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(rupees) to Jagatguru (Siva), to be continued | Dnyâ nesvara (who completed his Dnyanesper mensem, for a continual supply of wick and vari at New åsa in Sake 1212, or 1290 A.D., oil (for a light in his temple), so that that and died at Ålandî, near Puņa, in Sake 1218 or sum of six rupees should be given as long as the 1296 A.D.)--that is, he was ruling at Newasa sun and the moon exist, he who appropriates it about six hundred years back, or about the time to his use is wicked : his ancestors will go to hell. the grant was inscribed; but he cannot be supMay the great deity (Mohiniraja) do good!” posed to have made the grant. If he had given
The letters of the inscription have in several anything for the maintenance of the lamp, it places suffered from the effects of time, which would have been a village or land, and not such have rendered them illegible or uncertain. They | a small sam as six rupees. have been supplied as the general contents The above orís quoted from the Dnyanes. of the inscription required, and have been tari will be found useful. They contribute to distinguished from the rest by brackets. In the the history of the Yadava or Gauli Rajas first line [*] is supplied from the Malálaza | by giving the name, the capital, and the date Mahátmya, which gives Kara vireśvara of one of them. as a name of Siva, from Karavir, a head
Note. attendant of Siva who propitiated him and in- The learned Sastri assumes the identity ducod him to take the name as a token of his of the Ya da vas of Devgadh and the surfavour towards him (Karavir).
rounding region with the Gauli Rajas,--- The inscription bears no date, nor does it subject on which we are gradually getting a little name the grantor, but the date can approxim- light, especially from the earlier sargas of the ately bo fixed from the character of the letters Doardsurdya (vido ante, pp. 71 ff.), in which the
ruler of V & manasthali is stigmatized as an inscribed. The character is similar to that found in inscriptions dated six hundred years back, so
Ahir or herdsman. But in the 4th sarga this
chief's ambassador seems to speak of his master as that the inscription cannot be older than about
a Yadava; and in fact it is almost certain that that time. As to the name of the grantor, or
he was one of the Chud samma Ras of Ju. rather the renower of the grant, there are no nagadh, whom Major Watson (vol. II. p. 316) means of ascertaining it. But it appears that
considers to have sprung from Chuda Oband some rich man in New as a probably renewed Yadava. It is to be hoped that the Sastri will the grant of his grandfather, who, being a dero- contribute the result of his researches towards tee of Karavir es vara, to whom a salutation the clucidation of the great historical puzzle of the
Gault raj. is offered at the beginning of the inscription,
The references to Dnyanesvara are also of furnished the temple with a lamp continually
interest. Is it not possible to recover the origiburning. New à sa, as the oci 212 TEATH,
nel text of this first and greatest of Maratha &c., quoted above from the Dnyánesoari, shows,
poets? It would be more valuable for Marathi than was the capital of Raja Ramachandra, and it
Chaucer is for the history of the development of must have then contained many rich men, though the English language. Who will be patriotic there are none at present. The Raja Ramachan- enough to attempt in good earnest to discover at dra, tho samo ovi proves, was contemporary with least the oldest text now in existence ?
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BY DR. A. B. COHEN STUART.
Translated from the Dutch by the Rev. D. Macmillan, M.A. The first of the accompanying sketches has 10), and represents, according to the catalogue been borrowed from the photograph taken by of that valuable collection, "an inscribed stone Heer J. van Kinsbergen for the Government of with two footprints and spiders at the river Netherlands India, and published under the Charenten,t at Champen, Buitenzorg." superintendence of the Batavian Society of Arts The extraordinary distinctness with which and Sciences in the Oudheden van Java (No. the inscription on this stone has been preserved
• The Honourable Rao Saheb Vishvanath Narayan Mand. + Elsewhere Chiroenten, which flows northwards lik inforios me that his MS. of the Dnyanešvari says it was from Mount Salak and falls into the Ohida ni near revised, that is, modernized, in Sake 1576, or A.D. 1654.-ED. Champea.
