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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY
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perhaps a disturbance may arise. The best author of the Tazkirátu'l-Mulúk (who was an plan is for you with only three or four selected eye-witness of the occurrence), 'Ali 'Adil Shah persons to come inside.'
I. was murdered on Monday, the 24th of the "Then Shah Kamálu'd-din Fathu'llah, month Safar, A. H. 988, at the eighth hour of Kamal Khải, Murtaza Khan and Manjan Khan, the night, which corresponds to 2 a. m. on the youngest son of Kishwâr Khân, and son-in-| 19th March 1580. law of Kamal Khan, went inside, and, after The above detailed account of what followed taking counsel together, went to the door of immediately after the murder is interesting, the haram, and, bringing forth Ibrahim 'Adil and probably true in every particular; but in Shah, took him to the summit of a tower; and, relating the circumstances which led to the seating him with much more ceremony, raised murder, Rafi'u'd-dîn seems to me to have failed over his head the gold-embroidered umbrella." to remove the stigma cast on the memory of
According to Mir & Rafl'u'd-din Shirazi, 'Ali 'Adil Shah I. by Farishta and Khafi Khan
FOUR REWAH COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTIONS.
BY PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, C.I.E.; GÖTTINGEN. In the Archæol. Survey of India, Vol. XXI. part of the plate, and secured by a strong pp. 143-148, Sir A. Cunningham has given an rivet passing through the plate, there is a account of four copper-plate inscriptions from thicker and broader strip of copper, which, Rowah (properly Riwam or Rimam) in towards the end projecting above the plate, Central India. At Mr. Fleet's request, I shall is turned over so as to catch and hold a plain edit here three of those inscriptions, and give copper ring about " thick and 21 in diaextracts of whatever may be important in the meter. There are no indications of any seal fourth, from excellent impressions supplied by having been attached to the ring.-The weight him. In a concluding paragraph I shall of the plate, with the ring, is 164, tolas.-- furnish, from the four inscriptions together, a The average size of the letters is between genealogical list of the Maháránakas of Kakka- and ".-The characters are Dêvanagari rodika (Kakaredika, or Kakarodi), the chiefs of about the 12th century A.D. The formaby whom the donations recorded in these tion of the letters betrays some want of skill, copper-plates were made. Following Sir A. and I may particularly note that the sign for Cunningham, I denote the four inscriptions by ha is often badly formed, and that it is the letters A., B., O., and D.
sometimes difficult to distinguish between the A.-Copper-Plate Grant of the palatal and dental sibilants, and between the Maharanaka Kirtivarman.
signs for cha and va.-The language is The (Chedi) year 926.
Sanskrit, employed by a person who was either This inscription is on a single plate, very careless or ignorant. The most glaring measuring about 13" by 9}", and inscribed on mistakes against the rules of syntax will be one side only. The surface of the plate itself pointed out in the notes on the text. Wrong is smooth; but, for the protection of the forms are, e.g., the Genitive drij-arthinám for writing, strips of copper about " broad are dvij-arthinár, in line 8, the Singular Dvandvafastened by rivets along the edge of the top compound chandr-árkka-médini, in line 15, and and the two sides; and the bottom edge was the Past Pass. Participle utkirnnitam, in line originally protected in the same way, but the 19.-In respect of orthography, I may note strips here have been torn off and lost. The that ba is throughout written by the sign for preservation of the inscription is perfect; and va, and that the dental sibilant is occasionally there is hardly any letter which is not clear used for the palatal sibilant; thus we have and distinct in the impression.-In the upper paramê svara, line 2; máhésvara, line 3; Kausika,
[No information is forthcoming as to the circumstances under which the plates of these four inscriptions were originally discovered. They will eventually be
deposited in the British Museum ; having been placed in my hands for that purpose by the R&ja of Rewah. -
