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[May 3, 1872.

mentioned under its modern name in the Gulhalli

“Peace.

stone. The Sanskrit inscriptions gives Gopakapat tanaſor Gopakapuri as its equivalent.” A Sanskrit cop perplate from Mhansi in the Goa territories* is dated

houses and temples as Marsobha lived, or ever will

Saka 1358, and mentions the “Marathas who had

for 12 years usurped the territory of the Kadambas.” They do not seem to have been independent sovereigns but rather feudatories of the Chālukyas. With re

spect to the date of Jayakesi III, the large copper plate of Halsi gives the Siddhārthi Samvatsara, the 53rd year of the cycle of Vrihaspati, as correspond ing to K.Y. 4288, while the Kittur inscription gives Durmati Sam. or the 55th year, as corresponding to 4289 ; this calculation

moreover differs by

13 yearst from the method followed in the other inscriptions and still current in the district. Si vachitta in K.Y. 4275 had been ruling 28 years, and Jayakesi would appear to have succeeded in that year, as K.Y. 4288 is the 13th of his reign A Canarese inscription from Narendra near Dharwad records a grant made by order of the Mahámanda leswara Jayakesideva II. and his wife Mailala devi, while they were governing the Konkana nine hundred, the Palasige twelve thousand, the Paye (?) five hundred, and Kavadidwipa, in the time of the Chalukya Tribhuvana Malladeva (Vikramāditya II.) The grant was made in Saka 1047. (4) “Report on Photographic copies of in scriptions in Dharwad and Maisur,” by Dr. Bhau Dáji. This is a series of brief notes on the volume of inscriptions photographed by Dr. Pigou and Col. Biggs and printed at the expense of the Committee of Architectural Antiquities of Western India in 1866. From the 69 plates, 57 inscriptions are noticed. No. 1, from Iwalli, perhaps of the early part of the 11th century A.D., mentions king Avanaditya of the Sindavansa. No. 3, from Iwalli, is dated Saka 506, K.Y. 3855, and from the Mahābhārata war 3730 (A.D. 584.) “The first named king in it is Jayasinha ; his son was Ranaraga ; his son Pula kesi. He ruled at Vatapipuri and performed the horse-sacrifice.

Pulakesi's

son

was Kirtivarmá.

He conquered kings of the Nala, Maurya and Kadamba dynasties. After him his younger bro ther Mangalisã ruled and conquered Revati Dwipa. Pulakesi the son of Kirtivarmá was anxious to suc

ceed him, whilst Mangalisã appears to have wished to place his own son on the throne. But Mangalisã appears to have died suddenly and Pu lakes i II. succeeded. He conquered the Látas, Málavas, Gurjaras, the Pallavas, and defeated king H a rsh a. . He was called Satyasraya (supporter of truth) in addition to the family title of Prithvi Vallabha. The inscription also contains the names of the poets Kali d as a and B h a r a vi, whose fame is com

pared to that of Ravikirti the author of the verses of the inscription.

No. 6 and 7 are the same, viz. a

Sanskrit verse written about the 7th century A.D.—

ºn in p. 300.

Courtney and Auld's Memoir on Sawantwadi,

No man so skilful in the construction of

live, in Jambudvipa.” No. 9 contains the name of Sri Prithvi Vallabha, Mahārājadhirāja. Parames wara, Parama Bhattaraka, Satyasraya Kulatilaka,

Chalukya, Bharana, SrimatTribhuvana (Malla.) This is the Chalukya king who flourished in Saka 1104, A.D. 1182.; Subordinate was Mahāmandaleswara Mayuravarma Mahāmahipala, lord of Wanavasi, which was the capital of the Kadambas. No. 24, on a stone at Guduk, is dated S. 1104 (A.D. 1182)

and is a grant by Vira Ballaladeva of the Hayasala line. No. 26, Kirwati Inscribed Stone, is of Tri bhuvana Malladeva dated in the 14th year of their eraş (S. 1012) No. 27, Sondati inscribed stone is dated S. 1151 ; No. 28. Narsapura inscribed stone, in S. 1104; No. 31, from Hampi or Bija nagar, in S. 1121 ; No. 32, in S. 1430; No. 33, from Telauli, in S. 1160; No. 35, Chandanpur, is of Tribhuvanainalladeva again ; and Nos. 36, and 37, also from Chandanpur, in S. 1113, 1186 and 1148. No. 38-43, inscriptions from Harihara dated 1483,

and 1453, 1199, 1332, &c. Scarcely any of them are translated in their entirety, and from many only the proper names are picked out. Journal Asiatique, No. 67, Oct.-Dec. 1871. This part contains (1) Ertracts from the Paritia, the text and commentaries in Pali by M. Grimblot, with introduction, translation, notes and notices by M. Léon Feer. The Paritta, (vulgo Pirit) from which the Sūtras are extracted, is itself a collec

tion of texts selected from different portions of the Sutta-pitaka. It forms a special book well known to the Sinhalese, but appears to be known also to the other southern Buddhists.

Seven suttas are

given : (1, 2) Chandra and Surya-sătra ; (3) Mahá Mangala Sūtra, or of the highest blessing—already translated by Gogerly and Childers; (4) Parabhava suttra, or of diminution ; (5, 6) Metta Sutta and Metta-Anisansa, or of love, and the advantages of love ; and (7) Karaniya-Metta-Suttam translated by Childers in the Kuddaka-Patha. (2.) The Royal Chronicle of Kamboja by M. Francis Garnier. This is a brief chronology of the kings of Kamboja from Prea-reashea-angca-prea borom-nipean-bat who ascended the throne of Angkor in 1346 A.D., till 1737. (4.) Memoir on the Ancient History of Japan, according to the Wen-Hien-Tong-Kao of Ma-tuan lin, by the Marquis D'Hervey de Saint Denys. (5.) A notice by B. de Meynard of the Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum, Pars I.-Via Regnorum, auctore Abu ishac al-Farisi, al 1stakhri, of M. J. de Goeje, now publishing at Leyden.

(6.) Assyrian Tablets, translated by M. Oppert. (7.) Notice of A. Paspati's Etudes sur les Tchin ghianº ou Bºhémiens de l'Empire Ottoman. f See Thomas's Prinsep, vol. II. Useful Tables, p. 160. f Prinsep, Useful Tables, p. 277.

§ Wide, aute p. 83.