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No. 10.)
GADAG INSCRIPTION OF VIRA-BALLALA II.
(L. 25.) The tenth-10th-year, the sixth-th-fortnight of gummer, the fifth5th-lunar day.
(L. 27.) The executor (djfaptı) (was) myself. Accordingly (this) set of plates (paffiká) has been given to the donees).
No. 9.-THE ARMENIAN EPITAPH AT THE LITTLE MOUNT. BY FATHER VARTAN MELCHISEDECE, OF THE MECHITHARIST CONGREGATION, VIENNA.
Mr. Sewell's Lists of Antiquities (Vol. I. page 175 f.) contain a short, but excellent description of the three sites on the south of the city of Madras which are connected with the legend of St. Thomas. These are the village of St. Thomé, which claims to possess the apostle's grave; the Little Mount, where he is said to have suffered martyrdom; and St. Thomas's Mount, the church on the top of which contains the famous inscribed cross. The church at the Little Mount is reached by a flight of stone steps, and at the foot of these is set up a stone which bears a cross and; below it, the subjoined Armenian epitaph. The stone lately attracted the attention of His Excellency Sir Arthur Havelock, the Governor of Madras. At his instance Dr. Hultzsch sent inked estampages of the inscription to Professor H. Hübschmann, of Strassburg, who was the first to decipher it. It is dated in the year 1112 (of the Armenian patriarch Moses), 1.6. A.D. 1683, and is the epitaph of an Armenian merchant, named David, the son of Margare.
1 Hais & tapayn 2 Khujay Davuthi
TEXT.
3 ordi Khujay Margar4 By thvin' oh ah b.
TRANSLATION. This is the grave of Khojas David, the son of Khoja Margard.
In the year 1112.
No. 10.GADAG INSORIPTION OF VIRA-BALLALA II.;
SAKA-SAMVAT 1114.
By H. LÜDERS, PH.D.; GÖTTINGEN. This inscription is on a stone standing up against the back wall of the temple of TrikuteSvara ate Gadag, the obief town of the Gadag taluka in the Dharwar district of the Bombay
1 See above, VOL. IV. p. 174 ff.
As read by Professor Hübechmann from the inked estampages. • This is a cockneyism for Old-Armenian ais,'this,' which has become as in New-Armenian.-H. H. • Read tapan.-H. H.
• In Old-Armenian this would be Darthi, the genitive of Davith. The form Daouth seems to be due to the influence of Da'id, the Arabic form of the name. David.'- . H.
. Dr. Karst considers Margarayi to be the genitive of Margard; and is the definite article.
Instead of thrin, of the year,' we ought to have ithein, with the locative prefix # This is the Persian dalys, 's lord, mastor,' title generally applied to preceptors and merchanta.
This name is identical with the Armenian word margard, 'prophet
