater portion of it is now reproduced in these columns.

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184 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (JULY, 1873. North ; 'nor have they been neglected, though, with the efception of a few articles in the Madras Journal) published by Sir W. Elliot, and containinig the results of his own researches and those of the late F. W. Ellis, nothing has been, as yet, made public. Colonel Mac. kenzie, however, at the beginning of this century, made an immense collection of copies of inscriptions, and to the disinterested labour of Mr. C. P. Brown we uwe the existence of copies of this collection, which, though purchased by Government for an enormous sum, had been neglected and suffered to rot from want of a little care. What remains of the originals, and all Mr. Brown's copies, are st Madras. Copies of inscriptions collected by Sir W. Elliot in the Canarese country were presented by him to the R. A. Society of London. Of late years General Cunningham has made large collections of copies of inscriptions in the North of India." Apart from these partial and local collections, an attempt was made about thirty years ago, by the late Mons. Jacquet, to commence s "Corpus' of Indian Inscriptions, and, had not an untimely death interrupted his scheme, much might have been done." To this he farther adds, -"A large volume of photographs of inscriptions from Mysore and Dharwar has been published by Dr. Pigon and Colonel Barr, but unfortunately few of these are clearly legible, and many seem to be of small value. The book is also very costly. The same remarks hold good of Captain Tripe's photographs of the inscriptions at Tanjore." To these latter may be added the quarto volume of Photographs of Inscriptions in the ancient Canarese Language taken from Stone and Copper Sasanas, and photographed for the Government of Mysore by Major H. Dixon,"containing 151 photographs of inscriptions or parts of inscriptions, on 57 large quarto pages, but many of them are taken on so small a scale and so badly as to be almost without exception nearly useless. The fact is-photographing inscriptions is a special branch of the art, and requires the use of a proper lens and a special mode of treatinent, of which amateur photographers are generally ignorant: thus the art comes to be blamed through its professors. "It is beyond doubt," remarks Mr. Burnell, "that the real work of collection and decipherment of Indian Inscriptions is as yet scarcely begun. Most also of what has already been done will certainly bave to be done again." And, we may add, what has been done under the patronage or at the expense of Government during the last ten or twelve years should demand attention first, for it is the most unsatisfaotory. So long as such work is entrusted to amateur photographers and official routine, it is only to be expected that the bulk of it will be unsatisfactory and disappointing. Elsewhere in his pamphlet Mr. Burnell remarks "that even the best-known inscriptions in India have only been copied in the very rougbest possible way may not be a generally known faot, but such is the case. The great inscription of Kapur-di-giri (near Peshawar), which is of surpassing interest, is only known by a badly executed impression on cloth wrongly pieced together. Mr. Edwin Norris's wonderful skill and acuteness have restored and deciphered it, but an estampage (made as below directed) would be still of the greatest value. The Asoka inscriptions (except that at Girnar, which was properly copied nearly 30 years ago by General Le Grand Jacob and Professor Westergaard) have been equally neglected; one of these exists (I believe) near Ganjam. These inscriptions are the great fact in early Indian History, and yet our knowledge of them is most imperfect. "A single instance may show how much curious information even trivial inscriptions will give. The temple of Tirukkazhukkunramp, some 36 miles S. of Madras, is well known, as few residents in the neighbourhood have not been there to see the kites come and be fed at noon. This curious usage (the temple is now devoted to the worship of Siva) has never been explained. An inspection of the inscriptions there shows that the temple was once Jains, and thus the practice becomes intelligible. However, on reading Taranatha's History of Indian Buddhions (in Tibetan), I found this temple mentioned there as a famous Buddhist shrine by the name of Pakshitirtha, or in the Tibetan corresponding name) Bird-convent. This succes .: Even this inscription ought to be copied again: there is more than ruspicion of some error in the copy here referred to.-ED. + See Ind. Ant. vol. I. pp. 219, 818.-I.

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JULY, 1873.) ON COPYING INSCRIPTIONS. 185 sion of cults is of the greatest interest, and shows a perfect mould of the inscription. Paper large that modern Hinduism has been chiefly developed enough to cover most inscriptions is easily to be in South India." had; in the case of very large ones, it is necesMr. Burnell's suggestions as to methods he sary to lap over the edges of the sheets and thus states :-"What yet remains to be done, apply a little gam and water or weak paste to is to make available to the scientific public copies whem, and also to prevent those sheets first of all existing inscriptions; and this involves a applied from falling, and thus spoiling the rest, uniform system of preparing such copies. a few poles or sticks leaning against the Scattered as inscriptions are over the whole of corners in large, or the gum used for joining, in India, it is at present chimerical to attempt to small inscriptions, will be found enough. When study them; to say nothing of the want of time properly dried, copies made in this way in for such work experienced by all students re- French, "estampages'), may be rolled up or sident there. To make and collect copies is pat in blank books without the slightest injury, however a mechanical task, which may be easily and even will stand damp." done ; and now that a little interest is awakened "The second process is applicable to inscripregarding the ancient civilization of the many tions on plates of metal; I devised it several races of India, a few suggestions as to the best years ago and never found it fail. The plate or way of doing so may not be thought inoppor- plates should be carefully cleaned with a dry tune, especially by those who see that a work of brush, and the letters occasionally must be cleared this kind if not soon done, can perhaps never out with a blunt graver. The native process of be done at all. Inscriptions are daily being rubbing the plates with acid, and then putting destroyed during repairs of temples, and by the them in the fire to loosen the incrustations, country people taking stones from ruins. Cop- should never be resorted to, as it invariably inper sasanas find their way to the melting-pot. jares them fatally. From the cleaned plate an The first question is - How to make the copies ? impression (reverse) is to be next taken by Many ways have been tried ; rubbings by heel passing & roller charged with ink over the plate, ball on paper, impressions on linen made by a and then printing from it as from an ordinary pad daubed with printing-ink; sketcb-drawings, copper-plate. From this impression another photographs, &c. &c. Considerable experience may be taken by means of an ordinary copperand a number of experiments have convinced plato press; and with a little practice a perfect me that all these methods are defective, and facsimile may be thus obtained, the letters being that only two ways are really trustworthy; one white, and the rest of the plate appearing a dark applicable to inseriptions on stone, and the | grey. Photozincography and many other me other to those on metal. 'thods exist by which 'estampages' and facsi"Firstly for inscriptions on stone, I recom- miles made by the last process may be multiplied mend impressions on stout unsized paper, such to any extent." as is now manufactured at Paris for the use of | The processes here suggested are most useful, Egyptologists. The inscription must first of and in experienced hands they. yield very all be quite cleared of dust or mud or other Batisfactory results. Copying by the eye, where obstructions, and this may be best done by the character and language are not familiar, and hard clothes-brush. The paper is then to any of the letters indistinct, is most tedious and be rapidly but uniformly wetted in a tub of unsatisfactory : and as it is desirable to be able water, and applied to the inscription and forced to copy inscriptions when no printing-press and into the irregularities by repeated and forcible few appliances are available, --some other strokes with a hard brush-an ordinary clothes- methods may be noticed :brush is as good as any for the purpose. If the 1. When the surface of the stone or plate, stone be clear of dust the paper adheres, and between the letters, is perfectly smooth, as in when dry falls off, forming (if at all well done) the case of marble or polished granite, & rub. Cf. also the remarks of Prinsep and Mill, and recently paper used, and the difficulty (or impossibility) of managing of Dr. Bhdu Daji, as to the great alterations required by the light. improved transcripts of inscriptions long known and pub. Bat compare the lithographs of the Vallapakam SA. lished. The great objection to photography M & means of fanas, from copies made by the second process above, with reproducing inscriptions consists in the imperfections of the the facsimiles that appear elsewhere in this journal.

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186 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JULY, 1873. methods must be adopted, which need not bel detailed, as only professional experts could put them in practice. 4. Small inscriptions may be copied (in inverse) by covering them with tin-foil and laying over it a coat of wax pressed well down, and backed with a piece of pasteboard or thin board. From this a cast in plaster of Paris for a stereotype might be obtained. 5. For inscriptions whether in stone or metal, there is another easy process :-Rub the inscription over with coarse chalk, or lime (pipeclay will not answer) and water, letting it settle as much as possible in the letters. When it is just dry, with a hard pad that will not search into the letters, rub off the white colouring from the surface; then copy on tracing cloth or paper fixed over it:-the white in the letters will render them perfectly legible through the tracing cloth. Inscriptions thus prepared may also be photographed with a copying lens, and the negative should be intensified in a bath of bichloride of mercury and washed with hydrosulphate of ammonia or a thin solution of hyposulphate of soda. For this process it would however be better to whiten only the surface and have the letters dark. Negatives so prepared are suited for zincographic printing. The knowledge of these processes may be useful to private individuals desirous to obtai copies of inscriptions they may come across, but it is not to be expected that many should learn to use them with perfect success, still less that an amateur here and a dilettante there, in so vast. a country as India, should contribute much to the formation of a Corpus inscriptionum Indicarum, such as any other government but an English one would long ago have set about. There seems to be only one feasible way of preparing such a body of inscriptions: the work must be entrusted to one skilled hand having the use of at least a portion of the resources of a lithographic or photozincographic office, one or two of the lads of which he could speedily train in all the processes required. Portable inscriptions, such as copper plates, could be copied and printed rapidly and at comparatively small expense. For the stone inscriptions, estampages should in the first This process is also applicable for taking, moulds from sculptures in basso-rilievo. But see Dr. Forbes Watson's Report on the Illustration of the Archaic Architecture of India, pp. 39 and 45, and Mr. Lottin de Laval's Manual Complet de Lottino-plastique, Paris, 1857. bing with shoemaker's heel-ball will be found a most satisfactory and expeditious method. The paper should be wove or printing paper, not thick; and care should be taken to rub the paper well down upon the inscription before applying the heel-ball, which should be rubbed gently over it, first in a direction making a small angle with the lines, and then at right angles to the first. Of course the slightest movement of the paper during the process spoils the copy. The smaller the letters and the less deeply cut they are, the finer and softer must be the paper. 2. Another process, better adapted for rougher surfaces, is to press or gently beat down the paper,-which ought to be soft and very pliable, and may be slightly damped before applying it to the surface; then with a pad made of patti (cotton tape such as is used for bedsteads) wound tightly round a handle and covered with a piece of fine cotton, dab it over with thin Indian ink. A little practice will enable any one to make excellent copies in this way. 3. If an inscription is clearly cut in stone, a very good "estampage" may readily be obtained, in the manner described by Mr. Burnell, by means of the common whitey-brown coarse paper to be obtained in any native town. If the letters are large or deeply cut, and the wetted paper tears in beating it home, another wet sheet has only to be beat down over it, or even a third if thought desirable. When the inscription is in cameo, as most of the Muhammadan ones are, four or more thicknesses of paper may be required. When dry it can be peeled off, and forms a pretty stiff mould of the inscription. Copper-plates may similarly be copied with a finer, thin, but tough paper, wetted, beat well in with a small hard brush, and the beating continued until the paper is quite dry. And when the plates have been much oxidized, as most of the Valabhi ones are, leaving a rough surface with but shallow traces of the letters, and Mr. Burnell's process would not give a good reverse impression,-paper-squeezes made in this way may often be found useful, especially if the letters are traced on the upper side of the squeeze with a fine black pencil. But to obtain perfect copies, in such cases, and they are of frequent occurrence, other and more laborious

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JULY, 1873.] VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL. : 187 ploce be got of all of which the value is not known; where these were good, if the inscrip- tion were worth publication, they would only require to be transferred and printed; where they were unsatisfactory, but the inscription of apparent interest, a trained hand could be sent to obtain a faithful facsimile by the process best suited to the circumstances of the case. It may be safely asserted that, had the money spent on inscriptions during the last ten years been judiciously employed in this way, we should now have had a body of inscriptions equal in execution to any ever published, and considerably more numerous than the total of those on which so much has been almost uselessly spent. THE EARLY VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL. II-CHANDI DAS. BY JOHN BEAMES, B.C.S., M.B.A.S., &c. Next in rank to Bidya pati comes Chan- be still standing in the village of Nadur, where di Das, who though older in age did not our poet was born and lived. The date of his begin to write so early as his brother-poet. He conversion to Vaishnavism is not known, but he was a Barendro Brahman, and was born in A.D. died in 1478, in the sixty-second year of his age. 1417 at Nadur, a village near the Thana of His conversion and subsequent conduct appears Sakalipur, in the present British District of to have made his native place too hot to hold Birbhum in Western Bengal, which lies about him, for he passed the latter years of his life at forty miles to the north west of the celebrated Chatera, a village far to the south in the present town of Nadiya (Nuddea). He was at first district of Bankura. After he became a a Sauta or worshipper of the Sakti or female Vaishnava, he thought it necessary to provide procreative energy typired by the goddess Durga, himself with a Vaishnavi, and selucted for this wife of Siva, one of whose names, Chandi, purpose a woman named Rand, of the dhobi or the "enraged," he bears. The particular or washerman caste, a proceeding which must idol affected by this sect is termed Ba suli, have given grave offence to his orthodox kinand was probably a non-Aryan divinity adopt- dred, and is remarkable as showing that the obed by the Aryan colonies in Bengal. Her literation of the distinctions of caste, so characrade woodland temples are found still in the teristic of early Vaishnavism, had come into mountains and submontane jungles of Western existence before the times of Chaitanya, and Bengal, and all down the hill-ranges of Orissa, that he, like so many other popular reformers, and I have even met with them on the Suban- did not so much originate, as concentrate and rekha, and along the coast of the Bay of Bengal. elevate into doctrine, an idea which had long A fine Sanskrit name has been fitted to this been vaguely floating and gaining force in the wild forest divinity, and she is called by the minds of his countrymen, Brahmans Visala kshi, or the "large-eyed." Chandi Da s and his contemporary Bid. her statues represent her holding in her up- yapati were acquainted with each other, and lifted arms two elephants, from whose trunks the Pada-kalpataru coritains some poems (2409water pours on to her head. In the rustic vil- 2415) descriptive of their meeting on the banks of lage shrines in her honour one sees masses of the Ganges and singing songs in praise of Radha small figures of elephants made of earth, baked and Krishna together. The style of the two poets by the village potters and offered by women; | is very much alike, but there is perhaps more heaps of these little figures, all more or less sweetness and lilt in Bidya pati. Favourable spe. smashed and mutilated, surround the shrine, cimens of Chandi Das are the following :where stands a figure once perhaps distinguish. able as that of a human being, but so smeared Krishna's Grief.* with oil and encrusted with repeated coatings Se je nagara gumadhama of vermilion as to have lost all shape or recog. Japaye tohari nama, nizable details. One of these temples is said to Sunite tohari bata * In the transliteration the guttural nasal is written 1, the palatal , the cerebral n, and the anuswaran. In old Bengali the two former are of frequent occurrence, representing respectively ng and ny. The ordinary dental n is not marked. I.

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188 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (JULY, 1873. Palake bharaye gata, Abanata karibira Lochane jharaye nira, Jadi ba puchhiye bani, Ulati karaye pani, Kahiye tohari rite Ana na bujhabi chite, Dhairaja nahika tay, Baru Chandi Dase gay. I. iv. 94. The confidante loquitur. That gay one who is the abode of virtue Incessantly murmurs thy name, On hearing a word of thee His limbs are pervaded by a thrill, Bending down lowly his head Tears pour from his eyes, If one should ask him & word He waves (him) away with his hand, If one should speak concerning thee Thou wilt see there is nothing else in his mind; There is no firmness (left) in him ; A serious matter Chandi Das sings. (The same.) E dhani, e dhani, bachana sun Nidan dekhiye ainu pun; Dekhite dekhite baphala byadhi, Jata tata kari nahiye budhi, Na bandhe chikur na pare chir, No khay Chan na piye nfr. Sonaka baran hoila syam, Sonari sohari tohari nam; Na chihne manukh nimikh nai, Kather putali rahiyachhe chai. Tuli khani dila nasika majhe, Tabe se bujhinu swAsa achhe. Achhaye bwasa na rahe jib, Bilamba na kara amar dib! Chandi Dasa kahe biraha badha, Kebal marame okhadha Radha. Ah lady! ah lady! hear a word, At length having seen (him) I have como again; Looking, looking, (my) pain increased, Whatever was done profited not. He binds not his hair, he girds not his waist, He ents not food, he drinks not water. The colour of gold Syam has become, Constantly remembering thy name. He does not recognize any one, his eye does not wink, He remains with fixed look like a doll of wood. I placed a piece of wool to his nose, Then only I perceived that he breathed. There is breath, but there remains no life, Delay not, my happiness depends on it! Chandi Das saith it is) the anguish of separation In his heart, the only medicine is Radha. I. iv. 98. In this second example a ruthless modernization has taken place. The modern editor, ignorant of the older language, has substituted the forms in present use for those which he did not understand. Thus in the seventh line he had written sonar, which spoils the tone; it is necessary to read sonaka, which is almost certainly what Chandi Das really wrote, as a play upon the name syam, "black," and meaning that Krishna, though naturally black, had turned yellow from grief. So also in the line " Kather putali rahiyachhe chai" the singer can only bring the tune out rightly by singing the modern word rahiyachhe as rehese or rahisi, which is a very recent vulgarism of the Bengali of to-day. There can be no doubt that we ought to restore the line thus : "Kathaka patali rahila chayi." In the next line the sense demands that dila, which, if anything, is a third person singular preterite, should be rejected for dinu, the old first person, as shown by bujhinu in the next line. The letters 1 and n are not distinguished in ordinary Bengali manscripts, and the error thus arose. There are several very singular and strictly old Bengali forms in this song, the presence of which is quite incompatible with the modernized forms which the editor has given to some of the verbs. Thus sonari would not easily be known, without some explanation, as from the Sanskrit 'smarana, remembrance. The Bengalis are unable to pronounce compound consonants like sm; they utter the . with a good deal of stress, leaving the m to make itself heard only as a slightly labial breath; the nasal portion of them has here fixed itself, oddly enough, as a guttural, probably owing to the guttural n following. The Sanskrit verb sms has been made to furnish a participle, omari, which by the operation of the above process has become sofari. Precisely parallel is the transition of bhramara, bee,' into bhanar. Another old word is okhud, Sanskrit bhanar. Another aushadha, medicine,' in which the Hindi cus

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JULY, 1873.) VAISHNAVA POETS OF BENGAL. 189 tom of representing by kh is seen; while, on the other hand, in the rejection of the aspirate and the putting d for dh, as also in the substitution of the labial vowel u for the a of the original Sanskrit, we see a distinct peculiarity of the modern Bengali (see my Comp. Gram.vol. I. p. 132). After making every allowance, however, for the propensity to modernize, observable in the printed edition, it must be admitted that Chandi Das's language approaches nearer to the present Bengali than Bidya patis. This may be accounted for by the greater learning of the former. His poetry is inferior to Bidy&pati's in sweetness and vigour, but superior to it in learning and accuracy. He probably used intentionally all the new forms of the language which were then coming into fashion, and it must be remembered that, though a Brahman, he was no courtly poet like his contemporary, but a man of humble rank, and, after his conversion to the new creed, one who identified himself with the people, and lived in a rural village in a part of the country far removed from the abodes of great men. He appears to have mixed up with the common rustic speech of the day as many big Sanskrit words as he could, being thus one in that line of Sanskritizers whose influence has been so powerful on modern Bengali. As an additional complication to the obscure problem of the origin of this language, must also be adduced the consideration that the Vaishnava creed came to Bengal from the upper provinces, into which it had been introduced from the South by the followers of Ra manuja, especially R a manand of Oudh, in 1850 A.D., and his disciple the celebrated Kabir. The tenets of the sect had been popularized by the poems of this latter, and the equally celebrated Oudh poet Sar Das, whose immense collection of poems, called the Sur Sagar, might almost be mistaken for the writings of Bidyapati, so identical are they both in the language employed and in the sentiments expressed. It is therefore not improbable that the Vaishnava poets of Bengal intentionally employed Hindi and semi-Hindi words and phrases; and this suspicion, which is unfor- tunately too well-founded to be overlooked, throws a haze of doubt round Bidya pati's style. This is the difficulty which confronts the student of the Indian languages at every step in reading an old author : he is never sure how far the style employed is really a faithful representation of the language spoken by the poet's countrymen and contemporaries. This doubt prevents us from using these old materials with confidence, and detracts immensely from the value of any deductions we may make from them. In the Pada-kalpataru are contained numerous poems in pure Sanskrit by the celebrated poet Jayadeva; and two of Chaitanya's principal disciples, R & p and Sanatan, also only wrote in Sanskrit. It would not however be correct to infer that Sanskrit was spoken in their time. These two men were to Brindaban what Layard was to Nineveh, its discoverers. They went to Mathura, and, apparently guided by their own preconceived ideas only, fixed upon the sites of all places necessary to establish the Krishna-saga. They found out Braj and Govardhan and all the other places, and established temples and groves, and set on foot worship therein. They must certainly have been acquainted with the Hindi of these days to be able to do all that they did, and their habit of writing in Sanskrit is a mere learned caprice. But if they chose to write Sanskrit, Bidya pati may equally well have chosen to write in Hindi, or what he took for Hindi; and the only reason therefore for assuming some of his words and forms to be the origin of modern Bengali forms is that we can trace the regular development of each type from his forms down to the modern ones. It seems for the above reason unnecessary to delay longer over this poet, whose style is inferior to that of Bidyapati, while hie diction is less instructive. It was necessary to make some mention of him, on account of his reputation, but it is extremely difficult to find among his poems any that are fit for reproduction. One does not, it is true, write" virginibus puerisque," but even from a scientific point of view it is not advisable to plunge into obscenity unless there be some pearls in the dunghill worth extracting, and this I cannot say is the case with Chandi Das.

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190 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JULY, 1873. WALKING THROUGH FIRE. BY H. J. STOKES, M.C.S., NEGAPATAM. The following are notes of evidence given at the trench like the rest. He had not made one an inquest on a boy, aged fourteen, who lost his pace, when his legs crossed, and he fell on his life on the 30th of April last from burns re- right side, and then rolled over on his left. Where ceived in attempting to perform the ceremony he fell was near the edge of the trench, so one of of walking through fire. The practice of this us pulled him out by the hand. They got a ceremony is prohibited in this Presidency; yet pumpkin, and applied the juice of it to the it appears to have been maintained for many wounds. Then his mother and sister carried him in a swinging-cot home. The moment he was years past in the village Periyangudi, pulled out he said he felt giddy, and fell down. without having been discovered by the autho He did not speak again. He looked quite well rities. When the magistrate went to the spot, before he got into the trench. Like the rest who the place where the fire was kindled had been walked through the fire, he wore a cloth wrapped ploughed over, so as to conceal it. A close in- tight round his waist, and his breast and arms spection, however, revealed the fire-pit, which were daubed with sandal." was found to measure 27 feet long by 7} broad. Ndgappa Malavardyan states :-"I live in the It was about a span deep. The situation was on next street to the temple of Draupati. When I was an extensive open plain before the village deity away in Mauritius I was for eight years ill with Draupati Amman's temple. The pit lay dyspepsia, and made a vow to the goddess of this temple to walk through fire if I got well. Four east and west ; the image of the goddess was years ago I recovered, and last April I returned placed at the west end, and it was towards it to my village from Mauritius. The landholders that the worshipper walked along the length of Periyangudi, Valke, and Shengandr supply the of the pit from east to west. materials required for the ceremony. That day the Virappa Vandyan states :-"I was one of the fire was lit at noon; at two o'clock the fuel bad burnt eight persons who carried the goddess Draupati to embers. I had fasted all the day, and had Amman to the place where the fire-treading took bathed in the tank of the Valke Agraharam. I got place. The fire-pit was a trench about two poles down into the fire at the east end, meditating on long, by two strides broad. Six babal trees were | Draupati, walked through to the west, and up the cut into faggots and kindled. Those who trod bank, then I went to the temple and got ashes, on the fire were Nachchu, Pajari of Periyangudi; which I rubbed on me, and then went home. We Chidambaram, Pajari of Angalamman temple at went down to the fire to the sound of tom-toms, Achchutamangalam; Ramasami Pillei, Stanika tabors, drums and bells at 5-80 P.M. There were of Draupati Amman of Periyangudi, and resident two or three hundred people there." of Shengandr; Saminada Padey&chi of the same Nachchu Padeydchi states :-"I am Pajari of place; his brother Subraya; Subbanyakkan of this temple of Draupati. I have walked through VAlkei; MuttyAlu his brother: Aryappan, dealer the fire every year for the last seven or eight years, in oil; Nagalinga Pillei; Mattusami Pillei of I made no vow. It is my duty as Pajari to walk Manveli; my brother Nagappa Vandyn; Kol. through the fire. I took the Karakam (an earthlumalei, Pajari of Valkei; and the deceased, Pak en pot) from the temple to the Agraharam, kiri-in all thirteen persons. Of these Nachcha, where I bathed. Then we all came here with the Pajari, wont first into the pit at the east end, music. The tabor-player first, then the Stanikan and walked through it to the west end, where he (superintendent of temple), and then I went down got out. So did the next Pajari, Chidambaram, into the fire, and walked across it. Then the holding a small tabor in his hand. The Stanfka others followed one by one." (or superintendent of temple) came next, ringing Abhirdmi states :-" Pakkiri is my younger a bell. Thus each of the persons above mentioned, brother. My daughter, six years old, was ill with except Pakkiri, walked through the fire, one fever, and I vowed & Mavilakku to the god beginning after the other had done. As each got dess. We went to Pakkiri's house, and he acup out of the trench, he went and walked through companied us to the fire-pit the day before yester. a second pit dug at the west end of the fire-pit, day in the evening. There was a great crowd. and filled with water. This is called the Pal-Kuli I stood at some distance and looked on. I did not or milk-pit. Last of all, Pakkiri got down into see Pakkiri go into the pit, but I saw him when * An offering of Inended rice flour in the midst of which a depression is made for oil or ghee to barn in, w in a lamp. The word means "flour-lamp."

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BENGALI MANTRAS. JULY, 1873.] he was brought from it. He was burnt all over. They applied the juice of a pumpkin to the burns. Meanwhile the news reached my mother, and she came to the spot. She and I put him in a cot and carried him home. We put cocoanut oil on his wounds. He died at 8 o'clock. He did not speak once. He had had an attack of jaundice, and we made a vow to Dropati, saying 'Mother, if he recovers we shall tread on your fire."" Periya Kutti states:-"Pakkiri, who is lying here a corpse, is my son. He was attacked with jaundice; and I made a vow of treading fire for it. He got well. So he trod the fire last year and the year before. But this year his fate came upon him. I am blind of both eyes. I did not go with Pakkiri to the fire-treading. I went when I heard news that he had fallen in the fire and been burnt. I and my daughter carried him home. He died last night. I have no one else in the house but him." The old blind woman carrying home her only son dying is a sad picture; and a case occurred a few years ago in this district of a young woman, with her infant, being fatally burned at one of these ceremonies. But such accidents seldom happen, and the custom is rapidly becoming obsolete. It will be observed in this case that the fire was kindled at noon, but the ceremony of treading it did not commence till some five hours after, when the wood was all consumed, and there remained nothing but hot wood embers. These would hardly injure the tough skin of the sole of a labourer's foot, even had he not been preceded by at least three persons connected with the temple, in whose footsteps he doubtless trod devoutly. The incredulous say that these experienced persons use e preparation which protects their feet from the fire; and the oil extracted from the large green frog, which inhabits some tanks, is said to be used for this purpose. There are various ways of celebrating this ceremony. I have myself seen the boys and girls at a fair in the Southern Maratha Country take a running leap through flames which rose out Some time ago I found amongst the books of a zamindar a manuscript book, written by himself, containing a collection of mantras, astrological problems, and native prescriptions. The 191 of a narrow pit. In some places the devotee merely jumps upon a flame produced by a handful or two of firewood; in others he rolls on heated embers. At Karnul the ceremony is described as having taken place as follows in 1854:"A pit is dug, of no great breadth or depth, and a fire lighted within it. The persons who engage in the ceremony are those who have vowed to perform it if successful in particular undertakings, or if they or any of their relatives should recover from any dangerous sickness. They form a circle round the pit, and commence walking slowly round it; as they get excited they move faster, and under the influence of the excitement one or other of the party jumps by turn into the pit, and out again on the other side, with great alacrity, some taking the precaution to have their clothes well saturated before doing so." In some places they run, and in others (as in the case which is the subject of this communication) they walk slowly over the embers. The "Karakam" which is borne on the head of the Pajari is supposed to be supported there miraculously. It is filled with water, and crowned with margosa leaves. The word is Sanskrit. ON SOME BENGALI MANTRAS. BY G. H. DAMANT, B.C.S., BANGPUR. The practice of fire-treading is connected in some places with a legend of Draupadi, the wife of the Pandavas. She is supposed to have had to enter the fire on account of the impurity she underwent from the touch of Kichaka. The orthodox account tells only of an unsuccessful attempt to burn her with Kichaka's body. There is probably some confusion in the popular mind between Draupadi and Sita, who had to prove her purity by fire. I have heard of a case in this district where, since Government set its face against the ancient practice, the people use flowers instead of fire, and tread on them devoutly in honour of the goddess. Could any reform have had a happier ending? Negapatam. mantras are those used by the ojhas or wise men of the district; they are on a variety of subjects, such as for driving away evil spirits, for preventing anything evil from entering the

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192 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (JULY, 1873. house, for detecting a thief, for summoning | Come, Brahmachari ! three times in my media the gods, for enchanting a person, for closing the tation I have called thee, praying with revemouths of snakes and dogs, and for curing snake- rence. With my dread invocation I have shaken bite. The meaning is always obscure, and in and moved the circle of the heavens. Come! I many cases quite unintelligible, but some of have called many times. Make no answer but them seem to have more connection than others break thy doors, goddess, and come. and admit of translation. They are written in I cannot doubt that the "Meri" invoked in the worst possible Bengali, with numerous pro- this mantra is our "Mary"--the allusion to vincial words, so that the task of translating riding on an ass seems to prove it satisfactorily. them has been by no means an easy one. I I presume the name must have been picked have given rough translations of two as spe- up from some Roman Catholic Missionary. cimens. It is curious to note how the mountain tribes The first seems to have been used to drive the Mech, Kochh, and Bhatiyas are regarded as away evil spirits, and is as follows. a species of evil spirit and pat in the same cateListen, Meri, my mother! attend on my gory with a Dakini. The word I have transmeditation whilst I play my play. lated "pure " is wiranjan : it appears to mean I salate black Kali with her tawny locks; here without colouring matter,'' puro essence;' From time to time my mother assumes divers but I know of no parallel. dresses. The next mantra is one used by snake-charmListen, Meri! &c. ers. It is supposed that when a person is sufferI salute the Dakini of the Dak quarter ; the ing from snake bite it is necessary to discover Mechini of the Mech quarter; I salute the what kind of snake has bitten him before he Bhutani of the Bhutia quarter; the Kochini of can be properly treated. The snake-charmers the Koch quarter. use a peculiar kind of cowrie for this purpose, Listen, Meri! &c. called gatiya: it is distinguished from the comThy father rode on an ass, thy mother on a mon kind by its wrinkled shell. This cowrie is she-ass. You cannot bear the sound of the name supposed to move under the influence of the manof Brahma. tra quoted below, and to go to the place where Listen, Meri! &c. the snake is. The mantra is as follows :The Dakini repeats the name of Brahma, The bird speaks, listening to the voice of his. calling Brahma ! Brahma ! mate. The old Rakshasas say, Gosain, forbear to He has flown away to the city of Kama repeat the name of Brahma. ksha (Kamrup). Listen, Meri ! &c. The bird, &c. You cannot bear the influence of the name of He has flown away to the southern city. Brahma. By repeating the name of Brahma, The bird, &c. the great name, I moved the heavens. The seats He has flown away to the eastern city. of the gods moved in heaven. The bird, &c. Listen, Meri ! &c. He has flown away to the western city. From the race of Brahma you are sprung: Leaving all sadness, he mounts up to heaven. with Brabma you live. Leave heaven and come When he reached heaven he drank poison; down, goddess : appear in the sky. When he had drunk six chittaks of poison, Listen, Meri! &c. Tumbling, falling, he falls on the ground; Where do you linger, goddess ? In what are Falling on the ground he flutters; you entangled ? Cut the fastening, cut the He returns to the city whence he came. knot, and come quickly. Like a golden doll he rolls in the dust; Listen, Meri! &c. He walks on foot but cannot go forward; The name of Brahma is pure, his body is a He walks with his hands but cannot move; cypher. Brahmachari, club-bearing ! come run- He makes lamentation and beats his forening swiftly. head; . * But conf. Ind. Ant. anto, p. 160, and the Maru-devi of the Jains.-ED.

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JULY, 1873.] Being without resource, what does he then ? He sent a letter to Bishari. THE JAINS. Bishari! Bishari! he calls many times. Whilst he was calling, Padmavati thought on him. Hearing his cry, what does Padma then? She took a sword and silver stick in her hand, and golden sandals on her feet, And goes slowly to the river of Netana. Netana! Netana! she calls many times. Netana was astonished when she heard, And began to put on her eight ornaments, On her leg anklets, on her feet a ring, Bracelets on her arms, on her neck a hansuli In her nose a nose-ring, on her forehead vermilion, And slowly she went to the presence of Takshak. Listen, listen, Takshak, snake! why do you sit still ? Come quickly and save the boy, he has been bitten by a snake. Hearing this, what does Takshak, snake? Slowly, slowly he goes to the village of Nakindar. Thy body, Nakindar, trembles at the bed side. THE views hitherto entertained on the origin and development of the Jaina sect differ considerably from each other. Wilson assumes that this religious doctrine either originated so late as the decline of Buddhism, in the begin Listen, listen, Nakindar! you must die. Go to the right hand, Nakindar, go to the left: The words translated "you must die" do not accurately give the meaning of the original, which is kar prane jao, meaning: What form of life will you assume after death? Padma or Padmavati is used in this district as a synonym for Bishari. Nakindar is said to have been the youngest son of a banker who quarrelled with Manasa, the goddess of snakes. The goddess in anger said that all his sons should die of snake-bite, and accordingly each of them was killed by a snake on the night of his marriage. For a long time the father of Nakindar refused to allow him to marry, but at last he consented and built a room made entirely of iron, so that no snake could enter. On the marriage night Nakindar and his bride Boulla were sleeping in this iron room on a bed made of gold and silver, when a Nakindar! Nakindar! he calls many times. Whilst he was calling, Nakindar thought on him, And was astonished when he saw him. If you bite me I will call for help to Ganesa and Kartik He pierces stone, he pierces brick, he pierces everything. Listen, listen, Tahshak, Nag snake! to you I small snake came through a crack in the wall speak. and killed him. After he was dead, his wife Boulla put his body in a boat and started off down-stream. After she had travelled a long time, she met a washerman who washed the clothes of the gods; under his guidance she went to heaven, where she obtained some amrita, with which she brought her husband to life, but while he was in the boat his knee had been gnawed He came into the presence of Nakindar and his wife. Listen, Nakindar! to thee I speak: Sleep on a golden bed, Nakindar, thy feet on by a fish, so that, though he recovered his life, a silver bed. he was always lame. 193 On all sides, Nakindar, you must say farewell. Bite his head under the tongue. Go then, go, gatiya cowrie, I grant you the boon; Seize the black snake and bring him before me. PAPERS ON SATRUNJAYA AND THE JAINS. III-Translation from Lassen's Alterthumskunde, IV. 755 seqq. By E. Rehatsek, M.C.E. ning of the 8th century, or that it manifested itself during the 2nd century in the Dakhan; and with the latter view that scholar's earliest opinion coincidedt. Benfey thought, at least formerly, that the Jaina doctrine arose only Mackensie Collection, I. p. 188. + Ibid. Introduction I. p. lvii. and his Preface to the 1st edition of his Sanscrit Dictionary, p. xxxiv.

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194 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. out of the struggles of the Buddhists with the Brahmans, so late as the 10th century. According to James Todd,+ in the time of the glory of the Vallabhi dynasty, or during the 6th century, three hundred bells of the Jaina temples in their capital of Vallabhipura invited the pious to assemble. Entirely contradictory to these views are those of Colebrooke and of J. Stevenson. The first assumes that the last Jina, Vira, was the teacher of the founder of Buddhism.++ The second agrees essentially with this view, and asserts that Gautama or Buddha had, by the superior force of his intellect, entirely supereded the system of the Jainas, until the fading light of the Jainas again recovered a weak glimmer wherewith it reappeared in the firmament of Western India.SS Accordingly he makes the Jaina doctrine older than Buddhism, and lets it step forth again, after the extrusion of Buddhism. Among the testimonies to the existence of Jaina doctrine which do not originate among its adherents, the inscriptions of the Chalukya dynasty of Kalyani have the widest bearing, because they show that during the reign of Pulakesi, whose dominion was extensive, from about 485 till 510, the Jainas were very influential. Now, as some time must have elapsed before they could spread themselves from their homes in Northern India to the Dakhan and acquire influence there, it may be assumed that they arose somewhat earlier. Later testimonies of this kind are naturally of less value, but may here be adduced, because it appears from them that this religion enjoyed considerable prominence afterwards also. Varaha Mihira opposes the Jinas to Sakya, and Altes Indien, p. 160 of the special issue. + Travels in Western India, p. 269. On the Philosophy of the Hindus, pt. v.-On Indian Sectaries in his Misc. Essays, I. p. 880 segg. In a preceding Dissertation: Observations on the Sect of Jains, ibid. II. p. 191 seqq. he gives no opinion concerning the time of the origin of this sect. See the Preface to his edition of The Kalpa-Satra and Nava Tatwa, two works illustrative of the Jain Religion and Philosophy, translated from the Magadht, p. xiii. I See Ind. Alt. IV. p. 97 seqq. A. Weber's Verzeichniss der Sanskrit-Handschrif ten der Konigl. Bibliothek u Berlin, p. 247, and Reinaud's Memoire &c. sur l'Inde, p. 121 and p. 122. The passage in question occurs in the ed. of Kosegarten p. 884 seqq. in the 5th book of that work. The soene of this tale is placed in Pataliputra, erroneously stated to be situated in Dakshinapatha. [JULY, 1873. Buddha to Arhatam deva, and specially points to the nudity of the Jainas. According to this testimony the Jainas before the end of the 5th century differed from the Baud thas. In the Panchatantra-which collection of fables is well known to have been translated into the Huzvaresh language during the reign of the Sasanian Khosru Anushirvan, and the composition whereof must at all events be assumed before A. D. 500-by the name Jina and Jinds, the Jainas only, and not the Buddhists, must be meant.** So far as the testimonies of classic authors are concerned, such mentioned cannot at all be taken into account passages as those in which the Gumnosophistai are here, because this name designates Brahmanic ascetics and philosophers so called, not because of their total nudity, but only because of the scantiness of their attire. After this elimination, only the gloss of Hesychios, who lived Tervos, ol Tuprocopioral. before the end of the 5th century, remains, i. e. It is a mistake to assert that the Buddhist school of the Sammatiyas was not different from the Jainas. It suffices, in order to demonstrate the inadmissibility of this assertion, to mention that the Sammatiyas founded their doctrines upon the Hinayana-Sutra, which kind of literature is altogether foreign to the Jainas. The only information of the Chinese pilgrim which certainly relates to the Jaings is the statement that the Jaina sect, which he calls Svetavass, and elsewhere Svetambara, was in Takshasila. most important point to be investigated concerns After the origin of the Jaina religion, the the time of the last year of the twenty-fourth Tirthankara, Mahavira or Vira; in order + This assertion has been made by A. Weber in his dissertation uber das Satrunjaya Mahatmyam, ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Jaina, p. 9 seqq. The opinion that Siladitya the Vallabhi king was an adherent of the Jaina doctrine is just se untenable: it entirely contra dicts the date of Hiwen Theang, and the seven Buddhas worshipped by that monarch according to III. p. 514, note 8, and IV. p. 543, and cannot pass as an argument in favour of that supposition. When Weber asserts that this Biladitya was the king of the same name of Kanyakubja he overlooks the express testimony of the Chinese pilgrim, 208, that this Siladitya lived 60 years before his visit to Maharashtra; that immediately afterwards Brahmapura and Kita the countries subjugated by him, are mentioned, and that the word aujourdhui occurs in quite another passage, p. 670. L p. I See Ind. Alt. IV. p. 670.

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THE JAINS. JULY, 1873.] to appreciate the data in the Satrunjaya Mahatmya, on this point, first of all, the time of the composition of the book, and its credibility, have to be subjected to examination. Its author, Dhanesvara, is represented as a contemporary and teacher of the Vallabhi king Siladitya; he is called "the moon of the lunar race :" he instructed this ruler of the town of Vallabhi in the purifying Jina doctrine, and induced him to expel the Bauddhas from the country, and to establish a number of Chaityas near the Tirthas. Siladitya lived in the 477th year of Vikramarka, parified the law and reigned till 286. In this passage it is incorrect to say that he expelled the Bauddhas, since it is certain that he was a very zealous adherent of the religion of Sakyasinha; he cannot in any case have persecuted the Buddhists, although there is nothing to oppose the supposition that many Jainas lived also in his kingdom, and that they were protected by him. If further, as is proper, the epoch of Vikrama- the three names Kalkin, Chaturvaktra, ditya be taken as a basis, he would have reigned as early as 420, which is contradictory of the age of the reign of this monarch obtained from inscriptions. Calculated according to the era of Saliva hana his reign falls about 555, which is nearer the mark. The time of the composition of the book in question is rendered still more uncertain by the last and prophetical portion of it. King Kumarapala can scarcely have been other than the Chalukya who was the protector of the well-known Hemachandra and of the Jainas in general, and who began his reign in the year 1144. The Vastupala mentioned at the same time with this monarch belongs to a race zealously addicted to the Jaina doctrine-the Chalukyas at Chandravati, who administered that province in the 12th century as vassals and prime ministers. Further, the later composition of the book of Dhanesvara is confirmed by the idea he Batrunjayamahatmya XIV., v. 281 seqq. p. 109. The number 286 here is either a misprint or a useless statement. According to Ind. Alt. III. p. 1119 this Siladitya reigned from the year 545 till 595. 195 + See Ind. Alt. III. p. 567, and Satrunjayamahatmya, XIV. v. 287 seqq. p. 109. See Ind. Alt. III. p. 574. The name is spelt Vastu. pala. propounds about Kalkin, the 10th future incarnation of Vishnu, which indeed is already mentioned in the Mahabharata, but the development thereof pertains to the much later period of the PuranasSS. Of this avatara the following circumstances are reported :-On account of the preponderance of the Duhshama, i.e. the evil age, after the death of the entirely unknown Bhavada, the power of the Mudgalas will forcibly, like a current of the ocean, inundate the earth and seize it; cows, corn, riches, children, women, men of low, middle, and high place in Saurashtra, Lata, and other countries, will be taken away by the Mudgalas. They will assemble the castes pursuing their usual occupations, and will arrive in the country distributing great riches. As a foreign nation is evidently meant here,|| I do not hesitate to put Dhanesvara's statements about Kalkin also into this category. He will be born 1914 years after the death of Vira as the son of a Mlechha, and will bear and Rudra, this latter must be the proper read. ing for Rudva. He will destroy the temples of Musalin or Balarama and Krishna in Mathura, and many disasters will happen in the country. After the lapse of 36 years Kalkin will become king and dig up the golden stupas of King Nanda; in order to obtain treasures he will cause the whole to be dug through. On this occasion there will, according to the tale, appear a cow of stone, named Lagnadevi, whereon many inhabitants will leave the town. Then the angry Kal. kin will persecute the Jainas, but will be prevented by the tutelary goddess from doing mischief. An inundation of 17 days will compel him, with many believers and unbelievers, to abandon Pataliputra, which town he will rebuild by the aid of Nanda's treasures, and in which prosperity will prevail for 50 years. Towards the end of his dominion he will become wicked and cause the Jainas to be persecuted by heretics. Then Sakra or SS Satrunjayamahatmya XIV. v. 165 167, p. 98, and v. 291 seqq. p. 110. See Ind. Alt. IV. p. 561 seqq. Mudgala as a proper name in Sanskrit is the son of the old Indian king Haryaava and the ancestor of a race; a Muni, whose spouse was called Indrasena according to the Sabdakalpadruma, under the word. That the Mongols can scarcely be meant by this name has been shown by Weber, p. 41, note 3.

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196 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. Indra, assuming the form of a Brahman, will take the part of the persecuted, and Kalkin will die in his 87th year. His son and successor Datta will be instructed in the Jaina doctrine by Sakra himself, and will, under the guidance of Pra tipada, build chaityas for many Arhats. He will erect also many sanctuaries; among others also on Mount Satrunjaya in Surashtra, and in Aryan and non-Aryan Indian countries he will everywhere canse temples to be built for the Jainas, according to the instructions of his guru or spiritual teacher. Now so far as the inducement to the above two tales is concerned, the raid of the Mudgalas into Surashtra, Lata, and the adjoining countries is referable only to the invasion of Mahmud the Ghaznivide in the years 1025 and 1026, during which he plundered the rich temple of Somana tha, in the peninsula of Gujarat, and on his return march reached also the capital, Analavada, -especially as this event is placed before the time of Kum a ra pala. The name Mudgala is most correctly explained from the Sanskrit word mudgala, hammer, and understood to mean the smashing power of the foreign invaders. It is difficult to discover the basis of the second narrative, because several miracles and incredible events are mixed up with it, e. g. the disinterment of the stupa of King N and a, and the appearance of the stone-cow Lagnadevi. Further, the ancient capital Pataliputra had long ceased to exist at the time to which I think the reign of Kalkin must be referred; and the reign of Datta also over Aryan and non-Aryan India is evidently a fiction. If this tale be divested of its fabulous additions: Kalkin persecuted the Jainas but thereby lost his life, whilst his son Datta zealously [JULY, 1873. protected them. According to the chronology of the Satrunjayamahatmya, Kalkin was born 1914 years after the death of Vira; this event is placed 947 years before the reign of Siladity at. As, according to the statement of Dhanesvara, this monarch began his reign A. D. 555, the appearance of Kalkin falls under the year 1522, i. e. at a time when the history of inner India contains no information whatever about the reign of a dynasty favourable to the Jaina doctrine. Accordingly I do not hesitate in the least to consider the tale about the acts of Kalkin and of his son Datta as inventions of Dhanesvara, whose intention it was, by means of them, to open out to his co-religionists the vista of a happy future. To this also point the words with which the narrative closes: "During the reign of his son Datta prosperity and plenty will reign everywhere, the rulers will be just, the ministers benevolent, and the people will observe the law." See Ind. Alt. III. p. 558 seqq. The above explanation of the name has been proposed by A. Weber, p. 41, note 2. + Namely, according to XIV. v. 101 seqq. p. 92, Panchamara, the pupil of Vira, died 8 years and 8 months after the demise of his teacher, and Vikramarka or Vikramaditya lived 466 years 1 months after him, but Siladitya, socording to above, p. 195, 477 years after him. The numbers give 946 years and 18 months, or nearly 947 years. The passage about the age of Vikram Aditya is literally as follows: "8 years and 8 months after the death of Vira, the law-purifying Panchamara will appear; 466 years and 1 months afterwards Vikramarka will, according to the instruction of Siddhasena, govern the earth according to the Jina doctrine, and superseding our (i.e. the Jaina) era will propagate his own. Time of the building of some of the larger temples at Satranjaya.-ED. SS See Ind. Alt. III. 517. After the preceding examination of the prophetic portion of the Satrunjayamahatmya, I consider myself justified in placing the composition of this book in the age after the invasions of Mahmud of Ghazni; in favour of this view I also point to the destruction of the temple of Balarama and Krishna at Mathura, attributed to Kalkin, because Mahmud in 1017 actually demolished the celebrated temple of Krishna which was situated there. SS If this view is incontrovertible, as I believe it to be, the work in question must either have two authors, or, if it has only one, he can at the earliest, have written only in the first half of the 11th century; but, after all, the uniformity of the clear and simple style of both portions of this book, composed in slokas, militates against the assumption of two authors. I leave it unde For this reason A. Weber compares (passim, p. 14) the style with that of Bhattikavya, the author whereof was, according to Ind. Alt. III. p. 512, a contemporary of Sridharasena the first; here, however, he overlooks that Somadeva, who lived much later under Harsha, a king of Kasmir, uses just as simple and clear language. The same observes (passim, p. 15) that the author of the work in question makes use of several words which elsewhere at least are rare. The connection smaramyasmi which occurs X. 158, sins directly against classic usage, because asmi is a superfluous addition. The comparison with the formation of the auxiliary future of the conditional and of the four first forms of the aorist does not suit, because here the auxiliary verb is fused with the thema into a single. form, the formation whereof philology alone has discovered. Similarly the examples cited in Boehtlingk-Roth's Sanskrit Worterbuche, I. p. 586, do not belong to this, because they are forms of the participial future in ta, which forms are followed by many tenses of the auxiliary verb.

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JULY, 1873.] THE JAINS. 197 cided indeed whether Dhanesvara was the au- After this, of course, merely approximative thor of the Satrunjayamahatmya, or whether & deturmination of the beginning of the Jaina later writer has made use of his name in writing doctrine, I proceed to set forth the most importhe history of his sect; I prefer, however, the tant arguments for their Buddhist origin. second supposition, because in the passages For this origin, first of all, two names vouched where Dhanes vara appears as the teacher for by them testify, i. e. Jaina and Arhata, of Sile dit ya he is mentioned in the third the former being a derivation from an oft-used person. After this estimate of the value of the name of Buddha, i.e. Jina, and the latter desigSatrunjayamahatmya, I am unable also to place nates not merely one of the highest degrees of much faith in the time of the death of Vira nar. the Buddhist hierarchy, but also Buddha him. rated in it. According to it he died 947 years self. Further, the Jainas assume 24 Jinas, before the first year of Siladitya's reign, in which particnlar they agree with the Bud. which event took place according to that book dhists, who also specially point out just as A.D. 555.1 Accordingly Vira would have died many Buddhas. That the names are different 392 B. C. This decision would place the Jaina among the Jainas does not invalidate the comsect back in too early an age, as any disin- parison. Of the other names of Jina only two terested person can easily see. According to ! more need be pointed out here, i. e. Sarvajna, other data, this man, who is so prominent in omniscient, and Sugata, which are applied also the traditions of the Jainas, departed this life to Buddha. On the other hand, the Jainas 980 years before A.D. 411 ; in which year Bha- have attempted an approach to the Brahrnang dra bahu published his Kalpasutra, that is, by attributing to their Supreme Being the name during the reign of Dhruvasena. Accord- Tirthaikara; it designated merely the preparer ing to this determination the death of Viral of a tirtha, or holy place of pilgrimage, whilst must have taken place 569 B. C. But accord the Buddhists applied to their antagonists the ing to the inscriptions Dhruvasen a reigned name Tirthya and Tirthika. from about 632 till 650, so that that celebrated A second coincidence between the Jainas and Tirthankara must have died in 358 B.c. This the Bauddhas manifests itself in the circumstance conclusion also would make the beginning of that the former pay divine homage also to the separation of the Jainas from the Band. mortal men, namely, to their teachers, and erect dhas too early, and it must be reserved to later statues to them in their temples; this is specialdiscoveries to ascertain accurately this period. ly the caset with the 23rd Jina or Tirthankara Approximately, I propose to place the first be- Paravanatha, as will afterwards appear. This ginnings of the Jaina doctrine about the 1st or coincidence is no doubt an appropriation on the 2nd centary after Christ. In this it must not be part of the Jainas. The same holds good also overlooked that to Maha vira a large share and this is a third agreement between the two in the propagation of the religious doctrine religions-of the great value which the Jainas represented by him must also be assigned; he attribute to the ahinsa, i. e. non-lesion of all had most probably a real precursor, the 23rd living beings. Some of their Yatis or pious Jina, i.e. Parava natha, and is also called men go so far in this respect that they sweep Vardha manal the streets in which they walk with a broom * See above, p. 195. TOn this degre: see Ind. Alt. II. p. 541, and Boehtlagk and Roth's Sanskrit Worterbuche under the word arhal. + See above, p. 195. From the reasons adduced above, * See Colebrooke (passim ) in his Misc. Essays, II. p. it follows that I cannot agree with the calculation proposed 297, Wilson (passim) in As. Res. XVII. p. 250, and J. Foley's by A. Weber (passim, p. 12), according to which Vra died Notes on the Buddha from Cingalese authorities, and in 927 years before 598 A.D., 1. e. 349. I shall again below J. of the As. S. of Beng. V. p. 321. The 24 Bauddhas are return to a second determination of this event. considered the predecessors of the historical Buddha. A I J. Stevenson's preface to his edition of this book, list of the 34 Jinas or Tirthankaras, with notices of their p. in. Hitherto this book is the oldest in the literature of acta and duration of their lives, occurg in Colebrooke's the Jainas, the age of which can be accurately ascer Misc. Ess. II. p. 207 seqq. and Wilson 4s. Res. XVII. tained. p. 220. [And a more extended sooount in the second of $ On the time of the reign of this sovereign, see Ind. these papers, supra, p. 184.] A. III. pp. 520, 521. It is scarcely necessary to correct this mistake, founded on the somewhat loose statements of early writers. At sa|| A short account of his life occurs in Wilson's Sketch trunjaya, Adin Stha or Bishabhadova is probably of the Religious Sects of the Hindus, ir As. Res. XVIL. most frequently represented, and he, together with Nemip. 951 seqq. As is s al in similar narrativee, here also n&ths, and Mahavirs appear to be general favourites in fictions are commingled with the trath. Gajarat and Rajputans-ED.

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198 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JULY, 1873. lest they should kill an insect,* In Surat of cosmography, with which their system of a richly endowed hospital exists in which sick gods is most closely connected. But before and disabled animals are nursed with the same considering these differences between the Jainas care as if they were men. and the Bauddhas, I consider it proper to insert Fourthly, the Jainas, following the example a brief report on the literature of the former, of the Bauddhas, have invented monstrous pe- because from this it will appear that in this riods, and have in this respect even excelled respect the Jainas have attached themselves to their predecessors. Their larger periods are the Brahmans. called Avasarpini and Utsarpini; each contains The Jainas possess a number of Puranas, 2,000,000,000,000 years. I Another period which chiefly contain legends of the Tirthan. has obtained the name sugara or sea, and karas, and present only exceptionally such as consists of 1,000,000,000,000,000 years. Each ooour in Brahmanic writings of the same name, of the two periods is divided into six small- The most important work is attributed to the er periods ; in the first the happiness, dura- Jina Suri Acharya, whose age cannot tion of life, stature, &c. of men continually be determined quite accurately; the statement decreases until they descend to the lowest de- that he was a contemporary of King Vikramagree of misery, and during the period called ditya is worthless, because the origin of the autsarpini gradually again reach the highest de- Jaina doctrine cannot be pushed so far back, gree of perfection. These periods the Jainas The tradition said to be current in Southern have partly filled out with the stories of the India makes the author with greater propriuty to ancient epio dynasties of the Pandavas, of have been the spiritual preoeptor of Prince Krishna, and of Prasenajit, a king of Sravasti | Amoghavarsha, who resided at Kanchi famed in the oldest Baddhist history, where in during the sixth century. As this kind of works they have sometimes indulged in unimportant does not exist among Buddhista, the Jainas alterations of the usual accounts, $ have borrowed the title and one of the subjeots In a similar manner the Buddhists have re- of these writings from the Brahmans. * modelled the history of the ancient Surya. The books called Siddhdnta and Agama vam sa or solar race; they place King Maha - partly take the place of the Vedas of the Brahsam mata at the head of the first large period mans, which the Jainas as well as the Baud, of the world, and allow after him 28 dynasties dhas despise. The first title, as is well known, to reign in various parts of Upper India designates a book of instruction, wherein a down to Iksh vaku; these periods are called scientific system, especially an astronomical one, Asankyeya, i. e. numberless, and from those is demonstrated by arguinents. The 'title dynasties the later ones are deriyed; from Ma- Agama means also, among Brahmans, doctrines h a sammata to Iksh va ku 252,539 or or instructions which have come down by tradi. perhaps 140,300 successors are counted.l. tion; among Buddhists four collections of writ. These agreements between the Jainas and ings, which, according to the correct conception, the Bauddhas will suffice to establish the point relate to the Satras, and treat of discipline and that the former have branched off from the lat- cognate subjects, are also called by this name, ter. Their deviations from their predecessors The three significations attributed to this title are chiefly in the domains of philosophy and coincide in the general traditional doctrine or * Accordingly an English physician did a very unwel. seqq. From the mention by Hemachandra, III. v. 625 come service to a rati by convincing him by means of mi- segg. p. 127 seqq., of Dasarath, of his son R&ma and croscope that he was, in spite of this precaution, killing his foe, of the giant-king Ravana, of the other enemies invisible animalcule. of Vishnu, as well as of several kings of the old Burys+ There are similar institutions in Bombay, Bharoch, and varnia or solar race, the conclusion may be drawn that elsewhere.BD. in other writings also of the Jainas, the history of this dynasty is narrated. 1 Colebrooke, Misc. Essays, II. p. 276 seqq. These data are taken from the Abhidhdnachintamani of Hemachan. See the references to this, Ind. Alt. I. p. 478, note 1. dra, and occur in the edition of O. Boehtlingk and Rieu, Of the literature of the Jainas, Wilson has treated II. v. 162 seqq. p. 15. Avasarpint," down-stepping," and most in detail, As. Res. XVII. p. 240 seqq. Utsarpint, up-stepping;" these expressions refer pro * A similar kind of writings are the Charitaras, in bably to the decrease and increase of inappiness during these which legends and miraculous histories of the Wrthan. periods. [See also above, p. 135.) karas are narrated. $ This appends from extracts of the satrufijayama- 1 See on this, Ind. Alt. II. p. 1180 segg. hatmya by A. Weber, passim, p. 26, p. 81 seqq. and p. 851 I See Ind. Alt. IV. p. 643 and note 1.

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JULY, 1873.] instruction, and this title does not imply a nearer relation of the Jainas to the Brahmans than to their predecessors. The case is quite different with the two next titles Anga and Upenga, which seem, according to Hemachandra, to designate the sacred scriptures strictly so called of his sect. The first word signifies member, and among the Brahmanic Hindus designates six writings pertaining to the Vedas and explaining them. Upanga, i. e. lateral or subordinate member, is the title of four works completing the books of the Brahmans. As these titles are wanting among the Bauddhas, it is evident that the Jainas have in this case imitated the Brahmans. THE JAINS. The preceding writings are considered as derived from the oral instruction of Mahavira and of his disciple Gautama; whether correctly, may be very questionable. The Jainas moreover possess a class of books, called Purva, because they are said to have been composed by the GanadharaSS before the Angas. As a more detailed treatment of the writings just mentioned would be out of place here, I content myself with having noticed their existence. The Jainas have followed their predecessors in this respect that they call their sacred language Magadhi, though it does not entirely agree with the language so called by the authors of Prakrita graminars, but more with the Sauraseni, which, according to previous researches, is the basis of the Pali language. The reason for this choice may have been one of two,i. e. either the example of the Buddhists, or the circumstance that Southern Bihar was just that portion of Northern India from The following twelve Angas are enumerated: Akaranga, which book treats of sacred usages; Sautrakritanga, a work on the sacred instructions; Sthananga, treats of the organs of sense and the conditions of life; in the Samavayanga the padarthas or categories are represented; the Bhagavatyanga is a description of ceremonies and of the divine service; the Jnatadharmakatha represents the knowledge communicated by holy persons; the Upasakadasd imparts instruction on the manner of living for lay people or Sravakas, and the Antakriddata on the acts of the Tirthankaras; the Anuttaropapatika treats of the last deliverance or salvation and of the future births of the Tirthankaras; the Prasnavyakarana is, as the title implies, a-grammar of questions which probably relate to the law-book of the Jainas; the title of the last book is Vipd. kafruta, and represents the fruits of actions. Of the Upangas-none are mentioned by name, and the title of the books supplementing both these kinds of works may here be passed over in silence, except the 12th, called Dhrishta vada, which consists of 5 parts and treats of moral and religious acts. + These, as is known, are Vyakarana, grammar; Siksha, doctrine of accents; Chhandas, prosedy; Nirukta, explana tion of words; Kalpa, ritual; and Jyotisha, the Vedio 199 which the Jaina doctrine was first propagated; my reasons for this opinion I shall submit further on. Besides Magadhi, the writers of this sect also use the sacred language of the Brahmans, and there are but few Indian vernaculars in which no Jaina writings exist.T After the above explanation, no doubt can remain that the Jainas are descendants from the Bauddhas, but that in some points they considered it advantageous to approach the Brahmans, probably in order thereby to escape being persecuted by them. So far as the philosophical doctrines of the Jainas are concerned, their chief points are the following. And here I shall pay special attention to that part of their doctrines which may serve to determine more closely the relation of the Jainas to the Buddhists. ** Jaina philosophers comprise all things in two supreme categories, named jiva and ajiva. The first is intelligent and feeling; it consists of parts but is eternal. In a stricter sense, in this system of instruction jiva designates the soul, which is subject to three states; it is firstly nityasiddha, i. e. always perfect, or yogasiddha, i. e. perfected by immersion in self-contemplation, like the Arhats or Jinas; it is secondly mukta or muktatma, i. e. liberated by a strict observance of the ordinances of the sect; it is thirdly baddha or baddhatma, i. e. fettered by acts, and as yet abiding in a state which precedes the last deliverance. The second, ajiva, is everything without a soul, without life and sensation; it is the object of enjoyment on the part of jiva, which enjoys. a stricter sense of the word, ajiva means the four In calendar. On the Upangas various statements occur which have been collected in the Sanskrit Worterbuche of O. Boehtlingk and R. Roth under that word. As such the Dhanurveda, archery, i. e. science of war, and the Ayurveda, i. e. science of medicine, is also adduced; otherwise, however, these pass for Upavedas or subordinate Vedas. Also the Upanishads are counted among the Upangas. The statement seems to be the most correct according to which the Puranas, Nyayas, Mimansas, and Dharmasastras are such, because in it the number four is expressly mentioned. Wilson, As. Res. XVII. p. 246, where in the note the passage in question is communicated from the 3rd chapter of the Mahdotracharitra. SS Wilson, As. Res. XVII. p. 246, and Hemachandra, II. v. 246 p. 40. According to him, I. v. 31, p. 7, Ganadhara means the president of an assembly, probably of an assembly of Arhant Viras. See my Institutiones Lingue Pracritice, Preface, p. 42, and Ind. Alt. II. p. 486 seq. See also J. Stevenson's remarks in his edition of the Kalpasutra, p. 131 seg. Wilson, As. Res. XVII. p. 242. Such is the case especially with the vernaculars of Southern India. Colebrooke, in his Misc. Ess. I. p. 881 seq. 1

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200 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. elements, earth, water, fire, air, and everything immoveable, e. g. mountains. The Jainas further assume six substances, viz :-jiva, soul; dharma, right or virtue; adharma, sin which permeates the world and effects that the soul must remain with the body; pudgala, matter, which possesses colour, odour, taste, and tangibility, such as wood, fire, water, and earth; kala, time, which is past, present, and future; and akasa, infinite space. According to their view, bodies consist of aggregates and atoms. The Jaina philosophers, like all Hindu philosophers, believe that the soul is fettered by works, and that man must endeavour to free himself from them. They adduce four causes as obstacles to the liberation of the soul: viz: papa or sin; the five deramas or hindrances of the soul from obtaining holy and divine wisdom; aerava, i. e. the impulse of the incorporated soul to occupy itself with physical objects; and samvara, i. e. the cause of this obstacle. In another passage eight kinds of interruptions to the progress of the soul towards liberation are enumerated, namely, jnanavaraniya, i. e. the false idea that cognition is ineffectual, and that liberation does not result from perfect knowledge; darsanavarantya, or the mistake that liberation is not attainable by the study of the doctrine of the Arhats or Jinas; mohantya, or doubt whether the ways of the Tirthankaras or Jinas are irresistible and free from errors; antaraya, or the obstruction of the endeavours of those who are engaged in seeking the highest liberation. The four other interruptions are:-vedaniya, or individual consciousness, the conviction that the highest liberation is attainable; namika, or consciousness of possessing a determined personality; gotrika, the consciousness [JULY, 1873. of being a descendant of one of Jina's disciples; lastly, dyushka, or the consciousness that one has to live during a determined time. These spiritual states are conceived in an inverted order; the four first of them designate birth and progress in the circumstances of personal life; and the four last designate progress in perception. The highest liberation or moksha is attainable only through the highest cognition or by perfect virtue. In a former correspondence (Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 321) I alluded to the monuments erected by the tribes of Western Khandesh, similar to STONE AND WOODEN MONUMENTS IN WESTERN KHANDESH. BY W. F. SINCLAIR, Bo. C. S. Colebrooke, passim, in his Misc. Essays, I. p. 382, where dirava is explained through asravayati purusham, and Wilson, passim, As. Res. XVII. p. 266. + See Ind. Alt. III. p. 428, and Note 2. I Colebrooke, passim, in his Misc. Essays, II. p. 194, that the Bauddhas as well as the Jainas have borrowed this view from the S&nkhy a philosophy, and I. p. 394. SS Ibid. I. p. 271 and p. 891. See on this Ind. Alt. III. p. 828, and also fivarakrishna's Sankhyakarika, v. 41 seqq. In this system a syncretism meets us to which Buddhism, the Vaiseshika and Sankhya philosophy have contributed. The doctrine that by a perfect cognition and strict observance of the teaching of a religious or philosophical sect the liberation of the soul from its fetters may be attained, is Buddhistic, or, more accurately, almost universally Indian.t The opinion that matter is eternal, and that there are only four elements, is Baddhistic. The idea that all things are composed of atoms belongs to the Vaiseshika school, although this doctrine had been more developed by Kanada than by the Jainas. This philosopher, moreover, considered time as a special category.SS Kapila teaches that by four states the liberation of the spirit is impeded, and by four others promoted; he arranges them, however, in a logical manner, so that the progress from the lowest state to the highest, i.e. to that of dharma or virtue, is well established, whilst such is less the case in the arrangement of the Jainas. The sect now under discussion borrowed from that philosopher probably also the idea of an ethereal body with senses formed of ideal elements, wherewith the soul is invested. (To be continued.) Bee on this Ind. Alt. III. p. 424. This remark belongs to Colebrooke in his Misc. Essays, II. p. 192. The those referred in Gondwana to the Gauli period. The following notes contain what I have since been able to observe on the subject. Jainas assume that the soul is, during its various migrations, invested with a coarser body called audarika, which remains as long as beings are compelled to live in the world, or with a body called vaikarika, which, according to the various circumstances of the being, assumes various forms. They further distinguish a finer body called dharika, which arises, according to their view, from the head of a divine sage. These three bodies are the external ones, and within them there are two finer ones; the one called karmana is the seat of the passions and feelings; the innermost, called taijasa, is still finer, never changes, and consists of spiritual forces. This body corresponds to the sakshmsa or lingasartra of Kapila, which subsists through all transmigrations till the Anal liberation of the spirit.

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JULY, 1873.] MONUMENTS IN KHANDESH. 201 They are of various shapes and sizes, the largest about 8 feet high above ground, square, finished with a round head, and ornamented with figures in relief on all sides. Others are long slabs, and some mere flat stones erected much as they were found. A great many are of wood, invariably teak, which seems to last a wonderful time. It is difficult to get at the precise age of such remains; but I have seen many teak monuments of which the name had entirely passed away, yet which were still in fair preservation. They are always in the Bhape of a post about half as thick as it is wide, with & round head. The Thilaris, or shepherds, merely dab a little red paint on the spot where a man happened actually to die. The monuments are generally cenotaphs, and erected in groups in a favourite spot near the village, perhaps near a temple. I was fortunate lately in getting a pretty full explanation of such a group from a Patil. No. 1 was a flat stone 7 ft. by 1 ft. 6 in. by 5 in. "This," quoth my informant, "is Bala Patil, who died about 60 years ago. Here he is on his horse, and here he is driving in his cart. This was his stone (pointing to another of the same class but broader, and with only a mounted figure on it), but it was broken; so I made and set up the other some seven years since." As far as the execution of the carving, or appearance, of the stone went, the one looked as old as the other. "This," said the Patil, "is my ancestor Vithoba, and this is fire over his head, because he was burned in the vadd that you were looking at now. The Band-wallas did that, two hundred years ago, in the days of the Sahu Rajas. This is Mahadev Patil. He was going to Umbarpate, and a tiger came out and palled him off his horse and ate him." These two stones were of the same class as the first-long rough slabs. The burnt patil was represented on foot, with flames over his head; the others on caparisoned horses. It is to be remarked that a man who never in his lifetime owned anything more warlike than a "bail" is often represented on his monument as a gallant cavalier. Another stone in the same place represented a Teli who had left no family; wherefore, as the patil explained, his mother spent his remaining estate on giving him a good stone. It was about seven years old, four or five feet above ground, square with a round head, of the class first mentioned. There is a remarkable group of stones, to the number of about a dozen, at a spot on the Dhulia and Surat Road about two miles west of the village of Dahiwel. It commemorates a fight that took place there in the "days of trouble" about 75 years ago, respecting the cause and conclusion of which there are two sides to the story. The Kunbis and Mu. salmans say that the Bhills broke out and began plundering the country, and were met and defeated at this spot by a detachment of the Pesh wa's troops from the post at Saraf, below the Kon. dai Bari Ghat. The Bhill version is that "certain Musalmins came up out of the Gaikwadi to loot; and Sabhaji, Konkani Patil of Malangaum, called together the Gawids and the Konkanis and Naiks, and gave them battle and beat them. Sabhaji, in any case, was killed in the skirmish, and his is the largest of the group of monuments. It is about 8 feet above ground and 18 inches square, of a single stone. On each side of it in an even line, the smallest outside, are the cenotaphs of the others slain on the Bhill side. All the Bhills and Konkanis make pilgrimage to this place in the middle of April, and build a mandod, or tabernacle of boughs, over the stones, and slay goats and fowls in honour of Sabhaji, winding up the proceedings by getting "most abnormal drunk." There is & stone of the same class at the head of the Kondai Bari pass, said to have been erected in memory of a Rajput warrior slain the same dayon which side does not appear. Also there is one at the Babul Dhara pass, about which I could get no information ; but similar rites are observed at both by the village Bhills, although there is no pilgrimage to them. In explanation of the caste terms used above, it should be explained that the Gawids or Mawachas, and Konkanis, are races inhabiting Western Khandesh, and very similar to Bhills with whom they are generally confounded They however keep up a distinction; the Gawids consider themselves superior to the Konkanis, and the latter to the Bhill Naiks, or pure Bhills; and this relation is admitted by the last. The Gawids and Konkanis, moreover, are more given to agriculture (such as it is) than the Bhill Naiks. They bury their dead; in some instances all the dead man's property is buried with him. Various figures are carved besides that of the

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202 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JULY, 1873. deceased. In the case of a man killed by a rade. The boldest attempt at sculptare that tiger the tiger is always carved above his vio. I have seen was that of Bala Patil in his cart; tim. These monuments are very common, bat and in that case the artist was so sore put to it generally of old date. I never saw a new one. for perspective that he cut one bullock walk. They are sometimes erected on the spot of the ing on his yokefellow's back, and one wheel death, but more often in the village group. In before the other. The open hand is the emblem one case certain Bhills petitioned me in respect of a sati, but is very rare. Women's memorial of a Mhowa tree, which they said their ances stones are seldom seen together with those of tors had planted where one of our people was the men, but cluster apart round some pipalslain by a tiger." There was no stone or other tree or the like. In some cases one stone commonument besides the Mhowa tree, which was memorates several persons; e. g. at the village about 50 years old. The snake is used both as of Dongrald I asked a Bhill the meaning of a an ornament and to indicate death by snake- large and very old-looking stone with five bite; the latter is rare, and in such cases the curious figures on it, about which I rather snake is shown uncoiled, and under the man's expected a good story. "Oh!" quoth he," those foot. Other common ornaments are the pea- are my brothers. That's Vithyd, and that's fowl, antelope, the sun in the moon's arms Khandyd, &c., and I gave a man & rupee a (almost universal), and fighting men; all very 'head to carve them." ARCHAEOLOGY IN NORTH TINNEVELLI. Extract from a letter from the Rev. J. F. Kearns to the Collector of Tinnevelli. (Proceedings of Madras Government, 18th November 1872.). I have a few observations to offer with reference urns in cromlechs, notably in Kourtalam, but I to some portions of Mr. Boswell's letter. (See have not discovered stone implements in any. Indian Antiquary, vol. I. page 372.) There were many iron implements and exquisite With reference to "inscriptions," I quito agree pottery in them. The neighbourhood of the with him that no time should be lost in obtaining Jaina image at Nagalapuram abounds with these correct copies of all that exist, for it is only too urns. true that time is fast effacing some very valuable Mr. Boswell remarks, "I have seen many ones. In this zilla (Tinnevelli) there is a rock Buddhist temples converted into temples of temple, Kalugu vaalei, covered with Jaina figures Vishna; but I do not know of any re-dedicated to and inscriptions ; some of the latter I had copied Siva." The old Jains temple, already alluded to, many years ago and presented them to the Madras at Kalugumalei is dedicated to the god SubraLiterary Society. These inscriptions have been, manya, Siva's youngest son. Perhaps there is more by competent scholars, pronounced the oldest contained in this fact than is apparent. According specimens of the Tamil language hitherto dis- to the oldest legends, Sabramanya is the god of covered. The Tamil character of the inscription war, and that the Jainas in the south were cruelly is as different as possible from the Tamil character exterminated by the Saivites is a matter of hisof to-day, but the germ of the present character tory. In the re-dedication of a Jains temple to is contained in it. I think that all the inscriptions Subramanya, Siva's youngest son, are we to on this temple should be carefully copied. infer that the measures were taken to extirpato In a field close to Nagalapuram, in Ottapedaram Jainism P taluqa, there is a colossal Jaina image such as Mr. Mr. Boswell referst to what are called "Kolle Boswell describest in his letter. This figure ought Kall," and he states on Mr. Walhouse's authority to be preserved in some Museum. There is a that there is ane "within & mile of Mangalor." small Jaina image in the village of Kolator, and the descriptions which Mr. Walhouse gives of it is worshipped by the natives, who apparently the figures on the stone closely resemble those do not know what it is. There is another in which in this zilla are found in places where Sati the ancient village of Kolkhei, near to Sawyer- had been performed, and further information repuram. specting them seems desirable. By whom were I have opened and examined many cinerary those stones called Kollo Kalhu? By immigrants * Vide ante, p. 186. Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 8746. Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 8724.

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JULY, 1873.] or by the aborigines? An answer to these questions would lead to further interesting investigations. I have seen many Venetian coins in this zilla, but they are rapidly disappearing; the natives, valuing them for the extreme purity of the gold, convert them into jewels. REVIEWS. REVIEWS. NARMA KOSA (1): A Dictionary of the Gujarati Language: by Narmada Sankara. The author of this dictionary has been for many years well known to Gujaratis as a writer of both prose and poetry. He has a knowledge of English, is a diligent student, an enterprising author, and has made successful efforts to give his countrymen the benefit of his studies. He now appears as a lexicographer, and presents to the students of Gujarati a goodly quarto of 619 pages, double columns and close print. The book has been long promised and earnestly expected. Years ago we had several instalments in parts, which gave us up to the word jeth madha (4). Yet the present work is not a continuation of these parts. The old matter has been recast and the work completed on a slightly abridged scale. To keep the work within prescribed bounds, many words and forms of words (-) have been omitted. The author informs us that not only all proper names, but many generic or class names of animals and plants, and also technical terms, have been excludedomissions greatly to be regretted. Yet some agricultural terms have been retained, and some rustic words have been given as examples of a class. Of Sanskrit words, and words of foreign origin, only those are given which are in common use. He has also endeavoured to include words used by the older writers. We must thank the author for giving us this information. We know what to look for, and must not be disappointed when we miss in the dictionary words we may occasionally meet with in reading and conversation. No doubt the student will regret many of these omissions; for we naturally go to a dictionary for rare words and uncommon forms of words. Yet, both for the number of words illustrated and for the fulness of the meanings given, this dictionary leaves all its predecessors far behind. It will at once take its place as a most valuable help to the Gujarati student. Foreigners will be troubled at first by finding that the explanations are given in Gujarati, but this trouble will ultimately facilitate their progress. We cannot help regretting that the author has 203 I have designated the images on the rock "Jaina," and not Buddhistic, and my reason for so doing is that each inscription designates the image above it a "Tirra Meni," the usual term for a Jaina saint. Puthiamputhar, 23rd January 1872. not seen fit to introduce a little philology into his book. The source whence a word, or a leading word, has been derived is indeed indicated, but nothing more; no attempt is made to show the connection of words one with another, nor to exhibit the historical and logical relations of the various meanings of words. He has, indeed, taken pains to give us fully the meanings of words, but the arrangement of these meanings might have been different and better. We hope the author will, with his characteristic energy, turn his attention to this matter in preparing any future edition of his valuable book. In two particulars he adopts rather a peculiar system of orthography. As Gujarati is commonly written, anuswar uniformly represents the five nasal sparsa consonants, Narmada Sankara discards the anuswar and uses the consonants: fors, or, e, &c. he writes 3, 4, see, &c. Whatever may be said in favour of this, we fancy the convenience of the common mode will carry the day. But a greater innovation is the introduction of a point under a letter to represent a light h or aspiration after the letter so marked. He gives a list of some seven hundred words, or more, in which this point is introduced. We fear the author rather overrides his hobby, but he has a good excuse for proposing this orthography. The Gujaratis have not yet fixed upon a uniform way of representing h in the body or at the end of a word. They sometimes omit it altogether, sometimes insert it with or without the vowel of the preceding letter. Thus we have i, hATe mohADo,moTo,mahoTho jene, jene mahena,dADo dADo,pADo,nAhADo; ; 1961, &c. These words our lexicographer proposes to write,, 45, 1, &c. Time will show whether this will be generally received. There is this to be said for it, it helps to show the syllabification of a word:,, for instance, seems to be a word of three syllables, but is considered to be of only two; so also 43, fs, are counted as words of only two sylla bles. The author in his preface and introduction gives us some interesting information. Passing by several autobiographical notices, we remark that

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204 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (JULY, 1873. he has taken the trouble to count and classify the words he has placed in his dictionary. There are 25,268 words explained. Other words introduced in the course of explanation raiso the total to 25,856. These are classified as follows:Sanskrit, pure or slightly changed...... 5,831 Do. more changed (apabhrassa TV) ........... .......... 17,066 Foreign words ..... 2,958 25,855 23 In every hundred words there are Sanskrit, pure or slightly changed... Do. more changed (apabhrassa) Foreign ..... 66 11 100 Of the foreign words there are from Persian and Arabic English ....................................... Others ........... and Castes of India, Dubois's Manners and Custome of the People of India, The Indian Antiquary,. Frederiks Richardson's Iliad of the East, and Goldstucker's contributions to Chambers's Ency. clopaedia; but it is to be regretted that the compiler did not avail himself more fully of the European literature of his subject. The continental Orientalists are only referred to through translations, though the writings of Burnouf,Polier, Lassen, We. ber, Benfey, Zenker, and others would afford great masses of information on any of the subjects treated of. It is unfortunate too that Mr. Garrett sometimes fails to make the best use of the materials at his disposal: the most glaring instance of this is probably his account of the Mahavando (p. 74), which consists simply of an incident related in chapter VII. of the work, and given by Prof. Weber in a long note on his Essay on the Ramayana (Ind. Ant. Vol. I. pp. 173, 174). Yet with all its defects-arising, chiefly from its being the work of a single individual, instead of the combined production of different writersMr. Garrett's Dictionary is a highly important work, and, upon the whole, exceedingly creditable to the industry of a single labourer. It will form & suitable basis for any more elaborate and complete work that may hereafter be attempted. It is most desirable that we should possess a comprehensive and trustworthy Dictionary, which should be a real help and guide to every student of Hindu literature and antiquities. The materials are abundant, and they are still accumulating. And even in such vernacular works as Narmada Sankar's Narmakatha Koka much important information will be found. But no work of this nature can be successfully carried out without the co-operation of many scholars, under the direction of a competent editor, each furnishing contribu. tions in the department which he has made the subject of special study. And we feel sure that any one who will undertake such editorship will gladly acknowledge how deeply he is indebted to Mr. Garrett for the valuable labours by which he has prepared the way for our possessing an ado. quate Classical Dictionary of India. Substantives number ...... Pronouns ......... Adjectives Verbs Verbals (ksidanta ) ................. Particles (avyaya 379) 17,350 47 3,746 2,218 569 1,338 25,268 We hope the author will be liberally rewarded by the public. Every Gujarati scholar will find it to his advantage to add the Narma Kosa to his library. The book has been printed partly in BhAvanagar, and partly at the Mission Press, Surat. The printing in the latter establishment is evi. dently of a superior character. SUPPLEMENT TO A CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF INDIA illus trative of the Mythology, Philosophy, Literature, Antiquities, Arts, Manners, Customs, &c. of the Hindus, by John Garrett, Director of Public Instruction in Mysore, Editor of the Bhagavat Gita in Sanskrit and Canarese, &c. &c. 8vo Pp. 100,-Madras: Higginbotham & Co. 1873. This Supplement is intended to supply the defects of Mr. Garrett's Classical Dictionary of India, published about two years ago. Among the principal new articles are those on Festivals, Castes, Aboriginal tribes, &c. There are also many additions to articles in the Dictionary. The work is principally a compilation, the books that have supplied most materials being H. H. Wilson's Works, Muir's Sanskrit. Teste, Sherring's Tribes ANNALA and ANTIQUITIES of BAJASTHAN, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India; by Lieute. nant-Colonel James Tod. 2nd Edition. 2 vols. royal 8vo (pp. 724 and 719). Madras: Higginbotham & Co. 1873. The first edition of Tod's Rajasthan appeared in 1829 and 1832, and has been long out of print and OXOBBsively dear; Messrs. Higginbotham & Co.'s reprint is therefore most welcome. It is well got up, in fine clear type, the notes in even a larger size of type than in the original colossal work.

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JULY, 1873.] REVIEWS. 205 We miss, however, the beautiful plates of the lat- derived from madhu (p. 66); Siv-rat' is the same ter, omitted apparently at the suggestion of as 'Sacrant' (Sankrant) and means.father night'; Colonel Keatinge, as being "very inaccurate", -a tho fious religiosa 'presents a perfect resemblance character which, as applied to the views, is in most to the poplar of Germany and Italy, a species of cases, unfortunately, only too correct; still it is which is the aspen' (p. 73); Larike of Ptolemy was somewhat awkward when the reader comes to Kathiavad, and took its name from the Silar tribe page 8 and roads,-"To render this more distinct, (p. 104); and so on,-- endless inaccuracies rendering 1 present a profile of the tract described from Tod most untrustworthy as a guide. And even in Abu to Kotra," &c., and to find that this section what came under his own eye he sometimes sacriof the country has been candemned to omission fices truth to effect : thus, describing an old with the artistic pictures. At p. 224, the author temple at Komalmer (vol. I. p. 577) he says,says he "exhibits the abode of the fair of Ceylon"- "The extreme want of decoration best attests its meaning the palace of Padmanf,-but it is not to antiquity, entitling us to attribute it to that period be seen; and again at p. 576 we read of "tho Jain when Sampriti Raja, of the family of Chandratemple before the reader, and a sketch of the fortress gupta, was paramount sovereign over all these [of Komalmer) itself, both finished on the spot," regions (200 years B.c.)... The proportions and and yet neither of them is before the reader. And forms of the columns are especially distinct from so in other cases. This of course is one of the other temples, being slight and tapering inthe results of the want of editing: another is the stend of massive, the general characteristic of Hindu uncorrected errata. The author himself had architecture; whue the projecting cornices, which pointed out a few of those in volume I. bat even of would absolutely deform shafts less slight, are them only one has been corrected; and on page peculiarly indicative of the Takshac architect... 25, where, by a misprint of or' for 'on,' the ori- | It is curious to contemplate the possibility, nay ginal had "Maheswar, or the Nerbudda river," the probability, that the Jain temple now before the reprint has "Maheswas, or the Nerbudda the reader may have been designed by Grecian river," while at p. 51 we have "perpetua larchon," artists, or that the taste of the artists among the exactly as in the quarto. Rajputs may have been modelled after the GreBut no writer is more in need of careful editing cian." Yet after all this and much more confithan Tod: his book is as readable as his opinions dent assertion, no competent critic looking at the are often rash and fanciful. His facts-where he piate " before the reader" in the first edition, confines himself to facts--are interesting and im- would be disposed to relegate the temple to an portant, and are fortunately so numerous as to earlier age than about A.D. 1500; and indeed it give his work a high value in spite of his very bears this inscription upon it, which shows moreillegitimate and misleading etymologies, on which over that it nover was a Jaina temple, - he frequently hangs whole theories of ethnology. 1 HEPT TH:11 : His imagination is never at a loss : from a few names having each a syllable or so alike, ho can mAhArAjAdhirAja rANi zrI saMgrAma kSetrajeThI reconstruct whole chapters of lost history. bAvirAvA halaulApa ilAdevi zrI made zi In Chapter II. he cites (p. 28) the Agni Purana for the genealogies of the Surya and Indu (moon) muThacA saMvat 151 varSe posavadi 11 mAghA races,'--but they are not found there. A little further on, he makes the Pandavas the sons of || || TE HTTII Vyasu by Pandea (p. 29); he would make his showing clenrly enough that the temple was Barusar the son of Chandragupto" tho samo as scarcely more than three centuries old when he the 'Abisares' of the Greek writers (p. 38); Raja- saw it, dating only from the reign of Rani Sangriba is the modern Rajmahal' (p. 39); "Dush- gram, A.D. 1514. Yet with all its errors and dekhanta,' as be names Dushyanta, is the father of fects, Tod's work is one of sterling value, and well Sakuntala, married to Bharat' (p. 40); Tanjore he worthy of careful study: and whilst some will makes the probable capita of the Regio Pandiona' regret the want of references in this new edition of Ptolemy; Un-des, the country of the Shawl to later and more trustworthy writers, and the gort or Tibet, he makes An-des, in order to identify correction of errors, or, perhaps, that the wheat it with Anga-desa (p. 41); Valmika (15 he calls has not to some extent been separated from the Valmiki) and Vyasu 'were cotemporaries' (p. 42); chaff by the judicious omission of the greater porMarco Polo was at Kashgar in the sixth century' tion of the merely fanciful speculations of the (p. 56); the Jaxartes is the same as the Jihoon autbor,--all interested in it will feel grateful to the (p. 57); madhu means a bee' in Sanskrit, and the publishers for bringing so convenient and careful name of the drink extracted from the Mahue tree is a reprint within their reach.

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206 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JULY, 1873. CORRESPONDENCE, &c. PROFESSOR WEBER ON PATANJALI, &c. study is going forward, begun, not yet finished ; Sir, -Let me offer you my thanks for having for when they are not studying, being engaged in given to your readers a translation of my lucubra- eating and other like things, the use of the word tions on the date of Patasijali. True, I should "wo study" seems not proper,--therefore an ex. have liked to see it given in full, with all the press statement is required. The meaning of this copious annotations, and also with my treatment of is: the present tense may be used as well of short that important passago from the Vakyapadiyan actions which are really going on at the very about the melancholy fate that befell the Maha- moment of speaking, as of prolonged actions bhdshya for some time. But as your space is which are for a certain time in the course of going limited, I easily conceive that you could not well on and not yet finished, though they may be interafford to devote more of it to this discussion. rupted for a time by other business, such as Doing it, you have, diqhtyd, elicited from Prof. studying a certain system, staying at a given place, Bhandarkar some very able and pertinent re sacrificing for Pushpamitra. Are we now really obmarks, and I am glad to acknowledge the scho- liged to draw from this last example Prof. Bhandarlarly skill displayed by him in handling the sub- kar's conclusion that this sacrificing for Pushpaject. mitra was "not yet finished"-at the time Patanjali He begins by saying that he "hardly shares in wrote, was "still going on " If we did not know the regret" I had expressed with regard to his anything of an individual of the name of Pushpa - not having been aware of the fact that I had ten mitra, we should no doubt take the word simply years ago trented the same subject, as his " facts as a common proper name in the sense of Gajus, were new, and his conclusions not affected by Calpurnius, Sempronius, like Vishnumitra (see anything" I had said formerly, and I beg therefore Mahabhdshya, p. 233, ed. Ballantyne). It is there. to inquire first somewhat deeper into the merits of fore of the highest importance that we get from this rather blunt rebuff. another passage Patanjali's precise notion (and this The example: "iha Pushpamitram yaja- fact was adduced first by myself), that the Push. yamah" is no doubt now, as it was neither noticed pa mitra spoken of by him was really a king, by Goldstucker nor by myself, but the question and a noted king too, as it seems, as distinguish. .is, does it really conveys that meaning which Prof. ed as Chandragupta, no doubt the Sav/po Bhandarkar gives to it" that at the time Patan. KORTOS of the Greeks, along with whom he is jali wrote there lived a porson Pushpamitra, and mentioned, - distinguished, as this example, "iha a great sacrifice was being performed for him and Pushpamitram ydjaydmah," as well as a similar one under his orders" P The whole passage, rendered happily brought forward by Prof. Bhandarkar (p. 69). by him somewhat obscurely, is to be translated as shows, especially also for his sacrifices. And this follows. Panini (III. 2, 123): lat (the present agrees well with what we know from other sources tense) is used when something is going on of a king of that name, as the tradition of the Kdtydyana , they should be taught with regard Buddhists affirms, I that he was a staunch friend to the not-being-finished (i.e. continuation) of An of the Brahmans; and of his afvamedha even Kili. action going forward (i.e. to uge lag also when an dasa takes notice in one of his dramas. This action going forward is not yet finished, merely dynasty is called in the Puranas that of the Sungda, stopped), as it is not going on ;-Patanjali : "they & name which recurs under the Brahmanic fa. should .... action" (i.e. to use it also in the milies and teachers of the Satra-period, in the following cases): here we study-ihd'ahimahe, here Sdtydyana, Asvaldydna, and Nidana Sutras, as well we stay-iha vasdmah; here we sacrifice for Pash- as in Panini (IV. 1, 117), and which has probably pamitra-iha Pushpamitram ydjaydmah. What is accrued to Pushpamitra, its founder, from his spi. the reason P It is not clear (wants to be stated ritual affiliation by one of his gurus (just as SAexpressly), "as it is not going on; "-Kafyata : kyamuni is called Gautama for a similar reason, "here we study," 80 (one is to say as long as) the Bee Ind. Stud. X. 73), or from the sacrificial cus* There is one passage in which the translator, who has it thus, though the other form given by the northern Bud. done his work in other respects to my fall satisfaction, has dhista, Pushyamitra, a nakshatra name, would seem to missed my meaning: I refer to the passage on page 634 merit the preference in a royal name. about Kaiyyata, whom I do not call contemporary of the 1 According to the Asoka-Avaldana (Burnout, Introducauthor of the Trik Andaaesha and of Hemachandra," but tion a l'Histoire du Buddhism, I. 431, 432), he offered for "supported by the author of the Trikindaseeha and by each head of Sramans hundred dinars, and got for Hemachandra" (den sich noch der Verfasser des Tri. this his persecution from the Buddhists the nickname kAndaseshs und Hemachandrs zugesellen). munihata," celui qui a mis a mort les solitaires," As I am informed by Prof. Buhler that the Jainas He is considered there as the last of the race of the spell the name as Pupphamitta, I join now too in reading Maurytu (1)..

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JULY, 1873.] CORRESPONDENCE, &c 207 tom not to use the king's ancestral pedigree, but quite impossible that he could have stood by his only that of his purohita (purohitapravarend 'brah. conclusions in spite of all I had brought forward marasya, ibid. X. 79). To speak of his sacrificos with regard to their relation to Nagarjuna, and NAin the way Patanjali does, appears thus as a most garjuna's relation to Abhimanyu, and that they natural thing for any Brahmanic writer who lived should not have been anyhow affected by them. at a time when their fame was still fresh enough Without the fresh light thrown upon the passage, to be thankfully remembered, but seems to me farin question, when interpreted according to Korn's from implying with any strictness that the writer viow, that the Madhyamikas are not the Bauddha was contemporansous with him. "There would sect, but a people in Middle India, its interpreresult a very curions biography of Patanjali if all station would still remain beset by all those diffithe examples which he draws from common life, culties, from which Bhandarkar has now, to be sure, and which are given by him in the first person, made a very good case against mo, but which were to be considered as throwing light on his were almost all of them already pointed out by myown personal experiences." Both passages onself too, stating at the same time that, as I readily the sacrifices of Pashpamitra are highly welcome acknowledged, my rather forced attempts o explain as a bit of history of that king, but with regard to them away rested "on the doublo assumption Patanjali's age, in my opinion, they add nothing that the reading madhyamileds is correct, and more to the fact, already known previously (sinco that the name of the school did not exist until 1861), that he did not live before Pushpamitra's atter its foundation by Nagarjuna." There time, but that they convey the notion that the was no other explanation at hand at the time memory of this king was still cherisnod by the when I wrote. By Kern's interpretation, the as. Brahmans. pect of the whole question is indeed very much We come now to the second point, the two pas changed, though I still hesitatu to consider it as sages adauced by Goldstucker: "arunad Yavanah settled, and hold to the opinion that it "requires Saketam," and," arunad Yavano Madhyamikan." further elucidation." Only the first of them was noticed by Bhandarkar I come now to the facts adduced by Bhandarin his first article (Iul. 4 . I. p. 302); but his kar at pp. 69-71. The first of them--the third silence on the second, far from implying that ho meution of Pushpamitra's name I have already did not coincide with the interpretation of it given spoken of. In his remarks on Patanjali's nutive by Goldstucker, would seem to show, on the con place he quotes a very remarkable passage from trary, that he acquiesced in it, not being yet aware tho Mahalluslyut, which 110 doubt refers to of all the difficulties of the case. When thero- Saketa as lying between the place of the fore he now proclaims that the conclusions at speaker and Pataliputra. Sakuta, Bhandarkar which he arrived at that timo are not affected takes to be Ayodhya, and procents: "Patthijuli's by anything I have said in my critique on nieties live therefore must have been showhen Goldstucker, ho is enabled to say so only from to the north-west by west of Oadh." Now then my having meanwhile drawn his attention to Pro. is a town and district of the name of Gonda, fossor Kern's opinion on the Mally a miki, miles to tho north-west of it. Goma represents which too, though contained in an Euglish book modern corruption of the Prakrit Gonada, Sanski, published in India, 1864, had remained to him as Gouarla, contained in Gonardiya, a surname unknown as my own lucubrations written in of latajiuli. Gond therefore is the native place German in 1961. For so long as, with Goldstucker, of the great grammurian. This conclusion, though he considered the Madhyamikas to be the very ingenious and clever indleed, seems to me still Bauddha school of that name, it appears to me surroundel by very grave difficulties. F'ilsn there * Til St . V. 158, in the following mat, left out in the translation on p. 63,-"When Guldstucker remoti tie example given in the Mahabharly, III. 2, JI! (w uccurs also in I. 1, 41, Ballantyne, p. 538) : abhijansi deradatta Ka a mireslu vatsyamah, tatra suktuu pil syimah (odunam bhokshyamale, p. 738), Kaimirin acachhaua, tatra waktun apibama (odan:um abluunali, p. 538) as information which Patanjali has given us of his having temporarily resided in Kashmir,' and adils : This circumstance throws some light on the interest which certain lings of this country took in the preservation of the Great Commentary,'- I do not understand either how so perfectly general an example can determine any conclusion whatever regarding events in the personal history of Patasijali, or how such a journey as his iut: Kashmir, for the purpose of there drinking saktun (leer? yavapishtani, Taitt. 8., ed. Roer, I. p. 627), or of eating odana (pap)-vaso la kshanani bhojanaus lakshyan, says the Culeutta Scholist, have mercil any possible influence on the interest winch Ablimanyu and, you later. Jayapida showel in tlu jubkiht. It ! not incleed be inferred from this example, with any kind of certainty, that Patanjali did not limself live in Kasinair. In fact, quite a curiona birraply of lataujali might contruct, if all his examples of this natin, la tri comumou lite, which are expressed in the first person, we to her anled at the same time in the light nt perenal experiences. The name Devalaitta, cor d ing to that Rua Cuius, sutficiently testities to the perfectly sneri churate of the above emplo." + In one point, however, he overstatag them, when I saw it 19 a mere supposition, Dut suportliny any reliable auth. rity, "that Kanishka persecutedthe Buddhistletore he him. self became a confort;" this is no suposition of mine.it all, as he calls it still another time since I gote for it (p. 2) the testimony of Iliwen Thsang, 1. 107 (L200, III. 7).

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208 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JULY, 1873. is a pagsago in the Mahdbhdshya: Mathurayah Pataliputram puroam, which gives us just the opposite direction, as it implies that Pataliputra was situated between the speaker and Mathura: the speaker therefore must have lived to the cast of the former. It is true that Bharu!arkar overcomes this difficulty by translating these words by "Pataliputra is to the cast of Mathura," but I doubt very much the correctness of his translation of purvam in this case, as Patanjali states it expressly as his purport to give an example, where purva stands in the sense of vyavahita, i.e. of distance (not of direction). How are we now to account for two so contradictory statements ?" na hyeko Devadatto yugapat Sraghne Mathurayari cha sambhavati." One might resort to taking them as a proof that Patanjali had visited dif- ferent parts of India while he was writing the Mahabhashya, and that one passage comes from a time when he lived to the west, the other from a time when he lived to the east of Pataliputra, as there may have been, according to Bhandarkar him. self in his first article, vol. I. p. 301), also a time when he lived in this town. Or, we might take one or the other passage as one of those which have crept into his work under the remodelling which it underwent by Chandracharya dibhin (p. 58). Or wo may waive that question altoge. ther. Thus much remains : we cannot rely on either of them for attaining to certainty about Patanjali's dwelling place, far less, as Bhandarkar takes it, about his native place. The only support for this latter supposition is his explanation of the name of Gonda by Gonarda; but in giving it he has failed to give attention to the statement of the Karika (though he mentions it) which adduced Gonardiya as an instance of a place situated in the east. This statement appears fatal to his view, as a district situated to the north-west of Oudh cannot well be said, in a work written in Benares, to be situated prdchan defe. Finally, even the correctness of his identification of Saketa, as mentioned in this passage of the Mahdindshya with Oudh, may be as much called in question, as the other passage, adduced already, by Goldstucksr: "Arunad Yavanah saketam," as there are two or throu other towns of that name, any one of which has, prina vista, the same right to be the Saketa of either of these two pussages of the Mahuldskya as Oudh has. To proceed, Bhandarkar's remark "on the native country of Katyayana would be very conclusive but for one rather serious drawbackthere is, so far as I can see, no cogency in taking the words "yatha lankikavaidikesh" as a virt. tila; they are a simple example quoted by Patalijali from the speech of the Dakshinatya, as he refers to it in other places, for (Ballantyne p. 397) "asticha loko sarasisabcasya pravsittin, dakshin Apatho hi mahanti saransi sarasya ity uchlyante." We know from the Vakyapadiyani that the Mahalledshja remained for some time preserved in books only (Stenzler in Ind. Stud. V. 418) amongst the Dakshingtya, a tradition which no doubt renders the assumption probable that we may thus have to account for some auch allusions. For taking the word acharyadesiya in the sense of "Acharya the younger," as Bhardarkar proposes (p. 96), I can find no authority. Either we must take it like (sabrahmachari) taddesyah (Mahd. bldr. XII. 6305) as "countryman of the acharya" (though no doubt acharyasadesiyo would be more correct), or it conveys the idea of a certain inforiority in rank (ishad asamaptau, Pan. V. 3, 67); and with Goldstucker, I doubt very much, whether Kafyyata, who supports in general Patanjali's views against Katyayana, wonld have called him by such an epithet, reserving the title of Acharya to the latter. With regard to my opinion that the word dcharya in such expressions as pasyati tu dold. ryah, as occurring in the Mahabhashya, applies to Patanjali. I think Bhandarkar right in correcting it in the instances given, in others I am still doubtful; the question appears not yet ripe for being finally settled. In the passage about the Mauryas I must leave it to others to decide if Patanjali's words do really imply it as his opinion that Panini himself, in referring to images that were saleable, had in his eye such as those that had come down from tho In my Noto, Ind. Stud. V. 154, I remarked that"this is open to question. For there were several places called Saketa. Koppen (I. 112, 113) adduces very forcible reasons for the opinion that the SAketa (SAkcetu, according to Hardy) mentioned so frequently in the life of Buddha cannot be Ayodhya, as Lassen assumes (II. 65). And Lassen himself shows (III. 199, 200) that just a little can the Ptolemaid Sageda, Sageda metropolis in the country of the 'Adelo a pou, who dwell nexpe To Oufevrov opous (Ptolem. VII. 1. 71), be Ayodhya. According to the view of H. Kiepert, which, in answer to my inquiry, he has most kindly communicated, in an atter pt to adapt the statements of Ptolemy to our present geography, the position numunicated, in an atter pt to adapt the state of Sageda on the Ptolemaic map would fall south werd from Palimbothra, in the direction of the Vindhya and the south of India, probably in the upper regions of the Sona, still northward from Amarakantaka, and by no means 80 far southward into the Dakhan as Lassen assumes it to be: perhaps it lay even on the northern slope of the Vindhya. Finally, Ptolemy mentions another Sageda (the text has Sagada, see Laseen, II. 2.10), which however lies in further India, and consequently does not concern us here. On the whole, there is none of the places mentioned bearing the name 8 Aketa that lies nearer the kingdom of Kanishka than the one which corresponds to the modern Oudh: and as to the thing itself, consequently, it matters little to which of them we refer the utation from Patanjali."

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JCLY, 1873.) CORRESPONDENCE, &c. 209 Mauryas. I never said more than this, and Bhan. pared in London under Goldstucker's care, will still clarkar goes too far when he says "Prof. Weber defy for a while many attempts to break through infers that Panini in making his rule had in his its hard crust. It is a great pity that from the eye," &c. My words are: "According to the view colossal dimensions of Ballantyne's edition we are of Patanjali; " " Patanjali is undoubtedly of opi- now reduced to the other extreme, viz. to having nion;" "Be this as it may, the notice is in itself an nothing except a mero transcript of a manuscript, exceedingly curious one."--Now with regard to without any indications and helps of an editorial this very curious and odd statement itself, I venture charncter. The text of the Valleluia. in all to throw it out as a mere suggestion whether three cditions, is prima vista a quite undiscernible it may not perhaps refer to a first attempt at midtum compositum of Panini's vurttika and bhgold coinnge made by the Mauryas (in imitation shyn; and the blashya, again, is itself composed in of tho Greck coins). It is true no Maurya coin | a most unwieldy and unsettled way, stuffed to has been discovered as yet, so far as I know, but suffocation with objections, counter-objections, this may be mero chance; the real difficulty is repetition, examples and counter-examples. And how to bring Patanjali's words into liarmony with regarii especially to the latter, we ought never with such an interpretation, the more so as in his to loso siglot of the circumstances under which, time no doubt gold coins were already rather according to the testimonies of the Vikyapadiyan common. and the .ijatarangini, the work was finally arWhen a thing is called at the same timo ranged in its present form, and of the many chances Paroksham and prayokturdarsanavi. that rondered it liable to changes and intercalations, shayam, we can render the first only by " whnt! under the treatment it may have experienced. is no more to be seen," the second by "what has I beg to add some remarks on another subject : been seen by the speaker, or could have been soen In The Academy (No. 68, March 15, p. 118) I gavo by hira." The imperfect is used always, parokshe, a short statement of my real views on the relation whon a thing is no more to be seen, but it may be of Valmiki to the Homeric saga-cycle, by repro. either lokavijnata, notorious, or prayoktur dar- ducing portinent passages from Mr. Boyd's transla. kanavishaya, belonging to the personal experience tion of my Essay on the Ramayana, as contained of the speaker, or even to both together. in your pages. A correspondent of The Academy In thus concluding what I had to say in my had (No. 65, p. 58) drawn the attention of its defence, I beg to repeat my acknowledgment of readers to the patriotic indignation of some learned Prof. Bhandarkar's critical spirit, of which ho linus against its results, at the same time him. has given ample proof already in an elaborato self stating its purport in terms which I could not Jeview of Haug's Aitareya-Brahmana (1864), of consider is a true representation of my views. which he now acknowledges himself the author, I had not then seen the review of my Essay by and which I embodied in the ninth volume Kasinath Trimbak Telang, and could judge of it of my Indische Studien, on account of its intrinsic only from the notice given by tho writer in Tho merits, without knowing at all from whom it came. Academy. By the courtesy of the author I have "It is the first time," I said in introducing it, sinco received it, and take this opportunity to "as far as we know, that a born llindu has state that-far from "laying particular stress on subjected with courage and independenco the the total want of correspondence in the delineation work of a European Sanskrit scholar to a search- of the various characters introduced in the two ing critique, and this moreover in a nanner which poems," as he was said to do in The Academy, and shows him quite competent and fully prepared to which would have exposed him too, to the charge of do it." He has given a new instance of his saga. "fighting against windmills," which I direct city on the present occasion, and in congratulat- against all who stato it as my theory "that the ing him as a most welcome fellow-labourer in our Ramayara of Valmiki is simply an Indian translacommon studies, I beg to express my hope that tion of Homer's Iliad"-he has indeed "endeahe may continue still for a time to make the voured to refute my arguments one by one," withcritical ransacking of the Mahabhashya his special out at all giving so prominent a part to that department; as he has succeeded already in drawing particular point. Though prejudiced, as he ho. from it some very important details, he will not nestly allows, by his naticnal feelings, he proves a fail doubtless to find more of them. Combined faithful inquirer after truth; and if he has not, in efforts are necessary to wield this huge mase, my opinion, succeeded in anyways changing the which, in spite of the Benares edition, as well as of aspect of the question-partly because he too puts the forthcoming photolithographed edition, pro. it wrongly,* and partly because he has written The title of his reviow in Was the Bamdyana copied from Homer P I never thought of maintaining so much as that.

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210 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JULY, 1873. apparently in great haste t, and without sufficient Prakrit form like kinno or kunno, or even kanno acquaintanco with the present state of scientific (for old Hindt appears to recognise a verbal base research on several of the topics touched on or kana). That the base kuna is restricted to verse discussed in my Essay-still his review contains by Prakrit grammars is not opposed to my theory, some very valuable hints and communications, as my critic seems to imagine, but is in favour of especially from the Mahabhdshya, for which we are it; and that is the reason why I referred to it. It thankful to him and to Prof. Bhandarkar, to whose is a well-known fact, of which Hindi affords exaid he several times states that he is indebted. amples in abundance, that the colloquial has many Berlin, 18th April 1873. A. WEBER. forms which by the literary language are restricted to poetry. That the past part. pass, of the base kuna Note. is not met with in any Prakrit work (of which, by the Might not Sagada, the metropolis of the way, we know only very few as yet) is no proof, Adeisa throi, near the hills of Uxentus, be that it cannot be formed and did not exisi in the sagara, near the sources of the Dasarna spoken language. However, what I maintain is (Dosan), 200 miles E.N.E. of Ujjain Spruner that the Hindi genitive post-positions are derived places it about 50 miles W.N.W of Warangol.Ed. from a Prakrit equivalent of the Sanskrit past part. krita ; as to the rest, I merely expressed an opinion, GENITIVE POST-POSITIONS. and gave some reasons for it, that they are identical To the Editor, Indian Antiquary. with the Hindi ones. This requires further proof: SIR.-In the April oumber of the Indian but my own further investigations have rather Antiquary (p. 121) appeared a letter from Dr. ! confirmed me in my view. My critic thinks that Pischel with criticisms on my theory of the "it is easy to prove that the Bangali and Oriya Gausian genitive post-positions. I now request genitive post-positions are not derived froni the the favour of your inserting the following reply. Prakrit keraka. But he has not produced his As regards the remark regarding the Prakrit proof. For his statements as to the use of kerala of the plays being founded on the sutra of Va- in Prakrit, whether true or not, have no particular raruchi, I regret its somewhat careless expression, bearing on the question whether the Bangali or as it seems to have scandalized my critic so much. is * curtailment of keraka or not. The only Many Prakrit scholars, and all those wlio combine argument that I can discover among his criticismos n knowledge of the modern Indian vernaculars is that "the word keraka is far too modern to underwith that of Prakrit (e. g. Beames in his Comp. go so rast and rapid a change as to be curtailed Gram. passim), hold that the colloquini or vulgar to simple er." The fact is that keraka occurs Prikrit differed, and perhaps considerably, from in the sense of a genitive post-position so early as the literary Prak.it used in the plays, and gram- in the Mrichchhakatiki, which is generally supposed marized, so to speak, by Vararuchi and his suc- to have been written in the beginning of the cessors. These two Prakrits cannot have been Christian era; and of the oldest Bangali there without influence upon one another; hence in the is next to no literature; so that the argument has plays forms are found which are not noticed, no leg to stand upon.--I may take this oppor. especially in the earlier grammars, and which tunity, however, to state that since writing my probably were introduced from the vulgar Prakrit. third essay I have modified my view so far (for Still, generally speaking, the literary Prakrit re- in such a novel inquiry it is especially true tbat mainod stationary, while tho colloquial Prakrit dies diem docet) that I now consider the Bangalier changed and developed. Those who wrote Prakrit not to be a curtailment of the Prikrit keraka, but (in dramas and otherwise) must have learned the of kera; becauso otherwise the Bangali post-posi. literary Prikrit, and must have learned it from the tion would be pronounced era, and not er.-My Prikrit grammars. This is what was meant. The critic says that I maintain that the genitive of question is too large a one to be fully stated here. santann was originally santana-leraka. I mainPerhaps Dr. Pischel takes a differert view of it; tain no such thing. If he had followed the drift but that is no reason why my view bhould be in- of my argument more attentively, he would have correct. What the colloquial Prakrit must have seen that I merely wished to trace the probable been cannot be determined from the Prikrits of steps by which keraka in coninnetion the dramas and grammars only, but also, and final o of a noun becomes curtailed into e. For often moro truly, from the modern vernaculars. this purpose any noun with final quiescent & Now the old and, at present, poetical and vulgar would do. I took santina because it was ready Hindi past part. Kind (or kind) postulates somol to hand, being the paradigm in the excellent Ban. + The August part of the Indian Antiquary contained the conclusion of Mr. Boyd's translation, and Mr. Kainath read his paper ca the 2nd September.

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JULY, 1873.] gali Grammar of Sama Churn Sircar. For the purpose imputed by my critic I should have chosen a word like bagher, which, no doubt, may have actually been once baghakero. But it should not have needed explanation to see that after kera had once been curtailed to er and established as a genitive post-position, it would be added also to Sanskritic and foreign nouns in a, the genitive of which can, of course, only ideally be said to have once had the supposed Prakrit form.-Dr. Pischel further says that I might as well say santana kerake or kerakena or kerakassa, etc. So I might; indeed so I do. But unfortunately he has overlooked two considerations-first, that it would be too tedious to decline a noun through all cases whenever you quote it, and that hence it has been always customary to quote an adj. noun in the nom. case sing. masc.; secondly, that all Bangali adjectives have dropped all case, number, and gender terminations; and that therefore, in whatever case keraka be quoted, it would equally assume the 3hape er in Bangali. CORRESPONDENCE, &c. Again, my critic is very severe on me for saying that keraka only occurs about 14 times in the Mrichchhakatika. Now suppose my statement be incorrect, to err is but human; and even my critic is not above it: he says that "keraka in the more modern dialects is always changed to kelaka:" but the Hindi has kerd, etc. In regard to the particular point of how often keraka occurs, my critic has overlooked the fact that I quoted from another edition of the Mrichchhakatika (viz. Calc. 1829) than he. The two editions evidently differ considerably. His edition, no doubt, is the better one. According to my Calc. edn. the word keraka occurs about 10 times, not as a genitive postposition or pleonastically, but as a dative post-position (like Sanskrit kertte). All these instances I excluded as irrelevant to my purpose. Thus of Dr. Pischel's 38 there remain only about 28. Of these, I own, some escaped me, and I am indebted to Dr. Pischel for pointing them out. On the other hand, I intentionally expressed myself guardedly, "about fourteen." Moreover, I wonder it did not occur to my critic that the more examples of keraka as a genitive post-position can be shown to exist, the more it makes for my theory. For this peculiar use of keraka must have been very common and marked in the colloquial, to have been so frequently introduced into the drama. As regards the two instances from the Sakuntala, the first is a false one; for kelaka is there used to express the dative; and the second is a doubtful reading (according to M. Williams). The instance from Hala, likewise, is a false one. Those from the Malavika, Mudrarakshasa, and Malatt are true ones; but the two first plays I could not examine. 211 As to the word pakelaka, having only the Calc. edition to consult, I was obliged to trust to it. If the reading is erroncous, the error is not mine. But to say that the error invalidates my deductions as to the meaning of keraka is absurd. The meaning of keraka (own, peculiar to, or as Lassen says, pertinens ad, and as Dr. Pischel himself, belonging to) is beyond dispute, whether my suggestion as to how it came by that meaning be true or not. Again, my critic says that there is not the slightest reason for my supposition that the use of the word keraka is slang. Yet, with singular consistency, a little further on he himself says "there is nothing extraordinary in the pleonastic use of keraka; people of lower condition like a fuller and more individual sort of speech, and to emphasise their own dear selves." I think it will be generally admitted that this amply justifies my supposition; and it is merely what I said myself in other words in the essay. My critic seems to imagine that all Brahmans must be educated or respectable men, and that policemen may never affect to talk high language. At any rate, a general phenomenon cannot be invalidated by one or two contrary cases which admit of being explained in many ways. As regards the base-form kerika, it is contained in the regular feminine kerikd; but it seems to occur occasionally also in the other genders: e. g. Mrichchh. 122, 15, mana kelikaim in the acc. plur. neuter (as quoted by Dr. Pischel; Calc. edn. has kelakdim). It is mentioned by Lassen (Inst. Prak. pp. 422, 423), who seems to mistrust the form, but, I think, unjustly; for other words of the same form occur; e. g. sotthiam (= svastikam for svastakam); the regular ettio (= iyantika, not iyatika, for iyantaka), beside ettao (Sak. p. 61, ed. M. Williams); see also Dr. J. Muir, Sansk. Texts, vol. II. p. 122; Weber, Bhagavati, p. 438. These forms are generally explained by an affix ika, but such instances seem to point rather to the conclusion that the form in ika is a corruption of that in aka. As regards the identification of keraka with Sansk. krita, it is an old traditional one of the Pandits. Dr. Pischel says that Prof. Lassen has proved beyond all doubt "that this interpretation cannot be accepted," and that his identification of it with the Sansk, karya "has been adopted by Prof. Weber as in accordance with the laws of the Prakrit language." Now in his Inst. Prak. p. 118, Prof. Lassen, after having stated the usual interpretation, gives two reasons (which I shall notice presently) which he thinks stand in its way and concludes by saying "hence I am inclined to

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212 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JULY, 1873. believe kera to be rather a corruption of karya." ing i ory. The difficulty, however, may not be so So Prof. Lassen is not quite so positive as my absolute as Lassen seems to have thought. In critic represents. Prof. Weber (Hla, p. 38), treat- some instances such an influence is doubtful. The ing of the changes of a into e, says that it changes supposition is, therefore, quite allowable, that the 60 sometimes under the influence of a following y, Prakrit past part. form kalo (in Msichchk. Calc. as sejja (sayyd); achchhera (sischarya); maha keram edn. for kado) might be the original of the form ke. (mama keyite). This does not show that he is more lao or kerao. This was my theory formerly, which positive than Prof. Lassen. The fact is that they was briefly stated by me on p. 133. Nevertheless are both too cautious and too well-informed my critic insinuates that I made thee of kelaka scholars to commit themselves to such a dog. to be a modification of the Sanskrit ri; and then matic statement on insufficient data. I do not he proceeds to knock down the man of straw of his know on what grounds Prof. Hoefer may have own creation. (And, by the way, what are we to upported the traditional interpretation, as unfor- think of a Prakrit form keta, to which my critic nately I am not able to refer to his work. But thinks krita might change P) Further on Dr. that it is the true interpretation the modern ver- Pischel says that I "believe that in some naculars conclusively prore. In Marathi the examples kerala has become a sort of aflix; if equivalent of krita is keld, and in the Low-Hindi this be true, it ought not to be inflected, as it it is kaild (or kayald or kaild). Now keld or kuila really is," like all other adj. nouns. Now the are contractions or modifications of the Prakrit substance of what I said was this, that in some kelao (or kelo), or kerao (or kero); and it follows instances kerala has no (predicative) meaning, that the Prakrit kerao or kero are also equivalente but merely determines the case of another noun, of the Sanskrit leritaka or krita. The interchange and that in this respect it had become like an of r and l is so common that it needs no remark. affix (see p. 130). Now this is altogether a difIts extreme frequency in the modern vernaculars ferent thing from what Dr. Pischel attributes to shows that in colloquial Prakrit it must have me. That keraka is an adj. noun and treated as been even more frequent than in literary Prikrit. such, I know very well; in fact, it is the whole The l of kelao is a substitute for d, and d again for drift of my second essay to prove that the Hind: the Sanskrit t; namely, krita becomes kada, and genitive post-positions are curtailments of such kada becomes kela or kelaa. This disposes of an adj. noun (see p. 125). one of the two difficulties of Prof. Lassen, which Again, Dr. Piechel adduces a number of other was the r in keraka in the place of the Sanskrit t. words, as kajjam, kichchan, etc., which he says This assumes that the form kelao is the earlier are used exactly in the same way as I say one; but even if the other form kerao be thought keram or kerakan is. This is again a misthe earlier, ther can be explained by the help of understanding. What I maintain is, that keraka the modern vernaulars. The Low-Hindi has still is used very often pleonastically, or to form a & past part. kard for Sanskrit krita (just as mard periphrastical genitive, as amhakerao for amhanan. for mrita, dhard for dhrita, etc.). Here we have Now the words instanced by Dr. Piechel are in the place of the Sanskrit t, however it may not used pleonastically; for if omitted in the have originated. For my own part I am inclined sentences quoted, the sense of the latter would to believe the origin to be this. In Prakrit, roots be incomplete or none at all; and, moreover, they in ri not uncommonly form the past part. pass. are used to form a periphrastical dative, not a with the connerting vowel i (comp. Lassen, genitive. These means of forming & periphrastic Inst. Prakrit. p. 363); thus bhri has bharita, dhri dative are well known. Keran is one of them. has dharita, etc. (I give the full phonetic ground- But kerans in this particular use was irrelevant to forms). Thus keri would form karita, that is, in my purpose. Dr. Pischel will find it discussed Prakrit kario (or kariao), which is actually pre- in a future paper on the dative post-positions, served in the old Hindi form karyar (e. g. Chand, which I shall try to show can be traced back XXVII. 60), and in Modern Hindi is contracted to it. to kard. Now the Prekrit forms kario or kariap As regard the three words nija, gada. say dha, would easily explain the forms kero or kerao, by they are never used pleonastically, certainly not in the translation of the vowel i into the preceding the instances quoted by Dr. Pischel; e. g. if syllable; just as achchhario contracts into ach- gadena were left out in the phrase taggadena ahildchhero. This disposes of the second difficulty of sena, its sense would become doubtful; it might Prof. Lassen (p. 118), which is that the vowel a mean both" by his desire for her" or "by her changes to . only under the influence of a follow. desire." Again if niam be omitted in the sentence "Hinc kdra-ka a karya potius depravatum crediderim"--Curiously, though no doubt wrongly, M. Williams, in his sak. p. 289, concludes from Lassen's words that he adhered to the urual derivation of keraka from the Sanskr. krita.

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JULY, 1873.] MISCELLANEA. 213 ahan nian gohan gamissam, it would be doubtful whose house was meant. With keraka it is very different; in many instances it is absolutely superfluous; as in kassa kerakan edan pavahanam, * whose is that carriage' P which is absolutely iden. tical with kassa edar pavahanan. I am indebted to Dr. Pischel for pointing out the inaccuracy in the word bhramarkao, which of course ought to be bhamarako. It is inexplicable to me how it escaped me. Such slips will happen to most writers. DE. A. T. RUDOLF HOERNLE. Benares, May 1878. Who on King Nala's neck let fall the wreath of victoryan appropriate reference to the Naishadha, which concludes with the description of Damayanti's Svayamvara. F. S. GROWSE. Mathurd, May 11, 1873. DISCOVERY OF DIES. A Soni at Umreth, a town in the Kaira Zilla, was charged with receiving stolen property. The police in searching his house found four dies: two of them Muhammadan, impressions alone of wnich have been forwarded to us. They are from 0-98 to 1 inch in diameter. The legend on the obverse one, as read by Professor Blochmann, is shy m lm pdshy fzy Shah Alam Padishah i Ghazi; on the one for the reverse is mymnt mnws Drbh snh 38 jlws Struok in the year 48 of the auspicious accession. As Prof. Blochmann remarks, they represent "a coarse type of modern Shah 'Alams as still struck by native princes, chiefly in Rajputana. As Shah Alam was the last (historical) Mughul om. peror, his name is continued on coins." The other two when first found were so encrusted with rust and dirt, it was not clear there was any engraving on them, but a little Washing and brushing revealed figures and legends. We are enabled to print these directly from the dies themselves. SRI HARSHA, AUTHOR OF THE NAISHADHA. As a slight contribution to the discussion that has arisen regarding the date of the poet srf Harsha, it may be interesting to note the place assigned him by the Hind: bard Chand, writing at the end of the 12th century after Christ. At the commencement of his great epic poem, the Prithirdj Rdea, he gives a list of the most eminent writers, his predecessors, with brief allusions to their principal works. The catalogue includes only eight names, which are evi. dently arranged in what is intended to be chrono. logical order. First comes is the great mythical mouths, Sesh nag, the author of the universo; second, Vishnu, who revealed the Veda; third, Vy&sa, the composer of the Mahabharat ; fourth, Sukade ve, who recited the Sri Bhagavat; fifth, Sri Harsha, author of the Naishadha; sixth Kalid&sa, to whom is ascribed the popular work, in mixed verse and prose, entitled the Bho. japrabandha; Beventh, DandamAli, without reference to any special work, though doubtless the Dasa-Kumdra-Charita is intended; and eighth and last, Jayadova, who wrote the Guld Govinda. From this it is clear that Ohand regarded the Naishadha as & poem of considerable antiquity; and writing in the twelfth century he is presumably so far a better authority than Raja Sek. hara, who wrote in the fourteenth. Mr. Beames has attempted a translation of the passage to which I refer (reprinted in the Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 318), but it is not very accurate, and he has omitted as unintelligible the line in which Sri Harsha's name ocorrs, adding in a note that he does not know what the allusion is. The couplet is : nararUpa paMcamma zrIharSa sAra nalerAya kaMThaM dina zuddha haar|| which may be thus literally done into English: SH Harsha fifth, preeminent in arts of poesy, SOV 200 BAS rea They represent clumsy imitations of the impress on Venetian sequins. The legend round the Madonna ought to be REGIBISTE DVCA. BIT.T.I.PE.DAT. Q.TV. That down behind the Apostle on the other side of gennine coins is 8.M. VENET And behind the 'Doge' ought to be his name: one before us reads 'PET - GRIMANI.' Prof. Blochmann mentions a forged one in the Calcutta Mint cabinets reading IO AN. CORNBL and a genu. who * No allusion to this work oan be traced in Mr. Beames' translation, who rendore the line meaning simply composed the chronicle of King Bhoja' by 'who firmly bound the dy

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214 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [JULY, 1873. ine one having LVDOV. XANIN. and the usual DV at the top of the staff. The man in whose house these dies were found refuses to give any account of them: he says he was ignorant of their existence till the police rummaged them out. It appears probable that both pairs of dies have been out for making counterfeit coin.-ED. PERSIAN STANZAS ON ATTRACTION AND REPULSION.-No. III. Translated by E. Rehatsek, M.O.E. From the Memnary of Jellal-al-dyn Rumy. 3rd Duftur. The wisdom of the Lord by fate destined To mutual love this family-mankind, All beings must, obeying that command, Reciprocal, as loving couples, stand; Each couple in this world a pair must want Exact as amber with a blade of grass. The firmament salutes the earth beneath, "I unto thee as iron to the magnet am !" The sky is man, and earth his fitting spouse. Whate'er the sky throws off, the earth receives; When she no heat possesses, he it sends, When she no moisture has, dew he presente. The spherio sign of earth will earth bestow, The aqueous sign humidity will bring, The sign of wind will fleeting clouds affordAbsorbing noxious vapours of the land ; . The element of fire will heat produce, Which issues from the flaming disc--the sun. The heaven still rotates for the earthLike the husband for his wife providing. This earth a faithful honsewife represente, Who toileth for the offspring she begat; The Lord implanted love in man and wife, This unison endnes the world with life! Hkmt Hq dr qD w dr qdr ykhdkhr hshqn mr khrdh jmlh jzy jhn zn Hkm pysh jft jft w `shqn jft khwysh jft khwh hr jfty z`lm pst kh w prkh khhrb chwn rst r mrHb asmn khryd zmyn rb b trm chwn an w yn asmn mrd w zmyn zn dr khrd hr chh n ndkht yn myprwrd bfrstd w khrmysh nmnd chwn nm bdh w chwn - nmnd trysh brj khky jzr rDy r mdd dhd ndr tjykh by brj w brd bdy br swy brj w khm r br drd , bhrt khwrshyd zr grmy brj tsh dr tbh srkh z atsh psht w rw ndr zmn srgrdn flkh pst khrd mkhsb bhr zn pr mrdn knd bnjyh my khh zmyn wyn tdhh my w rfhsh brwdt mbl ndr mrd w zn Hq zn nhd bnyd zyn jhn t bqy bh NAGA MONUMENTS. The Nagas sot up large stones on roads in and about their villages : these are often of great size, 10 to 12 foet high. This is done by individuals, when living, to perpetuate their own memory, and that of the feast that is given to all who take & part in carrying in and setting them up. These large stones are sometimes set up like a dolmen, supported below by three or more stones; but I never observed any slabs that were thus raised more than two feet or so. Some of the villages are very large-600 to 800 houses, and villages of 200 are common, and this number, I should say, was the average-Major Godwin-Austin, in " Ocean Highways," May 1873. Queries. Two questions I should like to ask any of the readers of the Indian Antiquary possessed of the information: 1. What is the origin of the division into Right and Left hand Oastes in South India P And can a list be had of each division P 2. Why do the Panchals wear the sacred thread like tho Brahmans: what gave rise to the custom P F. J. LAPER. Tranquebar, 7th June 1873.

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AUGUST, 1873.] STORY OF RANI PINGLA. 215 STORY OF RANI PINGLA. BY MAJOR JOHN W. WATSON, ACTING POLITICAL SUPERINTENDENT, PAHLANPUR. TVE last sovereign of Chandravati of the Par- put the question to it; shonld your hus 1 mar dynasty was named Hun. One day band be alive, water will ooze out of its leaves ; Raja Hun went to the forest to hunt, and there but if he be dead the leaves will wither and fall was a native Pardhi also lying in wait for game. off." Rani Pingle received the seed with grati. Shortly after a black cobra bit the Pardhi, who tude, and sowed it in her yard. ied immediately from the effects of the bite. A few months after this, Raja Hon left ChanThe Raja however sat still watching what dravati to subdue a refractory Mehyasi village, might happen. After a little while, the wife and determined to send from thence a false of the Pardhi came in search of her husband, intimation of his death to the Rani to test her and found him thus lying dead. She wept and virtue as a sati. He desired his Sirdars to be bewailed him much, then collecting wood made the medium of this communication, but they all a pile to barn the body: when the corpse was indignantly refused, saying that it would be a being burned she cut off pieces of her own black deed. At last a Rabari agreed to carry the flesh and threw them on the pile; finally she tidings, and the King gave him his own turban climbed on the pile and embracing her husband's to deliver to the Queen, desiring him to tell her corpse became a sati. The King witnessed all at the last that the news was false. The Rabari this, and was struck with the devotion of the then mounted his camel and taking the king's woman, and on his return home related the cir- turban went to Chandravati. At this time Rani cumstance to his Queen, whose name was Rani Pingle and her maidens were in a balcony of Pingla, the daughter of Raja Somachandra, and the palace; the Queen saw the Rabari afar off said to her that he had never seen or heard and intuitively felt that her death was near. of a sati like the Pardhi's wife. Rani Pingla She said to her maidens, "The day of my death replied that the woman hardly deserved to be | has come." Her maidens endeavoured to comcalled a sati, that she was simply a surmi, or a fort her, but, she pointed to the camel now apbrave or desperate character, who had destroy- proaching nearer and nearer, and said, "There ed herself on the spur of the moment, and that is the messenger of the fatal tidings." Just a real sati was one who, on hearing even of then the Rabari arrived, and began to call her husband's death, would bathe, put his tur- out, "Alas! Alas! Raja Han is slain!" He ban on her bosom, and heave a sigh which then handed over the King's tarban to one would end in instant death, the soul escaping of the attendants for delivery to Rani Pingle, through an aperture caused by the bursting of to whom it was at once conveyed. Rani the skull. The RAja rejoined that if there were Pingla wept bitterly, she then bathed and any true satt in the world, it must be Rani approached the A880 Pal plant and asked Pingla herself. From this the Queen consider- it whether her husband were alive or dead : ed within herself that the King might one day water oozed out of the leaves, thereby satistest her virtue as & sati. Some time after this fying her that Raja Hun was alive. She occurrence, her spiritual preceptor, Guru Data. however thought thus within herself: If I do triya, paid her a visit. Rani Pingla implored not die, I shall lose the love of my husband, him, saying, "Reverend Sir, give me such a whereas if I become a sati, 1 small not only reign thing that by virtue of it I may be enabled with him in Svarga, but shall re-united to him to know of the death of my husband, even in my next birth on the earth; further, were though it should happen far away from Chan I not to die, I should shame my father, Raja dravati." The Guru gave her a seed of the Somachandra. She then addressed the Asso Pal Asso Pal tree, and said, "Sow that in your tree thuschaok (yard), and in a short time it will grow Asupa nadIyaMta maraj, into a plant. Whenever you wish to ascertain vaNamubhA kema lAbhata premalaM, whether your husband be dead or alive, you avasAna Aye nava marU, should bathe, and then, approaching the plant, to lAje rAjA somacaMdarU.

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216 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [AUGUST, 1873. You forbid my death, 0 A880 PAI! But without dying how can I regain my beloved? If I dio not when the time has come for death, Raja Somachandra will be shamed. So thinking, Rani Pingla determined to die, and putting her husband's turban on her bosom embraced it, heaved a sigh, and immediately expired. The Rabari, touched by the devotion of Rani Pingla, called out that the Raja was alive, and that his news was false, but it was too late, Rani Pingla having breathed her last. Her maidens now placed her corpse, still in death embracing her husband's turban, ona magnificent funeral pile and set fire to it. Some time after the Rabari had been despatched by the king, Raja Hun repented of what he had done, and laying relays of swift horses galloped to Chandravati. As he drew near the city he saw the smoke of the pyre, and meeting a girl asked her what it was. The, damsel replied as follows: sonAvaraNI cehe baLe,rupAvoM ghuhu~, nAvalI tArInArI jale, jAhA~ para jAto hu~, The flames arising from the pyre glitter like gold, And the smoke assumes a silvery shade: Husband! thy wife is burning, Whose house thou wast wont to frequent. On hearing this unexpected and heartrending news, the King was overwhelmed with grief, and, dismounting, commenced wandering round the pyre. His ministers and nobles endeavoured to comfort him but it availed nothing. Thus Raja Hun remained for many days. One day Guru Gorakhnath arrived at the place and said to Raja Hun, "Why are you thus wandering in a shumshan" (place of crenation)? Raja Hun replied that he had lost his incompa rable wife Rani Pingla. Just then & dibi or earthen waterpot of the Guru's fell on the ground and broke, and the Guru commenced bitterly lamenting over its loss, and wandering round the place where the fragments had fallen, groaning and weeping. Raja Hun was very much surprised at seeing so great a sage so much distressed at the loss of so trifling a thing as & waterpot, and thus addressed the Guru: "Maharaj ! I wander in this place because I have suffered an irreparable loss in the death of my virtoons Rani, but your loss consists simply of an earthen pot, which I can make good a thousandfold." The Guru replied that he also could in his turn restore the deceased Rani to life. The King was overjoyed at this, and the Guru sprinkled water over the ashes of the Queen. No sooner was this done, than twenty-five women appeared, all exactly resembling Rani Pingla. The Guru then desired Raja Hon to recognize his wife and take her home. The King however was unable to do so, as all the women were exactly alike. The Guru then sprinkled water on them all, and all but the true Pingla disappeared. The King then said that he had now no wish to return to the world again, but that he earnestly desired to become Guru Gorakhna th's disciple. Guru Gorakhnath endeavoured to dissuade the Raja from his purpose by contrasting the easy luxurious life of a king with the wandering life of an ascetic, but the Raja remained immoveable. The Guru then sprinkled water over Rani Pingla, who, after casting & reproachful glance at Raja Han from her beautiful eyes, disappeared, and Raja Hun followed Gorakhnath Guru as his faithful disciple. The tradition adds that the Parmar dynasty of Chandravati ended with Raja Hun. Chohan Sheshmalji, seeing the country without a Raja and in a disorganized state, attacked Chandravati and plundered the city, annexing the Parmar principality to his Pargana of Mawal. LIST OF WEAPONS USED IN THE DAKHAN AND KHANDESH. BY W. F. SINCLAIR, Bo. C. S. I. SPEARS. II. SWORDS. Bhala (M.): The long horseman's-spear. Sarai (M.): The sword straight for two Barchi(M.): Short pike used by footmen; thirds of its length, then curved. generally has a spiked butt and long narrow Ahir (M.): The curve commences from the eqnare head, with no edge. grasp. HaldA? (M.): A broad hunting-spear used Phirangi (M. lit. The Portuguese') : A by the Thakars of the Sahyadri hills. cut-and-thrust straight blade; either imported . .=Marlight; H.= Hindustan

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August, 1873.] MARATHA WEAPONS. 217 from Europe by the Portuguese, or else made in the blade is usually about a foot long and three imitation of such imported swords. Generally inches wide, and fastened by two straps of iron it has three channelled grooves. Grant Duff and to a bamboo shaft five feet long. Meadows Taylor have both mentioned that the I have seen the mace and war-axe only in the importation was considerable, and that Raja armouries of great men. The axe sometimes Sivaji's sword Bhavani was a Genoa blade.* has a pistol-barrel in the shaft. Patta (H.): The long thin blade with A common weapon among Hindustanis and gauntlet guard and grip at right angles to the Musalmans is a long steel rod with three or four blade; used by professional swordsmen. small rings sliding on it. These, slipping forThe hilt (kabja) of the first three varieties is ward as the weapon descends, add force to the often surmounted by & spur; useful both for blow, which is far more severe than might be supguarding the arm, and for a grasp for the left posed from the slender appearance of the weapon. hand in a two-handed stroke. The blades most It is also a good guard against sword-cute. esteemed are those of Lahor, in the Panjab. The bow (Kama n, H.) is still used as a III. DAGGERS. weapon of offence by the Khandesh Bhills, and Jambiya (H.) : Originally introduced by I have known men to be killed with it. It is of the Arabs. Short, crooked at an angle, double bamboo, with string of the same, and two or edged, with a central rib. Often silver-hilted three spare strings are carried on the bow itself, and worn three in a sheath. half-strung and ready if the first should break. Katar (M.): Has a cross grip and guard of I do not think any other race in this Presidency two bars reaching halfway to the elbow; corre- uses the bow much ; and even among the Bhills sponds to the Patta among swords. Is a common archery is out of fashion. At the Dhulia athlecognizance among Rajput and Maratha families, tic sports of 1872, no passable archer could be and is, like the Patta, originally a Hindu weapon. brought forward from the Bhill Corps or vil Mada (M.): The stiletto of the Khandesh lages around. They have a peculiar arrow for Bhills and other wild tribes, also a favourite | 'shooting fish, with a long one-barbed head weapon with Hindu religious beggars. It con- which easily comes off the shaft, to which howsists of a pair of horns of the gazelle (chinkara) ever it is attached by a coil of twine. The shaft set parallel, but with the steel-tipped points in floats and is recovered by the Bhill, who thereopposite directions, and joined by two trans- apon hauls in his fish by the line. The arrows verse bars. Is sometimes used in the left hand used for other game are made of bamboo about of a swordsman for guarding. 28 inches long, with two feathers and a flat Vincha (M. the scorpion') is a dagger, two-edged head about three inches long, set into shaped something like one side of a pair of the shaft (not on it, as with us), and secured shears, and worn without a sheath, but con- with waxed thread. The well-known pelletcealed in the sleeve. I have one a foot long bow is used throughout Western India. I never and double-edged; but the commonest form is knew poisoned arrows to be used, but once knew not more than half that size, and is stiletto- a sword to be poisoned with milk-bush. bladed, i. e. has no edge. The sling is, to the best of my knowledge, never Churi (M.) is the commonest native knife, used as a weapon; but devoted both in the Dakhan with a knucklebone hilt, and slight curve in the and Khandesh to thescaring of birds from the fields. edge; introduced by the Muhammadans. The Perhaps the most popular of all native wonAfghan knife and Turkish ataghan are of the pons is the Lohangi or Longi Kati, or ironsame class. bound bamboo; specially affected by Ramusis Wagnak (M.) is an Oriental version of the and village watchmen. I have one weighing six knuckle-duster, three or four steel claws on a pounds, which was the property of a Koli dakait frame, worn concealed between the fingers. This called Bagunya Naik, who used to carry this in and the vinchu were used by Raja Sivaji in the his left hand and a sheathless "patta" in his murder of the Bijapur general Afzal Khan. right when "on service;" "and then he wouldn't There is a sort of brown-bill (Pharsi) used mind what four men said to him," as my informby village watchmen and Mawasis in Khandesh; ant pat it. Bagunya, however, disdained * Grant Duff, Hist. of the Mahrattas, vol. I. p. 298.

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218 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [AUGUST, 1873, ordinarily to use either his right hand or his trenchant blade: but was content upon common occasions to rely on the club in his left, with which he actually knocked down two men in the affray that caused his final apprehension The matchlock is in common use thronghont the Presidency, and, as far as I am aware, there is no variety in its appearance or mechanism, although some barrels are made of Damascus twist, and some are rifled. The bore is invariably small, and the bullets used are frequently of iron. The best I have seen belonged to the Raja Ratansing Jadurao of Malegaum, near Baramati, and were said to be Rumi. pnh nwrldyn jhn shhnsh dr `hd slTnt khnzd jhngyr bdsh Gzy w ym SHb mwbgy x w Hkhwmt mdrlmhmy khwnd khn fyrwz jng mwln mrshd x w drwGgy Hkhym Hydr `ly * w myn mlkh bng bndy pyr mHmd w sry wyrds x khrygr sr mn thh x skht jhngyr ngr snh 1021 ykhDrb twp brnjy jhngyry , wzn jhngyry m`h dnblh 111 dr `ml syd Hmd 114 419 drsh` m`rD INSCRIPTIONS ON A CANNON AT RANGPUR. BY G. H. DAMANT, B.C.S. Amongst a number of old cannons lying in Jahangirnagar is either Gaur or Dhaka, front of the kachari at Rangpur is one made of most probably the latter. The figures given as brass with a dragon's mouth carved at the the weight I cannot interpret, and should muzzle; it bears two inscriptions, one in Persian be glad of any information on the subject. and the other in Sanscrit, and has the word The Sanskrit inscription is in Bengali charac Bundoola' written on it in English characters. ters of an old type, approaching the DevanaThe Persian inscription is as follows: gari, and is very much worn and difficult to make out, but Babu Rajendralala Mitra has kindly given me the following transliteration and translation : Sri Sri svarga Narayana deva saubhare svara gadadhara sinhena yavanan jitta turdka haryyd me iman sampraptan Sake 1604: I, Sri Sri Svarga Narayana Deva, lord of Saubhara, Gadadhara Sinha, having conquered the Yavanas and destroyed the Turaks, obtained this in the Sak year 1604 = A.D. 1683. He says Svarga Narayana Deva is a common title of the kings of Asam, and that Gada. dhara was reigning in A.D. 1683. The history of the gun appears to be that it was made in Dhaka by the Musalmans in the reign of Jahangir and placed in one of their The meaning appears to be :-"During the frontier posts, Rangamatiya probably, from reign of the king of kings, protector of the world, whence it was taken by the Askmese in A.D. Nuruddin Jahangir Badshah Ghazi, when the 1683. Lastly the Burmese general Bundoola Khanzad Khan Firoz Jang was Subadar, and conquered Asam in 1822, and probably this gun Akhand Monlana Murshid was Minister, and was amongst his captures; and in 1825 Asam Hakim Haidar Ali Darogha, and Pir Muham- was recaptured by Colonel Richards, who took mad and Sri Harihardas Amins of Bengal, this two hundred pieces of cannon from Rangpur, cannon was made of JahAngiri brass in Jahan- the capital of Asam: it must have been about this gimnagar by Surmanath in the year 1021. time that the word "Bandoola" was written The weight of the cannon with its carriage, on the gun. The gan was brought to the by Jahangiri weight, is 619, 5113, TT. The kachari in 1862, after the mutiny, when the master of the ordnance was Sayyid Ahmad." zamindars were disarmed. THE NALADIYAR. BY THE REV. F. J. LEEPER, TRANQUEBAR. The Naladiyar is one of the few original works | The origin of the name is thus told in the we have in Tamil. It contains altogether forty introduction of Father Beschi's Shen Tamil chapters, of ten stanzas each, on moral subjects. Grammar :-"Eight thousand poets visited the

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August, 1873.) THE NALADIYAR. 219 court of a certain prince, who, being a lover of the Muses, treated them with kindness and received them into favour; this excited the envy of the bards who already enjoyed the royal patronage, and in a short time they succeeded so completely in their attempt to prejudice their master against the new comers that the latter found it necessary to consult their safety by flight, and, without taking leave of their host. decamped in the dead of night. Previous to their departure each poet wrote a venba on a scroll, which he deposited under his pillow. When this was made known, the king, who still listened to the counsels of the envious poets, ordered the scrolls to be collected and thrown into a river, when four hundred of them were observed to ascend, for the space of four feet, naladi, against the stream. The king, moved by this miraculous occurrence, directed that these scrolls should be preserved, and they were accordingly formed into a work, which from the foregoing circumstance received the name of Naladiyar." I append a few chapters as specimens of the work. CHAPTER 1.-Unstable Wealth. 1. Even those who have eaten of every variety of food of six flavours laid before them by their wives with anxious attention, not taking a second portion from any dish, may yet become poor and go and beg somewhere for pottage. Verily riches are but seeming, not to be considered as actually existing. 2. When by blameless means thou hast acquired great wealth, then eat with others rice imported by oxen, for wealth never remaineth in the centre with anyone, but changes its position like a cart-wheel. 3. Even those who have marched as generals, mounted on the back of an elephant and shaded by the umbrella, when the effect of evil deeds works theirruin, will suffer a change of state, and, while their wives are enjoyed by their foes, will fall for ever. 4. Understand that these things are un stable which thou deemest stable. Therefore do quickly the duties in thy power to perform if thou wouldet do them at all, for the days of life are gone, are gone, and even now death is come, is come. 5. Those who give alms at once without keeping it back, when anything, however small, has come into their hands, and do not say, Oh, this can be given hereafter, will escape from the forest path in which the cruel but just Yama drags those whom he has bound fast with the rope. 6. The day appointed passes not its bourne; there are none in this world who, escaping it and passing by, have leaped over death and lived. Be liberal, then, ye who have laid up abundant and exceeding wealth. Your funeral drum may beat to-morrow. 7. Death devours your days, using the sun from which they originate as the measure by which he metes them. Practise therefore virtue and be compassionate, for such as do not act thus, though they are born, must be esteemed as unborn. 8. Men of but small attainments in virtue, not considering their natural tendency, say, We are wealthy. The greatest wealth may be utterly destroyed and vanish, like a flash of lightning darting in the night from a thunder-cloud. 9. If a man will not eat sufficiently, will not dress becomingly, does nothing worthy of commendation, will not wipe away the distress of relatives, who are with difficulty to be obtained, and is not liberal, but keeps his wealth to himself, of such a one it must surely be supposed that he is lost. 10. They who, vexing their own bodies by stinting them in food and raiment, perform not acts of that goodly charity which never faileth, but avariciously hoard up what they have gathered together, will lose it all. O Lord of the mountain land which toucheth the sky! the bees which are driven from the honey they have collected bear witness. CHAPTER 2.--Unstable Youth. 1. Those who are truly wise, mindful that grey hairs will come, have become ascetics in youth. Those who rejoice in unstable youth, never free from vice, leaning on a staff will rise up with difficulty. 2. The bonds of friendship are broken, wives have become cold in love, or few, the cords of love are loosened. Consider the matter well. What profit is there in the married state P Oh, it is come, the wail of distress, as when & ship founders ! 3. Those foolish men who give themselves up to lust and cling to the marriage state until their body is an object of disgust to all, their teeth falling out, their gait unsteady, and com

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220 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. pelled to lean for support on a staff, while they are indistinct in speech, walk not in the path of virtue, which is a fortress to its possessor. 4. To those men who conceive useless desires towards her who is ready to die, stooping, staggering, shaking her head, leaning on a staff and stumbling, shall trouble come; when the staff she holds in her hand becomes her mother's, i.e. when she exchanges her own staff for her mother's, on account of age. 5. She who was my mother, having borne me in this world, had departed seeking a nother for herself; if this be the case also with her mother, one mother seeking after another mother, then is this world wretched indeed. 6. Unstable joy like that of a sheep, which when the fragrant garland, thick with leaves, is waved in front of it, in the hands of the priest in the horrid place where he exorcises devils, eats thereof as though it were fodder, such joy wise men have not. 7. Since the season of youth is like the ripe fruit, which being loosed falls from the trees in the cool grove, desire ye not greatly the damsel, saying she has eyes like a lance, for she will hereafter stoop in her gait and havo to use a staff in lieu of her eyes. 8. How old are you? What is the state of your teeth? Do you eat twice a day? Thus with one question after another do they inquire about the state of the body. The wise, who understand its nature, care not about it. 9. Say not, We will look to virtue bye-andbye, we are young; but do good while you have wealth, without concealing it. Not only does the ripe fruit which has come to maturity, but strong green fruit also falls down during a storm. 10. Truly relentless death wanders about seeking after men. Oh, take ye the shoulder wallet betimes and be ready. He even thrusts forth the foetus and takes away the child amidst the cries of its mother. So it is well always to remember his subtlety. CHAPTER 3.-The unstable body. 1. Even of the lords of the umbrella held over the head of the elephant, like the moon when seen over the hills, none are left in this world without its being proclaimed upon earth that they have died." 2. The orb of shining light rises as the [AUGUST, 1873. measure of the day of life without one day's omission. Therefore perform your duty before the day of life be finished. No person will abide in the earth beyond it. 3. The mind of the excellent will urge them along the path of safety by the suggestion that the marriage drum that is beaten in their house may that very day become the funeral drum for the inmates and sound accordingly. 4. Once they go and beat the drum, they beat a little and beat it again; behold how brave it is. And in beating it the third time, they rise and cover up the corpse and take the funeral fire, the dying carrying the dead. 5. To him who though he has seen the relatives assemble together and with loud lamentations take the corpse and convey it to the burning-place, does nevertheless marry, and say to himself this is happiness, It is, It is the funeral drum speaking out in warning tones. 6. When the soul which carries the skin bag, i. e. the body, to experience joy and sorrow, and dwelling in it operates secretly but perfectly, has left the body, what does it matter whether it be dragged about with a rope, or be buried in some carefully selected place, or whether it be cast into any hole dug in the centre, or whether it is left to be contemned by all? 7. Who are they upon this wide world who can be compared with the men of profound wisdom, who look upon the body as nothing more than a thing which is like the bubbles caused by the falling rain, appearing for a moment and then vanishing; and who say, We are the persons who will remove this evil of births? 8. Let those who have got a vigorous body enjoy the benefit which is to be derived from it; for the body is like a cloud which quivers on the mountain-it appears for a time and almost directly vanishes. 9. Practise virtue even now, acknowledging the instability of the body, which is like the drop of dew on the point of grass; for it is daily said, This very moment he stood, he sat down, he reclined, and amidst the cries of relations he died. 10. Men come into the world unasked for, appear in the house as relations and quietly depart, as the bird which goes far off, its nest-tree being forsaken, leaving their body without saying a word to relatives.

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AUGUST, 1873.] CHAPTER 4.-The source of the power of virtue. 1. Those who, relying on penance done in a former birth, do not exercise penance now, will be greatly relicted, for they shall stand at the threshold, not being allowed to enter, and looking in will say, How flourishing is this family! i.e. they shall be homeless. THE NALADIYAR. 2. Say not, foolish heart, While here let us pursue our interests and forget virtue; for although thou mayest live long and prosper, say, what wilt thou do when the days of thy life are past? 3. When the ignorant receives the fruit of former evil deeds, he sighs bitterly and grieves within himself. The wise, reflecting that it is the destined consequence of their sins, hasten to pass the limit of metempsychosis and to depart from it. 4. Having obtained a human body, so difficult of attainment, so act as to procure great merit by it, for in the next birth charity will profit thee as the juice of the sugarcane when pressed, while thy body will decay like the refuse cane. 5. Those who have pressed the cane and extracted the sugar will not be grieved when they see the flame arising from the refuse cane while burning; nor will they who have acquired the merit arising from the mortification of the body mourn when death approaches. 6. Think not whether it will be this day, or that day, or what day, bat, reflecting that death even now stands behind thee, eschew evil, and as far as possible practise the good prescribed to thee by the excellent. 7. Since upon inquiry it will be found that the benefits that arise from being born in human shape are great and various, it is proper to practise virtue in order to obtain heavenly bliss, and to walk circumspectly, avoiding evil desires. 8. The seed of the banyan tree, though exceedingly small, grows into a large tree and affords abundant shade; in like manner, however small may be the benefit of a virtuous act, it covers as it were the face of heaven. 9. Although they daily see the passing away of days, yet they think not of it, and daily rejoice over the present day, as if it would last for ever, for they do not consider the past day to be one day added to the portion of their life that has expired. 221 10. Shall I put away the precious jewel of honour, and by the ignoble practice of mendicancy shall I live? I will do so if this body can endure permanently though fed by mean ness. CHAPTER 5.-The impure body. 1. Do they look on a perishable body, i. e. the wise? and are they loud in praise of woman's beauty? If only a piece of skin, small as the wing of a fly, be grazed on the body, a stick will be required to drive away the crows. 2. Since the beauty of the body consists in a covering which hides its inward filth, a covering of skin in which are many orifices, encourage not these sensual desires which are excited by this external covering of the body, which hides its filth. It is proper to look upon it as the inside of a (dirty) bag. 3. The ancients noticing that by the process of eating, the body always emits a stench, and on account of this bundle of dry and worthless sticks, (i. e. the body), chewed betel, crowned the head with many flowers, and adorned the body with meretricious ornaments. Is the inward filth thereby done away with? 4. Shall I forsake asceticism because the senseless crowd would excite me, saying, Woman's eye is like the lotus in clear water, the Gyal fish, and the battle-spear? I will conduct myself as one who sees that the nature of the eye is like a palmyra nut, from which the pulp has been taken and the water poured out. 5. Shall I forsake asceticism because foolish, vain, and despicable persons trouble me, saying foolish things about teeth white as pearls or the jessamine buds? No; I will conduct myself as if I saw the jawbone fallen from the head in the burning-ground, in the presence of all men. 6. Tell me what is the nature of the damsel adorned with cool garlands, who is composed of flesh and fat, which are placed in the skin with the sinews which bind together the bowels and marrow, the blood and the bones. 7. By reason of the beautiful skin causing it to appear lovely to the eye, and which is the external covering of the body, which is like a pot ejecting liquid faeces and seething filth abominable, from nine orifices which ooze out with excrementitious matter, the foolish will say of this body, Oh, thou who hast wide shoulders! Oh, thou who art adorned with bracelets! &c. &c. 8. Have they not seen the powerful valture,

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222 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [August, 1873. both cock and hen, close to the carcase, overtarning and pecking at the stinking vehicle, the axle (i.e. life) being broken-they who, not comprehending the true nature of the body, commend it because they see it adorned with sandal powder and garlands ? 9. The skulls of the dead appearing with deep and hollow eyes, that alarm the minds of those who see them, look at the living and working, will abundantly testify and say, Stand in the way of virtue, this is the nature of the body 10. The whitened skull of the dead will correct the faults of the proud, alarming and mocking at them. Those whose faults are corrected by seeing the skulls, acknowledge that such is the quality of the body; they will not therefore be anxious to hold themselves as things that have any real existence. CBAPTER 6.-Asceticism. 1. Like as when a lamp is brought into a -room darkness disappears, so sin cannot stand before the effects of former good deeds. And like as darkness approaches and spreads over the room when the oil in the lamp is decreasing, 80 when the effect of the good deeds is exhausted, the effect of evil deeds will take its place. 2. Those who are preeminent in learning, 1 knowing that youth is unstable and that sick- ness, old age, and death are certainties, perform their duty now. There are no men so foolish as those, or fools so foolish as those who rave about 1 the indestructible treatises of grammar and astrology. 3. Those who are greatly wise, seeing that, on careful examination, all such things as youth, complexion, form, dignity, and strength, are unstabie, will without delay endeavour to save themselves by becoming ascetics. 4. The poor, though they endure many days' affliction, will desire one day's pleasure; the self- controlled, knowing the changeableness of domestic happiness, and having regard to its attendant misery, have renounced the domestic state. 5. Youth is gone in vain, and now old age with sickness comes. Therefore, oh my soul! take courage and rise up with me without hesitation-wilt thou not go ? Let as walk in the way of asceticism or virtue. 6. Since it is a hard thing for a husband to part with his wife, though she may neither have borne chilelren, nor have a good disposition, therefore on account of the misery which matrimony causes, the wise have long ago called it kerdy,--that is, the thing to be eschewed. 7. Those earnest men who, when troubles hard to be borne and enough to prostrate the mind come upon them, to frustrate the austerities which they have resolutely undertaken, put them aside, and, confining themselves stedfastly, observe their rules, are ascetics indeed. 8. It is the duty of the excellent not only to forgive despite, but also to pity those who, on account of the despite they have done them, will in the next birth fall into the fire of hell. 9. He who has power to observe the rule of virtue which he has laid down, and to keep himself undisturbed by the five organs of sense from which arise lust and desire-or the body, mouth, nose, ears, and eyes--shall unfailingly obtain beatitude. 10. The mean, though they see afflictions come thronging upon them, never think of asceticism, and long only for gratification, but the excellent, though pleasures come crowding in upon them, having regard to their attendant miseries, cherish not the desire of any pleasure. CHAPTER 7.-Placidity. 1. Let the respectful honour, and let despising tramplers trample: good is the freedom from abusive anger in those who know that all is as the treading of a fly upon their heads. 2. Will those renounce their precious life of indestructible excellence, not caring to preserve it when they find any cause of offence (or when their penance is hindered), who, not removing from the place in which they stand, are able perseveringly to complete their penance, even when they experience great reproach. 3. As the angry words which a man speaks, opening his mouth unguardedly, continually burn him, so those who possess that knowledge which arises from oral instruction and incessant search after truth will never be angry and utter burning words of fury. 4. The excellent will not be hot and angry when their inferiors oppose them and utter bad words. The base, turning it over in their minds will speak of it and chafe in the hearing of everybody in the place, and jump with rage and knock their heads against a post. 5. The self-control exhibited by youth is self-control indeed. Liberality manifested by one

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AUGUST, 1873.] who has no increasing riches is liberality that is profitable for all things. The patience shown by one who has the power and ability to oppress others is patience indeed. 6. They who are noble will, in the sight of all men, take patiently and regret the evil words that issue from the mouth of the vulgar like stones that are thrown, being influenced by the consideration of their high birth, as the cobra quickly closes its hood when ashes are thrown upon it. TUMULI IN THE SALEM DISTRICT. 7. To be unresisting to those who would oppose them as enemies, "the wise call not imbecility. When others have impatiently opposed them and done them evil, it is good if they do not evil in return. I. The Tumuli found in the Salem District may be classified either according to their contents, into-(1) Tamuli without bones and urns; (2) Tamuli with urns but without bones; and (3) Tumuli with bones and urns; or, according to their internal structure, into-(1) Cromlechs and (2) Cairns. Cromlechs are those tumuli the inside of which is formed by four perpendicular stone slabs in the shape of a cist or a box. Cairns are those which have no internal lining of stone. They consist of two classes: (A) Cairns in which large earthen urns baked in fire, containing human bones, small urns, and ornaments, are found-which urns appear to have been intended to incase the chamber instead of perpendicular stones; and (B) Cairns whose chambers have no artificial covering. These classes of tumuli do not differ in general outward appearance. They present themselvca to the eye as mounds of earth and small stones, of variuos sizes, circular in shape, and often surrounded with circles of large stones. They measure from 3 to 20 feet in diameter and from 1 to 4 feet in height. Very often in the stone circles, four large stones opposite the four points are seen towering above the cthers; and in the case of cromlechs the entrance is from the east. After clearing away the mound and stones, it 223 8. The wrath of the vulgar will continue to spread though it run on a long time; the anger of the excellent in disposition will cool of itself, like the heat of boiling water. TUMULI IN THE SALEM DISTRICT. BY THE REV. MAURICE PHILLIPS, L.M.S. A Report prepared for the Madras Government. 9. Having done them a kindness they mind it not; do them never so much unkindness they will do what is kind; but to do unjustly, even through inadvertence, is not proper for those who are born in a high family. 10. There are none here who, though they see a dog snap angrily at them, wil! in return snap at the dog again with their mouth. When baseborn persons mischievously utter base things, will the noble repeat such words with their mouths in return? (To be continued.) is found generally, but not invariably, that the mouth of the tumulus is covered with a stone slab varying in size from 2 feet long by 2 feet broad, and 4 inches thick, to 9 feet long, 6 feet broad, and 14 inches thick. Forty men with strong wooden levers failed to raise one of the largest stones. Fire had to be kept under it for hours till it broke, before it could be removed. When the top-stone is removed the presence or absence of the border formed by the edges of the four perpendicular stones which form the cist, shows whether it is a cromlech or a cairn. If a cromlech, the fine sandy earth within the chamber must be carefully removed till the flat-bottomed stone appears, and if there be any objects in it they will be found resting on that stone. The chambers vary much in size. Some of them are as small as 3 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 2 feet deep; and others are as large as 5 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 4 feet deep. Cromlechs generally contain small urns and iron implements, but no bones except very small pieces which appear charred. If it be a cairn, then the dimensions of the pit are shown either by the appearance of the mouth of a large urn (Class A), or by the difference between the earth with which the pit is filled and that from which it is dug (Class B). These large urns invariably contain Cromlech is from the Keltic crom 'crooked' or curved, and lech a stone, "and therefore," as Mr. Fergusson observes, "wholly inapplicable to the monuments in question." See his Rude Stone Monuments, p. 44. Conf. also Capt. Mackenzie's paper, ante, p. 7.-ED.

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224 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (AUGUST, 1873. human bones and small vessels, and very often some iron implements and ornaments. I do not think that any one of them is large enough to contain the body of a full-grown man, though placed in a sitting posture, with the legs and thighs drawn up, and the head bent down. wards between the knees, as is sometimes found in tumuli in Earope. If, therefore, full-grown men were buried in them, as probably they were,- for the small swords found in many of them lead us naturally to conclude that they must have been used by the deceased warrior, -I think the body must have been either cat up or partly burnt before interment. The position of the bones in layers, one upon the other, seems to indicate the same conclusion. Remnants of this mode of burying were visible 80 years ago among the Kukis, or the non-Aryan inhabitants of the mountainous districts to the east of Bengal, as stated in the 2nd vol, of the Asiatic Researches:-"When a Kuki dies, his kinsmen lay the body on a stage, and, kindling a fire under it, pierce it with a spit and dry it; when it is perfectly dried, they cover it with two or three folds of cloth, and, inclosing it in a little case within a chest, bury it underground." The interior of these cairns not being so accurately defined as that of the cromlechs, it is not always easy to ascertain exactly their dimensions. Speaking roughly, however, I should say that they vary in size in about the same proportions as the cromlechs. These are the most barren in results, though the most difficult to open. In some of them nothing is found, and in others only small urns with small bits of iron, the crumblings of some instruments, and small pieces of bones which look like the remnants of cremation. II. The objects found in the tumuli may be distributed into four classes :-1, Pottery ; 2, Human bones; 3. Ornaments; 4, Iron imple mente. 1. Pottery.-This consists of urns, vases, and other vessels of different shapes and sizes. The large urns already mentioned as found in Class A are so brittle that they invariably fall to pieces by their own weight as soon as the sar. rounding earth is removed, so that it has been impossible to procure one unbroken specimen. This, however, is not a great loss, for there is no thing about them curious or uncommon, either in shape, size, or colour. They very much resem ble the large chattis or sils now used by the Hindus to hold water or grain in their houses. Figures 1-11 and 14-29 represent all the different kinds of vessels which I have seen. And though many were destroyed by the workmen's tools, and dozens crumbled to dust when exposed to light and air, yet I am confident that they did not differ materially from those which I have procured. There was nothing found in these vessels except fine sandy earth or ashes, which, in most cases, had become a hard maas, so that it was necessary to soak it in water for some time before it would disaolve. Some vessels are red and some black; some are red inside and black outside, and vice versa. Some have a glossy surface as if they had been glazed, and, as I believe such a phenomenon as glazed pottery has not yet been discovered in ancient cairns and cromlechs, I sent a few specimens to Dr. Hunter, of the School of Arts, Madra, and asked his opinion. He replied--"The surface is not glazed, but is merely polished by rubbing it with the juice of Tathi, or Abutilon Indicum, a mucilaginous juice, somewhat like gum, that is nised by the natives at the present day to give a gloss to black earthenware. The surface can be seritched with a knife, though it resiste water. After rubbing the surface with the juice, the vessel is again fired and a species of smear is thus produced which resists acids and water, but if you examine the broken edge of the vessels, you will find that there is no thickness of glaze, either outside or inside." "Another method of producing # smear is in use in India, viz. rubbing the vessel with mica ground in water and exposing it to heat." 2. Human bones. These consist of skulls, teeth, thigh, shin, arm and other bones. These are invariably found in Class A. The bits of decayed bones occasionally found in Class B and the cromlechs are so insignificant that I cannot identify them with any part of the human skeleton. I cannot account for the existence of human bones largely in this class of tumuli, and their comparative non-existence, in the other classes, except on the supposition either that the large orns are better adapted to preserve them than stones or earth, or that this claas is of a later age and indicates a different modo of sepulture. 3. Omaments. These consist of round and o val beads of different sizes and colour, which

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A voust, 1873.] TUMULI IN THE SALEM DISTRICT. 225 must have been worn by women as necklaces and bracelets. Dr. Hunter makes the following remarks respecting them :-"The beads are very interesting; they are made of carnelian ornamented with a pure white enamel of considerable thickness, which has been let into the stone by grinding the pattern, filling in probably with oxide of tin and exposing the stone to heat. The enamel is very hard, cannot be touched with a knife, and is not acted upon by strong nitric acid. The small beads are made of white carnelian and ice-spar, a glossy felspar used by the natives to imitate diamonds..... They are in a better style than most of the beads I have seen from tumali." Besides these, a few were found made of quartz and of some dark-green stone. Figures 12 and 13 show the beads. 4. Iron implements.--These, consisting chiefly of knives or short swords, and measuring from 1 foot to 22 inches, are in such a crambling state that I have been able to procure only one unbroken. All the others have had to be gathered in pieces and stuck together on boards with strong cement. Figures 30-32 represent these. Some pieces of iron which appear to have been spear-heads, and some other things, have also been found, but in consequence of their broken condition I cannot pronounce positively what they were. III. In discussing the difficult question "How old are the tumuli!" it is necessary in the first place to glance at the results already achieved by antiquaries in Europe. The nor, thern countries of Europe - Denmark, Sweden, and Norway-are particularly full of these ancient burial-places; and they have received the most careful attention from the northern antiquaries, by whom they have been divided, according to their contents, into three classes(1) Tamuli of the Stone period; (2) Tamuli of the Bronze period; and (3) Tamnli of the Iron period. Those of the Stone period are considered the oldest. They are often of great size, and are " peculiarly distinguished by their important circles of stones and large stone chambers, in which are found the remains of unburnt bodies, together with objects of stone and amber." This period represents the lowest state of civilization state before the intro duction of metals, when arms and implements consisted of spear-heads of flint, and arrowheads of flint or bone. The tumuli of the Bronze period contain relics of burnt bodies, vessels of clay, and implements and ornaments of bronze; and so show the people in a more advanced state of civilization than the preceding. The tamuli of the Iron period are the most recent. They show the people in a comparatively advanced state of civilization. Iron swords, knives, and spear-heads, highly polished vessels and trinkets of gold, silver, and precious stones are found in them. Some of them also contain sculptures and inscriptions. Now it will be readily seen that all the tumuli in the Salem District belong to the last or Iron period. It is a striking fact that tumuli are found in almost every part of the world. Besides the countries already mentioned, they are found in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Great Bri. tain, Siberia, America, and the north of India. In Europe, tumuli belonging to each of these three periods are common. But in the south of India I believe that only those of the third period are found. I am not sure-not having seen Capt. Meadows Taylor's book--whether any of the tumuli in the north belong to any of the earlier periods, but I think not. The question now is reduced to this:-What is the probable age of the last or Iron period ? I confess candidly, at the outset, that this question is enveloped in much darkness, and that, with the present data, nothing more can be done than to fix proximately the time when the Iron period ceased in Europe, and then, reasoning by analogy, to fix conjecturally the time when it ceased in India. The earliest account of tumuli we have is in the Iliad. Homer in his account of the funeral of Patroclus describes in glowing terms how the body of the warrior was left burning during the night, and the embers quenched with wine at the dawn; how the ashes were then inclosed in an urn, placed near the centre of the place occupied by the pyre, which was surrounded by an artificial substructure, and how the loose earth was heaped above it so a to form a mound. * But on this theory see Fergusson's Rude Stone Montments, pp. 9, 10, 19, et passim.-ED. Bronse veuels and ornamento have been found in to muli on the Nilgiri Hille, but iron implements were found with them, they do not define a Rronse age, but rather the transition from the Bronse to the Iron Age.

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226 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (AUGUST, 1873. The prophet Ezekiel (B. c. 587) alludes to We may safely conclude, therefore, that before the same custom of burial when foretelling the the mighty influence of Christianity and Muhamfall of Meshech and Tubal and all her multitude. madanism, the Skythian mode of sepulture He says (chap. xxxi. 27)--" They are all gone disappeared in Europe altogether, and in Asia down to hell"-or Hades, which here probably to a great extent. means the grave-" with their weapons of war; | Now, in applying the same mode of reasonand they have laid their swords under their ing to the tumuli found in India, we must heads." These were the inhabitants of the inquire whether any external influence has been neighbourhood of the Caucasus mountains and brought to bear on the aboriginal inhabitants, the Black Sea, and were probably the Skythians similar in its power to the influence of Chrisof Herodotus. tianity and Muhammadanism on other nations, Tacitus, who lived in the first century A.D., before which we may reasonably conclude that from whom we have the first satisfactory the ancient religion and practices of the people account of the Germans, observes that their disappeared. fanerals were distinguished by no empty pomp. It is well known that the Aryans came to The bodies of illustrious men were consumed India at a very early period, probably about with a particular kind of wood, but the funeral B.c. 1600; and that on their arrival they were pile was neither strewed with costly garments opposed by the aboriginal inhabitants, whom nor enriched with fragrant spices. The arms they denominated Mlechhas, Rakshasas, Dasyus, of the deceased were committed to the flames, and Nishadna, a people who were wholly difand sometimes even his horse. A mound of ferent from themselves in colour, language, and earth was then raised to his nemory, as a customs. better sepulchre than those elaborate structures It is evident from the Vedas, Mann, and the which, while they indicate the weakness of human Purinas, that the Aryans have, as a general vanity, are at best but a burden to the dead." rule, always burnt their dead. The ashes are It is reasonably conjectured that this mode sometimes gathered and thrown into a running of sepulture gradually disappeared in Europe stream, or, in the case of distinguished persons, before the progress of Christianity, which in they are occasionally placed in an arn and troduced the practice of burying the dead buried, but without any tumuli or stone circles. unburnt and unaccompanied by any such super- The conclusion, then, is inevitable, that the stition as that of depositing certain articles practice of burying the dead in tumali must with the deceased. In that case the ancient have been observed by the pre-Aryan inhabit - mode of sepulture must have disappeared in ants, who in the north disputed every inch of Europe about the ninth or tenth century AD. land with their conquerors. These aborigines It is reasonable to suppose also that the in- were so completely subdned that they adopted habitants of Central and Northern Asia were even the language of the dominant race. There induced to give up the same practice through is nothing now to distinguish them from their the influence of Muhammadanism, which, equally Aryan masters, except the low social position with Christianity, imposes the simple method assigned to them, and a few un-Sanskrit words of burying the dead. On this supposition the in the Prakrits, or languages derived from ancient mode of sepultare mast have disappeared Sanskrit which are now prevalent in the north among the Mongole, Tatars, and others about of India. Those few words, however, show the twelfth or thirteenth century. that they are the remnants of the great SkyIt is evident from the most ancient records, thian or Turanian group of languages, and viz. the Pentateuch, that the Semitic races have hence that the aboriginal inhabitants who spoke from the earliest periods observed the custom of them were different altogether from the Aryans, burying their dead unburnt and unmaimed. And It is easy, then, to see how completely the as the Jews and the Arabe, two cognate branches ancient customs of the primitive inhabitants of the same family, were the pioneers of both would cease before the mighty influence of Christianity and Muhammadanism, they imposed Brahmanism, and to such influence I attribute their own simple method of burying the dead the cessation of the custom of barying in on the nations who embraced those religions. tumuli in the north.

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August, 1873.] TUMULI IN THE SALEM DISTRICT. 227 But the Aryans never conquered the south About this time, then, I am inclined to place the by force: hence they neither denationalized the total disappearance of the ancient customs of people nor changed their languages. They the pre-Aryan Dravidians, and, of course, the conquered the south, however, by the influ- custom of burying in cairns and cromlechs. ence of higher civilization and superior know- In remote and isolated places where Brahmanical ledge. Aryan civilization was probably intro- influence did not freely penetrate, the ancient duced into the Dakhan about the sixth or seventh custom of burying in tumuli probably continued century B.C. In the time of Rama, it is stat- till a very late period. In the tumuli found ed in the Ramayana, that during his expedition on the Nilgiri Hills there are rude sculptures to the south he met holy Rishis here and there and inscriptions both in Tamil and Kanarese. among the savages, by which it is supposed According to Dr. Caldwell, the eighth or ninth that he met Aryan Missionaries from the north, century A.D. is the earliest date to which dwelling among the aboriginal inhabitants of any extant Tamil composition can be safely the south. About the commencement of the attributed. The Tamil letters used in those Christian era, Aryan influence had spread ex- inscriptions are not of the oldest type, but the tensively in the south. The Pandya kingdom more modern. Judging from a specimen I saw of Madura, which was established on Aryan in the corner of a photograph, I should conclude principles, was then well known even in Europe. that they differ but little from the characters It is reasonable, then, to suppose that before now in use. Photographs of the whole inscripsuch influence the religion and primitive cus- tions, I hear, have been sent to Germany to toms of the aboriginal inhabitants would sooner be deciphered, and I doubt not that when or later disappear. Then it must be remem- published and translated, it will be found that bered that during the following thirteen cen- they cannot be much earlier than the fifteenth or turies there were other influences at work more sixteenth century A.D. aggressive for a time than Brahmanism, and To sum up, then, I conclude that the tumuli which must have stimulated the Brahmans were the burial-places of the non-Aryan greatly, not only to maintain, but to extend aboriginal inhabitants of the south, who are their own influence. Buddhism became the now represented by the Dravidians, and who, national religion of the north by public edicts like the pre-Aryan inhabitants of the north, in the time of Asoka, about 250 B.c. Buddhist are proved by their language to have belonged Missionaries came to the south probably before to the same branch of the human family as the that time, and it seems pretty evident that up Turanians; that their ancient customs and to the seventh century A.D. Buddhism gained religion disappeared before the combined inconsiderable influence in the south. The Bud- fluence of Brahmanism, Buddhism, and Jainism, dhists burnt their dead, like the Brahmans. precisely in the same way as the ancient customs Then from the sixth or seventh to the twelfth of the Teutons, Celts, Lating, and Slavs disapcentury A.D. Jainism made wonderful progress, peared in Europe before the influence of Chrisand seems to have been the predominant religion tianity, or the ancient customs of the Skythians at one time. The Jains also practised crema of Central Asia disappeared before the influence tion, like the Brahmans and Buddhists. In the of Muhammadanism. If this theory be correct, twelfth century there was a reaction against I do not think that any tumuli in the plains of Jainism and in favour of Brahmanism. The India are later than the thirtswath century A. D., Jains were finally expelled from the Pandya and on the Nilgiri Hills proba!y none are later kingdom, and the Brahmana firmly established than the fifteenth or sixteenth century A.D. their influence, which has continued down to The natives know nothing abont the tumali, the present day. and according to Dr. Caldwell there is no Under the influence of the rival reformers tradition respecting them either in Sanskrit Sankaracharya and Ramannjya Acharya, the literature or in that of the Dravidian languages. whole of the inhabitants of the sonth became "The Tamil people call them Pandu-kuris. gradually absorbed in Saivaism and Vaishnavism. kuri' means a pit or grave, and Panda * But the Buddhista buried the ashes and relics in tombs.-ED. der

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228 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [AUGUST, 1873. denotes anything connected with the Pandus, or Pandava brothers, to whom all over India ancient mysterious structures are generally attribyted. To call anything a work of the Pandus' is equivalent to terming it Cyclopean' in Greece, 'a work of the Piots' in Scotland, * or a work of Nimrod' in Asiatic Turkey; and it means only that the structure to which the name is applied was erected in some remote age, by a people of whom nothing is now known. When the Tamil people are asked by whom were these Panda-kuris built and used, they sometimes reply, by the people who lived here long ago;' but they are unable to tell whether those people were their own ancestors or a foreign race, and also why and when these kuris ceased to be used. The answer which is sometimes given is that the people who built the cairns were a race of dwarfs who lived long ago, and who were only a span or a cubit high, but were possessed of the strength of gianta." The almost total absence of traditional know ledge respecting the origin and use of the tumuli is a strong presumptive evidence that they cannot be later, but may be much older, than the time fixed above. IV. The boncs found in the tumuli provo beyond a doubt that the people buried in thom were neither dwarfs nor giants, but men of ordinary stature. And the large stone slabs lining the interior and placed on the top of the tumuli, which in most cases must have beon cut from the solid rock and carried from some distanco, provo that the people physically were equal to the present race of mon. The objects found in the tumuli represent the people in a comparatively advanced state of civilization. Thoy required and made earthen vessels for culinary and domestic purposes. And thoso vessels show considerable ingenuity in the art of pottery. They are not only all tastefully designed and well baked in fire, but some of them are ornamented with transverse lines and highly polished. The people were acquainted with the value and use of metals. The small swords are elegantly designed and well wronght. And so are the knives, razors, and gold and bronze ornaments found in tumuli on the Nilgiri Hills. They made and wore necklaces and bracelets of precious stones ornamented with what appears to be oxide of tin. The most rocent tumuli contain rude sculptures and inscriptions, which show that the people were acquainted with reading and writing. The great care and trouble with which the tamuli were prepared as receptacles for the dead, manifest a tenderness of feeling and reverence for the departed which can only be expected in an intelligent and civilized people. Reverence for the dead can only arise from a strong manly affection for the living, which reverence and affection diminish in intensity as people descend in the scale of civilization, till they become almost extinct in the savage. Whatever the religious tenets of the people were, it is pretty certain that they firmly believed that human existence is not bounded by the tomb; for no reasonable cause can be assigned for the practice of depositing various objects with the dead but a firm belief in a fature state, where they supposed that such objects would be required. Their conception of the fature world was cast in the mould of the present; and hence they believed that whatever is necessary, tuseful, and crnamental in this world would be equally so in the next--the warrior would require his sword, the husband man his agricultural implements, and the lady hor ornaments. This conception of the future is neither the transmigration of the Brahmans nor the nirrana of the Buddhists, and hence forms another link in the chain of evidence that the people who used the tamali were neither the one nor the other, but anterior to both. Salem, November 20th, 1872. rites and follow the customs of their forefathers mit the strangor had nover come among them." Rude Stone Mom mente, p. 459. See also ante, p. 10.-ED. * Possibly co-ordinate with both : for, as Mr. Ferguson remarks, "The Bhill, the Kol, the Gond, the Toda, and other tribes remain as they were, and practise their own

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AUGUST, 1873.] ASIATIC SOCIETIES. 229 NOTES AND LEGENDS CONNECTED WITH ANIMALS. II.-BIRDS, &c. BY W. F. SINCLAIR, Bo. C.S. KHANDESH. in former days the Hoopoe (Upupa epops) had I once saw the bones of a panther's foot, much a crown of gold, for the value of which it was sore rubbed and worn, hanging in the Mamlatdar's persecuted by men. Therefore the Hoopoe went Kacheri at Sasur, in the Pura collectorate, and to Solomon, the son of David, who understood the found, on inquiry, that for skin diseases, water language of all creatures, and besought him to in which the scrapings of these bones is mixed, intercede with the Most High that its crown might is considered a specific. The panther's paw, acbe of feathers, which was granted. This story is cordingly, was kept in the office, along with the Spanish, but appears to me to be of Muhammadan Government stores of ammonia and quinine. A origin. Is any reader of the Antiquary acquainted ring made of the scale of the Pangolin (called with it in a Musalman form, or with the some- by natives Kaul-manjar or scaly-cat, and by what similar belief that the Falta (Turtur humilis) Europeans, incorrectly, an ant-eater) is a protecowes the reddish brown colour of its breast to the tion against poison if worn on the finger. When stain of the blood of the Prophet's son-in-law 'Ali? the hand wearing such a ring is dipped into In Khandesh, the beak of the slate-coloured the dish all the poisoned food immediately Hornbill (called Dhuncheri) is considered a re- turns green. The same scales, worn in the turmeay for rheumatism. It is powdered and taken ban, are a protection against evil spirits of all internally. sorts. ASIATIC SOCIETIES. Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic i arrack, cloth, and salt trade; the tolls and rights Society, 1871-72. of the Company's domains, which are yearly This part of the Journal contains the following rented out, agriculture, the Chank and pearl papers : fisheries." 1. Extracts from a Menoir left by the Dutch Next come the inhabitants, consisting of " forty Governor Thomas Van Rhee to his successor, Go- different classes of people, who are subject to vernor Gerrit de Heere 1697-translated from the perform certain services, and to pay several petty Dutch by R. A. Van Cuylenberg. Governor Van taxes to Government, in addition to the pay. Rhee begins by pointing out "how many castles, ment of land rents and the tenth of their lands, forts, fortresses, and fastnesses the Honourable trees, houses, and gardens." They are :-"The Company" had then possession of. They were Bellales (Vellalar), the most numerous of all the "The fortress of Calpitty, 21 Dutch miles north classes; the Chiandas (Sandar), comprising but a of Colombo. The fortress of Negombo, 5 Dutch very small number; the Tannekares (Tanakkarar): miles south of Colombo. The fort of Caltura, 8 the Paradeezes (Paratesikal); the Madapallys Dutch miles south of Colombo. The fort of Augu- (Madappali) are bound to work for the Governratotta, 5 miles inland from Caltura. The fort ment twelve days in the year, and to pay two of Hangwella, in the Hewagam Korle. The fort fanams as poll-taxes, and one fanam as'adegariye.' of Malwana, four hours' walk east of Colombo. The Madapallys (Madappali) are also employed The castle and island of Jaffnapatam. Mannar among the heathen to assist the Brahmans in the with other forts. The fort of Arripo. The fortified preparation of their meals. town of Galle, and the fortress of Mature. The "The Malleales Agambadys (Malaiyala AkamLogie of Tutucoryn. The fortresses of Trincomali padis) are bound to serve the Government and of Batticaloa, on the east coast. The eight twelve days in the year, and to pay two fanams as islands-Carredive, now also called Amsterdam, poll-tax. Pangeredive or Middleburg, Annelle or Rotterdam, "The Fishers-consisting of six different classes, Neynadive or Haarlem, Tannidive or Leyden, viz: Carreas (Karaiyar), Paruwas (Parayar), Perrendive or Illadvaka called Delft, also Hooren Kaddeas (Kadaiyar), Moeheas (Mulhuar), Ohimand Eukheuysen." balawes (Sampadavar), and Tummulas (Tumilar) He then goes on to say "the several sources of are required to serve as sailors twelve days in the revenue and advantages derived by the Honour year on board the vessels belonging to the Goable Company under their government are: the vernment." peeling of cinnamon, the capture of elephants, the "The Moors pay 10 fanams, and assist in hauling

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230 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [AUGUST, 1873. up boats and counting copper money; the Cheteys is better than a fine building at a distance. The 6 fanams, and help to count coin; the Silversmiths man who left his country because he was not 5} fanams, and decorate houses; the Washers 6 permitted to speak, found in the country where fanams and decorato houses; the Weavers 7 he arrived that he was not allowed even to make fanams; the Parreas 6 fanams; the Christian Car- a sign. Like the tongue in the midst of thirty penters and Smiths 4 fanams; the Heathen Carpen- teeth,'-maintaining one's position though sur. ters and Smiths 5 fanams; the Dyers 6 fanams and rounded by difficulties. There is a story of a dye cloth; the Oilmakers 6 fanams; the Chiwiahs man who went to the king to complain of the tax (Sitiyar) 2 fanams and carry palanquins; the on sesamum oil, but he was so confused in the Brass-founders 2 funams and work in copper; the royal presence, that when the king demanded to Masons 2 fanams each; the Tailors 2 fanams and know what he wanted, he said that he came to decorate houses; the Painters and Barbers 2 request that a tax might be imposed on the refuse fanams; the Maruas 2 fanams and serve as Las- (muruwata) of the sesamum seed: this has given coryns; the Pallas, Mallawas, and Kallikarree occasion to the saying 'Like what happened to him Pareas, all slaves, and pay 2 fanams each; the who went to get the tax on oil removed, and had Cheandas pay 2 fanams and carry the Company's to pay tax on muruwata also. Like the man who baggage; tho Walleas pay 2 fanams and hunt described the taste of sugar-candy-is a saying hares for the Company." founded on a story which has been omitted in the "The poll-tax, land-rents, 'Adegary' office mo- paper: it is said a man describing the taste of ney, &c., according to the statement made out Bugar-candy was asked whether he had ever tasted on the 1st September last, amounts to the sum it. 'No,' he replied, 'I had heard it from my of Rds. 31,640). brother,' and when questioned as to whether his "Having thus shown into how many castes the brother had tasted it, his reply was 'No, he had people of Jaffnapatam are divided, and what each heard of the taste of it from somebody else'! is bound to perform on behalf of the Company, 4. On Paragi, by Dr. Boake: a short paper on I think it necessary to state that a bitter and the treatment of Parangi Leda--the loathsome irreconcilable hatred has always existed in Jaff disease,'-believed to be hereditary. napatam between the castes of the Bellales 5. Text and Translation of a Rocle Inscription (Vellelar) and Madapallys, so that these may not at the Buddhist temple at Kelaniya, by L. de be elevated in rank and the offices of honour one Zoysa, Madaliyar. The inscription is on a stone above the other. For this reason the two writers slab, and contains an account of the repairs of the Commander are taken from these two castes, executed in this temple by King Par&krama Bohu, so that one of them is a Bellale and the other a who reigned (according to Turnour) between A. D. Madapally." 1505-1527 (A.B. 2048-2070), at Jayawardhanapura, 2. The Food Statistics of Ceylon, by John Cap- now called Kotte, near Colombo. The translation per. Mr. Capper states that, "owing to local cir. is as follows: cumstances, the failure of a harvest in Coylon means "On the eleventh day of the bright half of the Something more than dear food; it signifies want month of Nawan, (February-March) in the 19th too often bordering on starvation, from the simple year of the reign of his imperial majesty Sri fact that in nine cases out of ten the paddy Sangabodhi Sri Parakrama Bahu, the paramount cultivator has no other occupation, possesses no lord of the three Sinhalas, + sovereign lord of other means of barter, and when his crop fails he is Rajas, on whose lotus-feet rested bees-of-gems in obliged, to ward off starvation, to sell, his cattle, the crowns of kings of the surrounding (countries); and then his fields." whose fame was serenely bright as the beams of 3. Specimens of Sinhalese Proverbs, by L. de the moon, who was adorned by many noble and Zoysa---a continuation of the list given in the Jour- heroic qualities resembling so many gems, who nal for 1870-71 (See Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 59): the was an immaculate embryo Buddha, and who following are specimens, Like squeezing lime- ascended the throne of Lafike in the 2051st year juice into the sea,' said of attempting great things of the era of the omniscient Gautama Buddha, with ridiculously inadequate means. Though the prosperous, majestic, sovereign lord of Dharyou eat beef, why should you eat it hanging ma, who gladdens the three worlds, who is round your neck P-if you will indulge in forbid-1 tilaka ornament to the royal race of the Sakyas, den pleasures, there is no reason for doing so in and who is the sun of the universe, and the giver an open and scandalous manner. A bush near of the undying Nirvana. * Nawask on the stone. Probably s mistake of the engraver, for naman masa. + Lit. " the three Ceylons," or "Three-fold Ceylon"; in reference to the ancient divisions of Ceylon, Pihiti, Maya, and Rom . forehead ornament. A title implying preominence.

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AUGUST, 1873.] "(The King) having considered (the fact) that the Vihara at Rajamaha Kelaniya was a holy spot where Buddha had vouchsafed to sit, to partake of food and preach his doctrines, inquired what works of merit by way of repairs there were to be executed there; and having ascertained that the Chaitya and all other edifices were in ruins, gave much (money for) expenses from the royal palace, and assigned the task of accomplishing the work to the chief officer of the royal revenue, and the minister Parakkrama Bahu Vijayakkona, who caused the execution of the plastering of the Chaitya, and other necessary repairs and works; built a parapet wall of granite sixty cubits (in length) on the north, constructed a flight of steps with a Sandakadapahana (a semicircular stone serving as a stepping-stone) on the east; thoroughly rebuilt the Samadht image-house, the Napilimageya and the eastern gate of the same monastery and its flight of stone-steps, the minor Trivanka house, the Telkatarageya, the latrine common to the priesthood, and the east gate; repaired breaches and injuries, &c., of the Pasmahalpaya, Selapilimageya, Siwurudageya, &c., and repaired various other breaches, and other works in the Vihara. And after having accomplished this work thoroughly, (the King) thinking it desirable that His Majesty's royal name should be perpetuated in this Vibara, conferred on the chief priest of the monastery the title of Sri Rajaratna Piriwan Tera, and ordained that all who occupied the lands of the temple, those who served in the elephant stables, the horse stables, the kitchen, bath-rooms, and persons employed in various other occupations, the Tamil and the Sinhalese, and those who paid rent and who owned land, should give (to the Temple) two pelas of paddy (measured) by a laha which contains 4 nelis for every amuna of sowing extent, and money payment at the rate of one panama for every ten cocoanut trees, and thus accomplished this meritorious work, so that it may last while the sun and moon exist. ASIATIC SOCIETIES. "In obedience to the command delivered by His Majesty, sitting on the throne at the royal palace of Jayawardhan Kotte, in the midst of the Madalivaru (nobles), that a writing on stone should be made in order that kings and ministers in future ages might acquire merit by preserving and improving this work, I, Sanhas Teruvarahan Perumal, have written and granted this writing on stone. "The boundaries to Rajamaha Kelaniya areWattala, Malsantota, Kuda Mabola, Galwalutota, Gongitota, Godarabgala Galpotta, the stone pillar at Gonasena, including the Uruboruwa Liyedda, the canal Rammudu Ela, the Kessaketugala, the Watagala, Esalapaluwa, the inside (P) of Pasuru 231 tota, the (P) of Dewiyamulla, the boundary stone, and the great river." The king alluded to is Dharma Parakkrama Bahu, the 152nd sovereign in Mr. Turnour's list of the kings of Ceylon, in whose reign "the Portuguese first landed in Ceylon, and were permitted to trade." Both the Mahdvanso and Rajaratnakara entirely omit his reign, making his brother and immediate successor, Vijaya Bahu, supply his place; while the Rajavali (which Mr. Turnour seems to have followed in compiling his epitome) gives a graphic and interesting account of his reign. The Rajavali, however, bears internal evidence of its being a contemporaneous record, while it is well known that the Rajaratnakara is comparatively a recent work, and that this portion of the Mahavanso too, was compiled so recently as 1758, "by Tibbotuwawe Terunnanse, by the command of Kirtiari, partly from the works brought during his reign by the Siamese priests (which had been procured by their predecessors during their former religious missions to this island), and partly from the native histories which had escaped the general destruction of literary records in the reign of Raja Sinha I." In the Dondra inscription No. I., published by Mr. Rhys Davids in the Journal for 1870-71 (conf. Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 59) it is stated that king Vijaya Bahu ascended the throne in the year Saka 1432 (A. D. 1510), thus supporting, or rather seeming to support, the version given in the Mahdvanso and Rajaratnakara, and contradicting the Rajavali, which is supported by the Kelaniya inscription. On the discrepancy between the date given by Turnour and that recorded in the Dondra inscription, Mr. Davids had remarked-"that in the year 1432 of Saka, which is 1510 of our era, the reigning Chakrawarti or Overlord (as given in Turnour's list) was not Sanga Bo Vijaya Bahu, who came to the throne in 1527, but his brother Dharma Parakkrama Bahu." It would however now seem that the discrepancy is not only between Turnour's date and that recorded in the Dondra inscription, but also between one series of writers and another, and between one "contemporaneous record" and another : Mr. De Zoysa then expresses his belief that the assumption of the sovereignty by Dharma Parakkrama Bahu was disputed by his brother Vijaya Bahu, and that, at least for a time, one part of the nation (probably those in the south) acknowledged the latter as sovereign, while the rest adhered to his brother; and this view seems to derive support from the following fact mentioned by Mr. Turnour in his Epitome: "His (Dharma Parakkrama Bahu's) reign was

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232 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [AUQUST, 1873. disturbed in the early part by the competition of his brothers, whom he succeeded in reducing to submission." 6. Ceylon Reptiles, by Wm. Fergusson. 7. On an Inscription at Dondra, No. II., by J. W. Rhys Davids, C.C.S. This inscription has already been given in this Journal (I. A. vol. I. pp. 329-331), and Mr. Davids now reads the first sentence" In the 10th year of the Overlord Siri Sangha Bodi Sri Parakrama Bahu, a cocoanut tope, bought for money, (near) to the Bhdmi-mahl-wihara, to the image-house, and 200 cocoanut trees to the Lord Dewa Raja (Vishnu)." And in addition to the citations formerly given for assigning the inscrip tion to Sulu Siri Sanga Bo, he adds from the Rajawali Ohu bona Sri Sanga Bo rdja Siyagal wehera karawa Dewu nuwara karawa Dewa-raja sangayen solos awuruddak rajjaya keleya. Which Upham (vol. II. p. 248) translates :-"He was succeeded by his nephew, whose name was Sri Sanga Bo Raja, which king caused to be built the dagoba of Siagal, and the city Dewu Nuwara; and, through the assistance of Vishnu reigned for the space of 16 years." To this Mr. Davids adds the following: Translation from the Mahavansa, Ch. 46. 1. After the death of Hatthadatha, Agra Bodhi, the eldest son of the king, also called Srf Sangha Bodhi, became king. 2. He was a righteous king, full of insight, and did innumerable acts of merit. 3. He superintended the maintenance of the priests of the three secte, preserved the canon of scripture, and forbade slaughter. 4. He gave offices impartially, according to merit, and favoured those who by birth or learning were worthy of favour. 5. Wherever he saw prieste, he, the highminded, did them honour and asked them to say the liturgy (parit) or talk of religion. 6. He studied under the wise, virtuous, and learned priest Dathasiva of Nagasala monastery. 7. And there, having thoroughly heard the teaching of the all-wise one, being perfected in religion, he became a doer of all gentle deeds. 8. Having heard a discussion between priestesses who (previous to their putting on the robes) were related to him, he quite turned away his favour from those who were wicked heretice. 9. He restored broken monasteries and parivenas to their former state. 10. He restored alms fallen into abeyance, and gave slaves to the priesthood according to the necessities of each (sacred) place. 11. He made a splendid house for that priest, called after his 1 name; which, having received, he, the highminded one, gave to the priesthood. 12. And the king gave to him villages for his maintenance, Bha- rattala and Kihimbila, and Kataka and Tuladhara. 13. And Andhakara, and Attureli, and Balava, and Dvaranayaka, and Mahanikatthika, and Pelahala also. 14. These villages and others he, the lord of men, gave for maintenance, and he gave servants also of those related to himself. 15 Then, either seeing or hearing that monasteries of both sects were poorly provided for, he gave many villages for their maintenance. 16. But what is the use of much speaking P to the three sects he gave a thousand villages, fruitful ones and undisputed. 17. And following the three gems in the highest virtue, he took a necklace and turned it into a rosary. 18. So in every way he followed after religion; and all men, taking him for their example, became doers of virtue. 19. A Tamil called Potthakuntha, who was his constant servant, made a splendid and wonderful house called Matambiya. 20. And the king gave him Ambavapi in Bukakalle, and the cloth-weavers' village Chatika, and the village Hitthilavetthi, with the slaves (living therein). 21. And he built as residences the monasteries at Kappdra and the places at Kurundapillaka. 22. In other places too the wealthy one divided villages among the monasteries; and the wise general named Potthasata added to Jeta Vihars 23. A parivena called after the king's name; and Mahakanda the Tamil a parivena of the same name. 24. And the under-king Sanghatissa made a small house called Sehala-upa-rajaka for the king. 25. And in other places many people both built monasteries (of which these are only a few), and were full of goodness, following the example of the king. 26. For when the chief does evil or good, the world does just the same; let him who' is wise note this. 27. This king had a most virtuous queen called Jettha, who built the Jettha monastery as a home for priestesses. 28. And gave, to it two villages in pery stony land called Tanbuddha and Helagama, together with a hun. dred slaves. 29. And the king added a splendid relic house to the dagoba in Mandalagiri monastery. 30. And he roofed in the inner chamber in the Brazen Palace (at Anuradhapura). The celebrated Bodhi Tissa built Bodhi Tissa monastery. 31. And all the provincial governors throughout the island built monasteries and parivenas not a few, acsording to their ability. 32. In the time of this chief of men everywhere in the island virtue alone was practised. 33. It seems bad to me (thought the king), according to the most important sign of goodness, to have passed so much time here. 34. So after a time he went to Pulastipura, and there lived, acquiring merit. 35. Then when he was afflicted

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The following is an abstract: No part of the ancient buildings of the temple now remains, having been, it is said, lovelled to the ground by the Portuguese, who destroyed this and other buildings in and near Kotta. My copy of the inscription was taken from one in the possession of a Buddhist priest who now occupies the modern Pansala, built on the supposed site of the ancient temple, and I was informed by him that his teacher's teacher obtained it some seventy or eighty years ago from a transcript preserved in the archives of the late king of Kandy. There can be no question, however, as to its genuineness. I have compared it with such parts of the stone as still remain, and have found that it exactly corresponds with the stone. The style and matter, too, of the inscription, furnish indisputable evidence of its genuineness and authenticity. The inscription records the crection and endow. ment of a Buddhist temple in memory of his deceased mother, Sunetra Maha Devi, by King Srt Parikrama Bahu, VI. who reigned at Kotta (according to Turnour) from A.D. 1410 to 1462. It also contains a variety of provisions for the due maintenance of the temple, for the expenditure of its income, and regulations for the observance of the clerical and lay members of the establishment. The style of the inscription is similar to that of other writings of the 14th or 15th centuries; and Mr. Alwis has published, in his Introduction to the sidat Sangard, the introductory paragraph of the inscription, as a specimen of the prose of that Age. The construction of the sentences, however, is very peculiar. The whole of the inscription, which is a very long one, is conglomerated as it were into one sentence by means of conjunctive particles and participles, having apparently only one finite verb expressed. The words in general are those in modern use, with a very few exce tions. The date assigned to the king's accession is the year of Buddha 1958 (A.D. 1415), whereas Turnour, in his adjustment of Sisihalese chronology, compiled from native records, has fixed the date at 1953 (A.D. 1410), five years earlier. The authority of the stone, however, cannot be disputed, and it is corroborated in a remarkable manner by the wellknown contemporary poem Kdvya Sekhara, the author of which was the most learned monk of the age, and, according to tradition, the king's adopted Bon. The regulations enacted for the management of the temple establishment, and for the distribution of its income, are also very curious, and throw considerable light on the manners, customs, and social condition of the island at the period in question. It shows that the forms of Sinhalese letters now in use have not undergone any materia) change during, at least, the last five or six hun. dred years, with the exception of a few. It is believed by many that the worship of Hindu gods, and the practice of Hindu rites and ceremonies, were introduced into Ceylon by the last Tamil kings, who obtained the throne of Kandy, after the extinction of the Sisihalese royal family, about the year A.D. 1739, but it would appear from the inscription that the innovation is of much earlier date, the king, who, it is well known, was an eminent patron of Buddhism, having built four Devalas in connection with the Vihara. The following translation, given by Mr. De Zoysa, from a native work, is curiously illustrative of the progress of the Portuguese in Ceylon : "Then certain people who traded at the sea port of Colombo, having long remained in the character of traders, gradually rose into (political) power. These, Parangi, professors of a false religion, a wicked, fierce, and merciless race, built forts in every direction, prepared for war, and oppressed the Sisihalese, both as regards their temporal and spiritual interests, going from one province to another, destroying cultivated fields and gardens, setting fire to houses and villages, corrupting the purity of noble families, and destroying even Dagobas, image-houses, Bo-trees, the image of Buddha, &c., &c."-Ceylon Times, June 11th, 1873. Journal Asiatique, Avril 1873. At a meeting of the Society held 14th Feb., M. Ganneau observed, with reference to an article published in part III-IV. of the Journal of the German Oriental Society for 1873, and containing a number of unedited Himyaritic texts accom

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234 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [AUGUST, 1873 panying a bas-relief-that he had already made one 6. If any individual should be habitually sleepy of these the subject of a communication to the (whether sitting, walking, or standing, etc.), be Academy of Inscriptions (Aug. 1872). M. Ganneau addicted to company, be of malicious temper, or observed that this monument properly belongs to would not exert himself, that would operate as a a funerary series characterized by the identity of cause towards the decline of his prosperity. their epigraphic formulas and the analogy of their 7. We know that this is the third cause which style of art. This series includes the monument leads to the decline of prosperity. Please declare published by him in the Journal Asiatique and some the fourth, 0 Bhagava! What is it that leads to monuments preserved in the Bombay Museum. that result ? M. Ganneau concluded by saying it would be 1 8. If any individual should not support and useful that the Society should take means to obtain maintain either of his parents in their old age, facsimiles, estampages,' or casts, of the originals having it in his power to do so, that would cause preserved at Bombay, the copies given in the the decline of his prosperity. Journal of the Bombay Society rendering this de- 9. We know that this is the fourth cause which sirable. leads to the decline of prosperity. O Bhagava! please declare the fifth : what is it that brings TRANSLATIONS BY MR. GOGERLY. about that result ? Mme. A. Grimblot communicates to the Journal 10. If any individual utter a falsehood and Asiatique the following translations from the PAli, thereby impose upon a Samana, a Brahman, or any given to M. Grimblot by the late Rev. Mr. Gogerly. other description of mendicants, that will operate PARABHAVA-SUTTA. As a cause towards a decline of his prosperity. Thas I heard: when Buddha was once residing 11. We know that this is the fifth cause which at Jetavana, the vihars of Anathapindika, in the leads men to decline in prosperity. O Bhagava! vicinity of the city of Savatthi, a certain deva pos- please declare the sixth : what is it that brings Bessed of pleasing appearance, approached Buddha, about that result ? after the expiration of the first ten hours of the 12. If any individual possessed of gold in night in the middle of the night), illuminating abundance, plenty of kahapanas, and various the whole Jetavana with his splendour, and, having kinds of viands, should himself alone enjoy his worshipped him, stood on one side of him (at a wealth, that would be a cause to the decline of his respectful distance) and spoke to him in this prosperity. stanze : 13. We know that this is the sixth cause which 1. Who is the person that declines in prosper- will lead men to decline in prosperity. O Bhaity)P Lord Buddha of the family of Gotams, we gava! please declare the seventh : what is it that have come to you for the purpose of proposing the leads to that result P question : what is the cause that leads to the de- 14. If any individual disrespect his relations, cline of prosperity P actuated by too high an opinion of himself, founded 2. The person who advances in prosperity may on his superiority in birth, wealth, or family, it be essily known, and so is the person who declines. will operate as & cause towards a decline of his He who delights (in the performance of the) ten prosperity. meritorious actat will attain to prosperity, while 15. We know that this is the seventh cause he that entertains an aversion thereto will decline which leads men to decline in prosperity. O Bhain prosperity? gava! please declare the eighth : what is it that 3. We know that this is the first cause which tends to a decline of prosperity ? leads men to decline in prosperity. O Bhagava! 16. If any individual becomes a debauchee, please declare the second cause which leads to that drunkard, or a gambler, and thereby entirely result. squanders sway his earnings, that will be a cause 4. If any individual takes delight in wicked to the decline of his prosperity. men and has an aversion towards the righteous. 17. We know that this is the eighth cause which and delights in the doings of wicked men, that leads to the decline of men's prosperity. O Bhawill be a cause to bring about his decline in gava I please declare the ninth : what is it that prosperity. brings about the decline of prosperity P 5. We know that this is the second cause 18. If a man, not pleased with his wife, be conwhich leads to the decline of prosperity. O Bha- stantly seen in the company of prostitutes and gavs ! please declare the third cause. What is it Among the wives of others, that is a canse which that leads to the decline of prosperity P would lead to the decline of his prosperity. *Tome XX. pp. 226-881. Daan-profifia kiriye. Vido Clough, Dict, vol. II. p. 862, for the different significations of this word,

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AUGUST, 1873.] MR. GOGERLY'S TRANSLATIONS. 235 19. We know that this is the ninth cause whenever he journeys from his own residence which leads to the decline of prosperity of men.O shall obtain abundance of food, and become the Bhagave! please declare the tenth : what is it means of supporting many others. that leads to that result P 2. He who never violates friendly feelings, whe20. If any old man take a young woman, with ther he visits town, country, or province, he shall breasts like unto timba-fruits, for his wife, and be everywhere treated with respect. break rest from motives of jealousy, that will 3. He who never violates friendly feelings shall e as a cause towards the decline of his be unassailed by robbers, shall receive no dishoprosperity. nour from princes, and shall escape from every 21. We know that this is the tenth cause which enemy. leads men to decline in prosperity. O Bhagava! 4. He who never violates friendly feelings shall please declare the eleventh : what is it that brings return in tranquillity to his home, rejoice in the about that result ? assemblies of the people, and be a chief among his 22. Should any individual entrust the manage- kindred. ment of his affairs to a gluttonons and prodigal 5. He who never violates friendly feelings, woman or man, or place him or her at the head of exercising hospitality to others, shall be hospitably his household, that would be a cause to bring treated, honouring others he shall be honoured about the decline of his prosperity. himself, and his praises and good name shall be 23. We know that this is the eleventh cause spread abroad. which leads men to decline in prosperity. O Bha- 6. He who never violates friendly feelings, gays! please declare the twelfth : what is it that presenting offerings to others, he himself shall leads to the said decline receive offerings, saluting others he shall receive 24. If any individual is born of royal race, but is salutations, and shall attain to honour and redeficient in wealth, and, full of ambition, aspire to nown. sovereignty here, that is a cause which will lead 7. He who never violates friendly feelings shall to a decline of his prosperity. shine as the fire, be resplendent as the gods, and 25. Therefore the wise man who has seen well never be deserted by prosperity. the causes which in this world lend to the decline 8. He who never violates friendly feelings shall of men's prosperity will lead such a life here as have fruitful cattle, abundant crops, and his chilwill entitle him to a birth in heaven. dren shall have prosperity. METTA-SUTTA, OR DISCOURSE ON GENTLENESS. 9. The man who never violates friendly feelings, Thus I heard': Buddha resided in the garden should he fall from a precipice, from a mountain, of Anathapindika in Jetavana, near SAvatthi. He or from a tree, when he falls he shall be sustained then convoked his priests and said to them: (so as to receive no injury). There are eleven advantages, Priests, result- 10. The man who never violates friendly feeling from cultivating, meditating on, becoming ings shall never be overthrown by enemies, even accustomed to, led by, established in, following as the nigrodha-tree, firmly fixed by its spreading after, and acting according to a spirit of mildness roots, stands unmoved by the winds. and freedom from passion. These eleven are, KARANIYA-MEITA-SUTTA.-THE DISCOURSE NAMED that he who acts thus sleeps sound, awakes re KARANIYA-METTA. freshed, has no evil dreams, is beloved of men, is I declare the Protection (or Paritta) by the beloved of demons, is preserved by the gods, nei- power of which the demons shall display not ther fire, poison, nor sword can injure him, he has dreadful sights; by which he who is diligently constant tranquillity, is of a pleasant aspect, will occupied by day or night may sleep securely, and die in full possession of his intellectual powers, sleeping see nothing evil. and hereafter will obtain an existence in the 1. These things must be attended to by the man worlds of Brahma. These are the eleven advant- wise in securing advantages who desires to ascerages which result from cultivating, meditating on, tain the path to Nibbana. Let him be skilful, u being accustomed to, led by, established in, follow- right, honest, mild in speech, gentle, free from ing after, and acting according to a spirit of mild. arrogance. ness and freedom from passion. 2. Let him be cheerful, contented, unencom. When Buddha had thus spoken, the priests bered with business, with little property, having were much edified. his passions under control, wise, temperate, not METTANISAMSA-SUTTA, OR ADVANTAGES OF GENTLENESS. desirous of obtaining much from those who assist 1. He who never violates friendly feelings, him. . 1. c. Who maintains under all circumstances feelings of universal kindness and gentlenes.

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236 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (August, 1873. 3. Let him not engage in any law-pursuit for which he might be censured by the wise! May every being experience happiness, peace, and men. tal enjoyment ! 4-5. Whatever sentient being may exist, erratic or stationary, or of whatever kind, long, or tall, or middle-sized, or short, or stout, seen or un. seen, near or remote, born or otherwise existing. may every being be happy! 6. In whatever place they may be, let no one deceive or dishonour another! Let there be no de- sire, from wrath or malice, to injure each other! 7. As a mother protects with her life the child of her bosom, so let immeasurable benevolence prevail among all beings. 8. Let unbounded kindness and benevolence prevail throughout the universe, above, below, around, without partiality, anger, or enmity! 9, Let these dispositions be established in all who are awake, whether standing, walking, sitting, or reclining: this place is thus constituted a holy residence. 10. If the virtuous man who has not attained to perfection, yet perceives it, subdues his desire for sensual objects, certainly he shall not again be a lier in the womb. NOTES ON THE BHONDAS OF JAYPUR. BY J. A. MAY, TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY. The most remarkable bill on the outfall of the fully cooi and pleasant. A little way down the Jaypur plateau to the south-west (Lat. 18deg 15' hill, in one of the streams above alluded to, is a to 18. 30, and E. Long. 82deg 15' to 82deg 30') is Che spring of good water, which I believe is perennial, rubiding hill-station. This will is about a square as is the case with all streams on the highlands. mile in extent, having two principal undulations, The Boro Kolab or Machkund runs diagonally on which the survey stations are, and between across the ground in a south-westerly direction them is a curious-looking depression, suggesting parallel to the ranges of hills on either side in a the idea of an extinct crater, about 150 yards in deep narrow valley. It is fordable near the villages length, being nearly in form of a square, with Sindgar, Bojugura, and Amliwara during the dry banks fifteen feet or thereabouts in height, in season, but further down it is very deep, and alligawhich, during the rains, water is retained to a tors are said to be plentiful. In these parts the depth of from four to five feet. There are two only means for crossing the river are small canoes outlets to this little basin opposite to each other, scooped out of solid logs of sal (Shorea robusta). forming rather considerable streams, which meet about 15 to 20 feet long and 2 deep; these are at about four miles distant in the valley below. best unsafe, but by lashing two together, a boat, A legend is current among the natives as to the reliable and capable of bearing a pretty heavy origin of this hollow, and is as follows:-At a load, is constructed, but the scarcity of canoes time, as is generally the case with such stories, makes it a matter of the utmost difficulty to cross beyond the memory of man, one of their gods, & camp. It is remarkable that this river seems named Bhima, with his sister, occupied this hill to separate the Telugu from the Uriya speaking and jointly cultivated it; and as it was usual for people, the former occupying the country on its them to labour apart in a state of nudity, Bhima, to left bank. Another peculiarity I noticed was that prevent unseemly rencounters, had recourse to a on its right bank the magnetic needle was deflectstring of bells which he wore round his waist, and ed to a great extent and unequally by the ironserved to make known his approach to his sister, stone so plentiful in the little hills about, and who immediately covered herself in order to re- caused me great annoyance and extra labour while ceive him. But on one occasion she accidentally surveying, as I could not depend on a station appeared before him naked, a circumstance which unless made by reference to three or four points. 80 shocked their modesty that they fled precipi On the opposite bank, however, the needle seldom tately from each other in opposite directions; thus or never varied. the basin is said to have been formed by rice cul- The general aspect of the country is hilly, tivation, and the two outlets are the respective | rugged, and forest-clad, and, excepting on the paths taken by this highly modest couple. The highlands, cultivation of any kind is rarely to be presence of paddy,' unaccountable to the vil- seen. The villages in the valley are very few, lagers, has no doubt led them to the framing of this scattered and small, seldom consisting of more legend. I was encamped on Cherubiding for a than two or three huts, and inhabited by wretched day in the month of March, and found it delight- specimens of humanity, who are for the most part That is, he shall not be born again, but upon death migrate to the highest of the Brahma worlds, and after rosiding there the necessary tame cense to exist.

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AUGUST, 1873.) NOTES ON THE BHONDAS. 237 afflicted with loathsome scrofulous sores, which render them almost useless to themselves and to others. Roads, which are nothing better than mere paths leading from one village to another, are few, and, with the exception of one or two, bad in the extreme, running as they do along steep ravines and over rocky ghats quite impracticable to beasts of burden. The several tribes inhabiting this portion of country are the Bhondas, Dera Porja, and a caste of people who speak the Telugu language exclu. sively. Of these, the Bhondas are the most remarkable, the rest being in general like the other tribes to be found in Jaypur and the adjacent districts. The marriage ceremony, costume of the women, and religious observances of the Bhondas, are peculiar to themselves. These people, who are to be met with chiefly on the highland between Andrahal and Dangapara in the district of Jaypur, and comparatively few in number, keep themselves apart from all other tribes, with whom they do not intermarry. The men are not bad-looking; they are well built and active, and passionately fond of sport, of which they seem to be very jealous with regard to Europeans; they dress like the other Uriya tribes, and adorn their necks with beads, but to a moderate degree. The women, however, are extremely ugly, both in features and form, which is rendered more repugnant by their short hair, and the scantiness of their attire, which consists of just a piece of cloth either made of the kerong bark and manufactured by themselves, or purchased from the weavers of the country, about a foot square, and only suffi. cient to cover a part of one hip; it is attached to their waists by a string on which it runs, and can be shifted round to any side. A most ludicrous sight has often been presented to me by a stampede among a number of these women, when I have happened to enter a village unexpectedly where they had been collected in the centre space, usual in their villages, intent upon their occupations. On toy approach, each one and all hurried to their respective dwellings, and, as they ran in all directions, endeavoured to shift this rag round to the part most likely to be exposed to me. They are necessarily very shy, and are seldom to be met with out of the village, except at midday when engaged assisting the men in the preparation of ground for cultivation, and when there is the least possible chance of meeting with strangers; but among themselves they do not seem to be at all particular. This peculiar mode of dress originated in the following legend, implicitly believed by the Bhon. das :-"Time out of mind, the goddess Sita happened to travel through this part of the country, and when she halted on one occasion, while superintending the preparation of her midday repast, found herself surrounded by a large number of naked women; she blushed to behold such in. decency, and forthwith presented them with piece of tussur cloth, which was eagerly accepted, but when divided was found to supply each one with only just enough to cover one hip. The goddess, whose travelling wardrobe evidently did not allow of greater liberality, then commanded that they should always in future cover themselves thus much, death being the penalty of their disobedience." My informant gave me to understand that one of the Government agents in these parts some years ago insisted on a young woman being properly clothed, the result was she survived the change only three days! This story, which is declared to be strictly true, has unfortunately had the ill effect of confirming these peoplo in their superstition. Their marriages are consummated in a very curious manner. A number of youths, candidates for matrimony, start off to a village where they hope to find a corresponding number of young women, and make known their wishes to the elders, who receive them with all due ceremony. The juice of the Salop (sago palm) in a fermented state is of warse in great requisition, as nothing can be done without the exhilarating effects of this their favourite beverage. They then proceed to excavate an underground chamber (if one is not already prepared), having an aperture at the top admitting of the entrance of one at a time; into this the young gentlemen, with a corresponding number of young girls, are introduced, when they grope about and make their selection, after which they ascend out of it, each holding the young lady of his choice by the forefinger of one of her hands.. Bracelets are now put on her arms by the elders (this has the same signification as the wedding ring among European nations), and two of the young men stand as sponsors for each bridegroom. The couples are then led to their respective parents, who approve and give their consent. After another application of Salop and sundry greetingy, the bridegroom is permitted to take his bride home, where she lives with him for #week, and then, returning to her parents, is not allowed to see her husband for a period of one year, at the expiration of which she is finally made over to him. 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238 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. gate once a year, in some spot conveniently situat ed for their orgies, when a chicken, a few eggs, and a pig or goat are offered, after which they retire to their houses, and next day assemble again, when the Salop juice is freely imbibed, till its intoxicat. ing effects have thoroughly roused their pugnacity; the process of cudgelling one another with the branches of the Salop now begins, which they apply indiscriminately without the smallest regard for each other's feelings; this, with the attendant drum and shrieks, would give one the impression of a host of maniacs suddenly set at liberty. This amusement is continued till bruises, contusions, and bleeding heads and backs have reduced them to a comparatively sober state, and, I imagine, old scores paid off, when they return to their several houses. Thus ends the grand festival of the year. Their other festivals have nothing remarkable. Country produce is poor and limited to Sua (a small grain resembling sago) and Khandol (a large species of arrar dal), which are cultivated on the slopes of hills; rice is also grown in the beds of small streams which are terraced and 'banded' for the purpose, but to a very small extent, Sua being CORRESPONDENCE REPLY TO PROFESSOR WEBER. Professor Weber does not, so far as I can see, refute my argument for inferring from the passage about Pushpamitra I have brought forward that Patanjali was a contemporary of that monarch, nor does he assign his own reasons for differing from me. In the passage containing the words iha Pushpamitram yajayamah Patanjali does not merely speak of Pushpamitra's sacrifices as one living after him might do, but he speaks of them in a definite manner. If those words illustrate the rule that the present tense (lat) denotes actions that have begun but not ended, and if, again, Pushpamitra was a historical personage, and not a mere Caius, it certainly does, in my opinion, follow that the action of sacrificing had not ended when the passage was written. If we were in these days required to give an instance of such a rule, an instance containing the name of a historical personage, should we give such a one as "Johnson edits the Rambler," or "Gibbon is writing the History of the Decline and Fall"? Would not, on the contrary, our instances be such as "Drs. Boehtlingk and Roth are compiling a Dictionary of Sanskrit ?" I think we should use such as this latter, for in the former the actions of editing and writing have long been over, and consequently they would be of no use to illustrate the rule, which specially requires that they should not be over. I perfectly agree with what Professor Weber says in the quotation he gives from [AUGUST, 1873. the staple. This grain is prepared for food by either boiling to the consistency of gruel, or hard, like rice. The natural products are iron ore, gallnuts, and stick-lac. This last is to be found only on the Kasum tree (the hardest of all jungle woods), on the twigs of which the little lac-insects build their gum-like nests which constitute the lac. These are collected by the villagers in small quantities, and sold or bartered for at the different hats or fairs about the country. The only timber trees I could recognise were the sal, a few wretched specimens of teak on the banks of the Boro Kolab, and Kendu, a species of ebony. Game is plentiful, as must be the case in country so thinly populated. The bison (gaor), sambur, pig, axis or spotted deer, the ravine deer, bears, and occasionally the wild buffalo, and tigers, roam at large and fearless of man, with whom they are so little acquainted. Peafowl and other wild fowls are abundant. The otter also is to be found, but only on the banks of the larger streams. -Report of the Topographical Survey of India, 1871-72. AND MISCELLANEA. his essay, and I myself always thought Dr. Goldstucker's inference from the instance about Kasmir was extremely weak. But I contend that my instance is not one containing merely the "first person," but it is one in the present tense, and given purposely to illustrate the use of that tense in a certain sense, and that sense therefore the present tense in the instance given must have. The passage is exactly similar to Arunad yavanah. saketam, the historical value of which is admitted by Professor Weber. The translation Professor Weber gives of the passage under discussion does not seem to remove the obscurity in which he says mine was shrouded. With regard to the second point, I must complain of Professor Weber's not believing what I say with regard to myself. The exigencies of the controversy do not, I think, require this. I again distinctly state that the reason why I was silent as regards Dr. Goldstucker's second instance was that I did not agree with him in his interpretation of it, and my object in the article was not to criticize him, but to throw additional light on the date of Patanjali. I considered his rendering very questionable when I first read the book, about ten years ago, some time before I wrote an article in the Native Opinion reviewing his theory of Panini's technical terms. My principal reason was the impropriety of speaking of a sect or school as besieged. And I had, and have, a feeling that the names of the Buddhistic schools generally known

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AUGUST, 1873.) CORRESPONDENCE. 239 to Sanskrit authors could not have originated so lived to the east of Pataliputra. The only proper early. Dr. Kern's book I saw and glanced over meaning therefore is "Pataliputra is to the east of the preface of, several years ago, but I did not re- Mathura." And even if we take Professor Weber's member his explanation of the word Madhyamika explanation, "Pataliputra is before Mathura," it when I wrote my article in the Indian Antiquary, does not follow that the speaker, supposing he was vol. I. p. 299, though I always thought the word Patanjali-which however is not the case-was to meant some such thing. But soon after the article the east of Pataliputra, any more than it does appeared, and before Professor Weber's criticism when I say "the horse is before the cart" that I on it was received, I read Dr. Kern's preface am to that side of the cart, and not this, or to this, again, so that it was not Professor Weber that and not that. The word purva no doubt means first directed my attention to it. primarily before,' but when applied to show the reNow to come to Professor Weber's remarks on my lations between places the anteriorners of one from article at vol. II. p. 69. The Professor still adheres another is to be taken with reference to the usual to his interpretation of the passage Mathurdyah standard in such comparisons, namely-the rising Pataliputram purvam. And his reason is Patan- sun. Hence the word comes to signify the east, jali's use of the word vyavahita in that connection, and as used in connection with places it has always which he thinks means 'distance. Now the word this sense. I have no doubt therefore that my invyavahita, so far as I know, never means 'distance, terpretation of the passage is correct, and that it but 'covered,' concealed,' or 'separated' by some does not in any way militate against the conthing intervening; as, for instance, England is vya clusion I have drawn from another as to the vahita from us, by several countries and seas in. native place of Patanjali. I do not see why a tervening: or in the word R&mena, R is vyavahita district very near Oudh may not be said to be from n by d, m, and e. The context of the passage situated prdcham defe. Benares was not the in Patanjali is shortly this :-In the satra achar point from which the bearings of different places parasmin parva vidhau, the question is, With re- in India were taken. Pragdesa, Udagdesa, &c. ference to what standard is the word purva or were settled terms; and one living in Pragdesa preceding' to be understood P For a time he could call himself a Prachya. Amara defines takes the nimitta, or condition of a grammatical Prigdesa as that lying to the south and east of change, to be the standard, and says that the prin the Saravati. cipal example of this sutra, viz. patvyd or midvyd Professor Weber gives no reason for thinking is also explained or shown to fit with the rule on that yathd laukika-vaidikeshu is not a vartika. this supposition. How does it fit P The state of But this passage is explained by Patanjali and the case in patvyd is this :-first we have patu, made the subject of a dissertation just as other then i the feminino termination changed to y, and vdrtikas are. The whole argument given by the after that, a, the termination of the instrumental author of the Mahabhdshya, a portion of which singular. This last is the nimitta of the change was reproduced by me in my article, is contained of the previous i to y. Then what is to be done in these three aphorisms, the last of which is the by applying the sutra is-to regard y as a vowel one under discussion :-1, Siddhe babdarthaand change the u of patu to v. But says the ob. sambandhe; 2, lokatortha-prayukte sabdaprayoge jector, the rule in the sotra does not apply here on 64strena dharma-niyamah; 3, yathd laukika vaithe supposition you have made for the u of patu is dikeshu. These are all explained and, as texts, not parva from d, which is the nimitta, as it is descanted upon by our author; he mentions separated from it by y substituted for 1. Then, Acharya incidentally as the author in connection says the original speaker, the word parva is used with the first of these, which Acharya must be not only to signify a thing that immediately pre Katyayana here, since these are not sutras, and cedes another, but also to signify one that precedes Nagojibhatta t expressly calls the first two vdr. but is separated from it by something intervening, tikas. The third also must then be a vartika, as in such expressions as this: "Pataliputra is since it is of a piece in every respect with the purvam from Mathur," in which purvam is used other two, and completes the argument, which though several places intervene between the two without it would be incomplete. The aphorism towns. Now, it is plain that this is given as a cannot be the composition of Patasijali, for he phrase in use and current among the people to makes it the subject of his criticism, and says that serve as an authority, for taking purva in a certain the words contained in it are Dakhani words. I sense, and therefore, if Professor Weber's inference cannot understand the connection between this is correct, all people using the expression, i. e. the passage and the one quoted by Professor Weber Sansksit-speaking population of India, must have about the use of sarass in the South. What has . Ballantine. n. 47. 49. + Ibid. p. 53.

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240 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [August, 1873. that passage to do with the circumstance of this being a vdrlika ? If Professor Weber means to show that Patasijali was acquainted with the lingual usages prevailing in the South, I do not deny that he was, and it is just the lingual usages in that part of the country that are noticed even here. But this does not destroy the character of the passage as a vartika. It must be a drtika for the above reasons: hence my inference that Kat- yayana was a Southerner. The Professor is in elined to account for allusions to Southern usage contained in the Mahdbhashya from the fact that it was preserved in books in the South, i. e. probably, he thinks them interpolations. Are we similarly to think that the Mahabhdahya was preserved in books and unfairly treated by the people of Surfishtra, by the Kambojas, and by the Prachyas and Madhyamas, because it contains allusions to their usage also P (see p. 62 ed. BalIantine.) Inferiority in rank there is in Patasijali in com parison with Katyayana. It does not matter if Patasijali's views are adopted by Kaiyata and others. They are so adopted because he was the last of the three Manis. When the three Munis differ, the rule for one's guidance is gathottaram muninam pramanyam,--the later the Muni, the greater the authority. But still Panini is always regarded as first in rank, Katy&yana second, and Patalijali third. I need not say anything on the few remaining points. Professor Weber has made one or two admissions, and as to the rest I leave it to my readers to judge of the merits of the controversy I reserve one point for discussion on some future occasion, especially as Professor Weber has not given prominence to it now. I do not believe that the Vakyapadiya and the Rijatarangini afford evidence of the Mihibhishya having been tampered with by Chandracharya and others. They appear to me to say that these persons promoted the study of grammar, brought the Mahabhdshya into use, and wrote several works themselves. In conclusion, I give Professor Weber my sin cere thanks for the many good and encouraging words he has said about me. I am gratified to find that my criticisms have not offended him. Controversies on philological or literary points ought not to embitter the feelings of the disputants against each other, but unfortunately they very often do so. I am therefore particularly glad that our controversy is an exception to the general rule in this respect. R. G. BHANDARKAR. Sri Harsha at p. 213 of the Indian Antiquary, I would observe that the MSS. read narairiva, not naraurdpa, in the passage in question, and it would be interesting to know by what process naraiwuva and adxurh are made to mean "preeminent in arts of poetry"; further, the MSS. have not ra, and in consequence the rendering "wreath of victory" is purely imaginary. The line rendered "who composed the chronicle of king Bhoja" stands in the MSS. "jinai seta bandhuyar tibhojan prabandham," which is, I admit, not very easy to translate. There is a reading Bhojar which is far better; the anuswira is here merely inserted to make out the metre, which, being Bhujangi, requires a long syllable at that place, thusji naiset pa ban dhylufti bhojami pra ban dham. I willingly admit the new reading and the consequent mention of the blojaprabandha, but the syllable ti is thus left unaccounted for, as well as seta. My rendering proceeded upon the supposition that ti stood for tri, and bhojan can only mean enjoyment.' The line in this aspect appears to allude to Kalidasa's wide-spread popularity as a writer of plays and poems, which are figuratively compared, by a familiar image in Indian literature, to the Setubandha, or bridge between India and Ceylon. Setu is further used to signify any work which, from its merits and established authority, acts as a dyke or protection to laws, institutione, or literature, against heresies of belief or taste. Patting these considerations together, I essayed the rendering quoted by Mr. Growse. If we are to give up thir rendering, then we must have an explanation of seta and ti, otherwise our line is still partially untranslated. The rendering "who composed 'the chronicle of king Bhoja," though so dogmatically asserted to be correct, will certainly not stand. JOHN BEAMES. Balasor, July 12, 1873. The same. Mr. Growse is a well-known authority on Chand's Epic, but it seems to me he is not correct in regarding the "Naiahadha as w poem of considerable antiquity." Chand, in the prefatory chapter of his Prithirdja Risau, mentions the names of Soshnag, Vishnu, Vysa, Sukadeve, Srl Harsha, Kalidasa, Dandamali, and Jayadeva; but these are not placed in chronological order, as Mr. Grow80 supposes. For the great bard Kalidasa, Growse SUDDOSE who graced the court of Vikram ditya and Bhoja, flourished some centuries before Sri Harsha. Sri Harsha was one of the five Brahmans who were invited by Adisura, king of Gaur. This fact is clearly pointed out in the historical work on Ben CHANDS MENTION OF SRI KARSHA. With reference to Mr. F. S. Growse's note on

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AUGUST, 1873.] MISCELLANEA, 241 gal entitled Kshitibavankavali charitam, edited and translated by Mr. W. Pertsch of Berlin. Sri Harsha wrote the Gaurorvishakulaprasasthi in honour of his patron the king of Gaur, and he himself confesses, in the concluding lines of bis work, that he received a couple of betel-leaves in the court of the king of Kanauj as a token of the great regard in which he was held. The king of Kanauj here. was evidently Jayachandra, or Jayanti Chandra, son of Govindachandra, under whose patronage Sri Harsha completed his Naishadha, and who was a contemporary of Kumara Pala, the disciple of Hemachandra. This Jayachandra and Prithirsja were cousins : consequent. ly Chand Bardai, who immortalizes the fame of the latter king in his epic, was also a contemporary of Sri Harsha. This would place Srf Harsha in the 12th century. Raja Sekhara is quite correct, then, in his remarks about Sri Harsha, because these are in perfect keeping with the other facts under notice. Chand writes only a couplet in praise of Sri Harsha, and he was quite wrong in ascribing the authorship of Bhojaprabhandha to Kalidasa, since the work was written by Ballal. RAM Das Sxs. Berhampur, Bengal, 14th July 1873. p `nSr bstr chr mrGnd yn mrkh w rnjwry w `lt pkhsh chwn bz khrd pyshn z md khr mrG hr `nSr bqyn prwz khrd w fr`h Slh yn jdhbh hr dmy rnj nhd dr jsm m trkhybh r br drd t dr yn khwd prd mrG pr jzry bSl Hkhmt Hq mn` yd zyn `jl drd bmt`t t jl jm`shn PERSIAN STANZAS ON ATTRACTION AND REPULSION. Selected and Translated by E. Rehatsek, Esq., M.C.E. IV.- From the Mesnawy of Jelial-al-dyn Ramy.-- 3rd Duftur: The dust to body's dust exclaims :-" Return ! The soul abandon; join us like a rose; Thou'rt of our nature and our kind, Prefer to leave that body, flee to us!" The dust replies -"My feet are shackled so, Although like thee I, separated, groan." The moisture of the body waters seek: "Humidity, come back from wand'ring far!" The sphere of fire invites the body's heat:"Thou art of fire ! Thine origin approach !" Maladies seventy-two do bodies feel From the attraction of the elemeuts. Diseases try to tear the body up, That the elements four may separate. Four they are, these birds with captive feet, But desth, disease, and dissolution fell Untie the ligatures of the nimble feet; And liberate each elemental bird. Attraction of these roots and branches great Subjects our body every moment to disease, That these connections may be severed all, And every bird to its original fly! But the wisdom of the Lord forbids this haste, And keeps them join'd in health till doom arrivee. tn r bz khrd khwyn khkh khkh trkh jn khw swy m ) pr drd m rytry my pysh jns bh gzn tn r bry wynsw pry mn pbsth m gwyd ary yy khr chh chwn tw zjrn khsth m bh tn r bjwynd try ky try bz z Grbt pysh m khwnd thyr khr my nn r my khh znry rh Sl khwysh gyr pst hftd w dw mlt dr bdn byrmn `nSr khshshhy z bkslh r t bdn yd `lt r lHd khwd khr r `nSr t EARLY ROMAN INTERCOURSE WITH INDIA. The proof of early commercial intercourse between the Romans and Singhalese, founded on the discovery of coins, is by no means a solitary instance. Numerous examples of similar finds in Southern India can be adduced. In the second volume of the Asiatic Researches, mention is made of the discovery of a number of gold coins at Nellor in 1789, two of which, a Hadrian and a Faustina, were in possession of the writer of the notice. In 1800 a pot full of gold coins, and in 1801 another of silver denarii, were found in different parts of the Coimbator province. A third instance is mentioned by Colonel Mackenzie as occurring in the same district in 1806. In 1817 a silver coin of Augustus was found in excavating an old kist

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242 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [AUGUST, 1873. vaen or pandu kuli, as they are there called, also in Coimbator. After a heavy fall of rain in the monsoon of 1842, a pot containing 522 denarii of Augustus and Tiberius, with a few of Caligula and Claudius, was laid bare in the same district; and in 1840 e hoard was discovered near Sholapur, a few specimens only of which were secured, and proved to be aurei of Severus, Antoninas, Commodus, and Geta. I myself possess an aureus of Trajan found at Kadapa, and a solidus of Zeno at Madura. All these afford testimony of the frequent in. tercourse of Roman traders with the Indian Ocean, but still more decisive proof is supplied by the existence of great numbers of Roman coins occurring with Chinese and Arabian pieces along the Coromandel coast. The Roman specimens are chiefly oboli, much effaced, but among them I have found the epigraphs of Valentinian, Theodosius, and Eudocia. These are found after every high wind, not in one or two places, but at frequent intervals, indicating an extensive commerce between China and the Red Sea, of which the Coromandel coast seems to have been the emporium. The Western traders must either have circumnavigated Ceylon, or come through the Paumbam passage, probably by the latter way, but in either case must have communicated freely with Ceylon. We know from Muhammadan writers that this commercial intercourse was continued by Arabian merchants from the eighth to the fourteenth cen. turies, and from these, and the narratives of the early Portuguese voyagers hitherto little explored, valuable information concerning Ceylon may probably be gleaned. W. E. in Notes and Queries, Apr. 19, 1873. the building either of a Stupa or of a Vihar by some pious Buddhist. The stone has been used, perhaps for centuries, for macerating spices, and the middle part of the inscription is nearly obliterated. In 1863 I discovered the base of an Ionic pillar in the ruins of a temple at Shahdheri, which I have identified with the ancient Taxila. I have now got a second base in much better preservation, and two Ionio capitals. These formed part of a Buddhist Vihar, which cannot be dated later than B.c. 80, as I found twelve coins of Azas carefully secreted under one of the statue pedestals.-A.O. With regard to the inscription referred to by General Cunningham ... the inscription, though not the stone, was discovered by Dr. Leitner, who, after many useless attempte, finally and after much labour succeeded in restoring the whole of the inscription. Dr. Bellew had discovered the stone, on which only " IX" was visible, and had abandoned it at Hoti Murdan, in Dr. Johnson's compound. Several years afterwards, in 1870, he authorized Dr. Leitner to take away anything he might have left at Hoti Murdan. Dr. Leitner, after personal inspection, got the stone carried down to Lahore by bullock-cart, and there got the inscription both lithographed and photographed... The discovery of the stone therefore belongs to Dr. Bellew, that of the inscription to Dr. Leitner.-Editor, Trubner's Record, June 1873. BUDDHIST SCULPTURES. Dr. Leitner has taken with him to Europe large collections of antiquities, statues, arms, coins, and numerous interesting objects of natural history, all. collected by himself, and referring to the various countries between Kabul and Lhassa. These collec. tions he has left at Vienna, where they will be shown in the Exhibition. It is expected that the Graeco-Buddhistic sculptures brought over by Dr. Leitner will attract much attention, and prove that a school of art existed in the East, of which the founders probably migrated from Greece: it will also throw light on a very obscure portion of Indian history, and show the relations that existed between the Baktrian Satraps and Buddhism.Trubner's Record, June, 1873. INSCRIPTION OF GONDOPHARES. The Ariano-Pali Inscription, noticed by Prof. Dowson as having been forwarded to England by Dr. Leitner, was discovered by Dr. Bellew at ShAhbaz-garhi, and is now in the Lahore Museum. Before seeing Prof. Dowson's notice I had already deciphered the name of Gondophares (Gudupha. rasa), with the year of his reign and the name of the month, Vesdkh, etc. This inscription is of considerable interest, as it is almost certain that Gondophares is the king Gondoferus of the Legenda Aurea, who is recorded to have put St. Thomas to death. The tradition is supported by the date of the inscription, which I read as Samat 103, the fourth day of the month Vesdkh (equivalent to A.D. 46), in the 26th year of the king's reign. The inscription ends with the words sa-puyae mdtu-pitupuyae, "for his own religious merits, and for the religious merit of his father and mother." It is therefore only a simple record of CASTES OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. (Continued from p. 154.) Bhavasar:- Adyer caste in Gujarat, of somewhat inferior rank. Bharthara :-In Gujarat, a caste of middle rank; sellers of parched grain, &c. Sugurio :-In Gujarat (Surat Zilla), a not un, common caste of middle rank, who are gardeners and sell vegetables : habits similar to those of the lower classes of Hindu traders.

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SEPTEMBER, 1873.] RAMGARH HILL. 243 ON THE ANTIQUITIES OF RAMGARH HILL, DISTRICT OP SARGUJA. BY V. BALL, M.A., GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA. M Y duties as a Geological Surveyor have led water, and the different seasons at which our 11 me into many remote and seldom-visited visits were made, his being in the cold season, localities in Western Bengal. Few of these have and mine towards the end of March. appeared to me more curious and interesting The sandstone out of which the water gushes than the Ramgarh hill, in the district of rests upon a seam of coaly shale 4 feet 5 inches Sargaja, Chota Nagpur Division. thick, but not of much value for burning. Previous notices of some of the antiquities of Leaving the fountain and grove, which are at the Ramgarh hill by Col. Ouseley and Col. the north-east corner of the rectangular block of Dalton, C.S.I., will be found in the Journal sandstone which forms the main 'mase of the of the Asiotic Society of Bengal.. In the paper hill, and renders it a conspicuous and easily by Col. Dalton there are some technical details recognisable object for many miles around, of the architecture. we proceeded round by the eastern side to the On the 22nd of March 1872 my camp reach- south. The general level of the path, which ed Khudri, a village some six or seven miles west runs for nearly three-fourths of the way round of Lakanpur, in Sargaja, and on the following the base of the rectangular mass, maintains an morning early I started to explore the Ramgarh elevation of about 2600 feet above the sea, or of hill. Two miles south of Khadri we passed 600 below the summit of the hill. through a miserable Gond (locally Gor) hamlet 1 High up on the south-east corner, water trickles called Skontari, soon after leaving which the path down over the vertical face of the cliff till it is became almost obliterated, and we found our caught by a ledge of rock, which doubtless serves selves on the rise to the Ramgarh hill. Proceed to redirect its course and cause its appearance ing onwards for some distance through a tangled on the north-east. After passing rather more mass of charred and smouldering branches than three-fourths of the way along this path, and logs, where the jungle had been set on the attention is arrested by a rudely cut model fire, we at last emerged on a piece of flat of a temple or memorial stone which is about ground shaded by a few mango and ebony trees, four feet high. In the lower portion of it there and bounded on the south by a wall of rock is a cavity for the reception of a tablet. But no which rises perpendicularly for several hundred vestige remains of one now, if it ever did exist. feet. At the foot of this wall an unusual lux. This object the natives call mal karn. It is on uriance of the vegetation at once attracted the right hand of the path. A few steps further, attention, -ferns, species of Ficus, and other on the left, there is a block of sandstone, which, moisture-loving plants being abundant. On if the attention were not specially drawn to it, going a little closer the cause of this became one might pass without remarking anything apparent, as a grotto, to which there is an ascent particular about it. It is, however, of some by a few steps, opened out to view. There, from interest, being artificially hollowed, with an ena fissure in the massive bed of sandstone, a trance facing to the west. This block measures constant stream of pure water spouts forth in so externally 3 ft.5 in. by 3 ft. 8 in. by 6 ft. The enstrange a way that it is no cause for wonder trance is 1 foot 5 inches by 1 foot 4 inches, and that the natives regard the place as sacred. the internal length 8 feet 10 inches. The bottom Col. Dalton compares the fountain to the one is now somewhat filled up, but it is evident that which we are told issued from the rook at the there was room for a man to creep inside and touch of Moses. squat down. The natives call it. Muni gofar'I found the water refreshing but not cool; the Muni's den. Close by this are the remains at the same time the temperature was not of an old wall built of uncut stones. higher than that of the air, as Col. Dalton A short distance beyond, the ascent of the great found it. This is easily explainable by the block of sandstone commences by the only pracprobable constanoy of the temperature of the ticable route : this is at the south-west corner. * Vol. XVII. pt. i. (1848), pp. 65-68, and vol. XXXIV. pt. . (1865), pp. 23-27.

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244 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [SEPTEMBER, 1873. After a stiffish climb for about 400 feet, the Inside the temple on a sandstone stand there path passes under an arched entrance, which are images of Lakshman, Balsundri, shows some skilful carving, into a small temple in Janki, and Raja Janak. They appear to be which there is an image of Mahadeva, close to made of trap, but, owing to the thickness of the which, as it were on the very corner of the hill, crust of dirt and ghee upon them, I could not, there is a cleared space surrounded by a wall or without being guilty of desecration in the eyes breastwork, from which a magnificent view of of my followers, examine them sufficiently the country to the south and south-west can be closely to make certain of the material. obtained. From this point there is a sheer de- Col. Dalton mentions the existence of a tank scent of not less than 1,000 feet, and a pebble near the summit. This my guide was unable thrown over would have to travel that distance to point out, and as there was still much to be before it reached the tops of the trees in the jun- seen I was unable to spend time in searching for gle below. A further ascent of less than 50 feet it. Some distance below the teple there is a by a made staircase, and the remains of another spring which yields water at all seasons. This old building are reached. Here there are two is no doubt the source of supply of the fountain old images of Durga and one of Hanuman. below. It must have been invaluable when the From this the path runs along a ridge to the sum- hill was used as a place of retreat. Another mit of the hill, 100 feet higher, the elevation of hill near the Main Pat was said to have been which above the sea, according to the Topo used for the same purpose. There is but one graphical Survey, is 3206 feet. While passing steep and difficult ascent to it, which might be along the ridge the existence of a cap of from 60 easily guarded. An old tank still exists on the to 70 feet of trap, resting on the sandstone, first | top. It is said that the women and treasure of becomes apparent. Here was an opportunity of the Sarguja Rajas used to be sent there during testing a'theory put forward by the late Captain the inoursions of the Marathas, and at other Forsyth in his Central Highlands of India that times when the district was disturbed. a trap soil will not support Sal (Shorea robusta) Having enjoyed the magnificent view of the trees. There were some very fine trees growing Main Pat and other surrounding plateaux on this trap, and I have met with not a few and ranges, and the cool breezes which similar instances. played about the top of the hill, we descended On the highest point of the hill there is a again to the fountain and then struck eastwerd very tumble-down old temple, of which however along & spur. Passing an old gateway dethe inner wall still remains. Whether a disin- scribed by Col. Dalton, we continued along the clination to interfere with a structure which is path for about a mile till we reached the N.W. said to be of supernatural origin, parsimony, or end of a very singular tunnel known as the want of religious zeal, is the cause of the dila- Hathpor. It is situated close to the north pidation of this unquestionably ancient building, end of the spur, about & mile from the village I do not under take to say ; but, in spite of the of Udaypur. Although its name implies that it fact that there is a mela held there every year, is made by hand," I sought in vain for evidence I am strongly inclined to believe that none of of its being artificial. I can only attribute its the Rajas or Zamindars care very much about origin to the trickling of water through crevices the place, otherwise the wretched and overgrown in the sandstone. There is no trace, however, condition of the approaches, and the ignorance of any slip or dislocation of the strata, such as even of the village Baigas who profess to do is a usual cause of such phenomena. The puja there, as to what the hill really contains, stream having found its way through an imare perfectly inexplicable. Even the custodian mense mass of sandstone has been at work for of the temple, a fakir, who I was warned would ages enlarging the passage, and the present rehurl big stones at me if I attempted the ascent, sult is a tunnel 160 paces long, and, as Col. had deserted the place. Still tradition asserte Dalton has described it, 12 high and 8 broad, that some 'saheb' was prevented from ascending but it varies in places in both dimensions. by this fakir. When about to enter its gloomy but cool re * Is it not a corruption of Hathipola the Elephant-gate' -ED.

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Fig. 2. CAVE AT THE HATHIPOR, RAMGARH HILL. Upper Bench Lower Bench Floor L! Bench Z?" Bench . : 11. Outer Chamber .. PLAN Scale liv: - 100ft: Fig. 4. WWW Fig. 3. MWISHOUTEN SKETCH PERSPECTIVE SECTIONS OF INTERIOR

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RAMGARH HILL. SEPTEMBER, 1873.] cesses I recalled Col. Dalton's remark that at the time of his visit it had all the appearance of being the dwelling-place of a family of tigers, so I took the precaution of calling up my rifle. bearer to be at hand in case of need. When about halfway through, I saw by the dim light some animate object and a pair of glaring eyes on one of the ledges of rock in front of me. It proved to be a young wood-owl, who clapped his bill in furious rage at the intruders and then made several abortive attempts at flight. At the south-east end of the tunnel, on the south side, a face of rock appears to have been chiselled off for some purpose, possibly for the reception of an inscription which was never written. Close by there is a small cave to which you ascend by a few steps; it has been partially enlarged artificially, but there is nothing further remarkable about it. Returning through the Hathpor to the north-west, the stream is found to take its rise in a basin or horse-shoe-shaped valley of very singular appearance. On the south rises a cliff of sandstone, high up on the face of which are seen the entrances to two caves. A climb up over debris from the mouth of the tunnel brings one, after an ascent of more than 100 feet, to the foot of a double flight of stairs cut in the solid rock (see fig. 1). Ascending the stairs you find yourself on the threshold of a rectangular chamber cut in the rock. The accompanying plan, and elevations of this chamber, on a scale of 1 to 100, will render the following brief description intelligible (fig. 2, 3, 4). There appears to have been originally a natural cave here at least the outer hollow shows overhead no sign of artificial excavation. On the slope of the rock on the right of the staircase there are two deep grooves or channels, said by the natives to have been portions of the charmed circle drawn round Sita or Janki by Ramachandra. To me they looked like drains for the purpose of carrying off water used in the ablutions of those who may have lived in the cave. On the extreme right of the mouth of the onter cave there are two footprints somewhat rudely cut in the stone. The entrance to the inner chamber is 12 feet wide at the mouth, but widens to 17 feet. To right and left of this the cave extends with 245 perfect symmetry. The total length is 44 feet. The breadth at the centre is 12 feet 10 inches, and the height varies from somewhat over 6 feet down to about 5 feet 6 inches. This is partly caused by the floor of the recesses to right and left being raised some six inches above that of the central portion, and partly to curvature of the face of the strata of rock which forms the roof. The walls bave throughout been finished with cutting tools. The linear dimensions are not quite constant, but the dif erences are so small that they are neglected in the plan. All round the wall there is a raised bench cut out of the solid rock. On three sides this bench is double, the inner portion being raised two inches above the outer. On the side facing the entrance the double bench is 8 feet 6 inches wide. In the recess portions of the entrance side there is a continuation of the lower bench, and on each side of the buttresses of the entrance small seats of rock have been left. On the left side of the entrance there is an inscription in two lines, the last two or three letters in each of which are much damaged and illegible. A transcript is given (No. 1). The letters are about two inches high, but, though clearly engraven, they do not exhibit much skill. I forwarded a copy of both this and the one which follows to Babu Rajendralala Mitra, who informs me that these are in the Old Pali or Asoka character and the Pali language, but not of Asoka. They record something about one Devadatta, but what it is I cannot make out. Many of the letters appear to be doubtful. Copies of both inscriptions were formerly forwarded to the Asiatic Society by Col. Dalton and Major Depree, but nothing was ever published regarding them, and the originals appear to have been lost. Col. Ouseley in his short account of the caves makes no allusion whatever to the inscriptions. Although there are some broken idols resting on the bench, which represent, on the authority of the Baiga, Mahadeva, Parvati, and Bardevli, there is nothing to connect them with the cave. There is no attempt whatever at ornamentation in this chamber, and the benches look so eminently suitable for sleeping purposes, while the recesses might be so readily shut off, as Col. Dalton suggests, for females, that I am inclined to believe that this cave must have

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246 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (SEPTEMBER, 1873. been constructed for, and used as, a dwelling second cave, the old Baiga, who had come speplace. cially to show the cave which he supposed I The second cave is only fome 30 or 40 yards wanted to see when I inquired about a second, off. The natives appeared to be unaware of led us through the tunnel, and out to the southits existence; they protested that there was only east corner of the spur, where he pointed out, one cave, and I made on my first visit no parti- high up on a face of sandstone, the entrance to cular search for a second. On referring to Col. a cave which he called Lakshman's Bangald. Dalton's paper I found that he most distinctly It is much less easily accessible than the others, mentioned two caves, containing each an in- and to get to it over the rocks one has to use scription : accordingly I returned to the Hathpor both hands and feet. It is simply a rectangular on the following evening, and had the pleasure chamber cut in the rock. The dimensions are of introducing the two Baigas to the second 9 feet 4 inches by 8 feet 5 inches by 3 feet cave, which they declared they had never seen 5 inches. or heard of before. A portion only of the side of the entrance It is at about the same elevation as the other remains standing. I saw no trace of any incave, but to reach it you have to scramble up a scription near it. face of rock by means of some rudely cut steps. The local tradition regarding these caves is The interior shows little or no sign of artificial that they were the residence of Ramachandra excavation, and the sole point of interest is that for fourteen years previous to the expedition to it contains an inscription in much bolder and Lanka, and that it was from this place that larger character than the other (see No. 2). Sita of Janki was carried away. Having completed my examination of this! The surrounding jungle is called Iran Ban. INSCRIPTIONS AT THE AUDIENCE HALL OF PARAKRAMA BAHU. PULASTIPURA, CEYLON BY T. W. RHYS DAVIDS, C.C.S. Pulastipura,* the capital of Ceylon from the present 2 millions inhabiting Ceylon, about twomiddle of the 8th century to the beginning of thirds of a million are pure Sinhalese;-in former the 14th (A.D. 769-1314), was at the height of times the population round the ruined cities must ita prosperity during the long and glorious have been very greut, but the Sinhalese were proreign of Parakrama Bahu the great, whose con- bably even then greatly outnumbered by their quests extended over the whole of the Dravidian Tamil foes : slowly but surely they were driven portion of South India, and are even said to have southward; and the wave of battle constantly extended to the coast of the Bay of Bengal. receding and advancing laid waste the fairest The stream of Aryan invasion, having been provinces of the island, until the whole country, stopped in South India, seems in the 6th century from near the Jaffna Peninsula southwards to the B.c. to have flowed over to Ceylon, for, accord. mountain fustnesses of Kandy, became an almost ing to the well-known tradition, Wijaya in 548 uninhabited and pathless jungle. And in this B. C. came over from the Sarkars (Sinihapura, jungle for some hundreds of years lay, forgotten then the capital of Kalinga), and conquered, or and unknown, the ruins of what must have been rather colonized, Ceylon. From that time to the the magnificent capital of Parakrama BAhu. present the history of Ceylon has been chiefly The ruins, since their re-discovery in 1820, the cord of the struggle between the Tamils have been often described, more especially by advancing from South India, and the few Aryan Sir E. Tennant in 1847 (Ceylon, vol. II. p. 583 Sithalese driving back the Dravidian hordes, et seq.), and have been well photographed by and sometimes, as in Parakrama Bahu's time, Lawton and Co. Kandy, in 1870, when they carrying the war into the enemy's country. were partially cleared by order of Government. The census taken in 1871 shows that of the They stretch for about five miles along the band Palastipurs, the ancient name of the city, was used by its founders, and its inhabitants, and recorded in all the inscriptions: the modern name is Top-Wews or Top&we, which is simply stupa wapi, the lako where the (ruined) stapu are. Sir E. Tennent calls the place Pollannarus, corruption of Polonnarus, a name of uncertain derivataon applied to the place in the artificial language used in Elu books, but probably never wed in living speech,

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SEPTEMBER, 1873.] INSCRIPTIONS AT PULASTIPURA. 247 of a large artificial lake, which must have been 10 or 12 miles round, and can be reached in 81 days from Kandy,-there being a carriage road for the first 59 miles, and a cart road for the remaining, 20. Just at the end of this road, and on the band of the lake itself, once stood the hall in which these inscriptions were found, which has been renamed "the Audience Hall." All that remains now are 48 large stone pillars with carved capitals supported on a stone platform, round the base of which are sculptared a row of lions; there are also several fine stone slabs, a flight of entrance steps with handsomely carved balustrades, and the splendid Lion on which the inscription was found. This was lying almost entirely buried at some distance from the Hall, and was set up with great diffi. culty; it had probably been thrown out of the Hall by the Tamils when they took Pulastipura, and may formerly have stood between the inscribed pillars : search has been made for a second one, but as yet unsuccessfully. "The inscriptions have only lately been noticed, Sir E. Tennant making no mention of either the ruin or its letters; but they are very interesting, as affording a reliable glimpse at the state ceremonial of that place and time, from which conclusions, with a large degree of certainty, may be drawn regarding others in more distant places and in more ancient times. According to the writing on the Lion and eight of the pillars, the high officials stand near the king in the following order (see the sketch plan) : At pillar 8. Members At pillar 1. The Secreof the Chamber of Com- tary (Kdyastha) with the merce. record-keepers. 7. The Police. 2. Prime Minister (pra dhdna). 6. Members of the 3. The Commander-in council of wise men ? Chief (senadhipati). Provincial governors. 4. The chiefs (adhipa), seated. 5. The heir-apparent (yuwaraja), seated. I am inclined to think that the king must have been seated in the position marked a, and notas has been supposed-in that marked b: for he would thus have the lower officials behind him, the great ones facing him, and the heir-apparent seated at his right hand; whereas in the position marked b, the members of the Chamber of Commerce would have had the post of honour: pow, although Parakrama Bahu was perhaps a very enlightened despot, and seems to have given the merchants or boutique (kada) keepers of the day a place in his Council of State, it is scarcely possible that they were nearer to his august person than the heirapparent himself. The transliteration, which is unusually certain, is as follows: On the great Lion. Ari wira duraja wira wesydbhujaga Nissanka Latikeswara Kalinga chakrawartti swamin wahanse waedae hon wira Sinhasanayayi. Translation. This is the mighty Lion-throne on tokich sat the glorious, powerful keing, in whose arm is strength, the Lord Emperor Kalinga Nissanka Lankeswara. First Pitlar.. Sinhasanaye wedm hun kalae pot warana mtula-wa kayasthayanta sthanayayi. When he is seated on his Lion-throne, this is the place for the Secretary, amongt the recordkeepers. Second Pillar. Sinhasanaye waedae huin kalae pradhanayanta sthanayayi. When he is seated on the Lion-throne, this is the place for the prime minister. Third Pillar. Sinhasanaye wode hun kalae senewiradanta sthanayayi. When he is seated on his Lion-throne, this is the place for the commander-in-chief. Fourth Pillar. Sinhasanaye waedae hun kalae aepa-warun hindina sthanayayi. When he is seated on his Lion-throne, this is the place where the chiefs sit. * In the transliteration is wed because the Sifhalese always pronounce the corresponding to (and derived from) tho PAli O, as oar English w, and not as v. It is cer. tainly probable, both from the traditions of the pandita, und from the collocations in which it occurs, that the Pali letter is also w, and not v. ais pronounced like the English in hat, being simply the lengthened form of the same sound (nearly the French & before r). Almost every word. requiring some notice, and the number of the words being altogether so kmall, the notes on them are thrown into the form of an alphabetical vocabulary. + See aetuhi in the vocabulary,

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248 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [SEPTEMBER, 1873. Fifth Pillar. Sinhasanave wada hun kalm vuwaraja-wa siti ge . . . . n wahanse bindina sthanayayi. When he is seated on his Lion-throne, this is the place where . . . . who is the heir-apparent, sits. Sixth Pillar. Sinhasanaye waedae hun kale asampandi. bharaka-mandalika-warunta sthanayayi. When he is scated on his Lion-throne, this is the place for the mandalis, the unequalled wise men (or for the governors of the districts Asam and Pandi). Seventh Pillar. Sinhisanaye waedae hun kalae chaurasi-waranta sthanayayi. IVhen he is scated on his Lion-throne, this is the place for the sheriff's. Eighth Pillar. Sinhasanaye waedae hun kalae kada-goshtiyehiattavunta sthinayayi. When he is seated on his Lion-throne, this is the place for the members of the council of commerce. VOCABULARY OF WORDS USED IN THE INSCRIPTIONS A.D. 1150. Asa m, 6.* (Sansk. asana), unequalled ( name of country). pa. I had great doubts about this word, and for a long time supposed it must be ematiamatya,' but, just as this paper is being sent off, the expression in another inscription "raja-pa,' which can scarcely be anything else than 'raja-pati, londs me to the inference that the word must be opd for 'adhi-pa'; and this is confirmed on consulting the facsimile. The word is not given in the dictionaries, but seems to me to be most probably correct. It means therefore chiefs. Still it is curious that of them alone (besides the king and the heir-apparent) the word hindina, sit,' should be used. is the Elu equivalent of Sanskrit adi at the end of compounds. Atulu-wu, 1 (prob. Sansk. antar: with adj. suffix wu, really past p. of we-nawa, to become), including, with. AEttawun ta, 8. Dat.pl. of aettawa (S.dtman), person. The modern form would be atte, dat. pl. wttanta, and the addition of the suffix wa is remarkable. Kada, 8. Crude form of kadaya (contracted into kade), boutique, native shop. (Dravidian.) Kala, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Loc. sing. of kala (Sansk. kala), 'time.' Kalinga, on the Lion, - from Kalinga. This epithet may have been adopted by Parakrama Bahu the Great, either because the father of Wijaya, the first and rather mythical-king of Ceylon, B. c. 543, came from there, or more probably because he himself was a native of Kalinga. Vide Cuning. ham, Geog. of India, vol. I. p. 515 et seq: Kayasthayanta, 1. Dat. pl. of kayasthaya (Sanskr. kdyastha + nominal suffix ya), writer, scribe. Gosht yehi, 8. Loc. sing. of goshtiya (Sansk. goshthi), an assembly; not found in Sisihalese Dictionaries. Chakrawartti, on the Lion. A king who has tributary kings under him, and has no opponent within his own realm ; not necessarily, at least in Sinhalese usage, a universal king-emperor, over. lord. (Note the t is always doubled in Ceylon.) Chaurasi, 7. Not given in the dictionaries; asi is probably sword, and the word may mean thief-punishers, executioners; if so, it is characteristic to find these useful officers taking their places among the chiefs of the state. The word chauroddharta (Stenzler's Ydjnavalkya, II. 271) has suggested to me that our word might be chauruddhi,' and mean thief-catcher, peon, s being much like ddl in the Sinhalese alphabet of the 12th century, and that form would be an almost inexplicable corruption; the 8 seems quite clear, and it would be still more unlikely to find peons or police than executioners in the privy council. The word probably means body-guard, or something similar, but its form is remarkable. Duraja, on the Lion. The word is not found in the dictionaries. It is probably Sanskrit durandhara, and means burden-bearer or chief. Nissan k a, on the Lion. (Sansk. nisbanka, in which way the word is spelt in other inscriptions by this king), steady, unhesitating: an epithet of Parakrama Bahu, king of Ceylon and South India, 1148-1181 A.D. He is called in two or three inscriptions simply Nissanka Malla. The very curious proclamation, apparently addressed to the people just before he died without an heir, and recorded on a stone disinterred by me at the gate of his palace, in which, foreseeing the anarchy which would ensue, he urges the people to choose a proper ruler, begins with a Sanskrit stanza of which the last words are 4 Hear these wise counsels, they are spoken by Nitsanka Malla." Pandi, 6. (Sansk. Pandita), learned. See Ndmd. waliya, edit. C. Alwis, p. 47, stanza 179; moderu form pandita. Pot, 1. pl. of pota (Sanskrit pusta), a book. Pradhana yanta, 2. Dat. pl. of pradhe. na-ya (Sanskr. pradhana). Both in Sanskrit and Pali (conf. Waskadua Abhid. 340,' maha matto pa * The numbers following the words refer to the pillars as numbered on the plan.

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SEPTEMBER, 1873.] MOUNT ABU. 249 dhanan cha'); the word seems to mean exclusively WA. Really p. part. of we-nawa (see wa), but prime minister; the pl. form is therefore probably used as a suffix to adj. to be taken here also honoris causd, especially as Warana, 1. Pres. part. of war-anawa (Sanskr. ministers (@mati waru) are mentioned below vr), surrounding, taking care of. (Pillar 4). Warun, 4. Suffix added to names of persons or Bharaka, 6. The meaning of this word is animals to form the plural, prob. simply the acc. doubtful; the Sanskr. bharaka, load, is of unfre- pl. of Sanskr. vara. quent occurrence, and fits but badly here into the Warunt a, 6, 7. Dat. of last. senge. It may possibly be the name of a district, 1 Wira, on the Lion. Strength, heroism. or be equal to modern Sinhalese bara stewa, hav. Wahans e, 5, and on the Lion. A suffix to ing charge of, in which case Asam and Pandi must the names of persons added to the plural form, the be names of districts-Asam and Pandirata. In Honourable. Probably Sanskr. Bhagyavant. the absence of any authority for these latter Wes y ab hujaga, on the Lion. Ga is used meanings, the word is taken in the translation in in Elu poetry with the sense of upeta; bhuja is the Sanskrit sense. arm Sanskr.), and what wesya has to do in M&ndalika, 6. The word is not given in the this connection is so inexplicable that the reading dictionaries, but seems to mean either privy coun- is probably incorrect. cillors, or rulers of subsidiary provinces, provincial Wadae, on the Lion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Past governo: 8. The latter sense is supported by the part. of wad-i-nawa, to proceed, to arrive, to go: use in Narendra-charit-avalokana-pradipikdwa, used of persons of importance, especially of kings ch.- 66, Joum. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. XLI. p. 197. and monks (Sansk. vrt)-vide hindina. Ya,--nominal suffix added to almost all Sans- Siti, 5. Past part of sit-i-nawa (Sansk. sthd), krit nouns in Sisibalese. to stand, to be. Yi,--suffix occurring only at the end of a clause, Sisih a sanaya, on the Lion, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and signifying this is ; applied to the latter of 7, 8. Lion throne, royal throne, throne; loc. ye. two nouns in apposition. They is not pronounced, In this case there was actually a large lion, whose *Asanaya yi' being pronounced asanayai,' and fine proportions remind one of the Assyrian balls, is only used because the Sinhalese manner of and which formed the support, or one of the eupwriting does not admit of two vowels following ports, of the royal seat. A frieze of lions rans each other in one word. The i seems to be connect round the building. ed with the contracted form in nawa' for hiti Senewi-radunt a, 3. Dat. pl. honor. of senawa,' from Sansk. stha, or it may merely repre- newi-rade' (Sansk.? senapati-raja ; the derivation sent an emphatic raising of the voice at the end of the second component uncertain), commanderof the clause. in-chief. Yuwaraja, 5, The heir-apparent, crown. Sthanaya, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. (Sansk. sthaprince. na), place. Radunta. See senewi-radunta. Sri, on the Lion. Laskeswara, Lord of Ceylon; a name of Swa min, on the Lion. Acc. pl. of Swami, lord. Parakrama Bahu the Great, found on his gold coin Hindina, 4, 5. Relative part. of hind-i-nawa, which Prinsep hesitatingly assigns (edit. Thomas, to sit. Waeda-hind-i-nawa' is the honorific form of I. 421) to another. See Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. this verb, and is applied throughout to the king XLI. p. 199. only; of the rest only the adbips and the yuwaWa, 5. Suffix forming adj.; probably from root raja are said to sit; the rest probably stood. of 'we-nawi,' to become. | Hun. Past part. act. of above. MOUNT ABU. BY JOHN ROWLAND, BENGAL U.C.S. Mount Abu, or Arbuda--the mount of the base of the hill is supposed to be about 50 wisdom,' in the territory of Sirohi in Rajpu- miles. The highest point is Gari Sikar, tana, is regarded as part of the Aravali range, about 5650 feet above the sea. The ascent by but is completely detached on all sides. The the new road from Anadra is very steep, and is formation is chiefly trap, and granite of good accomplished on mules, or chairs carried by six quality, small blocks of an inferior sort of white or more coolies. The distance from the foot of marble are also found all over the hill the hill to the station of Abu on the summit is The mountain peaks are extremely irregular, about five miles. often-asuming fantastic shapes. The circuit of the station is charmingly situated on the fimiles

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250 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [BPTE, 1873. west side of the plateau of the hill, in a natural Uriya, to the north-east of the station, where basin surrounded on all sides by lofty peaks. It also the only really large cultivated space of partly overlooks the lake called the N akhi. ground is met with; but beyond one or two tal & o, which by the natives is said to be un- small jhils, which run dry in the hot weather, fathomable. It is clear, however, that it is form- and a few small streams, there is no other water ed by the closing up of a gorge on the west to speak of on the hill; and in hot reasons fears side, where the overflow runs off, and a band are entertained as to the lasting powers of the has lately been built to increase the depth of wells-indeed those in the station do run dry now water, fears having been entertained that it and then. The villages on the summit strike > might run dry or nearly so, should an excep- new-comer : the houses are built in the shape of tionally dry or hot season occur. There are wigwams, low, round, with pointed roofs, and several small islands with trees on them scat- are quite different from any seen in the plains tered about the middle of the taldo, but they below. The people are a wild-looking race, are almost submerged, and the trees are fast with long grizzly hair and beards, and scantidecaying. A path has been made all round the ly clothed; they always carry a bamboo bow lake, the straight lines of which sadly mar the and arrows; many of them wear & peculiar picturesqueness of the spot. charm round their necks, representing Vishnu The best view of the lake and station, embrac- riding a horse, generally embossed in silver and ing also a glimpse of the plain, is obtained from gilt. On inquiry I found that when a man loses Bailey's Walk, so called from the officer (the his father he puts on one of these amulets, but present Magistrate) who made it: it extends for what parpose they conld not tell me. The from the station to "Sunset Point" (the fa winter months in Abu are charming, the air is vourite evening rendezvous of the residents and fresh and bracing, and the ground frequently visitors), and crosses over one of the higher peaks white with hoar-frost. The sun, however, is hot of the mountain overhanging the lake. The in the day. Fires are necessary after sunset scenery from these heights and from the sides of from December to the end of February. In the the hill is of wonderful beauty and great extent. hot season punkas are seldom required, and at Early morning and evening are the most favour- night the breeze is always pleasant. In the rains able times to enjoy it, as in the heat of the day a good deal of fog hangs about the hill; but the the distant mountain ranges are often lost sightfall is not so heavy as in the other sanitariums. of in the haze. One misses here, however, the To the sportsman Abu offers many attractions. lovely tropical foliage seen to such advantage Seldom a day passes but news is brought into at many of the other hill stations, the trees on the station of a kill by a tiger or panther, Abu being small and sparsely scattered about. but the game, though plentiful, is difficult to get Date palms and corinda bushes are to be met at, owing to the facilities of escape afforded by with everywhere, as well as several kinds of the numerous rocks and caves all over the hill. fig, and a few large banyan trees. But though Sambur abound and do great damage to the the trees are small, their variety is great, and crops of the villagers, who can ill afford to have there is an ample field for the botanist on Abu their tiny khets cleared by deer; this, however, and its surroundings. Owing to the rocky nature often happens, and many are the entreaties of the of the surface, there is very little alluvial deposit, spoiled husbandman that the saheb will come and consequently scarcely any cultivation. Still and kill the enemy. Bears abound at the foot every available patch of ground is made the of the hill, and are often killed by the native most of, and wells sunk adjoining them for pur. shikaris, who sit up for them at night over water. poses of irrigation. The plots of land (they There are also said to be a few lions in the cannot be called fields) are watered by the Per. vicinity. At the base of the hill there is prosian water-wheel, and one may often see and bably as much small game of every description hear six or eight wheels in full work within a to be met with as in any part of India-peaquarter of a mile's radius. Besides the Nakhi. fowl, haren, partridges, quail, small deer, do. talko, there is a large tank at the village of The peafowl is very sacred, as well as the * The hill wus overran with Sambur until the youz 1868, great numbers, and, though yearly increasing, are nothing famous for the famine aad drought They died them in libero plentiful as they were before that date,

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MOUNT ABU. SEPTEMBER, 1873.] rock (blue) pigeon, and strict rules are laid down by Government for their preservation. Panthers do a good deal of damage on the hill, and the visitors and residents have to keep a sharp look-out, on their pet dogs after sunset. Mutton is the only meat procurable on the hill, and fowls, the main stay of the Indian khansaman, are dear and scarce. Owing to the pretended sanctity of Abu, and the prejudices, if we may.so term them, of the natives, which Government has bound itself to protect (for we are only tenants of Abu), no cow, ox, or nilghai may be killed on the hill. The idea among the lower class is that Abu is supported on the horns of a bull; when he is tired of holding it on one horn he jerks it on to the other, and this accounts for the earthquakes so frequently felt up there. There is a story to the effect that a late Resident, tried to convince the natives of the absurdity of this notion, and, to prove it, ordered a cow to be killed on a certain day. It was slain, and, as ill luck would have it, the next day the most severe shock experienced for many years occurred. This was conclusive to the Hindu, the experimenter had to own his defeat, and say no more about beef for dinner. Whilst at Abu I met two French gentlemen travelling round the world. Their indignation was great when they heard they could get no biftek,' and expressed their wish that Abu belonged to the French, who, as they said, would not only kill oxen on the hill, but the inhabitants themselves if they opposed it. This, said they, would strengthen our bodies and position as well. The visitor to Abu should not attempt to make any excursion or shooting expedition without a competent guide. No place is so easy to lose one's way in, and it is next to impossible for a stranger to find the road to a given spot, unless indeed it be on the main mule track: several instances have occurred of people losing their way. The inhabitants of the plains at the foot of the hill, and also of many of the villages on the summit, are chiefly Bhills, a wild and lawless race of men. No native is safe if he is known to have a rupee on him; he is not only sure to be robbed of it, but if he shows the least resistance is murdered as well. The country is so wild that there is little chance of catching the actual delinquent, and it is only in cases of dakaity, where a large gang of men have 251 been engaged in the crime, that justice overtakes the criminals. The road from Abu to Disa was very unsafe even a year or two back for the traveller. If he did not suffer himself, his baggage was almost sure to be looted; but the energetic measures taken by Colonel Carnell, the Resident at Erinpura, and the summary justice he metes out to these ruffians when caught, has been productive of much good. The only safe way to travel about is to take into your employ a Bhill guide, and the same system applies to the housechaokidar, called a Pagi. If you have one of these men in your employ, his tribe are supposed to respect you and yours for his sake. They are said to be very faithful and susceptible of kindness shown to them. In height and make they are like the Gonds of the Central Provinces, but have not the flat features so often seen amongst the latter race. Their hair also is longer, and many of them have thick beards and moustaches. I did not notice whether the women were tattooed, as the Gond women always are, but as they are blacker than the latter I may not have observed it on that account. Their clothing is scanty, and ornaments are rarely seen about them, with the exception of the gilt charm before alluded to. Many of them carry a matchlock, and those who do not possess a gun, always have the bamboo bow and iron-pointed arrows, as well as a formidable knife. They are wonderful trackers of game, surpassing in this respect, it is said, the Gond or Bhaigar. Their villages do not, however, come up to a Gond settlement so far as neatness of appearance and cleanliness is concerned. Most of the latter in the Central Provinces are well built of bamboo and charmingly neat and clean: those I have seen of the Bhills have anything but that character. They are a jolly, jovial set of fellows amongst themselves, and laugh heartily at any joke or comic idea that strikes them. Abu is celebrated for the number and beauty of its temples, especially those of the Jaina creed, some of them in perfect preservation, and others in complete ruins. At the base of the hill, on all sides, may be seen fine old shrines, a few still in use, but most.of them dilapidated. I will endeavour to give some account of the chief of those I have seen, though there are a great many more that want of time and opportunity prevented my visiting. The nearest shrine of any importance to the

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252 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. station is that of the tutelary goddess of Abu,Arbuda Mata. It is a small rock-temple formed out of a natural cleft on the side of the hill and overlooking the station. The rock is surmounted by a small white shrine, built more for ornament than use, or, as one of the Jogis told me, it is meant to catch the eye from a distance, and this it certainly does from all sides. The approach to this temple is by a rough stair of some 450 steps, through a shady grove of mango and a few champa trees. As soon as a stranger is seen, there is a frantic rush to close all the doors, so that I could see nothing of the interior of the place, which must however be very small. One of the attendants told me that there was nothing but one large idol inside, no inscriptions or ancient relics. The place is evidently one of some sanctity: many pilgrims were present when I was there, waiting to pay their devoirs to the goddess. The view of the station from the terrace is very fine-in fact the most extensive I have seen. As usual, the temple stands on the edge of a dry mountain torrent, but there is a spring of good water close by. Delwada:-Distant half a mile from the foot of the hill on which Arbuda Mata stands, and about a mile north from the station, are the celebrated temples of Delwada or Devalwada (the 'place of temples')-undoubtedly among the most beautiful Jaina temples in India. Tod, in his Western India, has so fully described them, and his opportunities for investigation, knowledge of the people, their language, and religion, were such as to render it useless to attempt adding to his account.+ Gaumukh, or, as it is also called, 'Bastonji,' the shrine of Vasishtha, is situated fully 500 feet down the south-western slope of Abu, and about three miles from the station. The path is a tedious one, and the temple is reached by a long flight of steps from the summit. The descent is shaded by luxuriant foliage on all sides, and the spot is a favourite one for the sportsman, as sambur are frequently met with in the neighbourhood, and one or two tigers frequently prey upon the cattle of the Brahmans living at the temple. The first object on reaching the temple is the fountain supplied by Delwada is in latitude 24deg 36' N., longitude 73deg 46' E., and 3,940 feet above the sea-level-ED. + Travels in Western India, pp. 101-118. See also Fergusson, Picturesque Illustrations of Architecture in [SEPTEMBER, 1873. water from a spout in the form of a cow's head, whence the name of the place. There are two small shrines on the edge of the tank, one containing an image of Mahadeva, the other of Ganesa; there are also two inscriptions on the sides, but they are too much worn to be legible. Close by is the temple, a plain brick edifice, surrounded by a high wall. The shrine of Vasishtha stands alone in the middle of the quadrangle. I could not gain access to the interior, though I much wanted to, as I heard an inscription was to be found inside which gave the date of the brass figure standing outside facing the door, under an ovate-formed cupola, as described by Tod. Tod affirms that he is one of the Dhar Pramaras, the last of his race, and that he is supplicating the Muni for an act of violence and sacrilege committed by him. He has, however, none of the usual marks of royalty about him, such as are seen on the figure with the bow at Achaleevara, and his position is the common one of all the memorial tablets in marble or stone. There are several small marble figures (bearded), both alone and with females beside them, in different parts of the temple. It is worthy of note that in nearly all the bearded figures I have come across, particularly those with swords, there is a boss, either oval or round, at one side of the head. It may be noticed close to the head of the brass figure, as well as in several of the other sketches. It is in no way connected with the head, and is not a shell, as I at first supposed. On the dress of the Dhar Pramara, as we must call him upon Tod's authority, are several pieces of silver let in, of the shape of our masonic emblem the square. I also noticed the same sign in the hands of some of the figures in the painted room at Achalgarh. Whether the design is accidental or emblematic I must leave others to determine. The figure of Syam Nath mentioned by TodSS is certainly a work of art, only surpassed by the Man-Lion incarnation, to be spoken of further on. There are two smaller temples in the enclosure, one dedicated to Patalesvara, the other to Mahadeva, but they contain nothing worthy of note. I noticed an emblem of the shape of a square' trough or dish with five balls in it: it is the only one to be seen on Abu. Hindostan, pp. 39, 40; and History of Architecture (ed. 1867), vol. II. pp. 622-635, 633.-ED. Western India, p. 118. SS Ib. p. 119. A yoni.-ED.

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SEPTEMBER, 1873.] The temples of Devangan, or Court of the gods, built on the ancient site of Lakhnagar, have never before been described, if indeed they have been visited, by a European. They are located at the foot of the mountain, on the south-west side, and may be approached either by the old road-a mountain path of the most rugged description and in some places almost dangerous-or from the Dak Bangala at Anadra, from which they are distant about two miles to the south. They are situated in a most lovely spot, and the place itself is worth a visiton account of its natural beauty. In the midst of a bamboo forest, in which are also some magnificent trees, on the banks of a mountain torrent bed over a pool of water clear as crystal, supplied from a never-failing spring and full of fish, are the ruins of the Devangan temples. They are shaded by lofty forest trees, and it requires no stretch of imagination to fancy oneself on the bank of a Welsh or Scotch stream, particularly in the cold season, when the air is cool and pleasant. MOUNT ABU. According to local tradition (for I have not been able to get at the written history of the place, which is extant in a Sanskrit manuscript of some age), in this place, now a forest and completely covered with tangled groves of bamboo, so much so that without a guide a stranger could not find the place, the city of Lakhnagar once stood, of which these were the chief temples. To judge from the surrounding debris, consisting of huge blocks of dark grey stone, granite, and marble, the temples must at one time have been of some importance. Not a vestige remains, as far as our limited time would allow us to determine, of the old city, which was probably built of brick. Numerous small ruined shrines still stand, though more or less fallen into decay, but they seem much more modern than the divinities they shelter. At present only the largest appears to be used. It is dedicated to Vishnu, of whom a large marble statue stands on an altar surrounded on all sides by smaller images of Ganesa, the Narasinha incarnation, and the Trimurti. On the opposite side of the stream and about thirty feet up the bank is a small shrine in which we found a Tripurari, and near it, under a heap of stones, a beautifully executed Narasinha. Some of the figures lying about in the court at Gaumukh are also very well cut.-ED. 253. This is without exception the finest piece of carving I have seen at or near Abu. The proportion and shape of every limb on all the figures is perfect, and the tablet, with the exception of one arm of Vishnu, and one or two of the smaller figures, is uninjured. Several more of these figures are lying about, and no doubt many more would be found if the place were properly searched. The natives say it is full of remains, images, and inscriptions; we had not time, however, to make a search, and the only inscriptions found are those under the Tripurari and the figure of Vishnu. They are exactly alike: viz.- 3 a da s Karori Doich:-This small but pretty temple, to the west of the hill and S.S.W. from Anadra, is said to be so called from the city of Karori Doich, which contained a karor or more of houses, though, as in the case of Lakhnagar, not a vestige now remains. The temple is a little white marble structure dedicated to Kali, whose black image was dressed up in her garish robes of crimson and tinsel. There are numerous small shrines with the usual images of Mahadeva, Siva, Ganesa, Hari, Lakshmi, &c., and one or two almost effaced inscriptions on the pavement. There is a wonderful statue of a Chobdar with his mace, about four feet high, rudely executed, standing on a large pedestal. The Mahant's house is charmingly situated, with a spacious terrace in front overlooking the plains and towards Mount Abu: indeed a finer spot for a residence could hardly be selected. Adjoining the temple is a deep bavli, and, lying about, several tablets with bearded figures on them. All had the boss before mentioned, and some a short inscription at the base: but the only noticeable difference between the figures was in the length and curl of the beard. This temple merits further and more careful investigation, as I heard that a historical inscription may be seen there. Gotamjior Gautama Rishi:-None of the European residents on Abu had ever heard of, much less seen, this little shrine. It is on the south side of the hill to the west of Gaumukh, and at about the same level. Difficult of access and at least five miles from Abut, it is scarcely worth a visit except for the lovely view obtained from the rock on which the temple stands. It is + When at Abu I heard of 'Gotamji,' and believe it to be on the S. E. side of the hill, about three miles from Abu-ED.

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254 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. a tiny stone building of great age, said to be over 1,000 years old, and to have been repaired 400 years ago. It contains but two images, one of Vishnu, and another of a female and a bearded male figure, both well executed in white marble. These were covered with paint and offerings. A marble Nandi stands outside. There are a few inscriptions cut on the doorposts, and a ruined bdali under the temple. Rishi Krishna (Rukhi Kishn):-These temples are at the foot of the hill on the southeastern side, and are worth a visit if one does not mind a fatiguing journey of 12 or 14 miles or more. The road is a rugged track not difficult to lose-in fact a guide is a necessity. The temple is in good repair, though ruins of other buildings surround it. The principal shrine is of white marble, and the saint is, as usual, locked up out of sight. The Mahant was absent, and his Cheld, a perfectly naked youth of some sixteen years of age, either could not, or would not, give us any information about the place. Facing the shrine of the saint, and under a well-carved stone dome supported on white marble pillars, stands an image of Garuda in the form peculiar perhaps to Rajputana. It is executed in the purest white marble-such as all the images on the hill are made of. The inscription on the base is so worn as to be illegible. On the step leading into the shrine is the only readable inscription, of which the following is a transcript : ga [SEPTEMBER, 1873. of very ancient ruins, which I had not time to examine. Here also may be seen the stone over which, as local tradition avers, after the flood, all the animals extant walked, leaving their footprints on the surface. Pilgrims visiting the shrine roll over this stone seven times. This has the effect of preventing their transmigration after death into the form of any of the animals that passed over the place. It would be interesting to trace the source of this legend, but, the Mahant being absent, we were fain to return in ignorance. It is said there was formerly a very large city here, and this is in a measure confirmed by the quantities of large bricks scattered over a great area on all .sides, but the jungle is so thick that, unless accompanied by a guide. Achalgarh and Achalesvara are distant from the station of Abu about six miles by the road and four by the footpath, which however cannot be taken even by mules. The road passes near the village of Uriya, just outside which are the ancient temples of Nandesvara, containing one or two images and an inscription. The first temple reached at Achalesvara is a Jaina one on the right side of the path, surrounded by a wall and approached by a flight of steps. Its exterior is the finest piece of workmanship, as far as detail is concerned, on Abu. The lowest line of figures over the base, is one of elephants standing out in bold relief with trunks joined one with another. Above this come tigers couchant, then processions of various figures, animals, and cartssome drawn by bullocks and others by camels. Above these are groups of wrestlers in various attitudes, and dancing figures, beautifully executed. None of these groups exceed eight inches in height: but above the wrestlers come larger detached figures, mostly female, in every possible attitude and form. Those on the south side are the most perfect; the north side being exposed to the weather, the figures are much worn away. The temple is built of a coarse description of white marble, now quite grey from exposure. It appeared to be perfectly devoid of internal ornamentation. I could find no inscription or date. Between this and the Agni Kund is a small temple dedicated to Siva, but containing nothing ||samata1913rAcetarasuda9ravIdane jAlIdAra tathAkyArAdArAjorI2 sAdabhagavAnadAsajI nirAnika mA naMdI gemisgeanceetabindagare || savata 1912 rAsarAvaNa suda 22 sukra somapurAnatAkara There are a few others on one of the pillars, but they are modern in character and date. .There are several small shrines within the enclosure containing the usual figures of Mahadeva, the Lingam, Gapesa, &c., but nothing worth noticing besides. Outside the temple is a magnificent banyan tree, the largest on or near the hill by all accounts, and to the north of this, some hundred yards off, is a small blook Achalefvara is in Lat. 24deg 87 N., and Long. 72deg48+ E., and about 4 miles north-east in a direct line from the sta tion. Gara Sikar lies well to the north of it in Lat. 24 89 N., Long. 79deg 49' E.-ED. +This inscription, which is in good preservation, is dated B. 1265 (A.D. 1288). It is translated by Prof. Wilson in the Asiatic Researches (vol. XVI. pp. 299-801). Good heelball rubbings of this and many other inscriptions have been sent me by Mr. Eaglesome, a few of which I have inserted in this article, and in the NOTE on next page.-ED.

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SEPTEMBER, 1873.] ABU INSCRIPTIONS. 255 From this we ascend to the highest point of Achalgarh, whence there is a magnificent view. Mrs. Blair's sketch in Tod's work is entirely wrong; indeed it is difficult to conceive how she could have so distorted it. On the summit may be seen the tank where the gods are said to bathe at night, the remains of an old granary, and a curious rock-cave decorated with frescoes of every imaginable design. I have now given a rapid sketch of those temples I have myself seen on and around Abu; but I believe I have by no means seen all that exist, and I know there are two or three of great size and age, containing both inscriptions and images. worthy of note. On the edge of the Agni Kund, now in atter ruin, stands the marble statue of the Pramirs with his bow, which Tod speaks of in such ruptures. Between it and the kand are three large stone buffaloes-life-size, and fairly executed. I conld not find the inscription on the plinth of the Pramara figure spoken of by Tod, but there are some almost effaced letters ander the bow. Tod has described the shrine at Achalesvars so fully that I need not attempt doing so again. There are many bearded figures with inscriptions on them in different places about the buildings. Here is one from a marble slab 18 inches by 10, on which is carved a bearded figure with sword and shield : se 1391 varSe ASADha sudi 10 some rAuta palasutarAutagajaNA pramAra* merakarApita Under the porch.of the principal sbrine may be observed seven large marble statues, not varying much in generalappearanceexcept perhaps in the length of the beard. In one corner of the court is a three-headed Brahms with a beard. There are some curious pillars outside the chief entrance, of a peculiar design and with long inscriptions. The bull and trident are just as Tod describes, them. There is 230 inscription in the temple but on the right-hand side of the door to the chief shrine is a long, thongh rather mutilated one; and another in the passage leading down to the well is in good preservation. Aehalgarh is approached through two embattled gates, and must at one time have been & very large and important fortress. The Becond of these, called the Champa Gate, leads to the little village on the ascent of the hill, as well as to the temples and summit of the peak.t The position is charming. There is a small lake at the foot of the steps leading up to the gate; the Jains temple of Paravanatha stands to the left of the path, and contains two large idols composed of the five metals. There is little to attract attention in the temple itself, except perhaps the tesselated pavement--the best in any of the Abu temples. I could find no inscription. I NOTE BY THE EDITOR. The remains on Abu well deserve careful delineation such as a hurried visit allows no time to attempt. The inscriptions would probably reward a careful collection and translation, but they are BO scattered, and in many cases Bo time-worn that it would take some weeks to prepare careful copies. Prof. H. H. Wilson, in the Asiatic Researches (vol. XVI. pp. 284-330), has translated a portion of them and analysed many others, the texts of the more important of which ought also to be included in any future collection. It is remarkable that while so many English officers have frequented the hill, there is no paper on any of the many interesting subjects it suggests. The art of its temples, its history, its legends and superstitions, its birds, reptiles, and insects, and its botany :- each of these would supply material for pleasant study and for an interesting volume. Mr. Eaglesome of the Abu Lawrence School, and his assistant, Mr. Armstrong, have kindly copied for me a large number of the inscriptions. Some of these I have engrossed in the preceding article, and others have been referred to in the notes. I add the following, from Gaumukh, printed line for line, from the rubbings, with the contents chiefly from Prof. H. H. Wilson's paper: On & pillar to the left of the large brass bearded figure in front of the temple is en graved e| saMvata 1552 varSe // bhAsATa va dira4 somArAji Then rond "Jagana Rade jogt Jota Baule joki"names to be found on many figures on and around the hill. On one at Gotamji, on the edge of water-trough, there is date given after the name, which appear to be " Sam vat 1707. There are many other inscriptions about the Managni Kund.Ed. + The peak is about 800 feet above the Jains temple at Achalekars, and 4,688 feet above the sen-level.-ED. It was built by Sasa and Burtan, two brothers, from ML dhavgadh in MAIYA, in the service of the Bank of Udaypur, Barn. 1560, but it has been restored, or rebuilt, since. On corner is rudely cut inscription dated Bar. 1778.- D.

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256 * THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [SEPTEMBER, 1873. zrI rANA vijaya usadAo prataSTA karAhI bheDo sadAyo mu rAjyeH // Ayasa gaTa demaro hajAra 1ro motIcokamo bAju caturanAthenaH baMda natha jamAvarI morA hemaronI lApanArI paramAzrIpAlhaNa mAlA naMga 86 sadAo nobata moTI hArthI catukyikAkA upalI joDI sAI prataSTA saMvata 1874 rAve. rAvitaH // shrii|| sAkha suda 15 huI kArakhAno sAropAso karAyoche sU0 nna nartya sIgaNota jetA devaDA bumajI rUbhAta sadurocho praNamatiH // makatA muMtAA burA kArakhAne upara cApara karAe subhaM bhavatuH | dasakatIghavIpomArI On the right side of the entrance to the tem- On another slab, 16 by 27 inches, on the ple, is the following, on a slab 9} inches by | same side, is the following, "recording the erec151,-recording the modern repair of the old tion (in Sarm. 1394) of the temple by Mahadeva building and erection of others by command of Padhi, by the patronage of Kuhnada Deva the Gaman Sinha, the son of Maharava Sava son of Teja Sinha the Chahuman and prince of Sinha of Sirohi in Sam. 1875 (A.D. 1818) - Chandravati, as well as the grant of several villages by Teja Sinha, Kabnada Deva, and the // zrIvasiSThamunIjI Chanhan Samanta Sinha. The priest is an // saurohInagare mAhArAvajIzrIsaksI. enemy to the Jaina Sect, as he congratulates panIkuvarajIzrIgumAnasopajIvacanAt saMvat the world upon the recovery of religion from heretics and opposers of the Srutis and Smritis. 285rA mAhAvada 5 sanu prAsAdasa. In S. 1506, the Rani Kumbha Karna, the son of darAbho kArakhAno karAo rUpI hajAra Mokala Rana, grants a village for the celebration 20 lagAyA sadAvrata sarU kAo goma of the Adinatha Yatra. In S.1589, the Maharaja vAkuMDa sadarAo dharamasAlA karAI jhaM Akhi erects a temple or a fountain"t: yo namaH zrIvazivAya // nidoSaHsatoditamitakalaH zrImAn kalakodvitaH tulyaH pakSayugepi hrssitvpurmi|| vapratApodaye / atyaMta kavibhibudharanudinaM saMsevito bhUribhiH navyaH kopi virAjate dinapatiH paattirmhaadev||kH||1yo manaH kalikaIme kavalitaH pApaMDisatvairatikoreH kiM ca gataH zrutismRtikathA vaiklymbhyaagtH| zrI // matpAdidharAsureNa sugurudatya puSTa kRtaH sacchaMdaM parivaMbhramAti bhuvane dAnairanekairvRSaH // 2 viditavacanatatvA // zrAvazivAyabhaMtaH nikhilabhuvanakammaraMbhAnavAhadakSaH / azubhaharaNadhArI dhIratAM yaH prayAtaH sa jayati bhubane ne ||shriimhaadevpaadiH|| 3 kiNc||srkhtii yasya purA janitrI ge.pAlasUnuH sa virAjate vedAtA dinAnAM sahakaniSThaH ||shriimaanmhaadevciraayjiivii // 4gAMtA payate lakSmIprajAtaM yasya kArcanaM zrImadaziSThabhuvanaM sagmAdapi manAramaM // 5 guroH prasAdAnmadhusUdanasya narottamo ve paramo gurUmeM / tayoH prasAdAvanaM suramya pazyatu lokAH paramaM pavitra / ||sstishriinRpvikrmkaalaatiitsNvt 1394 varSe vezApazudi 10'gurAvadheha zrIcaMdrAvatyAM cAhumAnavaMzobaraNa ||dhereyraajshriivejsiNhsusraajshriikaanhdeve rASTuM prazAsati sati- pATizrImahAdevana idaM zrIvasiSThasya / ||dhmaaytnN kArApitAmatyarthaH // tathA c|| cahumAnajJAtIyarAjazrItejasiMhena sahastena grAmatraya dt-bittu||5 // dvitIyaM cyAtuligrAmaM // 2 tRtIya tejalapuramiti // 3 tathA devAzrInihuNAkena sahastena sAhalUNagrAma varga // // thArAjazrIkAndadevena sahastena vIravAlAgrAma datta | nayA cAhumAnajAnIyarAbIsAmanasiMhana luhuli ||chaapuli| kiraNathala / grAmavayaM datvaM // zubhaM bhavatu // 7 // ||sNvt 1506 varSe bhASADhasudai / gurudine raannaapriimoklsutraannaashriikuNbhkrnnshsten|| ||pursaaddiiyaam datrI zrIbhAdinAthayAtrAbhAvivaNa pratidugaNI 4 pATizrImajinAthahaste zubhaM bhavatu // ||sNvt 1589 varSe vaizASa sudi 15 pUrNaguruvAre sastizrImahArAjazrImaSirAbaciraMjIcI gabhaSakAmanAMvarAkti ||paadishriiraaymlkraapitN pArAjIsvahasta.2905 devakAparU|zubhaM bhavatu // And on a similar tablet on the left side, some- ing Arbuda originally from the Himalaya range, what damaged at the bottom, is another dated of which it was a part; it records also some S. 1523 and 1524: "It consists of a panegyrio pecuniary gifts made by different chiefs, by the of the Muni Vagishtha, and narrates his bring. Mahiran Kheta, and Vira Rawal." * Rs.rol. XVLD-14.No. . Renuhop.No . 1 .Ram. PNom.

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SEPTEMBER, 1873.] MORBI COPPER-PLATE. 267 ||j0||oNnmH zrIvasiSThAya // zrImatbrahmatanUMjabrahmasadRzabrahmaikatA yo gataH brahmajJAnarataH pareNaparamai yogena yogaM gtH|| yaMsa |tHprnnmNti sambanilayaM mokSasya ye sAdhanaM taM vade bhagavaMtamekamaparaM pUmyaM vasiSThaM muni // vedArtha sakalaM purANamakhitaM yo beci // vedena pUrNaH zaMkaratulyatA girigato dhatte jttaamNddl| yaM brahmAravisomazakasadRzA devAH zaraNyaM gatAsta vaide bhagavaMtameka ||mprN pUjyaM vasiSThaM muni // 2 yo magnaH kalikame na kalinA mAnakatA yo gataH khyAtiryasya virAjate sumahimA yogena yoga gtH| // yasya zrIriva naMdinI vijayate trailokyapUcyA purA saurya puNyatamaH purANamahimA zrImAn vaziSTho muniH|| 3 yo manaH sahasAkRtidhunikRtinA kopasya pUre na ve vizvAmitrasa vairamitravacanAt yo brahmarUpaM dadau / daivajJaH satataM guNatrayapathAttyaktaH sadApabate ||soy brahmasutaH purANamahimA zrImAn baziSTho muniH|| 4 yo gatvA himavatamekamacalaM pUjyaM paraM devate nIto yena divAlayAta pathi gatI nAgo iMdo bhUtalaM putraM yasya jagattraya kanipuNaM saMsthAmya tasyopari saskAtyoM bhuvirAjate girigataH zrImAn vaziSTho mu ||niH|| 5 svAhAkAravicAracArapAnA nAdena vedadhvanidRSTiSTisumeghamepanipuNA yaddarjita garjitaM / pUrNA yasya mahIruhaH phalayu // tAH zAkhopazAkhairvRtAH zrIreSA jagatAtmanAM bhagavatI soyaM vaziSTho muniH|| 6 naMdIvartanaparvatoparigataM devaM zivaM dhUrjaTi yo ve // pUrNamanArathena sahitA ramyA ca maMdAkinI / yatkoTIzvarakoTilakSaNagataM kRtvA cale nizcalaM sopi zrImati bhArate dvijaguruHpU ||syo vaziSTho muniH|| 7yanmitrAvaruNena vAruNadizaM kRtvA tapo dudharaM tanja bhagavAnagastiraparaH khyAto vaziSTho muniH bhAryA // yasya satI satIca niguNA nAmnA ca yAruMdhatI taM vaMde bhagavaMtamekamaparaM pUnyaM vaziSTha muni|| 8kiMca // yasyaiva gaMgA kila nArajhaMpA "pANI kRtA yena purA satI sA / yatraiva dogdhrI nanu kAmadhenuH zrImAn vaziSTho bhuvanaM punAtu // 9 naM vade vedanilayaM nilayaM // sarvadehinAM / zrIvaziSTaM satAmiSTaM jagadAnaMdakAraka ||10oN svAmI zrInaMdarAja nityaM praNamatiH // saMvat 1523 varSe caitrasu ||khi 15 suke mAhArANAzrISetAjhAlAjASThayacATakA 50 variSa pratiSThitakaviH // saMvat 1514 varSe vaizASasudi 9 zanidinepAdizrImAllenAyearahaTa 1 eka ... ... cATakA zata 195 aMkaiTaMkAzatae // kapanarocarabhaMDArAhIrArAulapAI lodhA, ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... DIyArathAharUrAThIseSu evaM jaNA 5 pAMcavidyamAne bharahaTa lIdhA... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... zani darabhUsesa.hAjajhayAkara // vyAsobhIka bho ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 50 vAradIyA varaSa 1 mAtazatUMkA TekA ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... paDhirAyamalA isteH THE MORBI COPPER-PLATE. BY PROF. RAMKRISHNA GOPAL BHANDARKAR, M.A. BOMBAY. Throngh the kindness of Major J. W. Watson, a loan of this plate was obtained from the Morbi Darbar more than a year ago and a facsimile made, which, however, has only recently been printed. There were two plates a few years ago, but the first has gone amissing: it is supposed that it was lent and never returned. This is greatly to be regretted, as it doubtless gave the genealogy of the royal donor. The date is given in words which interpret the figures for Samvat 585 in the penultimate line : in this the figure 5 is recognisable enough, the vertical stroke with a line over it for a though found elsewhere, is less usual.-ED. TRANSLITERATION. aNabhagrahAravAstavya ( ) zANDilpasagotramaitrAyaNIya ( sabrahmacAribrAhmaNana.... jAnjAkAbhyAM sAhAdityasutAbhyAM payaHpUrvamAzazAGkAtapanANaM vasthiteH saMtAnopabhogyatayA mArtaNDamaNDalAyiNi svabhInI balicasvaizvadevAdisabrahmakR[kiyAyaM pitrorAsmanaca puNyayazobhivRddhaye pratipAditametayobedamupabhujatorne kenApi dezAdhipatinA vyAsedhaH paripanthA na vA karaNIyo bhAvibhidha bhUmipatibhirasmadvaMzajairanyaidA sAmAnya bhUmidAnaphalamanityAnyaizvaryANi mAnuSyakamapi prabalamArutAhatapadminIpatrasthitajala[la]valolamAkalathya duHpariharaduHkhaM kSaNikaM ca jIvitamAlocya[cyA?]tipracurakadayanAsaMcitamarthajAtamanilasaMgidIpazikhAcaMcalamAlocya vAcyatAcyutikAmairamaralamaNDalazaradidudyuvidhavalayazovitAnAcchA nabhobhAgamivAtmAnamicchadriratisvacchamanobhirabhyarthanAnuvadhyamAnerayamasmaddharmadAyonumaMtavyaH / vyAsAdimuninigaditapoLadhArmikanRpaparikalpitapaMcamahApAtakasamaya zrAvaNyaM ca cintayitvA bhUyobhUyo yAcanAnuvadhyamAnairidamanusmartavya smRvikAraupadiSTaM pakaH / SaSTi pari [) sahakhANi sammeM tiSThati bhUmidaH / Acchesa

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258 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [Brzam, 1873. cAnumaMtA ca tAnyeva naraka vaset / svadattA parabattA vA yo haretu [] vasuMdharA garvA zatasahasrasva hantuH mAprati kilipa // vidhyATavINvatIyA[sa] zuSkakoTaravAsinaH / mahAhayo di jAyate brahmavAyApahAriNaH // yAnIha davAni purA narendradAnAni dhammAtyayazaskarANi / nimmAnyAtapatimAni tAni konAma sAdhuH punarAdadAca // itikamaladalA burvidulolA zriyamanucitya manuSyajIvitaM ca // sakalamidamudAhataM ca dujA na hi puruSaH parakAyo vilopyAH // paMcAzIcyA yuvetIle samAnAM zatapaMcake / gaupta dadAvado nRpaH soparAgekamaMDale // lasadvarNAlIka samucitapadanyAsacira sadAcAyanAyaM nRganahi]Sakalpasya nRpateH / mukhasthenAbhAtaM dvijami. zivasvastivacasA likha janAgyoda[] zucitAra manA[] zAsanamiti saMvat 585 phAlgunasAda 5 svahastoyaM zrIjAIvasya zakarasatadehamAno] skiri // 6 // TRANSLATION. mentioned by the Munis Vyass and others, they [IT] is given by pouring water to the Brah- should, at our repeated solicitations, remember mans--and Jaijaka, the sons of Sihaditya, this saying of the authors of the Smritis :--The residing in the-hman Agrahara, of the San- grantor of land dwells in Heaven for sixty dilya gotra and student of the Maitrayaniya thousand years; while he who resumes it, or [sa kha), to be enjoyed by their descendants as approves of its being so resumed, dwells in long as the moon, the sun, and the oceans hell for as many years. He who takes away the endure, on the occasion of Rahu's touching the land granted by himself or others incurs the sin disk of the sun, for the performance of the of killing a hundred thousand cows. The Brahma ceremonies bali, charu, and Vaisvadeva, resumers of Brakman gifts are born as large with a view to the increase of the holy merit serpents dwelling in the dry hollows of trees and fame of himself and parents. No country in the waterless forests of the Vindhya. What officer shall hinder or obstruct these two in the good man will resume the gifts made by former enjoyment of this. And future kings, whether of kings for the sake of religious merit, prosperity, our race or others, bearing in mind the common and fame, which are like flowers once worn or fruit arising from grants of land, the transitori- matter vomited ? Thus reflecting that prosperness of all power, and the fact that humanity ity and human life are as fleeting as a drop of is as fleeting as a drop of water standing on the water on a lotus-leaf, and calling to mind all leaf of a lotus blown over by a violent breeze; that is said here, one should not blot out the seeing that life is full of ineradicable misery, fame of others. Five hundred and eighty-five. and momentary; observing that the store of years of the Guptas having elapsed, the king wealth accumulated with excessive toil is as granted this when the disk of the son was ansteady as the flame of a lamp open to (in eclipsed. Jajnagya, of a pure mind, has written contact with) wind; desirous of being free from this charter of the king who rivals Nriga and censure;. wishing themselves to be, like the Nahusha-a charter containing graceful lines of regions of the sky, shrouded in a veil of glory letters, charming on account of the use of apt as pure as the light of the autumnal moon with words, distinguished by its virtuous precepta, her spotless disk; and endowed with the purest and shining by its good and auspicious uttermind, should, at our solicitations, confirm this ances, like a Brahman whose mouth abounds grant of ours. And having reflected on the with such. Samvat 585, 5th of the bright half of declaration of the covenant about the five car. Phalguna. Sign-manual of Jainka. Engraved dinal sins laid down by pious kings of old, and by Doddaka the son of Sankari. PAPERS ON SATRUNJAYA AND THE JAINS. IV.-Translation from Lassen's Alterthumskunde, IV. 771 seqq. By E. Rehatsek, M.C.E. (Concluded from p. 200.) The cosmogonic system of the Jainas agrees excels it only in exaggerations, and the Jainas on the whole with that of the Purdnas, and I have, in some respects, transformed in pecu.

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7 mAlA samayalAya modakapayaH pUrvamA sAyakala vara ma alamala sAtha ye deva mayA dekhiye 246 madhye sAdhya merHyaha yasamA samaya phlmQ sarya vala ema kalA :46: h mAnaka deva dIpAya malamala dila ke da mAsUma musyoM kA kaha mamatA damaya pAkayama sAyada kunAko kanakavarada o kalakoTa fundene tair ( de da suMda (mamadApa Vip m Q saDakalA jejokokashya: sAdadItA kamaladala e8 hlo sayamakuma mADIvaM sakala vidamanako yAdamA samIrapAla kalamadA MCvasasivadayAla va em kA sA mAnavadyAtha kalA eka sUTa-6629?P4

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SEPTEMBER, 1873.) LASSEN ON THE JAINS. 259 liar manner the geographical system of the Brahmans. As it would lead too far if I were here to enter into a comparison of the cosmography of the Jainas with that handed down in the Mahabharata and the Puranas, I shall confine myself to an outline of the cosmography of this sect. According to their opinion, the world, which is eternal, is compared to a spindle resting on part of another. Other authors of the Jainas compare the world to three cups, the nethermost whereof is turned upside down, and the uppermost, with the middle one, touch each other at their circumferences. Lastly, others describe the world as a woman sitting with folded arms. Her body, or, according to the second representation, the middle cup, is the earth. The uppermost cup, or the upper body of the woman, answers to heaven, and is the habitation of the gods. The nether spindle, the lowest cup, or lastly, the inferior portion of the woman, represents in this cosmographical system the subterranean regions. The world is en. closed on its outermost circumference by the Lokaloka mountains, and the earth consists of seven duipas or islands separated from each other by oceans, the centre whereof consists of Jambudvipa. This island, as is well known, has obtained its name from the Jambi. tree, which botanists call Eugenia Jambolana. In the Jam bud vipa, Bharat varsha forms the innermost and chief portion of the world, and has a circumference of 100,000 yo- janas; the six remaining portions of the world have either received other names among the Jainas than among the Brahmans, or appear among the latter in another order than among the former. According to the Jaina view, the earth consists of two and a half parts of the world and of two seas; the former are called Dhattik a khanda, Jam bu dvipa, and Andra push ka; the latter are the sweetwater ocean and the salt ocean. Of the remaining geographical notions only one more deserves to be pointed out here, namely that Bharata, Air a vatta, and Videh a with the exception of Kuru, ure countries noticed in their works. The prominence of the country Videh & above other Indian countries might be explainable from the circumstance that it is specially particularised in the older history of the Buddhist religion. T The system of the gods of the Jainas is a creation peculiar to this sect, and departs from that of the Bauddhas as well as from that of the Brahmans, although they have, as the Buddhists before them, appointed a subordinate station in their Pantheon to the Brahmanio deities. The higher part of the world, or, according to their expression, the uppermost spindle, is the habitation of the Jinas; after them follow five regions called vimana, by which name, as is well known, the Brahmans designate the chariots of their gods; the centre is formed by the region Sarvarthasiddha, and the regions are called Aparajita, Jayanta, Vaijayanta, and Vijay, all of which names intimate that the inhabitants of these regions have acquired these habitations by the highest cognition and by the most perfect virtue. Beneath these regions follow nine worlds like steps, arranged in terraces, inhabited by divine beings and bearing the following names :Aditya, Prithu karma, Sa u manasa, * Colebrooke, Misc. Essays, II. p. 194 and p. 326. The writings consulted by him are the Sangrahanfratna and the Lokanathastra, both in Prakrit. + Some Remarks on the Relation that subsists be. tween the Jaina and Brahmanical systems of Geography. By the Rev. J. Stevenson, D.D. in the Jour of the Bo. B. of the R. As. S. IL. P. 410 seqq. with a map. The numbers communicated by him are the following, wherein it is to be observed that Mount Meru forms the centre also in this system, and that Suvarnabha mi is the extrement country and the playground of the gods :Radius of the circle enclosing the dufpas ......... ......... 25,350,000 Extent of Suvarnabhumi ......... 13,750,000 Extent of Lokaloka .............. 125,000,000 For Lokakalaka I read Lokaloka, because this name de signates, according to my remarks in Z. f. d. K. d. M. VII. p. 325, a mountain surrounding the outermost of the oceans and forming the boundary of the world. As this mountain is named in the Puranas, the Jainas have borrowed this idea from them. I These differences, which are of little consequence here, have been collected by A. Weber in his Satrusijayaind. hatmya, pp. 19, 20.. According to J. Stevenson's note to the Kalpasatra, p. 04. These three names are adduced also by Colebrooke, Misc. Essays, II. p. 322, and to this division also, according to A. Weber's remarka (ut 'sup. p. 90), the expression tri. khanda relates, which ooours several times in the Satru jayamahatmya. Hemachandra, IV. v. 946, p. 76. Airtvats is the name of a varsha or part of the world, and its mention here is not clear, nor is that of the name Kuru. According to A. Weber, ut sup. p. 90. II. p. 221 seqq. On the Buddhist system of the gods so Ind. Alt. III. p. 387 segg. yojanas. 166,100,000 Subtracting this from the radius of the whole ..... 250,000,000 Remain .......... 83,000,000 yojanas.

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260 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [SEPTEMBER, 1873. Sumanasa, Savisala Sarvatobhadra, Manorama, Saprabaddha, and Sudarsana.* After these celestial regions, the Digambaras, or pious men of the Jainas, place sixteen, and other authors twelve regions, which are arranged in eight grades above the earth. These have the following names :-Achyuta, Aruna. Pranata and Anatha, Sahas. rara, Sukra, Lantaka, Brahma, Mahendra and Sanat ku ma ra, Isa na and Sad hama. These twelve worlds are called Vimanas, and their inhabitants in common Kalpavasin. Lastly, the Jainas distinguish four classes of gods of low rank, namely: Vaim anika, Bhuvanapati, Jyoti sha, and V yantara. The last class contains the Pisa chas, Rakshasas, Gandharva s, and the remaining evil spirits and servitors of the gods of the Brahmans. The Jyotisha are, as the name implies, the stars, the planets, the moon and the sun. The gods inhabiting the abovenamed twelve worlds belong to the Vaima nikas. The class of Bhuvanapatis, i. e. lords of the worlds, consists of ten divisions, each five whereof are governed by the Brahmanic king of gods, Indra; in this class the Jainas reckon the Asurak u maras, the Naga ku maras, etc.; and they have, doubtless from hatred to the Brahmans, deprived their Indra of his particular servants the Gandharvas and Apsarasas. Let it be observed in conclusion that the preceding description of the system of the gods of the Jainas abundantly proves the thesis that the system of gods of this sect is a peculiar one, and that it has assigned a subordinate place to the Brahmanic deities. This is also plain from the circumstance that the Jainas consider all these beings to be mortal, the Jyotishas perhaps being the only exceptions. I Of the constitution and manner of living of the Jainas, I mean to point out only the princi. pal features, as a detailed representation of the subject is foreign to the purpose now in view. They consist of two large divisions : priests and devout persons are called Sadhu-the good; and laymen Sra vakas, which name, strictly meaning "huarer," designates also an adherent of Buddha. The names Mukta mbara, Muktavasana, and Digambar a apply only to those members of this sect which closely follow the laws of nudity S. The pions obtain also the name Yati, given by Brahmans from olden times to their penitents. The Jainas resemble the Brahmans in the following particulars :-they admit of four castes; they submit to the sacred ordinances called sanskara, which commence at the birth and last till mar. riage; they worship some of the household gods of the chief Brahmanic sects; and, at least in Southern India, Brahmans perform religious ceremonies for the Jainas.ll Their festivals are peculiar, and are especially dedicated to Parevanatha, the 23rd, and to Vardha. mana or Maha vira, the 24th Jina, in localities where temples are built to their memory. I The Jainas erect marble, and sometimes colossal, statues of these two Jinas.* Besides the festivals dedicated to them, they celebrate also * This name occurs also among Buddhists and designates among them a class of gods of the second dhyana ; see Ind. Alt. III. p. 391. + The Jainas assume, according to Colebrooke, Misc. Essays, II. p. 223, that the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars take too much time in their rotations around Sumeru in order to appear at the right time, and therefore they double all these celestial bodies. I Colebrooke, Misc. Essays, II. p. 223. Also Wilson, has, ut sup. represented the mythology of the Jainas. A coording to him, the name Kalpavd.sin refers to the circumstance that each of these twelve gods presides over one kalpa or period. S J. Stevenson's preface to his edition of the Kalpasitra, p. xi.; Colebrooke, Misc. Essays, I. p. 380. The name Adhu applies only to secular (not monastic) priests; (see below, p. 262, n. 1; Digambara-literally a man whose garment is space. On Sravaka see Ind. Alt. II. p. 461. || Colebrooke, in his Misc. Essays, II. p. 192, and Wilson, As. Res. XVII. p. 275. [The Priests in all the Jaina temples in Western India are Brahmans.-Ed. Inch Ant.] Wilson, in As. Res, XVII. p. 276. There is a cele brated temple of Parivandths on Mount Samota Sikhar or Parasnath in Pachete, on the frontiers of Ramgarh, described in the Description of the Temple of Parsvandtha at Samet Sekhar, by Lieut.-Col. William Francklin, in the Trans. of the R. 48. S. I. pp. 527 sega. On this spot this Jina obtained his deliverance, i.e. he died. There is a temple of Mahlvira, considered very sacred, near A p&puri, P&papuri, or Payapuri, in South Bih&r, on the spot where Mah &vira or Vardhain and died. it is frequented by many pilgrims from distant places. In the district Nevad, in South Bihar, there are three temples dedicated to this Tirthankara, and they are much frequented by Jaina pilgrima; they are described in Description of Temples of the Jains in South Behar and Bhaghalpur, by Dr. Fr. Buchanan Hamilton, Ty. R. As. 8. I. pp. 523 8699. In all these three temples Bhajak Brahmans undertake to purify and to adorn them, they also receive the pilgrims. In a fourth temple at Puri the footsteps of Mahayirs are shown to the pilgrims: here he is called Gautama MahAvire. A few inscriptions preserved there have been communicated by Colebrooke, I. pp. 820 seqq. under the title On Inscriptions at Temples of the Jaina Sect in South Behar. They owe their origin to pious Jaina named Sangrama Govardhanadusa, and one of them besn the date Samust 1686, or 1629 A.D. *As well as to Rishabhan&ths.-E. Ind. Ant.

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LASSEN ON THE JAINS. SEPTEMBER, 1873.] such as are kept by the other Hindus, e. g. the Vasantay atra, or vernal festival. From the Buddhist priests, the pious among the Jainas, have taken to the custom of living quietly during the varsha or rainy season, of devoting themselves to the study of their sacred scriptures, and of practising fasting and meditationt during that time. The Vaisy as among the Jainas engage in trade only, and the names Brahmana, Kshatriya, and Sudra denote among them other occupations and ranks.SS Before bringing this to a close, I have only to add an outline of the history of the sect, and to lay before my readers a condensed view of the present extension of the Jainas. Most probably Parava or Parvanatha, the 23rd Jina, may be considered as the real founder of this sect.|| He was the son of king Asvasena by his spouse Vama or Bhamani, and was born in Varanasi. The statement that he was a descendant of the old race, of Ikshva ku raises doubts, because Buddha's family, the Saky a dynasty, which reigned in Kapilavastu, is well known to have belonged to that ancient Soma - va n e a or solar race, and the Jainas would easily be tempted to attribute the same origin to the founder of their sect, especially as it had been attributed also to Rishabha, the first Jina. He died aged 100 years, on Mount Sameta Sikhara, in Southern Bihar, 250 years, it is said, before the demise of his successor, Vardhamana or Mahavira. The opinion that this Jina was a real person is specially supported by the circumstance that the duration of his life does not at all transgress the limits of probability, as is the case with his predecessors. According to previous researches, that event took place during the first or second Wilson, As. Res. XVII. p. 272 and p. 277. + See Ind. Alt II. p. 450 and p. 723. J. Stevenson's Preface to his edition of the Kalpasutra, p. xxii., and p. 9 of the text. The expression for it is Paryushama, and in the vernaculars Payashan. This period of time is divided into two sections, 1. e. one which begins 50 days before, and another which commences after the 5th day of the bright half of the month Bhadrapada, i. e. about the 26th July. During the first portion the Svetambara sect, characterized by its white dress, fasts, and during the second that of the Digambaras. On the Srawacs or Jains, by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton in Trans. of the R. As. 8. 1. pp. 531 sega: The Jainas of South Bihar are treated also in the following dissertation:-On the Srawacs or Jains, by Major James Delamaine, Bengal Army, ibid. I. pp. 418 seqq. Colebrooke, Misc. Essays, vol. II. p. 812 and I. p. 381. According to this passage, he had also the name Lunchitakess generally in use among the Jainas, 261 century of our era.+ Of the next Jina, i. e. Vardhamana or Mahavira, also Vira, we possess more extensive biographies than of any of his predecessors, since the Kalpasutra deals specially with this subject, and since it has been treated with predilection also in other writings of the Jainas; that book is moreover the oldest among the Jainas, the date whereof can be accurately fixed, because its author Bhadrabahu was a contemporary of the Vallabhi king Dhruvasena, and because the time of the Jina Suri Achara, the author of the most important Purana, is not quite certain. One consequence of his great fame was that many miracles are related of him, and that supernatural power has been attributed to him. His father's name was Siddhartha, and his real mother's Trisala; the statement that his father was descended from the old epic monarch Ikshva k u must in this case also be a fictions. The information that his wife was called Jasod a must also be an invention, because, as is well known, one of the three spouses of the founder of the Buddhist religion bore a similar name, viz. Jasodhara. Mahavira renounced the world in his 28th year, devoted himself entirely to a pious and contemplative life, and after two years had advanced so far that he attained the rank of a Jina. During the next six years he laboured with great success in the propagation of his views, and then took up his habitation in the village Nalanda, P in Magadha, which is often mentioned in the oldest history of the religion of Sa kyasinha. Here he gained, among other persons as disciples, also Gosala, and convinced Vardhanasena, an adherent of Chandracharya, of his errors. This latter ob because, when he entered the priesthood, he cut off five handfuls of hair. Of him also the 5th chapter of the Kalpasitra, p. 97, treats, and Hemachandra v. 28, p. 6, where also he is called Parava. P Colebrooke, Misc. Essays, II. p. 268. Thus, e. g. his predecessor lived 1000 years, according to Colebrooke, Misc. Essays, II. p. 212. [Vide ante, p. 139.] + See above, p. 197: See above, p. 198. Kalpasitra, I. p. 221 seqq.; Colebrooke, Misc. Essays, II. p. 213 seqq., and Wilson, As. Res. XVII. p. 251 seqq. According to the last author he was born in the unknown town Pavana, in Bharatakshetra. The father of this Jina is also called Srey Ania and Yaiasvin, and. his son 8 ramana. I See Ind. Alt. II. p. 68. Prince Sarvavira was the father of Jasoda On this celebrated village see Ind. Alt. IV. 602.

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262 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. served the injunctions of Paravanatha concerning dress, which Parsvanatha admitted, but Mahavira on the contrary entirely rejected; therefore the adherents of the predecessor are called Svetambara, i. e. white-dressed, whilst those of Mahavira are, on account of their nudity, called Digambaras. Afterwards Mahavira roamed through various regions of Central India, but especially through the countries on the middle course of the Ganga, in the neighbourhood of which the town Kau e am bi is situated. Here he devoted himself during nearly eleven years to the strictest asceticism and to the hardest privations, whereby he attained the highest degree of wisdom and sanctity. Thus he awakened the envy and hatred especially of the Brahmans in Magadha. Three sons of the Brahman Va subhuti, born in this country, of the Gautama family, called Indrabhati, Agnibhuti, and Vayubhuti, imagined they could refute the doctrines of Mahavira, but were vanquished by him and became the most zealous adherents" of their former antagonist.+ The latter betook himself after this brilliant success to the court of king Hastipala in Apa papuri. or Papapuri or Pavapuri, in the vicinity of the ancient capital Rajagriha, where, at the age of 72 years, he terminated his eventful life. After his death his corpse was solemnly burnt. If Parevanatha is to be considered as the real founder of the Jaina doctrine, Vardha mana or Mahavira must be regarded as the propagator thereof. His chief tenets were that he attributed a real existence to jiva, the soul, and supposed that it imparts life to individual bodies, and is destined to bear all the pains and troubles of migration through many various forms, until it gets liberated from these bonds On the position of this town see Ind. Alt. III. 200, note 2. [SEPTEMBER, 1873. through the deepest insight into the true nature of things and by the most perfect virtue.SS He further maintained that matter is a reality, and thereby rejected two fundamental doctrines of Buddhism, according to which all existences are without contents and substance, and the first cause of all things is avidya, i. e. non-existence and untruth. Mahavira acquired many adherents, as the following statements will prove. The number of the holy men or Sadhus amounted to 14,000, and of the Sadhvis or holy women to 36,000; the Sramanas, i. e. pious men acquainted with the sacred scriptures called Purva, amounted to 300. The number of the Avadhijnanin, orsuch priests as are acquainted with the limits of the injunctions was just as considerable. There were 700 Kevalin, i. e. pious men who abstained from works and devoted themselves 'entirely to contemplative life, and 500 Manovid, i. e. possessors of wisdom. By the name Vadin, men are designated who are skilled in carrying on disputations: their number was 400. The number of Sravakas or laymen amounted to 51,000, and that of the Sravikas or women of this kind was stated to be 300,000, an evident exaggeration. Of the eleven most prominent disciples of Mahavira, only Indrabhati and Sudharma or Sudharman survived him. In favour of the view that Mahavira was the real propagator of the Jaina doctrine, it may be adduced that the writer of the Satrunjayamahatmya makes him the author of his book. That this doctrine was propagated from Magad ha, or, if it so pleases, from Southern Bihar, to the other parts of India, becomes almost certair from the circumstance that Mahavira botained his most important triumphs just in that country, and that he, as well as his predecessor Paravanatha, died and was buried there. To Wilson, As. Res. XVII. p. 256 seqq., who communicates several statements about these three and the cight remaining disciples of Mahavira from the commentary of Hemachandra to his Dictionary, and justly notices that Buchanan Hamilton is mistaken in assuming, in the Trans. of the R. As. S. I. p. 538, that Indrabhuti, who is, on account of his descent of course, also called Gautama, is no other than Gautama Buddha himself. Hemachandra enumerates, I. v. 31 seqq. p. 7, the 11 Ganddhipas or presidents of the assemblies, who bear the following names:-Indrabhuti, Agnibhati, and Vayubhati: these three brothers were Gautamas; Mandits and Mauryaputra were step-brothers and respectively descendants of the Vedic Rishis Vaishtha and Kasyapa; Vyakta, Sudharma, Akampits, Achalabhratri, Metarys, and Prabhasa, were likewise descendants of ancestors of Brahmanic familien Kalpasutra, vi. p. 84 seqq.; Colebrooke, Misc. Es. says, II. p. 215, and Wilson, As. Res. XVII. p. 261. The statement here made, that Mahavira died 1669 years before the conversion of the Chalukya king Kum rapala to the doctrine of the Jainas, is just as worthless as the information that the Kalpasutra was first publicly read 980 years after that event; this monarch began, according to Ind. Alt. III. p. 567, to reign in 1174, so that Mahavira would have died 495 years before Christ. Wilson, As. Res. XVII. p. 259. See Ind. Alt. II. 461. Wilson, As. Res. XVII. p. 260. He properly observes that Sadhu is not a general name for Jaina priests, but only for one division of them; this conception of the name is preferable to that given by J. Stevenson (see above, p. 260, n. SS). On the title Purva see above, p. 199.

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SEPTEMBER, 1873.] this it is also to be added that numerous Jaina pilgrims from distant Indian countries, e. g. from Lower Rajasthan, wander to Gay a and to other holy localities of South Bihar." So far as the successors of the last Jina are concerned, Bhadra bahu, the author of the Kalpasutra, has given a list of twenty-seven of them with reference to their descent, together with the years in which they followed after Mahavira and his successors.t As the last of these successors is said to have followed in the year 993 as a propagator of the Jaina religion, it is self-evident that, although the names may be correct, the chronological data of this list are worthless. Here it must not be overlooked that the last chronological data occur only in one manuscript. I suspect that the author of the Kalpasutra, after pushing the time of Vardhamana into too remote an antiquity, has united with each other several lists of contemporaneous chiefs of the Jaina doctrine, so as to present contemporaneous spiritual representatives of this sect as successors. Now I pass to the comparison of the data concerning the propagation of the Jaina doctrine from Magadha to the other parts of India. It appears very influential during the reign of the Chalukya monarch Pulakesi, who governed a great portion of the Dakhant from about 485 till 510. From the circumstance that, according to the testimony of Hiwen Thsang, Buddhism had formerly flourished much in Julya or Chola, but had in his time entirely disappeared from the country, as well as from the fact that the Jainas, according to incontrovertible testimonies, conquered the Buddhists in this country SS,-I have already drawn the conclusion that the Jainas had been very powerful in this part of the Dakhan towards the end of the sixth century. In LASSEN ON THE JAINS. Buchanan Hamilton, Trans. of the R. As. Soc. vol. III. p. 552. P. 100 se 19. The first is Sudharma; after the 8th Mahigiri, the predecessor of B alis & la, the first of the second list, and the Suhasti who was his contemporary, a double list follows; the first terminates with four funders of sikhus or sects of Jainas, which are called Nagila, Padmila, Jayanta, and Tapasa; the second with Kshamasvamin. See Ind. Alt. IV. 97, 98. SS See Ind. Alt. IV. 127, and on the names and site of this country p. 231 and also note 3: I See Ind. Alt. IV. p. 246. See Ind. Alt. IV. 239, and Wilson's remarks on the time of this king in Historical Sketch of the Kingdom of Pandya in T. of the R. As. S. III. p. 218. According to Ind. Alt. IV. p. 237, note 2, it is dubious whether the cele 263 this district we find this sect still flourishing at the end of the tenth century. In the southernmost district, that of the Pandyas, this religion, which succeeded that of Sakyasinha, likewise found entrance, and the ruler of that country, Kuna Pandya, who is proba bly to be placed in the ninth century, was at first inclined towards it, but afterwards went over to Saivaism. On the Malabar coast the princelings in Tuluva, the principal of whom resided in Ikeri, who were descended from Jaina women, and were formerly dependants of the dynasty of Vijayanagara, greatly loved the doctrines of the Jainas.* In Gujarat, which is more to the north, the Jaina religion enjoyed the protection of the powerful Valabhi monarch Siladitya, who ruled his extensive realm with a firm hand, from about 545 till 595, although he did not, as has been asserted, belong to this sect himself.t Of the Yadava s who reigned in the peninsula of Gujarat during the last moiety of the twelfth century, one, Mandika, was most probably an adherent of the Jainas, because in the inscription relating to this dynasty he is said to have worshipped Nemi, the 22nd Jina. This doctrine was especially promoted and protected by the family of the Chalukyas which reigned in Chandravati, on the western slope of the Arbuda mountains, under the supremacy of the Vaghela dynasty.SS In this respect Tejapala and his brother Vastupala particularly distinguished themselves. On this mountain they built temples, planted groves and trees, and dug tanks on the roads, in the villages and towns.|| The temples were consecrated by these two pious brothers themselves. The temple which was completed in the month Phalguna deserves special mention. In it statues of the ancestors brated Tamil teacher and author Tiruvallaver was a contemporary of this prince, although tradition makes him so. See Ind. Alt. IV. p. 180, and Francis Buchanan, A Journey from Madras, &c. 111. p. 8, p. 668, p. 74, p. 78 seq7. &c. The dynasty of Vijayanagara reigned from about 1336 till 1561. + Sue Ind. Alt. III. p. 315 seqq. See Ind. Alt. 111. p. 570. SS See Ind. Alt. III. p. 57, with note 3, where the names of the members of this family are given. According to Ind. Alt. III. p. 577, the Baghelas reigned from 1179 till 1297. Wilson's Sanskrit Inscriptions at Abu, in As. Res. XVI. p. 308. This is inscription XVIII. 2 seqq. The month Phalgun answers to the last moiety of February and the first of March.

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264 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. of these two brothers, of their wives and sons, were erected. They appeared as the regents of the ten higher spheres, and as if in the act of looking at Kandapa, the founder of their family. The statues were represented riding on elephants, which animals are greatly venerated by the Jainas as well as by their predecessors the Bauddhas.* The high esteem enjoyed by these two brothers is also evident from statues of their wives having found a place in this temple, and from Teja pala having erected a genealogical tree of his spouse Anupama Devi.+ At the sides of this temple 52 cells had been arranged for the principal Jainas, and at the entrance to the temple there was a varandaka, or porch.++ The nature of the testimonies on the propagation of the Jaina doctrine from Magadha to other parts of India suffers from two defects inseparable from them; firstly because they are very incomplete, and secondly because from the - religious opinions of the rulers of Indian countries no conclusion can be drawn as to the number of their subjects who professed the religion of the Jainas. This gap may safely be filled out by the statements about the present extension of this sect, because it is certain that it has won no new adherents in later times. Magadha, or, according to modern terminology, Southern Bihar, the original country of the Jainas, is their principal seat.SS In Mala va there are also many Jainas; here they are split into many sects, they observe the fasts, and the law of ahinsa or non-injury to living beings very strictly, and are very active and honest. They engage chiefly in commerce here also. They agree with the Buddhists in calling the highest deity Adina tha; this These ten spheres are probably in the nine higher egions of the gods and demigods, together with the highest, i. e. of the Jainas; on this see Colebrooke's Observations on the Jains, in his Misc. Essays, III. p. 221. Namely inscription XVIII. 40 seqq. As. Res. XVI. p. 307. Thus must no doubt be read for balanka. SS This is particularly clear from Buchanan Hamilton's account, Trans. of the R. A. S. I. p. 585 se 1q. mentioned above, p. 261, note SS. Sir John Malcolm, A Memoir of Central India and Malwa, II. p. 162 seqq. To conclude from the contents, the dissertation of James Delamaine in Trans. of the R. As. S. I. p. 413 se1q. quoted above, p. 261, note SS, refers also to Malava; this supposition is confirmed by the circumstance of its having been submitted by Sir John Malcolm to the Asiatic Society. James Tod's The Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, I. p. 726: II. p. 734, &c. [Madras Ed. I. 622; II. 672.--ED.] [SEPTEMBER, 1873. is known to be also a name of Buddha, especially among the Nepalese. They prefer Parvanatha, the penultimate Jina, to Ma havira the last. In the west of the Aravali chain, or Marwar in the wider sense of this name, adherents of the sect which now engages our attention are not wanting; this remark applies especially to Jodhapura. On the other hand the Jaina religion maintained in Gujarat its old prominent position; there adherents of this sect live in most of the towns, and in the peninsula of this name there is scarcely a village which does not contain several Jainas. The sanctuary praised so much already in the Satrunjayamahatmya, and situated on the mountain of the same name, has been in much later times also visited by devout pilgrims. This fact appears from three inscriptions preserved in the adjacent Palitana. The essential point of the second inscription is that Dasa Karmasa ha, who was a descendant of a Gana dharachandra or president of an assembly, and is zealously devoted to the Jaina doctrine, was by the liberality of the emperor Akbar, who is justly prais: 1 for his tolerance, placed in a position to again renovate and to embellish that sanctuary. The third inscription reports that the pious Tejap a la undertook in the year 1583 a pilgrimage to the sacred mountain Satranjaya and richly endowed this sacred place. After this review of the propagation of the Jainas in Hindostan I turn to the Dakhan. In the wide region of the north-western Dakhani highland inhabited by the Ma harashtras or Marathas, Brahmanism dominated so much that but few adherents of the sect in question would be induced either to Edward Thornton's Gazetteer, &c. II. and the word Guzerat. They are published under the following title: Inscriptions from Palitana. Communicated by Capt. LeGrand Jacob in the J. of the B. B. of the R. As. S. I. p. 56 seqq. The inscription communicated on p. 57 he translated only as an extract; the second, p. 59, by A. B. Orlebar with the help of Venayaka Shastree; it is dated Samvat 1637, or 1580, in the reign of the Emperor Akbar. The third inscription is translated by Ba! Gangadhar Shastri and dated Samvat 1650 or 1583. Akbar reigned from 1556 till 1605. The text of the two last inscriptions is printed on p. 94. [Though Lassen specks of the inscriptions as "in dem benachbarten Palitana," they are from Satrunjaya itself.-ED.] According to the note of LeGrand Jacob in the J. of the B. B. of the R. As. S. I. p. 56, Palitana, Sametasikhara (on which see above, p. 260, note T), and Gininagara in the peninsula of Gujarat, with Mount Arbuda, and Chandragiri in the Himalayas, are the sacred localities most visited by the Jainas. [On Arbuda vide ante, p. 249.-ED.]

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SEPTEMBER, 1873.] SRAVANA BELCOLA. 265 settle or to remain there. In the north-eastern Taprobane. This king of the Hindus had Dakhani highland the Jainas constitute no his seat in the Chatagia mountains. The small a portion of the population that they are not Hindus worshipped Apollon, Here, and Artemis worth mentioning. Their chief seats are partly as gods, and sacrificed annually to the first in the southern half of the Dakhani highland, deity horses, to the second cows, and to the partly in Tuluva or South Kanara, on the Malabar third new-born boys. coast.* Their chief seats in this portion of In order to understand this report, it is first Southern India are as follows:-Maleyur, to be noticed that after the occupation and Balagoda or Belligola, and Madu appalling devastation of the capital, Dehli, giri, whero also are a few famed temples of in A.D. 1398, Taimur caused himself to be the Jainas. Of these holy places Belligola proclaimed Emperor of India, and on his deor Bala goda appears to be the principal parture from India left the former emperor, one, because we possess a special list of the Mahmud Toghluk, a fugitive.ll It is an teachers there. I error that he subjugated the whole of India and As the reports of Byzantine authors about Taprobane. How the name of the Hindu India are too insignificant to be treated in king Tza chatais is to be explained defies detail, I prefer to utilize their communications me; and further, there is no region in India the of this kind, whenever they are worth discuss- name of which bears any resemblance to Chaing, for the history of Indian commerce, or to tagia. In the asvamedha, the equine sacrifice, put them on suitable occasions before my readers two horses are offered, not to Apollon or Surya and to explain them. The only information to be however, but to one of the two great popular considered in this place occurs in the history of gods. It may properly be questioned whether Laonikos Chalkondylas, and refers to at that time the Hindus sacrificed cows, which a period immediately after the time of Taimur S. they deemed sacred, to the honour of Here, The material contents of this passage are, that although bloody offerings were made to Durgii, this bellicose monarch had been attacked by who alone can be meant here. T The report nine kings, among which was also an Indian that young boys were sacrificed to the moon. king named Turtuns; but ho marched over goddess is just as incredible; the only true fact the Araxes or Oxus, victoriously repelled is that to Kali or to Cha munda small inoffensive these attacks, and subjugated, besides other animals were offered, ** and therefore the Byzancountries, also the whole of India as far as Itine historian called his Hindu goddess Artemis. JAIN INSCRIPTIONS AT SRAVANA BELGOLA. BY LEWIS RICE, BANGALOR. At the Jain village of Sravana Belgola,tt the loftier Chandra Bitta on which stands on a smaller hill named Indra Bitta, facing the colossal image of Gomatosvara , are a * This results first from Francis Buchanan, A Journey from Ferro, and is situated 30 English miles west of from Madras, &c. I. p. 113, p. 240, p. 333, and p. 421 ; II. Mudgal.- [Sce Ind. Ant. II. 120.-ED] p. 74 seqq. and p. 80; III. p. 19 se 17., p. 80, p. 89, p. 109, 1 As. Res. IX. p. 201 ser! p. 27. p. 491, p. 93, p. 120, p. 131 bis, p. 134, p. 391, and $ III. p. 103 of the Bonin edition. The passage bere p. 401 ; further from a dissertation by the same author in As. alluded to relates to the beginning of the year 1405. The Res. IX. p. 279 se79. bearing the title : Particulars of the other statements of Laouikus Chalkondylas Jainas, extract from a Journal by Dr. Francis Buchanan. about India either contain matters already familiar, or are Accurate information about the Jainas of those parts is exaggerated and incorrect. It is well kuuwn that the contained in the following tract Account of the Jains, Hindus are divided iuto castes, and that there plants grow collected from a Priest of this Sect, at Madgiri, translat- to an unusual size, which however this wuthor greatly ed by Cavelly Boria, Brahman, for Major Mackenzie, ibid. exaggerates. The magnitude of the Bamboo-reeds, from IX. p. 244 seqq. The latter wrote also Extracts from a which the Hindus innufacture river-boats, was reported Journal of Major C. Mackenzie, ibid. IX. p. 272 seja. upon according to above, II. 1. 623, by Herodotas, already. + J. A. Dubois, Mours, Institutions, et Cerdmonies Besides the known rivers Ganges, Inilos, Hydrapes (sie), des Peuples de l'Inde, II. p. 509. The author gives on Hydraotes, and Ilyphusix, he mentions also the Angathines, p. 499 segg.. an interesting report about the doctrines and which may perhaps bears corruption of the name manner of living of the adherents of this sect in those parta.. Akesines. ll Ferishtu by Briggs, I. p. 172 ser. Marejuris a village situated in Southern Maimur: See Ind. 410. IV. p. 631. Mudu ghorri or Mudgert may be the same with #. See Ind. Alt. IV. p. 07. Muddukhrat, which town, according to Edward + This spelling is unlopted on the nuthority of an inscripThornton's Gazetteer, &c. I. voc., is situated in the Madras tion at the place. The name according to this version is Presidency 17deg 54 N. Lat. and 91deg 42 E. Long. from Ferro. derived from Old Kan. bel, wliite, and kollu, softened in Balagoda, which is also spelt Balikota, is, according combination to go!!, pond or tank. There is a very large to the same work, in 16deg 10 N. Lat. and 930 36' E. Long and fine tank between the two bills.

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266 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [SEPTEMBER, 1875. rumber of inscriptions cut in the rock both on the summit and around the sides. The char- acters in which they are engraved are of a urious elongated form, measuring a foot or aore in length, strikingly distinct in the rays of the sun, but scarcely distinguishable when in shade. The inscriptions consist mostly of three or four lines apiece, and are scored about in all directions, without any appearance of order. The learned men attendant on the Jain pontiff of the neighbouring math can neither read the characters, nor give any account of the inscriptions. After varions attempts I succeeded in getting a clue to the letters, some of which resemble those of the Kanarese -alphabet. On applying the key thus obtained, the inscriptions are found to be written in the ancient Kanarese dialect. The one of which a facsimile and rendering are now given proves to be an epitaph to a Jain saint. None of the inscriptions I have seen contains a date, and in the present in. stance there is nothing on which to found a con. jecture as to its antiquity except the archaic forms of expression, and these hardly form a suf. ficiently definite basis on which to proceed. I hope, however, in a future contribution, to give renderings of others which contain more his. torical information, and from these an approximation to the age of these inscriptions may be more safely made. TRANSLITERATION. Sura chapam bole vidyul lategala tera vol manju vol tori begam piridha eri rupa lili dhana vibhava mahi m. sigal nillar argge paramarttha mechche nin i dharaniyu! iravan endu sanyasana gayduru satvannadi Sena Pravara muni vara deva lokakke sandar. TRANSLATION. Rapidly scattering like the rainbow, like clustering flashes of lightning, or like a dewy cloud, to whom are the treasures of beauty, pleasure, wealth and power secure? Should I, who love the chief good, remain attached to this world? Thus saying, he assumed the state of a sannyisi, and by his virtue the eminent muni Sena Pra vara reached the world of gods (deva luka). Bangalore, 19/h July 1873. THE MRITYULANGALA UPANISHAD. BY A. C. BURNELL, M.C.S., M.R.A.S., &c., MANGALOR. For a long time our knowledge of the Upa- | 1871-2, I, however, found two MSS. of this nishads was derived from Anquetil du Perron's tract. One (No. 7210) is written in Devankstrange translation of a Persian version of fifty, gari, and is about 100 years old ; the other (No. made about two centuries ago, to gratify the 9727) is a palm-leaf MS. in the Graatha chacuriosity of a Muhammadan Prince. Of the racter, and much injured. It is probably 200 large number mentioned and paraphrased in years old. This tract is perhaps wrongly this work the original Sanskrit texts have been included among the Upanishads-it rather bediscovered except in a few instances; one of longs to the Tantric worship.t. Yet, as it is these exceptions is the forty-second of du Per. included by so good an authority as the Persian ron's list, the frat-lankoul, which he explains translators, it may be worth while to give an as "Halitus mortis." Prof. A. Weber, who account of it. The Tanjor MSS. present difhas thrown light on all the burning questions" ferent recensions,-a shorter, the Devanagari ; of Sanskrit literature, has, in the ninth volume and a longer, the Grantha. This last seems of his Indische Studien, also discussed this to be the nearest to what the Persian translator missing Upanishad, and by his almost intuitive had before him. knowledge of the Upanishad literature suc- The text runs as follows:ceeded in restoring whole sentences of the ori- Asya srimsityalangalamahamantrasya uli ginal. On examining the Tanjor Library in khalangala rishih ; anushtap chandah; Kalag. It is said to have been made by, or for, Dara Shakoh, Muhammadane seem to have forined a very low opinion of whose unhappy story is so graphically told by Bernier. the Sanskrit literature. As regards the Muhammadans' study of Sanskrit, see Prof. Blochmann's translation of the Ain-1.4kbari, pp. 104-5, Inasmuch as the mantra is not Vedio, though its use is espacially the interesting quotations in the notes. The evidently imitated from Vedic rituals.

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SEPTEMBER, 1873.] THE NALADIYAR. 267 niradro devata. [Aham eva kala iti bijam ; treatises already reduced to form. Separate na 'har kala iti saktih, kilakan mrityunjayo. collections of passages of this nature natupasthane viniyogah.]* " Atha 'to yogajihva me rally formed an indispensable weapon to the madhuvadini. Aham eva kalo na "ham kalasya polemical sectaries of the day; and, like all ritam satyam"-[ity asya mantrasya Yama systematists in India, the collectors were possessrishih; anushtap chandah; Kalagnirudro de- ed of the notion that the number of the Upanivata mrityunjayopasthane viniyogah.] shads must be one of what they esteem fortunate, "ritam satyam param brahma parusham or as possessing mystical properties. Thus the krishnapingalam Muktikopanishad puts the number at 108; a fi urdhvaretam virupa ksham visvarupaya vai vourite number, especially in S. India, & and namah which was also much used by the Buddhists. But Om varavrishabhaphenakapaline pasupataye these collections were made in different parts of namo namah (varavrishabhaphenakapalaya India, and it would not be everywhere easy to pasupataye svaha! om! aum! hrim ! srim!) iti make up any number of real Upanishads; thus smrite (yadi smpi"] mrityulangale, brahmaha spurious ones, or even favourite devotional tracts, 'brahmahi bhavati; abrahmachari subrahma- would be included to make the number of the chari bhavati gurudaragami agami bhavati collection perfect, and different collections would (suvarnasteyi asteyi bhavati]; surpayi apayi | vary much in the separate tracts they included. bhavati. Ekavarena japtva ashtottarasabasra- It does not appear that in any part of India the Jakshagayatrijapaphalani bhavanti; ashtau brih- Upanishads are reckoned at a higher number manin grahayitva brahmalokam avapnoti. than 108, but at present there are about 17011 Yadi kasyacha na bruyat, khitri kuthit kunakhi separate works recognised as Upanishads in all bhavati. Yam anena grihniyad andho bhavati; India. Colebrooke (Essays, I. p. 91) put the shadbhir masaih pramiyate, 'mantro nasyati- number of them at 52, which seems to be a ity iha Mahadevo Vasishthah. Benares calculation. It is not difficult to explain how this magical The name mrityulangala is puzzling. It canformula as well as the Garuda Upanishad) not possibly be translated "halitus mortis," as came to be included in the list of Upanishads. Anquetil has done, probably having mistaken At the fall of Buddhism the Upanishad doc- one Persian word for another which looks much trine or mystical teachings of the older Vedic the same. What, however, it is really intended Schools became of great importance to the to mean is difficult to say. Ulukhalangala can new sects which then came into existence. only have one meaning, and msity alargala is Some of these Upanishads no doubt existed perhaps also obscene; the Tantrio tracts are separately; others were contained in Vedic full of such allusions. THE NALADIYAR. BY THE REV. F. J. LEEPER, TRANQUEBAR. (Continued from page 218.) CHAPTER 8.-Patience. swelling waves, will not regard impatient be1. Good lord of the cool hills festooned with haviour as praise orthy, but baseness only. springs! speak not at all with a fool. If a fool 3. Will the hard words uttered (in reproof) speak, he will speak only to injure you. To slip by friends be more evil than the sweet words away from him, and to avoid him by any means of strangers speaking with joy, 0 lord of the in your power, is good. 2. When inferiors speak cool shore of the mighty ocean, where the beauimproper words, the patient hearing these words tiful winged insects turn over all the flowers, is patience indeed. The earth, surrounded with if they get men who understand the consequence * The passages in brackets show the variations or addi- but the Telugu and Tamil Brahmans differ in the selections of the longer recensio. tion. It is always said that there are 108 Sirs temples in I am from this compelled to follow No. 7210 alone, M 8. India, and this number is met with repeatedly. the Grantha MS. is so broken as to be useless. || Prof. Max Muller (z. d. d. M. G. XIX. pp. 137 ff.) I Svitri kashtht (P) mentions 149; to these (in my Catalogue, pp. 59 ff.) I 9 The Upanishads in S. India are always said to be 108. added 5, and Dr. Haur (Brahma und die Brahmanente

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268 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [SEPTEMBER, 1873 thereof? 4. Knowing what ought to be known, is fear, in the enjoyment itself there is fear, in and submitting thereunto, fearing what ought to case the sin be not known there is fear,-it is be feared, performing every duty so as to satisfy always productive of fear. 4. Of what matter the world, and living in the enjoyment of pleasure is that enjoyment, 0 wicked one, which you according to their means, they who are thus regard ? Say. Since if you are discovered your disposed never experience the evils of life. 5. family will be dishonoured, if you are caught When two persons are friends, mixing without your leg will be cut oft'; while in the act you variance, should there be misconduct on the part are in dread, and it will cause ever-enduring of one, let the other be patient, as far as he can Anguish in hell. 5. Those who are destitute bear it. If he cannot take it patiently, let him of everything that is good, and companions of not speak evil, but withdraw to a distance. the vile, have habitually sinned with damsels 6. Though another do one evil, if he say, Well, with mole-spotted breasts, and in a former let it pass, and blame himself, it is good. To birth have violated by force the wives of others, give up intimate associates, o lord of the for- shall in the next birth be born hermaphrodites ests! is hard even to brutes. 7. O king of and live by dancing. 6. Why should he look the fair hills abounding with hollow-sounding with desire upon his neighbour's wife who, after streams! does not close intimacy with the great inquiring about a propitious day, and having the arise from the idea that they forgive the griev- drum beaten that all may know, has celebrated ous faults that are committed against them? his marriage, who has a wife tender and loving Will friends be wanting to them who do what is in his own house, who then placed herself under good ? 8. Those who are gifted with patience, his care? 7. The enjoyment of the man of and who are not so rash as to destroy themselves unstable mind possessed with delusion, who though withered and famished with hunger, desires and embraces the wife of his neighbour. will not declare their misery to those who love while his neighbours reproach him and his relathem not. They will make it known only to tions fear and are troubled, is of the nature of those who have the power to help them. 9. Let that pleasure which is caused by licking a serpleasure alone, when thou canst enjoy it, if dis. pent's head. 8. Since the desire which arises grace attends it. O Lord of the hill country in the minds of the wise increases not, nor abounding in waters! though pleasure only be shows itself (by actions), nor extends beyond constantly regarded, it is preferable to enjoy it their own family, the pain which it causes being in a harmless way. 10. Although he himself be very grievous, and they, fearing lest by it they ruined, let not a man think of injuring the wor- should be put to shame before their foes, speak thy; let him not eat with whom he should not not of it at all. Therefore it dies away of itself ont, even though the flesh of his body waste in the mind. 9. An arrow, or fire, or the sun away ; let him not speak words intermingled with with shining beams, though they wound and falsehood, although he get the whole world can- burn, scoreh only the body. But desire, --since opied by the heavens for his reward. it wounds, grieves, and burns the soul is much CHAPTER 9.--Not coveting another's wife. more to be feared than any of these things. 1. Let not the modest man covet another's 10. If he plunge overhead in the water, a wife, since the fear attending that sin is great, man may escape from the fearful red flames the pleasure is of short duration, and if you which have sprung up in, and are ravaying a daily reflect, it renders one liable to the punish- town. But though he plunge in many holy ment of death by the king, and it is a sin that rivers, desire will still be unquenched ; yea, daily leads men to hell. 2. To those who covet though he live like an anchorite on the mountheir neighbours' wives these four things, tain top, it will still burn. virtue, praise, friendship, and dignity,-will not CHAPTER 10.--Liberality. accrue. To those who covet their neighbours' 1. To those men the gates of heaven shall wives these four things, --- hatred, vengeance, never be closed, who with tender hearts and and in accompanied with fear, --will accrue. with a mind in accordance with their alms, 3. What benefit arises from the shamelessly 1 greatly rejoicing, give even in poverty accorddesiring one's neighbour's wife? Since in the ing to their ability, even as they did in the day of going to her there is fear, in going away there prosperity. 2. Before you is disgusting old age,

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THE NALADIYAR. SEPTEMBER, 1873.] and your dying day also: theso are pains destructive of greatness. Run not vainly here and there. Covet not. Give alms, then eat. Hide not any of it when you possess wealth. 3. The wealth of him who in this birth wipes not away the tears of those who, trembling with poverty, betake themselves to him, by reason of his merit in a former birth, of not eating till he had given a portion to others, shall go on increasing while the time of increase lasts. But when the effect of these good deeds is exhausted, that wealth shall altogether leave him, let him hold it never so firmly. 4. Give what you are able, even though you have not the thousandth part of a measure of rice in the house, and then eat your meal; the wise call those in this birth wandering beggars whose chimneys smoke not in this earth, surrounded by the deep sea, who gave not alms in a former birth. 5. Let a man who regards both this world and the next, give what he can as he gets it; and if, through poverty, giving be impossible, to abstain from begging will be to give twice. 6. Those who give are like the female palm tree surrounded by the terrace in the midst of the village, they live beloved by many. Men who eat without giving to others, though their family be flourishing, are like the male palm in a burning-ground. 7. When the rain that should fall falls not, and when mankind omit to do the things they ought to do, O lord of the cool shore beaten by the waves where the Punnei-flower repels the noisome odour of the fish! in what way does the world get on! 8. Man's duty is to give to those who are unable to bear (their distresses), not driving them away, nor turning away from the extended hands. O lord of the cool shore of ocean, full of rivers! to give to those who will pay it back again-has the name of a loan at interest. 9. Not saying they have very little, not saying they have not anything, let them ever exercise fruitful charity to all. Like the pitcher of the mendicant who enters the house-door for alms, it will, in due course gradually become full. 10. Those who are ten miles distant can hear the sound of the wide drum beaten with the stick; those a yojana dis tant, can hear the hoarse thunder; but all who live in the three worlds piled up will hear the report that some of the excellent have given alms. 269 CHAPTER 11.-The effect of actions done in a former birth. 1. As a young calf when let loose among a number of cows naturally seeks out and attaches itself to its own mother, so does the act of a former state of existence seek out and attach itself to him who has performed it. 2. The prosperity of him who knows that beauty, youth, glittering wealth, and honour remain not stable in one birth to any one, and yet in one birth performs not a single good deed-has the nature of thing that takes a body, remains for a time, and then utterly perishes. 3. There are none at all who are not anxious to acquire wealth. Each one's experience of happiness or misery is measured by the deeds of a former birth. None can make the wood-apple round, none can dye the Karlafruit black. 4. To avoid those things which are to happen, or to detain those who are to depart, is alike impossible even to saints, even as there is none who can give rain out of season, or prevent its falling in season. 5. Those who were once in dignity as tall as the Palmyra, live on, daily losing their greatness, and becoming small as a grain of millet, hide within them their glory. On enquiry it will appear that that which has happened is nothing but the effect of deeds done in a former birth. 6. If you wish to know how it is that those perish, who know the benefits accruing from the sciences which they have acquired by oral instruction, while the unlearned prosper : it is because Yama looks upon the unlearned as refuse cane, since they are destitute, as to their minds, of the sap of knowledge, and therefore he cares not to take them away. 7. Behold all those whose bosoms are goaded by distress and who wander forlorn through the long streets, know- lord of the cool shore of the billowy ocean where the playful swans tear in pieces the waterflowers!-that this proceeds from the acts of former births. 8. When those who, besides being not ignorant, have learned that which they ought to know and do that which is blameable, O king of the cool shore of the broad ocean, where the lotus flings its odours to the winds! this proceeds from the acts they have formerly done. 9. All who dwell in the world surrounded by the surging ocean desire to be exempt from the afflictive effects of former evil deeds, and to experience the effect of former good deeds; but, whether men wish or do not wish, it is impossible

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270 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. SEPTEMBER, 1873. to prevent that from affecting them which is ordained to happen. 10. The effect of the act of former births does not fall below or exceed its due proportion, nor doth it fail to come in its turn, neither does it assist out of season, but when it ought to be there it is. Of what use therefore is sorrow when it afflicts you? CHAPTER 12.- Truth. 1. To say he has not that which he does not really possess is no harm to any one. It is the usage of the world. To lie standing or running, that the desire (of others) may fail, O thou who hast rows of bracelets ! hath evil more than that of those who have destroyed a good thing one. 2. The excellent and the vile never change their respective natures: though it man should eat sogar it will not taste bitter, and though the gods themselves should eat of the Margosa fruit, it will still taste bitter. 3. In time of prosperity a man's near relations will be as numerons as the stars which sport over the sky. When any one is subjected to intolerable sorrow, O lord of the cool mountain ! those who will say "We are relatel to hin" are few indeed. 4. He who secures the middle one of these three things, virtue, wealth and happiness, which have a hold on men's min.ls in this faithless world, shall secure the other two also; whilst he who obtains not the middle one shall be afflicted like the tortoise put into the pot and boiled. 5. If it be the calf of a good cow, the heifer also will fetch a good price. Though they be unlearned, the words of the rich will pass current. Like ploughing when there is little moisture, touching the surface only, the words of the poor will go for nothing. 6. Although decply instructed in the knowledge of trath, those who have not accustomed them selves to restraint can never be restrained. Thus, 0 large-eyed beauty! though the wild gourd be dressed with salt, ghee, milk, cards, and various condiments, its natural bitterness will never be removed. 7. O lord of the shores of the swelling ocean covered with forests, scented by the perfume of the Punnei flowers ! since that which is fated to happen will happen, let per sons never utter reproachful words behind the hacks of those who revile them, but only before their faces. 8. Though cows be of different colours, the milk which the cows produce is not of different colours. Like milk, the fruit of virtue is of one nature, though virtue itself take many colours in this world, like the cows. 9. Has any one lived entirely without praise in the world? Has any one failed through exertion to prosper? Has any one died without being reproached ? Has any one, even to the end of his life, collected (what he deems) sufficient wealth? If you inquire, you will not find even one. 10. If they every way consider there is nothing else that goes with them but the actions they have done, there in the other world) even the body which (here) they cherished and adorned is useless when death takes them away. CHAPTER 13.-The fear of misconduct.. 1. A burning-ground is the proper place for the bodies of those who, though plunged in the sea of domestic cares, betake not themselves to asceticism as a refuge. The stomach of the possessors of little wisdom is a burning-place for beasts and birds without number, i.e. he eats them. 2. They should have their legs bound with iron, become slaves.to their enemies, and go to the field of gloomy soil, who keep in a cage the partridge or the quail, which live in the woods resounding with the sound of winged insects. 3. He who in a former birth desiring crabs broke off their legs and ate them, when the effect of that sin shall take place, he shall wander about afflicted with leprosy, the palm of his hands excepted; all his fingers like Chankshell beads will rot away. 4. Even such a thing as ghee when approached by the flame of fire will cause intolerable pain by fierce burning; of inany bad actions will they become guilty who, though not crooked, become so, and associate with those who are bad. 5. Friendship with the wise will daily increase in regular gradation, like the crescent moon. Friendship with the base will daily decrease, like the full moon which rides through the sky. 6. Thinking them good thou didst associate with them. If in those with whom thou hast associated there be no good intent towards thee who hast associated with them, O thou who didst associate (with such)! listen : It is like a man opening a box believing that there is an unguent in it and seeing a snake inside. 7. O lord of the land resplendent with mountains on whose declivities genii abound! since a man's actions differ so much from his mind, who is there that is capable of searching out so as to understand the resources of another's mind ? 8. O lord of the fair hills over which slowly roll streams that cast op gems!

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SEPTEMBER, 1873.] the great friendship of those who love with. deceit, making a pretence of sted fast attachment but not loving with the heart, will only afflict the mind. 9. Like as when the glittering spear that he cast is caught by his enemy's hand, the thief's courage is destroyed, so since the gains of sin follow after and destroy the acquirer MISCELLANEA. BENGALI FOLKLORE-LEGENDS FROM DINAJPUR." BY G. H. DAMANT, B.C.S., RANGPUR. The two Ganja-eaters. Whilst a ganja-eater was catching fish on the bank of a river, a man from another country came and asked which was the road and what was his name; he replied that his name was "eater of six maunds of ganja." The stranger, hearing this, said, "Have you become so intoxicated after eating only six maunds of ganja? You do not deserve the name of ganja-eater. There is a man in my country who can eat nine maunds without feeling in the least distressed or intoxicated, and can walk by himself afterwards." The ganja-cater, hearing that, said he would go to that country and fight with the man, so he tied six maunds of ganja in his handkerchief and went on his way till he camo to a pond, where he ate his six maunds of ganja, and then, feeling thirsty, went down to the water and began to drink till he had drunk the pond dry, and still had not quenched his thirst, so ho lay down on the bank and went to sleep. A raja's elephant used to drink at that pond, and it happened that his mahaut brought him that day, but when he came he found no water in the pond, and nothing but a man lying on the bank. The mahaut made the elephant pick him up, but could not bring him to his senses, so he took his elephant and went away. After a short time the ganja-eater came to his senses, and, feeling himself free from all uneasiness, determined to leave that place and go to the house of the nine maunds ganja-eater. So he went along inquiring the way, and at last arrived at the house 271 of these gains in two births, it is good to leave the ignorant altogether. 10. Wilt thou not cease to long for a family? How long wilt thou live in sorrow saying. It is for children? O my heart! there is no advantage that accrues to the soul except the good thou doest, though it be but little.-(To be continued.) and called out, "Brother nine maunds ganja. eater, are you at home?" His wife said he was not at home, and had gone to cut sugarcane. The man inquired whether he would return soon, and the said, "Yes, he will return immediately, his dinner is ready waiting;" but he said "I cannot bear to stop any longer; I will go and fight him: show me the road." So she came out and told him which road to take, and he soon arrived at the place and called out, "Brother nine maunds ganja-cater, come. I will fight yon." He said "For seven days I have eaten nothing, how can I fight ?" The six maunds ganja-eater replied, "I have eaten nothing for nine days." The other said, "No one will see us if we fight here; come to my country and I will fight you, and every one will be able to ece who loses and who wins." With these words he put all the sugarcane on his head which ho had cut for the last seven days, and they went away together. As they went along the road they met a fishwoman who was taking some fish to sell at the market; they called to her and told her to stop and look on while they fought. She said she was already late for the market, but they could fight on her arm and she would see them. So they rose up and began to fight, and while they were fighting a kito came by and took away the gauja-caters, fish and all. Now it happened that just at that time a raja's daughter had gone out for a walk, and, a stormarising, they were thrown down in front of her, and she, thinking they were bits of straw which had been carried up by the storm, had them swept away. MISCELLANEA. THE CHERA DYNASTY. made a grant of land in Saka 816 (A.D. 894), whilst At a meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society held another grant is mentioned under the fifth king, June 16, Mr. J. Eggeling, the Secretary, read some dated Saka 4 (A.D. 82). This would give an average notes "On Southern Indian Inscriptions." Another of nearly thirty-four years for each of the last volume of impressions had lately been placed at twenty-four kings of the Cheras. Prof. Dowson his disposal by Sir W. Elliot. Among the grants did not feel justified to accept so high an average, hitherto examined was a very important one relat- but, doubting the existence or genuineness of those ing to the Chera or Konga dynasty. The last of the grants, he allowed an average of eighteen years Cheras, is in the Kongadesa Rajakal, said to have to each king, and thus arrived at A.D. 396 as the Continued from vol. I. p. 345.

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272 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [SEPTEMBER, 1873. probable date at which this dynasty arose. The Vithoba, "the lord of heaven and earth," accorddocument in Sir Walter Elliot's volume was is- ing to the Hindu canons, is dead. Had such an sued by the tenth king, named Arivarman (not Ha- accident befallen any common god, the image riyaman, as stated in the Tamil work), and bears might have been replaced. But the Vithob of the date Saka 169 (A.D. 247). It also contains an Pandarpur cannot be replaced. Only Banaras, account of the two preceding kings, Madhava and Dwarka, Nasik, and one or two other places can Kongani Varman, which tallies exactly with that boast gods of equal or approaching sanctity. Thou. given in the Tamil treatise, and thus tends to show sands from every quarter of Maharashtra perform that the latter is entirely based on copper-plate toilsome pilgrimages to the fair at Pandarpar, ungrants. To judge from the shape and general deterred by the cholera which appears at every character of the letters, this inscription would see gathering, sweeping off numbers of the pilgrims. to be very ancient, and to show no traces of forgery. The people present at the last Ashadhi fair, which The Kongadesa Rdjdkal also mentions & grant lasted from the 6th to the 10th July, were estimade by the same king in Saka 210, or forty-one mated at one hundred and fifty thousand. Every years later than the present grant. If any moro man brings his offering, so that the revenue of grants of the same dynasty should be forthcoming, the temple is enormous. Besides supporting a we might probably have to admit the correctness host of priests in luxury, it affords a balance which of the chronology as given in the Tamil book, not. is laid out in the most costly jewels for the god, and withstanding the high average. There were also in in decorating the shrine with gold in a manner the volume two grants relating to the Western or which dazzles the eye the first time it is beheld. Kalyant line of the Chalukyas, both issued by Vows the most extravagant are made to Vithob4 for Venayaditya, the son of Vikramaditya, during his prayers answered or blessings expected; no sacrifice father's lifetime, and at his command, and dated of wealth, of comfort, or of life, being considered too respectively in Saka 611 and 613 (A.D. 689 and 691), great to buy the god's favour. Besides the crowds being the tenth and eleventh years of the king's who throng at the regular fairs in July and reign. He would, accordingly, have succeeded on his October, there is a large daily attendance of those father's resignation in Saka 601-2, as his prede- who live in the vicinity. Vithobu receives his cessors are mentioned, Vikramaditya, Satyasraya, worshippers one at a time, and is dressed up by Kirttivarman, and Pulakesi. Since it is most pro- the attendant priests with a splendour propor. bable that Satyasraya began to reign in Saka 531, tionate to the amount of the offering expected from we should thus obtain seventy years for the dura- each devotee. One man who visited Pandarpur tion of his and his son's reigns. Of Pulake i there last November with an offering of twenty-five was a grant at the British Museum, dated Saks rupees, told us he was received in a dress and 411 ; but there was some doubt as to its genuine jewels worth Rs. 50,000. It is said that the god ness, on palaeological grounds, the character of the possesses ornaments valued at twenty lakhs of letters being very nearly the same as that of some rupees, and would appear with them all on at once inscriptions of the Eastern line in the tenth cen- were a worshipper to come bringing a fitting offer. tury of our era. Sir W. Elliot's collection also ing. Some of his diamonds and pearls are deincluded several grants of the Pallava line, con scribed as of extraordinary size and purity. The taining the names Skandavarman, Viravarman, rivalry is great among the worshippers to be Vishnugopavarman, and Sinhavarman; besides honoured by a sight of the finest jewels, and induces Rajendravarman and Devendravarman, and Chan many a gift beyond what the donor can afford. But davarman and Nandivarman. All these grants, no privation is complained of which has to be however, record merely the years of the reigns of endured to propitiate Vithoba of Pandarpur. the kings by whom they were issued.-Atheneum, The origin of this celebrated idol is thus told: June 21. the god Vithoba had formerly his seat at Dwarka. There lived at Pandarpur a youth named PundaVITHOBA OF PANDARPUR. lika, who, though only twelve or fifteen years of On the 20th July a Gosavi, who, it seems, was age, was a great saint and an unceasing worshipper highly displeased with his god, went into the temple of the gods. His piety attracted the love of at Pandarpur and hurled a stone at the image Vithoba, who paid him & visit in person from with such force that it knocked a piece out of his Dwarka. The boy was in attendance on his father breast and broke his legs. The attendants seized when the god appeared in human form, unseen to the offender and beat him, but he was rescued by the any but Pundaliks. He at once recognised the police and placed in custody. Thus the great god favour done him, and entreated Vithoba to remain * To this dynasty also belong the Merkaars platos dated 388, and the N amangala platea dated Saka 690. Vide ante, vol. I p. 361 ; vol. II. p. 155.-ED.

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SEPTEMBER, 1873.] MISCELLANEA. 273 on that hallowed spot for ever. The god gracious- torate, and distant 112 miles from Puna. ly consented, and was instantly transformed into Abridged from "Bombay Garette," 28th July. the black idol which ever since has stood there. A temple was built round him, and he acquired a PEHLEVI INSCRIPTIONS. wide reputation. During a recent tour through the Cochin and But Vithobl is broken and dead, and his priests Travancor States I found some Pehlevi inscriphave given out that the great god may perhaps tions which go to prove that there were once large be induced, by prayers and fasts, to signify his settlements of Persians, probably Manichaeans, in gracious consent to retake possession of the muti. S. India. This fact will be of interest to Sans. lated idol. So, already, thousands of religious kritists since Prof. Weber's admirable essay on Hindus are seeking, by extravagant vows and mor the Ramdyana. Prof. Weber has shown reasons tifications, to persuade Vithobe not to depart from for suspecting Greek influences in the composition Papdarpur; and the aid of the press will doubtless of that poem; and it will now, in consequence of be sought, to spread the news of the disaster this discovery, be possible to prove that much in wherever there are Hindus to pray, fast, and make the modern philosophical schools of India comes offerings. The fall of the Pandarpur shrine, and from some form of Christianity derived from the stoppage of the pilgrimages, would be one of the Persia : and this fact at once explains also the greatest blessings that could befall the country, as origin of the modern Vedanta sects in Southern the fairs are a source of annual expense and harass. Indis exclusively. ment to the authorities all over the presidency: In a Syrian (ie. Nestorian) church at Kottayam for many virulent ontbreaks of cholera are traced in Travancor, said to be one of the oldest in the every year to the return home of the pilgrims with country, I found at the back of a side-altar a the fatal disease among them. Before and after granite slab with a cross in bas-relief on it, and each fair, sanitary precautions are taken along all round the arched top a short sentence in Pehlevi; the principal routes, at great trouble and expense. at the foot of the cross a few words in Syriac. On But the Hindus, who never appreciated this action looking round the church I found a similar but of the British Government, are now fearful lest evidently older tablet built into the wall. This the angry god should plague the country, and are tablet is nearly covered by whitewash, but shows also warning the authorities of the certain falling only a Pehlevi inscription. There is a similar off of the revenue from the cessation of the tax of tablet in the Mount church (near Madras), which four annas a head levied on every pilgrim to the has long been the property of the Portuguese. temple. Those who understand the priesthood, Since my return to Mangalor I have found in hundreds of whom are living on the fat of the land Friar Vincenzo Maria's Viaggio all' Indie Orientali, by means of the offerings of Vithoba's worship. p. 135 (Roma, 1672), mention of several such pers, can foretell that they will never allow the tablets; he particularly mentions the ones at Cran. shrine to be deserted. The holiest man of them ganor and Meliapor (i. e. Madras), and takes will one of these days be favoured with a vision them to be relics of the mission of St. Thomas to or droom, in which Vithoba will intimate his plea- India. As there is hardly a trace left of Crangasure to hear the prayers of his servants and nor, it would be useless to search there; but continue at Pandarpur. In this case the popolar the older Syrian churches (at Niranam, Kayan. veneration of the idol will become greater than kalam, &c.) will no doubt furnish other copies. ever, and yet larger numbers will repair to Pan. In this very out-of-the-way place I have nothing darpur to worship the god who was wounded to to help in deciphering the Pehlevi inscription, death, and whose deadly wound was healed. This which is nearly the same on the three tablets result seems to be regarded as a foregone conclu- I have seen; the first few signs only differ. The sion. The damage done to the idol has been last word in all looks like afzid (may it be inrepaired by a stone-mason, many of the most creased !). As soon as I can get it lithographed I ardent devotees on the spot tasting neither shall send copies to the principal European scholfood nor water till the god was made whole. So ars who occupy themselves with Pehlevi. that everything is ready for Vithoba to take The number of these tablets proves that there possession again. The police saved the impious must have been communities in several places, goodvi from the fary of the people, and he now and those large enough to have churches both on awaite his trial under some mild section of the the S. W. and S. E. coasts of India. Cosmas Penal Code about "voluntarily committing injury (beginning of the sixth century A.D.) mentions to property." Christians in Male (i.e. 8. W. India), and that Pandarpur is a town on the Bhima, of about there was a Persian bishop at Kalliana, i.e. Kal. 20,000 inhabitants, situated in the Sat&ra collec- yanapur, near Udupi, and in this province -- place

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274 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. always reputed to be one of the earliest Christian settlements in India. Nor were these Persians. disliked, as foreigners are now, by the natives of India. Before the beginning of the ninth century A.D. they had acquired sovereign rights over their original settlement, Manigramam, by a grant from the Perumal. These Persians were thus established long before the origin of the modern schools of the Vedanta, and the founders of these sects were all natives of places close to Persian settlements. Sankaracharya was born not far from Cranganor, where the Persians first founded a colony; Ramanuja was born and educated near Madras; and Madhavacharya, the founder of the sect which approaches nearest of all to Christianity, was a native of Udupi, a place only three or four miles south of Kalyanapar. A comparison of the doctrines of these sects with those of the Manichans will, I think, settle the question; but I must reserve that for another occasion. That these Persians were Manichaeans is, I think, to be concluded from the name of their settlement, Manigramam. This can only mean "Manes-town;" the only other possible meaning, "Jewel-town," is utterly improbable. Prof. Weber has shown that the Brahmasamaj doctrines are an unacknowledged result of Christian missions in this century; the S. Indian Vedanta sects must be taken as a similar result of perhaps the earliest Christian (though Manichaean) mission to India. How close the connection between Persia and India was in the sixth century A. D. is also known from the history of the European versions of the Panchatantra. Tho existence of this work in India was then known to the Persians, and this knowledge presupposes a greater knowledge of Indian matters by foreigners than has ever since been the case up to the end of the last century. I may remark also that the facts I have mentioned above render it probable that Burzweih or Barzdych, who first translated the Punchatantra into Pehlevi, was actually a Christian, as the Arab historian, Ibn Abu Oseibia, states. The S. Indian Sanskrit Panchatantra is the oldest yet discovered (see Prof. Benfey's note, Academy, vol. iii. pp. 139. 140); may not Barzuyeh have got his copy in S. W. India? Patriotic Hindus will hardly like the notion that their greatest modern philosophers have borrowed from Christianity; but as they cannot give an historical or credible account of the origin of these Vedantist sects, if we take the above facts into consideration, there is more against them than a strong presumption, for these doctrines were certainly unknown to India in Vedic or Buddhistic times. [SEPTEMBER, 1873. I have mentioned before the discovery of an old Jain version of the Ramdyana in Canarese.. This is certainly more than a thousand years old, and differs greatly from the Valmiki-Rimayana. The Tamil version (by Kampan) is also very old and deserves examination if the question of the original form of the Sanskrit epic is to be really decided. I hope soon to be able to give some account of the Canarese version, as I have found an excellent MS., written about 420 years ago, which is wonderfully correct.-A. BURNELL in The Academy. Professor Palmer, the Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, has an Arabic Grammar in the press, mainly founded on Syrian authorities. From what I hear of the arrangement, it will be more like a portable edision of Silvestre de Sacy's Grammaire Arabe than anything else one knows. The Professor has also been translating Alice in Wonderland into Arabic verse and prose, and proposes publishing it, provided he can get the use of the original plates. C. M.. An answer to the query respecting the right and left hand Castes (p. 214) will be found in the edition of the Kural by F. W. Ellis. The distinction arises primarily from the landowners and their serfs being the heads of one class, and the Brahmans, artizans, and other interlopers forming the other. But the constituent castes of either party vary. A.B. CASTES OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. (Continued from page 242.) Kabbar: A caste of low rank in Southern India; in Dharwad they are numerous, and, like the village Kolis, act as ferrymen in Kanara they are few, and are engaged like Bhuis in fishing and carrying palanquins: their habits are those of their class. Buchanan describes the Cubbaru' as a branch of the Bhuis, some being cultivators and others lime-burners. Morals and habits rude. Kabalgari is the name of a similar caste in Dharwad. Chavadrid:--A Bhill tribe in Gujarat, chiefly in the Surat collectorate, numerous; small cultivators, labourers, or fishermen in the Tapi river. Their condition is hardly raised above the lowest level; they are one of the classes included in the Kala Praja, or the black race. Patharwat:-A caste of middle rank, in the Dekhan, stone-masons and artificers in stone. Kandvi:-A caste in Gujarat who are confectioners, &c. Jangars :-Singers and bards; holding middle rank, and often in public or private employ.

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OCTOBER, 1873.] NILGIRI REMAINS. 275 ON SOME FORMERLY EXISTING ANTIQUITIES ON THE NILGIRIS. BY M. J. WALHOUSE, late M.C.S. ALTHOUGH the antiquities of the Nilgiri the platform stood a cromlech of very large Hills were thoroughly investigated by the size, or rather a row of connected cromlechs, late Commissioner of the Nilgiris, Mr. J. Breeks, forming five partitions, three large ones of equal under the direction and with the aid of the Ma- height in the centre, and a smaller and lower dras Government, and although it is understood one at each end. They stood in a line, the three his account of them was completed before his la- central compartments being covered with three mented and antimely death, and will be published, huge capstones, the edge of one overlapping the it will not, I hope, be regarded as superfluous edge of the next; the supporting stones, four in to record the original features of some of the number, being great slabs, set up end-wise, with antiquities which have long ago been destroyed, slabs enclosing the back or north side-the front and are not mentioned in Colonel Congreve's or south side of all was open; the smaller strucaccount. ture at each end was formed in like manner. Unfortunately I omitted to take the exact diIn April 1849, when at Kunur (Coonoor) mensions, but a man could sit easily in any of the and inquiring amongst the natives about the an- three central cells; within them lay the skeleton cient remains, I was told by a Toda that there of a fawn, and part of an elephant's tooth much were some to be seen beyond the Nidi Mand. hacked with a knife. The supporting slabs wero So, starting early one morning, and crossing the sculptured all over on their sides within with figreat ravine which lies between Kun ur and gures in the Hindu style, processional or warlike, the Halikal ridge, then clothed with deep magni- but there were none on the under-sides of the ficent forest, where now the eye meets nothing capstones. The figures were evidently ancient, save productive--but, alas! ugly-coffee-clear- as, though covered from the weather, their outings, I wound upwards through the picturesque lines were much worn. Whether these sculptures foldings of the hills to the Nidi Mand, where my were coaeval with the stones and wrought by informant met me. All Toda mands, i, e. vil the men who first placed them, or whether they lages, are beautifully placed, and this (whether were subsequent additions, is a controversy still still existing or improved into a coffee-garden, sub judice. They have been found on cromlechs I cannot say) was nestled in a oleft between and kistvaens in other parts of the hills, and two peaks, at the edge of a thick grove, the if regarded as contemporary with the stones trees of which stretched their great moss-hung would at once mark the age of these structures, arms over the wild-looking primitive huts, by as emblems, such as the Basava bull, of known which stood the tall men wrapt classic-wise in date, oocur amongst them. They appear always their cloths, whilst the handsome black-ringleted to have struck observers as later additions cut women sat chattering in a row, and the boys upon the previously existing cromlechs; such their thick shocks of hair cut quaintly thatch- was my impression and also that of Col. Confashion across their foreheads-came running greve, and others, but the point is by no means over the close fresh green-sward which lies be- settled yet. I may observe that a man sitting fore every Mand. inside the cells could easily have cut the sculpPassing through the high secluded cleft, tures in the cromlech now described by me. round the base of one of the sheltering peaks, I .On visiting the spot again in 1856 this curious decended for fully 1000 feet on the other side monument had been entirely destroyed, every of the ridge, by an excessively steep and difficult stone overthrown and lying scattered around; track, to a hollow, where on three sides the the work evidently of some barbarians -not, I slopes ren very precipitously down, enclosing at fear, dark-skinned. Though hitherto calling it the bottom a small platform, open on the fourth cromlech,' I hardly know how to class it. It or south side, whence the mountain-side fell was indeed rather a succession of open-sided consteeply down to the Bhavani valley at the neoted kistvaens. Single dolmens or kist vaens, foot of the range. On a knoll in the middle of consisting of upright side and back slabs sup, See Madras Journal of literature and Science, vol. XIV. page 120, Old Series, and vol. IV. page 119, New Series,

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276 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [OCTOBER, 1873. porting & covering stone, the front side remaining Shivara i Hills in Salem, and are but rough open, are not anfrequent, especially in the eastern extempore shrines, made and used to-day, but region of the Nilgiris, several of them also suggesting what the use of some of the ancient sculptured within ; but I know of no structures cromlechs may have been. In Central India both of connected cells, like the one described, occur. | closed and open-sided kistvaens abound, but ring either in India or any other country. It it has been observed that, though the former condiffers essentially from the allees couvertes and tain sepulchral remains, urns, &c. in profusion, chambered barrows of Europe. Colonel Congreve the latter never do. I am therefore inclined to describes no such monument in his Antiquities of regard the five-nelled open-sided Nidi Mand the Nilgiris, and I know of but one other ex. Dolmen as not sepulchral, but intended for a ample, on the hills, namely, at M&her, some rade temple or shrine; and the cut piece of an miles westward at the foot of the Kunda elephant's task found in it had probably been Range, where there appear to have been four con- laid there by some wandering Kuramba, to nected cells, also with sculptured stones, but I represent one of the primeval gods worshipped am uncertain whether with appended lesser cells. by his ancestors before the advent of Indra and This monument also, I understand, has been Vishnu. The grey weather-worn structure had partially destroyed. an aspect of quaint mysterious antiquity as it Though the intention of kistvaens, chambered stood in that spot of wild and utter seclusion, barrows, and what are generally called cromlechs, backed by steep converging slopes rough with was undoubtedly sepulchral, I am on the whole rocks and trees, and overlooking in front a wide not sure that it was so with respect to this and jungle-country stretching far below in a labythe other sculptured dolmens of the Nilgiris. rinth of ridges and valleys. The very peculiar Nothing was found on digging up the floor of feature of a small chamber being attached to the cells in the Nidi Mand Dolmen,-which may each end of the great central triple chamber further be said with confidence to have been must not be overlooked. Analogous side-chamalways free-standing, and never covered with a bers are attached to the magnificent cromlech tumulus, -an assertion further strengthened by in Guernsey known as "L'Autel du Dehus," and the sculptures within. With respect to the last these are spoken of as "unique;" they however mentioned feature, I may observe that these contained curious forms of interment. Finally sculptured stones when occurring near their I may add that, when returning, a small cairn villages are worshipped as gods by the Bad a- was observed near the Tod a mand, on opengas, the most numerous race on the hills. This, ing which a curious flattened chatti was found, however, I believe, is only an instance of the its mouth covered with a flat dish, and filled Hindu propensity to venerate anything that with red sand, like none in the neighbourhood. appears mysterious or sacred, and argues no This peculiarity, of vessels being filled with sand other connection with the remains. The Ko- or mould that must have been brought from a rambas--the wild jungle-tribe that haunt the distance, occurs in cairn-interments both on the densest jungles of the mountain slopes, and Indian plains and in England. whose remote ancestry may have had more to II. do with megalithic monuments, also pay worship A few years after the discovery of the aboveto some of the cairns and cromlechs on the plateau, described cromlech, a number of weapons were in which they believe their old gods reside. They found in a stone-circle between Kunar and and their forest-kindred the Irulas, "the Kartari, on the Nilgiris. The circle was by no children of darkness," still after every funeral means remarkable, about six feet in diameter, and bring a devva kotta kallu, i.e. a long water-worn the stones of moderate size, only just appearing pebble, and put it in a cromlech to represent the above the ground. It occupied no distinguished deceased. Cromlechs have sometimes been found site, being on the slope of a hill of ordinary filled with such pebbles. Free-standing dolmens appearance, and might easily have escaped no-or, as I should prefer to call them, hat-temples tice unless actually walked over. On digging --closed on three sides, with a fourth open, and into it, however, a number of weapons and imcontaining lingam stones or rude images, are plements were discovered embedded in a thick frequent in the Maisar conntry and on the layer of charcoal, which appears to have had the

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OCTOBER, 1873.] NILGIRI REMAINS. 277 6. A plain javelin-head, the blade 3 inches long, but ending in an obtuse angle rather than a point. 7. A long spike-shaped arrowhead, four-sided but ending in a point, the bottom square, edged with straight and wavy lines, and fixed to & hollow socket, 24 inches long, the arrow-spike itself being 5 inches long and half an inch broad at base. Three other arrow-heads of this peculiar type were also found in the deposit, singalarly perfect and well made. Arrow-heads of long triangular shape are also found in Nilgiri cairns, much of the same kind as are now used by the jungle tribes, but I have not heard of this spiky type being now in use. Two pairs of twisted bronze or copper bangles were found in this deposit, and several other less noteworthy weapons and objects, the whole much better preserved than any others I have met with. 11. effect of keeping them in remarkable preserva-1 tion, for they were nearly as clean and perfect as if fresh from the smith, and several of them remarkable both for shape and workmanship, 1 and an elaborateness of ornament that seems hard to reconcile with the rude age commonly ascribed to such remaing. They are now in the British Musenm: a description of some of the more remarkable is subjoined : 1. A short very broad-bladed sword or dag- ger, 14 inches in total length, the blade 9, and 2 in breadth at the widest part for it is leaf- shaped, like swords of the Bronze period in Europe, being broadest at the middle, narrowing to the point, and to the bottom, and again widening as it joins the hilt; it is double-edged: there is a cross-guard at each end of the handle (in this differing from European examples), and the handle is decorated with minute double wavy buading running down it on each of the four sides, the spaces between each line of beading being filled with an incised arabesque pattern of lines and curves very neatly executed. The inner faces of the guards are also ornamented with a pattern of similar character but different design. The guards and handle-which is perforated, all form separate pieces, held together by a tong secured by a knob, formed of two pieces on the outer side of the lower guard. Another dagger was also found in the deposit, differing chiefly in the blade being narrow and of uniform breadth, and the handle much less elaborate, 2. The head of a spear or javelin, the blade 8 inches long, and 14 wide at bottom, narrowing gradually to the point. Several other smaller heads, of the same character, were found. 3. A javelin-head, 64 inches long in blade, which is an inch wide at the bottom, tapering to the point, and distinguished by an incised pat- tern of curves running in double diminishing lines along three-fourths of its length. 4. A leaf-shaped javelin, 6} inches long in the blade, which is 14 inch wide in its broadest part, narrowing thence to the point and to the tong, the upper blade double-edged. 5. A remarkable javelin-head, the blade, 5 inches long, widening upwards to a curved convex edge, an inch wide across; the bottom decorated with a raised rib 14 inch long, studded with minute curved lines, and the sides for the same distance ornamented with beading and curved lines in pairs. In 1848 when at Kuner I received information of a large unopened cairn-an undisturbed example had even then become soarce, and, on proceeding to examine it, was guided to an exceedingly high and steep hill over the RAIliyar, just above where the three roads from Utaka mand, Kunar, and Kotagiri meet. It was a very stiff pull up, especially towards the end, where the hill rose into an abrupt sugar-loaf peak. On the top there was a very large and massive cairn of the peculiar Nilgiri type-an immense heap of stones with a circular well in the centre; the sides of the well-built of large blocks carefully and accurately adjusted, the well-about five feet in diameter and gix in depth; the wall enclosing it-nearly seven feet thick, and the same height above the ground outside. In fact the word "heap" applied to the structure is misleading; the stones were not loosely piled, but fitted so that the whole structure rather resembled a section of a truncated roundtower ;-and none but those who have attempted it can appreciate the difficulty and skill required to build a wall of loose uncemented stones that will stand firm for even a short period, much more for ages. The central well was entirely filled with comparatively small loose stones rising into a pile. This, though convey. ing an assurance that the cairn was undisturb ed, threatened a long and hard piece of work before it could be explored. And so it proved;

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278 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. for though shikaris, coolies, and guides mustered a dozen men, it took them from tolerably early in the morning till much past midday before the centre of the cairn was cleared. In accomplishing this, one remarkable feature was observed in the middle of the well there was a long large stone nearly four feet in length, of considerable thickness and tapering upwards, placed upright, filled in, and covered with the stones which filled the well. Whether this had any lingam, or other significance, I cannot say. After the circular central opening was at last cleared, nothing was found to reward the toil but some pieces of a large urn; a miniature buffalo's-head of hard-baked clay; a human head the size of a lime, of the same-the hair being represented by little dotted rings; and a small sickle-shaped iron-knife: the whole cairn MUSALMAN REMAINS IN THE SOUTH KONKAN. BY A. K. NAIRNE, Esq., Bo. C.S., BANDORA I.-Dabhol. The Southern Konkan is a district which up to the time of the Marathas possessed little importance, and is but seldom mentioned in the earlier histories. The Musalmans, who spread so gradually over India, would perhaps never have thought so barren and uncivilized a country worth conquering at all, if it had not been that its seaports gave travellers from Persia and Arabia easier access to the great cities of the Dekhan than could be had by any landjourney, and it must have been necessary also to keep open certain routes from these ports to the Dekhan, without which the command of the coast would have been of little value. It is probable that these ports and routes were but few, and from the fact of nearly all the Konkan forts having been rebuilt and enlarged by Sivaji, the traces of the Musalman occupation are even less than they otherwise would be. Yet it is possible, by searching books of old history and travel, and at the same time examining the few remaining ruins, to get some idea of what this district was in the days of Musalman ascendancy, ard to make out a few of the routes by which merchants and travellers from Persia, Arabia, and Europe found their way to the capital cities of [Ostoviv, 1873. had been built on the rock, and there were only two or three inches of soil at the bottom of the well. Considering the number of objects frequently yielded by cairns, I was much disappointed at this result. The hill-top was the most commanding of the many around, on almost every one of which a cairn was visible, and there was a magnificent prospect from it over Kotagiri and the low country beyond, extending to the distant Salem and Trichinapalli hills. Hence one was led to conclude the cairn must be the burial-place of a great chieftain; and the enor mous labour expended in carrying such multitudes of stones up a hill that was trying to ascend empty-handed, raised the expectation they would cover a rich and various funeral deposit. 9, Randolph Crescent, London, June 1873. Sadik Isfahani, in his Takwim al Buldan (cir. 1635) has: 'Dabul (13) a seaport of the Dekkan, long. 83deg0', Bidar, Gulbarga, Bijapur, and Golkonda. What I have collected I now give with tolerable confidence that, as far as it goes, it is correct, but it is no more than an outline which may perhaps help others to prepare a complete local history. In his translation of Ferishtah, Briggs, speaking of the Muhammadan invasion of the Konkan in 1429, says: "It seems very doubtful if the whole of the Konkan had ever been attacked before this period, and this exploit seems to have been rather a marauding expedition than a conquest. The ports of Dabul and Chaul are spoken of at a very early period as in the hands of the Muhammadans: but whether they occupied much of the interior of the country appears very doubtful." As I have no acquaintance with the district in which Chaul lies, I shall confine myself to that part of the Southern Konkan between Bankot and Goa-that is, the Ratnagiri collectorate and a small part of the Savantvidi State, and on all accounts it will be proper to begin with the history of Dabul, as it is always spelt by the Musalman and early English writers, though it is written in Marathi Dabhol. This 'ancient port is situated above 85 miles 10 lat. 45deg30' Chivel (J) or Chaul, he places in long. 88 and lat. 38deg, and Bidar (J) in long. 100deg, lat. 47deg.-ED.

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OCTOBER, 1873.] 3. of Bombay on the N. bank of the river Vasishthi, just at the point where it opens out into a noble estuary, and about two miles higher up than the Maratha fort of Anjanvel, which guards the entrance on the southern side. Though exceedingly picturesque, no one would ever have chosen this as a situation for a large town: for the strip of land intervening between the river and the very high and steep hills is so narrow, that if Dabul was ever as populous as is stated, the town must have extended three or four miles up the river. It is now like any other insignificant Konkan town, with no trade to speak of, and the houses entirely hidden among cocoanut trees. The only objects worthy of remark are a fine mosque, with dome and minarets, standing almost at the water's edge close to the present landing-place, a few tombs standing by themselves nearer to the sea, and a conical hill three or four miles further up the river, crowned by a mosque which from its position has a good deal the appearance of a Rhine castle. The earliest mention I have found of the place is in Dow's History, which professes to be a translation of Ferishtah, but is said to contain much that is not found in that author. He mentions Dabul as one of the countries ravaged by Malik Naib Kaffur in 1312, along with Mahrat, Raichor, Mudkal, and others whose names I do not identify : all except the first evidently meaning the districts of which the places named were the chief towns. As it was scarcely twenty years before this that the Musalmans had made their first great raid into the Dekhan, it may be concluded that this was their first acquaintance with the Southern Konkan, and there can be no doubt that they entered it by passing down the Ghats, for it was not till several generations after this that they either took to the sea, or ventured on the very difficult land journey from Gujarat through the Northern Konkan. DABHOL. In 1857, the then undivided kingdom of the Dekhan was made into four governments, and Dabul is mentioned as the western limit of the first government, which included Gulbarga itself. Chaul is also mentioned at this time, but no port south of Dabul. Again, towards the end of the century, both towns are mentioned by Ferishtah as among the chief ones in the empire, and as having had orphan schools, with ample foundations for their support, established by king Muhammad Shah Bahmani. 279 In 1429, and again in 1486, two considerable expeditions were sent into the Konkan, and the country is said to have been subjugated and well plundered. No mention is made of Dabul in connection with either of these, but of the second it is recorded that a beautiful daughter of the Raja of Rairi (Raigadh) was sent to court, where she became the queen of Ahmad Shah Wali Bahmani, and was long celebrated under the name of Perichehra, or Fairy-face. The next events recorded of Dabul are of a different sort, but not less calculated to show its importance in the 15th century. Mahmud Khan Gowan, who afterwards became the celebrated minister of the Bidar kingdom, came from Persia as a merchant and landed at Dabul in 1447. And about 1459 Yusuf Adil Khan, the founder of the Bijapur dynasty, also entered India at Dabul. His romantic story is given in full detail by Ferishtah, but it is sufficient here to mention that he was taken from Dabul to Bidar as a slave by a Georgian merchant. Shortly after this, Dabul is first mentioned by a European traveller, as neither Marco Polo nor Ibn Batuta mention any ports of the Konkan, and Marco Polo gives but a few lines to the whole of the coast of this Presidency, speaking of it under the name of the kingdom of Thana. But Nikitin, a Russian, who about the year 1470 spent three or four years in the south of India, landed at Chaul, and, from what he heard there, wrote as follows:-" Dabul is a very extensive seaport where many horses are brought from Mysore, Rabast (Arabia), Khorassan, Turkestan, &c. It takes a month to walk by land from this place to Beder and Kulburga. It is the last seaport in Hindostan belonging to the Musalmans." Three years later he made Dabul his port of embarkation, and from here took ship to Hormuz, paying two pieces of gold for his passage, and spending a month at sea. He then wrote: "Dabul, a port of the vast Indian Sea.. it is a very large town, the great meeting-place of all nations living on the coast of India." About 1482, Bahadur Khan Gilani attempted to make himself independent of the then declining kingdom of Bidar, and, among other towns, had for a long time possession of Dabul and Goa, and command of the whole coast. He was at last, however, defeated by Muhammad Shah Bahmani II. in a battle which took place

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280 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. somewhere near Kolhapur, and after this the king and a few of his principal nobles marched down to Dabul and enjoyed the (to them) novel amusement of sailing about up and down the coast. Within three or four years of this, how ever, the Bijapur kingdom was established, and the whole Konkan passed to it. In 1508 the misfortunes of Dabul began, when it was bombarded by Almeida, the Portuguese Viceroy, who did not, however, succeed in taking the fort. Ferishtah says that in 1510 Goa was ceded by the king of Bijapur to the Portuguese as the eondition of their not molesting the other towns on the coast, and that they kept this treaty. The Portuguese his. torians, however, give a very different account; for according to themselves they were constantly maranding, and in 1522 landed and levied a contribution at Dabul. Before this, in 1515, a Persian ambassador had embarked at Dabul on his way back from Bijapur, and this is the last event of the sort I have read of in connection with the place. The Portuguese claim to have burnt every town on the coast between Srivardhan and Goa in 1548, and again in 1569, but they are discreetly silent about an event which Ferishtah records of 1571. A Portuguese force then landed at Dabul with the intention of burning it as usual, though one would suppose that, as only two years had elapsed since the last occasion, there would not be much worth burning. But the governor, Khwaja Ali Shirazi, having heard of their intentions, laid an ambush and put to death 150 of them. Not many years after this, when the Portuguese had begun to be inconvenienced by the advances of the Dutch, they made peace with Bijapur, and we then hear no more of Dabult till it was plundered by Sivaji in 1660. Its subsequent history has nothing to do with the Musalmans, and need not therefore be referred to. Hamilton, a traveller of the beginning of the last century, mentions that the English had once a factory there, but of this I have found no confirmation. It is not difficult to understand why it was that Dabul declined in the later days of the Musalmans, and still more subsequently. So long as the Musalman capital was at Bidar [OCTOBER, 1873. or Gulbarga, Dabul was the nearest port, and there was no need to look for another. But when independent kingdoms were established at Bijapur and Golkonda, it would be natural to look for ports further south than Dabul; and Rajapur, and especially the splendid harbour and creek of Gheria, would soon obtain the preference. And in Maratha days Dabul was entirely eclipsed by the neighbouring town and fortress of Anjanvel, and thus, between near and distant rivals, fell into utter obscurity, as also did Chaul. Grant Duff says that in 1697 Dabul was granted in inam to the Sirke family, and a greater proof of its decay is that some of the present Hindu inhabitants are said to have grants, dated in the last century, of some of the best sites in the town, described as waste ground. As showing the obscurity it has now fallen into, I may mention that Thornton's Gazetteer of India does not even contain the name of Dabul, though, as not a single word is said about the ancient greatness or the ruins of Gulbarga, this is, perhaps, not surprising. On the other hand, in a map of India published with Orme's Historical Fragments in 1782, Dabul is marked conspicuously, while I find several lines given to it in a small Gazetteer of the Eastern Hemisphere published at Boston, U. S. in 1808. Sheikh Zin-ud-din in the Tohfat ul mujahidin, places it in 1577. See Tohfat, p. 174.-ED. +Ferishtah mentions it in the following places (Briggs's So much for history, and from that we pass into the region of tradition and conjecture. The Muhammadan inhabitants of the present day are so poor that there is not very much to be got from them, but they say that there were formerly 360 mosques in the town-a purely mythical number of course-and profess to be able to show the sites of nearly a hundred: and wherever foundations for new houses are dug, remains of Muhammadan buildings are pretty sure to be turned up. The following account of the large mosque on the shore, was given by Ghulam Caheb Badar, one of the chief Muhammadan inhabitants, to Mr. G. Vidal, C.S.: "The mosk at Dabhol, in the Dapuli taluqa of the Ratnagiri Zilla, dates from the reign of Mahmud Adil Shah of Bijapur, and was built in A. Hej. 1070 (A.D. 1659-60) by the king's daughter-the princess 'Aayshah Bibi, or, as she was commonly called, the Ma Caheba. "The princess had conceived a wish to visit the holy shrine at Mekkah before she came of age, translation), vol. I. p. 879; vol. II. pp. 295, 350, 413, 433-4, 511, 542-3; vol. III. pp. 7, 48, 345, 507, 513; vol. IV. pp. 71, 533, 530, 540.--ED.

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OCTOBER, 1873.] DABHOL. 281 and, her father's consent having been obtained for Dabul, and putting all this together it seems the pilgrimage, she set out from Bijapur with a scarcely possible that the mosque could have retinue of 20,000 horse under the command of the been built at this time. king's private minister, Bahira Khakan, a native The figures given in the account are also of Mekkah. The princess and her party, having crossed the Western Ghats, arrived at Dabhol, apparently quite mythical. It is scarcely crewbich was at that time one of the principal ports dible that the mosque could in those days have of the Konkan and held by a Subadar of the cost fifteen lakhs, and it is certain that 20,000 Bijapur Government named Ibrahim Khan, who cavalry would have eaten up the whole Konkan bore the title of Vezir ul Mulk. The princess in in a week. tended to have embarked here on her voyage to I am not aware whether there is a Persian Mekkah. While here, however, the news of many inscription on the mosque or not. I think not, piracies committed on the coast reached her, and but it is said that the sanads and other docuafter much consideration it was deemed unsafe for ments referring to the Musalman villages on her to proceed. So the pilgrimage was given up, this coast are chiefly among the records of the and it only remained for the princess to determino in what manner she should spend the money she Habshi at Jinjira, so it is possible that a search had brought with her for her expedition. The there may settle this question. It is at all events Maulavis and Qazis, who were,summoned to adviso certain that the mosque cannot have been built her, suggested the building of a masjid at Dabhol later than 1660, nor earlier than 1508, as if it for the glory of Islam, and to this she consented. had been before that time it would certainly The work was then undertaken, and completed in have been destroyed by the zealous Roman four years. The name of the builder was Kamel Catholics under Almeida. Khan, and the cost of the building was fifteen lakhs. In the names of two small pargans in this It is currently reported that the dome was richly neighbourhood, one on each side of the creek, gilded, and that the crescent was of pure gold. The we find further traces of the Musalman power. gold and the gilt have long since disappeared, but much of the beautiful carving and tracery remaing. They are called Haveli Ahmadabad and Haveli Eight villages-Bhopan, Sirol, Visapur, Bhoste, Jafarabad, and I believe that the term Haveli Shaveli, Mundhar, Bhudavle, and Pangari-were signifies that they belonged to a city which was granted in indm for the maintenance of the mas. the capital of a kingdom or government. It is jid. The grants were resumed on the overthrow probable that the villages forming these parof the Bijapur kingdom by Sivaji. The masjid still ganas were attached to Dabul for the maintebears the name of its founder, the Ma Ckheba, but nance of the Government establishments, just it is no longer used for worship. Nothing is ever as in 1756 eleven villages on the Bankog creek done for its maintenance or repair, and it is ten were ceded to our government for the support anted solely by pigeons and bats.* The Musalmans of Dabhol are too poor to afford the cost of its of Fort Victoria. No villages or towns called preservation, and thus what is probably the only Ahmadabad or Jafarabad exist in this neighfine specimen of Muhammadan architecture in the bourhood, that I ever heard of. The traditions Konkan will crumble away year by year till nothing of the mosque already mentioned as standing at is left but a heap of ruins.t" the top of a high hill in the neighbourhood, and The date A.H. 1070 corresponds to A.D. 1659. known by the name of Bala Pir (from the Ara60. Mahmud Adil Shah had died in 1656, bio bala, a hill) are vague and rather commonwhich would not of course make it impossible place. The mosque is a small one, divided into that his daughter should in that year have visit- two compartments, in one of which are the tombs ed Dabul and built the mosque. But between 1 of the Pir, his wife and son. He is said to 1656 and 1660 Aurangzib and Sivaji were in have been named Abdul Qadr, and to have lived alliance against the young king of Bijapur, and from 250 to 300 years ago. The mosque or it seems scarcely possible that the kingdom could tomb has a cash allowance from Government of have at that time afforded either the 15 lakhs or Rs. 25-8 a year, and up to fifteen or twenty years the cavalry force for a mere sentimental expe- ago it used to receive from every field in the dition and building at Dabul. Besides this, it village of Wanosi a pdyali of grain. The inhabwas just about this time that Sivaji plundereditants, however, appear now to have grown too * The minarets are in a tottering condition, the mortar having long since crumbled away, and the stonos becoming in bonsequence loosened are falling out of their placpe. + See NOTE on next page.ED.

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282 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [OCTOBER, 1873. considerabie Musalman remains. I have not, however, sufficient acquaintance with the country above the Ghats to say anything with confidence abont these routes, nor is it necessary for my purpose to do more than indicate the ultimate point to which travellers would tend. Note. Accompanying Mr. Vidal's paper was the following document, being a copy of a Persian paper in possession of Ghulam Caheb Badar.-ED. intelligent to continue such an act of piety. But vowe are still made to the Pir by those in distress, and especially by seafaring people, the mosque being a very conspicuous landmark; and, as in most places in the South Konkan, and probably elsewhere, Hindus make vows of this sort to Musalman Pirs without any exclusive bigotry. There is an assembly of villagers every year in the month of Rajab, and then only it is said to be safe to pass the night near the mosque, madness being the penalty of doing so at other times. Only one miracle is remembered as having been worked by the Pir, and that not more twenty yearsago, when a Musalman having vowed a rupee and a quarter to the Pir, basely paid only eight annas. As soon as he left the place he fell down senseless, and only recovered when the custodian of the tomb laid hands on him and uttered the Pir's name. It is rather sad to have to announce that after this he paid no more than the twelve annas which he had previously defrauded the Pir of. I must close this long account with a little speculation as to the route taken in old times by travellers landing at Dabul or embarking there: for I am sorry to say I cannot trace this with such apparent certainty as is possible in the case of some of the more southern routes. Two of the oldest quotations I have given above speak of DAbul in connection with Bidar, and the latitude of the two places is almost identical, Dabul being about one minute south. The main river is navigable from DAbul to Chipalun, and a northerly branch of it to Khed. The great prevalence of Musalmans in Khed and the villages on that branch of the river make me think that that was the old route, particularly as that is nearest the direct line to Bidar.. From Khed there is an easy road of only seven kos to the Amboli Ghat, and from the top of this Ghat a remarkably open tract of country towards Satara. This, then, would probably be the old route to Bidar. To Bijapur the route from the top of the Ghat would pass more to the sonth, and probably through Karhad, where there are qwjn amd m shh zdy bsm hysh bn dkhtr bd shh slTn mHmwd brn byt llh z shhr wzyr lmlkh slTnt bhyr khqn bj pwr chnd khS byst hzr snwr w Gyrh fwj snh 1070 sb`yn wlf mn jry lnbwy tSwyr br dm khn bn msjd kh`bth llh tyr khrdh | nwb wzyr lmlkh chhr ml w khrch mrt msjd rwhy'y pndr 100000 lkhm wrd shhr bj pwr bqD lhy mSHbyr shhzdy mtsl msjd st w dr shhr bj pwr w b mwj bwry khrch msjd lnkr `mrt w skhtn z srkhr b dsh `ly `dl shh mwD` ys pwr | mwD` bhwpn. mwD` srl mwD` chywbny mwD` mwkhr mwD` bhr stn mwD` bngry khrd mwD` bhr wly khn bn msjd mS Hbr kh rygr kh ml Translation by E. Rehatsek, M.C.E. Crowds arrived with the Shahzadi 'Abyshah, the daughter of the Padeshah Sultan Mahmud, on a visit to the house of God (at Mekkah] from the city of Bejapur:-Beveral courtiers, Vezir-ul. mulk Sultanat, Bahira Khakan, twenty thousand cavalry and other troops; in the year one thousand seventy after the prophetic emigration. The Subah[dar) Ebrahim Khan Naw&b Vexir-ul-mulk, finished the edifice of the mosk, the Ka'bah of God, in four years, and the expense of building the mosk amounted to fifteen lakhs of rupees. This is not a good specimen of composition, containing, besides the Hindostani expressions pandra ("fifteen") and Ja caheb, two orthographical errors: thus does not occur in any dictionary, and must therefore being "contiguous." The word in ought to be, I gue "cavalry" ! stands for pd and the spelling y s "mchor lngr ie barbarone. Homo the word lnbwy@ appears to mean "foundation," but is also explained! mrdm bsyr w nbr~ by mwhich the Muntakhab explain a place'' jy khh dr nj T`m hmh rwz bmrdm dhnd i. e. "crowds," and mio ought to be spelt love where the whole day food is given to the people."-E.R.

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OCTOBER, 1873.] By the decree of God, in the city of Bejapur, [the mausoleum of?] the Ma Caheb Shahzadi is contiguous to the mosk. In the city of Bejapur and Namujpuri the expenses of the mosk, the foundation of the edifice, and the building, were defrayed by the Sirkar of the Padeshah 'Aly 'Adil Shab. CHRISTIAN TRACES IN THE BHAGAVAD GITA. And here we do not need to depart from the results of modern criticism of the age of the Bhagavad-Gita. On the one hand it is oertain that it dates after Buddha, and on the other hand there is the strongest reason to believe that its composition must be attributed to a period terminating several centuries after the commencement of the Christian era. TRACES IN THE BHAGAVAD-GITA OF CHRISTIAN WRITINGS AND IDEAS. From the Appendix to Dr. Lorinser's Bhagavad-Gita." To prove that in the manifold and often surprising coincidence of thoughts and expressions in the Bhagavad-Gita, as well with single passages in the New Testament, as with the common Christian ideas and principles, we have no accidental similarities, but that an actual borrowing has taken place, it may not be superfluous to exhibit in a collective form the results already won, and from them to draw some further conclusions which give such a high degree of probability to the opinion that the doctrines of the Bhagavad-Gita are not only an eclectic mixture of different Indian philosophies, but have also a strong infusion at least of ideas and sayings taken over from Christianity, that it may almost lay claim to certainty. the renowned philosopher of the Vedanta school, lived. According to the usual hypothesis, resting, it must be confessed, on weighty reasons, which however can make no olaim to irrefragable certainty, Sankara lived in the 8th century after Christ. Hence Lassen infers that the Bhagavad-Gita must have been composed some five centuries earlier, i. e. in the third century after Christ. If this supposition is correct (and it must not be forgotten that it only professes to give the earliest date at which the Bhagavad-Gita could have been composed), it is clear that the composer of the poem might have had some acquaintance with the doctrines and sacred records of Christianity. For we know that there were already at that time Christian communities in India, in which from Eusebius (Hist. Eccles. lib. V. cap. 10) we learn that Panteenus, a missionary who had penetrated to India as early as the second century, found, and brought to Alexandria on his return, a copy of the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, which had apparently been taken there by the apostle Bartholomew. Further, and this is of peculiar importance in the present discussion, there already existed an Indian translation of the New Testament, of which we have positive proof in the writings of St. Chrysostom, which seems to have been till now overlooked by Indian antiquarians. The place in questiont is Evang. Joan., Homil. I. cap. 1, and runs as follows: Up to the present time the means for an accurate chronology. of Indian Antiquity are entirely wanting, and in judging of the age of the literary monuments we can only speak of relative dates. Our aim here then must be to establish that the Bhagavad-Gita may be attributed to a period in which it is not impossible that its composer may have been acquainted with Christianity and its sacred writings, that is to say, with different books of the New Testament. "The Syrians, too, and Egyptians, and Indians, and Persians, and Ethiopians, and innumerable other nations, translating into their own tongues the doctrines derived from this man, barbarians though they were, learnt to philosophise." The date after which it could not have been composed must, however, be left an open question till we are certain when Sankara, Die Bhagavad Gita uebersetzt und erlautert von Dr. F. Lorinser (Breslau, 1869). 283 + Alla kai Suroi, kai Aiguptioi, kai Indoi, kai Persai, kai Aithiopes, kai muria etera ethne, eis ten auton Muza' Bhostan, Muza' Aisapur, Srol. Muza Bhopan. Muza' Pangari Khard, Muza' Bhuraviti. Muza' Mundrar, Muza' Chivili. Superintendent Kamel Khan built the mosk of Ma Caheb. We might be tempted to regard the importance metabalontes glottan ta para toutou dogmata eisakhthenta, emathos anthropoi barbaroi philosophein.-(Ed. Montfaucon, tom. viii. pp. 11, 12.).

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284 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (OCTOBER, 1873. of this testimony as weakened by the addition of the words "and innumerable other nations." But such & consideration loses its force when we remember that all the translations mentioned by name in this passage, with the single exception of the Indian, are known to us from other sources and are still extant. We may be certain that Chrysostom would not have expressly mentioned the Indian if he had not had positive knowledge of a translation in their tongue. Now Chrysostom died in the year 407 A.D. The Indian translation of which he knew must have existed for at least a hundred years before information about it could in those times have reached him. But probably Pantaenus, the teacher of Clemens Alexandrinus, who we know was himself in India, had brought this inform ation to the West. The date of this translation then may possibly reach to the first or second century A.D. It would be difficult to ascertain whether it was composed in Sanskrit, the learned speech of the Brahmans, which had already died out in the mouths of the common people, or in one of the Indian popular dialects. This, however, is not of importance, since we must of course presume that the learned and highly gifted Brahman who wrote the Bhagavad-Gita knew the popular dialect also. But even if we shut our eyes to the existence of an Indian translation of the New Testament, it would still be possible that & Brahman acquainted with the Greek language may have known and used the original text. And such a supposition may perhaps find confirmation in the circumstance that, besides the New Testament, there are traces of the use of the Book of Wisdom, which was originally written in Greek. In this way the possibility that the composer of the Bhagavad-Gita may have been acquainted not merely with the general teaching of Christianity, but also with the very writings of the New Testamert, might be shown in a very natural way, without the necessity of having recourse to rash hypotheses. But is it conceivable that a Brahman, who holds fast to the traditional wisdom of his caste and puts it above everything, as the author of the Bhagavad-Gita does, should have con- descended to take such special knowledge of Christianity, and even to use some of its doctrines, and maxims from its holy writings, in order to suit them to, and incorporate them with, his own system? Here too we must first show the possibility of such a thing before we can | proceed to demonstrate the actual fact from the evident traces we can adduce. The composer of the Bhagavad-Gita belongs to the sect of the Vaishnavas ; for he transfers to Vishnu all the attributes of supreme deity-of Brahma in the philosophical sense of that word -and sees in the hero Krishna an incarnation of this supreme nature. Now this incarnation of Krishna, which is perhaps more sharply defined in the Bhagavad-Gita than in any of the other similar episodes of the Mahabharata, was, as Weber among others has shown in his Indische Studien, greatly influenced by contact with Christianity. Misled by the similarity of the name, they recognised in Christ the hero Krishna, and transferred to Krishna much of what the Christians related and believed of Christ. In reference to this connection between the legend of Krishna and the doctrines of Christi. anity, Professor Weber, whose authority in the sphere of Indian philology and antiquities is recognised event in India, says (Indische Studien, I. 400) :-"A supposition of a different nature here involuntarily occurs to me, namely, that Brahmans may have come across the sea to Alex. andria, or even to Asia Minor, at the beginning of the Christian era, and that they, on their return to India, may have transferred the monotheistic doctrine and some of its legends to their own sage or hero, Krishna Devakiputra (son of Devaki, Divine), whose very name reminded them of Christ, the son of the divine (?!) maiden, and to whom divine honours may already have been granted, replacing in other particulars the Christian doctrines by those of the Sankhya and Yoga philosophies, as these in their turn may perhaps have had an influence in the formation of Gnostic sects. The legends of the birth of Krishna, and his persecution by Kansa, remind us too strikingly of the corresponding Christian narratives to leave room for the supposition that the similarity is quite accidental. Nor does chronology oppose us in the * This derivation of Devakt is, however, only apparently correct, Weber shows in his recent treatise on Krishna's Geburtsfest (Berlin, 1868), which only reached me when this was in the press. The word should rather be translated player' (root div).

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OCTOBER, 1873 ] CHRISTIAN TRACES IN THE BHAGAVAD GITA. 285 matter. According to Lassen (I. 623), the for. (4) The legend in the Mahabharata of passages in the Mahabharata in which Krishna Svetadvipa, and the revelation which is made has divine honours attributed to him are of there to Narada by Bhagavat himself, shows later origin (belong in fact, as I think, to the that Indian tradition bore testimony to such an Purasa epoch), and the Krishna-cultus proper influence. (5) The legends of Krishna's birth, is not found before the fifth or sixth century." the solemn celebration of his birthday, in the Again (ibid. II. 398, &c.): "Individual Chris- honours of which his mother, Devaki, participates, tian teachers, if they had an imposing person. and finally his life as a herdsman, a phase the furality, such as I believe I trace in the legend of thest removed from the original representation, Sveta, would not be without influence in the can only be explained by the influence of Chrisearly time, even if after their death, without tian legends, which, received one after the other any pressure from ontside, their doctrine became by individual Indians in Christian lands, were more and more indefinite, losing its originality modified to suit their own ways of thonght, and suiting itself to the Indian conception. and may also have been affected by the labours Still greater however, as has been the case in all of individual Christian teachers down to the lands and at all times, must have been the in- latest times." fluence exerted by natives of India, who filled up Nor does Weber stand alone in his view in their own way what they had learned in foreign concerning the influence of Christianity on the countries. Not that such were themselves Chris. legends of Krishna. The English writer Talboys tians. But in their hearts, sufficiently prepared Wheeler, in his History of India, calls some of by the current tendency of Indian philosophy these legends (pp. 470, 471) "a travesty of towards a concrete unity, the doctrine of faith Christianity," and asserts of others that they (bhakti) in theincarnate Christ found fruitful soil. have been borrowed directly from the Gospel. In him they may have at once recognised their "The healing of the woman who had been own hero, Krishna, just as the Greeks discovered bowed down for eighteen years, and who was everywhere their Heracles and Dionysos. If made straight by Christ on the sabbath day, till then they had honoured Krishna as a hero - and the incident of the woman who broke an and he seems to have been originally a clearly alabaster box of spikenard and poured it upon defined human personality-the fact that in & his head, seem to have been thrown together in strange land they found a god of the same name the legend of Kubja."+ Noteworthy also are the so highly honoured would of itself be proof of words of the anonymous reviewer of Wheeler's his divinity. The whole question, I think, turns book in the Athenaeum (No. 2076, 10th Aug. on the following points :-(1) The reciprocal 1867), who says expressly:"It must be admitted, action and mutual influence of Gnostic and then, that there are most remarkable coinciIndian conceptions in the first centuries of the dences between the history of Koishna and that Christian era are evident, however difficult it of Christ. This being the case, and there may be at present to say what in each is pecu- being proof positive that Christianity was introliar to it or borrowed from the other. (2) The duced into India at an epoch when there is worship of Krishna as sole god is one of the good reason to suppose the episodes which refer latest phases of Indian religious systems, of to Krishna were inserted in the Mahdbharata, which there is no trace in Varahamihira, who the obvions inference is that the Brahmans took mentions Krishna, but only in passing. (3) This from the Gospel such things as suited them." worship of Krishna as solo god has no intelli. 1. From these quotations it is clear that the gible connection with his earlier position in the influence of Christian doctrines and "legends" Brahmanical legends. There is a gap between (as Weber calls the relations in the Gospel) on "the two, which apparently nothing but the sup- the development of later Brahmanical wisdom position of an external influence can account has already been recognised by Indian anti Weber does not seem to me to lay rufficient stress and were found by the Portagaese. And the Brahmans on this last point. A somewhat trustworthy tradition carries would much more readily become sequinted with the the labours of Christian teachers to introduce their religion writings of the New Testament throngh native Indian into India back to the Apostles Thomas and Bartholomow. 1 Christians than by journeys of Brahmans to Alexandris and We know for certain that there were numerous Christian Asia Minor. communities in India in the first century of the Christian Conf. Luke, xiii. 10-17; Mark, xiv. 3; Matthew, uvi. era, which continued under the name of Thomas Christiana, 1,7; John, tu. .-Ed.I.A.

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286 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. quarians. In particular it cannot be denied that this influence was of great importance in the worship of Krishna as an incarnation of Vishnu, and that much of what is related of Christ in the Gospels was transferred to Krishna. We can no longer doubt, therefore, the possibility of the hypothesis that the composer of the Bhagavad-Gita also, in which this deification of Krishna reaches, in a measure, its climax, used Christian ideas and expressions, and transferred sayings of Christ related in the Gospels to Krishna, from the same motive and by the same right by which the story of the life of Krishna was adorned with incidents which the Christians narrated of Christ. If now we can find in the Bhagavad-Gita passages, and these not single and obscure, but numerous and clear, which present a surprising similarity to passages in the New Testament, we shall be justified in concluding that these coincidences are no play of chance, but that, taken all together, they afford conclusive proof that the composer was acquainted with the writings of the New Testament, used them as he thought I.-Passages which differ in expression but agree in meaning. Bhagavad-Gita. New Testament. He who has brought his members under subjection, but sits with foolish mind thinking in his heart of the things of sense, is called a hypocrite. (iii. 6.)* But I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. (Mutt. v. 28.) But know they who, scorning it, do not keep my decre., are bereft of all understanding, senseless, lost. (iii. 32.)+ In every object of sense, desire and inclination are inherent. Let a man not subject himself to them, they are his foes. (iii. 34.) Thy birth is later, that of Vivasat was earlier; how am I to understand that thou didst declare it in the beginning ? (iv. 4.) Many are my birthsSS that are past, many are [OCTOBER, 1873. fit, and has woven into his own work numerous passages, if not word for word, yet preserving the meaning, and shaping it according to his Indian mode of thought, a fact which till now no one has noticed. To put this assertion beyond doubt, I shall place side by side the most important of these passages in the Bhagavad-Gita, and the corresponding texts of the New Testament. I distinguish three different kinds of passages to which parallels can be adduced from the New Testament: first, such as, with more or less of verbal difference, agree in sense, so that a thought which is clearly Christian appears in an Indian form of expression-these are far the most numerous, and indicate the way in which the original was used in general; secondly, passages in which a peculiar and characteristic expression of the New Testament is borrowed word for word, though the meaning is sometimes quite changed; thirdly, passages in which thought and expression agree, though the former receives from the context a meaning suited to Indian conceptions. There is in this sloka a polemical allusion to the abuse made of the Yoga, by regarding abstinence from external works as the main point. Lassen remarks,-"even now indeed India abounds with men, who, either carried away by the fame of sanctity, or by the resolution to extort rewards from the gods as it were by force, bind themselves by the strictest vows, and in fasting, silence, and immoveable positions of the body, yet indulge lascivious desires within and dream of pleasures in the future." In the Bha gavad-Gita, the peculiar stress laid on the inner purity of the mind, which, in this form, scarcely occurs elsewhere in Indian literature, would itself alone' suggest the influence of Christian ideas, even if other vestiges of it could not be pointed out. fAlso John, xiv. 23-24. We often meet with the expressions eraddha and bhakti, which, as in the Christian idea of rioris and dyar, point to a believing in and trustful consecration to a person. There appears to be no doubt A man that is an heretick... reject; 'knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. (Tit. iii. 10, 11.) Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal boly, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. (Rm. vi. 12.) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God. (Rom. viii. 7.) Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abrahan? (John viii. 57.) I know whence I came, and whither I ga: but that these ideas are not originally Indian representations (as they are not found anywhere else in heathendom), but that they have, been taken over from Christianity, as Dr. A. Weber among others (Indische Studien, II. 396 ff.) supposes, and has partly demonstrated. In this sloka is expressed with almost dogmatic precision the Christian doctrine of concupiscence, which becomes sin only when man willingly obeys its inspirations. Conf also James, i, 14-15. With reference to the expression nemies' conf. also Matt. x. 36, which, by ascetic authors, is applied mystically to lust which dwells in man. The arataras all belong to the time of the Purinas (hence to a post-Christian age), and Thomson believes also that many of them owe their origin to the Land of the Bible,' but whether before or after the Christian era is a question he does not venture tc decide, though doubtless many points of resemblance exist between Krishna and our Saviour'; the tenth avatara (Kalkin) is said strongly to

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OCTOBER, 1873.] CHRISTIAN TRACES IN THE BHAGAVAD GITA. 287 thine too, Arjuna! I know them all, but thou kuowest them not. (iv. 5.) For the establishing of righteousness am I born from time to time. (iv. 8.) yo cannot tell whence I como, and whither I go. (John, viii. 14.) To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the Truth. (John xviii. 37.) For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil. (1 John, iii. 3.) He that believeth... shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. (Marle, xvi. 16.) WH Wher therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Cor. x. 31.) And whatsoever ye do in wood or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. (Col. iii. 17.) The ignorant, the faithless, and he of a doubt. ing min 1 is lost. (iv. 40.) "I do nothing, let the absorbed think, who knows the truth, whether he sees, hears, touches, smells, onts, goes, sleeps, or breathes. . . . He 10, performing his actions in Brahma, acts free from inclination, is not stained by sin. (v. 8, 10.)+ Ene edge is enveloped in ignorance, therefore the crescures crr. (v. 15.) Yet the knowledge of those in whose minds this ignorance has been destroyed by it, illumin- ates like the sun the highest. (v. 16.) Having the understanding darkened.. through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart. (Eph. iv. 18.) Until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. (2 Pet. i. 19.) God ... hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Cor. iv. 6.) Blessed is the man that endureth temptation. (James, i. 12.) He who can bear in this world, before he is forced from the body, the pressure of desire and anger, he is absorbed, a happy man. (v. 23.) Let the Yogi always exercise himself in secret. (vi. 10.) Absorption is not his who ents too much, nor his who cats not at all. (vi. 16.) But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and, when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy father which is in secret. (Matt. vi. 6.) Why do the disciples of John fast often ... but thine eat and drink? (Lulce, v. 33.) The Son of man came eating and drinking. (Matt. xi. 19.) Lord, to whom shall we go P thou hast the words of eternal life. (John, vi. 68.) I deterinined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ. (1 Cor. ii. 2.) Besides thee there is no one who can resolve this doubt. (vi. 39.) Hear, now, how thou mayst know me wholly, Partha! That knowledge ... I shall declare to thee savour of the prophecios of the Revelation. In my opinion Bhagavad-Gita, and in which also trace of Christian infla. there can, at present, be no doubt whatever that the incar..ence may be pointed out. There it pays (Biblioth. Ind. vol. nation of Vishna as Krishna- the only one represented as a XV. p. 65, 6. 4): "Whoever after he has performed works truly human incarnation of the person of the god-i4 an endowed with qualities, places them and all his fondness imitation of the Christian dogma regarding the person of upon God-for if they do not exist, the effects also ceaseChrist, pointed to, not only by the similarity of the name obtains, by the cessation of work, that which is different Krishna to Christ, and the many coincidences in the legends from the principles of nature), (that is to say, he becomes about Krishna with the life of the Saviour, as has also like Brahina)." One should notice also the specification of already been supposed by Fra Paolino a S. Bartolomeo in individual actions ('ev Loya,' ev apya-dire dodiete, eine his Systems Brahmanicum (Roma, 1791), by H. Windisch rivere) in the passages cited, and the enumeration of cor. man and others, and lastly also by Weber (Ind. Studien, poreal functions in the 8th and 9th flokas which stand in I. 400, II. 898 ff., and by Wheeler, Hist. of India, 1..464 ff.), the closest connection with the 10th. but also, es may be specially shown, by the Bhagavad. Gita itself. I Compare also Clemens Alexandring, Protrept. $ 114 .. Conf. Avetisvatara Upanishad, vi. 6 (Biblioth. Ind. (ed. Sylbarg, p. 31) cap. xi.-"Let us pat away, then, let vol. XV. p. 66): Who is the stablisher of virtae and os put away oblivion of the trath, vis. ignorance; and rethe destroyer of sin.' moving the darkness which obstruots, a dimnose of sight, + Conf. iii. 80; Psalm liv. 23, and specially Heb. ri. 1-2. let us contemplate the only true God. For in a light has Comparo further with the doctrine here addooed Thomas shone forth from heaven, ..puror than the ran, sweeter than life here below." Kempia, de Imit. Christi, II. iv. 9: "No good action would be difficult if thou wert free within from inordinate Bukht nur, -conf. also the expression of Paul, 1 affection. When it is the one simple intention of thy mind Oor. vii. 40. The idea enuncinted in this Aloka bears an to obey the will of God and do good to thy fellow-men, entirely Christian stamp, and reminds me of the words of thou wilt enjoy this inner freedom;" conf. (ibid. II. v.): Chrysostom (de Virginitate, cap. xi.), ed. Montfaucon, tom. "If you are simply intent on union with God, what you see viii. p. 837 :"Do you understand then the glory of virginity ? in the world will little move you. Nothing will be lofty, or of those who living on the earth, strive after a life like that grent, or plenant, or to be desired, except simply God or of of the celestiala, clothed in the body, suffer not the incor. God.". The same thought also occurs in the Sveta buatara- poreal to excel them in virtue, and render mortals the Upanishad, the doctrine of which is closely related to the rivals of angela."

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288 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. which when thou hast learnt there remains nothing else to learn here. (vii. 1, 2.)* Only they who come to me will overcome illusion. (vii. 14.) Evil-doers, fools, and the lowest of men come not to me... following their demoniacal nature. (vii. 15.) The oppressed and they who hunger for knowledge, they who desire wealth, and the wise (honour me). (vii. 16.) And then he receives from me the good he wishes. (vii. 22.) I know the beings who have passed, those who are, and those who are to come. (vii. 26.) By the double illusion arising out of desire and aversion,... all beings in the world fall into error. (vii. 27.) (Kena-Upanishad, i. 3 in Bibl. Ind. vol. XV. p. 78). Who honour me, firm in their devotion. (vii.28.) Who, seeking to be freed from old age and death, have fled unto me. (vii. 29.) With heart and mind set upon me, thou wilt come to me without doubt. (viii. 7.)SS He is far from darkness. (viii. 9.) In whom are all beings, by whom this universe was spread out. (viii. 22.) The most hidden knowledge will I teach them with understanding. (ix. 1.) Fools despise me in a human form. (ix. 11.) Not knowing my highest nature......full of vain hopes, vain works, vain knowledge without under standing; following after their demoniacal, ungodly, deceitful nature. (ix. 11, 12.) They who conforming to the law of the Veda, cherish desires, receive only the transient. (ix. 21.) Cap. Svetlevatara-Upanishad (a. s. p. 50): "This (the absolute nature of Brahma) should be thought as eternal, and as abiding in one's own soul; for beside him there to nothing to be known. + Conf. also Book of Wisdom, vii. 8: "She (wisdom) knoweth things of old, and conjectureth aright what is to come." 3." Also 1 Tim. vi. 16. That taking refuge in Krishna liberates from old age and death, is an idea so foreign to Indian Philosophy, that its origin can only be Christian. Conf. also John, xi. 26. Old age (jard, yepas) is also probably mentioned here as a preparation as if were, the beginning of death. The idea [OCTOBER, 1873. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matt. xi. 28.) Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light. (John, iii. 19, 20.) Ye are of your father the devil. (John, viii. 44; see also ver. 23.) Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden. (Matt. xi. 28.) Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. (John, xviii. 37.) The poor have the gospel preached to them. (Matt. xi. 5.) Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights. (James, i. 17.) Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him. (Heb. iv. 13.)+ deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures. (Tit. iii. 3.) .. in the faith grounded and settled. (Col. i. 23; see also 1 Cor. xv. 58.) If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death. (John, viii. 51.) All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John, vi. 37.) God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. (1 John, i. 5.) In Him we live, and move, and have our being. (Acts, xvii. 28.) Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God; but to others in parables. (Luke, viii. 10. Conf. also Matt. vii. 6.) He was in the world...and the world knew him not. (John, i. 10.) Who, being in the form of God... took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. (Phil. ii. 6, 7.). Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. (John, viii. 43.) He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. (ib. v. 47.) Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye of eternal virtue is necessarily connected with that of immortality. SS See also iv. 9. These passages remind one too clearly of the Christian doctrine of faith to overlook the Christian trace: conf. John, xvii. 8 and iii. 36. Remarkable also is the, designation, karma divyam, which Krishna applies to his incarnation, without taking into account that according to the Indian conception the action and work of the highest divinity is otherwise excluded. The simila rity to the expressions of Christ is again unmistakable conf. John, xvii. 4 and iv. 29; also xii. 26. Compare also Svetavatara Upanishad, iv. 8 (Bibl Ind. vol. XV. p. 59).

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OCTOBER, 1873.] (Compare also Svetasvatara-Upanishad, iv. 8 in Bibl. Ind. vol. XV. p. 59). They who, honouring other gods, sacrifice to them in faith, sacrifice to me also, Partha, though not in the right way. (ix. 23.) With me there is neither friend nor foe. (ix. 29.) CHRISTIAN TRACES IN THE BHAGAVAD GITA. If a very wicked man honours me, and me only, he is to be thought good. (ix. 30.) In this fleeting and joyless world honour me, so shalt thou come to me, being absorbed in me. (ix, 23.) Listen still to the glorious words I shall say from a desire for your good. (x. 1.) He who knows me without birth or beginning, the great soul of the world, ... is free from all sin. (x. 3.) (See Svetasvatara-Upanishad, iv. 21.) From compassion for them I dispel the darkness of ignorance .. by the shining light of knowledge. (x. 11.) SE DE foti boy whol Tommy. fosfondi pod Thy manifestation neither gods nor demons know; thou thyself alone knowest thyself: (x. 14,15.) Conf. Svet.-Upan. iii. 19 in Bibl. Ind. vol. XV. p. 57. At the sight of thy wondrous and awful form the three worlds tremble. Those troops of the gods come to thee; some in fear fold their hands and murmur. 'Hail,' say the troops of the blessed Rishis, praising thee in glorious songs. (xi. 20, 21.) foods take metod dorsedd "Weve Demons and blessed ones see thee, and wonder seizes them all. (xi. 22.) The gods themselves ever desire to see that form of mine, hard to be seen, which thou hast seen. (xi. 52.) Soon shall I lead those whose minds are fixed on me out of the ocean of the world of mortality. (xii. 7.) Hearin tan Give thine heart to me; fix thy mind on me: so shalt thou live with me on high. (xii. 8.) and of the Giving heart and understanding to me. (xii. 14.) Light of lights, far from darkness is his name. (xiii. 17.) (See also Mundaka-Upanishad, II. ii. 9 in Bill. Ind. vol. XV. p. 160.). Dwelling in the heart of every man. (xiii. 17. 289 shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. (Matt. v. 20; also ver. 17.) Whom, therefore, ya ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. (Acts xvii. 28.) There is no respect of persons with God. (Rom. ii. 11.) I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. (Matt. ix. 13.) In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. (John, xvi. 33.) When I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation. (Jude, 3; also Acts, xiii. 26.) And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. (John, xvii. 3.) I have compassion on the multitude. (Mark viii. 2.) God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Cor. iv. 6.) No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. (John, i. 18.) That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth. (Phil. ii. 10.) And the four and twenty elders shall fall down before him that sitteth upon the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and shall cast down their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, Lord our God, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasures they are and were created. (Rev. iv. 10-11.) The devils believe and tremble. (James, ii. 19.) Unto whom (the glory of Christ) was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us, they did minister the things which are now reported anto you.. which things the angels desire to look into. (1 Pet. i. 12.) Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Rom. vii. 24-25.) Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (Col. iii. 1-2.) Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. (2 Cor. x. 5.) God is light, and in Lim is no darkness at all. (1 John, i. 5.) Sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. (1 Pet. iii. 15.) Conf. iv. al. 36, and both with Isaiah, i. 18. Conf. xiv. al. 15; also 2 Cor. iv. 6; 2 Pet. i. 19; and on al. 18-17, Isa-Upanishad, 8 (Bibl. Ind. vol. XV. p. 72).

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290 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. Adhering to what they hear. (xiii. 25.)* By this (highest knowledge) they become like me; in a new creation they are not born again; when all things perish they tremble not. (xiv. 2.) When, after his nature is fully grown, man goes to dissolution, he obtains the pure seats of those who know the highest. (xiv. 14.) In all the Vedas I am to be known. (xv. 15.) (Conf. also Svet.-Upan. v. 6m Bill. Ind. vol. XV. p. 63.) The man who, delivered from error, knows me in this way as the highest spirit, he, knowing everything, honours me in every way. (xv. 19.) Sorrow not! for a divine lot art thou born, son of Pandu. (xvi. 5.) Senseless and of small understanding are evildoers,... given up to thoughts that end in death. (xvi. 9-11.) Caught in the myriad snares of hope,... they seek to pile up riches by unrighteousness to satisfy their lusts. "This I got to-day, that desire I shall obtain to-morrow; I am lord, I shall sacrifice, give gifts, and make merry." So speak theso blind fools. (xvi. 12, 15.) Therefore let the law be thy rule.... If thou knowest that a work is commanded by the law, do it. (xvi. 24.) That is called a true gift which is given to him who cannot return it. (xvii. 20.) The sacrifice-gift, penance done without faith... is called non-existence. (xvii. 28.) Man attains perfection by honouring, each in his own work, him from whom are all, by whom this universe was spread out. (xviii. 46.) In serving me he learns how great I am, and who I am in reality. (xviii. 55.) This you must tell to no one who is without penance and reverenco, is disobedient, nor to the blasphemer. (xviii. 67.)SS Conf. also iii. l. 81; iv. al. 34, 40; ix. al. 3. tAlso 1 Cor. ii. 8. Cont. with . 9, Genesis, vi. 5., Matt. xxiv. 18, and Luke, xvii. 26-30. Also on il. 8-11 conf. Wisdom, 2,5 [OCTOBER, 1873. Faith cometh by hearing. (Rom. x. 17.) Where I am, there shall also my servant be. (John xii. 26.) Blessed and holy is he, that hath part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. (Rev. xx. 6.) We know that, if our house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (2 Cor. v. 1.) Search the scriptures... they are they which testify of me. (John, v. 39.) That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye... may be able.. to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (Eph. iii. 17-19.)+ Let not your heart be troubled !... In my Father's house are many mansions... I go to prepare a place for you. (John, xiv. 1, 2.) Neither were (they) thankful... therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts. (Rom. i. 21, 24.) And he thought within himself, saying. What shall I do? because I have no room where to bestow my fruits. And he said, This will I do; I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool! this night thy soul shall be required of theo. (Luke, xii. 17-20.) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. (Matt. v. 17.) And thou shalt be blessed; for they can not recompense thee. (Luke, xiv. 14.) Whatsoever is not of faith is sin. (Rom. xiv. 23.) Do all to the glory of God. (1 Cor. x. 31.) He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me... and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. (John, xiv. 21.) If any man will do his (the Father's) will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself. (John, vii. 17.) Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast yo your pearls before swine. (Matt. vii. 6.) SS Conf. also Wisdom, i. 4: "For into the malicious soul wisdom shall not enter; nor dwell in the body that is subject to sin ;" and Svetasvatara-Upanishad, vi. 23.

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CHRISTIAN TRACES IN THE BHAGAVAD-GITA. OCTOBER, 1873.] Although these passages, to which several more might easily be added, do not perhaps (with the exception of some, where, as, e. g. Bhagavad-Gita xvi. 12-15 compared with Luke, xii. 16-20, this agreement is striking), taken separately, exclude the possibility of an accidental similarity, yet the frequent occurrence of such coincidences on the one hand, and the specially Christian character of the thoughts we find in them on the other, must appear suspicious. When to this we add the fact that, independently of the contents of the Bhagavad-Gita we can prove from other sources the influence of Christian traditions on the deve lopment of the Krishra-cultus, we cannot consider the hypothesis of an external connection of these passages with the similar or almost identical expressions of the New Testament a very far-fetched one. There are, however, other passages in the Bhagavad-Gita where it is much more difficult, if not impossible, to think of a simply accidental coinci Il-Passages which contain a characteristic expression of the New Testament with a different application. Bhagavad-Gita. But if I were not constantly engaged in work, unwearied.... these worlds would perish if I did not work my work. (iii. 23, 24.) In everything men follow in my way. (iii. 23.) Only they who in faith ever follow my doctrine, and blaspheme not, will be delivered. (iii. 31.) He who truly knows my birth, and my divine work, goes, when he leaves the body, not to a new birth; he goes to me. (iv. 9.) Leaving every possession, ... he takes to himself no sin. (iv. 21.) As the kindling of fire burns wood into ashes, so the fire of knowledge turns all works into ashes. (iv. 87.) They who eat the nectar of the leavings of the sacrifice pass into the eternal Brahma. (iv. 31.) There is no purifier like knowledge. (iv. 38.) Dividing with the sword of knowledge. (iv. 42.) Who conquers himself, is quiet, and fixes his mind on the highest, in cold, heat, pleasure and sorrow, honour and dishonour. (vi. 7.) I who am the highest way. (vii. 18.) Whose sin is destroyed. (vii. 28.) I will teach thee, if thou revilest not, this royal learning, royal secret. (ix. 1, 2.) * Conf. also John, viii. 12; and Luke, ix. 57. dence, and which make what till now seemed only a likely hypothesis almost certain. To this class belong passages in which an expression almost peculiar to the New Testament is repeated word for word. On such an agreement in expression we must, as I think, lay still greater weight than on a similarity of meaning, even where such an expression is used in a sense which is quite different from the Christian one. If the sense is the same, or at least similar, the proof is so much stronger. Of course we cannot demand that the sense be completely adequate to that of the expression in the New Testament, since the composer of the Bhagavad-Gita was very far from being a Christian, or understanding rightly the doctrines of Christianity, since he only used Christian maxims to illustrate his Indian Sankhya and Yoga doctrines, which are quite distinct from Christianity. The following passages will justify these assertions: 291 New Testament. My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. (John, v. 17.) If any man will come after me. (Matt. xvi. 24.)* If a man keep my saying. (John, viii. 51.) That the word of God be not blasphemed. (Tit. ii. 5.) I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. (John, xvii. 4.) This is the work of God. (John, vi. 29.) All that the Father giveth me shall come to me. (John, vi. 37.) Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not al that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. (Luke, xiv. 33.) The fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is... If any man's work shall be burnt. (1. Cor. iii. 13, 15.) If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever. (John, vi. 51.) Purifying their hearts by faith. (Acts, xv. 9.) Take the sword of the Spirit. (Eph. vi. 17.)+ In all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,... through honour and dishonour. (2 Cor. vi. 4, 8, and conf. Rom. viii. 35.) I am the way. No man cometh unto the Father but by me. (John, xiv. 6.) That the body of sin might be destroyed. (Rom. vi. 6; conf. also Eph. ii. 5.) Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called? If ye fulfil the royal law, &c. (James, ii. 7, 8.) Vide ut sup. iii. 31; also 1 Cor. ii. 2. Also Heb. iv. 18.

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292 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [OCTOBER, 1873. VW They who follow a divine nature honour me Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy with their whole heart. (ix. 13.) heart. (Matt. xxij. 37.) They who honour me go to me. ix. 25; conf. Every man that hath heard, and hath learn. also v. 37.) ed of the Father, cometh unto me. (John, vi. 45.) Thoy who come to me, though they come from I will pour out my Spirit apon all flesh: and a sinful womb--women, Vaisycs, and Sudras even your sons and your daughters shall prophesy... -obtain the highest happiness. (ix. 32.) and on my aeruants, and on my handmaidons, I will pour out in those days of my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. (Aets, ii. 17, 18; also Joel, i. 28.) Dead in me. (x. 9.) Ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (Col. iu. 3.) I am the seed of all beings. Arjuna! Without me All things were made by him, and without hin there is no being, moveable or immoveable. (I. 39.) was not anything made that was made. In him was life. (John, 1.3, 4.) diri He roho forsakes all he has tendertaken, and is They forsook all, and followed him. (Luke, v. 11.) devoted to me, is dear to me.... Houseless, firm of There is no man that hath left house, or parents, purpose, full of reverence, he is dear. (xu. 16, 19.) or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, who shall not receive manifold more, &c. (Luke, xviii. 29; conf. also Matt. v. 3-10. To be free from inclination, and from love for If any man come to me, and hate not his father, children, wife, and house...this is called knowledge and mother, and wife, and children, ... he can(xiii. 9, 11.) not be my disciple. (Inike, In286) - It (the highest Brahma) is far and yet near. Though he (God) be not far from every one of (xiii. 15.)+ us. (Acts, xvii. 27.) Neither sun, nor moon, nor fire is the light of the And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of place, and from it there is no return; this is my the moon, to shine in it for the glory of God aid highest home. (xv. 6.) lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. (Rev. xxi. 23.) Threefold is this gate of hell that destroys the Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that mind-lusts, anger, and avarice. (xvi. 21.) leadeth to destruction. (Matt. vii. 13.) For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the fust of the eyes, and the vainglory of life, , . is of the world. (1 John, ii. 16.) ) But the borrowing appears most clearly in it is impossible to think upon accidental cointhe following places, which agree in expression.cidence, because the content of the parollel senand in meaning with the corresponding passages tences and thoughts is the same. in the New Testament, and in the most of which III.--Passages which agree in expression and meaning. Bhagavad-Gita. New Testament. As they turn to me, so I honour them. Every And he that loveth me shall be loved of my day, Partha, men follow my steps. (iv. 11.) Father, and I will love him. (Jolin, xiv, 21.) If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honour. (Jolu, xu. 26.) Let him raise himself by himself ... ... The If any man desire to come after me, let him soul is a man's friend; it is also his foe. It is the deny himself ... For whosoever desireth to save friend of him who has conquered himself by it; his life (soul) shall lose it: and whosoever shall by its hostility to that which is not spiritual, it lose his soul for my sake sball find it. (Matt, xvi. is like a foe. (vi. 5-6.) 24-25.) He that loveth his soul shall lose it; and he that hateth his soul in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. (John, xii. 25, also Rom. vii. 23.) I am doarer to the wise man than possessions, He that loveth me shall be loved by my Father, and he is dear to me. (vii. 17.) and I will love him. John, xiv, 21. Like, xiv. 33.) * Conf. Thomas & Kempis, de Imit. Christi, L. II. + Conf. sloo Mundaka Upanishad, ii. 1.7 (Bibl. Ind. vol. XV. p. 186), ko sloo fra Upanishad, 5 (ibid, p. 73). 1 Conf. Katha Upanishad 5, valli 25; also svetdivatara Upanishad, vi. 14, and Mundaka-Upanishad, ii. 3, 10

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OCTOBER, 1873.] No one knows me. (vii. 26.) CHRISTIAN TRACES IN THE BHAGAVAD-GITA. Easy to understand, sweet to do. (ix. 2.) I am the way, beginning, end. (ix. 18.) " I make warm, I hold back and let loose the rain. (ix. 19.) I never pass away from him, nor he from me. (vi. 30.) (Conf. Isa-Upanishad 6 in Bibl. Ind. vol. XV. p. 72). They who honour me are in me, and I in them. (xix. 29.) None who honour me shall perish. (ix. 31.) Gentleness, equanimity, contentment, penance, almsgiving, honour and dishonour, these are the characteristics of beings, and are all of them from me. (x. 5.)+ I am the origin of all, from me everything pro ceeds. (x. 8.). 10 Thinking of me instructing one another, ever speaking with me, they rejoice and are glad. x. 9.) Famil I am the Leginning, the middle, and the end of beings. (x. 20). Among letters I am A. (x. 33.) From all sins will I free thee: be not sorrowful! (xviii. 66.) That the composer of the Bhagavad Gita knew and used the New Testament, the coincidences which have been pointed out between single thoughts and expressions have been sufficient, as I believe, to prove. In confirmation, however, of the results already won, I make the further observation that some larger sections of the Gospel narrative have been imitated in the Bhagavad-Gita. Among these imitations I reckon first and chiefly that of the transfiguration of Christ, farther that of Peter's confession of the divinity of Christ, and also of his own unworthiness to be in the company of the Lord after the miracle of the fishes. To these may also perhaps be added that of the so-called eight beatitudes. 1 293 No man hath scen God at any time. (John, i. 18.) Dwelling in light unapproachable; whom never man saw, nor can see. (1 Tim. vi. 16.) My yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matt. xi. 30; see also Psalm cx. 10.). Bhagavad Gita. If light were suddenly to rise from a thousand suns in heaven, that would be like the light of this great Lord. (xi. 12.) Having on (ibid. ii.) heavenly garments and garlands. I am the way. (John, xiv. 6.) I am the first and the last. (Rev. i. 17.) and sendeth He maketh his sun to rise. rain... (Matt. v. 45.) He dwelleth in me, and I in him. (John, vi. 57.) I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one. (John, xvii. 23; also John, vi. 56.) That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (John, iii. 15.) The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance. (Gal. v. 22-23.) Of him, and through him, and unto him, are all things. (Rom. xi. 36.) Let the word of Christ, dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing each other with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, in grace sing. ing in your hearts to God. (Col. iii. 16.) I am the first and the last. Rev. i. 17.) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending. (Rev. i. 8.) Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven (Matt: ix. 2.) That the 11th chapter, in which, at Arjuna's request, Krishna shows himself in his infinite divine glory, in which he comprehends the universe in himself, is a copy of the Gospel narrative of the transfiguration of Christ, is on the one hand probable, because, as has been mentioned above, other characteristic and prominent incidents in the life of the Saviour (as, for example, his persecution by Herod, and the washing of the feet at the last supper, etc.) have been transferred to Krishna, and is confirmed by the expression borrowed from the Gospel with which this glorification of Krishna is related in the Bhagavad-Gita. Compare the following passages:-- New Testament. And he was transfigured before them; and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. (Matt. xvii. 2, and conf. Mark, ix. 3.) With the different epithets in this sloka compare also Hosea, xi. 18; Rev. iii. 14: John, i. 18; Psalm vii. 11, and Heb. xiii. 6; Luke, vii. 24, and xii. 4; Rev. i. 18: Acts, xvii. 28; Col. ii. 8; and John, xii. 24. + Conf. Svetasvatara Upanishad, vi. 5 (Bibl. Ind. a. s. p. 65), and John, i. 1.

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294 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [OCTOBER, 1873. Full of astonishment, and with hair erect, he And when the disciples heard it, they fell on bent his head before the god, and, folding his their face, and were sore afraid. (Matt. xvii. 6.) hands, spoke. (xi. 14.) When I see thy countenance, I know no place, He wist not what to answer; for they were sore I feel no joy. (xi. 25.) afraid. (Mark ix. 6.) Conf. Mark, ix. 3. Then he comforted again that astonished one, And Jesus came and touched thein, and said, for the great spirit was merciful. (xi. 50.) Arise, and be not afraid. (Matt. xvii. 7.) The speech of Arjuna in the tenth song (sl. John, James, and Jude, have been used. Of the 12) has a striking resemblance to Peter's con- || Old Testament (apart from some rious coinci. fession of the divinity of Christ in connection dences with passages in the Proverbs and Psalms with his answer in John, vi. 68: which scarcely justify the hypothesis of a direct Arjuna said, Thou art the highest Brahma .... borrowing), only the Book of Wisdom was probaall the sages call thee the eternal divine spirit, the bly known to the composer. Compare the folhighest God. All that thou sayest to me I believe lowing passages : to be true. (X. 12-14.) Infinitely strong and of great power, thou comAnd Simon ater answered and said, Thou art prehendest everything. (B. G. xi. 40.) the Christ, tno Son of the living God.' (Matt. She (Eternal Wisdom) reacheth from one end xvi. 16.) Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to to another mightily: and sweetly doth she order whom shall we go thou hast the words of eternal all things. (Boole of Wisdom, viii. 1.) life. (John, vi. 68.) It is hard for those in the body to obtain the As unmistakable is the similarity between invisible way. (B. G. xii. 5.) the apology of Arjuna for having held familiar For the corruptible body presseth down the intercourse with Krishna without knowing his soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down divine glory, and the exclamation of Peter when the mind that museth upon many things. (Wiehe has witnessed the miracle of the fishes. dom, ix. 15.) Although the words are different, the situation Before concluding this investigation, we must is exactly the same : answer two objections which may be raised. "Forgive me, o immeasurable one, for the My commentary has indicated that several pas. eager words I spoke when I thought you my Bages which bear a Christian stamp, and even friend: Ho Krishra, Jadava, my friend; for the honour I withheld from you." (xi. 41, 42.) some of those which agree in expression with When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' passages of the New Testament, are to be found knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful in some Upanishad, sometimes word for word, man, O Lord. (Luke, v. 8.) sometimes with insignificant discrepancies. As. Finally there seems a certain similarity, the Upanishads which are considered parts of which may be accounted for by an intentional the Vedas have a relatively high antiquity imitation, between the conclusion of the twelfth ascribed to them, and are regarded as older than chapter (el. 13-20) and the beginning of the the oldest Christian records, the supposition that Sermon on the Mount. The repetition of the those expressions and thoughts were borrowed words "Blessed are " are paralleled by "Such from Christianity seems to be excluded. A & one is dear to me," and in both places there thorough discussion of the age of those Upais an enumeration of virtues and perfections nishads, and their relation to Christian docwhich men are exhorted to attain. trines and ideas, would overstep the limits of If we look for a moment in conclusion at these observations. I content myself with a the single parts of the New Testament of whose short statement of my view of the Upani. nise there are traces in the Bhagawd-Gitr, we find shads in question, and their relation to Chris. that it is the Gospel of John in particular from tianity and the Bhagavad-Gita, and leave the which the composer has taken the most impor- further investigation to others. The Upanishads tant and the greatest majority of phrases. But which are chiefly in question are the Svetasvahe has also taken a good deal from the other tira-, Katha-, Mundaka and Praina Upanishads. three gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and the All these Upanishads, as far as their contents Revelations. The Epistles of St. Paul, too, are concerned, stand in close connection with with the exception of those to the Thessalonians themselves and the Bhagavad-Gita ; they have and to Philemon, as well as the letters of Peter, several passages in common; they all reverence

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OCTOBER, 1873.) CHRISTIAN TRACES IN THE BHAGAVAD-GITA. 295 (as Dr. Roer, Bibl. Ind. vol. XV. pp. 37 and 97, again, is adduced to prove the possibility of the asserts of the Svetasvatara and Katha Upa- resurrection of the dead. Here too perhaps we nishads) a system which, like the Bhagavad-Gita, have traces of a Christian legend.". seeks to unite the doctrines of the Sankhya, The Granthu- Upanishid is regarded by Weber Vedanta, and Yoga schools; they belong to the as oldur, yet the mention of Vishnu (iii. 9), latest of the Vedas -the Atharva-Veda--and in and the expression Sraddha (faith, iii. 4), as the case of none of them is there any convincing well as the whole contents, seem to point to the reason for looking on the hypothesis of their conclusion that this Upanishad also dates from post-Christian origin as impossible. On the the time at which the Vishnu-cultus began to contrary, with regard to the most important, develop itself under the modification of Chrisand, as I believe, the oldest, of them--the Sret ds. tian ideas. rutara-Upanishad--there are external indications As to the relation of the Bigioad-Gita to of Christian influence. On this point Dr. Weber the Upunishud, I look on the former as later, says, in his Indische Studien (I. p. 421ff.): principally because in the Bhugiud-Gita the "With regard to the name of this Upanishad, use of Christian ideas and expressions is we read at the conclusion of the sixth chapter, much more common and evident than in those ..By the power of his penance and the grace of Upanishids in which, as I think, we have only God, the wise Soelasvatara, who knew Brahma, the first weak traces of such a borrowing. communicated this excellent means of purifi- A second objection which might be raised cation to the neighbouring hermits. This high rests on the similarity, pointed out in the comest secret in the Vedanta, coming from the mentary, of several passages in the Bhagavadtimes of old, is not to be communicated to an Gita with sayings of Thomas a Kempis's unconsecrated person, or to an unlearned man, theological doctrinest which emerge in Christianfor he who consecrates the highest humility to ity only in later times as the results of theo God, and to his teacher as to God, he is illumi- logical science. We might be confronted with nated by the things related here. The name the maxim "He who proves too much proves of this sage, Sretisvatara, I have nowhere else nothing." If we are to look upon the passages met with. It may be the honorary title of some that remind us of the New Testament w borpriest whose proper name has not come down rowed, those that remind us of Thomas a Kemto us." And in the note, " According to Wil. pis must also have been borrowed, and so the son (As. Res. XVII. 187) Svetasva is a scholar date of the Bhagavad-Gita must be put later of Siva in his appearances as Sveta (white), in than according to probability it can be. which he is to appear at the commencement of To this I answer (1) that between the parallels the Kaliyuga in order to instruct the Brahmans. cited in the commentary from Thomas a KemHe dwelt on the Himalaya, and taught the 1 pis and those from the New Testament a careful Yoga. Beside: Svetisva, he and three scholars, comparison will show an important difference of whom the one was called Sveta (white), the in the kind and degree of coincidence, which is other two Svetasikha (white hairs) and Svetalo- much more distinct and significant in the latter hita (white blood). Perhaps we have here at miss than in the former. (2) That Christian ascetision of Syrian Christians. That their doctrines oism and Indian Yoga have in many things would be put by their Indian scholars into a internal points of contact, which of themselves Brahmanical dress, and that of Christianity only i would lead to similarity of expression, so that the monotheism would remain, is natural. In we need not assume any external influence to the Mahabharata, XII. 5743, the example of a account for this similarity. (3) That even in Svetasya rdjarsheh (white king), who, because the first centuries asceticism was already so far he was dharmanishtha, raised his son to life developed that we need not be surprised if That the author of the evettvatara Upanishad calls + Conf. Bhay. Gita, ii. 57 with De Imit. Chr. III. vi. the highest divine being Radra (Siva), and therefore does B. G. i. 58 and I. C. III. i.; B. G. ui. 60 and I. C. III. not, like the author of the Bhagavad-Githe, belong to the iii.; B. G. i. 64 and I. C. III. ru.; B. G. u. 71 and Vaishnavas, but to the followers of sins, does not alter the I. C. III. crii.; B. G. u. 80 and I. c. II. iv.; B. G. m. 89 and I. C. III. Iv.; B. G. y. 7 and I. C. II. i.; B. G. contents of his doctrine. That agrees in all important . 90 and I. o. iii. 87; B. G. vi. 98 and I. C. II. vin.; B. G. pointa with the Bhagavad-Glts, sad the mention of Radra vi. 8 aod I. C. II. ix.; B.G. xii. ll and I. c. I. .and hus not prevented the sathor of the latter book from mak. | B. G. ii. 11 and I. O, I. 11.- D. ing copious me of this Upanishad.

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296 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. thoughts and sayings found in Thomas a Kempis were current among the old Indian Christians. Of much greater importance, in my mind, are the coincidences with later Christian theological doctrines-as, for example, the doctrine of the lumen gloriae (xi. el. 8*), the credo at intelligam (iv. el. 39+); and with Christian formulas, as, for example, the well-known division of moral acts into thoughts, words, and deeds, and of good works, into prayer, fasting, NOTES ON INSCRIPTIONS AT GADDAK, IN THE DAMBAL TALUKA OF THE DHARWAD DISTRICT. [OCTOBER, 1873. and almsgiving (xvii. sl. 28). Yet here it must be observed that all these expressions and ideasSS existed in Christianity long before they can be pointed out in Christian writers, although I do not think it impossible that in case Sankara's date, which future investigations may perhaps give us, be later than the 8th century, the date of the Bhagavad-Gita also may be later than we are warranted by the data we have at present in putting it. BY J. F. FLEET, Bo. C.S. Situated in the neighbourhood of Da mbal and Lakkundi, a part of the Dharwad District that contains many most interesting relics of former times, Gadda k itself possesses in its inscriptions antiquities that will well repay an investigation of them. There are two large and somewhat famous temples in the town; one of N ara yanadeva in the modern bazaar, and one of Trikitesvaradeva in the old fort. The former is not remarkable from an architectural point of view, and probably is not of any great age: the chief object of interest about it is a large gateway in the eastern wall of the courtyard, into the construction of which some curious carvings, evidently the remains of some former building, have been built. The temple of Trikutesvaradeva, however, is manifestly of considerable antiquity, and, though it is now alinga or Saiva shrine, the style of its architecture proves it to have been, as is the case with most of the old linga temples of these parts, originally a Jain temple. Tradition ascribes the construction of it, as of nearly all the temples in this part of the country, to the half-mythical architect Jak kanacharya.P Compare with the words,-' yet with this eye of thine thou art not able to see me a divine eye give I thee',the doctrine of the theologians of the lumen gloria, by which the blessed in heaven are enabled to see God. 8. Thomas Aquin. Summ. Theol. 1. q. 12, art. 2: "Dicendum, quod ad videndum Dei essentiam requiritur aliqua similitudo ex parte visive potentiae, scilicet lumen divinse gloria confrontans intellectum ad videndum Deam, de quo dicitur in Psal. xxv.: in lumine tuo videbimus lumen." Conf. also Rev. xxi. 23. + Thomson explains-Faith is the absence of all doubt and scepticism, confidence in the revelation of religion, ready and willing performance of its precepts.'-I hold the idea of faith (raddhi) in this sense just as that of bhakti (iii. 31 and iv. 10; and see Lassen, Ind. Alt. II. 1099; Weber, Ind. Stud. II. 898 fl.) as a representatation adopted from The two temples mentioned above contain between them eleven old Sanskrit and Canarese inscriptions, all more or less of interest. My stay at Gaddak was not sufficiently long to enable me to copy more than one of them, but a brief notice of the rest and of the contents of each, so far as I had leisure to make them out, may prove of use to others who may visit the place. Two of the inscriptions are in the courtyard of the temple of Narayanadeva. No. 1 leans up against the western wall. It consists of seventy-two or seventy-three lines, each line containing about sixty-three letters. The characters, which are Old Canarese, are somewhat small. The surface of the stone has been so much. worn away that the inscription 'can hardly be traced at all in some places, and it would require much time and patience to decipher any portion of it. The emblems over it represent Virabhadra, Narayana, Ganapati, Sarasvati, a cow and calf, and the Sun and Moon. It is probably about four hundred years old. No. 2, which also is in the Old Canarese characters, stands up against the eastern wall of the courtyard. It consists of sixty-nine lines, each line Christianity, and doubt if fraddha is used in this sense in the earlier Indian works in which a Christian influence cannot yet be pointed out.-The sentence expressed here: Braddha vallabhate jnanam (Schlegel: qui fidem habet, adipiscitur scientiam) is nothing else than the well-known Credo, ut intelligam, a fundamental formula which can only have arisen upon Christian ground, and which, where it again recurs in the original works of Indian Brahmanism, plainly bears its Christian origin on its forehead. The words, It arails not after death nor here,' forci bly remind us of the Christian doctrine of the dead meritless works which are performed without the habitus cari. tatis. The juxtaposition of prayer, almagiving, and fasting, occurs in the book of Tobit, xii. 8: "Prayer is good with fasting and alms and righteoumons." Bee vol. I. p. 44.

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OCTOBER, 1873.] GADDAK INSCRIPTIONS. 297 Containing about forty-two letters. This in- | the Subhakrit Samvatsara, to Trikatesvaradeva scription, which is probably of about the same while the great chieftain king Sabhana, or age as the preceding, is rather more legible; in perhaps, So bhana, was governing the Belvola the centre portion the letters are somewhat Three-hundred, and some other districts, under indistinct, but at the sides and on the upper part Ahava malla deva. Some doubt is thrown of the stone they may be read with tolerable | upon the date of this inscription by the opening ense. I however, had no time to read any por portion, which is :-" While the vietorious reign tion of this inscription, or even to search for its of Irivibhujangad & va, the favourite of exact date. I have not met elsewhere with em- the whole earth, the ornament of the Chalukblems similar to those on the top of this tablet; y as, the forehead-ornament of the Satyasrayathey are very well carved, and represent Krishna kula, &c., was continuing," and by expressions playing on a pipe in the centre and many figures which represent the chieftain SA bhana as of human beings and animals dancing on each being the subordinate of both Irivibhujan. side of him. gadeva and Aha va malla de va. Irivi. The remaining inscriptions are in and about bhujangad eva, or the Chalukya hing Satthe courtyard of the temple of Trik u ce s. yasri, flourished, according to Elliot, from Saka vara deva. Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 stand up 919 to Saka 930 (?); while A ha va malla d dva, against the back wall of the temple. No. 1, or the Chaluky a king som svaradeva I. the characters of which are Old Canarese, and flourished, according to the same authority, from the substance of which is partly Sanskrit and Saka 962 (?) to Saka 991 (?). The portion of this partly Old Canarese, consists of fifty lines, each inscription containing the date is somewhat in. line containing about thirty-seven letters. The distinct, but I could not read it otherwise than as inscription is in a state of good preservation, I have given it above. The emblems at the top except in one or two places where the sur- of this inscription are:- In the centre, & shrine face of the tablet has been chipped. It com- contuining a linga with a priest on the right and mences with a description of the Agrahara vil- a figure of Basava on the left of it; to the right, lage of Kratuka (Gaddak) in the Belvola two figures seated,- one of them is a man Three-hundred,t and finally records & grant holding a Vina or lute, the other is a woman; made in Saka 1185, the Angirasa Samvatsara, to to the left, a cow and calf; and above the central the god Trikitesvaradeva, while the Yadava shrine, the Sun and Moon. No. 4, which is prince Singha nadeva was governing the the most eastern of this row of inscriptions, country. The emblems over it are :- In the is another inscription in the Old Canarese charcentre, a linga and a priest within a shrine; acters and language. It consists of forty-five to the right, a cow and calf with the sun above lines, each line containing about fifty-one letters. them; and to the left, a figure of Basarat with The inscription is not altogether in bad order, the moon above it. No. 2 is the inscription of but there are many flaws in the tablet, and it is which a transliterated version and a translation rather hard to read. It mentions the names are given below. It will be noticed in detail of the Chilukya kings Jayasinha, Ahavafarther on. No. 3 is another inscription in the malla, and Vikramaditya II. or TribhuOld Canarese characters and language. It con- vanamalla, and and also gives the name of sists of thirty-two lines, each line containing a princess, Bachala de vi, who would ap. about forty-three letters. The characters are pear to be the wife of Aha va malla. The large and slanting. The tablet is chipped here inscription records a grant made in the Vikrama and there, but on the whole the inscription is Samvatsara, the twenty-fifth year of the reign of well preserved, though it is not an easy one to Tribhuvanamalla de va, i.e. Saka 1023, read. It records & grant made in Saka 984, by some chieftain subordinate to him. The ..Agrahare, lands or villages conferred upon Brlihmana for religious purposes. t o the Belvola district consisting of three hundred rillages. Balvola or belpola, an Old Canarese word, means literally 's field of standing corn ;' the name was given to the fertile district in about the centre of which are Goddak, Dambal, and Lekkandi. I Basave, the founder of the Lingayat religion in its present form, is looked upon as an incarnation of Nandi, the bull of Sive. The story of his birth and life is to be found in a Canarese work called the Basavapurini. Ba. ave, though in his incarnation he assumed the form of man, is always represented in Langkyat templee by the figure of ball, and the name itself is a corruption of the Sanskrit vrishabha, ball.

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298 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. emblems at the top of the tablet are:-In the centre, a linga and priest; to the right, a cow and calf; and to the left, Basava. No. 5, which is another inscription in the Old Canarese characters and language, is contained on a stone tablet which I found lying on the edge of a small tank just outside the temple enclosure. For the sake of better security I had it removed and placed up against the outer side of the south wall of the courtyard of the temple; the stone was too large and heavy for it to be safe to attempt to carry it inside the courtyard and place it by the other inscriptions there. This inscription consists of fifty-seven lines, each line containing about thirty-eight letters. It records a grant in Saka 1121, the Siddharthi Samvatsara, by the great chieftain Ra y a de va, the supreme lord of Asati mayurapura, the prime minister of the Hoysala king Viraballa lade va, the son of Bammideva, who was the son of Rayadeva, and the governor of the Belvola Threehundred. The emblems at the top of this tablet are-In the centre, a linga and priest; to the right, a figure of Basava with the moon above it; and to the left, a cow and calf with the sun above them. Inscriptions Nos. 6, 7, and 8 are half-buried in the back wall of a house that adjoins the southern or back wall of the courtyard of the temple. No. 6, which is in the Old Canarese characters and language, has about fifteen lines visible above the ground; each line contains about thirty-seven letters. The inscription is in a tolerably good state of preservation. It refers to the time of Sankamadeva (Saka 1098-1104) of the Kalachuri family, the supreme lord of the city of Kalanjarapura, who is spoken of in terms that are usually applied to great monarchs such as the Chalukya kings. The emblems at the top of this tablet are:-In the centre, a linga with a figure seated on the right of it and another figure standing on the left of it; to the right, a figure of Basava with the sun beyond it; and to the left, a cow and calf with the moon beyond them. No. 7 is an inscription in the Nagari or Grantha characters and in the Sanskrit language. There are eleven lines above the ground; each line contains about thirty-one letters. The inscription is in good order, but the portion of it above the ground is not sufficient to indicate [OCTOBER, 1873. its contents. The emblems at the top of the tablet are:-In the centre, a linga and priest; to the right, a cow and calf with the sun or moon above them; and to the left, a figure of Basava with the moon or sun above it. No. 8 is another inscription in the Old Canarese characters and language. It refers to the time of Tribhuvanamalla deva. There are eighteen lines above the ground; each line contains about twenty-five letters. The first seven or eight lines of the inscription are in good order; after that, the letters are rather faint, and a large portion of the surface has been chipped off in the centre of the tablet. The emblems at the top of the tablet are:-In the centre, a linga and priest; to the right, a cow and calf with the sun above them; and to the left, a figure of Basava with the moon above it. These three inscriptions are worth removing, cleaning, and reading, but to remove them would be an operation of some difficulty and would be attended by great risk to the safety of the building into the wall of which they have been sunk. No. 9 is an inscription in the Canarese characters and language on a tablet standing just inside the western gateway of the courtyard. It consists of fourteen lines, each line containing about thirty-five letters. It is dated Saka 1461, the Vikari Samvatsara, and records a grant made by, or at the order of, one of the kings of Vijayanagari. The letters of the inscription are not at all well cut, and, being rather hurried when I examined it, I am not quite certain about the name of the king; it appeared, however, to be Avyayaramaharaya, though this name is not included in the list of the kings of Vijayanagara (Prinsep's Indian Antiquities, vol. II. p. 281, Thomas'ed. 1858). The emblems at the top of this tablet, which are very coarsely cut, are:In the centre, a linga; to the right of it, a figure of Basava with the sun above it; and to the left of it, a cow and calf with the moon above them. It remains to notice in detail inscription No. 2, and its contents. The emblems at the top of the tablet are:-In the centre, a man worshipping three heads on an altar; to the right a figure of Ganapati, beyond which is a figure of Basava; and to the left, a Sakti or female deity, beyond which are a cow and calf and a crooked knife. The meaning of the name Trika tevaradeva is by no means clear, and certainly

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OCTOBER, 1873.] GADDAK INSCRIPTIONS. 299 is not elucidated by the fanciful explanation of it given in line 35 of the inscription. The word kata has a variety of meanings; trikata may denote a mountain with three peaks, or a temple with three cupolas; but Trikatesvara, as a name of Siva; can have no allusion to mountains, and, I think, has no particular allusion to temples ; trikuta' in this compound appears to me to be probably a symbulisation of the three powers of creation, preservation, and destruc- tion, as personified by the well-known triad of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva; the three heads on the altar among the emblems will then denote Siva as representing, in the eyes of the worshippers of the linga, this triad, the Sakti to the left of the altar being his goddess or female principle, Parvati. The inscription, which has been extremely well preserved, consists of fifty-six lines of about fifty-four letters each. Though the characters are Old Canarese, the language is Sanskrit. A copy of it will probably be found in the Elliot collection, as it is apparently the one alluded to by Elliot in the notes to his essay on inscriptions at Gaddak No. 2. The substance of it also has been given by Dr. Bhan Daji.* As, however, it is always desirable for pur. poses of comparison to obtain copies of inscriptions by different hands, and as Dr. Bhau Daji's version is anything but correct in some of its details, a transliteration and a translation of this inscription are appended. The inscription relates to the Hoysala dynasty of Dvara va tipu ra, an offshoot of the Y - da va ruce, and gives the following genealogy Yadu. Hari (Krishna). Sala or Hoysala. Vinayaditya. Ereyanga. sons of Ereyanga are mentioned, is not very certain. It seems pretty clear that he had three sons, but U da yaditya may be the eldest or the youngest of the three, according as we take the word ud vydditya-paschimru as a Tatpurusha or as a Bahuvrihi compound. I have followed Elliot in making him the youngest of the three, and I think that this view is borne out by the context. I am also aware that Narasimha and his successors are given by Elliot as the descendants of Uday aditya; but this is certainly not supported by the present inscription, which is clear enough on the point of Narasimha being the son of Vishan - vardhana The grant recorded in the inscription is made to the god Trikutesvaradeva in Saka 11157 (A.D. 1193), the Paridhavi Somvatsara, by Vi. raballalad eva, who, having wrested the country of Kuntala from the Yadava dynasty of Devagiri, had fixed upon Lokki. gundi, the modern Lakkundi, as his capital. TRANSLITERATION OF GADDAK INSCRIPTION No. 2. Svasti || Trailokyam palyate yena sadayan satva(ttva)vfitting Sa devo Yadusarddalah Sripatih sroyase S stu vah || Devah samastasamantamastakanyastasasanah Achandrarkkam nripah payAdbhuvamambhodhimek halam || Asitksbitau kshatriyapamgavan [m] siromanih Sriyadunimadheyah Yadanvavaye sa Harirdhdha(rdaha). ritribharavatarartthamajo pi jatah | Tadanvavaye bahavo babhuvurbhbha(rbbhuljodbhava vieru.. takirttibhajah Ady&pi loke charitadbhutani yeshah purardshu pat anti samtah || Kalakrameratha babhava kaschinmabi-patistatra Salabhidbanah Kulisya kritva vyapadosamanya vismarito yena Yadustadadyah || Kenapi bra(vra)tipatina svadevakaryye sarddalam grasitumupagatan ni-hantum | Adishtah sasakapure sa Hoysaleti prapattam kila vinihatya HoysaAkhyam || Totah prabhriti tadvarse pravrittarh Hoysa!&khyaya Sardddlascha dhvaja- vasidarnkah satrubhayam karah || Apareshu cha tadrajyam bhuktavatevatha rajasu | Vinayaditya ityksitkramasah prithivipatih | Ereyamgabhidhano S bhonnsipatistasya chatmajah | Gurairananyasamanyaih prakhy&tah prithivitale || Atha tasyapi Ball&lavishnuvarddhananamakau AbhatamatmajanmAnamu, BAWAL Vishnuvardhana. Udayaditya. Narasimha m. to chaladeyi. Viraballala. The meaning of lines 8 and 9, in which the * See Journal of the Bombay Branch of the R. Asiatic Soc. vol. IX. p. 821 ; Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 158.-ED. According to the original, "eleven hundred and fourteen of the years of the era of the Saks king having elapsed."

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300 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [OCTOBER, 1878. (va)dayaditya-paschimau || Tejas vinau bhatahita- evadyatsamaravatarapisuneshvahanyama-neshvitopravrittau lokapajitau | Yavabhasayatam viavam storyyeshu svapatipranasachakitah kshubhyan. saryya(ryya)chamdramasaviva || Rarasirasi yena tyaratistriyah | Apyetah subhatasvayamvaraksite baling gajapatimakramya nijaturathgera, vinipat- mandaramalamito hastAbhyan parigrihya nakaya Jagaddovath saptamgam tasya chapahfitam || vanitah sajjibhavantyambare || YasminhoysalaTatragraje nijam rajyamupabhuktavati kramat bhamipaladharanisamrajyasimhasanadarudhe sati Anujo pi chirath rajyam bubhuje Vishnuvardhdha- mattavaranapateryyudhdha(ddha)sya paruvasa(rddha)nah | Yo desamagraba-riksitya samastam nam Sadya(dyah) sva-svakulakramagatamahislimnijarh svarajyarttham Achakramochobangipra- rajyasimhasanatpratyartthikshitipalakairapi rane bhfitfnanyandvishaddesan || Arabhya nijanivasad- valmikamarahyate || Yasmindigvijayartthamudyabelvolaparyyathtamakhilamahivishayam | Akramya tavati prasthanabherirave gambhfre sphutayena dhautar taragavapuh Krishnavernnayam | muchcharatyavanibhritsvanyeshu vartte(rttai)va Yah smaryyate niyaktaih pratyupacharam nsipe. ka duradamgakalimgavamgamagadhascholastatha shvasadhyatayd | Paramardidevansipaterhoyen- MAlavah Pandyah Keralngarijaraprabhritayo lamava-dharayeti muhuh || Yenagraharah kratavo pyujjhanti sadyo dhsi-tim || Nyakkarena pituh mahadanani shodaba Anyanyapi cha punyani pau. ariyam Kalachurikshatranvayatkarshata yenaikena nahpunyena chakrire || Narasimha iti khyate jata- pitabarena karin& shashtirjjita dantinam Tam Btasy&tmajo nfipah Yasya varnnayitum naiva sak. cha Brahmacham patim gajaghata-vashtabdhasaiyanto madribairggunah || Tasya Srfriva Daityarehnyam hathadyenkevairapi kovalairbhbhurbbhu). Sarkarasyova ParvvatiAsidochaladoviti mahadevi jabfita [ni rijitys rajyam hfitam || Uchchhidya kulodgata | Tenapi tasyamatulaprabhavo Vajrog Jaitrasimham dakshinamive tasya Bhillamasya vararadhanalabdharajyah [1] Jatah suto dorvvs bhujam Virena yena labdham Kuntaladeshdhi. (rbba)lachakravartti Sriviraballala iti prasidhdhah patyamapi | Sa cha samastabhuvankbrayasri(ddhah) || Madhyaathyenonnatys kAthobana-vibha- prithvivallabhamaharajadhirajaparamesvarapara. vena vibudhasevyataya| Yo jamgama iva Merurm mabhattarakadhva(dva)rvatipuravaradhisvaraya mahibhritamagranirijagati|| Simatikramabhirorati- davaku!Ambaradyu-manisamyakta(ktva)chdgambhirasya vipulasatva(ttva)sya | Ratna-kars manimalapara( Pro)lgandakadanaprachanda asanya yanya cha na kopi Lakshmivatorbhbho(rbbbe)- hayastra ekangavira sanivarasidhdhi(ddhi) giridah||Charitarh Bharatadinamapi bhuvand tavadeva durggamalla chaladam karama ityadisamastaprasabodhyamiha | Lokottara na yaraddrisyante yasys stanamkvalivi - rajamanarsrimatpratapachakravar. sidhugu-rAu || VishnaunisarggasidhdhAmhadhar) tti riviraballAladovo Lokkigumdiniv&sitavijayabhaktir yasyadya pasyatam putham | Prahrars- skandhavara||Asti svayambhah Kratukabhidhane dikatha api na vismayaya prakalpante || Tanna grame Trikatdavara-namadheyah sivah samasta tapastanneshtam tanna hutam tanna danamastha kshitipalnmaulimaniprabharatnjitaramyapithah || A-sakinga yena vihitam dese kale cha (pa)- Tasya sthanacharyyah Kalamukhacharyyasantatro cha || Strishvarshbha(rbbhajkoshu Sadrigh- tiprabhavah | Sidhdha(ddha)otichandrabhtshavany@shvapi'y&shu keshuchijjagati | S8 S sti na mapam-ditadevibhidho S sti munih || Tam Trikajano vidhatte yah papam yatra basitari || Shattark. tesvarath devam limgai[h] svaih sthavaraistribhir ka-kavyanatakavatsyayanabharatarajanftishu cha (bhih jamgamena samayena (P tamanyona) cha Anytshu tahu toshu cha sastreshvakhilesha tuhkatesvarar viduh || Satatasarirardhdha(rddha). yah kusalah || Saryveshu darsaneshu cha bhuvi sthitagauribhrisasamgama-dvadh dhva () pye tarkkikachakravarttino yasys | Naivasti prati. () Siva iva virajyamano yo bbati brahmachavadt vadimadadviradakesarinah || Sarvvayudhajtva- ryyasta | Yascha || Ku[la]saileshu chalatsvapi maperahsarena samastavidvajjanavallabhena Sas- ryyadematipatateu simdhushu cha | Satyam na sattrani sastrani cha yena loke sa-nathatamadyayavakyadvitiys-nam&pati tyajati Anyatra kaby chiradgatani || Yannamadheyamapi visva[vi]lasi. (vya)natakavatsyayanabharatardjanityAdau naiva ninamh loko vastkaranakarmari siddhamathtrahl kathasidhdb&(ddha)nteshvakhil@shvapi yasya nasti Tasya pracalbhavanitakusumayudhasya saabh - samah || Yena cha Adpisyeta kada-chidvisramo gyavarna vidhau katamah samartthah || Vishva- gatisha taramgnem Na tvova kripAbhajapradi. dhva(dy turaprabaradalitaksbonitalaprochcha- yamene senatam satrttre) || Annenaiva na keraladhdhafadha)?fdhva[n]tanimflitakhiladiti dvath lamapi ta suvarmnaushadh&mbavastradyaih Anto hva(dva)pradoshagame Datt-vatipadfynst mn nasti ja-nanamh nirantaram tapyam&&(na)nim huriha syassumdaribhih saman viranamabhish. Yena chatra sthane || Udhdhri(ddhri)tya jirnnamaranam vitanute yatkhadgayashtird visham || Sekhilam nirmmkya. cha natanapurath ramyam

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OCTOBER, 1873.] GADDAK INSCRIPTIONS 301 ocean! Devantikamanita vodyAvithisthita paratah Ramachandrah || MadvaranjA[b] paramahfpa-tiAmpitopamapaniyapornra pushkarint krita vamsaja va papadapetamanasobhuvibhavibhopah Vanam cha Namdanasamyam nanapushpalatavfi. Ye palayanti mama dharmmamimam samagram tam || Kim jalpena bahun& grava(ma)prakkrava- teshAmh maya virachito s mjalirisha mardhni | layabihyami-ba Yadyatsamasta[m] tattatsa- BallAladeranfipateradesadagnisarmman rachita masta mapi tasya nirmmanam || Tasya bhagavatas- Sasanapaddhatiresha Sarasvatasarvvabhaumena || characharagaroh SrievayambhutrikCtesvarade. Vasyargaramgabhogakhardasphutitajirnnodhdha TRANSLATION. (ddha)-radyarttham vidyadanarttham tapodhana Hail! May that deity (Vishnu),--the most exbrahmanidibhojanarttham Belvolatrisatantarggata cellent of the race of Yada; the husband of hoxhbAlalunamadheyagramam purvvaprasidhdha Fortune; he who, being the abode of the quality of goodness, tenderly preserves the three worlds,(ddha)simasamanvitam nidhinikshepa-jalapasht confer supreme happiness upon you! May the naramadisahitam tribhogy&bhyamtaramashtabho deity, as a King, imposing his commands upon the gateja(jah)svamyayukta[m] sulkadam Adisa kala heads of all chieftains, protect, as long as the sun dravyaparjjanopetam Sakansipakalatitasamvatsara and moon may last, the earth encircled by the sa-ishu chaturddasadhikeshvekadasasu arkato pi 1114 varttamanaparidharisamvatsaramtargga- In former times there was in this world he who tamdragoairahapanrnrnamilyen Sane charavaro Bo. bore the name of Sri-Yadu; in his family was born magrahane tasya Kalamukha-charyyasomesvara even the Unborn, Hari, . for the parpose of Busdovaprasishyasya Vidyacharanadevasishyasya sa- taining the burden of the earth. In his lineago tyavaky¶namadhoymys SrimadAcharyyasidh- there were many heroes, possessing well-known dhA(ddha)ntichandrabhshanaparditadevasya pereputations ; good people still read in the Parknas dapraksha-lanam kritve rajna rjakfysirapya of their wonderful achievements. namguliprekshaniyam sarvvanamasyar kitve dhe In course of time there was born in that race raparvvakar bhaktyd dattaven || Asya cha dharm certain king named Sala, who, b.ving gained a masya sarakshane phalamida-mudAharanti sma title for his family, caused even Yada, the first of tapomahimasakshatkritadharmmasthitayo Manvs. it, to be forgotten. For when, in the city of dayd maharshayah || Bahubhirvvasudha bhukta Sasakapura, with the words "Slayt, o Sala," he was commanded by a certain ascetic to destroy rajabhih Sagaradibhih | Yasya yasya yada bha tiger that had come to devour him in the permistasya tasya tada phalam | Ganyante parsavo formance of his religious rites, he slew it and bham@rgganyante vpishtivindavah | Na ganyato acquired the name of Hoysala. From that time Vidhatrapi dharmmasamrakshane phalam || Ape forth the name of Hoysala was attached to his race, ha-ratah samartthasyapyudasinasya tairova cha and the emblem on its banner, causing fear to its paritarh phalamudAhsitam || Svadattah paradattam foes, was a tiger. va yo hareta vasumdharam | Shashtim varsbasa- Other kings (of his race) having roled his kinghasrani vishta-yam jayate kfimih || Paradattam dom, at length there was a king named VinayAditya. tu yo bhamimupahim setkadachana Sa labdho va- His son was king Ereyanga, celebrated for vir. ranaih pasaih kshipyate puyasonite || Kulani tara- tues possessed in common by no others. yetkarta sapta sapta cha sapta cha Adho s To him there were born two sons, BallAls and dhah patayeddhartta sapta sapta cha sapta cha || Vishnuvardhana, whose younger brother was UdaApi Gamgaditirttheshu hamturggamathava dvi- yaditya. Glorious, intent upon the welfare of jam | Nishkritih syanna devasvabrahmasvahara- created things, worshipped by mankind, like the 1 nrinam || Vindhyatavishvatoy&su sushkakota sun and moon they cast a lustre over everything. rabkyinah Kfishrasarppah hijayante davadravy He (BallAla)f. the mighty one, charging with paharakAh || Karmmana manas& vacha yah Bar his horse a lordly elephant in the van of battle, marttho pyapekhshate | Sa syttadaiva chandala overturned Jagadders and despoiled him of his [b]sarvvadharmmabahishkpitah||Atha ovaha Rama Bovereignty chandrah Samanyo yam dharmmasturnnripa The older of the two having ruled the kingdom, rin kald kale palaniyo bhavadbhih after him his younger brother also, Vishnuvar. sarv net&nbhavinah partthiverndranbhyo bhdyoyachate dhana, reigned for a long time. For the sake of (ensuring the continuance of) his power, he gave * Vishna, who became incarnato, m Krinhos, in 1 The constraction here is very obscure. In the preceding the race of Yado. verse we have the relative pronoun in the dual, referring to t oy, imperative of hoyyu or poyyu (Canarese), to the two brothers: here the relative is in the singular and is bent, ball. The name is also spelt Poysal Oy AD&. without an antecedent. From the following verse, however, and Poynana. the elder brother, Bal1414, appears to be referred to.

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302 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. away the whole of his own territory in religious gifts, and then invaded Uchchangi and other countries belonging to his enemies. Commencing from his own abode, and invading the whole earth as far as Belvola, he washed his horse in the Krishnaverrat Again and again, with the words "Reflect upon Hoysala," he was reminded by his servants of the necessity for ingratiating himself with king Paramardidevad++ who was unassailable among kings. Again and again lands were given by him for religious purposes, and sacrifices, the sixteen great gifts, and other holy actions were performed by him. His son was the celebrated king Narasimha, whose virtues cannot be described by men like me. As Sri was the wife of the Foe of the demons (Vishnu), and as Parvati was the wife of Sankara (Siva), so Echaladevi, born in a noble race, was his consort. A son was born to him from her, renowned under the name of Sri-Vtraballala, who was of unrivalled dignity, who acquired his kingdom through worshipping the lord of thunderbolts (Indra), and who was a very universal emperor in respect of his prowess. Through his occupying ever a central position, (or, the position of an arbitrator,) through his loftiness, and through his golden wealth, and through his being done homage to by wise men, (or, by gods,) he was as it were a moving Merus and so was preeminent among kings. Fearing to transgress the boundaries (of good behaviour), of a very profound nature, and abounding in the quality of mildness, there was no difference between him and the Possessor of Lakshmi (the Ocean), which hesitates to overflow its bounds, which is very deep, and which abounds in living creatures. The achievements of Bharata and others are to be recognised only up to the time when the superhuman qualities of this man were first beheld. In the present day, when men regard his faith in Vishnu, which was implanted in him by nature, even the legends of Prahrada and others fail to excite astonishment. There is no penance or sacrifice, no offering and no gift, that was not performed or given by him repeatedly when the proper time or place or object presented itself. While he was ruling, there was none who committed sin among women or children, or even Sadras or any others. He was well versed in poe. Dvaravatipura or Dvarasamudra, now Helabidu in Mysore.-Elliot. The Krishna at its junction with the Veny & or Ven & near Bitir. The Chalukya king Vikramaditya II. or Permadideva, Saka 998-1010. The epithets apply equally to the king and to Mera, the mountain in the centre of the seven continents, and the play on words is in the expression mahfbhritam agranth, [OCTOBER, 1873. try, in the drama, in the writings on regal polity of Vatsyayana and Bharata, and in all other divisions of literature. In all the systems of logic he was a very universal emperor in the science of reasoning; and there was no one to oppose him, for he was a very lion towards the infuriated elephants that were disputants. Preeminent amongst all whose profession is that of arms, the favourite of all learned people, both weapons and the sacred writings at length found in him a master (who knew how to use them properly). His very name was as potent as a magic charm in captivating all lovely women; who is able to describe the good fortune of him who was a very Kamadeva to women inclined to flirting? When, at the approach of battle and of twilight, the regions are darkened by night and by the clouds of dust rising up from the earth which is pulverised by the blows of the hoofs of his prancing horses, his sword, like a swift-footed procuress, causes his brave foes to keep assignations with the nymphs of heaven. When the musical instruments that always announce his setting forth to fight are sounded, the wives of his enemies, anticipating the slaughter of their husbands, tremble, and the women of the gods, taking garlands of the flowers of the Mandara tree in their hands, prepare themselves for the purpose of choosing lovers from among the warriors (about to die). When for the purpose of going to war he leaves the throne of the universal sovereignty of the Hoysala kings and takes the chief scat upon an infuriated royal elephant, straightway each hostile king also descends from the throne of universal empire that has come down to him by the succession of his race and takes his stand upon a molehill. When he prepares himself for conquering the regions, and the deep-voiced drum that announces his marching forth is sounded clear, afar off Anga, Kalinga, Vanga and Magadha, Chola and Malava, Par dya, Kerala, Gurjara and the rest straightway lose their courage; then how can other kings endure ? At the contemptuous command of his father, (or, perhaps, because his father had been treated with contumely,) he despoiled the warrior race of Kalachuri and with one elephant. . . . . .P slew sixty elephants; and conquered, through his violent onset with cavalry only, the famous general Brahma, whose army was strengthened with numbers of elephants, and as mahfbhrit, supporter of the earth, means either a king or a mountain. Lakshmi or Sri sprang from the ocean when it was churned by the gods for the purpose of obtaining nectar. The epithets, in this verse apply equally to the king and to the ocean, and the use of the word Lakshmi indicates his regal splendour. 'Pitubarena'; this word is unintelligible, unless Pitabars was the name of Viraballaja's war-elephant. The leader of the Kalachuri army.

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OCTOBER, 1873.] scized his kingdom. Having destroyed Jaitrasimha, who was as it were the right arm of Bhillama, he, the brave one, acquired the supremacy over the country of Kuntala. GADDAK INSCRIPTIONS. And he, the fortunate and mighty universal emperor, Sri-Viraballaladeva,-who is adorned with all the glorious titles commencing with "The refuge of the whole earth, the favourite of the world, the supreme king of great kings, the supreme lord, the most venerable, the excellent ruler of the city of Dvaravatipura, the sun of the sky of the Yadavakula, having propriety of conduct for his crest-jewel, Malaparol ganda,+ he who is fierce in war, he who is a hero even without any to help him, he who is brave even when alone, Sanivarasiddhi, the conqueror of hill-forts, a very Rama in war," established his victorious capital at Lokkigundi. In the village named Kratuka there is, under the name of Trikutesvara, the god Siva, the selfborn, whose charming seat is adorned with the lustre of the jewels of all rulers of the earth. The high-priest of his shrine is the saint Siddhantichandrabhushanapanditadeva, born in the lineage of Kalamukhacharya. They have named the god Trikutesvara (the lord of three abodes, pinnacles,or, perhaps, temples,) because of his three stationary lingas; and they call him' Chatuhkutesvara (the lord of four, &c.,) because of one more which is capable of motion (or, perhaps, which is his priest). That priest is glorious as a chaste ascetic, ever restraining his passions, though, like Siva who is possessed of a wife through his perpetual contact with Gauri who always constitutes half of his body, he is possessed of a wife through the perpetual contact of the turmeric that is always spread over his body. Though even the great mountains may commence to move and the oceans may overflow their bounds, he truly never abandons in any calamity his second name of Satyavakya (he whose speech is the truth). And, again, there is no one equal to him in knowledge of poetry, the drama, the works on regal polity by Vatsyayana and Bharata, and in all the lessons taught by legendary tales. The motion of the waves may sometimes be observed to cease, but no cessation in feeding the hungry is ever to be observed on the part of this charitable man. Not only in respect of food, but Probably Jaitugi the son of Bhillama, who was the first of the Yadava chiefs of Devagiri, Saka 1110-1115. The meaning of this title is not clear; it may be Malavaro ganda, the destroyer of the Malavaras, in which case it is exactly equivalent to Malavaramari,' which is apparently a title of the Kadamba chief Jayakesi II. (See Journal Bomb. Br. R. A. Soc. vol. ix. page 246.) 303 also in respect of gold and medicines and water and clothes, there is never any want to the people who are perpetually performing penance there. And at that holy place he removed all the ruins and built up a new city, and he brought close to the temple the street of the dancing-girls which had been in another place. He constructed a reservoir full of water like nectar, and planted a grove full of flowering creepers and rivalling the grove of Nandana. What need is there of saying any more? ; whatever there is outside the circuit of the walls of the village, it is all his work. Eleven hundred and fourteen, or in figures 1114, years of the era of the Saka king having elapsed, during the Paridhavi Samvatsara, on Saturday the day of the full moon of the month Margasirsha, on the occasion of an eclipse of the moon, (the king,) after that he had washed the feet of the holy priest Siddhantichandrabhushanapanditadeva, whose other name was Satyavakya, who was the disciple of Vidyacharanadeva, the disciple of Kalamukhacharyasomesvaradeva, having made it a grant to be respected by all and not to be even pointed at with the finger by the king or any of the king's people, gaveSS, in his devotion, with oblations of water, the village of Hombalalu, which was included in the Belvola Three-hundred, with its boundaries that were known from of old, with the right to treasure-trove, water, stone, pasturage, &c.,... ., with the proprietorship over the eight objects of enjoyment, and with the right of appropriating all taxes, fines, &c., for the sake of the angabhoga and rangabhoga of the god Sri-Svayambhatrikutesvaradeva, the holy one, the object of veneration of all moving and immoveable things, for the purpose of repairing anything that might be broken, torn, or worn out through age, for the purpose of providing for instruction, and for the purpose of providing food for ascetics, Brahmans, and others, (The remainder of the inscription is taken up with the usual moral verses on the result of continuing or reappropriating religious grants, which need not be translated here. It ends with the words-) The writing of this tablet has been composed by Agnisarma Sarasvata Sarvabhauma at the command of the king Ballaladeva. "He whose wishes are accomplished on a Satur day." SS Sa cha, &c., in line 31, is the nominative in apposition with dattavan in line 46. TribhogyAbhyantaram; this is a term the explanation of which I have not been able to ascertain; I shall be glad if any one will define it accurately,

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304 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (OCTOBER, 1873. MISCELLANEA. DR. BUHLER'S REPORT ON SANSKRIT MSS. The Sarasvatipurana is a complete copy of the IN GUJARAT. fragment noticed in last year's report. We extract the following from Dr. Buhler's Re- The list of manuscripts of poetical works conport for 1872-73 to the Director of Public Instruc. tains several original compositions and commention: taries, which I have not seen mentioned elsewhere. Two new fascicles, Nos. III. and IV., of this The most important among them are the Vrihatwork have been published during the past year. kath of Kshemendra and the ParthaparAkrama. The materials collected in 1868-69 have now been The honour of the first discovery of the former exhausted. The issue of a supplementary number, work belongs to A. Burnell, Esq., M.O.S., not to giving addenda, indices, etc. is still required. This myself (as stated in the Indian Antiquary). But part, as well as a fascicle of the catalogue of Jaina the copy in my list appears to be the only other works, is still in preparation. known manuscript besides that of Mr. Burnell, Several large collections of Jains books in and, though incomplete, it contains very importCambay, Limdi, and Ahmadabad have been partly ant portions of the original, which are wanting in catalogued. The extent and the condition of these that gentleman's manuscript. In an article in libraries provent me, however, from causing com. the Indian Antiquary I have pointed out how pleto lists of their contents to be made. Several great the importance of the Vsihatkatha is for of them contain upwards of 10,000 manuscripts, the history of the Indian collections of apologues. and sometimes hundreds of copies of one and the I may add that further researches have convinced same work are found in one library. Thus a me that it settles completely the question which library at Ahmadabad contains, according to the of the many versions of the Panchatantra is the statement of the cataloguing Shastri, four hundred original one, and that it allows us to ascercopies of the Avasyakasutra. This assertion will tain the form of that work as it stood in the appear neither astonishing nor incredible if it is 4th century A.D. The Panchatantra, at that borne in mind that devout Jainas frequently give period, closely resembled the so-called Southern or bequeath large sums of money to the superin. redaction. tendents of monasteries for copying books, and The second work mentioned above, the Perthathat the multiplication of the sacred writings is parakrama, is a drama of the class called Vyayoga, held to be highly meritorious. To make complete a military piece celebrating the deeds of Arjuna. catalogues of such libraries is out of the question. Its author, the Yuvardja or heir-apparent Prah In the course of 1873-74 I hope to finish the Adana, who lived under a king of the name of cxploration of two out of the three large Jaina Dhardvarsha, is quoted by Sarangadhara, the libraries at Ahmadabad and of those at Vadhvan, author of a large collection of elegant extracts nnd to begin with the Bhandhars at siddhapur made in the 14th century. Pathan. But I despair of finishing my task King Dharavarsha, from whose unnamed capital during either the current or the next following the mountain Nandivardbana could be seen, lived year. probably in the 10th century A.D. The play is During the period under report I have bought important, as only one other Vyayoga was hitheror procured copies of 200 manuscripts, out of to known. The manuscript was found in a Jaina which number 75 belong to Brahmanical litera- library. ture and 123 to the Jainas, while 3 contain Among the works pertaining to the Shastras, the famous Gujarati prose-works. Among the Brah. Agnivesasahhith, one of the oldest works on medimanical works there are several novelties and cine, written in the Satra style, and the Vibrantal'are works, to which I beg to call special attention. vidy&vinoda, a work on veterinary surgery attri. Thus No. 2, the Bhishya on the Mantras, quoted buted to King Bhoja, deserve to be noted specially. in the Paraskara-grihya-Batra (L. IL. 8) of the The latter work is different from the short popular White Yajurveda, attempts a task which is usually treatise usually called Salihotra, and attributed neglected by the writers on Vedio ceremonies, likewise to the famous king of Malwa. and it is, at all events, highly interesting to see As regards the Jaina books, I stated already in what meaning a Brahminical writor attributed to last year's report that the purchases of 1872-73 the prayers which the Bhattas usually mutter promised to become highly important. My hopes without understanding or caring to understand in this respect have been completely fulfilled. I them. Among the Parfnas the Vahnipurans is bave obtained some very old palm-leaf manunew to me. It is not identical with the Agni- scripts, Nos. 78-80, 113-114, 128-132, which are all purana. between five and six hundred years old. The

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0croBER, 1873.] MISCELLANEA. 305 PERSIAN STANZAS ON ATTRACTION AND REPULSION. Selected and translated by E. Rehatsel, Esq., M.C.E. No. V. From the Mesnavy of Jellal-al-dyn Ramy. 3rd Duftur. oldest, containing the Vtihatkalpasutra with its commentaries, is dated 1334 Vikrama, or 1278 A.D. It was written in Cambay, where it had been proserved until it came into my hands. The other manuscripts likewise camo from that town. Copies of all the forty-five sacred works of the Jainas, with the exception of three very small treatises, have now been obtained, and Sansksit commentaries on most of them. Among this year's purchases the complete collection of the Paintis or Prakirnakas. (No. 141), the Pannavard with a commentary, the Nandi adhyayana with two commentaries, the commentary on the JAtadharmakatha, deserve to be noticed. These commentaries, as well as several others, are particularly valuable, as their authors belong to the oldest and most esteemed exponents of Jaina doctrines. Haribhadra, the son of Yakini (vide Nos. 104, 110, 114, and 150), is stated to have lived in the first half of the 6th contury A.D.; Abhayadeva (vide Nos. 91, 103, 121) wrote, according to his own statement, in the 11th century at pathan the Navaugi vsitti, i.e. commentaries on nine Angas (copies of five have been acquired for Government); Malayagiri, the most, voluminous of all Jaina commentators, lived in the beginning of the thirteenth century. Special notice deserve also the copies of the Nirguktis, the oldest expositions of the Angas, which are attributed to Bhadrbahu, the author of the Kalpasutra, and reputed contemporary of Asoka. The Sanskrit commentary on the large collection called Oghaniryukti by Dronacharya goes back considerably beyond the time of Hemachandra. The Magadhi Bhashyas and Avachurnis (Nos. 105, 114, 129, 130), which are considerably older than the Sanskrit glosses, are important for the history of the sacred books. Of more generul interest and higher importance than any of the acquisitions already enu. merated are the Desibabdasamgraha of Hemachan myl tn dr sbzh w ab rwn zn brd khh Sl w md zn myl jn ndr Hyt w rwHy st znkhr jn w mkhn Sl w yst jn dr Hkhmtst w dr `lwm myN nn dr bG w rG w dr khrwm myl w shrf jn ndr trqy myl tn dr khsb sbb w `lf myly myl w `shq an shrf m swy jn zyn y`b w btbrn r bdn shrH yn byHd shwd khr bgwym shwd khGd hftd mn mthnwy jhd w nbny Hbwn admy pymrd wr `shq mrdy hr mrdy my nnnd byrdn br wn mrdn jdhb yshn mykhnnd nyz by bshkl qshq khr b drz rh gh mykhwshd dr an yn rh khn `shq n bstr dhn Sdr jhn ndr syny'r tft mshtq 'n mskhyn shdh rHmtsh mn` mdy zyn lTf slTnt `ql Hyrn khyn `jb wr khshyd znsr bd ynjnb rsyd y khshsh dra, No. 184 and the Palalachh th mimamala, No .185 . These two works are dictionaries of the ancient Prakpit language, and contain several thousands of hitherto unknown words, which, in more or Jess modified forms, occur in the modern Prakrits. They are indispensable for the correct interpretation of the Jaina and all other true Prakrit works, and promise important results for the history of the living Aryan languages of India. I may add that I have now succeeded in obtaining the loan of a second copy of the Debitabdasangraha, and that it will be possible to prepare an edition of it. Fine brooks and meadows do the body lure, Because they both the body did produce. All life and souls the spirit doth attract The universal Spirit gave it birth! Science and wisdom fascinate the soul, Vineyards and gardens please the body much; The soul &spires to virtue and to worth, The body groans for wealth and earthly pelf; And virtue to the soul inclines with worth: Good men by God are loved and cherish him.t Here explanation boundless would become, This book to many mans would swell in weight: * Water and meadows produce nourishment for animals and men part of this vegetable and animal food becomes sperm, from which the body of man is produced. + Qoran, V. 59.

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306 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [OCTOBER, 1873. Man is a brute, a plant, & mineral: Ench hopeful part must love cach hopeless one; The hopeless ones around the hopeful spin, Just as the hopeful ones these do attract. The Lover, straw-attractor,t needs no shapeThe straw contends on that far distant way. Abandon this.--Mute adoration's love Into the heart of God most brightly shines; His mercy pitics human creatures all, His glory from this perfect grace will shrink. Man's reason is astonished to know: Is this attraction human or divine ? CHAND'S MENTION OF SRI HARSHA AND KALIDASA. It may safely be said that there is not a single date in Sanskrit chronology which is not, or has not been, disputed. Not many years ago, if the question had been asked, When did the famous poet Kalidas a live ? the unhesitating answer would have been, At the time when Vikram Aditya established his era, about 50 years before Christ' and probably this is still the Hinda belief. But all modern scholars are unanimous in concluding that he must be referred to a much later period, and that the king Bhoja, at whose court he flourished, was the second of that name, whose reign is fixed as commencing in 483 and termin. ating in 538 A.D. This shows how desirable it is to abstain from any positive assertion in matters of the kind until every particle of evidence has been carefully collected and weighed. It is deci. dedly premature for B&bd Ram Das Sen to state doginatically that the king of Kanauj under whose patronage Sri Harsha wrote the Naishadha, was evidently a contemporary of Prithiraj: for if the evidence to the fact were generally accepted as conclusive, the controversy, which has now filled some pages of the Antiquary, could never have arisen. The lines which I quoted a propos to the previous discussion bring forward Chand as a perfectly new and independent witness, and his testimony cannot be so summarily set aside. I am convinced that no unprejudiced person can read his list of elder authors without recognising that it is intended to be arranged in chronological order. The names are only eight in number, viz. Sesh-nag, Vishnu, Vyasa, Suka-deva, Sri Harshs, Kalidasa, Danda-mali and Jayadeva. No orthodox Hindu will deny that the first four are correctly so placed at the head of the list. Similarly the two that he names last are unmistakeably modern writers; for Danda-mali is referred, at earliest, to the end of the tenth century, and Jayadeva to a still more recent date. Wilson Hopeful=immortal, hopeless=mortal; i.e. spiritas! and material This is the literal translation of the Persian word for amber, which, together with Lover in the simile, stands even took him to be a disciple of Ra manandan extreme theory which cannot now be maintained, since we find him mentioned by Chand, who on the most moderate computation preceded R manand by a full century. There remain only the two names of Sri Harsha and Kalid & sa: the latter, as observed above, flourished at the beginning of the 6th century after Christ; he thorefore preceded the two last names in the catalogue and came after the first fonr, and is so far unquestionably placed in his proper chronological rank. Thus the sole exception-if it is an exception-to the correct sequence is in the case of Sri Harsha, whose precise date is the very matter in dispute. The most natural conclusion to Le drawn from the passage is that in Chand's opinion Sri Har. sha was a writer of considerable antiquity. It is possible that he may have been in error in placing him before Kalidasa; but he clearly indicates that he was by no means a contemporary writer, and this is a point about which he could not possibly be mistaken. His attribution of the Bhojaprabandha to Kalidasa is of course not strictly correct. The work, as we have it, is known to have been compiled by BallAla Misra, who at least supplied the prose framework. But a great part of the poetical extracts which form the bulk of the work, may with considerable probability bo ascribed to Kalid a sa. Mr. Beames' letter scarcely needs a reply; and he admits that I have succeeded in explaining the allusion in both the passages I quote, which is the matter of most importance. And until some reasonable explanation can be given of the two forms naramrava and shaddha-a contingency which I do not regard as imminent-I shall continve to look upon both as mere clerical errors, and read for the one naramrupa, and for the other buddha. The literal translation of the couplet is: * Fifth, the excellent Sri Harsha, paragon of men, who dropt the ennobling wreath on king Nala's neck.' This is identical with my metrical version, since the excellence intended is clearly excellence as a poet. In the line referring to Kalid Aba, the phrase setabandhyan-literally, built up the pile'--means nothing more than constructed.' It was selected by Chand solely on account of its similarity in sound to the name of the book, Bhoja-prabandha. A similar alliterative phrase in English would be composed a posy of sweet song. The only difficulty in the line is the word ti, which I take to be a mere expletive. F. S. GROWSE. Mathura, N. W. P., July 31, 1873. for God, and straws for man, to express the attraction ererted by the Creator on the creature. There occur figures of speech still more strange and incongruous to our notions ; the translator has accordingly omitted four lines hero,

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KARNATAKA VAISHNAVA DASAS. ON THE KARNATAKA VAISHNAVA DASAS. BY REV. F. KITTEL, MERKARA. IN connection with the articles on the early Vaishnava Poets of Bengal that are appearing in the Indian Antiquary, it may not be out of place to offer a few remarks on the Karnataka Vaishnava Das a literature. In doing so, I confine myself to a collection of 402 Dasa padas (servant-songs) that appears to have been made chiefly by Dr. Moegling. A selection of 174 of them was printed at Mangalur twenty years ago, and reprinted at Bangalur in 1871. NOVEMBER, 1873.] The Karnataka Dasa Padas are composed in the Raghata or Raghala metre, a subdivision of the Matra Chhandas, that is expressly stated to be used for poems that are to be sung. Each of the songs has a refrain (pallava or palla) which, in the manuscripts, is put at the head; the number of verses (stanzas) in the different songs varies much-some consisting of only two, others of more than fifty. Each song has also a more or less clear mudrika or signature, as it is called. This is a final verse that contains the name of the author combined with a homage, or an exhortation not to neglect the homage, due to his cherished deity, or rather idol. For instance, one Dasa's name is Kanaka, and a signature of his runs thus: "Hear ye all Kanaka's words! Understand ye all, and repeat! If ye do not understand what has been said in pure Kanarese, Adi Kesava (a Krishna idol at a place called Kagi nele) himself doubtless knows (it)." If he does not put down his own name (frequently: Kanaka's Adi Kesava), he signs with "Kagi nele's Adi Kesava," or Adi Kesava of Bada," or simply with "Adi Kesava" (or "Kesava"). In one mudrika he uses the expression "Adi Kesava of Chanda nele." Thus it is found that 160 songs of the collection belong to Purandara Da sa, 98 to Varaha Dasa, 43 to Kanaka Dasa, The first mention of a Hari D&sa in a Lingkita (Saiva) work, that I remember, occurs in the Kanarese Channa Bisav Puran (of A.D. 1585), where it is stated that the Hari (or Vaishnava) D&sa, called Kati NA. yaka of Suggaluru, became a Lingaita, and then assumed the name of Mahi Linga Devayya. This happened towards the end of the rule of the Ballalas. By the way, regarding the extent of the Ba11Ala dominions, I remark that not far from the private sanitarium of Mangalur gentlemen, on the Ghats, to the east of that town, on the Kudure mukha (horse-face) mountain, there are the ruins of a Ballala Raja Durga. The 307 20 to Vithala Dasa, 13 to Venkata Dasa, 9 to Vijaya Dasa, 7 to Madhva Dasa, 5 to Udupu's Krishna Dasa, 5 to Vaikuntha Dasa, etc. The remaining signatures, however, are less precise; for instance, I cannot decide whether the Dasa who three times signs "Vithala Raya" is different from the Vithala mentioned above. Besides there are five songs, as the headings state, in Hindusthani, with the signature of Ka pir Gula m.t The language of most of the Kanarese songs is simple and popular; some four or five Hindusthani words only have I met with. Many songs, however, are rather unpolished. Not a few are frequently sung or quoted by all sorts of people. Regarding the history of the Karnataka Dasas I know only a little that is certain. The apparently general tradition is that Kanak a Dasa belonged to the tribe of the Bedas, a low class of Dravidians that live by the chase. He is believed to have been born about 300 years ago. Some say that his birthplace was Kagi nele (i. e. crow-ground) in the Chittledurg division of Maisur, others that it was the small grama of Ba da in the Koda Taluk of the Dharavada (Dharwad) Zilla. Both traditions place his death at Ka gi nele, the second locating this village also in the Dharavada Zilla. There is a Bada (or Bada?) not far from Bankapura; and one song that has the refrain: "What is good, O god? Thy meraber (anga), O god, Lakshmi's Narasinga of Bankapura!" and indicates Adi Kesava in its mudrika, points to that direction, as would also the not unfrequently occurring mudrika: "The Adi Kesava of Bada," if Bada and Bada meant the same. But Bada, i. e. North (scil. Tirupati or Venkata,) might mean Bada Vcnkata, i. e. Tirupati of the north, there being another one to the south near Madhura; or Ball4las have been alluded to in Ind. Ant. vol. I. pp. 40 seqq., p. 158. p. 360; and vol. II. p. 131. This personage possibly is Kabir, the disciple of R&mananda, 1350 A.D.; see Ind. Ant. vol. II. p. 189. The Kanarese write also "Vithopa" instead of "Vithoba." This place of pilgrimage is in the Arkadu (Arcot) district. "Tiru" is the Sanskrit "Srt." Tirupati (Sripati, Vishnu) means the idol and the place itself. See Ind. Ant. vol. I. p. 192. A common name for the whole Kard Male (black hill) range of ghats from Tirupati to Sri

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308 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [NOVEMBER, 1873. Badada (genitive) Adi Kesava simply is the Adi Kesava of the north, in opposition to his southern places in general. Kanaka knew and adored also the idol of Channiga at B&. luru, sanskritised Vela pura, t and the idol of Krishna at (Bada) Tirupati, which he once calls also the Vcnkata # of Seshagiri, the specific name of the idol there. There is no song in the collection in which he mentions Udupu (Udapi) on the western coast; but in a series of his songs in one of the manuscripts there is one that, in its mudrikd, has : " Krishna, the lord of Madh va," and "Kesava" (not "Adi Kesava"); and another that has: "Ma. dhva desis," people of the country of Madhva, and "Adi Kesava." Madhva (or An. andatirtha) is the well-known guru of Udupu, who died A.D. 1273. Purandara Dasa is said to have been born at Purandaragada, and to hare changed from a Smarta to a Vaishnava. One tradition connects him with Krishna Raja of Vid yanagara on the Tungabhadra. The saying that he spent many days in Pandaripura, is confirmed by one of his songs in which he calls his deity "the lord of Pandari." According to other songs, he knew also the idol-places of Beluru, Tirupati or Tirumale, & Hurukal, A&. girill U dupa, and Karkala to the south. .cast of Udupu. It is significant that he often calls Tirupati "Mudal giri," i. e. the hill of the Enst, or "Mel giri," i.e. the hill above the Ghats), thus indicating the position of his usual residence. * The Dasa whom I have called Varaha may perhaps be as properly called Varkha Tim mappa, as this signature of his may mean either "the Timmappa of Vardha" or "the deity that is Varaha Timmappa." His beloved place was Tirupati's or Timmappa's hill, to which he gives also the names of Ahiraja giri, Uraga giri, Naga giri, Phani giri, Seshadri, Kandali giri, Baiga radri (gold-hill), Anjana dri, Vedi chala, Sri saila, Sripati giri, Vonkati chala, A tisreshtha giri, and sometimes only Giri, or Botta (hill). Like Purandara he calls the hill also Mudal giri and Mel giri, occasionally Mudal Kado giri, i. e. the hill towards the East. He thought also very highly of U dapu, saying, for instance: "The feet that ascend the hill on which Varaha Timmappa is, are the feet that remain firmly standing in Udupu." Timmappa, as another name for the idol Tirupati or Vonkata Ramana, was also used by Puran. dara. Voikata Dasa's songs exclusively refer to Venkata Ramana on the Seshadri. Vithala Dasa, Vijaya Dasa, and Madhva Dasa belonged, it seems, to the establishment at Udupu. Vithala may have lived after Puran. dara, for one of his mudrikas runs thus : "Having said: 0 Vithala, Vithala (Krishna)! Victory, victory! O new (abhinava) Parandara Vithala (i. e. O Vithala of the new Parandara)!' take refuge with Hari!" This supposition may derive a little support from the Disa song Vithipa (Vithoba) Charita, in which the deity is Sri Vithala, who says to the un.. fortunate child of the story: "Ha, child! listen well! Ha! They call me Sri Vithala in the three worlds. My place is Pandarina. gara. I have come to save thee." Sri Vi. tha la may point to Vithala Dasa being the author of the song, and Pandari nagara, where superior kind of mango which comes from the grafted trees of that Portuguese locality. This may be a corruption (perhaps a mistake in writing) of Alagar male (male == giri), Dear Madhurd in the south, that is one of the 108 celebrated Vaishnavs places. In one song Parandars calls his Rauga "tbe Rauga of the Kaveri," name that points to Surauga, near Tiruchinapalli. Of this place he sings: "On the earth in the town called Karka! a, opposite to a good Sri Venkateka, firmly stands & Hanuma, by the grace of Purandari Vi. thala." There was once a large Jaina establishment at Karkala; the huge Gumuta (& stone image of Jains worship) there was, according to Mr. A. C. Barnell, er acted A. D. 1431. A similar image, that, sccording to tradition, was executed somewhat later and as a rival, is at Yenuru, not very far from K&rkala. * The Timma in Timma appa (father Timma), in this case, I take to be "Tira," 5.8. srt, and "ava" 1.e. he: Tiru-va = glorious one. saila formorly, as it seems, was Srisails (conf. the Dharna Tiny mals, Ind. Ant. vol. II. p. 174), and according to the Kanarese Resore Furesa (of A.D. 1369) the Srisaila (or Sri kiri) once was a great Liiga-place (the Hiliga being called Mallikarjuna). Towards the end of the reign of the BallAlas the Linga.worslip there began to decline. * Channigais a translation of Raiga, an epithet of Krishna + I do not know which Beluru or Veldruis under. stood. Conf. the Vellur of the Ind. Ant. Vol. II. p. 172, this is probably meant. I Veikats sometimes means the sacred bill of Tiru. pati, sometimes the idol there. Significant regarding Purandara' age is the circumstance of his mentioning in connection with the pije at U dapu (a) the firing of guns (ko); (B) the Parangi (Parigi) polso, the Jack-fruit of the Franka, i.e. the Pine-apple; (y) the Gove mduu, i.e. the Maago of Goa, &

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KARNATAKA VAISHNAVA DASAS. NOVEMBER, 1873.] Purandara lived, to his being posterior to Purandara. That Madhva Dasa was later than (or contemporaneous with) Purandara appears certain from his Abhimanyu Kalaga, a song which he composed "having remembered the feet of the excellent Purandara Dasa." There are seven songs more or less connected with Udupu, the author of which I am inclined to call Hayavadana, as this is the constantly recurring epithet of Krishna in the mudrikas. The songs of Vaikuntha Dasa in the collection all state that his idol, the Vaikuntha Kesava or Vaikuntha Channiga (i.e. Ranga), was in Vela pura; in one he speaks of a Sri Ranga Yatra (pilgrimage to a town Sri ranga? or generally pilgrimage connected with Krishna ?), calling, however, his deity Velapuradhisa. Another place referred to by one song is Kera vasi pura, where Sri Subrahmanya (Sankara) resides, who in another one is entitled Subba Raya, and in the mudrika of this is spoken of as follows: "On earth in Kukke pura who has seated himself, he, Isa, is, and no other." At the renowned place of pilgrimage, I may remark, at the north-western foot of the Coorg mountains, called Subrahmanya, the general cry is: "Govinda, Govinda !" I do not know who were the originators of the Vaishnava Dasa movement in the south; but it seems to have been only a new effort for the development of what had been begun already in Ra manuja's and Madhva's time, in opposition to the S martas or Advaitas, Sankaracharya's followers. Let us see. Madhva Dasa says: "From love to man in the Kali age Vishnu came down. He, the best of all, took care of the Urdhva Pund. ra doctrine (mata) that had become unstable (chalita), and remembered Madhva muni. Remember ye our Madhva muni, who is the slave (kinkara) of the feet of the Narahari Gopala that is very firm on the coast of the excellent (purva) sea which is great in the world!" And in a song of 66 verses he goes The perpendicular sectarian mark; the Smartas put horizontal marks on their foreheads." + Compare the Vira Saivas! According to the Kanarese Basava Purana, the struggles between Saivas and Vaishnavas existed under the Chola kings; and later, under the Bijjalas of Kalyana, they were still fighting against each other. According to the Channa (Ranga) Basava Purana (of A.D. 1585), the fight was also continually 309 on: "Bow to the lord of the guru Madhva. charya! Say with praise that Hari is truly the supreme deity! Except Hari there is no perceptible supreme deity. You must read Hari's tale, you must read the veda that says there is Duality (dvaya) in the One. Have continual intercourse with the Vira Vaishnavast! Do not adore all the deities you see ! Join the Hari Dasas, saying: "They are my relations!' Burn thy bad deeds in the fire of Hari's tale! The name of Govinda is the ori of the sun for all darkness. Go to emancipation (moksha) by steadily following the Madhva doctrine! Say the world is the imperishable Vithala (Krishna)! Continually remember the thousand names of Hari! Perform Madhva's puja with devotion! Say, that of all which is going on, Ranga's pilgrimage is the best! As Radha put her desire on Ranga, quickly place your love in Mukunda (Vishnu)! To overcome the fear of death, daily think of and bow to him who is one with the eternal spirit! Love Narasimha, and thus burn the germ-body (linganga), and thus burn the dread ed births connected with Advaita! Look upon Madhva's doctrine as the true Hari doctrine! See the Hari Das as in this Kali age, and thus get rid of your sins you have committed from want of (Hari) knowledge! Observe the doctrine of the Guru that favours the Tulu Brahmans! He who knows the sweetness of Hari's name knows indeed; to him who knows it, sugar and honey do not match it. Come and eat the dainties of Hari's tale! The charm (mantra) that raises the unknowing ignorant is the charm that the Hari Dasa is kind enough to give." And in other places he says: "In a ship our Ranga came, he came to Udupu and remained there. See, O mother!" "Say: Hari, Govinda, thou who, in the world, tookest thy seat in Udupu, didst found the Madh va doctrine in the world, didst fulfil the wishes of devotees, Krishna, lord of M ad hva, who art with thy followers (saruna)!" "Treating with contempt the twenty-one (?) doctrines, telling people the going on still later. For their service to Jangamas the Ling&itas (Saivas) accepted the term diso ham, using it as a declinable substantive. Instead of disa the Lingaitas generally use sarana; the Vaishnavas, as far as I know, do not make so much use of this term, at least inthe Dias Padas. Virs Vaishnavas or Buddha Vaishnavas are Brahmans preeminently or wholly devoted to Vishnu.

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310 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [NOVEMBER, 1873. Madhva sastra, and being a full servant of raba Timmappa, well dost thou stand (there, O the great Hayavadana, the strong Madhva. Krishna !)." Speaking somewhat allegorically charya shone on earth."."Believo in the good about the ashes used for the marks on the foremaster of the best guru, Madhva muni!" head, Varaha Dasa observes : "That Smartas "On the orbit (of the earth), in the great put on the name (the sectarian mark on the Kudums pura (Udupu ?), excessively shines forehead of Vaishnavas) and largely spread and appears to devotees the love of Krishna, the name of Hari, is a right thing! Put on who is the lord of Madhva." ashes ! Suddha Vaishnavas have heard and (Madhva - ) Haya va dana sings: "Quick. know the root of them." ly kill the wicked people, O good (nalla) lord Vijaya Disa ntters the following: "He of Madhva! If thou dost not kill, the wicked the wicked who joins the feet of the glorious Anandapeople of the Kali age will remain. All were tirtha, and remembers the lotus-feet of Sri throwing stones at thy puja, yes! Beautiful Vijaya Vithala, gets rid of the fetters of Hayavadana, kill, kill them! Maka us victo- hell." "The good luck of all the Dasas is to rious!" "Madhava's doctrine is necessary : be born as Brahmans, to be instructed in the the difference (bheda) regarding Hari is neces doctrine of Madhva, and with distinction to sary to dispute with the wicked people is perform the aversion (to the world, virakti) necessary." connected with devotion (bhakti)." Vithala, in describing Udupu, says Purandara says: "Remembering Pu<Page #345
NOVEMBER, 1873.) KARNATAKA VAISHNAVA DASAS. 311 Purandara's entire songs, I adduce the There is one song without a mudrika, of which following one : I adduce two verses as referring to R a maRefrain : nuja and Vyder's T)lu (the arm of Vyasa; see "All the gods are behind (i.e. beneath) Vishnu; Ind. Ant. vol. II. p. 133) :In charming devotion all are behind the Snake Refruin :lord (planipa, i.e. adioesha)!" " Supporter of R&manuja's doctrine! or, Song :"All the stream-pilgrimages (Tirtha) are be Ramanaja ! Doctrine-supporter!) bird the Vishnu-ammonite (sdlagrdma); Rod for the great mountain of dark heretics !" All the published books (prakata grantha) are Song :behind the Bharata; "They say the Chola put up a post (or pillar, All trees are behind the sacred Tulasi; kamba), saying: All vitality (chaitanya) is behind the wind He with the eye on his forehead (Siva), and (vdya). (v. 1.) no other godhead there is!' All the vows are behind Madhva's doc The master of the Yatis (eti pati) seized and trine-sea; flayed him, All the various castes (varna) are behind the And made a Chola shed (chappara, a shed Brahmans (vipra); of the Chola's skin P). See, my brother!" All the excellent gifts are behind the gift of (v. 1.) food. "Saying: It is a Vydea Tolu l' they (the Regarding (literally, among) the Rishis-they Lingaitas), not minding, are behind Aryama devata. (v. 2.) Fasten a bull (nandi) to a standard (dhvaja), Regarding the good--they are behind Amba and worsbip it. Hear! risha; For one (or, for that one) Vydea rolu our And the practices (dharma) are behind bath master (ayya) ing (majjana); Stripped off a thousand arms of Siva's folIn the whole world all are behind the badges lowers (Sarana)." (v. 2.) of honour Thus Sectarianism has been a great, probably That are in being called a fond devotee of the great, agent in the Karnataka Dasa movePurandara Vithala." (v. 3.) ment; but the devotion of Sectarianism has not Let us now hear Kanaka Da s, the remained alone. In several songs onderlies a fowler. He says: "One ought not to perform deep disgust with the short, and at the same pujc to the stones of this earth (i.e. to Lingas). time so troublesome, human existence, and they One should not go to hell by the way of revil- plainly express the desire of the authors some ag Hari and extolling Hara." "Who else how to be comforted by their cherished idols, are in great darkness but the ruined wicked and also their real love for them. Varaha ones, who at each word revile Hari, call Siva says of Venkata Ramana: "My riches are shinthe best of all, bow to him, show forth (oring in thee; precious pearls are hidden in thee; point out) all song-books (gita grantha, re- thou art the seed and root for meat and drink. garding him), have proofs (for their asser- Can people who forget thee, afterwards have tions) adduced from the Vedanta, make vows, any joy?" Purandara asks at the end of shake off their (mental) agony, think of murder, a song : "Why did I fall into a frenzy for the and are wanting in good manners P" "What Purandara Vithala, who has taken good deed or what bad deed is there in Adi firm seat in Rajata pura I much renowned Kesa va's DasasTheirs is true grace in the world ?" and remarks in another place : and absorption !" "The heart is blank paper, the mouth the inkCompare the expression of Madhva Dlas already Krishna," where it certainly means "Udupa Krishna." quoted : Do not adore all the deities (dziva) you see! Rajatagiri (silver mountain) is Kailasa,but Kai. Parodan once attacks the Nadu daivas (ordmz daimas), lies is also in Udupu. As in the Mahabharat Siva and each 4 Velamme, Ngappa, Ellaume, Jogavra, KAlike, ali Krishna worship sometimes appears u being curiously of which are connected with Siv. When Kansks, in blended, it does so also in the Bellipars song of Parandari another song, mju: "The temple (oudy) in which there Here follow two versos: "In the spot (kshetra) where he is no god is like a deserted shop," he no doubt thiulo that with the hatchet is, the place called Udupu that appears Vishaa idol ought to be there. in West sad East u two, is even one body, one Mride In front of many Lifigtits temples there is a stone ball (Siv). Because Krishna with the churning-stick stande on a pillas. (there), it is the best place) in the world; when the poverty In another song he has translated Bajsts into of the poor s U dapu, it is quickly got rid of. A Kadarese, so that the place is Bellipurs, silver town. the general custom (radh), I will pay to him who appears Another song has the mudrika: Salah Bajatapars eqan to Balipars' lord nantela Valle Time

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312 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. stand, the tongue is the pen; now and then to write and present the account of the glory of Hari's name is my occupation." Regarding the service (seva) of the Dasas, Varaha prays: "Through Vy a sa is the Veda service, through Para sara the Smriti service, the wholesome Vrata (vow) service through Rukmangada; make thou the service to become a Das a rise in me! I will become a servant (sevika)!" "Thy service (sevd), thy worship (puja), thy name are on my tongue, O Varaha Timmappa!" "If Hari's thought (dhyana), Hari's worship (puja), the praise (kirtana) of Hari's name, the dance (nartana), of Hari's devotion (bhakti), Hari's services (send) do not appear (to thee) severally, with perseverance call Varaha Timmappa, O mind!" And, in a refrain, Vijaya sings: "This is the Dasas' lot: they fill all countries." Some of the songs are didactic, reminding of the sure approach of death or of hell, and thus exhorting to worship Krishna; or inculcating some sort of judicious (sometimes quaint) or [NOVEMBER, 1873. also moral conduct. Others refer to the feats of Bala Krishna; others enjoin the puja of the Tulasi or that at Dasamis, Ekadasis, Dvadasis, &c.; others contain an enumeration of the ten incarnations (dasavatara); others relate how Krishna helped the Pandavas and killed the Kauravas (as the partisans of Siva); others are rather impatient prayers under difficulties; one or two are morning songs to awaken the idol to receive the offerings brought; others describe the dress of the idol; others recommend a pilgrimage to Tirupati or give a description of such a one, &c. Purandara, in three songs, containing together 237 verses, paints the different pujas connected with the Udupu establishment, as they take place under ordinary circumstances or at festivals. Idolatry has, to a large extent, been promoted by the Karnataka Dasa movement. The bards relate that Vala Rama Raja, son of Vala Warsingji, reigned at Junagadh and Vanthali. He was famed for his munificence, and it is told of him that when his beard was shaved for the first time, he gave in charity twenty-one villages and distributed fifty lakhs of rupees as alms to the poor. Rama Raja was of the Vala race. It is said in Saurashtra that previous to the rise of the kingdom of Junagadh-Vanthali Valabhinagar was the capital of Gujarat. The rise of Valabhi is thus told by the bards. The Gupta kings reigned between the Ganges and Jamna rivers. One of these kings sent his son Kumara Pal Gupta to conquer Saurashtra, and placed his Viceroy Chakrapani, son of Prandat, one of his Amirs, to reign as a provincial Governor in the city of Wamanasthali (the modern Wanthali). Kumara Pal now returned to his father's kingdom. His father reigned 23 years after the conquest of Saurashtra and then died, LEGENDS OF THE EARLIER CHUDASAMA RAS OF JUNAGADH. BY MAJOR J. W. WATSON, ACTING POLITICAL SUPERINTENDENT, PAHLANPUR. and Kumara Pal ascended the throne. Kumara Pal Gupta reigned 20 years and then died, and was succeeded by Skanda Gupta, but this king was of a weak intellect. His Senapati, Bhattaraka, who was of the Gehloti race, taking a strong army, came into Saurashtra and made his rule firm there. Two years after this Skanda Gupta died. The Senapati now assumed the title of King of Saurashtra, and, having placed a Governor at Wamanasthali, founded the city of Valabhinagar. At this time the Gupta race were dethroned by foreign invaders. The Senapati was a Gehlot, and his forefathers reigned at Ayodhya Nagari until displaced by the Gupta dynasty. After founding Valabhi he established his rule in Saurashtra, Kachh, Lat-desh, and Malwa. The Valas were a branch of the Gehlots. After the fall of Valabhi the Vala governor of Wamanasthali became independent. Ram Raja had no son, but his sister was married to the Raja of mappa (if Udupa, and not Tirupati, is under stood, Udupu's idol would bear the same name), (i.e.) Siva, the great Rudra, the fire-eyed, the husband of the daughter of (Hima) giri." This plainly refers one to another song of Purandara wherein he says that in Udupu there is A reference to Chaitanya, the Bangali I have found nowhere in the Karnataka Dasa padas; Chaitanya as an epithet of Krishna, however, occurs a few times. Merkara, 22nd July 1873. a temple (gud) of the three gods, so that it is Brahma pura, Kailasa, and Vaikuntha, there being guru Brahms, guru Vishnu, and guru Mahadeva. I have inquired and learned that Brahmans called Udupa also Rajatapars.

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NOVEMBER, 1873.] CHUDASAMA RAS. 313 Nagar Thatha, who was of the Samma tribe. This sister's son was named Ra Gario, and Ram Raja bequeathed to his nephew Ra Gario the kingdom of Junagadh-Wanthali, and RA Gario was the first of the Chudasama Ras of Junagadh. Ra Gario collected an army and attacked the Raja of Kananj, Devgar by name, and after a great battle defented Devgar and took Kanauj, Devgar fleeing to the banks of the Ganges. The follow. ing poetry commemorates this conquest : sel. kAlIka maMdIra devagara dara sakalaMka lalake sahI II gaDha sAtriIsa rAza garanAre gArIe kaneja grahI . paMDa je dala pagale lIlAvatA sAhesa lIdho che kADhe arI muLa kalAdhara purve sAgara jaLa pIdho sahu deza taNuM rAkha cuDa hirA bolAvI thAnake besarIyA | prasava verATanA vase padhara gaDha parabata baNagArIA || gaDha parabata gavAra gaMga traTha AkhI purava dhara karI ApaNI || asapata gajapata narapata dhara Ubhe gArIo tho weil il King Devgar was proud and happy as Kal Indra in his abode. Gario Rao of Girnar conquered Kanaaj, the principality of thirty-seven forts.. He, the exalter of his family, easily defeated this happy lord of innumerable forces; And thus extirpating his enemies, drank the water of the Eastern Ocean (Jamna or Ganges). Gario, grandson of Rai Chuda, a descendant of Vairat, and destroyer of the best of kings, He having called all kings of that country who had been deprived of their kingdoms, re placed them on their thrones, And subjugating the city of Parbatgadh, he occupied all the eastern country from the cities of Parbatgadh and Gwalior up to the banks of the Ganges, And thus became the lord of horses, elephants, and men, both of Girnar and Kananj. After the subjugation of Kananj, RA Gario took the city of Dohad in Malwa, and caused himself to be proclaimed king there. At this time RA Gario married a daughter of a Rathod Rajput. His descendants by this wife are called Ranks, and are still to be found in MAlwA. Kanaaj and Dohad being conquered, Ra Gario returned to Junagadh, where he reigned till his death. The third from Ra Gario was Ra Dyas, or Dyachh, as he is also called, His favourite wife was Sorath Rani. Ra Dyas was famed for his munificence, and the bards declare that he gave away his head in charity to a Charan. This story is probably invented to conceal or ac. count for the conquest of Junagadh by a king of Pattan. If Anhilwada Pattan is meant, this king can have been none other than Wan Raj Chaura, as RA Dyas is said to have died in 860-61. The story runs as follows: The daughter of the king of Pattan had come on a visit to Somnath. Ra Dyas saw her, and, becoming enamoured of her, endeavoured to compel her to marry him. The king of Pattan, hearing of this, sent a large army against Ra Dyas and defeated him in the field. RA Dyas, however, shut himself up in the impregnable fort of Girnar, and laughed to scorn the efforts of the Pattan army. The king of Pattan, after a long siege, despaired of reducing the fort. He was about to return to his own country, when a Charan named Bijal offered to put him in possession of the place, on condition of being given a large reward. The king offered him an enormous reward, and Bijal agreed to give him the head of Ra Dyas, and it was agreed that when the garrison were occupied with the funeral ceremonies the Pattan army should attack the fort. The Charan, knowing the munificent character of the Ra, determined to ask of him his head as a gift, and in his capacity of a Charan easily obtained admission into the citadel. The night before this plot was formed, Sorath RAni dreamed that she saw a headless man. On consulting the astrologers they told her that her husband would shortly cut off his head and give it away in alms. As Sorath Rani had much influence in Junagadh, she ordered her husband into captivity and imprisoned him in a bastion until the fated time should be past. During this time no one was allowed to have access to him except they who supplied him with food. The Claran therefore went outside the bastion and there began to chant verses in praise of Ra Dyas, and to play on a musical instrument called a jantra. RA Dyds hearing him looked out, and, seeing the Gadvf, threw out of the window a lodh or rope with a stoat stick at the end, on which to ait. The Gadvi sat on the stick and held the rope with his hands, and thus RA Dyls drew him ap

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314 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [NOVEMBER, 1873. into the bastion. The following duho is said $. regarding this : mAthuM maMgaNahArake jo tuM dayAsa na keDe baMdhI kIka kIrata kema kare II cAraNa caDhI loDha matho gaDha mAgaNe If thou give not, O Dyas, thy head to the sAraTha rA dayArAsa haNa na kI koDa ||1|| beggar, The Charan climbed the rope to beg the head How will the Bhats and Kinnaras be able to in the fort. praise thee hereafter ? Thus the desire of Dyas Ra of Sorath was never After this Ra Dyas caused his head to be cut frustrated. off and given to the Charan. The Charan receivThe Charan was asked by Ra Dyas to name ed the Ra's head and was carrying it off, when his own reward, and demanded as his guerdon Sorath Rini demanded it of him as a gift. As the head of the Ra, and the Ra consented to sat had come upon her, the Charan dared not give it to him. In the meantime, however, refuse, and accordingly gave her the Ra's head. Sorath Rani was informed that a Charan had Sorath Rani took the head, and coming to the gained access to the Ra, and that he had asked Damodar Kand caused a pile to be constructed, for the Ra's head. She accordingly came quick- and there became a sati. The King of Pattan ly to the bastion where the RA was confined, after the death of Ra Dyas easily became and thus addressed the Charan : master of the city. The King of Pattan now placed a Thanadar in Junagadh and returned to adAtu adA thI e bhAI che maMgaNahAra, Pattan. The second Queen of Ra Dyas was of the Waja tribe, who are still to be found at tAcha dauM takaDA da hAthI dAM halakAra Jhanjmir. She and her son Noghan were residgananI caMdana hAra de chaMDIdAM saradAra. ing at Wanthali, as it was held ominous for Ra Oh ! Sir Beggar, thou art both my father and Dyas to see the face of his son until he were my brother. twelve years of age. I will give thee horses, bracelets, elephants, After the conquest of Junagadh by the Raja and messengers, of Pattan, Rajbai, for that was the name of the I will even give thee the necklace from off Waji, concealed her son Noghan at the house my neck, if thou wilt give up my Sardhar. of Devait Bodar, an Ahir of Alidar Bodidhar. The Charan however replied - The brother of Devait was at enmity with him, gemaraAI dhaNu tAjIAI tabIlama. and informed the King of Pattan's Thanadar mike nAMI maNuM A saravAla ane at Junagadh that Noghan was concealed in There are here many elephants and many horses Devait's house. The Thanadar at once sent also in the stables. for Devait and demanded the surrender of I have no lack of them, but give me now the Noghan. Devait replied that he knew nothing beloved head. of Noghan, but in case he might have come to At this time the sister of Ra Dyas, hearing his house he would send a note directing him to of what had happened, came to the bastion, and be sent. He then wrote this couplet and gave thinking it was useless to attempt to disanade it to the messenger: her brother she thus addressed him : 1. gADuM gAlaNa gA gADAvata rAkhe gaLe vaDhI de ne vIra matho maMgaluhArake bAMU khubalIyAM je uceTIe UDAunA saizi 292 24 ed alle s o ll 111 The cart has sank. The driver must be protectBrother, cut off your head and give it to the ed at all hazards. beggar: O grandson of Uda! give your shoulder and To the munificent to act thus is sweet as khir, raise it up, to the miser it is most difficult. When this complet was read, the Ahire collectLast of all came the mother of Ra Dyas, anded together at Devait Bodar's house and preshe too, seeing his fixed determination, encour pared to fight. The Thanadar, howover, becomaged him and addressed to him this duho- ing impatient as Noghan did not come, went

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NOVEMBER, 1873.] with a force to Alidar Bodidhar and took with him Devait Bodar. Devait, seeing that resistance would be useless, brought his own son Uga, who was of Noghan's age, to the Thanadar. The Thanadar at once put him to death and returned to Junagadh. After the departure of the Thanadar, Devait Bodar sent for his son-in-law Sanstio, an inhabitant of Alidar, and confided to him the fact of Noghan being concealed at his house, and requested his advice as to the best mode of seating him on the throne of Junagadh. Sanstio replied, "Let us collect Ahirs on the occasion of my marriage to your daughter, and let us then invite the Thanadar to the wedding, and at that time proclaim Noghan king with the aid of our army." This being determined on, a day was fixed for the nuptials, and the Thanadar was invited. He came with his army to Alidar Bodidhar. His men were placed separ ately in a large enclosure, and pretended preparations for the feast were made. Suddenly the Ahirs fell upon them and put them all to the sword. Ra Noghan was now proclaimed king, and seated on the throne of Junagadh. The following duho is said in praise of Devait : . are apAya nahIM dokaDa ekaja vana || dIdhA te vAta UgA Ugama mImbAvaMta | odaradI khAdhA jasa aMgana rahe jake || UMcA bhAve smRtImA rA navaghaNuM game | When none could give even a dokra in alms, Devait Bodar gave his son Ugo the grandson of Ugamsi. May fame always attend on all the Bodardas, Who giving Uga as a substitute saved Rae Noghan. CHUDASAMA RAS. Ra Noghan ascended the gali in Samvat 874. In Samvat 875 there was a terrible famine in Sorath, and the Ahirs went to Sindh to obtain food, and Jasal daughter of Devait accompanied them. Hamir Sumro, the king of Sindh, seeing her beauty, was enamoured of her, and carried her off by force. Heaving this, Ra Noghan collected an army and went to Sindh and defeated Hamir and rescued Jasal. He then returned to Junagadh and reigned there till his death, in Samvat 916. RA Noghan had four sons: 1, Bhim; 2, Sodo; 3, Kuvat; and 4, Khengar. Khengar, the youngest son, succeeded him, and it is this Khengar whose queen, the beautiful Ranik Devi, 315 became a sat at Wadhwan after her husband's defeat and subsequent death. In this bardic account of the rise of the Chudasamas the principal feature of interest is the extremely old Gujarati of the poetry. The translations are perhaps liable to correction,indeed it is very difficult to make anything out of the first set of verses. I may here mention that the legend of Ra Dyas under different forms is extremely common throughout Gujarat, Kathiawad, Kachh, and Sindh. The Sindhi version of the legend will be found in Captain G. Stack's Sindhi Grammar. There is considerable difficulty in assigning a correct date to Ra Gario. In one version of the verses regarding Ra Gario's conquest of Kanauj the word Jayachandra occurs instead of Raj-Indra. Now if this were the Jayachandra whose daughter was carried off by Prithiraja Chohan, Ra Gario's date would be about the end of the 12th century of the Christian era. Again, if the ballad quoted by Mr. Kinloch Forbes in the Ras Mala be accepted as correct, and as the year of the accession of Siddhraja was A. D. 1094, and as only Ra Noghan intervened between Ra Dyas and Ra Khengar, it would be impossible to accept the date of Sam. 860-61 (A.D. 803-4) as the date of Ra Dyas. The following explanation may perhaps throw some light on the question. In the Sindhi version the king (of Pattan) is called Anerai. It is well known to all who have consulted bards that though almost always correct in their main facts, they are almost always incorrect in details. Especially regarding the kingdom of Anhilwada Pattan the greatest confusion prevails. To the kings of this capital are assigned almost all the famous deeds performed in Gujarat, and among these kings Kamar Pala and Siddhraja Jesingh are the ones most frequently quoted. They are assigned by one legend to the 9th, by others to the 10th, 11th, even 12th centuries. If then in the case of Ra Dyas, his foe be simply made some mighty Raja-possibly Anerai of Somnath Pattan or of Dhank, known also as Preh Pattan and Rehewas Pattan-the difficulty vanishes, especially if in the case of Mr. Forbes's legend Siddhraja's name be considered merely as a synonym of some mighty king,-and numerous instances might be given of Siddhraja's name being used in this way. An instance occurs to me in the Jethva chronicles where the name of

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316 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. Kumar Pala is thus used. The Jethva chronicles say that the title of Rana was derived from a defeat by Jethva Sangji of the Waghela Rana of Anhilwada Pattan, Kumar Pala's son Karsanji or Krishnaji. The Jethva is said to have defeated Karsanji and taken him prisoner, but to have released him at the intercession of the neighbouring chieftains, among whom was Akherajji of Sirohi. A condition of the release was that the Waghela should resign the title of Rana, which has from that day been held by the Jethva Chief of Porbandar. The bardic couplet regarding this battle is as follows: saMgajI lIMpI zAkha aMga jevI khAdIta rANu khale rAkha raNamAM 2 rANA avatara. Sangaji, with a body like the sun, founded a (new) title; While the Rana who descended into the Ran had his title of Rana burned to ashes. Now as Akheraj of Sirohi ascended the gadi in Samvat 1580 (A. D. 1524), it is clear that this could not be Kumar Pala of Anhilwada Pattan, and it is highly probable that the Waghela Rana in question was Rana Mandanji of Gedi in Waghar, or possibly Rana Visal De of Morwada, both of whom were Waghela Ranas and contemporaries, being both of them sons of Rana Vanoji of Gedi. Rana Visal De's date is known from the inscription on the Rana Way near Morwada, to have been Sam. 1516, or A.D. 1460. His younger brother Mandanji succeeded to the yad, and is in all probability the Rana in question, if it be not Visal De himself, who may have essayed to conquer Morbi after his establishment at Morwada. If this slight alteration then be made in the names of the sovereigns of Pattan in the legends in question, the dates given in Ranchodji Devan's history may be accepted as the approximately correct ones. The legend about Ra Gario styles him grandson of Rae Chuda, who was probably Chudachand Yadav, and who is well known in the contemporary annals of the Rajput houses. Tod assigns to Rao Chudachand the date Sam. 960 (A.D. 904), whereas if he were grandfather of Ra Gario, Sam. 760 (A.D. 704) would be nearer the mark. This discrepancy is difficult to reconcile, but as in the main features of the legend respecting Ra Gario there is no striking improbability, I would be inclined to assign to Rao Chudachand the older date. Rao Chudachand is said to have [NOVEMBER, 1873. originated the name Chudasama, his descendants being called Chuda-Sammas. Ra Gario would thus be the second Chudasama. Looking also at the antiquity of the Chudasama dynasty, its introduction into Kathiawad at about the middle of the eighth century of the Christian era seems also probable, and this account fits in with the Vala and Gehlot chronicles. However it may be, these legends may, in abler hands than mine, form a connecting link between the era of the Valabhi kings and the consolidation of the Chudasama rule in Saurashtra. A better translation also of the Gujarati verses might throw more light on the subject, and this I doubt not might be furnished by many of the readers of the Antiquary. Possibly, however, the king of Pattan who fought with Ra Khengar was Mula Raja Solanki. In the account by Kinloch Forbes of Mula Raja's warfare in Saurashtra (see Ras Mala, vol. I. pp. 53 etc. and 154 etc.), quoting from both the Doyashraya and the Prabandh Chintamant, the Lord of Wamanasthali is described as a Shepherd King, or Ahir Rana. Now both Noghan and Khengar might fairly be called by such a name, as Noghan was placed on the throne by the aid of the Ahirs. It will be seen by referring to the Sindhi version of the legend. of Ra Dyas that the account given therein of the cause of quarrel between Anerai and the Ra is almost exactly the same as the one in the Turi's version quoted by Mr. Forbes. Mr. Forbes represents Lakha Phulani to have been slain by Mularaja, but he also mentions that the honour of slaying Lakha has been also claimed by Sinhoji Rathod. It will, I think, be easy to prove that Lakha Phulani did not live for upwards of four centuries after Malaraja, and as the descendants of Sinhoji Rathod still enjoy lands in Gujarat, and as the Waghela chronicles show Muluji, the conqueror of Sirdargadh in Kathiawad, and founder of the Sirdhara Waghelas, to have been a contemporary of Lakha, and that it was Muluji who with Sinhoji Rathod defeated Lakha at Adkot, where Lakha fell by the hand of Sinhoji, it may fairly be inferred that, Lakha was a contemporary of Waghela Muluji. Professor Wilson has pointed out (in Bombay Government Records No. XV. New Series) that the era of Lakha Ghurara has been antedated by 621 years. This would make the death of Lakha, if the Jhadeja chronicles be

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NOVEMBER, 1873.) PORTS SOUTH OF RATNAGIRI. 317 followed, to have taken place in Samvat 1522, the JhAdeja chronicles assigning Samvat 901 as the date of Lakha's death. Now if a corresponding deduction be made from this date to that proposed to be added to the date given by Ranchodji Devan, a date might be found for Lakha that would perhaps fulfil all the conditions required. At present if Sam. 901 be doubtless too early, so also is Sam. 1522 too late for LakhA's death. Still there can, I think, be no doubt that the dates assigned by Professor Wilson are very much more correct than any that have hitherto been allowed, except perhaps that assigned by Col. Tod; and if it be admitted that one chronicle is incorrect in dates to a certain extent, there seems no valid reason to doubt why the dates of the Jhadeja chronicles should be accepted without question. It is only, how. ever, by tracing the contemporary Waghela Ranis, as well as the Chudasama Ras, that a final decision can be arrived at on this point. These rough speculations may perhaps be useful to other and more advanced historical students. In conclusion I may state that the date of Waghela Muluji must be about Samvat 1400 to 1420. This date is founded on an inscription on a well near Morwada of Rana Visal Do of Sam. 1516, mentioned above. Now Visal De was the son of Wanoji; Wanoji was the son of Surkhaji; Surkhaji was the son of Lund Lunoji was the son of Unuji; and Unuji was the son of Muluji :-in all five generations. The date therefore assigned to Muluji cannot possibly be far wrong if the inscription be admitted to be correct. MUSALMAN REMAINS IN THE SOUTH KONKAN. BY A. K. NAIRNE, Esq., Bo. C.s. II.-Ports south of Ratnagiri. There is no other port in the Southern Kon- of this river is particularly fine, and about 12 kan so prominent in history as Da bhol, about miles up is the town of Satavali, which, which I have already written, and which one of though now entirely decayed, is said to have the earliest European travellers spoke of as the been a place of some importance in the time of most southerly port belonging to the Musal- the Musalmans, and to have had a considerable mang. But though the other ports are not so trade. Not only has it still a large Musalman distinguished, I shall be able to show much more population, with remains of mosks, a small clearly than in the case of Dabhol the routes fort and other buildings, but there are also to which travellers took from them to the Musal. be traced roads leading in almost every direction man capitals of Bijapur and Golkonda. up the very steep hills by which the town is Little more than twenty miles south of Da- surrounded, though no single one of them appears bhol is the fine river sa stri, with the fort to have been repaired for several generations. of Jayagadh at its mouth, and the town of One of these roads leads through Lanj and Sangames var thirty miles up. I am not Prabhan vali to Vis algad h. La nje aware of the Musalmans ever having had any stands in a fine open plain, and is said to have considerable station on this river, and, though been formerly a large town, and there is a tomb it is quite possible they may have had, it does which is believed to be that of a princess who not seem that they can ever have required a died here on a journey. Prabhan vali also second port so near Dabhol, while at the same is known to have been formerly a large place time this river would be too far north for a short and a chief station of the Musalmans, but route to either of the southern capitals. Rat-| it is more decayed even than Satavali or nagiri, about 20 miles south of Jayagadh, Lanje. I have only seen it from a distance, but has never been a port or a place of trade, although ata told that it contains no more signs of its the fort is one of the finest on the coast. About former importance than the remains of some 18 miles south of this, however, is the small river mosks, one of which is known to have been th Muckchkundi, with the fort of Purangadh Jamma Masjid, and the foundations of large at its mouth: a little way up is the white tomb houses. This village lies immediately under of prir visible from the sea, to which Musalman the fortress of Vis Algadh, and the ghat is sailors in passing make offerings. The scenery still passable for ballocks. The distance from

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318 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. NOVEMBER, 1873. Sa ta vali to Visalgadh is well under 30 sanctity and was canonized after death, miracles miles, and, from the comparative levelness of being wrought through invocation of his name the road over the greater part of the distance, at the shrine." The tablet and fetters mentionthere can be no doubt that when VisAlgadh ed above are therefore probably both connected and Prabhanvali were held by the Mu- with this saint. But there is a difficulty about salmans, sa tavali would have been the most the two inscriptions mentioned by Graham. Not convenient port for their inhabitants. The ghats only is the earliest date fully fifty years earlier of Visalgadh, Anuskura, and Baura than the first recorded expedition of the Musalare said by Graham to have been constructed mans into the Dekhan, but Ferishtah distinctly by the Musalmans about 1600 A.D., and though states that Visalgadh (then called Khelna) no doubt this date is a mere guess, yet it cor. was first taken by the Musalmans in 1469. Nor responds sufficiently with the floubishing days is it likely that a place in so retired a situation of the Bijapur kingdom. should have been attacked by them in any of Visalgadh itself, as it was one of the their very early expeditions, while the authority strongest of the ghit fortresses, so it is also one of Ferishtah is particularly reliable as to that of the most celebrated in history, and is said by part of the country, owing to his having resided Graham to have been in the 12th century the for many years at Bijapur. seat of government of the western portion of the The circumstances which preceded this capcountry. From the Konkan it is by no means ture of Visalgadh are interesting. There had & prominent object, as the hill of Michal, been expeditions into the Konkan by the troops connected with it only by a narrow ledge 200 of Gulbarga in 1429 and 1436 under Malik-ulfeet or so below the brow of each hill, pro- Tujar, and various of the Hindu Rajas had been jecta further out into the Konkan. A similar subdued and made to pay tribute. In 1453 the narrow ledge and equally depressed connects same leader commanded another expedition, and Viealgadh with the main line of the ghats, after reducing several Rajas, one of the Sirke Ho that when fortified the approach was equally family agreed to become a Musalman and a faithdifficult to invaders either from the Konkan or ful servant of the king, on the condition that the the Dekhan. The fort was dismantled about general should first reduce his rival Shankar Rai, thirty years ago by our Government, the inner Raja of Khelni, and he undertook himself to walls and works being entirely demolished, guide the army through the difficult country that and even of the outer walls only a very small lay between his own fort and Khelna. This portion remains. Its present inhabitants are a offer was accepted, and during the first two days few servants of the Pant Pritinidhi, to of the march Rija Sirke led the troops along a whom it belongs, and one old Musalman broad road. But on the third day they entered who looks after the two mosks. These are a very different sort of country, and the folintact, and there are also two large gateways lowing literal translation, by Briggs, of Ferishof Muhammadan architecture. In one of these tah's description is worth giving :-"The paths mosks is hanging a gigantic pair of iron were so intricate that the male tiger from fetters, the tradition concerning which is that apprehension might change bis sex, and the they would of themselves fall off the arms of passes more tortuous than the curly locks of the an innocent person, so that any one accused of fair, and more difficult to escape from than an offence might claim to be tried by this or the mazes of love. Demons even might start deal. Close to where they hang is a Persian at the precipices and caverns in those wilds, and inscription let into the wall. Graham, in his ghosts might be panio-struck at the awful view Report on the Principality of Kolhapoor, states of the mountains. Here the sun never enthat the earliest Persian inscriptions in the fort livened with its splendour the valleys : nor had are of A.D. 1284 and 1247, the first commem- Providence designed that it should penetrate orating "the captare of the fort by the Mu. their depths. The very grass was tongh and hammadans under Malik Rahim, who, from an- sharp as the tongues of serpents, and the air other inscription dated sixty years later, appears fetid as the breath of dragons. Death dwelt to have enjoyed during life a high odour of' in the waters, and poison impregnated the * See Briggi'. Translation, vol. II. pp. 487-8, 488-4

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NOVEMBER, 1873.] PORTS SOUTH OF RATNAGIRI. 319 breeze. After winding, weary and alarmed, through these dreadful labyrinths, the army entered a darker forest, a passage through which was difficult even to the winds of heaven. It was bounded on three sides by mountains whose heads towered above the clouds, and on the other side was an inlet of the ocean, so that there was no path by which to advance in retreat but that by which they had entered." The troops were by nightfall of course excessively fatigued, and then Raja Sirke sent for Shankar Rai, who came with a great force and fell on the Musalmans. The general, five hundred noble Sayids, and nearly seven thousand Musalman soldiers, besides Abyssinians and Dekhanis, were killed on this occasion, the few survivors escaping above the ghats. The exact place where this massacre took place hits never been ascertained, but Grant Duff thinks that it was not very far from Vis Algad h, which is so probable, not only from the Raja of that place being so particularly mentioned, but also from the nature of the country described. Even now, with all the improvement of the country, there are very few parts of the Southern Konkan where an army of 10,000 men could march without the greatest difficulty; and the tract of country lying beneath and a little to the north of Visa lg ad h, between the towns of Sangames var and Lanja is almost the only open plain of any extent in the collectorate. Anywhere across this an army might easily have marched for two days, but it would need but a slight-deviation either to the west towards SAtava li, or to the east towards Visalgadh itself, to get into hills and gorges which in those days must almost have come up to the description given by Ferishtah. If it be a fact that an inlet of the ocean was on one side, then the immediate neighbourhood of Sata vali would answer, the description : otherwise, as to the closeness of the valleys and the height of the hills, Pra. bhanvali seems the most likely place. At all events it is most probable that the massacre took place somewhere in the country which lies beneath and in front of the most projecting point of Vis algad h. This misfortune to the Musalman arms was not avenged till 1469, when Khwaja Mahmud Gawan, the prime minister, collected a large force, and by constant hard labour and with many precautions cut his way through the jungles, and at last after an unsuccessful siege of Kheln a for five months, interrupted by the monsoon, succeeded, partly by stratagem and partly by bribery, in getting possession of this fortress. He spent the rest of this season and the whole of the next in ravaging the country, and so, apparently, reduced the whole of the Rajas to subjection, finishing up by taking Goa from the Vidyanagar troops. As this is stated as the period of the reduction of the whole of the Konkan, we may reasonably suppose that the establishment of the Masalmans at Prabhan vali and Sata vali took place soon after this. Two hundred years later, after being captured by Sivaji, Visalga dh was twice unsuccessfully besieged by the whole force of Aurangzib, and on one of these occusions the loss of the garrison was so great that on the retreat of the Musalmans seven hundred satis are said to have taken place among the widows of the defenders who had fallen. The road from Visalgadh to Bijapur would probably lie through Mal ka pur and Kolhapur,-for this is a very slight deviation from a straight line, and Kolhapur, or rather the neighbouring fortress of Panala, was almost as famous in Muhammadan as in Maratha days. The next place to be mentioned is the creek on which R ja pur stands. This is one of the oldest towns in the district, and was formerly a place of great trade, which is proved by the English, French, and Dutch all having had factories here in very early days. It had also a great trade with Arabia and the Persian Gulf, and even now two or three Arab bagalos come there every year. There is good a deal of interest in the way of Hindu temples and traditions, but I am sorry to say I know very little of its Musalman history, though the Musalmans are still so strong there as to be divided into two very bitter parties and to have several mosks. Though plundered by Sivaji, it appears never to have been much damaged, -owing its security probably to its being so far from the sea; and it has therefore all the appearance of an ancient town, which Dabhol, though undoubtedly much older, has lost. A hill behind the town still preserves the name of Talimkhand, or gymnasium, and I am told that, though it is not used for the purpose now, the Musalmans of Rajapur still keep

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320 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [NOVEMBER, 1873. up the education of their young men in gymnasties. Orme says that in 1670 it was a very fre- quented port belonging immediately to the king of Bijapur; but this was only shortly before the Konkan fell into Sivaji's hands. And Hamil- ton, writing of the same period, says that this district produced the finest battelas and muslins in India. In 1686, after the unsuccessful expedition of Sultan Muazzim, son of Aurangzib, in the Konkan, his brother, Sultan Akbar, who had long been in rebellion against his father, hired a ship commanded by an Englishman at RAja. pur, and embarking there sailed to Muscat, and from thonce proceeded to Persia. The creek on which R aja pur stands was guarded about two miles up by the fort of Jai. ta pur. This also was held by the Musalmans, but I have heard nothing of its history except that in 1676 it was burnt by the Sidi ; but it was then, I think, in the possession of the Marathas. It is a place with nothing to recommend it, and has the appearance of having been at best a very second-rate fortress. The route from Jaitapur and Rajapur to Bijapur would have been through Baura (to be mentioned later) and Kolhapur. The Kajerd & Ghat gives a considerably nearer route to Kolhapur, but I have never found it mentioned in any history, and there is, I beliove, no fort to protect it, as there is above the Prabhan vali and Baura Ghats. The creek at the mouth of which Gheria or Vijyadurg stands, which is the last port I have to mention, is only about five miles south of the Rajapur creek. Horsburgh speaks of Vijyadurg as "an excellent harbour, the an. chorage being land-locked and protected from all winds. There is no bar at the entrance, the depths being from five to seven fathoms." Hamilton speaks of Rajapur as having "the conveniency of one of the best harbours in the world;" but he had not himselfbeen there, and must evidently refer to Vijyadirg, -since Rajapur can no more be said to have a harbour than Green wich or Blackwall, and Jaitapur cannot be meant, as the harbour is both dangerous of access and not well protected. I have been disappointed in not finding any mention of Vijyadurg in the older Musalman historians, and am unable to account for it, as there is no doubt that it was held by the Musalmans-firstly, because the older English historians always mention Gheria as the Musalman name of it, and secondly, because some of the older parts of the fort are distinctly Muhammadan, and quite different from what is found in purely Marath forts. Thus there are Saracenic doors and windows in the three-storied towers, which are themselves uncommon features, and in the inner gateway; and there are also a mosk and the tomb of a pir, the first being in the centre of the fortress, very near the flagstaff mound. The fort also is said to have been only rebuilt, and not built, by Sivaji. There is no doubt, however, that it is to Sivaji that it owes its finest features, the triple line of walls, the numerous towers, and the massive buildings in the interior,--all of which, with its situation, make it by far the grandest fortress I have ever seen. There is a considerable Musalman population outside the fort, and in many of the villages all up this creek, which is still navigable up to Kharepatan although it, like most of the other creeks, has much silted up. The present town of Kharepatan has a small trade, but is quite insignificant, and its situation hot and confined. But passing through the Musalman quarter a very rough road leads to a fine open site, lying along the bank of the river and extending a considerable distance, with Musalman tombs in every direction. Here was the old Musalman town, and though there is not a house now standing, nor anything except the tombs and the walls of three or four mosks, it is easy to believe that there was once a large town, for there is a fine level space lying above a long reach of the river, and the hills behind this slope very gently upwards. It is said that the sites of twelve or thirteen mosks can be shown, and the one which still remains among the Mosalman houses in the town was the Jamma Masjid, and evidently a building of considerable pretensions. Well outside the present limits of the town is a very large brick tank, nearly dry and quite ruinous, an inscription on which states that it was built by a Brahman in 1659. Why a Hinda should have built a tank in the middle of the Musalman part of the town just at the time when the Musalmans were losing their hold on this part of the country, I certainly cannot explain. Near the middle of the present town is a half-buried stone, which is believed to have been the boundary between the Hindu and the Musalman

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NOVEMBER, 1873.) PORTS SOUTH OF RATNAGIRI. 321 quarters. There can be no doubt which was has retained much more wealth and trade than the ruling power at the time this division was Khare pagan. But as a slight testimony to made, for while the Musalmans had the whole the former predominance of Musalmans in both of the fine site on the river-bank west of the these places, Professor Bhandarkar told me the stone, the Hindus were confined to the steep other day, as one of his early recollections, that and narrow valley in which the present town when he first left Malwa n as a boy he was stands. This stone is, of course, the residence struck on arriving at Kha repatan by finding of a bhat, as is also a large rock which stands the Musalmans making use of the same wells as out above the water close to the present land- the Hindus, which in most parts of the collecing-place, and which must have been a serious torate they are not allowed to do. inconvenience when Kharepatan had a From Kharepatan to the fort of Boura large trade. there is an easy road of about seven kos, and Among the many tombs on the hill-side there the ghat is an old one and easy for bullocks. are a few not otherwise distinguishable from Colonel Graham, as I have before mentioned, says the rest except by lying east and west, instead of that it was made by the Musalmans about 1600. north and south as the Musalman tombs do, and The fort of Bauri stands on a narrow ridge which from this fact and old tradition are said projecting out from the general line of the ghats, to cover the graves of Jews. And in the mid- but at a slightly lower level, and is an imposing dle of the present town there is a colony of object both from above and below. But, proCarnatic Jainas and a Jaina temple, the only one, bably from being easily commanded from above, I believe, in the Southern Konkan. In this it seems never to have been of nearly so much temple is a small idol of black marble, found in importance as Vis & lg adh, Pun Ala, &c. the bed of the river only three or four years It is said to have been built by Yusuf Adil ago. The absence of garments and the curly Shah, the first king of Bijapur, in A.D. 1489. hair are even to ordinary observers proof of its While he was building it, a venerable Musal. being a Jaina or Buddhist idol, and the deity is man, who gave himself the name of Gebi Pir, identified as Parsvanatha from the seven-headed visited him in a dream and claimed the site of snake which surrounds the head of the god like the fort as his own. The king therefore dea canopy. The proportions are peculiar, but dicated the Fort to the Pir, and built in it the carving is elaborate, and the image al. three tombs, for the Pir himself, his sister, and together in perfect preservation. her son, and over them erected the domed The fact of Jews and Jains having lived in building which still stands as the most promi. Kharepatan at a distant period would, nent feature of the fort. After Sivaji had once even without the evidence of the Musalman taken the fort and once lost it to the Musalruins, show that it was a much larger place than mans, he again took it and gave it to the first at present. The Musalmans, who are as poor as Pant Amatya. The latter believes that he most of their lace in this district, say that the owed victory on a certain occasion to the Pir, old city contained 18,000 houses, and, looking at and accordingly paid his devotions to the tomb the tombs and the extent of the ruins, there is no and endowed it with Rs. 350 a year. Since difficulty in believing this. Ferishtah mentions then all the Pants of Baura have paid divine that in 1471 the Portuguese landed and burnt honours to the Pir, and the common people; the towns of A dila bad a place I have never Hindu as well as Musalman, have followed heard of) and Cara patam, on the shores the example of their chiefs, and to this day of the Bijapur empire," and this is the only worship at his tomb on Thursdays. The fort reference to the place I have found. There was dismantled in 1845, and the then Pant is no doubt that the site of the old town is abandoned it as a residence, and built a new as superior to that of Rajapur as the har. town in a most delightful situation on the edge bour of Gheria is to J & itapur: but whether of the ghets overlooking the fort. From Bauthe fact is due to the Portuguese having burnt ra to Kolhapur the road is remarkably level the town, as mentioned above, or to some other and open. This route, then-by Gheria, Kha. forgotten accident, it is certain that Rajapar repatan, Baura, and Kolhapur-must * Briggs, Tr. vol. IV. p. 540.

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322 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. certainly have been one of the easiest ways of getting from the coast to Bijapur, and though perhaps not quite so short as that by Satavali, yet it was probably much more easily guarded, and safer for unprotected travellers. I can give no particulars of any old route to the south of this. Goa was always a muchcoveted port, but I have only seen the Fonda Ghat mentioned in connection with it, which is a long way north. I have no doubt, however, that any one having a better acquaintance than I possess with the district lying between Goa and the Ghats would be able to find traces of the Musalmans along some more direct route. I must end this by acknowledging that there are many points of interest regarding even the places I have written about which require further elucidation, as I have now only been able [NOVEMBER, 1873. to put into shape some rough notes made at different times. And I must particularly mention that the villages on the Bankot creek, about which I have said nothing, contain a larger and more prosperous Musalman popu. lation than any of the places I have mentioned. But I have never found any reference to any of these towns or villages in history previous to the time of the Marathas; and I am inclined to think that the Musalmans of this part (known in Bombay by the too general name of Konkani Musalmans), who differ so strongly from others of their religion in prysical appearance, in dress, and in some of their customs, must be descended from seafaring Arabs who settled on this coast, and not from the Musalman conquerors of India. I know no evidence, however, in favour of this theory, and must leave it as a mere hint to any one who may be able to investigate the subject properly. JAIN INSCRIPTIONS AT SRAVANA BELGOLA. BY LEWIS RICE, BANGALORE. (Continued from p. 266.) II. A long series of the rock inscriptions at Sravana Belgola, in the same old characters, consist of what may be termed epitaphs to Jain saints and ascetics, both male and female, or memorials of their emancipation from the body. Specimens are given below, with literal renderings and translations. It is painful to imagine the pangs of slow starvation by which these pitiable beings gave themselves up to death and put an end to their own existence, that by virtue of such extreme penance they might acquire merit for the life to come. The bitterest satirist of human delusions could hardly depict a scene of sterner irony than the naked summit of this bare rock dotted with emaciated devotees, both men and women, in silent torture awaiting the hour of self-imposed death, in haste to be quit of the human form, which yet from the opposite hill the gigantic granite image displayed in colossal proportions as that of the deity for whom they made such a sacrifice looking forth unmoved upon them with its impassive features. The irony is complete when we remember that avoidance of the destruction of life in whatever form is a fundamental doctrine of the sect. All the more striking must the picture have been from the absence of the surrounding buildings, which were most probably not erected at the time to which the inscriptions refer. The vow which these unhappy ascetics underwent appears to be known by the singular name. of sallekhanz. Regarding this penance a work called the Ratna Karandaka gives the following directions: Upasarge durbhikshe jarasi rujayam cha nishpratikkre Dharmaya tanuvimochanam ahuh sallekhanany aryah. II Antah kriyadhikaranam tapah phalam sakaladarsinastu gate, Tasmad yavadvibhavam samadhimarane prayatitavyam. II Sneham vairam sangam parigraham chapahaya suddhamanah, Svajanam parijanam apicha kshantva kshamayet priyair vachanaih. II Alochya sarvam inah kritakaritam anumatam cha nirvyajam, Aropayen maha vratam amaranasthayinih63sham. || Which may be freely translated as follows:When overtaken by portentous calamity, by

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JAIN INSCRIPTIONS AT SRAVANA BELGOLA. NOVEMBER, 1873.] famine, by old age, or by disease for which there is no cure, to obtain liberation from the body for the sake of merit the Aryas call sallekhana. He who is perfect in knowledge possesses the fruit of all penance, which is the source of power; therefore should one seek for death by the performance of some meritorious vow, so far as his means will permit. Having purified his mind by renunciation of friendship, hatred, ties and acquisitions; having forgiven his relations and dependants, and with kind words sought forgiveness from them; viewing with a strong mind impartially (or with indifference) all that he does, causes to be done, or desires; should a man enter upon the performance of a great vow, not to be completed save by his death. It goes on further to say :Aharam parihapya kramasah snigdham nivartayetvannam Snigdham cha varjayitva karapanam purayet kramasah || Karapanahapanam api kritva kritvopavasam api inkty Panchanamaskaramanas tanum tyajet sarvayatnena. || Jivitamaranasamsabhayamitrasmritividhanana - manah Sallek Fanaticharah pancha Jinendraih samuddishtah. I He should by degrees diminish his food, and take only rice seasoned with oil (or clarified butter). Then, giving up the oily seasoning, he should gradually reduce himself to only a handful of drink. Then, abandoning even the handful of liquid, he should, according to his strength, remain entirely fasting; and thus, with his mind intent upon the five kinds of reverence, should by every effort quit his body. Desire of life or of death, remembrance of fear or friendship, action, these five are transgressions of sallekhana-thus say the Jinendras. The inscriptions before us are in the oldest dialect of Kanarese. The expression mudippidar, with which most of them terminate, is one which seems peculiar to the Jains. Mudi occurs among the verbal roots of ancient Kanarese, and is explained by kesabandhane, to bind the hair, and nirvahane, to end. The latter word is derived from nirvah, to which Benfey gives the meanings "to extricate one I understand that this should be milk. + sabda Mani Darpanam, Kittel's edition, p. 311, No. 268. self, to pass away"-the first on the authority of Lassen. Mudippidar appears in these inscriptions to include all three ideas of ceasing, liberating oneself, and passing away. I have translated it by "expired," proceeding on the evident analogy between nirvihana and the Buddhist term nirvant, derived from nirva, to be extinguished. Amara explains the latter thus: nirvano muni vahny adau, which means blown out or gone out-applied either to a sage or to fire; extinct. 323 Mudi also becomes mudu, as in the following quotation from the section on Nompi, or religious Vows, in the Sruti Skandi :Tapascharanam geydu samadhi vidhiyim mudupi Achyuta kalpadol Achyutendranigirddam. I nompiyan ondu bhavadolu nontavar ananta sukhaman aiduvaru. Regarding the names of places mentioned in these inscriptions, reasons will be given in a future paper for supposing that Chittur and Kittur may be Chittor the capital of Mewar in Rajpuina. Before concluding, however, the question may well be asked whether the vow of sullekhana is ever now put into practice. On this point it is not easy to obtain information, but it is admitted to be resorted to in the case of persons whose death seems near. Their end is hastened by withholding nourishment, just as in other sects persons borne to the banks of the Ganges to die are sometimes suffocated with the holy soil. It may be doubted whether in any other circumstances the custom is enforced. But a Jain Brahman informed me that if he were committed to prison, for instance, he should feel himself under the necessity of performing this penance. TRANSLITERATION. II. Adeyarenada Chittura manni guravadigala sishittiyar Nagama Tigantiyar moru tingal nontu mudippidar. III. Svasti sri Jambu naygir tingal nontu mudippidar. IV. Sri Neduboreya hanada Bhataran nontu mudippidar. I See my edition of Amara Kos, Viseshya Nighna Varga, 96.

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324 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. V. Sri Kittura velmadada Dharmma Sena guravadigal asrippar Bala Deva guravadigal sanyasana nontu mudippidar. VI. Sri Malenura Pattini guravadigala sishyar Ugra Sena guravadigal ondu tingal sanyasana nontu mudippidar. VII. Sri Agaliya manni guravara sishya Kottarada Guna Sena guravar nontu mudippidar. VIII. Sri Perumada guravadigala sishya mantra kartta Kechi gura. . . . . dippidar. IX. Sri Utlakkal goravadigal nontu... dar. X. Sri Kalovi guravadigala sishyar Talekada peljediya hedeya kalapakada guravadigall ippattondu divasa sanyasana nontu mudippidar. XI. Sri Rishabha Sena guravadigala sishyar Naga Sena guravadigal sanyasana vidhi intu mudippidar,-Naga Senam anagham ganadhikam, Naga Nayaka jitari mandalam, Raja pujyam amala sriyachpadam, Kamadam hata madam namamyaham. XII. Sri Dimmadigal nontu kalam keydar. TRANSLATION. II. Nagama and Tiganti the (female) disciples of the gift-bestowing Silent guru of Chittur, having kept the vow three months, expired. III. May it be well! The fortunate lady Jambu, having kept the vow a month, expired. CHAPTER 14.-Learning. 1. The beauty of the hair, and the beauty of the encircling garment, and the beauty of saf [NOVEMBER, 1873. IV. The wealthy Bhatara (or chief) of Nedubore, having kept the vow, expired. V. Bali Deva guru, a dependant of the immacu late Dharmma Sena guru, of Kittur, having kept the vow of a sannyasi, expired. VI. Ugra Sena guru, the disciple of Pattini guru, of Malenir, having kept the vow of a sennyasi one month, expired. VII. Guna Sena guru, of Kottdri, the disciple of the Silent guru of Agali, having kept the vow, expired. VIII. Kechi guru, the performer of incantations, disciple of Perumala guru, expired. IX. The guru of Ulukkal, having kept the row, expired. X. The guru of Talekad, with the great mass of matted hair and a bunch of peacocks' feathers bound with a bowstring, the disciple of the guru of Kalovi, having kept the vow of a sannyasi twenty-one days, expired. XI. Naga Sena guru, the disciple of Rishabha Sena guru, thus expired, in the manner of a sunnyasi : To Naga Sena the sinless, possessor of the highest good qualities, To Naga Nayaka by whom the world of enemies hath been conquered, The worshipped of kings, the pure, the source of fortune, The giver of one's wishes, the destroyer of pride, do I bow myself in reverence. THE NALADIYAR. BY THE REV. F. J. LEEPER, TRANQUEBAR. (Continued from page 271.) XII. The fortunate Great One,+ having kept the vow, ended his days. fron is no beauty; the beauty of learning is (real) beauty, for it is decisive of our mental excellence. 2. Since learning even in this life Cf. Account of Jain Yatis, As. Res. IX. Art. iv. + Dimmidaru, ancient Kanarese for Brahmans or those who are considered great persons.

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NOVEMBER, 1873.] THE NALADIYAR. 325 will be beneficial, since when it is imparted to their body wasted. Even when trouble comes others it is not diminished, since it renders its upon him, will the lion devour the long grass ? 2. possessors illustrious, since they who have it Manliness, goodness, right conduct, these three kluring life suffer no loss, we see no medicine belong to those who are born in a sky-touching like it which destroys delusion. 3. Wise people family. But, o lord of the hill-country coverecl take the salt produced in a barren soil to be by the clouds which touch the sky! they fall more valuable than the rice of a fertile soil. not to the share of others, even though they Though they be of the lowest station, people have acquired great riches. 3. Rising from who have acquired learning will be put in the their seat and going to meet (a stranger), leay. chief place. 4. From the place in which it is ing others, these the high-born have assumed stored ap it cannot be stolen. It can suffer no | as their unflinching rule of conduct. It is not harm, though to that place fire should come. their nature to be reckoned one with the mean. 4. Though very glorious kings rage, they cannot | If he do good things, it is conformable to (his) acar it. Therefore wisdoin, and nothing else, is | nature; if bad, it will be a fanlt despicable in the what one who intends to lay up an inheritance eyes of many: and in this case what is the profit for his children should acquire. 5. Learn to him of being born in a family known to all ing has no bounds; the students' days are few. 5. (To those born in a good family) there is Would they calmly reflect, diseases are many. fear of ignorance, fear of doing the deeds of the Let them carefully investigate and make them- base, fear that anything which ought not to be selves acquainted with those things which are spoken may escape from them, fear of not giving essential, making a good choice like the swan, anything to those who beg for all. Brutish which drinks the milk and leaves the water. 6. are they who are born in a family destitute of They will not despise the boatman because he these graces. 6. Goodness of relatives, pleasant is at the lower end among the old castes. Lo, words, liberality, and every other good quality hy his assistance they pass tho river! And of the mind, all these, O lord of the cool shore like this is getting advantage through the of the roaring ocean, where the large gems and help of a man who has learned books. 7. Let pearls shed their lustre ! meet in those who are me see whether the joy of associating with those born in a good family. 7. Though the build who possess the qualities which are derived from ing be decayed, and the white ants have col. indestructible ancient learning, who are with- lected together, a large house may nevertheless out hatred and also yery acute, be not as sweet have a wing not fallen. So those who are born as dwelling in Amravuti, the city of the gods, in a high family, even when they suffer distress, in the wide expanse of heaven. 8. Lord of the will do the things they ought to do. 8. Like cool shore of the roaring ocean ! the friend the moon, which enlightens the beautiful wide ship of those who have acquired learning is like and extended earth on one side, though the sereating sugar-cane from the top (downwards). pent (athisesha) hold it in the other, those Attachment to those who are grareless and des who are born in a good family will not slacken titute of good qualities is like eating it froin in well-doing, though poverty be against them. the root (upwards), having rejected the top. 9. 9. The things which everi in poverty those will Though nnlearned, if they walk in the society do who are born in a high family, the valgar of the learned they will daily acquire good un- will not do, even though they be rich. The derstanding, as a new (earthen) vessel by con- deer, though it should be harnessed (for war), tact with the bright-coloured Padiri flower is not strong enough to fight like the charger. gives its scent) to the water itself. 10. If a 10. The high-born, even when they have not man learn ever so much, instead of studying the anything, will approach those who are in want, books of wisdom, the reading of worldly books and bo a prop when they totter. When the is all of the nature of mere noise: there are broad river (bed) is dug up, though it be dry, none who can discover from them the way to rid yet clear water will soon appear. themselves of sorrow. CHAPTER 16.-The Good. CHAPTER 15.-High Birth. 1. The moon, which sheds its beams abroad 1. A noble family will not decrease in (good) over the beautiful and wide-spread sky, and qualities, even when their clothes are torn and the good, are like each other. But the moon

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NOVEMBER, 1873.) THE NALADIYAR. 327 to right conduct, commit, associating in the. CHAPTER 19.-Greatness. time of ignorance with those who know the way 1. It is no longer in our power to give alms. of virtue, vanish as the dewdrops do from the Youth for ever has filed away. Those damsels blades of grass as soon as the sun has become who before loved us care no more for us; (therehot. 2. Know ye the way of virtue. Fear ye fore,) no longer desiring (to continue in the death. Bear with the harsh words of others. domostie state, and renouncing the arbitrary Restrain deceitfulness. Hate ye the friendship desire of becoming great, this is now the one of the wicked. Ever obtain instruction at the thing needful. 2. In the household state we mouth of the great. 3. Since separations have enjoyed pleasure, here we are rich. Fools from friends, grievous disease, and death are so thinking, will behave inconsiderately. Those close at hand to all who possess a body, let who understand the household state, that it, my soul unite with the truly learned, who though seeming to last, lasts not, will never are convinced that the metempsychosis, which have sorrow. 3. Lay up seed for heaven commenced ages ago, is a great evil. 4. If without delusion of mind; and, void of all disone can obtain the privilege of living always tress, enjoy life like the wise, maintaining with men of good disposition in friendship, your proper station, remembering always that who constantly perform acts of virtue through there are various things that change their 1 succession of births, though that succession nature without efficient cause. 4. They say is affliction, no one will despise it when they that in the time of drought the well of springhave considered the matter. 5. The water water will preserve the inhabitants, though that runs from the sink when it reaches great by drawing its water they subsist. So the waters will become a Tirtha, even its name duty of liberality is found with the great, even being changed. Thinking of this, even those when in declining circumstances; with others, who have not family greatness will stand as a even when they are rich, it is rare. 5. As rock associating with the good, who have virtue the river which springs up in the place where and greatness. 6. Even the hare in the wide, they dug for a spring, even when it is dry, beauteous, and sublime heavens, since it is seen yielding much water supports the people, in the moon with refulgent beams, will be the great) even when exhausted and wasted adored (by men). And in like manner even by giving of their riches to many, will do those who are without any dignity of their the things they ought to do, giving to a few. own), if they obtain the love of the good, who 6. O lord of the mighty mountains! a crime are as mountains of virtue, will have dignity. committed by the worthy will appear like a 7. Water when mixed with milk will become brand-mark on a white ox. Though the base milk, not remaining water. Will it exhibit the commit sins as heinous us that of killing an ox, appearance of water? In like manner, if you no blot will appear upon those base ones, their consider it, the meanness of the mean when guilt will be wholly invisible (being wholly united with the dignity of the excellent will ut- guilt, and nothing else). 7. Connexion with terly vanish. 8. The grass near the stump of those who are destitute of a disposition fitted the tree will not shake with the plough of the to their mean condition, as far as it extends, will ploughman. Feeble though they be, the anger produce sorrow; while even enmity on the part of enemies will not come on those who have joined of the excellent wise, who will not do what is the society of the good. 9. Like paddy multi- wrong even in sport, will bring with it greatness. plied through the goodness of the soil, persons 8. Desire ye that honour should accrue to the will become good through the goodness of their good and merciful in disposition; alarm your respective families. Like the destruction of a enemies with terror, enough to alarm Yama good ship on the approach of a strong gale, himself. Decide then who endeavour to degoodness will be destroyed by bad company. ceive you, and render unto the good their just 10. Though innocent in intention, persons will measure of beneficenoe. 9. Those who are imbe despised on account of the (bad) company they perturbable and without any change of mind, have joined. In the forest both the scent-giving even though they be confused by any one sandal and the tenk tree will be burned when the hastening and uttering evil calumny, are truly brushwood, which has been cut, has caught fire. pure-minded, like the bright light in & lamp.

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328 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. 10. The excellent expend the food first prepared in charity (or a first portion of food), and eat what food is left. That food will deliver the eater from these three crimes-lust, anger, and delusion, and will serve him in all his afflictions even to the end. CHAPTER 20.-Perseverance. 1. Let those branches of a family who subsist on what their relations give them, like the rice-plants nourished beneath the bank of a tank which holds but little water, perish. Is want known by those persevering people who (constantly) change their position, like the eye of the juggler watching the motion of the sword? 2. Even that which stood a trembling stick by the wayside, when it has acquired strength, may become fit for a post to tie an elephant to. Lite also is similar to this if a man free himself from a base nature. 3. The strong tiger, if it be without prey for a single day, will even catch a small frog and eat it. Do not despise small things; even great matters will become greater by exertion. 4. O lord of the cool shore of the breakwaters, where the waves dash against the calderia bushes! though a person think within himself that the matter will not succeed, yet, if he still go on with it, and unswervingly labour, this is perseverance. When all things around them are prosperous, will not even women succeed in their undertakings? 5. There is nei ther limit nor use in talking thus, He is of low caste, and, He is of good caste. Good caste is constituted by those things alone, viz. ancient, glorious, and resplendent wealth; penance; learning and perseverance. 6. The wise, who know their own ability (to complete a work), until it is completed keep their knowledge to themselves, and speak not of it to others. The world lies at the beck of those men, illustrious in wisdom, who can ascertain by the expres sion (of their faces) the ability of others. 7. The hanging root supports the banyan-tree like a son, when it is eaten away by white ants. Even so if imbecility appear in the father, it will not be apparent when the son he begat conceals it. 8. Though they should die meanly, not having anything in their house, will they do things fitted to bring down disgrace upon their own heads who have the strength of the lion possessed of powerful paw and sharp claws, which make sore the livid face of the elephant ? 9. The hair-like, round-stalked flower pro [NOVEMBER, 1873. duced by the sugar-cane is destitute of sweet honey and fragrant odour. Even so, what will be the good of being born in a high and lofty family, if there be no manly courage to carve out for one's self a name? 10. The base will eat the curry and boiled rice given with much pleasure by the great and rich. Even water procured by the earnest perseverance of those who do not know the name of curry will be as ambrosia. CHAPTER 21.-The union of relations. 1. As a mother forgets the pain and trouble she suffered during pregnancy and childbirth when she sees her infant in her lap, so the distress a man suffers from poverty and other misfortune disappears when he sees his relatives inquiring for him. 2. Supporting his relatives without partiality (like a tree which gives shade to all those who approach it at the time when the hot season is nigh), taking pains himself that many may eat the fruit of these exertions, is like a tree whose fruit is ripe. So to live is the duty of a good man. 3. Lord of the piled-up hills! the great will not say of their relatives, We cannot bear them. Though very many large unripe fruits be produced (upon a tree) very closely, there is not one branch which does not bear its (share of the) fruit. 4. Though they contract very close friendship in the sight of the world, yet the friendship of the base will not endure; (while) the amity of the stableminded will be as enduring as the perseverance of the unswerving great, (which endures) till they have realized their hopes of heaven. 5. Those who, making no distinctions between persons and conditions, relatives and strangers, actuated by their natural feelings alone, seek all who are in poverty or affliction and relieve their distress, will be regarded by every one as preeminently worthy. 6. It is sweeter to take a heap of grass-seed without salt, and in any kind of dish, in the house of a relative dear as life, than to eat on a golden dish rice white as the tiger's claws, and mixed with sugar and milk from the hands of an enemy. 7. The desirable fried curry of politeness, though had at due time in the house of those who are not one's friends, will be (bitter) as margosa-seed. Hear. A curry of vegetables, though served up at sunset, by those who are relatives, is pleasant. 8. Even those who have been pleasantly entertained by another as frequently as a hammer strikes the

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NOVEMBER, 1873.) THE NALADIYAR. 329 . anvil, will forsake him, just as the tongs leave the iron in the forge ; but those who are truly worthy of being called friends will adhere to him in distress, as the rod by which it is turned adheres to the metal in the furnace. 9. O thou who art adorned by a cool and fragrant garland! when relations have partaken of the prosperity of their relatives, if they partake not also of their adversity until death, is there anything they can do for them in the other world? 10. Delicious curry (yellow as the cat's eye), when eaten alone in the house of those who love us not, will be as the margosa. When living in the house of those who are like us and love us, cold water and grass-seed will be as nectar. CHAPTER 22.-The choice of friends. 1. Friendship with the wise, whose intelligence divines our thoughts, is like eating a sugarcane from the top (as its sweetness increases more and more); connexion with persons without sweetness of disposition is like eating it from the opposite end (the flavour decreasing by degrees). 2. Some accept (the highborn as friends) merely on the ground that such, remembering their high birth, will not act inconsistently--not, O lord of the fair hills, from which the birds flee on the approach of the gold-coloured torrent! because the minds of such are known. 3. Avoiding the friendship of those who resemble elephants, reek the friendship of those who resemble dogs; for an elephant will kill his driver whom ho has known for a long time, but a dog will wag his tail while the spear thrown at him is still in his body. 4. Men cleave not to those to whom their hearts cleave not, within a short space of time; but will the friendship which cherishes the memory of those who are intertwined with one's heart be abandoned, though they are absent from us for a long time? 5. When affection continues affection, then is friendship preserved, like the flower on the stalk, which, being full-blown, closes not again. Those who resemble the lotus, which, having once blown, closes again its petals, know neither affection nor friendship. 6. Those who are at the bottom in the scale of) friendship are like the areca-tree; those others who are in the middle are like the cocoanut-tree. The friendship of those who have experience of the past is like the palmyra-tree, (whose uses are) difficult to reckon. Such are at the top (in the scale). 7. Even vegetable curry served in the water that rice has been boiled in will be as nectar if a man accept it kindly. To eat the abundance of the unfriendly, though it be white rice flavoured with meat and rich seasoning, is (to eat) the kanjiru-fruit. 8. Though they adhere to one in friendship as closely as the small toes of a dog to one another, yet of what benefit is the love of those who do not help one even to the extent of the leg of a fly? Therefore, though the friendship of those who, like the channel which fructifies the rice-field, be ever so far away, we must nevertheless go to obtain it. 9. It is better to be without the love of those who are without sincerity. Death is preferable to an incurable disease. To kill him at once is more desirable than to vex a man so that he becomes sore at heart, and to abuse is better than to prajse one for that which we do not possess. 10. To join oneself to many, and strive many days and examine dispositions, and take (for friends) those who are worthy, is proper. Even with a deadly serpent, to associate and afterwards to part from it will be painful. CHAPTER 23.-The bearing with the faults of others. When those we love greatly, and esteem as virtuous, prove otherwise, this ought carefully to be concealed, for rice in the grain has a husk, water, foam, and flowers some ungeemly leaves. 2. Though it burst the bank whenever they would stop it, they will not be angry with good water. Those who live desiring good water will repeatedly draw it up. Men will not be angry, but be patient concerning the friendship of those whom they themselves have courted, though these persons act towards them with constant hute. 3. Though they do evil exceedingly, is it rot fitting to be patient with one's friend? lord of the lofty hills where the beautiful winged insects hum over the variegated konju-flowers! the forbearance of one is the friendship of both. 4. O lord of the waveresounding shore where bright-rayed pearls are thrown ap by the rolling billows, and where float swift-sailing ships! if friends, from whom it is difficult to separate, possess not virtuous dispositions, they are as a fire kindled to burn our hearts. 5. Even though they do what is disagreeable, one should preserve as gold those who ought not to be forsaken. Daily do men soek for fire and keep it in their house, though it has consumed both their good house and gold. 6. Is it right atterly to abandon friends, who ought

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NOVEMBER, 1873.) DERI PHRASES AND DIALOGUES. 331 from their privileges, very many of them have eyes ? 2. Would you know why affliction and perished. A happy new birth depends upon a loss of dignity befall those who know the benefits person's virtuous conduct. 4. Though the fruit of knowledge derived from many books? It is of the plantain be ripened in the bitter season this: when Sarasvati, of ancient renown, takes of the margosa, it will not lose its sweetness. up her abode with them, Lakshmi, being coy, Thus, although those who are naturally good, will flee away. 3. He that receives not, but associate with the bad, their friendship with despises as mere talk the command of his father them will not corrupt their minds. 5. Sweet to study, on a letter being gently held out to water may be produced even on the brink of the him in the presence of many, calls out to the BCB-shore, and salt water on the side of a moun- person who presented it and seizes the rod of tain. O lord of the cool shore washed by the offence. 4. If one who has grown up in ignowaves of the ocean! it is truly said that sensi. rance enter the assembly of the excellent in ble men will not imitate those with whom they learning, in the earth, and sits down, it will be consort, but will preserve their own minds. 6. O like the sitting down of a dog; and though, not lord of the cool shore of the ocean where the remaining quiet, he should say anything, it will thick-boughed punnei-trees flourish! will those be like the barking of a dog. 5. The vulgar will who are virtuons and impartial towards all, first repair to the learned and speak of what they contract and then dissolve friendship ? (Sooner) know nothing of; the good, though asked of all than this, it is better that friendship should never they know, display it not, knowing that it be contracted. 7. To be united in friendship with will be thrown away. 6. Those whose tongues the prudent, who think of that of which they are adorned with learning and knowledge fear ought to think, is productive of the highest feli- the disgrace of evil speaking. The unwise indulge city, and affliction is avoided by separating from therein. Thus on the palm-tree the dry leaves fools, who know not what belongs to friendship. maintain a perpetual rustling, whilst the green 8. Whether an individual establish himself in leaves make no noise. 7. When speaking of a good situation, or whether, spoiling that condi. the way of virtue to those who comprehend not tion, he debase himself, or whether he exalt what is good, it is like pressing the sweet mango himself to a much higher condition, or whether into a bowl of hogwash. Like a stick driven he make himself superior to all, he does so en- against a rock, -the point is broken, it will not tirely by his own exertions. 9. In the way of enter in at the ear. 8. Though they wash it business, even for the great to follow after the with milk and put it to dry many days, charcoal ignorant is not folly, but wisdom, 0 nobly-born has not the property of becoming white. Though king of the cool shore resounding with ocean- they strike with a stick, and thrust too, underwaves! 10. Having undertaken a profitable i standing will not enter into the body void of business, having experienced enjoyment, having ! virtue. 9. Like the fly, which battens on filth, performed acts of charity to the excellent, if any instead of feasting on the sweet-smelling and one in any one birth is able to do all this, such a (honey) dropping flower, so to those whose consummation may well be compared to a mer minds are inherently base, what pleasure is there chant-ship that has reached her port. in words that come from the mouth of the CHAPTER 26.-The want of understanding. worthy, though clean and sweet as honey? 10. 1. Poverty consists in the being destitute of The acute and faultless instruction uttered by accurate learning. Great wealth, which has been the wise, strikes on the mind of the mean withaccumulated by acquisition, consists in the pos- out laying hold of it. A mean man will look session of that learning. Will not the herma- on the face of one like himself, and with him phrodite, who is destitute of manliness, adorn it- hold converse. Belf with every jewel which is desirable in its (To be continued.) DERI PHRASES AND DIALOGUES. BY E. REHATSEK, M.C.E. The Zoroastrians who arrive in Bombay from peculiar dialect which is never written. Some Yezd and some other districts of Persia speak a people think it a language by itself, but nobody

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332 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [NOVEMBER, 1873. has hitherto taken the trouble to make a collec- | White, black, red, and green colours, Swi, siol, tion of phrases; this has now been done, and it sr wa pestai reng. will appear that this so-called language is a Degrees of Comparison. mere gibberish, the chief component of which is Rustam is taller than Jamshid, Rustum master (or Persian uttered in a peculiar way. As Deri is blendter) Jemebir om. spoken only by Zoroastrians, it may reasonably My brother is better to-day, Bruzeri me, entru be presumed that it very often serves to pre- water on. vent Muhammadan Persians from understand- Solomon was the wisest of men, Solemon dunutere ing them, just as in some parts of Europe some odemhu bo. Jews still use a peculiar German gibberish intel- This is a very fine day. Emru khaili khib ruji on. medy Moruje kchaili khib on. ligible to themselves alone, which may have He was more polite to-day than yesterday, In emru been more useful in old times of persecution, orumtere heze bo. but now serves only to disguise paltry com- He is prettier than his sister, In juvuntere khamercial transactions. herosh ha. After all, however, the Deri is not an arti Verbs. ficial language. All the words are taken in I am me he We are mo him. their natural sense, not as in the Argot or thief. Thou art toe he You are shmo he. language of Paris, where they obtain different He is in ha They are ishun hen. meanings; and the change of certain Persian I was me boe We were mu boim. consonants and vowels takes place, as philo Thou wast tau boe You were shmo boit. logists will observe, according to well-fixed He was in bo They were ishin boen. I shall be me be We shall be moe bim. phonetic laws. Thou wilt be toa be Ye will be shmoe bit. The orthography here followed is that recom He will be ine bu They will be ishun ben. mended by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, i.e I teach me zemete We teach mu zemetim. the letters have always the same value, e.g.g= Thou teachest toa zemete You teach shmo zem etit Ti=, &c. The total absence of the letter f, He teaches ine zemete They teach ishn zemeten as in some Indian languages, may also be noticed. I am very glad. Me khaili khashul he. Nouns. They are lazy. Ishun kahel hen. The servant of a merchant, Nukeri tojer. Thou art the man. To o odeme he. An hour too soon, Ga sat khaili zi. Is she handsome Oyanoge khibeiret on ? I am the man, Me odeme. He is my brother. In bzuzere me hon. The son of the king. I was sick. Me khasta bohe. Pore futsho. A son of a king, s We are rich. Mu aldidur him. A horse and an 888, Asp o her. We were not present. Mo huzer ne bohim. A husband and wife, Mira wa runa. You are poor. Shmu gripi (or nuchri). The child and the father, Watcha u pezer. You were dumb. Shmu gong boi. He will not eat. In nahra. Possessive Case of Nouns. We shall be sleepy. Mo harmollo bim. My brother's book, Daftari bzuzerem. You will be tired. Shmo muna bi. His father's horse, Aspi pezerosh. They will be awake. Ishun bizor e ben. The light of the sun, Rushnohi horshir. I shall be here again this evening. Me emru pasin One of the gentleman's daughters, Yaki dote do bore mone be. merde hib. This was my father, mother, and uncle's advice, Present Tense. Moe nasiete pezerom, mozerom o khulum bo. I love good children, Me vatzugun khib, me pasend ha. Adjectives and Nouns. Thou lovest fine horses, To aspe khit he pasend ha, A happy man, Merde khashul. He loves his father, In pezere kho pasend dora. The blue sky, Osmone oemoni. We love him, Mo in dusde dorim. The man is happy, Merdoge khashul on. You love her, Shumo yanoge duste dorit. It is a sad occurrence, Mokure delgiri on. They love their books, Ishun dapter sho pasend The meeting was large, One khaili adem jem buen. doren. It has been a rainy day, Oruje worumi bo. He walks out every morning, In har ni sobi bare That man is lame, udeme shal on. shre. It was a blind woman, Oyanoge kur bo. | Birds fly through the air, Parenda tu hovo paren.

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NOVEMBER, 1873.) DERI PHRASES AND DIALOGUES. 333 They are always talking, Ishun hemisha gape kuzne This is some of the finest fruit I have ever She is playing with her sister, Yanoge hare kha seen, Moe mivae klibter on le me eshbur me ne heresh bozi. dizu. Before he comes I shall have finished my dinner, This is the longest way, Moe rae druster on. Pish az in geto me chome nim ru yu ehre. That is the nearest road to our house, Tuleze mo When you come, shut the door, Her vaht geta to mora i nazikter on. he bare pishko. To have. They are looking at the ship, Ishren trape joz I havo pens, ink, and paper, Me klem, morakabo, e vinen. kogez dore. Do you expect him ? Shumo omide in hi? He has a good pen-knife, In chigo klemtrushi khili Imperfect Tense. dora. You had many friends, Sluno khaili dust dusiti. I was walking when I met him, Vahti ke me in They had many enemies, Ishun Ichaili dosiuman omdi me durte ra repte. doshten Was he sitting on the chair P In ri khorsi nasht abo? He had this disease yesterday, In heze khasta bo. He was working at that time, In o vahte dort kor I shall have dinner to-day at four o'clock, Me emru sheka. sati chor chome klore. She finished her tale yesterday, Yanoge heze mate They shall have their reward, Ishrun enhum sho losh shetvunka (Woman yesterday tale her guren. finished). He shall not have my bread, In nine mesh narese. Were you not standing at the door P Smo pishe She shall not have my book, In yanoge daftari me * bare ne hishtuza bohi ? shnate. For how much did you sell your horse P Shmo asp | We may have rain to-day, Emru worom we wore. do, do chen herat ? Let me have my own knife, Chago me mati. They drove the boy away, Ishun o porogesho, bar ka, Let her have her desire, Vei kholicshesh vekra. They saw not his sorrow, Ishun dilgiri in sho, nadi. Have patience, Savr ko. I did not expect such a reply, Me Omidi mose Have you any flowers P Slimo echi gul dori. juvopi nabvoe. I shall have some to-morrow, Me herdo chenini Did you sing P } Shmo dokhen. ture. You did sing. Have they money P Ishun aldi duren ? Why did you shout for aid ? Chera bru maded shm6 They have none, Ishun echi na duren. voch do durt. He is the silliest boy I ever saw, In watche napa Dialogue I. mion geme eshbor me ne didah. Good morning, Sir! Sabo kheire Soheb ! The house is very high, Keza khaili blend on. I hope you are well, Omide ma ke shmo khib hi. It is better to be poor and happy than to be rich Very well, I thank you, Khaili khib on, merabuni and miserable, Garit beo khoshulle water on bo. ge aldirula (aldidor) be o no khosh be. I hope all the members of your family are in good Of all jewels the diamond is the most precious, health, Omid dore ke heme odame wabilado Almos geruntere hema javoheri on. tendrest hen. He is the eldest brother, In bzuzere master on. I am glad to say they are quite well, Me khashule She is the youngest sister, In khahere kaster on. I ke veveje ke hemashu lehib hen. I came later to-day, Me emru dirter oma he. Do you think it will rain P Shmo pami ge wbrumme The wind is much stronger to-day than it was tu ? Shmo khiuldo rasa ke worum me tu. yesterday, Emru woz haili xur weshtere here I do not think it will rain, Me khiul merasa ke dora. worumma no te. Lead is heavier than iron, Kloi sengintere ohen on. The weather has been very hot the last two weeks, This is the highest mountain of this country, Mo Mo do haptai ke sho hovo khaili garm bo. koi mastere mo die hon. Farewell! Khodufez shmo. It is nobler to forgive an injury than to revenge it, Good evening! How do you do P Rushku yaka ! Asset vebakhshi water on ke dushmanoi vekre. Khib o khash hi? My horse runs faster than yours, Aspi me shakhtere As usual, Rave hemisheh. aspe to dosa. How is your brother P Bzuzerdo che tour on? He is the politest gentleman I ever met with, Maso He is not very well, In pori khib ne. odeme najibio khibi me isbur ne disa. Give him my compliments, Dwoslume me ushveYou have come sooner than I expected, Slmo ueter rannen. omede me ome hi. Thank you, Merabuni bo.

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334 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [NOVEMBER, 1873. Dialogue II. It is time to go to bed ......... Vakhti khar mon. At what time do you go to bed ? ...................... Che vakht shmo khofti ? At ten o'clock............ Sati de. Do you keep a light burning all night P ............ Shmo tokoshaw chro sujni? No; I keep a box of matches ready at hand......... Na; me yaki sandikhe kepriti handi theyyur goshek. It is time for breakfast.................................... Vaknte nuanto non. Everything is ready ........... Hemachima tayyur on. Will you take a boiled egg P ........................... Sho khoe pakha tri ? Do you sell good knives and spoons P ............... Shmo kurto kapche khib harushi. What do you charge per dozen? ........................ Dwozatoi chene harrishi ? Only ten rupees; the price is very moderate, Sir. Dah Rupia; Soheb kimatush hesibi on. You astonish me; that is very dear Shmo me ajabe krit, moe khaili grun on. Can you tell me of a good shoemaker P............... Ish do chmosh duxe khibe zoni? The best shoemaker in the town is my next neigh. Chmosh duze khibtere mo shere hem soye me hon. bour. Dialogue III. At what o'clock do you dine P .......................... Sati chen chome khri ? My dinner-hour is four o'clock .............. ......... Chom kharte me sati chor on. Our dinner will soon be on the table ................. Monne chame mu ri abpra to. Stop and take dinner with us .................... Veiste o hemre mu chom wekha. You are very kind; I accept your invitation ...... Shmo khaili merebun hit; me tlabuzadut kabile kre. How long have you been in Bombay P ................ Shmo che keder wakhte Bemboy bohi? Not more than three years ......... Weshtere se sol na. Do you intend to remain here? ................. Shmo mazune duri ge mone bit (or veshti). No, I mean to go to London ..... Na, me mao ke London she (or veshe). I have heard much about that town; it is the Me bru o share khaili me pamuza ; 06 to donio maslargest in the world. tere heme on. Has England an extensive commerce P .............. England khaili kherid of prukht dora ? What is the chief export of England P England weshteri chechi bare niva ? Cutlery, glass, cloth, books, cabinet-work, jewel- Chago, oinakor (or shisha), rokht, depturo, nakhoi lery, watches, and other fine goods. Toure konda, javoer, satho, o bai chomho pokiza. Dialogue IV. Are you learning English ? ......... Shmo Engrizi zemeguri? I am learning it ....... Me zemegure. I am glad you are learning it, because it will be Me khashul he ge shmo zemegurit, cherake o khaili very useful to you. do Koretu. Is the English language difficult P.................. Zvune Engrizi japu on? In the beginning it is very difficult, but if a person Avvel o khaili japon, ama age udemi har ru studies diligently every day, he can soon learn it. sepebud ove khina, in huli zem shegrept. As the Government of this country is English, Ravige putahate mo vlate Engris on, harki ge shavut every person who wishes to obtain service under ge shave dasht sho nukeri vekra, mo wune shviit, ought to learn this language. 6hen. There are also many books written in the English Khaili daptaro ma vzune (or yvune) Engrisi neshta language on all kinds of sciences. hon, bobete hema elme. It is my intention to make a voyage to England, Me kheyul dure ge England she, cherake hema in order to see all the wonders of that country. &joebi o molle vevine. Dialogue V. Can you tell me if there is any ship going to Lon- Shmo khaber duri ge eshto jose Londone shut ? don There are several in the harbour which will set Khali to benderga hen, ke holi rave ken. sail soon. Have you money enough to pay your passage P... Shmb mokeder aldi durit ke nogl (or nur) atit? I think I have....... Me khiul merese ge dore.

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NOVEMBER 1873.] KARI DASTUR IN JESHT PURNIMA. 335 Che keder vakht Vilaete minit? Oe mukerer na ha. Age khibo mon, o nukeri khib megireto, chen suli emine. Me khiul merese go odeme joeli ge rapikh nadure, o kemok aldi dura molke gripi shu, mushkel on. How long will you remain in England P That is not certain. If I am pleased and can ob- tain good service I may remain several years. I think it is very dangerous for a young man who has no friends and little money, to go to a foreign country. That may be true enough, but my desire to see the world is so strong that I am ready to suffer almost anything to satisfy it. I admire. your boldness, and wish you a happy toyage. These phrases and dialogues, short though they are, will be quite sufficient to dispel any supposition that there is much analogy between the Deri and the Zand, and it would scarcely be wurth while to give more than is here offered. According to Dr. Pietraszewski, there appear, however, to be dialects in Persia which still bear some relation to the Zand, as he states in the Preface to his Zand Grammar :-"During my travels in Persia as first dragoman of the Prus. sian Embassy I have been convinced that this language is not a dead ove. If we lend an attentive ear to the various dialects in which the country abounds to this day, we find some, so to say, still breathing the pronunciation of Zand words. I have felt this venerable breath of the 0e khaili rust on, amo me okkeder dele donyu dizen dure, ge me tayure ge hema muskoli khagure bru oe. Me az dilduri shm6 ajab he, o mosafri do (or shmb) slumet bit. remotest antiquity principally in the forms of the Turcoman language spoken in the vicinity of the town of Roomya, where the tomb of Zoroaster is still shown, and extending as far as the town of Bayezyd, on the frontiers of Russia. This language is not dead, I say; for the priests of the nomadic people called Lashy Leshy, inhabiting the inaccessible mountains from Ekbatana, the present Hamadan, as far as Isfaban, Sheraz, and further to the west, still preserve in their sacred rites the traces of this tongue amidst the Persian jargon of their flock. After having spent a month with them at Abaday, a village situated between Isfahan and Sheraz-where I was obliged to sojourn on account of sicknessI could no longer doubt of the fact."* KARI DASTUR IN JESHT PURNIMA. BY CAPT. E. W. WEST, SAVANTVADI. In his interesting account oi the life of Basava, practice, which in like manner led to an affray begiven in the Journal of the Bombay Br. R. Asiatic tween the followers of two rival chiefs. Society (No. XXIV.), Mr. Wurth alludes incidentally Q.-"What is the Kari Dastur in Jesht Purto a mode of divining how the crops will turn out, nima ? which he says is practised by the agricultural 4.-"On the 14th, the day before tho Parnima, classes thoughout the Dakhan. Some time ago, all the bullocks of the village are bathed, after when reading over the depositions recorded in the which they are taken to the houses of their own matter of an affray between the inhabitants of two ers, where puja is performed. Then follows the villages under different chiefs which took place in honhuggi, which is as follows:-A hun is placed 1826, I found a full account of the ceremonies at the foot of the bullocks, javdri and dhal are observed on this occasion in the Navilgund (Naul- boiled together, to which oil and salt are added. gund) district, near Dharwad, which I here tran- This huggi is given to the animals to eat. On scribe for the benefit of the readers of the Indian the Parnima dayt the horns of all the buliocks Antiquary. It would be interesting to ascertain in are coloured with a kind of red earth (hurmunj), what districts this custom obtains. I remember then the kodabali (cakes made of flour) are put on when in the Maht Kartha hearing of a similar the horns. Bells are tied round their necks, and Epitome of Zand Grammar. B. J. Pietruszowski, Doc. poured into a gotta, a vessel made of a joint of a large tor of Philosophy, &c. Translated from the French by E. bamboo, some turmeric and salt is added, and this drink Rehataek, 1862. Bombay Daftar Ashkara Press. is given to the bullocks. After this another potion is [t Mr. Ziegler, of Hubli, in a communication he has sent made of kusubi (safflower) oil, one or two raw egge, and us, adds a second puja. "On the Purnima day," he writes, a little turmeric, and administered to the bullocks by "the bullocks are bathed again, then taken to the houses means of the gotta, whereupon the tongue of the bullocks of their owners, where a second puja takes place in the is rubbed with salt to clean it."-ED.] following manner :-Bome ambila (sour buttermilk) is

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336 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. then the kari toran takes place, as follows: Two bamboos, the height of three men, are fixed at some distance from each other in front of the most ancient gate of the old peta near the Kasbd chauri, to which a rope is tied across, and leaves of the kadu and nim, cakes of dried cowdung, cobari, dried dates and cocoanuts, are suspended therefrom by the Dheds of the village. This is called the kari turan. About P. M. the Patil, Kulkarni, and all the principal inhabitants walk in procession, preceded by music, to the Desai's house, and select one red and one grey bullock. They are taken to some distance from the placo where the kari is, and brought thence to the kari toran. One man holds cach bullock. Each has a small piece of steel tied to some twine, which he throws against the kari toran to break it. The man who breaks tho charm is taken to the Sarkar chauri, where he re MISCELLANEA. THE GAROS. The most interesting information with which we have yet met regarding the Garo tribes, among whom a punitive expedition is still at work, is to be found in the second Report of the American Baptist Mission there, issued by the Rev. I. J. Stoddard. The Garo Hills are in the south-west corner of Asam, the valleys of Asam and Maimensing bound ing them on the north-west and south, the Khasia Hills lying east, with the Brahmaputra on the north and west. [NOVEMBER 1873. ceives a pagdi and some other present. After this the two bullocks are taken, preceded by music, to the Desai's house. If the man in charge of the grey bullock break the charm, it is said that the white jaudri will yield abundantly: if the man in charge of the red bullock does it, then the mungari javari crop. Before the Desai's bullocks are brought out in this manner, all the villagers take their bullocks outside the kari and exercise them till the evening. Should any of them escape, from fear or any other cause, and enter the boundary of any village not within the taluka to which it belongs, the rayats of the village to which it belongs pursue it closely; but should they not succeed in catching it, and the rayats of another village take it, the latter do not restore it, and there is no longer any kari ceremony in the village if the bullock is not caught." They build large and substantial houses on piles. The bamboo floor is from four to ten feet from the ground. The houses are from fifteen to twenty-five feet wide, and from fifty to one hundred and fifty feet long. These are covered with grass and enclosed with a firm bamboo wall. In one corner a small room is enclosed as a bedroom for the parents and girls. The remaining portion of the house is one long hall. Here they cook and eat, and store their year's supply of rice and fish. Here we find their farming utensils, their spears and swords, and everything that is valuable to them. Every village has its "Bachelors' Hall," a building sufficiently large to lodge all the unmarried men and boys of the place. Only the daughters stop at home at night with their parents. As compared with the people of the plains, the Garos have a high sense of honour. They do not lie, they do not steal. They leave their houses open and unprotected all day, while they are far away on the hills at work. They expect to find everything on their return as they left it. They are not often mistaken. Adultery is punished with death. The unmarried guilty of immoralities must marry, or be held as outcasts from village and friends. At the proper age the young people fall in love, court and marry, very much like sensible civilized folks. The young man in love can propose direct or through his father. The young woman in love has also the privilege of making known her feelings through the medium of a near relative. In the case where the proposal comes from the young woman the young man is not at liberty to refuse! The bride always brings her husband to her father's house. The favourite daughter (she may or may not be the eldest) inherits the estate personal and real, and takes care of her parents in their old age. The other married daughters with their husbands usually live at home for a time, all sharing the common labours and profits. Finally they must strike out and shift for themselves. In no case is a son allowed to bring home a wife and live with his parents. In the event of the death of a husband or wife, the surviving party cannot make a second choice. His or her friends must choose the second com panion. This is not always easily done. Those of the proper age and lineage cannot be found. Hence in this second marriage we frequently meet with the widower of fifty years with his young wife of ten years, and the widow of forty with her young husband of eight years! In these domestic arrangements the Garo customs seem as unalterable as the laws of the Medes and Persins. The Garos burn their dead. A few ashes are

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NOVEMBER, 1873.] MISCELLANEA. 337 saved as a memento. They sometimes mourn long for the departed, especially for the wife. I know the headman of a village who mourned three years the death of his wife. He could not work. He feasted his friends and neighbours for consolation. Thus he continued till his property was expended. Nearly all the village turn out and assist at funerals. The young men cut and bring wood for the pile. This is built near the house, and the dead placed upon it at sundown. The elder men and women collect the native-made rum from the vil lage, and make more if necessary. Early in the afternoon all begin to drink. The bereaved are brought uuder the influence of liquor As soon as possible, to drown their sorrows. At dusk the fire is kindled. Now men, women, and children drink until all are drunken! They have no knowledge of the Maker of all things-not even a name for God. They have no temples, or images, or forms of religious worshipunloss sacrificing to demons be regarded in this light. They say they worship nothing,--that there is no future after death,--that they desire simply to be let alone. The demons are evil and disturbing spirits. They believe in these believe them to be numberless,-to live under trees, rocks, and to fill the mountains,--to be the cause of famine and pestilence, all diseases of mind and body--in short, the cause of whatever disturbs the happiness of man, and of death itself. Of these they live in perpetual dread! Hence, to induce these demons to depart from their country, the Garos sacrifice under every green tree, near rocks, at the base of hills, and in every street leading to their villages. This is done by individuals, families, or the entiro Village, as circumstances seem to indicate. They sacrifice fowls, pigs, goats, bullocks, and young dogs. The latter, because of superior sagacity, are supposed to be most acceptable to the demons. As no time, place, or individual is exempt from trouble and sorrow, so the Garos, in their fear, are most incessant in shedding of blood. The wealthy become poor, and the poor remain thus, by these fruitless and endless attempts to drive away these imaginary demons. They say there is no hereafter-that when a man dier, that is the end of him. Still every Giro confesses himself to be a sinner and to be worthy of punishment. They firmly believe that notoriously bad persons will live again, and perhaps for ages, in the bodies of tigers, snakes, or other vilo forms, as a punishment for evil deeds in the present life. Ignorance and superstition go hand in hand. Two Christian Garos were on a preaching tour. Soon after they had spent a night in certain village the headman was very ill for several days. In due time these inen returned that way and called for lodgings as before. It was late. The next village was at a distance and the road dangerous. But they were driven from the place. The demons, said they, are not pleased with Christians, or those who give them shelter, therefore "no person of this new faith can ever lodge in our village again!" Some Garo Christians cut a few bamboos sup. posed to be the dwelling-place of demong. About this time there was a great drought. Crops were suffering. The heathen Garos divined that the demons had been offended, and armed themselves with knives and spears to cut up the Christians who had given the offence. Meantime Providence Bent rain, and the bloody raid was abandoned. A people thus ignorant and superstitious are liable to move suddenly and to great extremes. Filled with fear and dread uncertainty, they descend upon the nearest village and cut off a dozen heads of inoffensive men, women, and children. They hastily drive Christians from their village, or as quickly turn froin demon-sacrificing to the worship of the Christians' God. In customs, language, and religion (if they have any) this people are quite different from those of the plains. They are entirely free from caste influences. The Garos do not object to the education of their girls and women. Several married women, wives of preachers and teachers, have learned to read. Garo women are held in respect, and have a voice in all domestic matters, and they are not ignored even in the village counsels. There is hope for such a people. PERSIAN STANZAS ON ATTRACTION AND REPULSION. Selected and Translated by E. Rehatsek, Esq., M.C.E. VI.-From Shyryn Ferhad. dhrh rqS mynyst bbw ykhy khshn hr dhrh r t mqSd khS bkhshn t r khlshny rsnd r t bkhln khlkhny dwnh b`ly t gr pry z sfl khly myl dhrh zyn byny nyr khkh t byd z ab t z atsh flkh t bly khkh z zyr myn mylst gr dny dyn myl jnbyt dr jnbyt khyl dr khyl

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338 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [NovEMBER, 1873. pych dr rshth pych sr yn chyn mylyst w bqy yy br dj khh byn zyn mylyst pr jnbsh zmyny w asmny bjm dyn myl amd w b khh pywst mHkhm khr r br khhrb bst khh arzwy nhd; Tbqy bhr w pr dd: hr ykh r bmwy tkh brwn wrdw mjnwn r mshwsh blyly ddh znjyrsh khr mykhsh z shyryn khwkhn r ddh shywn mygn khh fkhndh bystwn pyshsh frwz z tb shm` khshth atsh zdh prwnh r atsh khr myswz br bsth blbl r pr w bl z khl shkhsty khr dr pysh kr my nl GrD yn myl chwn grdd qry: py shwd `shq w dr ayd dr rkh w by st `lm Tfyl z jwd `shq w lyT myl st z sty fyD nmr byny dy jz lyly dr aGz bSl `shq gr byny nshn bz gr ykh sh`lh dr khwd Sd hzrst bSlsh bz khrdy ykh shrr st ngyz shrry bshd wl tsh tyz khyzd atsh khz stylsh tf yn sh`lh mr dr jgr bd dl m pr shrr bd z yn atsh Obey this great governing pow'r divine. Besides this impulse nothing is all else: From this attraction ev'ry motion seen On earth or in the heavens is derived, The puny straw obeys the same attraction, And clings to the electrum willingly; Implanted in each nature is its bent Compelling ev'ry man to his pursuit. Distracted Mejnun this impulse obeys, It hands to La-i-ly his chain to draw, Compels Ferhad for Shyryn to lament, Commanding him Mount Bisetun to dig: From beat the lamp will be a burning flamo Which draws the moth its proper dom to seek ; The bulbul sighing for the rose obeys This bent when stung by brambles in his foot. When this attraction strength and power gets To love it turns, the body permeates. Abundance of this feeling so prevails That universal love the world maintains; At first you nothing see but La-i-ly If love's origin you investigate ; Although a flame a hundred thousand is, It is derived from a single spark From which the greatest conflagrations rise ; It is its prevalence that fans the flame. O let this fiery ardoor be in us, Its many sparks illuminate our hearts ! Plurality of Village Headmen. In the little Principality of Sawant Wadi in many of the villages the office of Patil is held conjointly by several families. The several shares are termed wakals, and a representative of each wakal signs the village kabiliyats and other papers. I have seen the signatures of as many as eight wakaldArs on a kabQliyat. Sometimes one wakalder is a Brahman, another a Prabha, and another a Ma. ratha. In other parts of the country where I have been, such a watan is often held by many share. holders, but then they hold as descendants of a common ancestor, who acquired the watan, and but one of the family signs the papers. Can any correspondents of the Indian Antiquary give instances of a practice similar to that in SAwant Wadi obtaining elsewhere? E. W. W. Attraction drives each dancing atom far With other atoms to its special sphere, It draws the gardiner to the rosy grove, Conveys the coalman to the furnace hot. If you the nadir to the zenith scan, Exceptions to this law you cannot find; In fire, in wind, in earth, in water, not Beneath the earth up to the lofty sky, The same attraction must govern them all, Affoction, kindness, sympathy together. QUERY. To the Editor of the "Indian Antiquary." SIR, I have a number of old silver and copper coins with the inscriptions very much obscured by dirt and verdigris. Will one of your readers kind ly tell me the best way of cleaning, without injur. ing, first, the silver, secondly, the copper coins ? I am, &c., DENZIL IBBETSON

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DECEMBER, 1873.] LEGEND OF THE RANI TUNK. 339 LEGEND OF THE RANI TUNK. BY MAJOR J. W. WATSON, ACTING POLITICAL SUPERINTENDENT, PALANPUR. THE Surbakri Hills are a subordinate portion his castle walls. Lakha Phulani, indignant that 1 of the great Aravali range, and at their any one should venture to hunt without perwestern extremity is a conical peak called the mission in his domains, at once mounted, and Rani Tunk. This peak is a conspicuous feature taking with him a troop of horsemen soon overin the landscape from Disa, and the peak itself took Chandan Soda. Observing their hostile inis only about a mile and a half from the town of tentions, Chandan Sodu appealed to Likha in Dantiwara, under Palanpar. This small peak person and asked him why he was following can be seen by the traveller between Disa and him to slay him without cause. Lakhi reAba (lying to the right of the road) as far as proached him with having slain his boar. ChanReodar, and it can be discerned on a clear day dan Soda replied: " The boar is not yonrs, but from Abu itself. Near the foot of the peak is one of mine I chased from my fields on the the site of the ruined city of Dharapura and other shore of the Ran." Lakha refused to the Dhirisar tank The legend regarding this believe this, as the distauce was so great, and tunk or peak is as follows: threatened Chandan Soda with instant death. Chandan Soda, Chief of Nagar Parkar, went In this extremity Chandan Sodi proposed that one day to one of his villages bordering the the stomach of the boar should be ripped open, Ran, for shikar. One morning he roused a and that if bajri-ears and water-melons were noble boar in the village fields. As he was found in it, then it would be clear that the boar mounted on his good stued and had his trusty came from his (Chandan Soda's) country, wherelance in his hand, he gave chase; the boar went as if its stomach contained sugarcane or pulse, straight across the Ran, and Chandan Soda that he would agree that the boar belonged followed it. At length evening drew near, to Lakha Phulani. Lakha Phulani then said: but, as the moon was fall, Chandan Soda did not "And if the boar be mine, what then ?" draw rein, and at last the boar reached the Chandan Soda replied: "And if the boar be Wagar side of the Ran. Chandan Soda still mine, what then?" Eventually they agreed that urged on his panting steed, and as the dawn if the boar should turn out to be Lakha Phubroke he overtook the now exhausted boar and lani's, Chandan Soda should subrnit to impriluid him dead at his feet with one thrust of his sonment at that Chief's pleasure and pay a spear: this happened close to the walls of Kela- heavy ransom for his release, but that if the kot, where reigned the celebrated Likha Phu- boar should be Chandan Soda's, then Lakha lini. The following duho describes the magni- agreed to give Chandan Soda his daughter ficence and pomp of Lakhi : Phulmati in marriage. The boar was now ripped open, and bajri-ears and water-melons were found in its stomach, as Chandan Soda had lAkhA puta samuMdrakA phuladhare avatAra said. Chandan now claimed the perforroance pArevA motI cage lAkhAre darabAra paNa of Lakha's promise. Lakhaji held a kacheri and solemnly betrothed Phulmati to Chandan palANI hIre jaDI surata 5cAMNI|| Soda. He then dismissed Chandan Soda with 49474 CEL MIERU 14 gelen 111 honour, and told him to return to celebrate his Lakba, the son of Ocean, took an incarnation at nuptials as soon as he should receive an invitathe house of Phul. tion. Chandan now returned to Parkar. After O Lakhi, in thy darbar the pigeons feed on Chandan's departure, Phulmati's mother and pearls, all Lakha's court declared that he would be On the saddles of thy steeds diamonds, O thou disgraced if he married his daughter to Chandan of surpassing wisdom, Soda, who was but a small Chief comparatively LikhA Phulani, Hindu King of the West ! with LakhA the King of the West. To all their On seeing the boar speared by Chandan Soda, remonstrances Lakhi replied: "I will never & villager informed Lakha Phulani that al go back from my plighted word." One of his stranger had ventured to spear a boer close to ministers suggested that there was a mode of

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340 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1873. action whereby he should not forfeit his word and yet that it should not be necessary to give his daughter, namely, to fix the wedding day for a certain day and so arrange that the in- vitation should reach Chandan Soda only the day before the day fixed for the wedding. As the distance was too great for Chandan Sodi to traverse in twenty-four hours, Lakha would thus be freed from his promise. This plan was eventually determined on, and a day was fixed, namely, Servat 1116 Vaishik Sudh 13th, and the Brahman who delivered the kankotri (or invitation) was instructed to deliver it on the 12th. The Brihinan accordingly delivered the krukotri to Chandan Soda on the 12th Vaishak Sadh. Chandan Sodi at once perceived the trick and was deeply grieved; he determined, however, to reach Kelikot in time, if it were possible for man and horse to do it. He then inquired at once if any one in Nagar Parkar possessed a horso or camel capable of doing the distance in the time, but none could be found. Just as Chandan was giving up in despair, a sutar named Dhara said: "I have two tame nylghai bulls which will travel three hun- dred miles in one day, and I will lend you them." Chandan, after thanking the sutar, directed them to be harnessed in the dranga (a two- wheeled car). The sutar harnessed the bulls in the dranga, and Chanduri, after putting on the mairingo-crown (mod), sat in the dringa, which was driven by the sutar. They drove so fast that they reached Kelakot before dawn, and sent word to Lakha Phulani that Chandan Soda had come to be married. As Chandan Sodi had arrived in time, Lakhaji determined to give hin his daughter, and made preparations for the marriage. The nuptial ceremonies were then performed with great pomp, and a separate palace was allotted to Chandan Sodi and Phulmati. Lakhi also provided a lodging for Dhara Satir, and a stable for his nylghai. After a few days, Lakhi paid a visit to Chandan Soda and in the course of conversation asked him how he had managed to arrive so quickly. Chandan Soda then told him that his sutar had lent him his nylghai balls, and that the sutar had yoked them in his dranga, and thus conveyed him so quickly to Kelakot. Lakha Phulani considered within himself that he must obtain possession of these nylghai; Dhara, however, refused to sell them. Now it so happened that the sutar's lodging was beneath the palace of Rani Jalku, stepmother of Lakha Phalani; LAkhi accused the sutur of a criminal intimacy with Jalku, who was still young and beautiful, as she had married Jhireja Phulji, father of Lakha, when she was quite a child, and but a few years before Phulji's death. The sntar being now in prison, Lakha determined in about a month to seize on the nylghai, when every one would have forgotten to whom they belonged. Rini Jalku, however, was extremely indignant at this false accusation, and considered that although the accusation was false, still people would believe it, and she would be eternally disgraced : she therefore determined to avoid false reproaches by actually running away with the sutar. Now she had a favourite slave-girl named Muli; she sent Muli accordingly on some pretext to Dhara Sutar, and said to him: "Take me away, I am willing to follow your fortunes, and as I will bring with me much wealth you will not be a sufferer by doing so." Dhara Satir replied: "How can I carry you off when I am here in prison ?" Rini Jalku then represented that she would free him from prison provided he would agree to carry her off from Kelakot. To this Dhari Sutar agreed. Rini Jalku then bribed the guard to release Dhiri Sutar, and she herself putting on armour, and taking with her her daughter Mira, an infant of three years of age, and slave-girl Muli, she waited for Dhara Sutir outside the city gate. Dhira Sutar after harnessing his nylghai went out by a side gate unobserved and joined Rani Jalku. The Rani now dismissed her slave-girl Muli, and she and her daughter Mara sat in the drunga, which was driven by Dhara Satar. They left Kelakot at dusk, and the nylghai went so fast that they made their first halt at Sbiagam, a village then belonging to the Solankhi tribe, and under the Dhinera Pargana. They halted near the village well, under the shade of some trees. Some boys were playing near the well, and they induced two of them to accompany them. The name of one of these boys was Viramji, son of Jetmalji Solankhi. The other boy was a Rabari by caste and was named Devraj. On leaving Shiagam they took the two boys with them in the dranga. They next alighted near the Jhaber (or Jyeraj) hill, and there Dhark Sutar fonnded a village and dog a tank, and named the village Dharapura, and the tank Dharasar. With

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LEGEND OF THE RANI TUNK. DECEMBER, 1873.] Rani Jalku's wealth beautiful buildings were constructed, and good cultivators were attracted to Dharapura. Here they lived undisturbed for ten years, and the village grew rich and populous. Maru, Jalka's daughter, grew up during these years to womanhood, and was supremely beautiful. Both Viramji and Devraj were desperately enamoured of her, but Maru's heart inclined to Viramji. Although Maru was a queen's daughter, still as Rani Jalkn had run away with a sutar she feared that they would be unable to contract an alliance for her with any kingly house: Rani Jalku therefore married Maru to Viramji Solankhi. But Devraj Rabari was deeply grieved at this, for he too loved Maru passionately, and on the day when she was married to Viramji Solankhi he left Dharapura in anger, and travelled until he reached Amarkot (Omerkote), where Soda Sumra reigned. When Sumra held a darbar Devraj made obeisance, and said that he knew of a most beautiful damsel fit only to be Sumra's queen. He then recited this duho: jaNa saMce mArU ghaDI koI dhaDIyo nahIM saMsAra // ke A saMco gaLagayA ke bhulyo karatAra ||1|| The mould in which Maru was framed is such that none other in the whole world has been framed in it. Either that mould has been broken, or the artificer thereof hath forgotten how to so fashion another. Thus Devraj acted, out of jealousy to Viramji Solankhi. Raja Sumra on hearing this praise of Maru said to the Rabari: "Search through my town and see if there be in it any damsel fit to compare with Mara." The Rabari after much search discovered a beautiful loharan, and presenting himself before Raja Sumra recited this duho: 341 soDhA tArA zaherane laMje dIla luhAra DhIle kaMkaNu DhaLakatI o mArU aNIhAra ||1|| Soda! in thy city is a luhar of graceful form, Her bracelet hangs loosely on her arm, she is perhaps something like Maru. five hundred horse to Dharapura together with Devraj to carry off Maru. They marched night and day until they reached Dharapura, and concealed themselves in the jungle near the Dharasar tank. Devraj said to Hamir: "Maru comes hither daily to draw water; when she comes we will seize her and carry her off." That night, however, heavy rain fell, and every one had their water-vessels filled by the rain. No one therefore came to the tank. Maru also did not come. Hamir then recited this duho: ne hA te moTuM karI e haDI matI karI saravara nAvI mArUI gaI chIlare bharI ||1|| Rain, do not act (to others) as thou hast done to me; Maru has not come to the tank, but has gone and filled (her vessel) at the waterfall. Hamir then said to Devraj: "What shall we do ?" Devraj replied: Rani Jalku and her daughter Maru are churning milk in their chok and no attendants are near them." Hamir and Devraj taking two horses and a camel went there. Whilst the two were churning, Maru's scarf fell on her shoulder, disclosing her beautiful face. She, however, continued churning, and with her foot restored her scarf to its position. Devraj on seeing this feat of agility uttered the following duho : UbhI paNe netro pratI mA tArI te meLI laka navako bovaDI // 1 // Maru was standing erect holding the churn rope; With the agility of her foot she picked up and restored to its place the woollen scarf. Hamir, from seeing her face and from witnessing this act of agility as well as from Devraj's couplet, recognized that this could be no other than Maru; he accordingly seized her and tied her behind him on his horse; afterwards alighting he placed her on the camel, and he and Devraj fled with Maru to Amarkot. On their arrival there, a palace was assigned for her use, and Sumra Soda sent her a message to say that next day he would visit her at the Soda Sumra now directed the loharan to be palace. In reply Maru sent a message that she brought before him, and was so impressed with had taken the untio vrat, or camel-vow, viz. her charms that he determined to espouse.her; that for six months she must stay in the palace he, however, perceived from what Devraj said without seeing a man; that when the six that Maru must be still more beautiful, and months were over, she would sit on a camel and accordingly sent his brother Hamir Soda with go for a ride, and that then her vow would be The bracelet hanging loosely is supposed to show she was of graceful form, i.e. not fat.

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342 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1873. performed and she would accept his visits. Of plished. Maru then sent a message to Soda these six months, one month she said had Saura that the period prescribed by her vow already expired. Sumra Soda agreed not to was accomplished, and requested that the molest her, and did not press his visit. Rani best camel procurable might be sent to her, Maru now wrote a note to Viramji Solankhi that she might ride on it and be absolved and secretly sent it to Dharapura. The note from her vow. The Raja accordingly caused contained these words : "I am protected for all the camels in the town to be sent before five months by my vrat or vow; come quickly Maru: Maru approved of Viram's camel, and with a good camel and alight within the town kept Virim and his camel, dismissing the of Amarkot, and I will contrive to join you, and others. At this time no man but Viram was wo will flee together. If you do not come present; only the other Ranis were present. Mira within the time, I will die, but I will never then ordered Viram to make his camel kneel, receive the Raji as my lover." Viramji on and after veiling her face she mounted. Viram receiving this letter purchased a magnificent then mounted also, and Maru bade adieu to the camel from Jati Bhemda of Khemat for Rs. other Ranis, saying that she would ride within 200. The following duho describes the camel :- the fort. Thus saying she directed Viram to mAthe TAmaka jeho bAhuDaMDa pracaMDa || start, and as soon as they were out of sight they took the Dharipura road. On the way stail 11 al 1713 4237414243 11211 way they met a Charan who asked alms. As Its head like a waterpot, its forearms strong they had no money, Maru gave him her gold as poles, necklace and said to him : "Go to Sumra Soda Bhemda, disciple of Nada, gave it, and say to him poetry in praise of my camel." Saw of the World, Houso-Robuilder. On hearing of the escape of Mira, Sumri Soda Viramji mounted on his camel and came to mounted with a large body of horse in pursuit. Amarkot and alighted in the bazaar, and remained on the road they met the Charan. The Charan, there for a month, and managed to carry on a cor on learning who they were, recited the following respondence with her secretly. One day Sohni couplet to Sumra Sodi as a message from MaruRani, one of Samra Soda's queens, came to visit Miru, and said to her : "Let us give an enter kahe ke thaLa lAMdhIA dorA ghATa daraga | tainment and drink wine." Miru replied: "Il 441 47 sely 41 1111 have left my husband behind at Dharapura, The camel has already passed over many (sandy) how then should I drink wine!Sohni replied thals and difficult and mighty passes : in the followiag couplet : Having come to Sumra, say to him, Why dost. dhArAparathI cala AIAvI rAkhe che . thou fatigue (lit. beat) thy horse ? dhAbarIArA ketharo mArU zoka kaza kare || Sumra Soda, hearing from the Charan that Having como away from Dharapura, thou hast the camel could not be overtaken, returned to come to a king's palace : Amarkot and collected an army, and after a few O Maru, wherofore dost thou grieve after a months marched to Dharapura. On the arrival husband wearer but of woollen clothing ? of the army, Dhiri Satar, Viram Solankhi, and Miru replied to her in the following couplet: the two Rinis, Jalku and Maru, went into the Surbakri hills. A great battle was fought. paTo pAMca maLe loDI lAkha vakAe After performing prodigies of valour, Dhari tamana saDha sumaro momana vIrama rAkhe || Sutar and Viram Solankhi with all their folA putola (silk scarf) can be purchased for five lowers were slain. Jalku and Maru being (rupees), desperate, and preferring death to dishonour, A lodhi (shawl) may be worth a lakh ; hurled themselves from the peak at the exThy heart is for Soda Sumra, tremity of the Surbakri range, and were dashed But my heart is for Viram Rai. to pieces. In commemoration of this sacrifice Maru therefore refused to drink wine. At the peak has ever since been called the Rani last the six months of her vow were accom- Tunk, or Queens' Peak. * Bow of the World alludes to his cutting the road: rasta kapwoo. Ho is called House-Reboilder as he was the means of Viramji recovering his wife.

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DECEMBER, 1873.] NOTES ON THE SAIVA-SIDDHANTA. NOTES ON THE SAIVA-SIDDHANTA. BY THE REV. C. EGBERT In a brief review of F. Bouteloup's manual, Philosophic Indica Expositio, which appeared in the Indian Antiquary (vol. I. pp. 224-5), it was remarked that, "in treating of the Pasupatas, whom Colebrooke describes under the northern appellation of the sect, it was of importance that notice should have been taken of their existence and their tenets as found in South India." It is intended in the present paper to put together a few notes, made at different times, illustrative of this subject. Independently of the exoteric and popular worship connected with the great temples of Madura, there is at that place a well-organized school of esoteric religious teaching in full vigour and operation, representing the SaivaSiddhanta system, the most popular system of philosophy and religion among the Tamil people. It is based on the eight-and-twenty Saiva books, or Agamas as they are termed, whence its adherents are called Agamists. The Rev. W. Taylor in his Catalogue Raisonne (Vol. II. p. lxxxix.) confounds this sect with the Vira Saivas, who are not SaivaSiddhantas or Agamists, but the Jangamas or Lingadharis-a sect which did not exist when the Siddhanta books were written, and whose use of the male symbol only, to the exclusion of the female, is sufficient to distinguish them from the other, Saiva worshippers among the Tamils. As already observed, Colebrooke describes the Agama school of religious philosophy under its northern appellation and characteristics, as that of the Maheswaras' and 'Pasupatas' (Essays, vol. I. pp. 406-413), but the Tamil development of its tenets is marked by very peculiar features which lead me to hazard an opinion that it owes them, in some degree, to contact with the teaching of the Madura missionaries of the Church of Rome at the close of the sixteenth century. The late Rev. H. R. Hoisington, of the Jaffna American Mission, translated from the Tamil three of the treatises on which the Agamists base their sys tem, but most, if not all, of the other treatises are as yet little known, existing, as it is supposed, only in Sanskrit. Mr. Hoisington's work was printed in America in 1854, and made the 343 KENNET, VEPERY, MADRAS. teaching of this school accessible to English scholars for the first time, with the advantage of having the obscure text of the original elucidated by the best native assistance that he was able at the time to procure. The Agamist philosophy, or, as it may be more properly termed, the Saiva-Siddhanta, is essentially antagonistio to Vedantism. The monotheism of the Vedas, such as it was, made it impossible to distinguish the object worshipped from the mind of the worshipper, and while therefore it implicitly contained the later polytheism which contented the vulgar mind, it fostered in more aspiring intellects the most extravagant pantheism. The essence of the Vedantic doctrine consists in the individual soul considering itself the same as God, or as resolvable into God, and the whole visible world an illusion. In opposition to this, Saiva teachers most strongly insist upon the real, and not merely apparent or illusory, distinctness of God from all other spirits and from matter. While the Vedantists maintain that there is but one, only and secondless Being, and that all visible forms of creation are only an ideal development of him, having no real existence whatever, the Agamists teach the existence of three distinct eternal entities, God, soul, and matter (pati, pasu, pasam), the Deity being a Person and not a mere abstraction, and distinct from the human soul and matter, both which derive their existence from him as their efficient cause. They repudiate the Vedantic doctrine of the creation of the universe by the Deity out of his own essence, and maintain the distinct and separate existence of the efficient and material causes of the creation-the first, active, moving; the second, passive, moved: the one effective, the other yielding itself to be acted on by it. "Matter cannot proceed from spirit, therefore the world was not developed from God," is a maxim of this school. That which knows is the soul, and that which is known is the Deity, and hence it follows, "When it is said one exists, he who says it must also exist," which is another maxim. And these two express the distinguishing principles of the system it represents. Yet God cannot be comprehended but by grace or divine illumination,

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344 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1873. as" all wisdom, "it is taught, "comes from grace (arul)." According to this system, God him- self appears as the Teacher of the soul in human form, and leads men to himself, even as men take wild animals by means of animals of their own kind trained for the purpose. This he does by means of the seven Sacraments, which are-ocular, manipulative, oral, scriptural, mental, disciplinary, and formal instruction, this last being of two kinds, symbolic and spiritual; the symbolic including the ceremony of initiation and confirmation, and the spiritual be ing that which effects communion with the Deity. (See Hoisington's Translations, pp. 117-119). Isuran-God-is subject to no change, and souls are from eternity pure; like an unlighted lamp, the soul shows rothing, but, like a magnet which attracts iron, it causes the body in its presence to act. When the body is active, the perceptive organs grasp each its own rudi. mental element (the medium of sensation), just as the parts of a moving machine perform each its own office; or, in other words, the sensations are at work, from which, kirmi, the result of action, is produced, and by this, malam, defile- ment (sin), is introduced. When the malam in which the soul has been enshrouded is re. moved by tidchei, instruction or illumination of disciples through the Sacramental process above mentioned, then the divine wisdom becomes transferred to the soul as the face is transferred to the mirror. (Hoisington, pp. 171-172). One cannot help being reminded by this figure, of the language in the Christian Scriptures, where we find it said that "we all, with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory." In the last particular, pasam (matter) is declared never to perish, but malam (evil) its development, which obscures the soul so that its understanding cannot apprehend things fully or aright, will be destroyed. Except this, there is no destruction of the eternal essential nature of pasam or matter. The darkness which cannot exist before the lamp, is not destroyed, nor can it exist before the light; just so pdsam cannot exist with the soul that is united with Deity, but of its eternal essential nature there is no destruction. (Hoisington, p. 206). The earnest asseveration of the eternal existence and non-destruction of the matter in which the soul dwelt, after the emancipation of the soul itself, sounds like a faint note of hope of something yet reserved for the body also. The words occurring in St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans (ch. vii. 20) have been strikingly applied to illustrate these speculations : "The creature was made subject to vanity (muya), not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage (pasam) of corruption (malani) into the liberty of glory (motcham) of the children of God." The coincidence of thought and language, at any rate, is remarkable, and suggests the possibility of these speculations of an extraordinary school of Hindu religious philosophy being made meeting-places for higher truths, which can alone supply what is lacking in them, and satisfy the deep natural yearnings which gave them birth. THE NALADIYAR. BY THE REV. F. J. LEEPER, TRANQUEBAR. (Continued from page 331.) CHAPTER 27.-Riches without goodness. much wealth. 3. Though they live on the The bat will not go to the rough-stemmed shore of the rolling ocean, they repair to the wood-apple tree, though near and fruitful. So saltloss well of a running spring and drink. the riches of those who, though they be very Though wealthy men be nigh, they will go afar near to one, have no greatness of soul, have not off and fix their desire upon the liberal. 4. In the excellence of being considered as profitable. the seagirt earth merit is various. The sensible 2. Though there be handfals of small buds on should be great. Those who are foolish, and the milk hedge, men will not put out their band are like anbeaten steel and the thorny brinjal, to gather them, for its flowers are not fit for will flourish in silk and gay apparel. 5. If you wearing. (Even so, the wise will not form ask what is the reason why, while the good and friendship with the mean, though they have just are in poverty, the unjust and unlearned

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DECEMBER, 1873.] THE NALADIYAR. 345 are wealthy, O thou who hast eyes elongated like a lance! when one investigates the matter, it is nothing else but the effect of deeds done in a former birth. 6. (O Lakshmi, who like a golden image sits upon that fair flower whose leaves are like seentless plates of gold, die and become ashes upon the ground! you connect yourself with the mean of all sorts, leaving the good who resemble gold. 7. O thou who hast eyes like a lance! is not shame attached to the poverty of the jast? Is not the wealth of the miser like painters'-green ? (i.e. it so cleaves to him that he will not give alms.) When thou hast investigated these two states thou wilt not ap- prove or desire either of them. 8. Those who are honest (when they become poor), going to distant lands, and eating various kinds of food, will spend their days; while those who are dishonest (when they become poor) will sit in their houses and eat curry and rice while the perspiration streams from their bodies, and will not go to distant lands. 9. When the ear of the golden-red paddy is scorched, the heaven bright with light- ning will vomit and pour forth (rain) into the SCA. The liberality of those who are simple, even when they are possessed of riches, is of like character. 10. Those are the senseless who, though they read, understand not. The sensible, though they read not, resemble the learned. Those who, though utterly poor, will not beg, are the truly rich. Even the rich are poor if they give not. CHAPTER 28.-IUiberality. 1. To give a part of their meal to the extent of their ability, both to the friendly and unfriendly, and after that to eat, is truly to eat a meal. To those who refuse their food to the needy, and so live and eat and pass on, the door of heaven will be closed. 2. Those who have, to the best of their ability, practised to any extent trifling acts of charity, will in another birth become great ; while those who, when they have become wealthy, say, We will give alms some cime or other, shall be punished and shall perish from all the sea-surrounded earth. 3. He who employs not his time in enjoying his property, or gives not of it to ascetics, but lays it up (like a miser) at him, the foolish one, about to perish, his hoarded wealth shall mock, and the favour of the world shall mock. 4. The great wealth which the miserly-minded have attained, who neither know how to give it away nor to use it themselves, shall be like the beauteous damsels of a family, who when they have arrived at puberty are enjoyed by others; 6. e. others than its owner shall enjoy it. 5. Though they live near the mighty ocean whose waters overflow, men look on the spring of a small well whose water is almost dried up and live. The poverty of the great is better than the riches of those who know not of the next birth. 6. If you ask why I say, It is mine, It is mine, concerning the property of that ignorant man who gives not to others, saying, It is mine, It is mine --while it belongs to that wretched man he gives it not in alms, neither does he himself enjoy it, neither do I give it away in alms or enjoy it myself. 7. The poor are more exempt from trouble than the niggardly rich. They are exempt from the labour of guarding that wealth. They are exempt from the trouble of bringing it. They are exempt from the pain of having their hands bound. In many ways are they exempt from trouble. 8. While the property is his own, he gives it not away; when it becomes the property of his partners, they also give it not away in alms. If he gives it away before his death, the partners will find no fault with him; if after death they give it away, he will not find fault with them. 9. Comparing beggars to a calf, and benefactors to a cow, such a spontaneous benevolence is true benevolence. Forced charity is as when a cow will only give its milk when coerced by strong men, who push it about and apply various instruments to its limbs. Such benevolence is the mark of a base mind. 10. The seeking to accumulate wealth is a cause of vexation. The guarding that collected shining wealth causes vexation. Again, if any of that wealth which is so guarded be diminished, there is vexation. If it be lost, how great the vexation! Truly this said wealth is the very abode of vexation. CHAPTER 29.--Poverty. 1. Although a man live wearing a patched cloth round his loins, yet the possession of eight or ten pieces of money will gaia him great honour among many persons. Those who have nothing at all, though born of a respectable family, are considered (by such as more despicable than a dead carcase. 2. It is said that ghee is more subtle than water, and all know that smoke is more subtle than ghee. If you inquire, you will find that the afflicted mendicants will creep

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346 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1873. beetles crowded with red spots crawl not on the branch which has ceased to blossom; in like manner the unfortunate have no friends. CHAPTER 30.-Innocence. 1. The minds of the honourable, when they see the disgraceful things or excesses perpetrated by the ignorant who rely upon their wealth, will burn in one compact flame as the fire burns the jungle on which it has seized. 2. The honourable, though they become through destitution mere bones and skin, will they follow those who are destitute of proper dispositions, to make known their afflictions to them? Or will they refrain from telling the trouble which they endure to the great (or wise), who are beforehand intuitively acquainted with them? 3. If it be that they are like those who say, as soon as others see their wives, Alas, the chastity of our wives is in danger! being afraid, place us outside and give us rice,on this account forsake associating with the rich. 4. The estimation of the excellent will bestow on us good in this life. It will stand unswervingly in the way of goodness, and it will afford benefits to be enjoyed in the next birth. That estimation is good indeed, O thou who sheddest a delicious scent from thy hair! 5. The excellent will not do the things which will bring upon them the effects of sin in another birth, or disgrace in this birth, though it should cost them their lives. Death will cause trouble for only a moment in one day; there is nothing like sin, which will cause grievous and longonduring misery. 6. Among all those who live in this fertile and wide world, those who give not alms to others, amongst the rich, though exceeding rich, are poor indeed; while those who go not to beg alms of the rich, though they have become exceedingly poor, are indeed illustrious. 7. All who are in the lowest grade of virtue dread pinching hunger; all who are in the middle grade will fear affliction. O thou with long lance-shaped eyes, whose brows are spread like a bow on each side! the highest grade of all will fear the reproach uttered against them by others. 8. These are the good, these are the liberal givers, but they are now become poor. When the rich, thus reviling them, cast upon them a contemptuous smile, the minds of the eminently excellent will burn, like the fire in the smith's forge when excited by the bellows. 9. The shame which is caused by not in through crevices through which even smoke cannot permeate. 3. O king of the woodlands where they chase the parent from the cultivated field with stones, where the Kantharla (November-flower plant) growing upon the mountains lofty and abounding with rocks, is out of flower! the swarms of red-spotted winged insects will not even approach near it (to extract its honey): thus the destitute have no relations. 4. In the day of prosperity thousands are very slaves, as crows will collect together at the mangled carcase (ie. the dead crow); but in the day when this is changed, like the insect (which wanders about for food), there is not one single person in the world who will ask you, Are you well? 5. O lord of the fair hills crowded together, where the streams fall upon the rocks and wash them! the high birth of those who are environed by poverty will disappear, their great dignity will disappear, and their illustrious learning will also disappear. 6. Scorn those who, though they live in the same town, give no alms to those who come to them tormented in mind by sharp hunger, and asking for somewhat with great desire. It would be far better to go away to some distant place and live as guests in other houses, than to remain fruitlessly spending their days in that place. 7. O thou who hast sharp teeth causing envy to the buds of the jessamine! those who are mendicants (or those who have the affliction of begging) will lose, together with their right-mindedness, abundant accurate learning, and all other good qualities which they may have at any time possessed. 8. It is better for him who once was charitable, i. e. who stood in the way of giving, but who now cannot give aught to beggars, to spend his life in the afflictive way of stretching out his hands for alms in every house in the far land to which he has gone, than to remain in his own land, than living in his native town, standing in the way of poverty, trying to mend his circumstances. 9. When wealth has gone, in the time of adversity, the poor, with those arms once adorned with bracelets, bend the branches of trees, pluck off the leaves and eat them, using as a dish an earthen pot, and live on with discontented minds eating leaf-curry (or that which is cooked) without salt. 10. O lord of the hillcountry, cool and very beautiful and lofty, where the streams of water fall down (from the rocks)! the swarms of shining and beautiful winged

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DECEMBER, 1873.] giving alms to those who desire of us, is not modesty. Nor is the shame which one feels every day who flees from battle, modesty. But true modesty is that shame which will not suffer us to declare the wrongs inflicted on us by our enemies in the day of our distress. 10. The tiger of the forest having slain an elk, will not eat it, but will leave it if it fall on the left side. In like manner, could the excellent by a sacrifice of principle obtain all the wealth that exists under the wide-extended heavens, they would not even desire it. THE NALADIYAR. 347 ed with poverty, rejecting true wisdom and allowing ignorance to abide in his mind, goes to a person and says, Give me alms, and if the person so asked refuse to give, will he not die from very shame at that moment? 9. Is the gently walking in the way of asceticism more grievous than the saying to others, Give me at least some. thing, thus debasing one's dignity of the custom of doing homage to others, to whom he has attached himself by making their acquaintance? 10. Let a person, on the ground of old aequaintance, do that benevolence which is fitting in the way of affection to others if they be unworthy of that benevolence. A fire unquenchable pressed down in their minds will consume them (till they perish). CHAPTER 32.-Experience in (conducting of) assemblies. CHAPTER 31.-Dread of mendicity. Will those who possess clear understanding follow after such men as constantly revile them, saying. These poor men will become rich through our means; they cannot acquire wealth of themselves? 2. Does not a man's death and his birth take place (frequently) in the twinkling of an eye? Is it, therefore, a reproach to a man if he starve and keep his integrity inviolate, rather than fill his stomach by the disgraceful practice of mendicity? 3. There are none who, using poverty as a pretext, venturing the assembly, gently desist from uttering words 1. Before the learned men who are confused in mind, who conduct themselves according to their so-called wisdom, smiting with their hands, reiterating again and again their foolish observations, and who disturb the proper order of on beggary, do not go to others for assistance in the way of meanness. Will the excellent then go for alms to any others but to those who will embrace them and say, Come to my house and eat? 4. Though Lakshmi withdraw from them and God be angry, the excellent will not stand with bended neck before the ignorant who bury their money in the earth, and who contemplate not heavenly things with constant minds. 5. Living without begging from friends, strong in affection and who are like the apple of our eyes, who withhold not their assistance from us, is life indeed. Since one's mind melts with anguish when one reflects on a life of mendicity, what must their feelings be who receive alms! 6. Since it is a means of removing the affliction of poverty for one to beg for himself, then let affliction be my portion, and let precious wealth depart from me. Of what use is it for him to ask alms of his neighbour with a mind racked with covetous desires and eyes dimmed with tears? 7. O lord of the mountains from whose sides fall streams which throw up gold! though a person be born again and again in the world who will not allow himself to reproach beggars, yet (so few are such persons) it must be said he belongs not to this world. 8. If a person being torment of wisdom. 2. The eminently wise will not consort with the evil poet who comes into the assembly as if he were a learned man, reciting some poem of another's which he has learned; that evil poet entering into the assembly will reproach the people who are there, or if not, to disgrace them, will smite his own shoulder and rise up to commence strife. 5. There are many men who speak many words, who love to commence strife with others, esteeming their own words unanswerable (or overpowering in speech), who understand not how to argue convincingly with their opponents, and who know not (how to acknowledge themselves) beaten. 4. The simpleton, not being able to acquire any learning for himself, goes into the assembly of the learned, and reciting as his own a stanza which he has learned from some schoolboy, exposes thereby his own ignorance. 5. Those who rise up to show the wisdom or the power of their words, and consort with angry persons who, opposing others with wrathful minds, receive not what is truth, but contend alone for victory, like wild beasts, shall sce their own teeth, like the seeds of the gourd, in their hands. 6. When the ignorant recite a poem without understanding its meaning, speak anger-exciting words, the excellent of imperishable renown, being greatly ashamed of

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348 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1873. them, will stand grieving much for her who bare them. 7. Science is easily acquired by all obedient students, like the shoulders of courtezans who take all they can get. But the sub- stance of acquired learning is as difficult to be understood as are the inward instructions of those courtezans beauteons in body as flowerbuds. 8. Those learned men who collect plenty of books bring them and fill up every room in their houses, and yet understand them not, are of one kind, while those learned men who both understand their purport and are able to explain them to others are of another kind. 9.0 lord of the extended hills where the wild oxen resort in herds ! can the works of these persons be called excellent and faultless commentaries who construct them not in these four methods -concisely, copiously, catechetically, and paraphrastically? 10. Will those who are not born of a good family, no matter how much learning they have acquired, will they become sufficiently wise to pass over, without censuring, the faults which occur in the speech of others The truly learned make as if they knew not the despicable learning of those who understand not their exposition of science. CHAPTER 33.- Defective knowledge. 1. The learned will esteem as precious the speech of those friends who declare to them the gracious way of wisdom. The base, who are esteemed us worthless, will abuse and revile them. The ladle appreciates not the flavour of the milk-porridge. 2. Though men desti. tute of rectitude listen to those who are destitute of envy, when they declare the way of virtue, yet they give no heed, just as the chakler's dog, which seizes and devours leather, knows not how to appreciate the taste of rice and milk. 3. Although they see by numerous examples the way by which their precious life may depart in the twinkling of an eye, yet they do not good even to the extent of a grain of millet. What does it matter whether such stupid, shameless (persons) live, or whether they die P 4. Since the days of life are few, and to our life there is no continuing stay, and since it is reviled (or contemned) by many, why should any one nourish fierce hatred in his heart in secret, and not be friendly with those he may meet. 6. If a person going before a public assembly abu- sively reproach another, and the reproached reviles not in turn but remains quiet, if the reviler thereafter live on and prosper, he will indeed be an object of astonishment to all who see him). 6. The hard words, Get out and go away, will be uttered by the female slave in his own house, while she pushes him out, to him who, before old age comes upon him, perseveres not in performing deeds of virtue. 7. Men of small understanding fruitlessly spend their day of life; since they themselves enjoy not their wealth, they bestow no benefit on the good. They attain not the excellent way of life, which would be a strong fortress for them, and with confused minds do they rely on their wealth. 8. The foolish man who in the time of youth binds not up as a viaticum the rice needful for the road on which he travels, but binds np his money (like an orange) and says, Hereafter we will do the requisite acts of charity,--when with the hand he makes a sign that he wishes a bag of gold to be brought, the relations will say he wants & sour wood-apple. 9. Men of small understanding who in time of adversity and dangerous sickness anxiously think of another world, in the time of prosperity think not of another birth, even to the extent of a grain of mustard-seed. 10. Alas! though men of defective understanding see Yama surrounding with his rope to take away those precions ones, immeasprably beloved, dear as their own lives, what is it? Though they have acquired these children, they think not of virtue, but fruitlessly waste their days of life. CHAPTER 34.-Ignorance. 1. The quality of those who greatly rejoice in the act of domestic joy in this life, while they continually behold Yama slaughtering their lives, even Yama the great and mighty in slaughter, is like that of a tortoise which its captors have put in a pot of water, while they kindle a fire (to boil it), which sports in the water, being ignorant of its real condition. 2. The quality of those who have resolved, saying, After we have performed all the duties incumbent upon us in the domestic state, we will learn the way of virtue, is like the speech of those who having gone down to the sea to bathe, said, We will | begin to bathe as soon as the noise has alto. gether ceased. 3. The ignorance of the customs of the world anciently renowned, faultless and full of excellence, in one who has obtained withont let or hindrance these five things,-caste. penance, learning, high birth, and preeminence,

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THE NALADIYAR. DECEMBER, 1873.] -is like rice-milk destitute of butter (therefore tasteless). 4. Though great stones do not understand the speech of men, yet since they do what is required of them, as standing, sitting, lying down, or moving, they are far more useful than a fool (as it is impossible to induce a fool to act as we wish him). 5. If a fool, when angry with others, with any cause for anger,-like one who supposes he has made an acquisition, without having really obtained anything-bewildered by passion, cannot crowd together abusive words, his tongue tingles all over. 6. The worthless friendships of those who say, We will make them our own, while they follow those who have no friendship for them, O lord of the sea-shore where the punnei with fair blossoms grows! is as it were losing one's arm in striking another with a stone. 7. As the ants without intermission walk round and round the outside of the pot in which there is butter, though it be impossible to get at it, so men of the world will never learn, but cleave to those rich men who never give them anything. 8. Will they not abhor the days of life who daily enjoy not good, who practise not virtue, who give not to the destitute, who enjoy not their own wives (but seek to dishonour others'), and who live not a life commended by others? 9. Friendship with those who say, We care not for their commendation, when those who love them praise them, and who are destitute of all tried good qualities, although by it one should be able to obtain the whole earth surrounded by the sea with rolling harsh-resounding waves, will be only affliction. 10. When a man's neighbours commend one on account of his learning, wideextended fame, and high birth, he shall obtain glory. But if he himself speak of these things, his brother-in-law will mock him, saying, He is a lunatic who cannot be cured by any medicine. CHAPTER 35.-Meanness. 1. Though one every morning, as a necessary duty, put bruised grain into the mouth of the fowl, it desists not from turning up the dunghill; so though one explain books of science of great importance, yet the mean man will the more follow the path most agreeable to his mind. 2. When one proposes, saying, Let us go at once to the abode of the perfect, who have acquired learning which establishes the mind, the base will rise up and say, Let us go to sleep, or if not, they will say something else equally 349 foolish and refuse to go altogether. 3. Though the excellent obtain great honour, they swerve not from their former disposition, but follow one line of conduct. O lord of the fair land of copious streams! though the base obtain great honour, they too alter not their line of conduct. 4. Ifone confer a benefit upon them even as small as a grain of millet, the excellent will consider it to be as large as a palmyra-tree. O lord of the fair land of sparkling steams! though a benefit as large as a palmyra be daily conferred upon him, the ignorant mean man has no gratitude (it is considered as no benefit at all by those who are ungrateful for the good done to them). 5. Though the dog be delicately nourished and fed from a golden dish, yet it will ever be earnestly looking out for the leavings of others. Thus the acts of the base-minded, though they are esteemed as honourable persons. will not correspond with their rank in life. 6. The worthy, though they have attained the wealth of the world, will at no time indulge in haughty speech, but if the mean have acquired the wealth of one cani ( part) added to one muntheri (i) they will regard themselves as great as Indra king of heaven. 7. Though the shoe be wrought with excellent gems set in the purest gold, yet it is intended for the foot of its owner. In like manner, though the meanminded be very rich, yet he will be found out by his deeds. 8. O lord of the fair and victorious land of mighty hills! the base man is mighty in speaking harsh words. He regards no one; laughs at the misery of others, grows more and more enraged and will continually reproach others. 9. O lord of the cool shores of the sea where the honey-producing Nay (a water-flower) grows, resounding with waves! if persons remain with them many days, the excellent will say, These are old friends, and will show kindness to them. whereas the base-minded will hate and revile them. 10. Though men take away the plucked-up grass from the bullock and give it to the heifer, and thus feed it up for many days, yet it will never be strong enough to be yoked to a cart. O king, hear! Though the base are very rich, yet their deeds will betray them. CHAPTER 36.-Baseness or Envy 1. Those who have knowledge bound up in their minds, though young in years, watch over, keep, and restrain themselves. The ignorant, though old in years, go on obstinately practising

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DECEMBER, 1873.] those who when they hear their dear friends declaring the affliction of their minds, have no desire to alleviate their sorrows, should die by casting themselves down from a mountain top than that they should live. 10. If we impartially examine the two things, it will be found that the inundation of the river and the love of beauteous and desirable courtesans are alike. If the rains fail, the inundation will cease; and if their lovers' money is expended, those courtesans' love for them will fail also. CHAPTER 38.-Courtesans. THE NALADIYAR. 1. If you impartially investigate the two things, it will be found that there is no difference between the shining light of a lamp and the love of courtesans. When the oil is exhausted, the light of the lamp vanishes, and when the money of their lovers is gone, their love also evaporates. 2. The fair and beautiful matron who is adorned with chosen jewels (a courtesan) said, I will go with you to the top of the mountain and cast myself down from it for your sake. But when he said, My money is gone, she came weeping, stating that her foot was painfully swollen and she could not go up the mountain, and left altogether. 3. Let them (i. e. their lovers) be even as fair as Indra, the red-eyed, who is worshipped by the gods in the beauteous and wide-spread heavens,courtesans, like freshly plucked mango-leaves, will politely dismiss them, and send them away as soon as their money is exhausted. 4. Those who have no property are as poison to the lotuseyed beautiful courtesans, who are destitute of all goodness of mind; while those who in the sight of all have acquired their wealth by working the oil-mill will be as delicious as sugar. 5. (Only) those fools who like wild beasts will come near courtesans, who act as the vilangafish, which shows its one end to the shark and its other end to the fish in the clear pool, filled with honey-producing flowers. 6. If the goldenbraceleted one who has affirmed, saying, As the perforated bead leaves not the thread on which it is strung, and as the andril-bird which never leaves its mate, I will never separate from you, if she becomes, like the horn of the ram, turned away from its fellow, O my poor heart! will you still remain with her, or will you come away with me? 7. They shall be derided by many who are delighted with the love of courtesans (thinking that they are their friends), who, like the wild cow, lick the hands of men, at the 351 same time poisoning them, and who are like the ghyal in jumping and running away when they have spoiled their lovers of their property, and yet imagine that they are their friends! 8. Courtesans rejoice and appear as friends while their lovers have aught to give; but when they have exhausted their wealth, then they show themselves as enemies and become (estranged from them), as the horn of a ram twisted from its fellow. Those who come not near the fullbreasted courtesans whose eyes roll like the deer, yet leave not off their way of sin, may well say, We have attained the right way. 9. Those who imagine the beauteous courtesans who hide within them the disposition that will afterwards injure them, even when they speak lowly words in order to create confidence, and who, believing these words to be true, imagine them to be their friends, possess their own bodies for themselves alone, and not for any benefit to be done to others. 10. Even at the time when those who have bodies laden with sin have by inquiry found out all the crafty intentions which beautifulbrowed courtesans whose minds are fixed upon others have conceived against them, they walk as though they knew them not. CHAPTER 39.-Chaste Women. 1. Though women be high in reputation and equal to the goddess Ayrani in conjugal fidelity, they must carefully avoid those who love them and follow them in hopes of gratification, for such caution is the safeguard of the virtue of matrons with perfumed foreheads. 2. If in time of distress, when the meal of the whole family is cooked by the water of a small pot, if a host of relatives sufficient to consume the water of the sea should come all at once, the softly-speaking woman, who shows herself as bounteons as the ocean, is the glory of her house. 3. Though her house be open on the four quarters, though it be exceedingly small, and though the rain pour in on every side, a chaste and virtuous woman will be honoured in the place where she resides, and her habitation respected. 4. She who is pleasing to the eye, who in all things gratifies her husband according to his desire, and at all times stands in awe of him, whose modesty is so conspicuous as to shame her sex, and in all her love-quarrels with him acts with such prudence that reconciliation affords him increased delight, this mildly-speaking matron is truly a woman. 5. Whenever our husbands

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DACEMBER, 1873.) ON THE COLOSSAL JAIN STATUE. 358 ON THE COLOSSAL JAIN STATUE AT KARKALA, IN THE SOUTH KANARA DISTRICT. BY A. C. BURNELL, Esq., M.C.S., M.B.A.S., &o. There is every reason to believe that the "May the worship-worthyt statue of BAhuJains were for long the most numerous and balin consecrated here by Sri Virapandyesin, most influential sect in the Madras Presidency, son of Bhairavendra, of the Lunar race, on the but there are now few traces of them except in bright 12th lunar day, Wednesday, in Phalguna the Maisur and Kanars Country; and in the of the cycle) year Virodhyadikrit, I in the SaSouth Kanara district, though still numerous, ka prince's year 1353, be victorious !" they are fast becoming extinct. Their shrines The remains of the sloka which commenced are still kept up in South Kanara, and the priest. the inscription show that this statue was prohood, members of which are distinguished by the bably consecrated by advice of Virapandya's title Indra,' are numerous if not well informed g uru, by name Lalitakirti. Its date=1432 A.D. The accompanying plate is from a photograph Virapandya seems to have been a Jain feuda of one of the most famous colossal Jain statues intory of Vidyanagara, at Ikkeri above the ghats Southern India, which is at Karkala, in South but his successors seem to have been bigoted Kanara. It is on the top of a hill, a rounded Lingaits, and to have much contributed to the mass of gnoiss of some elevation, and is visible decay of the Jains in South Kanara. from several miles' distance. The block from Graul (in his Reise, I. p. 196) mentions this which it has been cut was evidently taken from statue and describes it accurately, but omits the sonthern slope of the hill, and, as the figure mention of the inscription. is 41 feet 5 inches high and weighs about 80 In the same position on the opposite side of tong, it almost rivals the Egyptian statues in the statue, there are a few words of a shorter ingize, though its artistic merit is not nearly so scription still visible, but when I was there, in great. The date is given in an inscription near August 1872, the heavy rain had covered the the right foot of the statue, and the native is (in stone with moss and slime, and I could not make the plate) represented leaning against it. It is out more than a few words to the same effect in Sanskrit but in the Halakannada character, as the inscription already given. and is only partly legible, owing to the exfolia The purpose of these colossal statues has tion to which gneiss is peculiarly subject when been questioned, but I am not aware of any exexposed to the weather. It runs : planation having been given. I would suggest Line 1. Sri.................. ikhya the following. The Jain saints are said to have 2. te .................. (? mand)alesvarah 11 been giants in side according to the fabulous 3. yo 'bhul Lalitaki. stature of men in the ages in which they lived, 4. rtyakhyas tanmunindropade but which has been, the Jains say, gradually 5. satahll Svasti Srisakabhupati decreasing. Bahubalin as a son of Vrishabha. 6. trisaravahni(n) dau virodhya natha, the first Tirthankara, is thus assumed 7. dikridvarshe phalgunasau to be of enormous height. Now in Southern 8. my@varadhavalasridva India thu statues of the Jain saints vary in 9. dasitithau srisoma. size,ll corresponding with the height assigned nyayabhairavendratant in the Puranas, and thus where temples are 11. jasrivirapand yeaina niya). dedicated to an earlier saint the statue is ne12. maryapratima 'tra ba. cessarily left exposed; as to enclose it in a cell, 13. hubalino jiyat pra as is done in the Hindu and most Jain temples, 14. tishthapita Sakavarsha would involve a greater expense than a small sect 15. 1353 Aripand yaraya. could afford, especially as the Jains are not very * My corrections and additions are marked by ( ). The legend anys that he was so absorbed in meditation in a forest that climbing plants grew over him. (See the Niyams or nems is used in South Kanars to express plate.) worship' or 'religious ceremony.' There was, some years ago, a complete set of statues The Jains alter slightly the Hindu names of cycle of the Tirthankarus thus marked by gradation in sise, at years and similar words. the Jain temple of Tirupatikanam, near Conjerersm.

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354 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1873. zealous about mere ceremonies. The cloisters and entrance to the enclosures round these colossal Jain statues are precisely like those in other temples, and there is a pitha for offerings in front of the statue. The dedication of a temple to a saint not a Tirthankara is remarkable. The Digambara Jains of Southern India differ, however, entirely from their fellows of the North, in doctrine, books, and customs. A. B. PAPERS ON SATRUNJAYA AND THE JAINS. BY THE EDITOR. V.-Satrunjaya Hill. Like other sects, the Jainas have their leader of this gana (Ganadhipa) had long ago Tirthas or holy places, which they visit for composed a mahatmya of Satrunjaya in 100,000 worship at stated periods, in vast pilgrim-bands pada; and that Sudharma, the leader of called Sanghas, numbering many thousands, Vira's gana, by his master's direction, made from Gujarat, Marwad, Gangetic India, and an abstract of it in 24,000 verses, from which elsewhere. They enumerate five great Arthas : Dhanesvara, "the humiliator of the Bad-Satrunjaya, Samet sikhar or Mount dhists, composed the present work." It is Parsvanatha in Bihar, Arbuda or Abu a long panegyric in Sanskrit verse, extending in Sirohi, Girner in Surashtra, and Chan. to about 8700 lines, put into the mouth of dragiri in the Himalayas. At these places we Maha vira, the last Tirthankara, who, on naturally expect the oldest Jaina remains, and, his visiting Satrunjaya, is requested by according to the Tapa Jaina Patavali, Jaina Indra to relate the legend of the mountain sacred temples were first built in the year 882 Virata, to A dina that Accordingly he proceeds not or Samvat 412, A.D. 355. At Girnar we have only to tell the strictly Jaina legends of the hill, probably their oldest existing remains, but none but interweaves with them long episodes of of them approach to this antiquity, and few Brahmanic mythology, such as the history of anywhere date earlier than the eleventh or Rama, the war of the Kurus and Pa twelfth century of our era. dayas, and stories of Krishna, altering them Satrunjaya or Satruji'is a solitary | as he pleases. mountain lying to the south of the town of | According to the Mahatmya, the hill boasts Palitana, and rising to nearly 2000 feet no less than a hundred and eight names, and as above the sea-level. Its summit is covered many distinot sikharas or peaks, uniting it with temples, and, from their extent and cele- with the sister-tirthas of Abu and Girnar, brity, they are perhaps second in interest to many of them very low, if not quite invisible. none elsewhere. Like other tirthas it has its Of its names, the following is a selection - mahatmya or legend; and the Satrunjaya Satrunjaya--the etymology of which is Mahatmya, in glorification of the hill as a place thus given in the Mahatmya: "Formerly there of pilgrimage, claims to be the oldest Jaina lived in Chandrapura a cruel king named document we possess,--dating as far back as A.D. Kandu. Aroused by a voice from heaven, he 420 according to some, and according to Weber, went into the forest, and was there overcome by in A.D. 598. It professes to have been com- the cow Surabhi, bound by a Yaksha, and posed by Dhanesvara at Valabh i, by exposed in a cave in the forest. Thereby he command of Sila ditya, king of Surish- attained the knowledge of his guilt. His gotradevi tra. But the author would have us believe or family goddess, Ambika, then appeared to his anthorities were of the remotest antiquity, him and advised him to go on pilgrimage to for he begins by telling that, at the request Satrunjaya; and on the way he met a of Rishabh an atha, Pundarika, the Mahamuni, who taught him fully. Through * Of course this date must depend on that of Mahl vira's death, to which it professes to be 947 years rab. pequent, or 677 after the era of Vikramarks. + Weber, Catr, Mandt, p. 15. I l'here is slo s prone version of the

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SATRUNJAYA HILL. DECEMBER, 1873.] ascending the hill he obtained the victory (jaya) over his enemy (satru)-sin." Tod, professing to have extracted it from the Mahatmya also, gives the following legend: "In distant ages Sukha Raja ruled in Palitana. By the aid of magic, his younger brother assumed his appearance and took possession of the royal cushion. The dispossessed prince wandered about the forests, and during twelve years daily 'poured fresh water from the stream on the image of Sidnath,' who, pleased with his devotion, gave him victory (jaya) over his foe (satru), and in gratitude he enshrined the god upon the mount, hence called Satrunjaya. The hill must therefore have been originally dedicated to Siva, one of whose chief epithets is Sidna tha, as lord of the ascetics, a title never given, I believe, to Adinatha, the first of the Jainas."+ Vimaladri,-height of purification; Pundarika-parvata, or Hill of Pundarika, the principal disciple of Rishabhanatha; Siddhikshetra, Siddhadri, and Siddhabhubhrit,-Hill of the Holy land; Sura Saila, Rock of the gods; Punyar'a si,-bestower of virtue; Muktigeha, place of beatitude; Mahatirtha, the great place of pilgrimage; Sarva Kam ad a, realizing all desires; Prithvipith a, the crown of the earth; and Patalamala, having its foundation in the lower regions.++ "Whatever purity," says the Mahatmya, "may be acquired by prayers, penances, vows, charity, and study, in other artificial tirthas, cities, groves, hills, &c., tenfold more is acquired in Jaina tirthas, a hundred-fold more at the chaityas of the Jambu-tree, a thousand-fold more at the everlasting Dhataki-tree, at the lovely chaitya of Pushkaradvipa, at the mountain Anjana. Yet ten-fold more still is obtained at the Nandisvara, Kundaladri, Manushottaraparvata. SS In proportion, ten thousand times more at the Vaibhara, Sametadri, Vaitadhya, Meru, Raivata, T and Ashtapada.* Weber, uber das Catr. Mahat. p. 17. + Travels in Western India, pp. 277, 278. To these the Mahatmya adds Mahabala, SriyabDada, Parvatendra, Subhadra, Dridhasakti, Akarmaka, Sasvata, Pushpadanta, Maha padma, Prabhobpada, Kailasa, and Kahiti mandanamandana (I. 331-334). SS Colebrooke, Essays, vol. II. p. 223; Asiat. Res. vol. IX. p. 320; Wilson, Vishnu Purana, p. 200. 355 Infinitely more, however, is already obtained by the mere sight of Satrunjaya. Last, it cannot be told how much is acquired by devoting oneself to the worship of it." + Elsewhere the author exclaims, "I have heard, O ye gods! from the mouth of Srimat Simandhara Svami, when once I went to the Kshetra Mahavideha: Any, and ever so great a sinner, by worshipping Sri Satrunjaya, is absolved from sin and becomes a partaker of perfection." From Palitana to the foot of the hill there is a very straight and level stretch of broad clean road, lined on either side with banian or bar trees, and other species of the ficus tribe. It has at intervals kundas and bavlis, reservoirs and wells, of pure water, excavated by Jaina votaries. At the foot of the hill the ascent begins with a wide flight of steps, guarded on either side by a statue of an elephant. At this place there are many little canopics or cells, a foot and a half to three feet square, open only in front, and each having in its floor a marble slab carved with the representation, in bas-relief, of the soles of two feet (charana)-very flat ones -and generally with the toes all of one length. A little behind where the ball of the great toe ought to be, there is a diamond-shaped mark, divided into four smaller figures by two crosslines, from the end of one of which a waved line is drawn to the front of the foot. Round the edges of the slab there is usually an inscription in Devanagari characters. These cells are numerous all the way up the hill, and a large group of them is found on the south-west corner of it, behind the temple of Adisvara Bhaga vana :-they are the temples erected by poorer Sravakas or Jainas, who-unable to afford the expense of a complete temple, with its hall and sanctuary enshrining a marble murti or imagemanifest their devotion to their creed by erecting these miniature temples over the charana of their Jinas or Arhats. The hill is in many places excessively steep, One of the hills surrounding R &jagriha, the ancient capital of Magadha or S. Bihar. On the top of it and other neighbouring hills there are Jaina temples, and the cave occupied by the great Buddha is still to be seen in one of the hills. See before, vol. I. p. 70. Mount Girnara. Colebrooke, Essays, vol. II. p. 208; Asiat. Res. vol.IX. p. 305.-The same as Kailasa-Hemachandra, Abhi. dhana Chintamani, 1028. + Satrunjaya Mahat. I.341-346; Weber, pp. 22 and 60,61.

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356 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1873. and-except the doli, a seat 18 inches square, ed. Just under the brow of the hill to the Nlung from two poles and carried by four Kolis-- north, surrounded by clumps of trees, is the town no mode of conveyance would be even tolerably of Palitana, and in all directions the eye comfortable either for ascent or descent. The wanders over a vast plain, with gentle undulawinding path is paved with rough stones all the tions here and there, and declining away to the way up,-only interrupted here and there by | east and south-east; generally it is cultivated, regular flights of steps. At frequent intervals though not nearly to the extent it admits of. also are the rest houses already mentioned, more At intervals the eye falls on groups of umbragepretty at a distance than convenient for actual ous trees, from beside which peep out the temples use, but still deserving of attention. and huts of many & village. To the east the High up, when near the top, we come to a prospect extends to the Gulf of Khambhat small temple of Hanuman,--the image of about Ghogo and Bha unagar; to the course bedaubed with red lead in ultra-barbaric north it is bounded by the granite range of style ; at this point the path bifurcates-to the Sihor and the Chamardi peak; to the right leading to the northern peak, and to the north-west and west the plain extends as far as left to the valley between, and through it to the the eye can reach, except where broken, in the southern summit. Ascending by the first of far distance due west, by the summits of Mount these, we enter through a narrow door into an Girnar-revered alike by Hindu, Buddhist, outer errclosure, at the left corner of which, un. and Jaina--the latter of whom claim it as sacred der a tree, is the shrine or dargah of Hengar, to Neminatha, their twenty-second Tirthana Musalman pir; so that Hindu and Muslim karn, whom they represent as having, after seven ulike contend for the representation of their hundred years' austerities, become fit to leave Creeds on this sacred hill of the Jainas. This this and all worlds on yonder six-peaked mounHengar or A ngarsa Pir, they say, when tain, at some date in the far past that would living, "could control the elements," bat he was astonish even a geologist. From west to east, foolish enough to try his mace on Adinatha, like a silver ribbon, across the foreground to the and the Jaina, thoagh unable to protect himself Bouth, winds the Satrunjaya * river, which from the blow, struck his enemy dead. His the eye follows until it is lost between the Taghost, however, was malicious enough to annoy 1 & ja and Khokara hills in the south-west. the pajaris at their prayers, and in a solemn The nearer scene on the hill itself is thus decouncil they summoned him to state his wishes: scribed by the author of the Ras Mala :-"Street "Lay my bones on that corner of the hill," said after street, and square after square," he says, the ghost, and the matter was settled. "extend these shrines of the Jaina 'faith, with Our endeavours to discover who this saint their stately enclosures, half palace, half fortress, was, and when he flourished, were equally fruit- raised in marble magnificence upon the lonely less with those of Colonel Tod; there seems to and majestic mountain, and, like the mansions be no information respecting him "beyond the of another world, far removed in upper air from tradition that it was in the time of Ghori the ordinary tread of mortals. In the dark reBelam, nephew of the king of Dehli, who re- cesses of each temple, one image or more of sided in Palitani, and by whom the mosks and Adinatha, of Ajita, or of some other of the Tir. 'idgahs, both inside and outside, were erected." thaikaras, is seated, whose alabaster features, "At present, however," he adds, "the darvesh wearing an expression of listless repose, are attendants on the tomb of their saint have found rendered dimly visible by the faint light shed it requisite to conform to the rules of the place, from silver lamps; incense perfumes the air, and and never touch food on the rock, nor partake barefooted, with noiseless tread, upon the polishof animal food below." ed floors, the female votaries, glittering in scarlet The view that presents itself from this point and gold, move round and round in circles, may well arrest the attention. It is magnificent chanting forth their monotonous, but not unin extent ; a splendid setting for the unique melodions, hymns. Satrunjaya indeed might picture ---this work of human toil we have reach fitly represent one of the fancied hills of Eastern * Dr. Wilson think this is the river mentioned by Ptolemy under the designation of Codrana or Sodrana. Ptol. Goog. lib. vii.

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DECEMBER, 1873.] LEGENDS FROM DINAJPUR. 357 romance, the inhabitants of which have been instantaneously changed into marble, but which fairy hands are ever employed upon, burning perfumes, and keeping all clean and brilliant, while fuiry voices haunt the air in these voluptaous praises of the Devas." But apart from the poetical exaggeration of this, it is truly a wonderful-a unique placea city of temples,--for, except a few tanks, there is nothing else within the gates. Through court beyond court the visitor proceeds over smooth pavements of grey chunam, visiting temple after temple-most of them built of stone quarried near Gopanath, but a few of marble ;-all elaborately sculptured, and some of striking proportions. And, as he passes along, the glassy-eyed images of pure white marble seem to peer out at him from hundreds of cloister cells. Such a place is surely without a match in the world : and there is a cleanliness withal about every square and passage, porch and hall, that is itself no mean source of pleasure. The silence too, except at festival seasons, is striking : now and then in the mornings you hear a bell for a few seconds, or the beating of a drum for as short a time, and on holidays chaunts from the larger temples meet your ear, but generally during the after-part of the day the only sounds are those of vast flocks of pigeons that rush about spasmodically from the roof of one temple to that of another. Parroquets and squirrels, doves and ringdoves, abound, and peacocks are occasionally met with on the outer walls. Independently of the more general features of the scene,-as "the fashionable shrine, on which at the present day the greatest amount of wealth is lavished,"-it must command the special interest of the student of architecture, for, as our greatest authority on the history of this science remarks,"It is now being covered with new temples and shrines which rival the old buildings not only in splendour, but in the beauty and delicacy of their details, and altogether form one of the most remarkable groups to be found anywhere-the more remarkable if we consider that the bulk of them were erected within the limits of the present century. To the philosophical student of architecture it is one of the most interesting spots on the face of the globe, inasmuch as he can there see the various processes by which Cathedrals were pro duced in the middle ages, carried on on a larger scale than anywhere else, and in a more natural manner. It is by watching the methods still followed in designing buildings in that remote locality that we become aware how it is that the uncultivated Hinda can rise in architecture to a degree of originality and perfection which has not been attained in Europe since the Middle Ages."+ The top of the hill consists of two ridges running nearly east and west, and each about three hundred and eighty yards in length. The southern ridge is higher at the western end than the northern one, but it, in turn, is higher at the eastern extremity. Both ridges and the buildings that fill the valley between are surrounded by battlemented walls fitted for defence. The buildings on both ridges, again, are divided into separate enclosures called tuks, generally containing one principal temple, with varying numbers of smaller ones. Each of these en closures is protected by strong gates and walls, and all gates are carefully closed at sundowa. The tuks vary greatly in size, the largest of the ten covering nearly the whole of the southern summit, while one of those on the northern ridge contains only two temples. The two largest tuks, however, are subdivided by walls with gates. LEGENDS FROM DINAJPUR. BY G. H. DAMANT, B. C. 8. The Story of the Touchstone. In a certain country there lived a king who king on hearing this was in a great strait, because promised that he would give every one whatever although he had formerly possessed great wealth they wished for the space of two hours. When he had given it all away, and there was now nothe family priest had finished the distribution of thing left; so he sat still, not knowing what to do. everything, he asked for a present for himself and His son, seeing him so cast down, asked what was said he should like to have a touchstone. The the cause of his anxiety. The king replied * Forbes, Ras Mara, vol. I. pp. 7, 8. Fergamon, History of Architecture (ed. 1867), vol. II. pp. 630, 682.

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358 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1873. "I have given away everything I possessed, there is nothing left in my store; my priest has asked for a touchstone, and I am very anxious about it, because if I do not give it my vow will be broken." On hearing this his son said, "I will bring you the touchstone; do not trouble about it, only ask the priest to grant you six months' time." The king made the request and said to his son, "The Brahman has granted me the six months : do you go now and bring the stone." So his son started on his quest, and when he had travelled three or four days' journey from his home he came to a forest, through which he travelled till evening, and then he found himself surrounded on every de by dense impenetrable forest, where there was no chance of meeting any one, and moreover he was without food and the night was very dark; 80 he was much cast down, and as he was very tired he sat down under a tree where the cool breezo blew on him, and being worn out with the fatigue of his journey he soon fell asleep. Now a pair of birds had made their nest in that tree, and the hen-bird seeing him said to her mate, "Why has this man come to our treep he is our guest, and if we let him remain here without food we shall be guilty of a great sin." The cock-bird answered, "I do not know why he has come, and I don't see how we can show him any attention as a guest : have you any plan ?" She replied, "You go and catch a fish and I will stay here and watch over him; I have made my plans." So the cock went to catch the fish, and the hen woke the prince and told him to collect the sticks that were lying under the tree and light a fire. The prince did so, and in a short time the bird came back with the fish, and told him to roast it and make himself comfortable. The prince replied, "I have made a vow, and until that vow is fulfilled I will take no food." Then the bird said, "I know the cause of your coming, you may take ood; you have come for a touchstone, and will give it you." At these words the prince took food, and when he had eaten he asked for the touchstone. Now the shell of the eggs of theso birds will not burst unless it be rubbed with a touchstone, and for this reason they had brought one from over the sea, and this stone they gave to the prince. In the morning the prince took the touchstone and went on his way home. In the third watch of the day he came to a place inhabited by robbers. Now the people of that village were magicians, and by their enchantments they brought people under their power, and at night killed them and plundered their goods. Amongst them was a chief robber who had a daughter named Prannsinf and five sons, who, the instant they saw any traveller, pretended that he was the husband of Prannasini and took him to their house, and at night she would take him into the sleeping-room and at midnight throw him into a state of insensibility by magic and then kill him with a knife. These men met the king's son with the touchstone, and invited him to their house, and said to him, "Sir, you married our sister when you were very young, and then went away and left her: up to this time we have not been able to find any trace of you. We did not know where you lived, so that we could come and fetch you and take care of you, and we are very glad that have come here to-day." The king's son was very much astonished to hear it, and began to think, "It may be so;" then again he thought, "I can never have been married : had it been so, my father and mother would certainly have told me." Thus he did not know what to believe, but at last decided that he would know about it soon: so he remained in the house. The robber gave him some food, and after he had enten he went and sat in a veranda in front of the house. Now opposite the balcony was the house of another robber, and directly he saw the prince he knew by his magical arts that he was in possession of a touchstone, and as he wished to get it he put on an appearance of honesty, and in a conspicuous place in front of his house he planted a basil-tree and called upon Hari and paid his devotions before it. When the king's son saw this, he thought he must be an honest man, and felt sufficient confidence in him to deposit the touchstone with him, Bo he asked him to take care of the stone for that day. The robber replied, "Good God! I have never touched any riches in my life, and here is this wretch come to deposit his wealth with me." On hearing this the confidence of the king's son was greatly increased, and he became very importunato, so that at last the robber said, "Very well, pat it in the window." The prince did so and went back to the balcony. In the meantime Prannasini came, as if she were really his wife, and took him into the inner room with the intention of killing him, and after they had shut the door they went to sleep; but when she saw how handsome he was she determined that she would not kill him, so she said to him, "All the people here are robbers, and I help them, and princes have been killed by my aid : now I wish you to marry me, and if you will do so I will promise faithfully that I will behave kindly to you, and will not take your life." 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DECEMBER, 1873.] LEGENDS FROM DINAJPUR. 359 deposited his touchstone with the disguised robber: go one day she asked him to bring it, and he went to fetch it from the man in whose care he had deposited it; but the robber had taken away the real touchstone from the window and put a small pebble in its place, and when the prince came he said, "The touchstone is in the place where you left it: take it away." The prince went to the window, but found nothing but a small pebble; and, as he was able to do nothing, he went to Pranni sini and told her all about it, and she replied, "Do not trouble yourself: I will take the touchstone from him." So she went into the house and called a shepherd and said, "Take two bags and & bullock and come along with me." So the shepherd made his preparations and went with her to a corner of the village, where he filled the bags with small stones and put them on the bullock's back, and she said to him, "Go opposite the house of the wicked robber and drive the bullook along with you, and when he asks you what it is, tell him the bullock is loaded with touchstones." When she had given these instructions she went back to the prince. Then the shepherd, as he had been ordered by the girl, went near the robber's house, and when he inquired what was in the bags, replied, "This bullock is loaded with touchstones belonging to the prince," and the wicked robber thought that if he gave back the first touchstone he should be able to get the whole bagfuld so he pat the touchstone back in the window and called the prince and said to him, "I was only putting you to the test: I have no need of any more wealth; take your touchstone and go." The prince said, "I have taken my touchstone, and where can I leave these two bags full of touchstones P" The robber replied "You can leave them wherever you like;" the prince pat down the two bags, and taking his touchstone from the window went to Prannasini and told her about it, and proposed that they should return to his native country. She agreed, and they both of them set out, and after some days' journey he arrived at his own village and said to her, "I think it would be better for you to remain here to-night in the house of this garlandmaker, and to-morrow I will tell my father, and take you to him in proper state." With these words he said to the garland-maker, whom he had known before, "Let this girl remain in your house to-night, and to-morrow I will take her home; and take care she is put to no inconvenience, and whatever expense is incurred I will repay you." The garland-maker agreed, and the prince went to his own house and had an interview with his father, and told him how he bad found the touchstone and would give it the next day. Then he went to his private house and said to his first wife, "Where can I deposit this touchstone P She told him to put it in the window, and he did so and went to sleep. Now the prince's wife had a great friendship for the Kotwal of the city, and she went to see him; and when she arrived he asked her why she came so late at night, and then she told him all about the touchstone. The kotwal told her to bring it to him, as he wished to see it ; 80 she went and fetched it, and he was very much delighted to get it, and took it to his own home, and she went back to her own house and stopped there all night. In the morning the king called his son and wished to see the touchstone; the prince went to bring it, and when he could not find it, became suddenly mad, and did nothing but repeat the words, "This is where it was; give it me." After a little time the king beard what had befallen his son, and sent for him and tried every kind of medicine to heal him. After ten or twelve days Prannasint discovered by magical arts that the prince had become mad, and that the touchstone had fallen into the possession of the kotradh, and unless the prince regained the stone he would not be cured: so she determined to recover it and heal him. Accordingly she told the garland-maker what she intended to do, and the garland-maker made her pretend she was her sister, and told her to go and stand on the top of the house. As the kotuodl was going round the city he saw the girl on the roof, and said to the garland-makor, "I will come and see your sister to-night." She said, "My sister has mado a vow that no one shall come and visit her anless he presents her with a touchstone." The kotwal promised to give it, and went away. After this the king's councillor saw the girl, and said to the garland-maker, "I will come and visit your sister to night." By the girl's order the garland-maker agreed, and he said he would come at one watch in the night. After this the prime minister came, and, having made an arrangement that he should come at the second watch in the night, he went away. And at last the king himself came out to enjoy the air, and when he saw the girl on the roof he said he would come at the last watch of the right. When the girl heard they were all comia, she prepared a large pot and mixed in it two Huers of milk and one seer of water, and put it on the fire, and also brought some grass and a jar of water, and placed them ready, and when it was evening she put a stool near the fire for herself, and another stool for the other people to sit on, and proceeded to mix the milk and water. In the meantime the kotrol came, bringing the touchstone with him; so the girl took it and invited him to drink the milk and water which she had prepared, and they talk.

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360 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. (DECEMBER 1873. ed together until the first watch of the night had "Oh, there is a young Rakshasa tied there." As soon passed away. At that time, according to previous As the kotwal heard that, he leaped out, and the arrangement, the councillor oame, and when he king seeing him thought, "Ho will eat me;" the knocked at the door the kotwdl asked the girl councillor thought, "He will eat me;" the prime who it was, and was very much frightened to hear minister thought, "He will eat me:" so they all, one it was the king's councillor, and asked where he after the other, ran away to their own houses, and could hide himself. She then smeared him all the kotwal also went to his house. When the over with molasses, and poured water on him, and king reached his palace, he ordered his generals covered the whole of his body with cotton wool and army to go to the house of the garland-maker and fastened him in the window. After that the and destroy the young RAkshasa : 80 they went councillor came in and sat down and began to and surrounded the house, but when the girl heard talk, and she gave him some milk and water, and of it she said, "It is only a tame young Rakshasa, so the second watch of the night passed. After and perfectly harmless;" so the generals and army that the king's prime minister came and knocked went away again. After that the king fetched his at the door, and the councillor asked the girl who son from the house of the garland-maker, and it was, and when she told him, he was exceedingly seeing that he was still mad he was very much alarmed and asked where he could hide. She told disturbed at it, and asked him what was the matter, him she had placed the kotrodl in the window and bat he merely replied, "This is where it w38; covered him with cotton wool, and made s fright- give it me." As soon as he said "Give it me," the ful object of him; and then she covered the coun- girl put the touchstone into his hands, and directly cillor with a mat and opened the door to the prime he received it he became well and anointed himminister. He came into the house and sat down on self with oil, and bathed and drank some sherbat. the stool, and, as before, the girl talked with him, After two days he was quite recovered, and the and so the third watch of the night passed away. girl told him the whole story of the loss and Then the king himself came and knocked at the recovery of the touchstone and sent him away door, and the prime minister inquired who it was, with it to his own house : so he gave the touchand as soon as he heard he was tery much fright- stone to his father, and his father gave it to the ened and asked where he could hide, as ho was priest; and the prince put his first wife and the in danger of his life : so the girl took him near the ko wd to death, and took Prannsins to his house frightful-looking kotrod and put him under | with great splendour, and the king gave his king. screen of bamboo, and then opened the door to dom to his son, and himself went to live as a hermit the king. The king chme in and talked to the in the woods. After some time the five brothers girl, and meantime the councillor from beneath of Pr&nnAsint came to the kingdom to search for his mat, and the prime minister from behind his their sister, and the king seized them, and, after screen, seeing the hideous form of the kohodl, be- having punished them well, made them promise came excessively frightened. Just at that moment not to live by robbery any longer, and gave them the king happened to be looking round on every some money and sent them away, and he himself side of the house, and seeing the kobod he said, governed his kingdom in peace for the rest of his "What is that fastened there p" the girl replied: life. INSCRIPTIONS IN THE PAGODAS OF TIRUKURANGUDI, IN TINNEVELLI: AND OF SUCHINDRAM, IN SOUTH TRAVANCORE. BY HIS HIGHNESS RAMA VARMA, FIRST PRINCE OF TRAVANCORE. The following is an inscription in the Tamil The above may be translated thus " In the Grantha character on a large bell, about three year Bhavati (644) of the Kolamba era, king feet in diameter at the base, which hangs in Adityavarm, the ruler of Vanchi, the centre of the eastern colonnade of the large born in Visakha, who is a string of gems of Vaishnava Pagoda at Tirukurangudi : virtues, and a master of all arts (kald), who zrImalkolambavarSe bhavati guNamaNizreNirAdityavarmA adorns the Jayasinha dynasty, and who has atamaica: ART: PARTI tained the sovereignty of Chiravaya Manda lam (kingdom), hung up the bell which adorns T arquet for a 174: sigt the gate of Murari (Vishna) enshrined in the modyakhAno murAreradhigataciravA mnnddlendronrendrH|| I rikuranga (Tirukurangadi) temple." * The 16th asterism in the Hindu calendar.

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DECEMBER 1873.] The Kolamba era here mentioned is evidently the Kollam era, which is adopted throughout the Malabar coast now. It oommenced in the year 824 A.D. Hence the bell must have been hung up in 1468-69. King Adityavarma was therefore a contemporary of Edward IV. of England, and the bell was hung up when the fortunes of York and Lancaster were oscillating, and when Warwick was at the height of his career. It was also 30 years before Vasco TAMIL INSCRIPTIONS IN SOUTHERN INDIA. de Gama set foot on Indian soil. Kolamba is the Sanskrit, and Kollam the Malayalam name for Quilon. The diocese of the Roman Catholic Bishop who was stationed in this part of the Malabar coast when the power of Portugal was in the ascendant was known as 'Columba'. The word Bhavati (), which gives the year 644 of the Kolamba era, follows the system of alphabetical numeration, which, by converting large numbers into familiar words, so greatly facilitates their being stored in memory by Hindu mathematicians and astronomers. The first letter of a word thus formed stands in the units' place, the next in that of tens, the next of hundreds, and so on. 4, = 4, and 6, making 644. The configuration of the kingdom of Travancore of those days, it is hardly necessary to point out, was widely different from what it is now. While the greater portion of what now constitutes North Travancore was no integral part of the kingdom, a large portion of the present district of Tinnevelli was included in it. The kingdom was called Trippappur Svarupam. The boundaries of it are given in an inscription on stone in the Suchindram pagoda. The inscription dates in the reign of Adityavar ma, the same Raja as put up the Tirukurangudi bell. The boundaries are: "east Pannivaykal-an old watercourse near Varkala-south Vaipar, in the Tinnevelli District-north and west the sea." We must make allowance for the geography of those days, in judging of the correctness of the cardinal points here described. However, there is little room to doubt that Tirukurangudi, now situated in the Nanguneri Taluka of the Tinnevelli District, was then a part of Travancore. The whole tract of country, again gathering from the stone inscription, was divided into 18 parts or 'nads. Of these, the king of Travan 361 core made Jayatunganad, or Jayasinhanad, the seat of his court and government. I have not been able to identify the situation of this division. In all probability it was on the eastern side of the Ghats. The heir-apparent occupied Chira va ya and held it in possession. Chiravaya may be identified with the present village of Chirayinkil, about 18 miles to the north of Trivandram. The word Chiravaya is composed of the two Malayalam words Chira (lake) and vaya (mouth), the village being situated where the Bhavanipuram river makes its debouchure into a lagoon. Raja Aditya varma was only heir-apparent and chief of Chiravaya when he put up the bell. This is evident from the phrase adhigataciravA maNDalendraH The word Mandala in Sanskrit, is applied only to a feudatory or dependent state, and not to suzerainty. Adityavarma became ruler of Travancore only three years after the date of the bell. His elder brother Martanda varma was on the throne at 'the time. C The word Jayasinhanvayah' in the stanza inscribed on the bell is suggestive. A European friend, who has devoted much time and attention to the study of Indian antiquities, once told me that the Jayasinha dynasty could be traced to the rulers of the Vijayanagara empire in the Dekhan, and through them to the solar and lunar races. The following two verses are inscribed on stone in two different parts of the Siva Pagoda of Suchindram, about 10 miles N.N.W. of Cape Comorin (Kumari) : 1. rAkAleokezakAbde surapatisaciva siMhayAne tulAyAmet tagit gut wh kAGkSan mArtaNDavam zriyamAtIvilA kIrtimAyuzca dIrgha sthAne mAnI zucIndre samakuruta sabhAM keralakSmApatIndraH // 2. abde kolaMbasaMjJe vizatigavi gurI mitrayAte tulAntye maitrekSe senduvAre pratipadi vanitAlagna ke rAmavarmA / Samt gewinnt sma say bhUpAlacUDAmarakRta puromaNDa candramaH // The first of the above two is inscribed in an outer shrine called Chitrasabha, dedicated to the Chidambaresvara form of Siva; and the second on the front Mandapam of the chief shrine. They may be thus translated: 1. "In the year 1312 (=2, 1 =8, 1) of the Sakabda era, the minister of Indra

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362 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1872 (Brihaspati) being in Leo, the Lord of lotuses (the title, as given in the Travancore Almanac, is Sun) being in Libra, in the asterism of Punar- Chera Udaya Martandavarma Kulasekhara, vasu (the 7th), and on Sunday, Martinda- Perumal," reigned 62 years, from 1382-83 to varma, the king of Kerala, dosirous of 1444-45 A.D. This was not the Martand & - extensive prosperity, fame, and long life, built varmi, who was reigning when his brother the Sabhi of Sambhu (Siva) at Suchindram." Aditya varma put up the bell. 2. "In the year 654 f=4, 7=5, =6) The second inscription is later than the first of the Kolamba era, Jupiter being in Taurus, by 90 years, and than the bell inscription by 10 the Sun at the end of Libra, in the asterism 1 years, its date being 654 Kollam era, or 1478of Hasta (the 13th), on Monday on Pratipat 79 A.D. This was the last year of the reign (the first day after now or full moon) and in of Aditya varma of the Tirukurangudi inthe sign of Virgo (rising), Ramavarm, the scription, and the first of Ra vivarmi, his crowning gem of the Vanchi sovereigns, con- successor. But the name given in the inscripstructed the front Mandapam of the moon- tions is Rama varma. This discrepancy crested (Siva) at Suchindram, equalling Kailasa might be explained either that Ramavarma in splendour, and fall of the purest qualities." never became sovereign, or that the name Ra This Sakabda year 1312 (A.D. 1390-1), given vivarmi or Iravivarma, given in the Almanac, in the first stanza, corresponds with the year is an error, and ought to have been Ramavar64 of the Kolamba or Kollam era. Hence this ma. But that in the construction of two differinscription is eighty years older than that onent parts of the same pagoda 90 years should the Tirukurangudi bell. This Raja, whose full intervene is somewhat unaccountable. PUSHPAMITRA OR PUSHYAMITRAP BY G. BUHLER, PH.D. In several letters on the Patanjali contro- both give the form Pasamitta. Now it seemed versy, Professor A. Weber has quoted me as an to me undeniable that Pasamitta can be the authority both for the authenticity of the form representative of Pushyamitra only, not of PushPushpamitra and for that of Puskyamitra. I feel pamitra. I consequently had to acknowledge it, therefore, incumbent on me to state what I the correctness of Professor Weber's rendering know regarding them, and to explain how I of the commonly misspelt name, which has also came to waver in my opinion on the subject. been adopted by Professor Wassiliew, in his On first reading Prof. Weber's discussion on work on Buddhism. the name of the king, who probably was a In order to give Sanskritists an opportunity. patron of Patanjali's, I remembered that I had to judge for themselves of the value of these read the form Pupphamitta in Merustunga's Vicha- statements, I subjoin the text of the Prakrit rureni, or "Catena of Enquiries." I mentioned Gathas above referred to, according to Meru. this to Prof. Weber in a letter, without, how- tunga, Dharmasagara, and Jayavijayagani. ever, being then able to verify my reminiscence jam rayanim kalagao ariha titthamkaro mahaby a reference to the original. When I later had virol an opportunity of re-examining the Vichdrasreni, tam rayanii avantivai ahisitto palago raya I found that it contained both the form Puppha 11111 mitta and Pasamitta ; that the latter ocourred in satthi palagaranno panavannasayam tu hoi nan. the text of the Prakrit Gathas, on which the dana Vichintsreni is a commentary, while the former Bethasayan mariyapan tisan chia pasamitta - is used once or twice in the commentary, which 88 || 2 |f is written in Sanskrit, and that, probably, it is balamittabhanumitti satthi varisini chatta nanothing but a misspelling for Pushpamitra. On havahane! collating two other Theravalis, which also give taha gaddabhillarajjam terasa varisa sagassa the Prakrit Gathis in question, I found that chau || 3 11 * Var. lec-ayanitai, Dh., J.; ahisatto, M.; palao, Dh., J. + Var. lec.-pAlaya, Dh., .; nandAna, M.; nand Anam, Dh., J.; tisachchis, M. 1 Var. lec.-bh&numittana sathl, M.; nababane, Dh., J.

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DECEMBER, 1873.) MISCELLANEA AND CORRESPONDENCE. 363 1. Palaka, the lord of Avanti, was apointed in that night in which the Arhat and Tirthankara Mahavira entered Nirvana. 2. Sixty are (the years) of king Palaka, but one hundred and fifty-five are (the years) of the Nandas; one hundred and eight those of the Mauryas, and thirty those of Pusamitta. 3. Sixty (years) ruled Balamitra and Bhanu. mitra, forty Nabhovahana. Thirteen years likewise (lasted) the rule of Gardabhilla, and four are (the years) of Saka. These verses, which are quoted in a very large number of Jaina commentaries and chronological works, but the origin of which is by no means clear, give the adjustment between the eras of Vira and Vikrama, and form the basis of the earlier Jaina chronology. Dr. Bhau Daji, when giving an abstract of Merutunga's Vicharaereni in the J. B. B. R. A. 8. ix. 147 1899., failed to make out how the detailed figures given for each reign make up the total of 470 years which are said to lie between Vira's death and Vikrama's accession. But his difficulty arose from the fact that he left out of account the four years of king Saka. The position of Pusamitta immediately after the Mauryas leaves it not doubtful that Patanjali's Pushyamitra is intended the same whose misdeeds against his master Btibadratha are mentioned in the Puranas and elsewhere. In conclusion I may add that Bana too, in the long list of kings killed treacherously by servants or relations, which occurs in the sixth Uchchhvasa of the Harshacharita, mentions Pushyamitra. His words are Pratijnadurbalam cha baladarsanavyapades darsita beshasainyah senanir anaryo mauryam brihadratham pipesha pashyamitrah svAminam II. "And reviewing the whole army under the pretext of showing him his forces, the mean general Pushyamitra crushed his master Btihadratha, the Maurya who was weak of purpose." MISCELLANEA AND CORRESPONDENCE. THE LUSHAIS. and scanty beards, a few straggling hairs in some From a Narrative Report by Capt. W. F. Badgley, being the only representatives of chin-tuft or mousB. 8. O. Topographical Survey. tache, beyond which none of them can boost. Their hair is straight and black or brownish, eyes The Lashais, of whom we met men of four dif. ferent tribes, are fairer than the Bengalis, of a brown or black, and teeth invariably good; their very uniform height of about five feet six inches, expression open, bold, and generally pleasing, and well made, active, intelligent, and energetic. Of their voice loud and sonorous, partly probably their figures we had one or two opportunities of from practice and education, the children having the same deep far-sounding tones when calling judging, especially on one pocasion when some iron loudly. hoops of burat barrels were in the fire, to get Their dress is admirable in its ease; no boots, which, and to save their clothes from accident, nor breeches, nor other tight clothing confine the they stripped, an easy operation with men whose freedom of their limbs; a large square cloth or two only covering is a large square of cloth. The put on together, socording to the temperatare, is figures they displayed were splendid, full, and their only covering, which is worn passed under finely muscular, especially about the shoulders and the right arm and with two corners thrown in Galves, though in the latter they showed a more opposite directions over the left shoulder, and graceful shape than the large-legged Kukis and managed for modesty with the most enay dexterity. Nagas who were with us as coolies. That they were To oonfine the cloth upon the left shoulder, they intelligent we had, not knowing their language, less carry, when anywhere from home, a bag slung so chance of forming an opinion; but from what we as to rest behind the right hip, the shoulder-strap could judge from a few who understood some being of skin, tiger's apparently by preference, words of Hindustani, and from their quick reoog. and the bag, which is of fine and strong net, nition of sketches, even in outline, and from their covered with large skin flap somewhat like looks, which otherwise belied them, they were so. sporran, and often made of long white goat's-hair, Of their energy and activity their raids are suf- with three black streaks. In the bag they carry ficient proof. their smoking apparatus, flint and steel, a dhao or Their heads are well formed, with good fore- large chopping-knife, and occasionally a bundle of heads, oblique eyes, heavy eyebrows, high cheek- pangis, which are small hardened bamboo skewers, bones, depressed noses, large but not thick lips, and which stuck in the ground are very efficient Pushpamita W89.

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364 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1873. protection to their owner when sleeping in strange white; silver and gold have they none, and care places, and left behind him in his path protect him littlo for, a few pice re-purchasing a rupee; but in some degree when pursued. these are at & premium merely because they can We saw, as I said, men of four separate tribes, be beaten into bullets or used to line pipes. The three of them distinguished by their mode of second is that, though not particularly cleanly, wearing their hair, and the southern tribes rather they are entirely free from any of those noisome smaller and handsomer than the northern. Those skin diseases which are so common in Kachar, and we first met, who had come from Kalel, and are only one man did we see marked with small-pox. now living on Banbong, called themselves How. We saw no dwarfs or cripples; probably they longs, and are governed by an old woman, Impapu, are mado away with early, after the Spartan the mother of their former chief, Vonpilal, whose fashion. grave is on Kulel. The name of the next tribe, those | Of tho mental and other qualities of the Luunder Poiboi and Lal Bur, I quito forgot to as- shais, as far as one could judge, they are quickcertain. The remaining two were Pois and Paites. tempered, unstable in mind, loose in allegiance, The former were inhabitants of the country south thieving, and occasionally given to drunkenness, of Lal Bur's, who had apparently hired themselves violence, and barbarity ; inquisitive, taciturn in conout as soldiers; and the latter, probably a very versation, patriotic, and too bold to be liars; their small tribe, living on and about Narklung. Of bump of locality must be strongly marked; they are these the two first wore their hair drawn smoothly great hunters and athletic, walking long distances, back, and fastened in a knot behind by a thin bit and climbing with remarkable case. From the of iron bent into a double prong. The Pois parted smallest children they all smoke,- men and women, theirs across the head behind, and letting the -and so much are they given to it that any of their lower part hang loose drew the upper forward, recent camps can always be detected by their stale twisting it with the front hair, tied it in a knot over | tobacco smell. Their pipes are neatly made of their forcheads, where it was secured by an iron bamboo lined with iron or copper, and of the ordi: skewer or with a comb of ivory : round this knob nary pipe shape for the men, those used by the those who wore turbans tied one end in, putting women having a receptacle for water, after the them on after the manner of the Sikhs, which was fashion of a hubble-bubble, which water-disgustremarked by some Lushais, who called the 22nd ing practice !-is carried about by the men in little Poi; about a fourth of the Pois wore turbans, gourd bottles to take occasional nips from. the other tribes, as a rule, going bareheaded. Tho They have some sort of religious belief, but I Paites wore their hair frizzed up from their head, heard no mention of priest, nor were there any temand cut about four inches long. Chiefs and head ples or itnages. Occasionally, in the field we met men wear feathers in their hair-knots on great with a little oleared space on which were arranged occasions, that is, those who have them; how the rows of clay pallets of various shapes, with a yardPaites wear them, or whether they use any, I do long flagstaff and coloured pendent waving over not know. Of the Suktis, who live to the eastward, them, but it was in their tombs that we saw the we saw next to nothing; they are at enmity with greatest evidences of their religion. These were these other tribes, and, thinking to take them at a always in their villages and ornamented with trodisadvantnge, had, just before we reached the phies of skulls of animals and feathers. At burials Champhai, made an attack on LAI Bar's village of they discharge firearms over the graves, and I Chonchim, whence they had been repulsed with believe slay the animals, whose heads afterwards go loss, leaving one body bebind. This unfortunate's to their decoration, and whose spirits are intended head and some limbs had been placed as orna- for the delectation of the grave's occupant ments to Vonolel's tomb in Lungvel, but as it had in the happy hunting ground. The greater the been scalped, gouged, and the skull smashed in, man the more animals are sent with him, and it little could be made out from it. is said that slaves are sometimes sacrificed and There are two things remarkable about these buried with a chief. Vonolel's and Vonpilal's people-one, their indifference to ornaments: ex- tombs had the heads of many beasts over them cepting two, which are very simple, they wear (indeed one got a knowledge of the larger fauna of none: these are a tiger's tooth or tuft of goat's the country at a glance); the skills of the most hair tied with a string round the neck, and a small dangerous were muzzled, and there were hobbles tuft of sonrlet feathers stuck in, or an amber bead to restrain the feet. hung by a string to the ear. Some of the children Beyond what can be gathered from what I have wore strings of beads, but very few of the men; mentioned that they must believe in a future and coloured chintz was scoffed at as a barter, state, and that there is some invieille power for though anything might be got for plain red or evil, against whom they make their incantations to

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MISCELLANEA AND CORRESPONDENCE. DECEMBER, 1873.] protect their crops,--I could not discover anything, excepting that the tiger's tooth or tuft of hair which the men wear about their necks has a religious signification. Their language is not monosyllabic like the Khasia and others, and there is no written character. Tradition is probably handed down by songs, which are of their battles, their hills, and love; and they can improvise. One night a party were invited to give us a specimen of their performances, and the first of the songs was on the subject of our expedition. They chaunt them in soft deep notes to the accompaniment of a drum and a set of weak organ-like pipes, whose stops include an octave; and the love-song they afterwards gave us was acted to in a posturing dance by one of the number, at first slowly, but as the story went on, more and more quickly, till the corn-cob, which represented the young woman sung to, was snatched up and whirled round quite excitedly. I have said before, I think they are mighty hunters; everything that runs or flies is game with them, from an elephant to a field-rat, from a hornbill to a wagtail; and they have many and clever devices for bringing them to the pot, using, besides firearms, traps and fenced drives for the larger, and springs for the small game, and for small birding employing the pellet-bow. Game should be plentiful, judging from the numbers of heads we saw in front of the houses, which are not preserved beyond the owner's lifetime. These were of elephant, tiger, leopard, sambur, hog-deer, metna, pig, and monkey. This last-the hulak or howling monkey, black-faced, grey-whiskered, blackbodied and tail-less, with very long arms and of extraordinary activity-is an abominably noisy beast, with a cry beginning with a yell, and ending with a series of howls like men imitating jackals; they are always started, by the way, in their discordant chorus, by a single sharp cry from one of them, which my fellows called the raja. Of birds I saw the skulls of some cranes, and they have, besides many which I did not find out, hornbills, jungle fowl, partridges (francolines), chir, and black pheasants. Of fish I only saw two varieties, the mashir and a small silurus, called in the north-west sol. They use nets, and also, as is the custom elsewhere, poison the water with the juice of a cactus which kills the fish without spoiling them as food, and in one place, the camp on the Tui-burn, they had built a large dam and weir, apparently for fishing purposes. Their mode of war is of surprises and bushfighting, and their ideas of bravery are amusing. At Vanug (the first fight) they called out to the sepoys not to stick like cowards in the open, but 365 to come against them in the jungle like men. For weapons they have flint-locks, some wonderfully old, dating back to Culloden, spears and dhaos; we saw a few leather shields, but no bows and arrows. For defence, though their villages are lightly palisaded, they prefer the employment of stockades in difficult passes defended by entanglements, a specimen of which, which was quite a lesson in military engineering, we met with, fortunately undefended, a mile or so from Poiboi's village of Tulcheng. I have been told, by the way, that the village of the chief is never palisaded, his ontlying villages being guardians against attack, or least unprepared for attack. They carry on feuds and make raids among themselves as well as on Manipur and the eastern provinces for arms, ammunition, women, and heads. When on raids they travel with remarkable celerity, carrying nothing but their arms and enough of rice for the journey, a fresh joint of bamboo at each new camp serving every purpose of water-jar or cooking-pot. About to make an attack, they are told off in three parties, gunmen, spearmen, and men to carry off the wounded on retreat; if they have been successful and have made prisoners, the men are made to carry the provisions, and though they sometimes retain a few as slaves, specially Manipuris and Kukis, the carrier is, as a rule, relieved of his head when he has been relieved of his burthen. I think it was after the raid on Monir Khal that a body was found-a garden cooly's-which appeared as if an incantation had been practised by it; the head was not removed, and the chest was cut open and filled with boiled rice: why so I could not find out. Notwithstanding their cruelty, they are fine fellows, taking pride in a fight, dressing themselves in their best and neatest for the occasion, and showing in their own way considerable pluck; and in their communities I imagine they are moral and courteous, the ever-ready dhaos being a potent preventive to bad conduct and bad manners. Mantris (heralds ?), men wearing feathers and red pagris, are employed among these people to treat of war and peace and all matters, and at all times pass free; but besides these verbal means of communication they have modes of spreading intelligence known to themselves, as by fire signals, alarm drums and gongs, and others. A tree exuding a red sap hacked and struck with spikes is a serious warning; a red gourd stuck in a tuft of grass means bloody heads for those who persevere in advancing beyond it; a branch across the path is a notice not to go further; and a bamboo split, broken, and burnt, means fire and fury. 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866 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1873. slightly fenced, and the approaches guarded at powder and priming flasks. Sugar is a thing difficult points by palisading, loop-boled and they do not seem to care about, but they liked our strengthened by heavy stones, and on command- rum, and themselves prepare a liquor from rice ing view-points there are out-looks. The conser which has a pleasant taste, and is drunk, well dilatvanoy is admirable, and the houses, though ed, by suction through reeds from the jar in which smoke-begrimed from having their fire places it is made. We called it hill-beer. Their name inside, are clean. Each house usually has its own for it is "ju." enclosed patch of fenced kitchen-garden to one They manufacture ererything necessary to their side, and, though not built perfectly symmetrical, simple mode of living-cooking and liquor pots, they are ranged to form streets. In the middle wooden platters, baskets, salt, saltpetre, cotton of the town is a large house used as a town-ball. cloth, dhaos, and axes. The eartbenware is moald The frame-work of a house is of wood for the ed. The baskets are of every shape and size, from posts and beams, and bamboo for the roof; the the store basket, which will hold 50 msunds, to floor is raised a few feet above the ground, and is the little thing which holds the woman's needles laid with bamboo split and beaten flat, the walls and thread: they are woven of shreds of bamboo heing of the same material, woven in a large che- with great neatness. Gourds and bamboos are quer pattern with very neat effect; the roof is a used for water. thatch of gross and palm leaves. The average Their apparatus for cleaning, carding, spinning, dimensions are 30 by 12 (Poiboi's was 40 yards and weaving the cotton is similar to that in use in long), of which the first third is left open ; & ramp Bengal. The cloth is very strong and closeof logs lends up to them, and on one side of the grained, in breadths of three feet, unbleached, with ramp is a platform for sitting out in fine weather ; a narrow blue border, or dyed entirely blue. Some under the eaves are the fowl-houses, and hung of the cloth used by them, resembling & dark over the house front are the skull and horns of tartan, is said to come from Manipur. Salt they animals captured in the chase. The interior, manufacture from the ashes of bamboo leaves, and which is closed by a neatly-made sliding door, is saltpetre from cowdang urinated on. Their forges usually undivided; in some a half-partition por are not in any way remarkable, a pair of large tions off part as a granary; door at the back bamboo oylinders being the bellows: but they turn leads to a small platform behind. In the middle out remarkably good arms, working up the iron of one side an open fireplace is made of slabs of which they get from elsewhere to suit their own stone, above which hangs a frame for smoking tastes us to shapo. The szos ate of that peculiar ment and fish, and beyond it is usually raised construction used among most of these tribesplace for sleeping on. In the open front of the flat-ended peg tied in socket in a bamboo bandle. house is the pig-trough and the mortar for cleaning There are no archeological remains, excepting rices' work done by the women daily. This rice, the rough slabe, with rough outlines of figaros which is of large white grain and very nutritious, cut on them, which cover old graves, and there forms their principal food, and is grown by dry are no ronde, communication being by footpaths, cultivation on cleared spots on the hillsides. which in the more populated parts are brood and Their method of agriculture is having selected easy. * patch of jungle and marked it by putting arrows I had almost forgotten to mention the women, in the split stumps of small trees round it, to fell but we saw so little of them; they are pleasant, and burn it when dry just before the mains, and, round, flat-faced creatures, continually smoking, sonttering the mabes, to dibble in the grin with and lively among themselves; their dress is dhaos, deserting the spot after three years when the sonty bluu kilt, and cloth thrown over the shouldsoil is worked out. The crop cut at its proper ers, with the head usually uncovered, and the hair season is threshed and stored on the ground till the loose or nently braided. They wear no ornamenta. end of the harvest, when it is carried in by the They vary in colour, some being quite fair with rowy women in large baskets slung by a band across the | cheeks. Their children are carried on their backs. forehead, their mode of carrying all barthews. Be The products of the country are India-rubber, sides the rice they raise maize, a sort of yam, sweet wax, and ivory, usually bartered for salt. The potatoes, beans of several sorts, ginger, tobacco, traders are mostly Manipuris.-Report of the Topopot-herbs, gourds, squashes, cotton, plantains, and graph. Survey of India, 1871-72. plants giving a dark-blue dye, and they domesticate pigs, goats, dogs, fowls, and pigeons, all for food ; ON PROF. HOERNLE'S THEORY OF THE milk they never touch, and the metns, which they GENITIVE POSTPOSITIONS. allow to roam half-wild, is kept only for its flesh and SIR, -The question of the origin of the genitive borns, the latter being made, for one thing into postpositions in the modern vernaculars of Iudia

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DECEMBER, 1873.] is so important and interesting that I trust you will allow me space for a few remarks on the reply of Prof. Hoernle, published in the July number of your valuable periodical. As regards my view on the different kinds of Prakrit, I agree with Mr. Beames, that none of the Prakrits was ever a spoken language, and that in order to learn what was the spoken language of the Aryans we must turn principally to the modern vernaculars. I have never had any other opinion on this subject, and in this respect there is no controversy at all between Prof. Hoernle and myself. But I am sorry to see that Prof. Hoernle still adheres to the error which I had already pointed out in my review of his essays. It is perfectly erroneous to say that Vararuchi's sutras are founded upon the plays, or that the plays are founded upon Vararuchi's sutras. The language of the plays is Sauraseni, and the language taught by Vararuchi in the first nine sections is Maharasatri, of which dialect comparatively few instances occur in the plays. Now it is clear that a man who teaches the Maharashtri will not derive the rules for that language from the Sauraseni. It is true that Vararuchi, XII. 32, distinctly says sesham Maharashtrivat, and that on the whole he does not make many exceptions from the principal Prakrit. But this is only one of his numerous blunders. Later Prakrit grammarians, especially Ramatarkavagisa and Markandeya Ravindra, who treat more carefully of the lower dialects, have a good many more rules, which are confirmed throughout by the plays. Vararuchi's rules in the first nine sections are derived from works like the Saptasati and the Setubandha, which were written in Maharasthrt and composed in verse. This is clearly proved by the corresponding rules of Hemachandra, who adds numerous examples which are exactly like the poems of the Saptasati, and several of them already to be found in Prof. Weber's edition. Hence it is ridiculous to affirm that the Prakrit of the plays has been grammarized by Vararuchi and his successors. MISCELLANEA AND CORRESPONDENCE. The imaginary participle kunno can by no means be used to explain the Gujarati postpositions. That the colloquial has many forms which in the literary language are restricted to poetry is an old story, but those words are then of frequent occurrence in either the colloquial or the poetry; kunno, however, is not yet found, and I have not met with it, though I am in possession of extensive materials drawn from manuscripts. Prof. Hoernle is very partial to words formed according to analogy; but such words never prove anything; if the participle kunno had given rise to the Gujarati postpositions, it ought to be found very often. The principal question, however, is that concerning 367 the genitive postpositions in Bangali and Oriya. I think still that it is very easy to prove that Prof. Hoernle is in error. In fact there are no post positions at all in Bangali and Oriya, and these two languages must be separated at once from all the rest. Prof. Hoernle remarks that my statements as to the use of keraka have no particular bearing on the question whether the Bangali er is a curtailment of keraka or not. My arguments already intimated in my review, where I have tried to state them as briefly as possible, are as follows-Firstly, the word kera is the original of the word keraka, and hence it follows that kera has not been curtailed, but, on the contrary, has been lengthened. The word kera or keraka is found in the Maharashtri, the Saurasent, and the Magadhi; it is found in the various Apabhranaas as well as in the vernaculars. In the Sinhalese language, as Prof. Childers informs me, it is used to form the locative of a certain class of words. Prof. Kern has lately called attention to the very common use of this word in the language of the gipsies; but even there kero has not been changed in the least, but has remained unaltered to the present day, as stated by Prof. Pott, Paspati, and other authorities. The word, though not noticed by Vararuchi, is well known to the later Prakrit grammarians. Hemachandra, VIII. 2, 147, has a special sutra running thus: || idamarthasya kerah || idamarthasya pratyayasya kera ity adeso bhavati | yushmadiyah tumhakero | asmadiyah amhakero na cha bhavati | malapakkho | panini. Since Hemachandra in the following sutra: || pararajabhyam kkadikkau cha || expressly mentions the two words para and rdjan, I am inclined to suppose that the use of kera was originally restricted to the same words which, according to Panini, may assume in Sanskrit the suffix kiya. This question I shall discuss at full length in my edition of Hemachandra's Grammar. A sutra corresponding to that of Hemachandra occurs in Markandeya, fol. 28 b; and in the Trivikramavritti II. 1, 8, we have: || kera idamarthe || idamarthe vihitasya chhapratyayasya kera ity adeso bhavati and now Trivikrama, as usual, gives the same examples as Hemachandra. Simharaja, fol. 43 a, has the same sutra. Hemachandra mentions the word again in the section on the Apabhransa, VIII. 4, 422: || sambandhinah keratanau || gaaii su kesari piahujalu niechimtai harinaim | jasu kerem humkaradem muhahu padamti trinkim]. The same is given by Trivikrama, III. 3, 51, and means in Sanskrit: gatas sa kesari pibantu jalam nischinta harinah yasya (sambandhina) humkarena mukhat patanti tripani: "The lion is gone; without fear may the antelopes drink the water; (the lion) by

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368 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1873. whose roaring, from their mouth fulls the grass." Keraka is never used in the Msichchhakatika or Again, Markandeya in the section on the Savart, a any other play in the sense of a genitive postposikind of Samdali, has the sutra (fol. 66 b): || kerake tion; it never determines the case of another kelake v&syat || amhakerakam Dharam ambakola- noun; it has never been anything else but a real kam val; and Chandrasekhara, the best commenta- adjective noun. tor of the Sakuntala, remarks: kerakasabdah pre- Prof. Hoernle denies having said that the geniksite atmiye vartate. Thus kera, keraka, kelaka tive of santana was formerly santana keraka. At are found even in the latest and most corrupt p. 132, however, he says: "Take, for instance, the dialects. When should it have been curtailed, genitive of santdna, a child; it would be santana and what particular necessity could induce the keraka." What else can this mean but what I Bangalis alone to shorten it, while all the others have concluded from it P That the Bangeli adjechave either lengthened it or retained it unal tives have dropped all case, number, and gender tered ? According to Vararuchi, III. 18, 19, terminations I knew as well as Prof. Hoernle does : corresponding to Hemachandra, VIII. 1. 155 but exactly because all of them have done it, and and VIII. 2. 63-64, Trivikrama, I. 4. 59-60. the because this is the rule, it is difficult to see how words turya, orya, and dhairya may elide the ya keraka alone could have been curtailed to such and become tura, sura, dhira (comp. Lassen, an extent. In the language of the gipsies, where, Inst. prder. p. 247). After the same principle as I have remarked above, kera is very frequently Adrya becomes kara; the word has not been employed, the adjectives are treated in almost noticed by the grammarians, because it existed al the same way as in Bangall, but still kera bad ready in Sanskrit. This kdra is preserved in retained its old shape. Whether keraka ocours the Bangali genitive a46T, 1..19 + , and fourteen or twenty-eight times in the Michchhahas been curtailed to afHR, TATC, and in Urda to katikd is of no consequence. I should not have hamard, tumhard. Hemachandra, VIII. 4. 434, in mentioned that at all if I had not been struck by the section on the Apabhrania has the sutra: the astonishing confidence with which Prof. Il yushmadaderiyasya darah || apabbrambe yushma- Hoernle asserted that this word in the determinadadibhyah parasya Tyapratyayasya dara ity Adebo tive senso-according to his views--is found in bhavati), and among the examples tuhard, amhara, the Msichchhakatikd only : a confidence all the mahdrd are quoted. Trivikrama, III. 3. 23, and more astonishing as he confesses now himself that mharaja, fol. 73 b, have : | chhasya yushmadAder he has not even examined, to say nothing of rend, darah ||. If we compare these sotras with the such plays as the Malavikd and the Mudrdrdk. satras mentioned above, nobody, I think, canshasa ! That the word keraka must have been doubt that dra, which, as the Bangkli shows, | very common in the colloquial speech Prof. Hoernle originally was kara, and our kera are only modi- need not tell me. This, however, is no reason fications of the same word, viz. kedrya. Kdra why it should have been curtailed; the ques. could easily be curtailed after a homogeneous tion is not how often keraka oocars, but what vowel, being of frequent occurrence already in changes it may have undergone. If every word of Sanskrit; but karya in the shape of kera is a mere frequent occurrence were curtailed to one syllable, Prakritic word. Originally its use was restricted our language would soon resemble the Chinese to the pronouns and the words para and rdjan; language. It is due to the uncritical editions of afterwards it was lengthened and used in connec- Sanskrit plays by the Indian Pandits that the tion with substantives. It has never been cur- word is not met with oftener in other plays. In tailed. Secondly, the change of r to i forbids us the Sakuntal I shall restore it in three more pasto accept Prof. Hoernle's theory. There can be no Bages where the best manuscripts have it, though doubt that kelaka is the more modern form; and it is not found in any of the present editions of that the change or to in this word is not arti- this play. The first instance which I quoted ficial, but thoroughly organic, is proved by the Ma- from the Sakuntala is not false one; keraka rathi keld, kel, kelem, and the Low Hindi kaild is used there pleunastically; it could be omitmentioned by Prof. Hoernle himself. Indeed it tod very well. The second instance is not in the wonld be a strange phenomenon if the same word least doubtfal, but as certain as anything can kera had not only retained its original shape in be. Monier Williams is no authority, his edi. the vernaculars, but had also been changed into tion-apart from its being a pone asinorum kela and again shortened to er. This is impossi- being founded upon the worst possible manuble, because it is unnatural and against the genius scripts. I gladly recogrize the superiority of of language. Thirdly, keraka is nowhere a sort Prof. Hoernle in every other respect, but as for of affix. If we style keraka an, affix, we must the Sakuntala I must lay claim to know a little do the same with innumerable other adjectives. more about the play than he, having collated,

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DECEMBER, 1873.) MISCELLANEA AND CORRESPONDENCE. 369 besides all the MSS. used by Prof. M. Williams, four Dravidian, five BangAli, and two Devanagari MSS., and having copied two Dravidian commentaries of which Prof. Hoernle has not even heard the names. Thus I think I am entitled to judge whether a reading is doubtful or not. For all questions concerning this play I have much pleasure in referring Prof. Hoernle to my papers on the recensions of the Sakuntala: Breslau, 1870, and Gottingen, 1873. Prof. Hoernle seems to be of opinion that everybody who does not speak the literary language speaks slang: there is, however, a great difference between the colloquial and the slang-keraka is colloquial but not at all slang. The form kerika is a false one; it is not supported by the MSS. I cannot see why Prof. Hoernle has been obliged to trust his Calcutta edition. There has been published a much better edition (Saka 1792) which is accessible to everybody who cares to get it; this edition (p. 252, b) has also bappakelake. The mistake is not so slight as Prof. Hoernle wishes to represent it. Keraka no doubt has the meaning of "own," " peculiar to," "belonging to," but it now rests with him to show how the participle krita came to receive this meaning. His reasoning was that, as prakelaka is the same as prakrita, thus kelaka is the same as krita; and as kara means the same as prakara, thus krita means the same as prakrita (p. 131.) I cannot discover any other passage in his essays where he alludes to the subject again. Thus I must still maintain that this error, which shows a complete want of criticism, invalidates all his deductions, and I am afraid that the absurdity imputed to me by Prof. Hoernle is his own. On the other hand I have endeavoured to show how keraka came to its meaning. Unfortunately Prof. Hoernle has not been able to understand me; for at p. 212 of his reply he says that I have adduced the words kajjam and kichohan as used in the same way as he says kera or keraka is. Nothing was further from my thoughts, and I cannot make out how it is pos. sible to misunderstand me so utterly. I have quoted all these passages in order to prove that kajjam and keram are used exactly in the same way, and hence that, as lajjam cannot but be derived from kdryam, the same must hold good for keram. I have adduced these instances only for the sake of the menning of keraka, and instead of recognizing the striking evidence, which really admits of no doubt, Prof. Hoernle imputes me a folly of which I was not capable. He then goes on to observe that the identification of kera with krita is an old traditional one of the Pandits. I confess that I prefer European criticism to the tradition amongst the Pandite; besides I am able to show that this tradition has never been univer. sal. In the margin of the best and very old MS. of the Sakuntala, which is most carefully written, the word keraka is rendered twice by kdrya. This interpretation is due to the Pandit Tapadeva. There can be no doubt that Prof. Lassen has been quite positive in his opinion on the origin of kera. Prof. Hoernle quotes only the first passage, but there are several others, two of which I have already quoted. Nevertheless Prof. Hoernle omits them altogether. At p. 130 Prof. Lassen says: "similis ratio este ex orsi, prorsus autem diversa ejus e quod ex a vel a conflatur admixto i sequentis syllabae ut tettia, keraka." And now he refers the reader to the first passage. The third passage is at p. 247:"i hoc ex ya orsum, si liquidam excipit saepius transponitur, ita ut coalescat cum a vel d praecedenti in k; kera e karia pro kdrya;" and here he refers to p. 189, where he simply states as a fact" keram a kdrya cfr. kerakam." The fourth passage is at p. 367 : "post r aut ija fit ex rya, kajja e karya, aut dissolvitur rya in ia, karya, kdria, kera; nam i antecedenti syllabae inscritur." The fifth passage is App. p. 58: "compara cum hoc vocabulo (scil. with achchera) kdrya cujus forma solita est kajja; in versibus etiam kera legitur. Inde deri. vatum keraka in prosa, tamen saepe legitur." Who except Prof. Hoernle can doubt that Lassen has derived kera from kdrya? Prof. Weber says that the "e" has originated from "a" under the influence of a following ya. I am unable to discover an "a" and a ya in krita, but I find them both in karya. Kdrya becomes kdria, afterwards kaira, and hence in Prakpit kara; and the e, ori. ginally long, has been shortened afterwards. It is not necessary to suppose a form karra, as Prof. Kern does. A doubling of the ris forbidden by all Praksit grammarians, and never found in Prakrit. In every other respect I agree with Prof. Kern in the way he has traced back kera to kurya. The change of to d in krita is restricted to the Magadhi dialect by all Prakrit grammariang who have come to my knowledge, and indeed is found in this dialect only. Kada has always been local, and cannot be used to account for kera. That in Marathi kela is the equivalent of krita proves nothing; many words may be the equivalents of others without being derived from them. Thus in parakera, &c. kera is the equivalent of the Sanskritic kiva, but I doubt whether even Prof. Hoernle would derive kera from kiya. Prof. Hoernle again takes refuge in an imaginary Praksitio word, "karita," without meeting with better success. The "/" in karita, being a mere conjunctive vowel, would never effect a changefrom a to e. Besides, what is the use of dealing with imaginary words where words of every-day occur.

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370 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [DECEMBER, 1873. rence afford all we wish? Whither such fanciful Alex. vi. 2) that Alexander, when about to descend theories must lead, will be seen best from Prof. the Hydaspes, sent in advance two divisions of Hoernle's fourth essay, which has just reached me. his army under Craterus and Hephaestion, one on That the Marathi kardvema has sprung from the each bank, appointing the rendezvous, where his Prakritic causative kardivemi (Vararuchi, VII. 27) arrival with the fleet was to be awaited, at the Prof. Lassen saw forty years ago. Residence of Sopeithes. This rendezvous was R. PISCHEL reached by the king after a voyage of three days London, August 27, 1873. down-stream from Bucephalia. Strabo says that in the territory of Sopeithes Str.-In re-reading Professor Weber's Essay on there was a mountain of fossil salt sufficient for the Ramayara in your journal, I find that he twice all India. This is a reasonable hyperbole if np. (pp. 123, 176) touches the question whether "So plied to the salt-mines of Kheora, near Pind DA. dan Khan. It is true there are said to be salt. peithes, king of the Knkeol, who entered into friendly personal relations with Alexander the Great, may mines also in Mandi, where Lassen places the Kobe identified with Asrapati, king of the Kekaya, kaya, Kykeol, Asvapati and Sopeithes, but they who is mentioned in the Ramayara." must be comparatively insignificant. Certainly As Prof. Weber quotes Lassen (I. 300, II. 161), they are very little known. For the rest of the argument I refer to Gen. it is possible that he allowed Lassen's words to Cunningham's book. My present object is only to supersede his own recollection of the original au bar what seems an unproved assumption on the thorities about Alexander. (1. 300.) other side, to which such high sanction has been Lassen's first note, in which he identifies the Kykeol with the Kekaya, both with the people of lent incidentally Sopeithes, and Sopeithes with Asvapati, is too H. YULE. long for extract. In the second passage he says: "Alexander went northward from Sangala with the main body of his army, into the land of the DEAR SIR.-In reply to a query in the last Kekaya, whose king was called Sopeithes. This number of the I. 4., I send a line to state that we would not, however, be his proper names, but have many villages here where the Patil's vatan rather his title, for already in epic story there is a is divided into two holdings or bans, each enjoyed king of that people called Aquapati." by a family entirely distinct from the other, and There is nothing in the world so easy as to be usually of a different caste. mistaken, but I have twice carefully searched Thus, for instance, one family will be LingaArrian, Diodorus, Strabo, and Curtius, without yats, and the other Marathas, or Kanarese Brih mans. being able to find a word to indicate that Sopeithes was king of the Krkeol, or in any way con The same is often the case with Kulkarni vatans nected with them. That name seems to occur only once anywhere, and then in a doubtful read. Yours faithfully, ing. It is where Arrian (Indica, cap. vi.) speaks H. B. BOSWELL. of Hydrastes as receiving a tributary called Sa- Belgaum District. 13th November 1873. ranges ik knkew, or ek Kyveov, or ik Mykow. Nor is there anything in the four authors just named to the effect that Alexander went northward from Calcutta is a place known from remote antiSangala. quity. The ancient Hindus called it by the name I notice this matter because it bonrs on General of Kalikshetrat It extended from Bahula Cunningham's identification of Sangaln with the to Dakhinashar. Bahula is modern B&. site in the Rechna Doab still so called, an identi- hala, and the site of Dakhina shar stillexists. fication which seems to me, if I may presume to Aecording to the Purdnas a portion of the mangled say no, eniinently satisfactory. According to that corpse of Sati or Kali fell somewhere within view, Alexander, after his destruction of the city, that boundary; whence the place was called Ka did go north into the country of Sopeithes, but I likshetra. Calcutta is a corruption of K&instead of being in the sub-Himalaya, this country likshetra. In the time of Baldl Sen it was Apparently lwy a cheval on the Hydaspes and Ac. assigned to the descendants of Sera. esines, and included the Salt Rango or a part of it. PUDMA NAV GHOSAL. This is confirmed by Arrian's statement (Erp. i Calcutta, July 1873. I cannot find any recognition of this passage in Lamen. +" Dukhinashar mara vya yabacha Bahoola pooree Kalikshetrant beejaneeyath, Se."

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'Tena na banAnA 73 7 FA, maDhAsamA yasakA sAlaai"n n"mA agrati OM sarvabha mAtrA ke AsabahA'ko nAmamA 'matatA, ma Ama ke bo miThAsa atinavena mAnA ayo tuma nAma i 3377 tanI bhI na mAtinA yAtrA kIrAko kAna mAtra OM' nAmama zakIlo na kAlo mAtrAo lakhr gamatrAnAmA 15 kI nasa lamatananatra maMjhelatI bhI loga nama vanAta vAhanaja nIti to na mAlavA kA manomana manasA trinAkA 'manatina bAbatI noka kalAfa mm nAka, manatAtara bAba kAma72mAnma 'vAla mAtra

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SUPPLEMENT, 1873.] THE VILLAPPAKKAM COPPER PLATES. THE VILLAPPAKKAM COPPER PLATES. BY A. C. BURNELL, M.C.S., MANGALOR. This series of copper plates contains a grant of land by one of the last of the Vijayanagara dynasty-Venkatapati. He reigned in a very precarious way (at Candragiri) from about 1590 on into the early years of the 17th century. As the Vijayanagara kingdom had been utterly destroyed by the Muhammadans in 1564, his power must have been very small, but in the genealogy with which (as is the rule) this grant begins, he traces his descent from the Somavamsa, and claims to rule the whole of India from the Himalayas to Setu (Rama's Bridge)! The grant is of the village of Villappakkam,* tax-free, to Tiruvengadanatha, son of Ananta Bhatta. He is described as a follower of the Yajuhsakha, and of the Apastamba sutra, and as belonging to the race of Vatsa. HISTOIRE DU BOUDDHA SAKYA-MOUNI depuis sa naissance jusqu'a sa mort, par Mme. Mary Summer. Avec Preface et Index par Ph. Ed. Foucaux. (sm. 12mo. pp. xiv. 208. Paris: E. Leroux, 1874.) Before the appearance of this volume, as remarked by M. Foucaux in his preface," there did not exist in French any complete biography of the founder of Buddhism. Mme. Mary Summer has, with reason, thought that the founder of a religion, which reckons more than three hundred million followers, deserves that the narrative of the events of his life should be available to all French readers, and not remain confined to the domain of science. She has," as he adds, "successfully acquitted herself of the task, for which she had well fitted herself by her Memoire sur les Religieuses Bouddhistes, a book favourably received by all who relish works at once instructive and interesting." Mme. Mary Summer, we need scarcely hint, is the nom de plume of the wife of the distinguished French Orientalist who, five and twenty years ago, translated the earliest known legend of Bud-. dha, the legend on which Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire based his life of Buddha given in his work Le Bouddha et sa Religion, and to her husband's experienced advice, doubtless, this little volume owes part of its value. It does not pretend in any way to be a critical work. The Singalese dates of Buddha's birth and death are accepted, and the principal events recorded in the usual legends are selected and briefly recorded in a pleasant style, Besides the grant of the village in Sarvamanya (frunerlmoigne of the medieval lawyers in England), several privileges are also granted which are interesting as throwing light on the tenures of South India, but which would need much explanation to make them intelligible to foreigners. The date is : REVIEW. 371 Sakti-(3) netra-(2) kalambe-(5)'ndu-(1)ganite sakavatsare | plavasamvatsare punye masi Vaisakhanamni pakshe' valakshe... punyayam dvadasitithau, &c. i.e. the 12th lunar day of the bright fortnight of Vaisakha in 1601 A.D. Thus it will appear that this grant is not of any great historical interest. and with an admiration for the subject of her biography that would almost lead the reader to imagine the authoress was a devout Buddhist nun. Only once does she distinctly express her dissent from a tenet of the Buddhist creed, and that is when she contrasts its doctrine of the inevitable punishment of sin in some state of existence with the Christian" religion of mercy, which," she says, "gives man the faculty of repentance, leaving for him, even to the last breath, an open door to a happy eternity, and permitting an act of contrition to make of the greatest of sinners one of tho chosen of God!"-forgetting, apparently, the analogy supplied by the Atonement-the sacrifice of the Mediator as the substitute for the sinner. This admiration of Buddhism, however, is no new thing even among philosophers. It is the misfortune of our times," says M. Barthelemy SaintHilaire, writing thirteen years ago, "that the same doctrines which form the foundation of Buddhism moet at the hands of some of our philosophers with a favour that they but little descrve. For some years past we have seen systems arising in which metempsychosis and transmigration are highly spoken of, and attempts are made, exactly as Buddha did, to explain the world and man without either a God or a Providence. A future life is refused to the yearnings of mankind, and the immortality of the soul is replaced by the immortality of works. God is dethroned, and in His place they substitute man, the only being, they tell us, in which the Infinite becomes con In the North Arhat District.

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372 THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. scious of itself. These theories are commended to us, sometimes in the name of science, or history, or philology, or even of metaphysics; and though neither new nor very original, yet they can do much injury to feeble hearts. This is not the place to examine these theories, and their authors are both too learned and too sincere to be condemned summarily and without discussion. But it is well they should know by the examples, too little known, of Buddhism, what becomes of man if he depends on himself alone, and if his meditations, misled by a pride of which he is hardly conscious, bring him to the precipice where Buddha was lost. I am well aware, moreover, of all the differences, and am not going to insult our contemporary philosophers by confounding them indiscriminately with Buddha, though addressing the same reproof to both. I willingly acknowledge all their additional merits -which are considerable. But systems of philosophy must always be judged by the conclusions to which they lead, whatever path they may pursue in attaining to them; and their conclusions are not therefore the less objectionable, though reached by different means. Buddha arrived at his conclusions 2,400 years ago. He preached and practised them with an energy not likely to be surpassed, if it be even equalled. He manifested a childlike intrepidity that no one can exceed; nor can it be supposed that any system in our days could again acquire an ascendency so powerful over the souls of men. It would be useful, however, if the authors of those modern systems would just cast a glance at the theories and destinies of Buddhism. It is not philosophy in the sense in which we understand this great name. Nor is it religion in the sense of ancient Paganism, of Christianity, or of Muhammadanism; but it contains elements of all, worked up into a perfectly independent doctrine, acknowledging nothing in the universe but man, and though confounding man with nature, in the midst of which he lives, obstinately refusing to recognize anything else. Hence all those aberrations of Buddhism, which ought to be a warning to others. Unfortunately, if people rarely profit by their own faults, yet more rarely do they profit by the faults of others."* But, pleasant reading as this little volume is, and correctly as it reproduces the main narratives of the Oriental legend, it must not be supposed that these afford evidence of facts which actually happened: the earliest legends we possess date four or more centuries after Buddha, and must be accepted only as illustrations of the popular belief prevalent when they were committed to writing. [SUPPLEMENT, 1873. INSCRIPTION AT VISALGADH. In his paper on the 'Musalman Remains in the South Konkan' (ante, p. 318), Mr. Nairne has pointed out a manifest error in a statement made by Graham in his Report on the Principality of Kolhapur, viz. "that a Persian inscription records the capture of the fort (of Visalgadh) by the Muhammadans in A.D. 1234.' Graham does not give a transcript of this inscription, but he gives (pp. 338, 341) a copy of what he calls "an inscription of the same period" (A.D. 1247). The following transcript and translation of this latter is supplied by Mr. E. Rehatsek: Transcript: bwd khr jhn bhm@ yn dwlt brj bkhwb my shd tmm gr khwhy khh drst bdny khnwn rnj t gwysh dwlt prch Translation: The business of the world is based on resolution; This Daulat Burj has been completed weli. If thou wishest to know its date, Now take pains that thou mayest call it 'Daulat Burj' [castle of happiness]. The numerical value of the letters to the two words according to the Abujad, give the date-4+6+30+400+2+200+3=645 AH., which year began 8th May 1247 A.D., as read by Graham. From Ferishtah's statement, however, it is evident the Musalmans did not get possession of it before A.H. 875. May we not suppose an error of 270 or 300 years made by the original scribe in valuing the letters,-say by placing the first figure of the 3rd or 7th letter in the hundreds' place ? CASTES OF THE BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. (Continued from p. 274, vol. II.) Bart; Barid.-In Rewa Kanta and adjoining parts of Gujarat, Dekhan, and Konkan; the name of a large Koli tribe, also of a district they chiefly inhabit in the firstnamed province; they are widely distributed over the country on the left bank of Mahi River, and have some possessions on the right bank; they are cultivators, but also retain many rude and primitive habits; their language is the Gujarati. The Barias are regarded as aborigines; like the Naikada Bhills, with whom they are associated, they work the mica and carnation mines of their districts, and in the hot months also prepare kath in the jungles. Le Bouddha ct sa Religion, Introd. p. vii.

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INDEX. .... 363 .......... 'Aayshah Bibi.................. 280-282 Amritsar .......... 27 Ayyappa .......... Abdul Ali Khan .................. 179 | Anagundi............ 60 Abhimanyu .............. Analavada, Anhfllavada ............................ 27 Abhinanda the Gauda ......... 102-6 Anandapura........... 139 Bads 307 Abhinandana ...................... 135 Anangapala ...................... 23 Badagas ......................... 32, 276 Abhisara, Abissares ........... 104 Ananta .......................... 124 Badami ............................... 94 Abhona.............................. 164 Anantajita .................... 136 Bagho Bahar ..................... 56-7 Abjad ............................... 113 Anantasaingudi .............. 179 Bahubali........................ 134, 353 Abu .....................249-57, 263-4 Anantapur ...................... 133 Bahula ................................ 370 Achalesvara .....................254-5 Anitha ............. 260 Bailur .......................... Achalgadh ......................... 255 Andrapushka ............... 259 baithabi ............... Achyuta ............................ 260 Anegundi Rayas .................. 132 Bald ............ . Adagaru temple.................. 132 Anerdi ............................ 315 BAIA Pir ............ Adilab&d ........................... 321 Anga ........................ 141-2, 199 Baladeva .............. 137 Adinatha.......................264, 354- 6 Angalamme ............ ... 170 Balamitre.............. Adisura ............................ 68, 74 Anga Ballkla ..................... 131 Balt 168 Adisvara ........................... 134 Angarsa Pir..... 356 Baligala.. 263 Aditya ................. ............ 259 Anhillavada. ............... 196, 315 BallAl................. 49, 299, 301, 307 Aditya Ballala ..................... 131 Ankusa.......... 136 BallAla Misra .................... 306 Adityavarma ...................... 360-1 Aparajita .............................. 259 Balala Sena ........................ 370 Adoni .............................. 179 Apocrypha ........................ 294 Bammideva ......................... 298 Advaita......................... 2-6, 309 Apollodotos ........................... 145 | Bara............................ 103, 127-8 Agama .......................... 198, 343 . Apsaras ............................. 260 Banaras............... *****........... ... 135 Agnibhuti... .................... 262 Ara ................................. 138 Bangan........................ 83 Agnikunda................ 254, 255 Aralkotu .............................. 119 ! B&nkot ................. 322 Agrahara 297 Aravali ......................264, 339 Bankura ....................... Agravatte ......................... 125 Arbuda .........249, 252, 263-4, 354 | Bara .......................... Ahavamalladeva.................... 297 Arhantas........................ 15, 134 | Barantpur remains............... ahinsd .............................. 197 Arhats .................. 197, 199, 200 Baravavke (Dviraka) ............ Ahir ................................. 216 Arikala ......... .............. 176 Barchi ......... 216 Aira inscription .............. Arkat, Arkada ............ 175, 307 Basava .... ............. 297 Airavatta..... Arrian ......... **......... 147 Basili .............................. 145-6 Ajanta:.................128, 139, 152-3 Arsikerri ....................... 8,9 Baguli .............................. 187 Ajitabala ........................... 135 Arura ............. Bauddhas .....................227, 259 Ajitanatha ......................... 135 Agam .................. . 218 Baura ..............................320-1 Akbar ..........................36, 264 Asatimayurapura ............... 298 Baverujdtakam .................. 147 Areorums ............... Ashtapada..................... 134, 355 Bacono ............ ............. 148 Akhiraja........................256, 316 Asoka ............................. 28, 136 Beds Caves........................84-5 Alagar malo........................ 308 Asso PAL ........................... 215 Beguru Stone 118 Alasande ............................ 145 Asu ................................. 33 Belari ... 177 Alexander the Great..28, 143-4, 146 Asurakumaras..................... 260 Belgols .........................265, 322 Amalakirti Balllla ................ Asura Maya ..................... 145-6 Amarakosha........................ 18 Asvapati ..................... Belvols ............... .... 297 Amarapura ........................ 43 Asvasena ........................... 261 Bengali Kirtans ............ Amaravati ........................ Atassofy ................ Mantras ............. Amarkot ........................... 341 Atishgah ............ 21 Beschi ...... Ambalakkadu, Ambalakatta 97,180 Aurangzib ............. 27 | Bhadrabahu. 139, 197, 261, 263, 305 Ambigar caste .................. 154 Avanti .......... .. 363 Bhadrakali ........................ 170 Ambika ............................ 138 Avasarpini ...................... 198 | Bhagadatta ...................... 145 Amita .............................. 145 Avakyakarutra....................... 304 | Bhagavad-Gita ................ 289-296 Amoghavarsha ................. 198 Ayodhya .............. 134, 136, 151 bhagavat samand.................. 148 .. .. .... 139 84 .... 259 260 ****........ 147 131 Belorn . ..... . 908 370 156 .. 75 ...... 58 * 191 ..........218

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372 INDEX. 296 274 242 .. . 278 K 306 Bhagiratha ........................ 152 Burnell, A. C. ...................... 183 Chittur ........................... 323-4 bhakti .........................285, Burzweih ............ Chola .............................. 263 Bhala ................. .. 216 Bykju ............................... 76 Chrysostomos .................... 283-4 Bhamer Cave ................... 128 Chuda, Chudachand ...... 313, 316 Bhanumitra................... 363 Calentta ............. ... 370 Chudasamas.................. 312, 316 Bharatvarsha ............ 259 Calendar of Tipu Sultan ...... 112 Church of SS. Michel et Gudule 45 Bharthara... 242 Castes .........68, 154, 212, 229, 274 Churi .............. 217 Bhasmasura .........................50-1 Ceylon ............ 115, 125, 229, 230 Clemens Alexandrinus ......... 287 Bhatta Narayara ..... .... 74 Xape ................................. 145 Coins................................. 338 Bhattaraka ........................... 312 Chaitanya. 1-7, 37-8, 187, 189, 312 Colebrooke, H. T....... 25, 183, 343 Bharabhati......................73, 3, 123 Chaityalayas 133 Congon flower........................ 352 Bhavabodhini ...................... 127 Chikan .................. 43 Coorg........................... 168, 181 Bharani ............................ Chakravartti .................. 134 Copperplates................. 155, 175 Bhavasar ......................... Chakresvari...... 134 Cosmas........ Bhau Daji, Dr. .................. 93-4 Chalukya ..........................9, 175 Cranganor........................ 273-4 Bhelupura 139 Champapuri .................. 130, 136 Cromlechs ......... 86, 202, 223, 275 Bhill ............148, 201-2, 217, 251 Chamunda ........................ 265 Canningham, Gen. A. 18, 70, 85, Bhima .......... .......... 22 Chamunda Raya......16, 130-1, 136 90-1, 242 Bhima ankara ............15, 44, 171 Chimundi ............... 48, 169, 170 Bhoja ................58, 240, 304, 306 Chand Bardai......41, 211, 240, 306 Dabhol ............ 273-283, 317, 319 Bhojaprabhanda .............241, 306 | Chanda............ .. . 136 DAhiwel ...... .. .. ... Bhondas ..... 236 Chand Bibi ....................... 45 Dakini Bhopa 14 Chandala .....................147, 150 Dalada relic. Bsihadratha....................... 363 Chandan Soda ............... 339-40 Bhrikuti ....................... Chandels ............................33-7 Damba! .............................. Bhui Kahar ....................... Chandi Das ............ 4, 6, 37, 187-9 Dambulu ............................ 117-8 Bhdjaka ............................ Chandkapur......................... 164 Damodar kund 314 Bhutab&shA.................. Chardrabitta ..................... 265 Dandamali ................. Bhutas Chandracharya ................. 261 Dandis ........ Bhutiya boutiya .. 192 Chandracharyadibih ........58, 208 Dantirada............................. Bhuvanesvara ....................... 94 Chandragiri ........................ 354 Aapadpat ............................* Bhuvanipati.......................... Chandrapida ....................105-6 Dara Shakoh ................... Bhu Vikrama .............. 155, 160 Chandraprabhe ................. 135 Dasa Karmasha............... Bibisan........... Chandrapura ................. 354 Dasaratha....................... Bidar ................ 279, 280 Chandra Sekhara ................ 142 Datta .............. Bidyapati ............37-43, 187, 189 Chandra Varma .................. 33-4 Dattamitra ............. 145 Bijapur......86, 280, 282, 317-8, 320 Chandravati ......195, 215, 256, 263 Dattatraya........... 215 Bimardi .............................173- 4 C hanniga............................308-9 Delweds .................... .... Biras................................. 170 Charan ............................... 349 Demonology ....................... 13 Birudu ............................... 132 Charbar .............................. 165 Dera Porjas ..................... 237 Bisambhara Misra ................ 1 Charitras ............................ 198 Deri phrases .................. 331-5 Bishari. 193 Chashtana ................ Debliabdasangraha ...... 17-21, 305 Bittada Chamaraja Vidiyar ... 133 Chatagia ...................... 265 Devagiri........................... 299, 303 Bitta Vardhana ................... 131 Chaul .............................. 278-9 Devait ........ .............. 314 Blochmann's Persian Prosody. 119 Chavadris ......................... 274 Devaki ........................... 284-5 Bombay Museum ................ 234 Chen raebs ........................ 135 Devangan ............. Bors Kolab ................. 236, 238 Chen-to-lo-pi-li .................. 106 Devendrs ............................. 134 Botta Kurubar .................. 169 Chera........................... 155, 271 Dhaka ......... . Boulla 193 Cherubiding ........................ 236 Dh&man ............... Brahma................. 260 Chidambaresvara ................ 361 Dhammadova ................. Brahmacharis .... 31 Chikka Tambal .................. 180 Dhanapala .......... Brahmasamsj ................... 274 Chiraviya ..................... 360-61 Dhanesvaru ............... 195-7, 354 Braj ........................... 189 Chitaldurga ......................... 174 Dhank ............................. 315 Brindaban 189 Chitragupta ...................... 100 Dharfle caste ...................... 154 Buddhist Cave.................... 128 Chitrakot ....................... 139 Dharampur ........................162-3 Bakkaraya HSS 132 Chitrasabha ........................ 361 Dhirspurs ...................... 339-42 Burigem 164 Chitrasena 141 | dharana ****..............***** 42 48 260 196 *****... 252 .. ........... 148 **** .... 263 Undrasena .......... .....

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INDEX 373 ........ 35 ........ 131 Liki a ......... 150 1:5 ..-15; . ... Dharana 139 Ganadharachandra............... 264 Haidar ..... 133 Dharanagara .. 100 Garcidipa.. .** Dharanapriya .................. 138 Gandharvas........................ 200 Hala .................... 103 Dharanidhara ..................... 139 Ganesn Lena ...................... 41 | Haldi .............................. 216 Dharavarsha ..................... 300 Garcia ............................... .................. 193 Hall kannada ...................... Dharili .............................. 138 Galiga............................132, 262 Inlcbidi ......... Dharman itha ............... Gangulikara Vokkalaga...... 66 Halo dakkalil ...................... Dhirvad........................236, 3076.ngaraya Ballala ............... 131 Tall, Dr. F. ......127-8 Dlattiklarda 239 Gazji-enter ........................ 71 Tamir ........... .............. 915 Dharaka ...... 127 Garabhilla .........................383) Himpi...........................177, 181) Dhruvascna ............ 139, 197, 261 Garos ................................ 13: 2 1 Imumn..................30, 103, 3-56 Dhuncheri ........................ 229 getini ................................ 153 Haribhadra ........................ 3:16 Dics .................................... 211 Gaud Svami .....................163-6 Hari Disa .......................307, 50: Digambara ..................140, 260-1 Gauja forged copper-plate ...... 60lIarsha .............................. 196 Dinajpur legends............ 271, 357 Gauii.............. ................ 200 Harshinchandra .................... 06-7 Dindikara Raya ...................... Gaumukh .....................232, 23 /08/rurit ............127-8, 367 Dio Chrysostomoz ............... 59 Cautama. 33, 35, 131, 119, 199, 200, Horsha Vardhana ..........94, 127 Dionysos .............. 283 202 Inssan ..................7, 19, 65, 113 Stockopers .................... Gautamji ....................233, 23 !Iassan Alxal...... Dolacl ....................... .... 313 ficut ............................. 1-10 Hastinapura... Dondea..............................231.2 Givil .............................. 201 Hastimil ...................... 140, 262 Dowson's II industani Gm 16Gnya........................... Tlatlapor ...........................214-5 Drupalli..................... 131, 190.1 Genitivo postpositions ... 121, 360 Hayavardhana .................. 30 Dravidian Xumcruls ...24, 97, 12 Ghatgn .......... Heliyaklasa ...................... 11! Durgi .. Ghori Belam llemachandra...10, 17-19, 135, 13. Durga Puja .............. Girl Mility.................. 10 Duritari.............. Girnil ............................. 162 Il'engar l'ir ........................ i D urakit .................. 1.3, 139, 272 Girnir ................SI, 1:, IX, Terukles ............................ 95 Dvaravatipatnne ................... 1:7 Terit .............................. <3 Draravati vara ...............29., 302 Gost .................................... lexychis ......................... 11 Gailas liclimba .... Eclipse ............ Cogerly, Mr. Ederu Copperplate ............... Coklas Ilimyuritic texts.................. Editor's Notes...... 1, 3, 5, 10, 11, Gokula..............................1 1 w h icin.. ............ 24, 2, 61, 98, 109, 1:3, 1:3), Gokur Pani ......................... 1:'S Hinayaa Satras.................. 131, 111, 112, 152, 15., 172, 173, Goinatapurt......................., 1:1 Iliwen Tlisang .................21, 12 173, 174, 185, 181, 192, 197, 213, Ciomatcsvam ............129.1: 223, 223, 227, 228, 213, 211, 232, Gonaria Gond ............ 70,207-S Haleys ...........................8, 17 253, 254, 255, 200, 261, 265, 272, Gond ............. ............... 29 lugula Bellas ......191, 2, 279, 280, 281, 280, 295, 299, 3:35 Gondophares ................ ...... Jomchi ...... 76 Ekbatana ........... ..... 335 Gorakhanitha 10 loopoc ........... Elephanta........... **** .... SE Gosains ..... llorace Epurl.iii.21 ............ Elliot, Sir W. ................. Gosila .. . IIornbill Ercyanga... ..................299, 301 | Govardhana ........................ 18! Fowlongs ****** ****** 36+ Gudibanda ........................... 87 Human sacrifice ................ 123 Fa Hian .......................... 91 Guduphara .......................... 1.18-9 Hun Raja ............................. 21.5 Fahta .................. 229 Gujarat .............................. 13 Fakirs ................................ 30 Gulbargi .....................979, 318 Iambulos ................. Fergusson, J. ...30, 85, 90, 108, 153, Guliga Ibrihim Khan Gardi ............ 223, 225, 228 Gumnosophistai ..................... 194 Iguttappa ........................ 171 Festival .........................152, 335 Gunadhya............................. 57 Ikkeri ........................ 263, 3533 Fo or Buddha .................... 98 Gunni Ikshvaku ............... 198 Fonda Ghat... Guntur .................. | Indian Antiquary ............... 82 Frazerpett Guptas ............... 12, 143, 258, 313 Indian Dates ....... Guravas ............................ 12 Indra ...... Gaddak......................... 296 seqq. Guru Sikhara ............... 249 Indrabhati ............. Gadhari ........................... 138 Gyal-fish ............. 352 Indrabitta ..... **** ... 184 ***.... 169 176 ..

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374 INDEX. 83 27 ......... 229 Jainka ..... ............ Kalpavasin 202 ... 192 .... 177 Indraraja ........ 175 Kabbar ......................... 274 Kartika ............. Inscriptions 180, 183, 186, 218, Kabir... 307 Kasai Bari........................... 128 230-33, 245, 247 Kachar 364 Naserumant .....................145-6 Iriribhujangadeva ............... 297 Kadambari ................. Kashgar... Irules ............................... 276 Kasum tree ..... .................. 238 Isann.................................. 260 Kadhaya Parsada .............. Kasyapa................. 136, 141, 262 Isuran .......................... 344 Kagadis.......... 46 Katar.................................. 217 I walli........................ ... 94 Kagi nele ........................... 307 Katha saritsgara.................. 58 Kaharas .................. 154 Katwa ............ Jacquet, M. ................. 184 Kailasa ..................134, 311, 355 Katyayana .................... 70, 71, 96 Jagannatha ....... ... 139 Kaju Tata........................... 172 Kaulminjar ................ Jainns.10,15,193,202,258-65,353,334 Kajerda.............................. 320 Kausalika ...... .............. 134 258 Kalanjarapura.................. 33, 298 ..................... 135, 262 Jaitapura........................... 320-1 KAlidasa ......................... 58, 306 Kaval Khind Jaitugi ................................ 303 Kalika .............................. 135 Kavaladnyana ..................... Jaijaka .............................. 258 Kalkin........................ 195-6, 286 Kaveri ............................ Jajnngya ........................... 258 Kalliana ........................ Kareri Amma .................. Jakkaracharya..................... 296 Kallugutti B kdvyaprakasa ...................... U SU .. ............ Jalku .............................. 940-1 Kallurati 170 Kayasth ........................... 99 Jaloka ..............................145-6 Kalpa Satra............ Kaymada Jamali ............... 139 Knkeol............ ................ 370 Jambiya ........................... 217 Kalugumalei .............. Kelakot ...........................339-40 Jambudripa........................ 259 Kalyani ................ 175-6, 194, 272 Kelaniya ........................ 230-1 Janak ............................ 244, 246 Kamaksha ............ Kerala .............................. 362 Jangama ............................ 50 Kaman ............... .............. 217 Kesari ............. 40 Jangars .............................. 274 Kamlapur..... Kempis (Thos. a) ............... 295 Titulin8 .......... ......57-8 Karada ..................23, 109, 200 keraka ..............................368-9 Jayachandra ...................... 23, 73 Kanaka Dasa ............... 307-8, 311 Kevalin ............. ................ 262 Jayadeva ...............4, 37, 189, 306 Kanauj .................34-5 Khambhat........................... 356 Jayagad 317 Kanchi (Conjiveram)... 16, 156, 198, Khan Balygh.................... 77-83 Jayanta ........................... 353 Khandesh ............. 200 Jayapida ........................... 207 Kandapa ........................... 264 Kharepatan ..................... 320-1 Jayapura ..........................90, 236 Kandarpa ............................. 138 138 Kharvis.............................. 154 Jayarama ............................. 127 Kardu ..... 354 Khasia .............................. 365 Jayasinha...................... 297, Kandvi .............................. 274 Khata (China) ................... 75-83 Jayatunganad...................... 361 Kanh Chauhan......................22-3 Khed............. .................. 292 Jayavardhanapura ............... 230 Kenhpur ........................ 33, 35 Khelna .............................. 318 Jayhun ......... 7 Kani 349 Khengar .......................... 315-6 Jehanara Bani.. .............. 120 Kanishka ................59-63, 207 Kheta Maharat a ................... 256 Jellal al-din Rumi ............... 151 Kantharla........................... 346 Khokara 356 Jethra ............................. 316 Kansa.................................. 284 Khosru Anushirvan ............ 194 Jhanjmir ........................ 314 Kapila ............................. 200 Kichaka ............................ 191 Jinasena Acharya ............... 134 Kapur di giri ....................... 184 Kigga ............................ Jinasuri Acharya ............... 198 Karakam ........................... 190-1 Klisoboras ......................... 91 Jinendras ......... ............... 18 Karara ............... Kochini.............................. Jinjira .............. 281 Karanuja-netta-sutta ............ Kodaga............................ 47, 169 Jivdhan ...........................11, 12 Karo Malo.. 307 Kodangi ............ 125 Jodhapura ........................ 264 1 Karhac .................... Karhad ........ 282 Kodu Kalu ...................9, 49, 202 Jogi ................31, 171 Kari Dastur ........................ 335 Kodutanni ....................... 180 Jones, Sir W. ..................... 3 | Karingali ..................... 169, 170 ju .................................... 366 Karkala ............................. 353 Kokkili ............................... 175 Julya................................. 263 Karnataka Dasas............307 seqq. Kola ................ 47-8 Junagadh ............... 139, 312, 313 Karnul ................................ 191 Kolamba era ...................... 361-2 Junnar ........................ 10-12, 43 Karori Doich ...................... 253 Kolar ............................87, 118 Jyotisha ........................... 260 Kartari .. ................. 276 Kolattam .......................... 53 Karu ..............................49, 66 Kolhapur ........................... 163 Kabalgari........................... 274 274 Karu Vala........................... 169 | Kolis................ ............... 154 259 361 192 235 ........ .

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Komalmer Komti Kongadesa Rajakal Kongu Konkan Konkani Koradu Kosala Kota Kotagiri Kotas.... Kotham Kottayam..... Kranganor Kratuka ..273-4 .297, 302-3 Krishna, 1, 3, 4, 38, 58, 65, 90, 138-9, 146, 281-5, 293, 308, 354 Krishna Rayal....... . Kshamasvamin 179 263 Kshitisacansavali Charita...... 241 **************** Kubja Kubja Vishnu Vardhana Kukis Kakri Kulattungachola Kuli Kulika Kulindrine Kulavadi.. Kumarapala Kumari cape Kumarila Kumbhakonam Kumbhakarna Kumpalapuri Kura Pandya Kanda Hills. Kuntala Kunthu Kunar Kurabas Kural Kurg Kuru. 205 30 .271-2 155 .278-83, 317-22 201 52 134 47-9 .277-8 32 52 273 ********* **************** .......................................... ************ Kurumbars Kurunda Kutti Chatta Kydy-qu ************* Lalitakirti 285 175 224, 365 .......11, 44-5 169 150 65-8 .195-6, 241, 262, 312 361 Laghujataka... Lagnaderi Lakha Phulani.. Lakkundi Lakshmara Lakshmanasena .107-8 .48-9 57 151 256 136 .16, 11, 263 276 299, 303 1:38 .275-7 65 55, 274 ....9, 47, 86 259. .32, 51, 108, 276 169 169 77 *********** ***********.. ..............................***** 146 195 316, 339-40 299 163 13 Lalitaditya...................... .105, 106 353 ********** ..................................................... ************ *********** .................................................... ************* INDEX. Lalling caves.............. 128 Langur.... 75 Lanje. .317, 319 Lantaka 260 Laonikos Chalkondylas......... 265 Lao-tse 135 335 ....13, 183, 258, 283 242 242 ******...... ................ 179 Lokkigundi Lunchitakesa ************* Lashy Leshy Lassen, C........ Legenda Aurea Leitner, G. Lepakshi Leyden, J. Lion of Gujarat Lohangi Lokaloka ************ Lungur day........ Lushais..... Machi caste Mackenzie, Col. Madapalli Madhava Mahagiri Mahakali ..................................................... 154 181 .229, 230 272 .72, 274, 310 Madhavacharya Madhavi Madhu Kaitabha... Madhuri 40 137 .242, 307, 308 127, 128 .307-9 Madhyamika...59, 60, 62, 207, 239 Mada...... 217 ................. 261 Madhusudana Madhva Dasa Magadha Magadhi Mahabala Arast Mahabali... Mahaban 199 137 108, 109 91 261 152 363-6 ******... ***************** *********........................................... ............................................................................... ......................................... 3 124 217 259 299 ********* **********..... Mahabharata..... 13, 58, 281, 285 Mahabhishya... -58, 59, 210 263 155 ........................................... Mahamajam ................. 151 Mahameru.... 134 198 Mahasammata Mahavanso 201, 231, 232 Mahavellipur 85 Mahavira...197, 199, 260-3, 35-4, 363 Mahendra.. 260 343 Mahesvaras Mahesachandra .................................................... 127 *********.. 163 199 Mahisasur........ Mahmud Mahmud Khan Gowan Mahmud Toghluk Mahoba 279 265 ........................................................34, 35 Mahuva tree... 202 Mailar *********................................................**** Mailkota Main Pat Maisur Malahanisvara Malejur Maleyas. Malik Naib Kafur Mallas Malli Malnad Malwan *********...... ******.... ................................................................... 65 244 ...86, 118, 132, 140 142 265 169 279 108 138 Mammata Manarpha emporium Manasa Manatunga Manavakalpasitra Mariamma Martandavarma Marudevi Maruti Matsyanagara Maste Kallu Matapur Mathura Mauryas Mavilakku.......... Mawachas Maya Mayura Mayarasatuka Mech Mekran Meliapor Melukota Melur.......... Menander Menhirs Meri ************ Manavi Manavyasa gotra... Malika Manigramam Manittha.... Manorama.. Manovid Manu. Manushottara parvata Manyapura Manyar Marathas Marasa Vakkaligaru Margal Mari 179 | Milinda *******.... 66 321 127, 128 109 193 128 .............................. ************ Meru.... Mettanisamsa-sutta ******************* 264 50-2 87 169 ...8, 47, 48 361-2 134 10 88 49 163 189, 195, 196 .-208-9, 363 190 201 129 128 127 192 165 273 .131, 132 276 144 .49, 133 192 355 235 Metta-sutta...................... 235 ................................................... 144, 146 375 263 274 .145, 146 260 262 28 355 160 172 ********** ************ ***********.................................*********** .............................................................................. 61 136 175 ************

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376 INDEX. ...... Mina 11 Mohomati. Mokala Rari ................... 256 Moksham......................... 344-52 Morbi Copperplate ............... 257 Mrichchhakatika .................. 68 Mrityulangula Upanishad ...... 266 Muchhkundi..... MAdalgiri ........ 308 Mudgalas ..................... 195, 196 Mudgeri 265 Jadrarikslucts .................. 145 M Mukkatis .......................... Muktambara......................... 260 Muktapida..................... 104, 105 Mularaja ......................... 316 Muni gofar 243 Munisuvrata... 138 Munzerabad. uzata ................. Myos Hormos ...................... 283 69 u ir. J ......................... 97 ............... 230 233 66 230 135 187 ***...... 261 ..... 355 New Testament ............283 seqq. Pandarpur ............. Newton, H. ............... ..... 93 **** Pandavas ............. Nichulakaviyogindra ............ 58 Pandit Nidi mand ................... 275, 276 Pandu kuris ............88, 227, 242 Nilgiris ..................32, 225, 275-8 | Pandyas ............................ 263 Nili Avva ........................... 170 Pangolin .............................. 229 Nimgori ............................... 12 Panguwa....... ........ 115 .... 138 | Panini ..... 144 Nirggunda .156, 161 Panipat ....... 46 Nirmalapura ................. 142 Panjuruli 169 Nirvani. ......... 138 Pantaenus.............. ... Nissanka Malla ................. 248 Pans .................................... Nityananda ......................1, 3, 4 Papapuri .....................130, 140 Noghan................... .... 314.6 Parabhava-sutta .................. 234 Norris, Ed. ........................ 184 Paragi .............. Nrisinha Thakkura............... 127 Parakrama Bahu .........230-3, 246 Nrisiuha Vero ................... 13 Parangi............ Nuchchutte........................ 170 Parasarya Numerals, Dravidian ............ 24 Parasurama............... 26 Pardhi 215 Oghaniryukti .................... 305 Parjanya ................... 97 Okkaliga ............................ 166 Parmal Deo ......................... 34 Olugh Beg ............... 75 Parsvanatha ............... 139, 260-4 Ophir ............................ 147 | Purthaparakrama ............... 304 Oriental Research ............... 84 pasan ............................... 344 Orissa Brahmans .......... 68 Pasupatas ........................ 343 Paryushana ...... Padakalpataru ............ 1, 4, 37, 38 Patalamula.... Padmaprabha ...................... 135 Pataliputra ................... 194, 196 Padmavati ........... 130, 139, 193 Patanjali. 57,59-61,69-71,94-6,206-9, Padmini ................... 24 238-40 Pahlanpur Patanwaria ......................... 154 pahun Patharwat ........................ 274 Paialachbi. Patta ............................. 217 Paialachhinamamala .......... Pattan ..............304, 305, 313-5 Painras................... Paulisa .................. 145, 146 Paisachabhash& ................ Paulus Alexandrinus............ 145 Paites ........... 364 Pauthier, M. ...................... 25 Pakshitirtha............ Pavapuri.......................260, 262 Palaka ........... Pehlevi Inscriptions ........... 273 Palaka ............... 363 Peking ................ .............. 77 Palesini.......... 93 Pennahoblan ..................... 179 Palgrave's Eastern Questions.. 92 Pepiliyana 232 Pali dialect ......................... 101 Perihera 117 Palikonda........................... 173 Perimula .... ...... 96 Palisimanta ........................ 148 Perisandra......................... 86, 87 Palitara ..................84, 264, 355 Persian stanzas............... 305, 337 Pallavadhiraja .........155, 156, 161 Perumal........................ 231, 274 Pallavas ....... ............... 156 Periyangudi........................ 190 Palmer, Prof. ..................... 274 Pharsi .............................. 217 Panala...... 321 Phirangi ........................ 216 Penchala ..................... 212 Phulmati ........................... 339 panchama .................... 40 Phursa Panchamara .......... 196 Pichiguntadavaru ............ Panchamrita Snana.............. 130 Pingla Rani.................... Panchatantra ................... 274 piriti ................. Pandaripura....... .... 308 Pisachas ............... ....... . 23 Nabhavahana ................ 363 Nabhi............ Nadiya .......... Naga ..................... 139, 169, 212 Nagakumaras ...................... 260 Nagalapuram ..................... 202 Nagamangala Copperplate ... 155 Nagapanchami..................... 124 Nagarjuna .......... 59, 60, 62, 207 Nagesa........................... 61, 127 Nugila . . 263 Nagor Neishada ..................... 211, 940 Nakhi Talgo.......................... 250 Nakindar ...... Naladiyar.218,267-71,324-31,344-52 Nalandi .............................. 261 Nanaghas........................ 11, 43 Nanak ............................. 26, 27 Vana Rio ............................... 11 Nanda Vandas .......... ................ 363 Nandivardhana............... 140, 304 Nandisvara ......................... 355 Nandyavarta ....................... 138 Nanjavva ........................... 170 Narada ................................. 142 Yaradatta............................ 138 Yarasinha........................... 299 Xari-mangala 182 Yarve............ ***........... 141-3 Nasik .............................84, 181 Nelor.................................. 241 Nominatha ...................... 138 57 54 ..... 195 ....................

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********* Piyadasi Pois Poleya Pon religion....... Pongal Ponnangalam.ne... Portuguese. 47 135 53 170 233 Postpositions Prabhanvali 210 .317-9 131 Prajotpatti Pandu Prakrit Kosha..................... 166 Pramara ..215, 252 358, 360 263 139 105 131 22 196 98 ...... 34, 35, 306 22, 23 .155, 160 259 Pulakesi.......93, 94, 194, 263, 272 246 148 ..272, 273 354-5 355 Purandara Dasa............. ..307-9, 311 Purangal Puri 317 68 Purushottama Vasudeva ..137, 138 Pushkaradvipa *******... 355 136 Pushpadatta Sadhu ************* Pushpamitra ...57, 59, 69, 70, 206, Sagara ************* 362-3 Sageda Pyal Schools 52-6 Sahasrara Qamju Qara-Khajah... Qaraman, R.... Qarawul Qayl...... Qutb Minar ....................................................................................... Prannasini. Prarata..... Prasenajita Pratapaditya ............................................................ Pratapa Belala..... Pratapa sinha Pulastipura Pulumai Pundalika Pundarika.. Punyarasi....... ***********....... .......................................................... ************* Pratipada Printing (Early) in India Prithiraja Prithiraja Rasan Prithivi Kongani. Prithukarma ............................................... ****************** ************ Radha R& Gario Raigad Rairi Raivata. Rajagriha Rajamahendri Rajapur.................. Rajasekara Rajus Rakshasas. 76 ...........75, 83 90 ............................................... 1,4 313, 315 279 355 .262, 355 175 280, 319-21 ***********.... 144 Raliyar 364 *************** 83 75 78 ************* 277 Ramachandra....193, 246, 554 Raja 36 Ramanand... 189, 306 Ramanuja...65, 131-2, 189, 309, 311 Ramayana..... .141-2, 209, 274 Rambukandana 117 339 72 69 260 Ran Ranchodji Diwan Rangpur Ranigarh INDEX. Ranik Devi Rani Pingla Rani Tunk..... Ratnagiri Ratnavali... .............................................................. Ravivarma Rayideva ... Rayas of Anegundi. Reodar Revati Rishabhanatha Rishi Krishna Rishyasriniga .....................140-1 Rodiya Romaka Romapada Rudra Rude stones of Hassan Rap Sakhya Sakra Sal ********.. Sahet Mahet Sahu Rajas Sabda Chintamani Sabhajit... Sabhana... Sadhama Salop Saluya *************** ..........316-7 *********** Samet Sikhar 135-6, 139 260-1, 354-5 Samjaya Samlaji Sammatiyas Samposaranam Sampriti 148 14 17, 194 .................. 137 205 Samudra Pala 12 Sanad of Akbar 36 Sanala **************** 40 189 Sanatan...................... 218 Sanatkumara ........... 141, 260 243 315 Sanchi 29 206 215 ....339-42 317 Sandrokoptos Sangala... Sangrim Sankamadeva .127-8 Sankaracharya... 143, 274, 283 Sankhya... .......... 370 205 *****................ 298 362 298 Sanskrit MSS. Santa. Santadevi. Santi 291, 295 304 .......... 135 ********....... 142 ............................................. 138 92 Sapta Sringa...... .................. 161-4 Saranga Deva Sarasvati Puruna Sarguja .141-2 Sarvaja 117 .145-6 ............... 304. 243-4 ..................................... 23, 197 Sarvarthasiddha .................................................. 259 ****************** 260 261 301 ***********........ Salem Salihotra Salivahana 132 339 136 *************** .134, 261 254 ********... ........... ********.. ****** ********* ************* Sahyadri 142 **************... ........................................ Saiva Siddhanta 343 Saketa...59, 60, 62, 70, 207-8 Saketanagara 134 200 .195-6 244 ...223, 278 ************ 304 10 237-8 75 83 *********. 260 .260, 262 198 .208, 210 260 .12, 13 201 *********** **********.... Samargand.............. Samarsinha Rawal Sambhar Sinha Sambhavanatha....... *********...... ******************** 23 36 13, 135 *******................... **********................. ************* 195 189 7 Sarvatobhadra Sarvavira Sasakapura Sastavei Sastri... 297 Satapatha Brahmana. 29 34 *********....................... *********..................................... .......... *********...................... *********** ************ *********** ************ Savatthi Savisala Sayyid Salar ************ Satara ******************* 163 Satavali... 317, 319, 322 Sathat Sati 40 370 Satrunjaya... 14, 134-5, 197, 258, 264 377 168 317 58 354-7 Satrunjaya Mahatmya. 195-7, 262, 264 Satyasraya, Satyasri...94, 175, 272, 297 155 ........... 137 259 Satya Vakhya Kodgini. Sauderma Indra Saumanasa Sauraseni. ....................... 199, 367 Saurashtran Society ************ 97 Savant-Vadi.. ............................................................. 338 Savanta.......................13, 135 234 ........ 260 ******... 13 145 Seleukos............. Sena Pravara ..................... 266 Sera ................................. 370

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378 INDEX. 367 139 *** ... 136 .... 113 ........... 263 355 198 ****....... 196 .......... 1:32 150 24 Serdei plant.. 350 Sravana Belgola. 15,16,118-9,129-31 | Tadpatri .............. 178 Serpent Worship............... 124 Sravakas ...... ... 13 Talekad................................ 324 Setubandha .................240, Srenika......... ..... 13+ Taimur .............................. 265 Sevanagari .................... Sreyansn ........... Taj.................................... 91 Seren Pagodas ...............85, 107 Spichandra Deva.................. 13 Takht-i. Bahi .................... 1:14 Shahbaz-garli.................. 212 Sridharasena ..................... 196 Taksha, Takshak ............169, 193 Shah Kabir ........................ 97 Sri Harshn. 71-4, 127,211, 240, 306 Takslagila 194 Shah Rokh ................... 75, 79, 83 Sringeri Talaja 356 Sheoraj Deo .......................31-3 Spinga Rishi ... 69 Talekad....................... ... 32+ Sherring's Castes................... 99 Sringesvara ........................ 140 Tammacha ......................... 169 Shiraz Sripura ........................155, 161 Tamil books......................... 180 Shivarai ........................... 276 Spirangapatam .................. 132-3 Tao-sse ................................ Shoe Question .................. 21 Spivatsa .............................. 136 Tapi Jaina Patavali .......... 354 Shukars ........................... 32 Stlulla Panit...................... 130 T&pasa ............................. Shumbh ............................ 163 Subhachandra..................... 29 Taprobano ...................... 265 Siddhadri............................ Subrahmanya ............ 47, 202, 309 Taranatha..... 184 Siddhanta ........................... Suchindram ...................... 360-1 Tiskant ........................... Siddharasa ................ 68 Sudarsana ......................... 260 Tejapala ............................. 263-4 Siddhartha ...............15, 139, 261 Sudharma ...............262, 263, 35+ Tharus .............................. 13 Siddhasena .............. Sugndu Siddha.................. 66-7 Thilaris.............................. 201 Siddhayika ...................... 139 Sugita .............................. 197 Thomas (St.) ..................... 242 Sibaditya ......... 238 Sugrien ............................. 136 Thomas, W........................... 93 Siladitya............... 194-7, 263, 351 Sugurio .......... 22 Taoris ............... Silk Sasanas........................ Sulasti............ 203 Tigula sikhin .............................. 117 Suhil Dal........................... 13 Tinnevelli ..................... 202, 361 Simandhara Svimi............... 235 Sukra ...........................17, 200 Tipu Sultan .................. 112, 133 Singharadeva ..................... 207 Suminasa............................ 200 Tirru Meni ........................ 203 Sisihalese Proverbs................. Sumati.............................. 135 Tartlankara...17, 134, 110, 197, 199, Sillhapura ............... 16, 246, 21S Sumra Soula ......................311-9 Sishastha jatra ................ 181 Sunulara l'andya................ 147 Tirn = Sri ***...................... 1:1 Supra Tirukurangadi..................... Sitala....................... 136 Suparava Tirupatikunram ................ Siti Bitta............. Supraluddha .................. Tirukkazhukkunram ......... Sit Kude .............. 162 Suprabhi ......................1 Tirupati ...................... 307-8, Sittans ................................ Surabhi......................... 351 Tiruvallaver..................... Sitd-huuu ........... Surai.......................... Tiz .................................... .............. 50-1, 303 Surasaila ............. Tovla ............................... Sivaji ..........................278, 290-1 Surishtra.............. 1-13 Toda Kena stones ......... Sivale Tirtha ..................... 162 Todar Mal. Sivalingas ......................... 15 Surbakri lills ...............339, Tondamandalam .................. Sivner ............................ 43-3 Sur Das Touchstone ..................... 307 Skanda Gupta ................... 312 Suri Acharya .................. Travankor ........................ 361 Skanda Purana .............. 142 Sur Sigar... Tribhuvanamalla ...............297-8 Skandavarma 272 Surya kun Trichinapalli ..................... 278 Smartas ................. Sary cheker. Tridandis ........................... 31 Snakes ..................... ... 171 Saryavansa Trikutesvara .......................296-8 #phitaka ........................... Sutaraki .............. Trippippur Srarupam ......... 361 sodalichi-a ghost ............... 47 Sutia .............................. 1918 Trisala ........................ 139, 261 00 Tturfan........................ Sodrana fl. ....................... 336 | Suvarnabhumi..................... 239 ... Somachandra ............... Srarij ............. ............... 43 Tukai............... Somadeva .................. ...57, 196 Svastika ........................15, 135 Tukoji ............... Somanatha ......... 15, 84, 196, 315 Sreta........ ............. 285 Tuljapur ............. Somesvaradera ................... 297 Sretambara ............ 16, 194, 261-2 Tulsi Sena ......... Sweens ........................ 148, 370 Svetavasa........................... 194 Tulsi Syama............ Soriyapura ......................... 138 Syam Natha......................... 252 Tulus.................... andalui ........................ 286, 296 Syama .............................. 135 135 Tuluva .................. .!!! Sramana .......................... 261 Symurgh ........................... 78 Tumuli .......................... . .. ........... . . 216 . Siva . . Surnt..... 309 136 215

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Tungabadra...............141-3, 178 145 Turamaya...... Turtur humilis ................. 229 Tuthi........... 224 265 Tzachataes (Taxarans) Udupi Uga Ugha.. Ugrasena Ujjain... Ujjayanta Udapi 308 Udayaditya 131, 299, 301 Udayagiai Caves. ************* **************** Ujjinta Undesa Upanga.... Urvasi Utakamand ************ Uti Utpalapida Uttarkhan *******.. Vadin Vaghela Vahnipurana Vaibhara 17 139 .128, 210 .14, 130 139 262 295 343 Vengi... 171 229, 230 .....172-5 175 Veikata Dasa 307-8 Veikatadeva Mahariar *******.. 174 Venkatapati....... ..................................................... 371 Vibhandaka Muni.......... 141-2 Vicharaseni 362 Videha 259 *******............................................... 136 319, 353, 361 ............................................................... 4,37 259 Vidita Vaidyanatha.. Vaijayanta Vaikuntha Dasa Vaimanika Vaisampayana Vaiseshika 58 200 Vijaya Dasa......... 307-8, 310 Vijayaditya Chalukya 176 Vijayanagar...16, 178, 263, 298 371 Vikramaditya. 12, 58, 272, 297, 302 Vikramasila ********... 104, 106 Village Headmen 338 261 Vaisyas Valabhi... .194-5, 312, 316 Vala Rama Raja Valentyne, History of the Dutch 312 Vimala 136 East Indies 355 96 Vimaladri Vallabhakya ....155-6, 160 Vimanas Vallapakam Sasanas 185 Vinayaditya ************ Vamanasthali, Vanthali ..312, 316 vinchu Vanchi Vira Ballala.......131, 298-9, 302-3 ....307-8, 310, 312 Virapandya Raja. 131, 353 260 ..272, 299, 301 217 360 Varaha Dasa......... ********** Bari&.......... Bhill *****..... *********... *********** *************** ***************** *************** .... 175 194, 286 139, 261 Vararuchi...................... 367 Vardhamana ......... .130, 139, 260-1 Vardhanasena 261 Vasantayatri 261 Vasishtha ......... .66, 256, 262 84 Vastupala .195, 263 273 Vasubhuti ........................................ 262 315 Vasudeva 148 Vasuki 124 205 199 141 Varaha lanchana Varaha Mihira ......... Varanasi 262 263 304 355 Vasupujya... Vatsarija Vayubhati Vedanta 277 Velur 121 104 97 INDEX. ************* Vedantism Veguttuva Vellalar... 372 *************** 372 Buddha.................... 371 Koli ........................................ *****.... Vidyanagara..... Vidyapati... 307, 309 Vijaya 127 259 260 ************ ********** .................................................... *********** Castes,. Daulat Burj. ************ ********** ADDENDA. 136 148 ************* 372 372 372 Vira Saivas Visalgadh Visalakshi Visaldeva.... Vishnu Vishnu Gopa 343 .317-9, 321 372 187 .316-7 195 155 Vishnu Varddhana. 16, 30, 94, 131, 176, 299, 301 .......66-7 .307-8, 310 *********... 272 305 Vrihatkalpasitra...... Vrihatkatha............... ...57, 304 ..................................................... .51-2 ......................................... ........................... Vishvamitra Vithala Dasa Vithoba Vrikasura Vrindavana Vrishabhanatha Vrishabha Sena Vyantara Vyasana tolu stones ......... .................... Westergaard, Prof. Wheeler, J. T. Wilson, H. H. Witchcraft *********.... Ziegenbalg Zulfikr Khan ....88-9 353, 354 134 Waddars Wagnak Wagri caste Wassiliev, Prof. Watson, Dr. Forbes. 186 Weapons 216 Weber, Dr. A. 57, 274, 285, 295, 362 Wellesley 133 184 285 130 13 ****************** 260 49, 133 *********.. Sarvamanya........... Somavamsa. Sutra..... 379 *******..... ***********..... Yadava Yaksha Yasoda 297 354 139, 261 Yati ************ 260 Yekachekra **************** 88 Yel, R. *********** Yezd Yoga Yona or Yavana..... 171 331 ..286, 291, 295 ............144-5 ******** 87 217 154 362 ************ 181 175 .... 371 371 371

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