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mics, Pandharpur has developed into a decentlooking, clean town, with a plentiful watersupply, and enjoying comparatively as much immunity from cholera as any other mofussil station."
We pause in the midst of our quotation. Alas! poor Tukâ, has it come to this? Is thy beloved Chandrabhaga to be thus spoken of ?
SANSKRIT AND OLD-CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS. BY J. F. FLEET., Bo. C.S, M.R.A.S. (Continued from p. 127.)
No. CXXIV.
Amongst the numerous stone-tablets extant at Lakshmeswar, there is one which has on it the remains of an Old-Canarese inscription of Govinda III. in which he is mentioned by his name of Śriballaha, i.e. Śrivallabha. Lakshmêswar itself is mentioned, in line 3, under the name of Purigere; and this is the form used in all the Rashtrakuta inscriptions that mention the place, though the inscriptions of other dynasties use the form Puligere. The fragment does not contain the date, and it consists only of twelve lines of about seven letters each; it therefore cannot be edited unless some further portions of the tablet can be found.
[JUNE, 1882.
The impure waters of the Bhimâ! And is thy "blessed, blessed Pandhari," thy "second heaven," to be called "a dirty place, full of filth and garbage," and that by its own children ? Well; we at least can pardon the scorners, when they tell us farther that "sanitation has lately been much attended to; the annual outlay under this head being Rs. 7,500."
No. CXXV.
The last inscription of Govinda III. that remains to be noticed is the copper-plate grant from Wani, in the Dindorî Tâlukâ of the Nâsik District, which was published by Mr. Wathen in the Jour. R. As. Soc., O. S., Vol. V., pp. 343 &c. I reëdit this inscription now from the original plates, which belong to the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.
The plates are three in number, each about 10" long, by 7" broad at the ends and a little less in the middle. The edges of the plates were fashioned slightly thicker, so as to serve as rims to protect the writing; and the inscription is very well preserved, except about the centre of the second side of the second plate. The writing on the plates is arranged so that they read consecutively if they are turned over like the pages of an English book; this is a somewhat exceptional arrangement in copperplate grants, or in Hindu documents of any description. The ring, which had been cut before the grant came into my hands, is about
thick, and 4" in diameter. The seal on it is circular, about 24" in diameter; and it has, in relief on a countersunk surface, an image of the god Šiva, above a floral device, sitting crosslegged and facing to the front, and very similar in details to the image of the same god on the seals of the grants of Dantidurga and Govinda III., Nos. CXXI. and CXXIII. above. The language is Sanskrit throughout.
The seventeen verses of this inscription are all repeated in the Radhanpur inscription. And, in addition to them,-between the sixth and seventh verses of this grant, the Radhanpur grant inserts another verse beginning Ekatr= átma-vahéna, descriptive of Dhôra or Dhruva hemming in the Pallavas between his army on the one side and the ocean on the other, and despoiling them of their elephants; the eleventh verse of this grant, which consists of five pádas and is hardly translatable as it stands, is in the Rådhanpur grant properly given in two verses of four padas each; between the twelfth and thirteenth verses of this grant, the Radhanpur grant inserts another verse beginning Samdhay= ásu silímukhân, descriptive of the flight of the Gurjara king before Govinda III.; and between the fifteenth and sixteenth verses of this grant, the Rådhanpur grant inserts another verse beginning Lékháhára-mukh-ôdit-arddhavachasd, and describing how, before Govinda's messenger could utter more than half of the message that was sent by him, the lord of Vengi came and worked for Govinda III. like a servant, and built for him the high walls of a town or fort. The fact that the Gurjara king, and the lord of Vengi,-apparently the Eastern Chalukya king Vijayaditya, also called Narendramrigaraja, who reigned from about Śaka 710
