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 29G THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY. [Octobeb, 1873, thoughts and sayings found in Thomas a Kempis were current among the old Indian Christians. Of much greater importance, in my mind, are the coincidences with later Christian theo¬ logical doctrines—as, for example, the doctrine of the lumen glories (xi. 61. 8*), the credo nt intelligam (iv. 61. 391) ; and with Christian formulas, as, for example, the well-known divi¬ sion of moral acts into thoughts, words, and deeds, and of good works, into prayer, fasting, and almsgiving (xvii. 61. 28J). Yet here it must be observed that all these expressions and ideaB§ existed in Christianity long before they can be pointed out in Christian writers, although I do not think it impossible that in case Sankara’s date, which future investigations may perhaps give us, be later than the 8th century, the date of the Bhagavad-Gita also may be later than we are warranted by the data we have at present in putting it. NOTES ON INSCRIPTIONS AT GADDAK, IN THE DAMBAL TALUKA OF THE DHARWAD DISTRICT. BY J. P. FLEET. Bo. C.8. Situated in the neighbourhood of Dambal and Lakkundi, a part of the D h a r w a d District that contains many most interesting relics of former times, G a d d a k itself possesses in its inscriptions antiquities that will well re¬ pay an investigation of them. There are two large and somewhat famous temples in the town; one of Narayanaddva in the modern bazaar, and one ofTrikfttes- varadtWain the old fort. The former is not remarkable from an architectural point of view, and probably is not of any great age : tho chief object of interest about it is a large gateway in the eastern wall of the courtyard, into the con¬ struction of which some curious carvings, evi¬ dently the remains of some former building, have been built. The temple of Trikhtes- varadeva, however, is manifestly of consider¬ able antiquity, and, though it is now a 1 i n g a or £ a i v a shrine, the style of its architecture proves it to have been, as is the case with most of the old linga temples of these parts, origin¬ ally a Jain temple. Tradition ascribes the construction of it, as of nearly all the temples in this part of the country, to the half-mythical architect Jakkana charya.^f * 8• Compare with the words,—‘ yet with this eye of thine thou art not able to see mo : a divine eye give I thee’,— the doctrine of tho theologians of the lumen gloria}, by which the blessed in heaven are enabled to see God. 8. Thomas Aquin. Summ. Theol. 1. q. 12, art. 2 : “ Dicen- dum, quod ad videndnm Doi essentiuin mjuiritir aliqua similitude ex parte visiv® potenti®, scilicet lumen divin® glori® oonfrontans intollectum ad videndnm D mm, de quo dicitur in Psal. *xxv.: in luinino tuo videbimus lumen.” Conf. also Rev. xxi. 23. f Thomson explains—4 Faith is the absence of all doubt and scepticism, confidence in the revelation of religion, ready and willing performance of its precepts.’—I hold tho idea of faith (traddhl) in this senso just as that of ohakti (iii. 31 and iv. 10; and see Lassen, Ind. Alt. II. 1009; Weber, Ind. Stud. II. 898 ff.) as a representation adopted from The two temples mentioned above contain between them eleven old Sanskrit and Canarese inscriptions, all more or less of interest. My stay at Gaddak was not sufficiently long to en¬ able me to copy more than one of them, but a brief notice of tlie rest and of the contents of each, so far as I had leisure to make them out, may prove of use to others who may visit the place. Two of the inscriptions are in the courtyard of the temple of Narayanadfiva. No. I leans up against the western wall. It consists of seventy-two or seventy-three lines, each line containing about sixty-three letters. The char¬ acters, which are Old Canarese, are somewhat small. The surface of the stone has been so much worn away that the inscription can hardly be traced at all in some places, and it would require much time and patience to decipher any portion of it. The emblems over it represent Vira- bhadra, NarAyana, Ganapati, Sarasvati, a cow a nd calf, and the Sun and Moon. It is pro¬ bably about four hundred years old. No. 2, which also is in the Old Canarese characters, stands up against the eastern wall of the court¬ yard. It consists of sixty-nine lines, each line Christianity, and doubt if iraddhd is used in this sense in the earlier Indian works in which a Christian influence cannot yet b"> pointed out. -The sentence expressed here: Sraddhd- vd'libhatc jn iva n (Schlegol: qui fidom habet, adipiscitur Bciontiam) is nothing else than the well-known Credo, ut intelligam, a fundamental formula which can only have arisen upon Christian ground, and which, where it again recurs in the original works of Indian Brahmanism, plainly bears its Christian origin on its forehead. J Tho words,—* It a rails not after death nor here/ forci¬ bly remind us of the Christian doctrine of the dead merit¬ less works which are performed without the habitus eari- titis. § Tho juxtaposition of prayer, almsgiving, and fasting, occurs in tho book of Tobit, xii. 8 : “ Prayer is good with fasting and alma and righteousness.” % See voL I. p. 44.