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risen to eminence before the Christian era. Failing to discover the relations of Hâna gal with any of these powers, or to conjecture what probable circumstances could have led to the construction of such extensive yet rude works, I am inclined to hazard the conjecture that they indicate the location of a prehistoric pastoral tribe, rich in flocks and herds, who were tempted by ready access to the abundant pas. turage of the open country during the monsoon and cold weather, and by the close vicinity of the shelter and grazing-ground of the forest during the hot season, to make it their principal station, while a large enclosed area would be required for the protection of the cattle, as well as the herdsmen and their families in times of danger.
Plate II. is a ground-plan and architectural elevation of the temple of Târakê svarat
one of the finest Siválayas I have seen, drawn by Vinayaka Rândêsava, the Assistant Revenue Surveyor. If I recollect right, a photograph of it is given in the collection of Drs. Pigou and Neill and Colonel Biggs, published at Bombay, but by no means doing justice to it. It has much the character of the temples in the Fort of Belgaum figured by Mr. Burgess in his first Archeological Report, but is finer than any of them. The roof of the central chamber is in the form of a lotus,& and round the walls of the interior of the same compartment are figures of the guardians of the eight quarters, in bold relief. Two or three remarkable virgals, or monumental battle-stones, rest against the outer wall, near the south entrance. They are very large and containing many figures. One of them represents the storming of a fortified place.
TWO INSCRIPTIONS FROM JHÂLRÂPATHAN
BY G. BÜHLER. The transcripts of the subjoined two inscrip- Virodhi," nor any of the other touching sentitions have been made according to photozinco- ments and facts given by Tod. If it were worth graphs prepared by the Editor.* .
the while, it would not be difficult to show how Colonel Todt professes to give an analysis some of the errors committed by Tod's Pandit of the first. But his Pandits have served him arose, on which Tod himself further improved. in this instance as badly as usual. The date, The inscription No. I., though on the whole as well as the names of the king, of the donor, well preserved, is in many respects unsatisof the poet, and of the stone-mason, have been factory. We obtain the name of a king about given incorrectly. The former is, according to whom I, at least, can ascertain nothing, and his Tod, 748, while the inscription reads sateshu date, which latter offers difficulties on account of saptasu shatchatvárinsadadhikesh, 746. The the want of an indication of the era. Samvat 746 name of the chief of kings' Tod's Pandit read may, as Tod concluded, have to be referred to Durgangal, while it is plainly Durgagana in the Vikrama era of 56-7 B.C., and correspond to No. I., and Durgageņa in No. II., the latter 689-90 A.D. But there is no reason to prevent being, no doubt, a mistake. The name of the | any one from referring the date to the Saka or donor is not Kayak (Kyuk), son of Talyak, but Gupta eras. Again, the rank of the person who Voppa k a, brother of Deva. The poet who built the temple is not clearly stated. I don't composed the inscription was not Gupta, grand- think that he really was the keeper of a gamson of Bhat Ganesvar, lord of the lords of verso bling-house for rich kings. It seems to me much of Mundal, and son of Haragupta, but simply more likely that he was a great court-officer or Bhatta Sarvagupta. Theengraver was not general who played an important part in the Olak, but probably called Vamana. The in- political games of the Thâkurs or feudatories scription, finally, contains nothing about "the of Durgagana. But what his office precisePandu Arjun, and his encounter with the demon ly was must for the present remain doubtful.
+ Tara kesy&ra, lit. the lord of T&raks, the afura or demon destroyed by Kartikeye, the son of Siva, hence called Tårs kajit.
I References to the second plate.- Plan of the temple of Tarakeswara Deva at Hatagal. A. The ground. plan. B. Elevation, on a scale of one inch to twelve feet.
Like that figured in the same Report Plate VI.
These sincographs were prepared from photographs forwarded to the Editor by Capt. W. Muir of Deoll, and had been taken for him by a local photographer, who whitewashed the stone and blackened the letters; and it is just possible a careful examination of the original by a competent Scholar might lead to the addition of a few more letters or words, not quite obliterated, at least in the second. Both inscriptions are on one slab-on opposite sides of it.-ED.
† Annals of Rajasthan (Madru ed.), vol. II. p. 679.
scords, not quite abone slabon Opponico. II. p. 672.
