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130 EPIGRAPIIIA INDICA. The illustrious Simharaja's diihsddhya? 2 the illustrious Dhandhuka, with the permission of his master, gave the village of Mayurapadra which he possessed in the Khattakupa vishaya.

The illustrious Jayanaraja, the son of hi la, piously gave by a deed to Harshadeva the village of Kolikupaka, possessed by him.

Likewise one vimsopaka on every kutaka of salt was assigned by the most illustrious „ 83 at Sakambhari.

And one dramma on every horse was assigned by the of horse-dealers 81 from the northern country.

The fields given by pious-minded people and now possessed by the god are as follows: at Madrapurika a pippalavdlikd^ field, at the village of Nimbadika a darbhatikd field, at Marupallika a jhdta field, at Harsha a lata field, at .... [ka]-lavanapadra a sekyuka field ; likewise here at 86 a big plough of land.

(Verse 49.) Rarnabhadra again and again entreats all the kings to come: this common causeway of religion to princes must at all times be guarded by you!

The papers relative to Muhammadan inscriptions already published by scholars in India, especially those of the late Professor Blochmann, are so valuable that they have laid a solid foundation for further advances ; but the number of inscriptions still unedited must be very large, and their collection and publication may be looked to with confidence for many additions to, and corrections of, our information.

The following inscriptions are from impressions taken by the Archaeological Survey officers of the Panjab circle at diverse places in the former Suba of Dihli.

Jhajhar is now the head-quarters of the tahsil of the same name in the Rohtak District. It is situated in the plain 35 miles west of Dihli. The town is said to have been founded at the time of the first Muhammadan conquest of Dihli, and is not seldom mentioned by the chroniclers. Many ruins testify its later importance. In 657 A.H. it is named among other cities which were conferred upon Nusrat Khan (Tab. Nds, p. 274) ; in 756 Fir6z Shah dug a large canal from the river Satlaj and prolonged it to Jhajhar, a distance of 48 kroh (Firishta, lithographed edition, vol. I, p. 262). In the Ain-i-Akbari it is registered with 128,417 btghas, 1,422,451 dams, Sayurghdl 306,461 dams, 60 cavalry and 1,000 infantry ; the castes were Afghans and Jats. In A. H. 967, when Akbar made his encampment at Jhajhar, Abu'l Ma'ali, who was set free from his confinement at

82 This word apparently denotes an office. In other inscriptions we find duhsadhyasadhanika. 83 The word here left untranslated is bhammaha-deSyd about the reading of which there is no doubt. DeSi apparently is used in the same sense which it ought to convey here in the Peheva inscription, ante, vol. I, p. 187, 1. 8, and probably denotes ' a guild ;' and in that case bhammaha should denote a class of traders. For vimSopaka see vimsopaka, ante, vol. I, p. 166. Kutaka probably denotes a certain weight or measure (of salt). 84 The original has hedavika instead of hed&vuka, which occurs in the Miiakshara on Yajnavalkya II, 30. 80 The terms here left untranslated probably denote various kinds of grain. 86 The words here omitted I do not understand.