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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[AUGUST, 1887.
Kásiká, the particle of Panini's rule shows sess of it, I feel little hesitation in saying that, that the suffix taught by the rule is added to wherever the device of which I am speaking is other words besides fa, and the word which resorted to in the Kásika-Vritti, the words Påņini had in his mind, when thus employing which Påņini is supposed to suggest by the
7, is the very after which is actually given employment of the particle , bave invariably by Chandra. According to the Kasika, the been taken by the compilers of the Kábitá from of P. V. 4, 145 shows that one also says the Vârttikas, or from the Mahâbhåshya, or अहिदत् or भहिवन्त, मूषिकदत् or मूषिकान्त etc.; from the grammar of Chandra. The compilers nie, en oto., are the very words which the have invented nothing; not caring for, or corresponding rulo of Chandra actually enume- having no notion of, the history of grammar, Tates, in addition to the words 99, etc., they have tried to show, how Panini's own rules which are enumerated by Pâņini. Unluckily we can be made to account for a number of words, do not possess yet a complete copy of Chandra's for which Panini's more immediate successors grammar; but judging from what we do pos- I had given additional rules."
SANSKRIT AND OLD-KANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
BY J. F. FLEET, Bo.c.s., M.R.A.S., C.I.E. No. 171.-BHOPAL PLATES OF U DAYAVARMAN.-VIKRAMA-SAMVAT 1256. This inscription, which is now published for | But the rings, with any soal that may have the first time, is from some copper-plates been on one of them, are not now forthcoming. which appear to have been found about twenty. In the lower part of the second plate, however, fire years ago, daring sarvey operations, in & in a rectangle about 3' broad by 35" high, there Eeld at the village of Uljamun' in the Shams- is engraved a representation of Garuda, with gadh Pargana of the Bhopal State in Central the body of a man and the head of a bird, India, and have been since then in the treasury kneeling to the front, with his head turned over of H. H. the Begam of Bhởpål. I obtained his right shoulder.-The weight of the two them, for examination, through the kindness plates is about 6 lbs. 31 oz.-The average size of Col. Kincaid, until recently Political Agent of the letters is about it. The characters for Bhopal
are those of the northern Dêvanagari alphabet, The plates, which are inscribed on one side of the period to which the inscription refers only, are two in number, each measuring about itself. The language is Sanskrit; and, with 123" by 91". The edges of them were the exception of two invocatory verses in lines fashioned somewhat thicker than the inscribed 1 to 3, and one of the customary benedictive surfaces, with corresponding depressions inside and imprecatory verses in line 16-18, and eleven them, so as to serve as rims to protect the in lines 28 to 40, the record is in prose.-In writing;' and the inscription is in a state respect of orthography, the only points that of almost perfect preservation throughout. call for notice are (1) the use of j for y in Only a few letters, here and there, have been jauvana, line 16; (2) the use of v for b, throughslightly damaged by rast. The plates are fairly out, e.g. in vibhartti, line 1; savda, line 7; thick and substantial; and the letters, though dráh mana, line 10; and vddhayati, line 11; and tolerably deeply engraved, do not shew through (3) a frequent confusion between the sibilants; on the reverse sides of them at all. The e.g. in késa fur kesa, line 1, and sirask for engraving is good; but, as usual, the interiors sirasd, line 2; and, on the other hand, in samasta of most of the letters shew marks of the working for samasta, line 10, and daha for saha, line 24; of the engraver's tool.- In the lower part of the it is, however, always difficult to say how far first plate, and the upper part of the second, there this is only due to imperfect knowledge on the are holes for two rings to connect them. part of the drafter of a grant, or carelessness
* See. paper on cha and iti by Dr. Bühler in Wiener Zeitschrit für die Kunde der Morgenlandes, Vol. I. p. 18.
The Uljamn' of the Indian Atlas, Sheet No. 53. Lat. 23° 7 N.; Lour. 77° 18. About seventeen miles
south-west of Bhồpil, and nine miles south-east of Sihor.
But, kinoe the time when I first saw these plates, in March, 1884, the rims have been out of making the plates quito amooth, in order to put them in frames it which they can be hung up on a wall.
