[Note 4.]—Of this race I have no other notice, unless it should mean the race (cula) was from Butan.
[Note 5.]—Chandrasen is celebrated in the history of the Pramaras as the founder of several cities, from two of which, Chandrabhaga, at the foot of the central plateau of India, in Northern Malwa, and Chandravati, the ruins of which I discovered at the foot of the Aravulli near Aboo, I possess several valuable memoria, which will, ere long, confirm the opinions I have given of the Takshac architect.
[Note 6.]—The habitation of virtues.
[Note 7.]—This shows these foresters always had the same character.
[Note 8.]—Vela is the climber or ivy, sacred to Mahadeva.
[Note 9.]—Lacshmi, the apsara or sea-nymph, is feigned residing amongst the waters of the lotos-covered lake. In the hot weather the Rajpoot ladies dip their corsets into an infusion of sandal-wood, hence the metaphor.
[Note 10.]—Koonjiris are the elephants who support the eight corners of the globe.
[Note 11.]—Lacshmi is also dame Fortune, or the goddess of riches, whence this image.
[Note 12.]—Kuhl is the fifth in descent from the opponent of the Jit.
[Note 13.]—Without this name this inscription would have been but of half its value. Fortunately various inscriptions on stone and copper, procured by me from Oojein, settled the era of the death of this prince in S. 1191, which will alike answer for Achil, his son, who was most likely one of the chieftains of Kuhla, who appears to have been of the elder branch of the Pramaras, the foe of the Jit invaders [799].