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JUNE, 1885.)
UJJAIN PLATES OF VAKPATIRAJA OF DHARA.
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What arrangement will you come to about at all, but merely slang words. Their presence this piece? I'll take what you say.
in the trade dialects is interesting, as showing (11) akald (akéid), is alone.
how some of the apparently inexplicable words Dalal. I want eleven dads in the rupee. peculiar to these last are procured. But
Üh kal ghar bich akalá hi rihậ, daja kot kol they could never be of much help in deriving na så. Answer. Aho, main jändå hâà.
trade dialects, owing to their necessary Yesterday he was alone in the house, no one paucity, and to the fact that the words was with him. Yes, I know.
in the trade dialects not directly explicable The above sentences show clearly that the by ordinary etymology are comparatively 80-called numerals of the Dalâls are not such few.
A COPPER-PLATE GRANT OF VAKPATIRAJA OF DHARA.
BY PROF. KIELHORN; GOTTINGEN. This inscription of Vå kpatiraja of the two plates is 6 lbs. 64 oz., and of the ring, Dhård, of which at the request of the Editors 31 oz.; total, 6 lbs. 10 oz. I furnish a transcript and translation from the The inscription is composed in Sanskrit, photo-lithograph supplied to me," has already and written in Devanagari characters. The been published by Dr. Rajendralal Mitra in the grant recorded in it was made on the full-moon Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. XIX. p. 475ff. And day of the bright half of the month Kárttika another inscription of the same king, very in the (Vikrama) year 1036, on the occasion of similar to the one now edited, and dated an eclipso of the moon; and the deed was drawn five years before it, has been published in the up on the 9th day of the dark half of the month Indian Antiquary, Vol. VI. p. 51ff. (See also Chaitra in the same year. The former day Hall in the Jour. Beng. As. Soc. Vol. XXX. was the 26th October A.D. 980, on which date, p. 205ff.)
according to the calculations of Professors From Dr. Rajendralal Mitra's published Jacobi and Schering, an eclipse of the moon did notice, it appears that these plates were dis- take place." covered in digging & rain in the vicinity of The object granted is the village of Sem. Ujjain in Central India, and were presented balapuraka, belonging to the Tişisa. by Mr. R. N. C. Hamilton, of Indore, to the padra Twelve. The king when making the Bengal Asiatic Society. Now, however, they grant was at Bhagavatpura; and the are in the India Office Library in London, place at which the grant was written is stated The plates are two in number, each measuring to have been Guņapura. I am unable to about 121" by 94. The edges of them are identify these places. fashioned thicker, so as to serve as rims to The donee is the Bhattáriká, the goddess protect the writing; and the inscription is in Bhattes vari at Ujjayani; and the purperfect preservation almost throughout. Each pose for which the grant was made is the one plate has two ring-holes,- at the bottom of usual in such cases, viz. to provide for the the first plate, and the top of the second, -but religious worship, and for the keeping in only one ring is now forthcoming; it is a plain repair of the temple. As Bhaftárikd is an copper ring, about " thick and 21" in diameter; epithet of Durga, I suspect Bhattesvari it had been cut before the grant came under to have been one of the local names of that notice for photo-lithography. The weight of deity.
Indian Inscriptions, No. 9. •By the Tables in General Cunningham's Indian Eras, Tuesday, the 28th October, A.D. 980,—when there was an eolipse of the moon, answers, by the northern reckoning, to the full-moon of Kárttika of Vikrama-San. yat 1087, which is one your later than the date recorded
in the grant. By the same Tables, and by the same reckoning, the recorded date of the full-moon of Karttiks of Vikrama-Samvat 1086, answers to Thursday, the oth November A.D. 979,-when also there was an eclipse of the moon; and this seems to satisfy the requirements of the record-ED.]
