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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[APRIL, 1877.
on the west of the village of Pêrgîga mâsi. to edit from it. Down to djhápayati,' PI. II., And the boundaries of that field (are):-On the a, 1. 17, the language is the same as in the cornorth-east, .......... || in the boundaries responding part of No. XXIX. now published. of the village of Sirigodu; coming thence, It is dated in the Saka year 615, (according (the village of) (?) Karvêsurigodu; thence, to the original, six hundred and fourteen years (the village of) (?) Pêrd&tu (?); thence, the of the Saka (era] having elapsed), the thirteenth village of) (?) Ålere; thence .........1 year of his reign, and apparently on Saturday, thence, a stone (?)............*; the day of the sun's commencing his progress to thence, to the east, (the village of) (?) Nerire the south. It records another grant in celebra(?); thence, (the tank, or village, called) Kuruction of a victory, and is issued from the camp pa kere; thence turning to the south,..... at the village of Chitrase du in the district ...katta.t This (grant, or charter) should be of Tora vara or Toramara. The grant preserved by future kings, who are desirous of is made at the request of the Great King Sri. acquiring fame, whether they belong to Our Chitra pa da, the son of Upendra. The lineage or to other families, &c.! And it has name of the village bestowed seems to be sabeen said by the holy Vya sa, the arranger of thivoge, in the Ede volal division, and the Vedas:-Land has been enjoyed by many near to Vaijayantipura or Vana va s i. kings, from Sagara downwards ; &c.! It is The record of this grant, again, is made by a very easy thing to bestow a grant oneself, &c.! Råmapunya vallabha, the Peace and He is born as a worm in ordure for the dura- War Minister.-2, No. 98 of Major Dixon's tion of sixty thousand years, &c.! This char- Collection; a stone-tablet 3' 6' high by 1' 10" ter has been written by Sri-Ramapunya- broad at Balagâ m ve. The photograph is so valla bha, the High (Minister) who is en- small,- only 31" by 1,-and so blurred, that trusted with the arrangement of peace and only a few detached and familiar words can be war."
made out here and there. The language is Old
Canarese. It records & grant by one of the Before leaving this part of my subject, I Sendra ka family, while Vinayadityashould notice two more inscriptions of Vinaya-Raja śray at was the reigning paramount ditya.—1, No. 5 of Major Dixon's copper-plate sovereign. It does not seem to be dated. At grants. The original is at Surab in Maisûr, the top of the stone is an elephant, standing; and seems to be fairly well preserved; but the this is the earliest stone-tablet that I am aware photograph is too small and indistinct for me of with any emblems on it.
PAPER-MAKING IN THE HIMALAYAS.
BY THE LATE CHARLES HORNE, B.C.S., M.R.A.S., &c. At a time when the scarcity of rags for paper is from the Daphne papyracea, a shrub abundant making, combined with an increased demand at certain heights, and the paper produced is for the manufactured article, has set every one very tough and durable. I almost fear, how. seeking for substances wherewith to manu- ever, that the material could neither be supfacture, I have thought that a short account of plied in sufficient quantity, nor that it would the paper-making in the Himalayas might prove bear the heavy cost of carriage to the coast. I of interest.
will, however, gather together all I can find on The reports on the manufacture of paper in the subject scattered in various works, and then Japan, published as a Parliamentary paper conclude with my own experience in the matter, (No. 4 of 1871), have shown how the inner as for many years I was in the Hills and bark of various trees, notably the mulberry, is witnessed the manufacture. there used. That used in the Hills of India Almost every one who has been residing at
Si.e. the larger Kågamlei.'
Palivatu, 11. 31-2; meaning not known. T See note to 1. 33 of the text. * Nitta, 1. 33; meaning not known.
+ See note to l. 34 of the text.
Conf. Rájásrayatvad Bharata iva,' No. XXIX., 11. 22-3, And in the corresponding place in each of the remaining inscriptions.
