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3.-Successors of Dikpaladdva down to the present ruling chief, according to records
kept in the R&ja's family. 1 Rajpaldêva. 2 Dalpatdeva. 3 Darykodova; his brother Ajmer Singh rebelled against him in Samvat 1836, A.D. 1779. 4 Mahipaladeva. 5 Bhûpåladeva. C Bhairamadêva. 7 Rudrapratâpadêva, the present chinf.
The family records place another Prataparijad va between Narasida haddva and Jagadîsarayadeva, Nos. 6 and 7 of List 2. Pratâparudradova, the brother of Annamrája, is stated to have had three eyes; his army was composed of nine lao archers, and during his time golden rain fell. Pratáparudra I, was a great patron of learning, and Vidyanatha wrote a work on Alankára, which he called after him Pratúparudrayakábhúshana or Pratáparudriya."
The other three inscriptions are at Dongar; they are written in Hindi. Two of them are dated in Samyat 1836, or A.D. 1783, and refer to a visit of Raja Darylodēva in order to quell a local rebellion. The third is dated in Samvat 1928, or A.D. 1871, and records the pattabhishika ceremony of Bhairamadeva, the father of the present ruler.
III.-MISCELLANEOUS INSCRIPTIONS. All these are unimportant and give no historical data. Six belong to Chapka and are engraved on sati memorial stones and, with one exception, in Någari characters. Most of these have the usual marks of the sun, the moon and the outstretched hand with figures of husband and wife. Some have got temples engraved, with the couple in the act of worshipping the lunya represented there. One is found at Bårstr on the pedestal of a goddess and is fragmentary.
No. 20.-- KANKER COPPER PLATES OF PAMPARAJADEVA
[KALACHURI] SAMVAT 965 AND 966.
BY HIRA LAL, B.A., NAGPUR. These are two copper plates which were found in an old well in the Village Tahankåpår, 18 miles from Kanker, the capital of the state of the same name in the Chhattisgarh Division of the Central Provinces. They are now in the possession of the chief of that state and were sent to me by his Divan Pardit Durg&prasid. Ink impressions were kindly taken for me at Nagpur by Mr. T. G. Green, Superintendent of the Government Press, and they are reproduced in the accompanying plate.
There are two different records issued at an interval of a year. Both the plates are 73" long, but they differ in height and weight, one measuring 3t" and the other 83', the bigger one
This may be true in the sense that he ruled over to big a population, who, a subjects, could at any time be called out for military service. In Bastar and adjoining tracts almost every man knows the use of the bow and arrow, with which they even kill tigers. The probability, however, is that nine lac' was conventional term for the highest number. In the Hottur inscription (Gasottoor of the Bombay Presidency, Vol. I, Part II, p. 489) the Chalukya king Satyasrays is stated to have put to flight a Châļa king who had collected a force numbering nine lacs, indirectly insinuating that he defeated the biggest army that could be brought in the field. Similarly it has become idiomatic to speak of Bdwangari (62 forta), 700 chllar (disciples), 108 árle, etc.
* Ind. Aut si p. 198, and Daft. Chronology of India, p. 218.
