MISCELLANEA,
AUGUST, 1873.] gal entitled
Kshitișavanśavali charitam, edited
and translated by Mr. W. Pertsch of Berlin. Sri 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 Kanauj as a token of
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the great regard in which he was held. The king of Kanauj here was evidently Jayachandra, or Jayanti Chandra, son of Govindachandra, under
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shadha, and who was a contemporary of Kumāra Påla, the disciple of Hemachandra. This Jaya chandra and Prithirāja were cousins: consequent ly Chand Bardai, who immortalizes the fame of the latter king in his epic, was also a contemporary
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of Sri Harsha. This would place Śri Harsha in the 12th century. Rāja Šekhara is quite correct, then, in his remarks about Sri Harsha, because these are in perfect keeping with the other facts under notice.
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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 so,
Śri Harsha, and he was quite wrong in ascribing
Although like thee I, separated, groan.”
the authorship of Bhojaprabhandha to Kalidasa, since the work was written by Ballāl. RAM DAs SEN,
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"
Berhampur, Bengal, 14th July 1873.
Maladies seventy-two do bodies feel PERSIAN STANZAS ON ATTRACTION AND REPULSION.
Selected and Translated by E. Rehatsek, Esq., M.C.E. IV.-From the Mesnawy of Jellál-al-dyn Râmy.— 3rd Duftur.
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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.
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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 In 1817 a silver coin