The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.109.3

v2.c16.109.3

Locke of the Government School of Art, prove to be in some respects different. The record has since Lieutenant Kittoe’s time suffered extensive injury, and many letters, at times eight or ten in one place, which judging from his facsimile, were then perfectly clear, are now no longer legible. These in the subjoined reading I have copied from the old fascimile. Mr. Prinsep’s translation was prepared under many disadvantages, and in concluding what he called his “hurried and imperfect, notice”, Prinsep deemed it necessary to apologise for “offering it to the Society in so immature a shape”.¹⁸ I have, therefore, analysed below the first six lines of the text word by word, and ventured in my translation to make several changes and emendations which have materially altered the sense, and given quite a different turn to several salient points of the record. The last eleven lines are so sadly injured and so full of breaks that in none can an entire sentence be made out; I have not been able, therefore, to subject them to the same process of analysis, but have been obliged to content myself with copying Prinsep’s version with only occasional obvious corrections.