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the lord of the gods, could not be compared to this disposition was forgiving, protected the earth as Surendra, since he is called satamanyu, 'the har. culer, his commands gaining obedience (from all). bourer of a hundred grudges,' and gotrabhit, the 100 That king founded the two agraharas $3 mån. destroyer of the gotra,' while (Surendra of Ka s- jasa and Asankra. Without male issue he mir) deserved the surname Santamanyu, "he whose obtained half of Indra's seat (after death). anger is appeased,' and gotrarakshi, the protector 201 Next, the son of that king's grand-uncle, and of the gotra.' That illustrious (ruler) founded on the great-grandson of Sakuni, the veracious A soka, frontiers of Dardistân a town called Sau raka, ruled the earth. 204 That king, cleansed from sin and a vihara called Narendrabhavana. "In and converted to the teaching of Jina, covered his own kingdom that prince of great fame and Sushk aletra and Vitast&tra with nuof holy works founded a vihdra, called Sauraga, merous stúpas. 103 Within the precincts of the which became famous for piety.
Dharmaranya Vihara in Vitastatrapura stood a After this king had died without issue, G 0. chaitya, built by him, the height of which the dhara, a scion of a different family, protected eye was unable to measure. 104 That illustrious the earth, together with the best of mountains. prince built the town of Srinagari, which is most as Liberal, pious Godhara went to heaven after important on account of its nine million and six presenting the agrahara Hastis&1& to the Brah. hundred thousand houses. 105 This virtuous (prince) mans.
removed the old brick enclosure of the temple of "His son Suvarna after him distributed gold Vijayeśvara, and built a new one of stone. 106 He (suparna) to the needy, he who caused to flow, in the whose dejection had been overcome built within the district of Karala, the brook Suvarnamani. enclosure of Vijayeśvara, and near it, two (other)
*His son J anak a, comparable to a father (ja. temples, which were styled A sok esvara. 107 As naka) of his subjects, founded the vihdra and agra. | the country was overrun by Mlechbas, the pious hára called J &lora.
(king) obtained from Siva, the lord of creatures, a ** After him the illustrious Sachinara, whose son in order to destroy them.
CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANEA. EARLY COMITS OF WESTERN INDIA. characters, I have been more than ever impressed To the Editor of the Indian Antiquary.
with the aid to be derived from duplicate and other SIR, I have been lately occupied in examining examples, which, though seemingly unimportant, the materials for Sir Walter Elliot's promised con- may chance to contribute to a practised eye a misstribution to the series of the new Numismata ing link in the interpretation of the authorized Orientalia, "On the Coins of Southern India." version of the local Prakrit, so confessedly un.
In attempting to decipher the too frequently certain in its best forms of orthography. In the obliterated legends of the various subdivisions of hope of enlisting the sympathies of collectors of the coins of the western coast bearing Aboka coins in the Western Presidenoy, I desire to appeal,
03 Indra or Surendra is called Gotrabhit because he of Saman gasais Svangas, in the Kotaharu pargana, near opened the gotra or pen in which the Panis had confined Islamabad, and of Asan&ra, the well-known village of Chrêr. the cows of the gods: see the quotations in the Pet. Dict. 109 Read 56 FETT. The annotator of Gremarks: 8. v. In the case of the Kaámfrian Surendra, gotra must
Gushkaletrah hukhletra vitastatra vithavatra, fush kale. be taken to mean his own or the Brahmanical families.
trascha vitastatrascha tau sushkaletravitastatrandvitiyad. 93 Neither the places mentioned in this verse nor the vivachanam etat. Both localities, the names of which are one mentioned in the next can be traced, though the usually pronounced Hoklitr and Vethuotr, are situated in former, as they were situated on the frontier of Dar listan, the Devasar pargand to the south of Islamabad. The must have been somewhere in Lol&b or Khuyah&m. It is former is marked on the Trig. Surv. map as Vithawiter. important to note that Kalhana ascribes the foundation of
103 Read T w ith GP and Ch. instead of the viharas, or Bauddha monasteries, to the last king of the line of Gonanda, whom he must have placed somewhere
यत्कृत्यम् of the editions.. about the 18th century before our era.
10. General Cunningham (Anc. Geog. p. 95) has fixed the » Read with Oh. and GATOTT TT. The best of site of the ancient Srinagari near PÅndreth&n (Pur&pAdhish. mountains' is the Himalaya.
th&na). Some Pandits think that it lay near Islamabed. 6 According to the annotator of G', H&tis A 1A is now 108 Regarding the very remarkable prakards of the called Asthihil. My Brahman friends did not know this Kasmirian temples see Ounningham, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. latter name, and thought that Hashir might be meant. vol. xiii. pp. 340 seqq.
The annotator of explains Karále by ardhavane, 100 Açokeśvara must be explained as a madhyamapadalopi and Suvarnarmikulyd by Sunnamayd nado, the nala or
compound by Agokena nirmita tévara, the temple of) Siva brook called Sunnamaya, marked on the native map in the
built by Asoka.' The same remark applies to the numerous pargana Adhvan or Arwin.
names of temples.ending in Isvara and beginning with the 98 My Kasmirian friends identify Zayur, near Zevan, name of a person, which occur further on. with Jalore.
107 The Mlechhga intended here are probably the Greeks: 100 According to the annotator of G the modern equivalent vide Lassen, Ind. Alt. (2nd ed.) vol. II. p. 285.
