REMARKS, SCC. 143 



Kin<?s. Ministers.* 



GoPALA. PaXCHALA. 



Dhermapai.a. Gvkga. 



Devapala. B. C. 23. * Dekbiiapani. 

 Rajyapala. Someswara. 



SuRAPALA. * CeDARAMISRA. 



NaRAYANAPALA. A. C. G7. * OuRA\ AMISR.i. 



So tliat reckoning thirty years to a generation, we may date the 

 Pillar of Guravamisra in the sixty-seventh year after Christ. A 

 Pundit, named Radii acan ia, with whom I read the original, ap- 

 peared struck with mv" remark on the two families, and adopted it 

 v. ithout hesitation ; but if it be just, the second stanza must be dif- 

 ferently interpreted. I suspect D/iarma, the Genius of Justice or 

 Virtue, to be the true reading, instead of Dharmya, ov virtuous ; and 

 have no doubt thatpuro must be substituted forparo: the sense will 

 then be, that Indra was ruler in the East only; and, though valiant, 

 had been defeated ev.en there by the Daityas or Titans; but that Dhar- 

 ma was made Sovereign over him in all quarters. 



P. 131, Verse V. Whose country — The original is : 



a rt-vajanacanmatangajamadastimvachch'lVilasanghateh, 

 •a gaun'i)itun'swan'«rfr«ciranaihpushyatsitimn6giieli, 

 martan"dastamay6dayarun'aj:-ilad a vaVirasidwayat, 

 nitya yasya bhuwan chacara caradan sri devapalo nnpah. 



The father of Rcva is the Maliendra mountain in thesouth, in which 

 that river has its source; as the father of Gauki is the Himalaya in 

 the north, where Iswara, who has a moon on his forehead, is be- 

 lieved often to reside: hence Radiiacanta proposed a conjectural 

 emendation, which would have done honour to Scaliger or Bf.ni- 

 iey. Instead of India, which is a name of the. S/m, he reads Indu, 

 or the Moon, by changing only a small straight line into a small 

 curve; and then the stanza will run thus : 



By whose policy the great Prince Devlpala made the earth tri- 

 butary, from the father of Rcva, whose-piles-of-rocks-are-moist- 

 with-juice-from-the-heads-ofdascivious-elephants, to the father-of- 

 Gacri, whose-white-mountains are-b right ened-witn- beams- from- 

 the-moon-of-IswARA;-arad as far as the-two-oeeans-whose-waters- 

 are-red-with-the-rising-and-with-the-setting-Sun. 



The words connected by hyphens are compounds in Sanscrit. 



P. 135. Verse VI. Submission — I understand avasara in this place, 

 to mean the leisure of the Minister from public affairs, for which 

 even the King waited at the head of his army. 



P. 135. 



