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 August, 1873.] MISCELLANEA. 241 gal entitled KshitMavantavali charitam, edited and translated by Mr. W. Pertsch of Berlin. £rl Harsha wrote the Gaurorvishakulaprasasthi in honour of his patron the king of Gaur, and he himself confesses, in the concluding lines of his work, that he received a couple of betel-leaves in the court of the king of Kanaiy as a token of the great regard in which he was held. The king of Kanauj here was evidently Jayachandra, or Jayanti Chandra, son of Govindachandra, under whose patronage 6ri Harsha completed his Nai- ehadha, and who was a contemporary of Kum&ra Pala, the disciple of Hemachandra. This Jaya¬ chandra and Ppithir&ja were cousins : consequent¬ ly Chand Bardai, who immortalizes the fame of the latter king in his epic, was also a contemporary of Sri Harsha. This would place Sri Harsha in the 12th century. R&ja Sekhara is quite correct, then, in his remarks about Sri Harsha, because these are in perfect keeping with the other facts under notice. Chand writes only a couplet in praise of Sr! Harsha, and he was quite wrong in ascribing the authorship of Bhojaprabhandha to Kalid&sa, since the work was written by Ball&l. ICam Dis Sen. Berhampur, Bengal, 14M July 1873. PERSIAN STANZAS ON ATTRACTION AND REPULSION. Selected and Translated by E. Rehatselc, Esq., M.C.E. IV.—From the Meenawy of Jelldl-al-dyn Rumy.— 3rd Duftun jlj j y?** T ^ bo J~*i I J iSji IJ J* CJ I J* H fl l/° {•i ' jf 3^ cJ*y jXi y+f [j fji crty* I * IJ S* j* j* j r J* ^ LS j I U aipyo j j j Jj* 3 bji uPi j*** jt fij3 y l^l u r* i/6* » y b s* u tfJj* Jr £j* uO *if f U Jfj I a yjll***. The dust to body’s dust exclaims“ Return ! The soul abandon; join us like a rose; Thou’rt of our nature and our kind, Prefer to leave that body, flee to us !” The dust replies :—“ My feet are shackled 60, Although like thee I, separated, groan.’* The moisture of the body waters seek :— “ Humidity, come back from wand’ring far !” The sphere of fire invites the body’s heat:— “ Thou art of fire! Thine origin approach !** Maladies seventy-two do bodies feel From the attraction of the elements. Diseases try to tear the body up, That the elements four may separate. Four they are, these birds with captive feet, But death, disease, and dissolution fell Untie the ligatures of the nimble feet; And liberate each elemental bird. Attraction of these roots and branches great Subjects our body every moment to disease, That these connections may be severed all, And every bird to its original fly! But the wisdom of the Lord forbids this haste, And keeps them join’d in health till doom arrives. EARLY ROMAN INTERCOURSE WITH INDIA. The proof of early commercial intercourse be¬ tween the Romans and Singhalese, founded on the discovery of coins, is by no means a solitary in¬ stance. Numerous examples of similar finds in Southern India can bo adduced. In the second volume of the Asiatic Researches, mention is made of the discovery of a number of gold coins at Nellor in 1789, two of which, a Hadrian and a Faustina, were in possession of the writer of the notice. In 1800 a pot full of gold coins, and in 1801 another of silver denarii, were found in different parts of the Coimbator province. A third instance is mentioned by Colonel Mackenzie as occurring in the same district in 1806. In 1817 a silver coin of Augustus was found in excavating an old kist-
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