ง. ion of one of the Infcriptions on the Pillar AT EE, called the Lat of FEEROZ SHAH. BY HENRY COLEBROOKE, Esq. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BR MR. HARINGTON. VE the pleasure of prefenting to the Society a of Drawings and Infcriptions prepared he infpection of their late Member Captain HHOARE, and intended by him (I have reafon ve) for the use of the Society. of the drawings reprefent elevations, taken on , of the ftone building near DEHLEE, called kargah, or hunting place, of FEEROZ SHAH; e pillar in the center, and above the fummit of monly known by the defignation of FEERŌz Lat; and defcribed, with an outline of the g and pillar, in the 21ft paper of the 1ft Vol. Society's Tranfactions. The copy of the inons on this pillar, which was received by our id Prefident and Founder from Colonel R, enabled him to exhibit a tranflation of one n, as accurate as the imperfect ftate of the tranwould admit; but on comparing it with a more copy made for Captain HOARE, it was found ral parts defective and inaccurate; and the date, of being 123 of the era of Vicramaditya, or. 67, as appeared from the former copy, was yafcertained from the prefent to be 1220 of ove æra; or A. D. 1164. An accurate tranf of this infcription has has therefore been fur by Mr. HENRY COLEBROOKE, (who has diffhed himself as a Sanferit Scholar by his verfion e Hindoo Law Digeft, compiled under the fuperintendence VERBAL TRANSLATION. In the year 1220, on the 15th day of the bright half of the month Vaisac'h, [this monument] of the fortunate VÍSALA DÉVA, Son of the fortunate VÉLLA DÉVA, (1) King of S'ácambharí.. As far as Vindhya, (2) as far as Himádri, (2) having achieved conquest in the course of travelling to holy places; resentful to haughty Kings, and indulgent to those whose necks are humbled; making Aryaverta (2) once more what its name signifies, by causing the barbarians to be exterminated; VíSALA DEVA, Supreme ruler of S'ácambhari (3) and sovereign of the earth, is victorious in the world. THIS Conqueror, the fortunate VIGRAHA RAJA, (4) King of Súcambharí, most eminent of the tribe which sprang from the arms (5) [of BRAHMA',] now addresses his own descendants: "By us the region. "of the earth between Himavat (2) and Vindhya "(2) has been made tributary; let not your minds "be void of exertion to subdue the remainder." TEARS are evident in the eyes of thy enemy's consort; blades of grass are perceived between thy adversary's teeth; (6) thy fame is predominant throughout (1) Colonel POLIER's transcript exhibited AMILLA; the present copy may be read either AVE'LLA OF VE'LLA. (2) The Vindhya hills form the range which passes through the provinces of Bahár, Benáres, &c. Himadri, the mountain of snow, (called Himavat in the next verse), is the Imaus and Emodus of an. tient geographers. 'Aryaverta signifies the land of virtue, or “inhabited by respectable men." See MENU Ch. 2. v. 22. (3) I have not been able to ascertain the situation of S'ácambhari. (4) Whether VIGRAHA RAJA and VÍSALA DE'VA be names of the same person, or of different princes, it is impossible to determine from the tenor of the inscription, without other information. (5) The transcript of the inscription exhibits Váhamána Tilacab, as it was also read in the former fac simile: SERVÓNE TRIVE'DÍ advises me to read it Bábujáta Tilacah, and I accede to his emendation. (6) This alludes to the Indian custoin of biting a blade of grafs as a token of submission, and of asking quarter. Coonum hill from first Flag on red hill 57567,7. Permacoil Hill from the new station on red hill 76334, 1. The angles have been taken with much care, and I believe with as much accuracy as the nature of such a process admits of; difficulty, however, very frequently arose from the haziness of the weather, which rendered the objects at the very distant points extremely dull, and occasioned some irregularity in the angles. Whenever that happened, the observations were often repeated, and in case any one, in particular, was different from the other so much as ten seconds, it was rejected till the three angles of the triangle had been observed. If the sum of these angles was near what it ought to be, no further notice was taken of it; but should the sum of the three angles be nearer the truth by taking it into the account, and that there appeared an irregularity in the other two observed angles, I have made it a rule to take each observed angle as a correct one, and divide the excess or defect between the other two, and then compute from the given side the other two sides; and after doing the same thing with each of the angles successively, a mean of the sides thus brought out was taken, which, to certain limits, will always be near the truth. I then varied the selection of the observed angles, rejecting such as I had reason to doubt; and by correcting them, and computing the two required sides of the triangle, those which gave the sides nearest to what had been brought out by the other method, were adopted, let the error be what it would. This, however, has rarely happened; and when it did, great precaution was used; and no angle was rejected without some reason appeared to render it doubtful. In correcting the observed angles to obtain those made by the chords, I have used the formula given by the Astronomer Royal, in his demonstration of M. DE LAMBRE's problem, which appears in the Philosophical Transactions for 1797. The spherical excess is of course had from the well known method of dividing the area of the triangle in square seconds, by the number of seconds in the arc equal to radius, where the number of feet in a second may be had by using the degree as has been commonly applied to the mean sphere, or the mean between the degree on the meridian and its perpendicular. This being of no further use than to check any error that might happen in computing the corrections for the angles. In converting the sides of the triangles into arcs, |