A ROYAL GRANT, ScQ. X2£ 



III. 



A ROYAL GRANT OF LAND, 



ENGRAVED ON A COPPER-PLATE, BEARING DATE 



TWENTY-THREE YEARS BEFORE CHRIST; AND 



DISCOVERED AMONG THE 



RUINS at MONGUEER. 



Tranjlated from the Original Sanfcrit^ 



By CHARLES W1LKINS, Esq. 



In the Year 178 J. 



DEB PAAL DEB.* 



Prosperity ! 



HIS wifhes are accomplifhed. His heart is ftedfafi 

 in the caufe of others. He walks in the paths of 

 virtue. May the achievements of this fortunate Prince 

 caufe innumerable bleflings to his People ! 



By difplaying the ftrength of his genius* he hath dif- 

 covered the road to all human acquirements; for being 

 a Soogot (1) he is Lord of the Univerfe. 



Gopaal, King of the World, pofiefTed matchlefs good 

 Fortune : he was Lord of two Brides; the Earth and her 

 Wealth. By comparifon of the learned, he was likened 

 unto Preetoo (2,) Sogor (3,) and others, and it is cre- 

 dited. 



When his innumerable army marched, the heavens 

 were fo filled with the dull of their feet, that the birds 

 of the air could reft upon it. 



L 2 He 



* In this translation the Sanscrit names are written as they arc 

 pronounced in Bengal ; but in the following paper, the translator 

 has adopted the more elegant pronunciation of Varanes and Cashmir. 



