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does Ramachandra make his earnest request to all future princes." In (discriminating between) giving a grant and continuing (the grant of another), continuing (the grant of
MISCELLANEA.
SEALS FROM COPPER-PLATE GRANTS. (See Plates, pp. 120, 252-3.)
Besides the seals from the copper-plate grants of Vinayâditya (alluded to above, p. 301) and of Kanharadêva (p. 303), we have given on the same plate (at p. 252) three others from the collection of Sir Walter Elliot: viz.-No. 1, the seal of the copper-plate grant of Vikramaditya I. dated Śaka 532, which grant has already been given (at p. 217); No. 3 is from an Eastern Chalukya grant of Rajaraja dated Saka 944; and No. 41 from another Vengi grant of Kulôttunga-Chôdadêva II. dated Saka 1056. These last two grants will be given in volume VIII. of the Indian Antiquary, with full-size facsimile plates.
An impression of a seal of Ammaraja II. of the Eastern Chalukya dynasty is given on the plate facing p. 120. A transcription and translation of the plates to which it belongs will be given early in next volume.-ED.
KABIR-PANTHIS AND SAT-NAMIS.
(Addition to the paper, ante, pp. 287-289.)
Much has yet to be learnt about the Kabirpanthis and the teaching of Kabir, the great leader of Indian reform in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His sayings and precepts are innumerable, and many of them have still to be translated.
The Sat-n & mis, too, are an interesting sect, and very little has yet been written about them or their leaders. Is there not more than one branch of this sect to be found in different parts of India? And if so, how do they differ P
MONIER WILLIAMS.
Oxford, November 8th, 1878.
[DECEMBER, 1878.
another) is the better; by giving a grant a man attains paradise, but by continuing (the grant of another) a man attains an imperishable state! (May there be) the most auspicious prosperity!
METRICAL VERSIONS FROM THE MAHABHARATA.
BY J. MUIR, D.C.L., LL.D., PH.D. (Continued from p. 292.) BROKEN FRIENDSHIPS NEVER THOROUGHLY CEMENTED. Mahabharata, xii. 4167.
Things well compact are hard to crack,
And broken things are hard to mend ; So shattered friendships, patched up, lack The love that marked the former friend.
THE IGNORANT MAN'S PRAISE AND BLAME WORTHLESS. Mahabharata, xii. 4217.
What boots the censure or applause Which undiscerning men bestow ? Who ever heeds the senseless crow That in the forest harshly caws ?
DISHONEST EULOGISTS. Mahabharata, xii. 4421.
The men who praise you, bland and bright, Before you,-rail behind your back, Are dogs that dread a front attack, But slink behind, your heels to bite.
EVIL OF REVENGEFULNESS. Mahabharata, xii. 4225.
The injured man who weakly longs To pay base slanderers back their wrongs Is like the ass which loves to lie And roll in ashes dirtily.
THE EFFECT WHICH SOCIETY PRODUCES ON THE FOOLISH AND THE WISE RESPECTIVELY. Mahabharata, i. 3077.
The fool who listens day by day To all that men around him say, Whate'er is worst drinks in with greed, As pigs on garbage love to feed. But hearing others talk, the wise The precious choose, the vile despise; Just so do swans, with innate tact, From milk and water, milk extract.
EFFECTS OF ASSOCIATING WITH THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH. Mahabharata, iii. 25.
To herd with fools delusion breeds, To error, vice, and misery leads;" While those who wait upon the wise, On virtue's ladder ever rise. Let men who covet calm of mind, The old, the sage, the righteous find; From such the way of duty learn; Thus aided, truth and right discern. Such men's example, influence, looks, Teach better far than many books. (To be continued.)
The first two seals on the second page of the plate have been wrongly numbered as 1 and 2, instead of 3 and 4.
