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SANSKRIT AND OLD CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
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name is Umbarakhê da, of the kindred of Saka era, or in the year of Vikra mâ diVâsishtha and of the school of the Tait- tya's reign. The language, again, is decidedly tiriyas, an inhabitant of the city of) Ta- more inaccurate than is usually the case. And garall, who is acquainted with the four Vô- the concluding passage, which commences in das. This my gift should be recognized and in- line 34, and which, in addition to its irregularcreased by other kings who may come after me. ity of diction, contains the Prakrit or Marathi He shall incur the guilt of the five great sins word pannas, ' fifty', is in all probability a later and shall dwell for many thousands of ages in addition, an attempt being made to imitate the hell, who, through ignorance or because he antique writing. But, down to line 34, the esteems himself incapable of decay or immortal, characters of the original appear to be genuinely may confiscate it; he, who preserves it, shall antique. dwell for the same duration of time in heaven!" The genealogy differs from that of the
And it has been said by the holy Vyasa, Y 8 w Or stone-tablet inscription, followed by the arranger of the Vedas :-Land has been Sir W. Elliot and transcribed in Vol. I., v. 258, enjoyed by many kings, commencing with Sa- of his MS. collection, which gives Amara as gara, &c.! 0 Yudhishthira, best of the son of Pulike si II. and Åditya varmi kings !, carefully preserve land that has been as the son of Amara, and makes Vikram - given, whether by thyself or by another; pre- ditya I. the son of Aditya varma and, servation (of a grant) is better than making a thus, the great-grandson of Pol'i kesi II. grant! He, who bestows land, enjoys happiness in With reference to this discrepancy in the geneheaven for sixty thousand years; he, who revokes alogical account, I have to remark,-on the one (a grant) or connives at such an act, shall hand;-1, that, down to the mention of Vikradwell for the same number of years in hell! maditya-Tribhuvana malla (Śaka 998 They, who woonfiscate a grant of land, are born to 1049), the genealogy given in the Y & wur as black serpents, dwelling in dried-up hollow inscription only professes to be derived from trees in the forests of the Vindhya moun. somo unspecified copper-plate grant of earlier tains, which are destitute of water! What date; and 2, that the inscriptions of Vina y agood man would resume those gifts which have ditya I., the son of Vikramaditya I., been made in former times by kings, and which
which I shall give in another paper, agree produce piety and wealth and fame, but which, with the present in making Vikramaditya (if revoked), are like the remains of an oblation I. the son of Pulike si II., and in omitting that are vomited forth ?!
any mention of Amara and Aditya varma. No. XXVIII.
And, on the other hand; that, as the reign of This is a Western Châluk ya copper-plate Vinay aditya I. commenced in Sak a 602grant from Sir W. Elliot's facsimile collection, 3, then if only Vikramaditya I. intervened and transcription of it is given in his MS. between him and Pulikasi II., there is, collection, Vol. I, p. 17. The original, which taking into consideration the date which is belonged to the same person as the original of allotted to Pulike sî II. in No. XIII. of this No. XXVII., and was also obtained through series, a full century occupied, at first sight, Gen. Fraser, consists of three plates about 81" only by the two reigns of Pulike si II. and long by 37" broad. The facsimile does not show Vikramaditya I. In line 16 of this inwhether there is any emblem on the ring with scription, however, we have a distinct indicawhich the plates are strong together. The cha- tion that Vikramaditya I. did not imracters are of much the same standard as those mediately succeed his father, whoever that of No. XXVII., and the language is Sanskrit. father was, Lat was ousted for a time. And,
It records a grant made by Vikra ma- if we admit the possibility of this fact of an inditya I, or Vikramaditya-Satya- terruption of the rule of the Chalu kyan śray a, the son of Polikës i II.
being due to their having no capable leader by No date is given, either in the year of the reason of Vikramaditya I. being only of
Probably the ancient city mentioned by the author of giri), not far from the cave temples of Elora.-E. the Periplus and Ptolemy, and of which the remains may Viz., killing a Brahman, drinking intoxicating lite, be traced over a wide area, on the plateau to the south of theft, adultery with the wife of a spiritual preceptor's wa Rozah, about four miles from Daulatabad (formerly Deve- associating with any one guilty of these crimes.
