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1888.] “Well executed In sculpture, by Zal4bkuja Blimmbkie the 814üa cv stone—cutter.” The second, marked B, is hardly legible in the middle, but I think it may be read a aiI41 ff1 “Written by SAMANTA PAUTRA (the grandson of the general)—the captain.” The third, C, is very plain and distinct itTWI TW ifli” the name of SamanLo Doska :“ but I should be inclined to think the ‘ intended for a, and the name Samanta deva, as desha, (a fault) would hardly be applied as a name. The fourth, D, is Insignificant; the letters are all plain, but the sense incomplete (at f’nf.w) ‘written by KHATA the son of the unfortunate.’ Xn.cr,ption from ChOsi near Jaunpur. Captain CUWNTNOnAU has furnished no further particulars of this fragment than are contained in the heading of the facsimile, a long slip of paper taken from a detached stone stated to be broken off at either end. After an invocation to BA ni Visa N u, it commences the usual eulogy on the glorious exploits of a rája named DHARSNi VAIH* and from the style there must evidently have been a long sequel, which if it could be recovered might give us some new information on a period not long anterior to the Muhsmmadan invasion. Being in verse, the pandit who assisted me in deciphering it has been easily able to supply the hiatus in the first line. I have blundered in copying the facsimile, but by the letter references the order of the lines may be traced. : fIwiqiiL I it *4j14’ fo.iii lLaf’I’w’’ : 4’ IPWT ‘I 1TW W ‘• 1IW grifwqii sj.j .iui4 TI I ‘qLggt1Iat *1I