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 December, 1875,] SACKED FOOTPRINTS IN JAVA. 355 (rupees) to Jagatgtirn (Siva), to be continued per moment, for a continual supply of wick and oil (for a light in his temple), bo that that sum of six rupees should ho given as long as the son and the moon exist, he who appropriates it to his use is wicked : his ancestors will go to hell. May the great deity (Mohiniraja) do good !" The letters of the inscription liave in several places suffered from the effects of time, which have rendered them illegible or uncertain. They have been supplied as the general contents of the inscription required, and have been distinguished from the rest by brackets. In the first line [srt] is supplied from the Mai ■ r, which gives Karaviresvara as a name of Siva, from Karavir.a head- attendant of Siva who propitiated him and in- ducod him to take the name as a token of his favour towards him (Karavir). The inscription bears no date, nor does it name the grantor, but the date can approxim- ately be fixed from the character of the letters inscribed. The character is similar to that found in inscriptions dated six hundred years back, so that the inscription cannot be older than about that time. As to the name of the grantor, or rather the renewer of the grant, there are no means of ascertaining it. But it appears that some rich man in N e w a s a probably renewed the grant of his grandfather, who, being a devo- tee of K a r a v f r c 6 v a r a, to whom a salutation is offered at &fi beginning of the inscription, furnished the temple with a lamp continually burninc N e w a s a, as the oaf vpr q%*$ ffffPT, Ac., quoted above from tbe Dnj/fathwrt, shows, was the capital of RJrjft Rimachandra, and it must have then contained many rich men, though there are none at present. The Raja RAmachan- Llie same ovi proves, was contemporary with Dnyanesvara (who completed his Dny&nei- vari at Newasa in Sake 1212, or 1290 A.P., and died at Aland!, near Puna, in Sake 1218 or 1296 a.d.) — that is, he was ruling at N e w a a a about six hundred years back, or about the time the grant Was inscribed ; but he cannot be sup- posed to have made the grant. If he had given anything for the maintenance of the lamp, it would have been a Tillage or land, and not such a small sum as six rupees. The above ovis quoted from the Dny&i van will be found useful. They contribute to the history of the Yadava or Gaul I Raj as by giving the name, the capital, and the date of one of them. Ifofe. The learned Sastri assumes the identity of the Yadavas ofDevgadh and the sur- rounding region with the Gauli Rajas, — a subject on which we are gradually getting a little light, especially from the earlier sargaa of the Dvaidshardya [vide ante, pp. 71 ft.), in which the ruler of Vfimanasthali is stigmatized as an Ahiror herdsman. But in the 4ih saiga this chiefs ambassador seems to Bpeak of his master as a Yadava; and in fact it is almost certain that he was one of the bud&sam ra a RAs ofJu- nagadh, whom Major Watson (vol. II. p. 316) c insiders to have sprung from C h u d a C ha nd Yadava. It is to ho hoped that the- Sastri wiB contribute tho result of his researches towards the elucidation of the great historical puzzle of the Gauli rdj. The references to D n y a n e s v a r a are also of interest. Is it not possible to recover the origi- nal text* of fchifi first and greatest of Maratbs a ? It would be more v;il sable for Alarathi than Chaucer is for the history of the development of the English language. "Who will he patriotic
 * h to attempt iu good earnest to discover at

least the oldest text now in existence P SACRED FOOTPRINTS IN JAVA. BY DB. A. B. CUBES STUAET. Translate from the Dutch b,j the to*. D. UamM**, M.A The first of the accompanying sketches has been borrowed from the photograph taken by Heer J. van Kinsbcrgen for the Government of Netherlands India, and published under the superintendence of the Batavian Society of Arts and Sci ences in the Oudheden van Java (No- • Tug Honourable B»o Sfiheb Vuhvunfith Nfeijan M«3 '- lifc iufomii mc tlutt his II S. **»" «*>* lt f reroed, that is, modernised, in Saks 157. 10), and represents, according to the catalogue of that valuable collection, " an inscribed stone with two footprints and spiders at the river Charentemt at Cbampca, Baitenzorg." Tho extraordinary distinctness with which the inscrip tion on this stone has been preserved + fflaeWharfl C hire, on ten, which lam northwards fjm lESt Sttlak and fells into thaUhidan. »«« h amp © a.