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it, with the Vatêsvara of Dr. Hultzsch's grant of line 43 f. of the grant of the Rashtrakata king Karna I. This item, however, is not conclusive, Kakka III. (see the Plate, ante, Vol. XII. p. 263.) without further information as to the father of One or other of the two grants seems to be the Vatesvara of the grant of Karna I. And on
undoubtedly spurious. But which of them is so, the other hand, in the grant of Vikrama-Samvat
is a question that can only be decided hereafter 1086, there is the suspicious point that, unlike all
on further information. the other Chaulukya grants, it omits to give the week-day of the tithi; 80 that the details of
When I edited the grant of the year 93, I was the date cannot be actually tested by calcu.
under the impression that I was bringing it to lation. Also, even if the two grants really were
notice for entirely the first time. I find, however, drafted by the same person, which seems to me
that there has been a previous notice, either of it,
or of another grant of the same year.' Dr. Bühler improbable; partly because of the differences in
has bracketed the year (10)93 opposite the name the orthography; and partly because the grant of
of Bhimadeva I. in his genealogy of the Chaulukyas the year 93 does not use the avagraha at all, while the grant of Vikrama-Samvat 1086 uses it
(ante, Vol. VI. p. 213). And he obtained the three times, in lines 15, 16, and 21,- still they
reference (see id. p. 185, notes) from a Gujarati
History of Kachh, p. 17. He tells us that certainly were not written or sketched on the
“the historian of Kachh says, that Bhimadeva's copper, for the engraver's guidance, by one and the
" grant is dated in S. 93, and he refers this date to name hand. I have ink-impressions of the grant of
" the years of the Chaulukya dynasty. If the Vikrama-Samvat 1086 before me; for comparison with my lithograph of the grant of the year 93.
“grant really is dated 93, which may be doubted,
"as it has been imperfectly deciphered, it is more In some respects there is a considerable resem
"likely that the hundreds have been left out, blance in the characters; but not more so than
"according to a very common habit of Hindu should be due to the preparation of them within
"writers." a century or two of each other. But there are two letters which appear to settle the point. In On this question of " omitted hundreds" for the two grants, the lingual d has a totally different any early times, I am quite open to conviction; if form. And, whereas in the grant of the year 93 any one will establish the use of the system, with ther is throughout the ordinary r, as throughoutout quoting the Lokakala reckoning as proof of it. the grant of Malaraja L(see the Plate, ante, Vol. But I doubt completely the use of omitted bundreds VI. pp. 192, 193). - except perhaps in one case, as early as even the time of Bhimadova I.. and narakam, line 14; where, however, it is really this is one reason for which I am not inclined to nachakar that is written, - in the grant of refer the grant under discussion to him. AppaVikrama-Samvat 1086, in eleven instances the rently, the earliest instances of "omitted ordinary r is used, but in the remaining twelve hundreds" in the Vikrama era that Prof. Kielhorn instances the r which resembles ch, and which can give, belong to the sixteenth century of that occurs, for instance, in paramabhattdruka-mdhd- era (see ante, Vol. XVIII. pp. 251-253). rdjadhirdja-paramésvara-paramamu hedvara in
J. F. FLEET.
NOTES AND QUERIES. OMENS
In the North-West Provinces. In Madras.
The chapkd, i.e. the goat-sucker bird (capri. If a child, when learning to walk or crawl, mulgus), flying over an ox or cow, especially over acquires a way of stopping and looking back
a cow buffalo, and allowing its shadow to fall on between its thighs, it portends the early advent of the animal, causes its death in a short time. The a brother. As most lively children will do this,
remedy is for some one to kill the bird and rub such prognostications are frequent, and curiously
bis hands or a stick in the blood and then waive it enough are most persistently made in spite of
over the animal. There are special men noted their pecessarily constant fuilure to turn out
for their powers in this respect all over the correct.
district. S. M. NATEBA SASTRI. Madras.
WILLIAM CROOKE.
It is difficult to say which, without knowing how the plates edited by me came into the possession of the
Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and how long they have been there.
