I4O AN INSCRIPTION ON A 



XXIV, 



He, who was, as it were, another Vdfaieekee, (1,) born 

 in this dark age of impiety, amongft a dreadful and a 

 cruel race of mortals, was a devout man, whodifplayed 

 the learning of the Veds in books of moral tales. 



XXV. 



His profound and pleafing language, like Ganga, 

 flowing in a triple courfe (2) and conftant ftream, pu- 

 rineth and delighteth. 



XXVI. 



He, to whom, and to thofe of whofe generation, men 

 were wont to refort as it were to Brahma, waited fo 

 long in expectation of being a father, that, at length, 

 he himfelf arrived at the ftate of a child. 



XXVII. 



By him was recorded here upon this lafting column, 

 the fuperior beauty of whofe fhaft catcheth the eye of 

 the beholder, whofe afpiring height is as boundlefs as 

 his own ideas, which is, as it were, a flake planted in 

 the breaft of Kalee, (3,) and on whofe top fits Tarkshya, 

 (4,) the foe of ferpents, and favourite bird of Haree, 

 the line of his own defcent. 



XXVIII. 



(J) The first Poet of the Hindoos, and supposed Author of the 

 Ramayan. 



(2) He is supposed to have written in three languages. 



(3) Time. 



(4) Otherwise called Garoor* ' 





