﻿TRANSLATION", &C. ISI 



throughout space ; the minds of thy foes are void 

 [of hope]; tlieir route is tlie desert where men are 

 hinched from passing; O Vigiiaha IIaj'a Deva, 

 in the jubilee occasioned by thy march. 



j\Iay thy abode, O Vigraha, sovereign of the 

 earth, be fixed, as in reason it ought, in tlie bo- 

 soms (akin to the mansion of dalliance) of the 

 Avomcn with beautiful eye-brows, who were married 

 to thy enemies. There is no doubt of thy being 

 «the highest of embodied souls. (7) Didst thou 

 not sleep in the lap of S'ri, whom thou didst seize 

 fiom the ocean, having churned it? (8) 



In the year from the fortunate Vicra'maditya 

 l!220 (9) on Thursday the loth day of the bright 

 half of the mouth Vaisac'/i, this was written in the 



presence of (10) by 



S'r'ipati, the son of Jlfakava, ^CayafTJia of a family 

 in Gaud'a: at this time the fortunate Lac sh an a 

 Pa' LA, a Rajapiitra, is prime ministei-. 



S'lVA the terrible, I and the universal monarch. 



N 3 There 



(/) Servune explains tins very obscure passage orhcrwise: ''there 

 is (i. e. there should be] no doubt or hesitation in the mind of thee, 

 who art the highest of embodied souls. fPurushottamnJ." 



(o) PuRusHuTTAMA is a title of Vishn'u. With reference to 

 this term, the author of the infcription asks, *' Art thou not Vishn'u 

 himself? Art thou not he who slept in the arms of Lacshm ?" The 

 legend of the churning of the ocean is well kncvn. 



(9) In the present copy the date is very distinct ; and proves to b^ 

 1?20 ; not 123 as was susp-rcted by Sir Wii.i.i am Jo.vts. 



(lU} This part of ttc inscription is not legible. 



