284 A SANSCRIT INSCRIPTION 



XL 

 TRANSLATION 



OF A 



SANSCRIT INSCRIPTION, 



COPIED FROM A STONE AT BOODDHA GAY A, 



By Mr. WILMOT, 1785. 



Tranjlated by CHARLES WILKINS, Efq. 



IN rhe midft of a wild and dreadful 'foreft, flourifhing 

 with trees of fweet-fcented flowers, and abounding 

 in fruits and roots, infefted with lions and tigers, defti- 

 tute of human fociety, and frequented by the Moonees. 

 refided Bood-dha^ the Author of Happinefs, and a por- 

 tion of Narayan. This Deity Haree, who is the Lord 

 Hareefa, the pofTeffor of all, appeared in this ocean of 

 natural Beings at the clofe of the Devapara, and begin- 

 ning of the Kalee Yoog. He who is omniprefent, and 

 everlaftingly to be contemplated, the Supreme Being, 

 the Eternal One, the Divinity worthy to be adored by 

 the moft praife-worthy of mankind, appeared herewith 

 a portion of his divine nature. 



Once upon a time the illuftrious Atnara^ renowned 

 amongft men, coming here, difcovered the place of the 

 Supreme Being, Bood-dha, in the great foreft. The 

 wile Amara endeavoured to render the God Bood-dha 

 propitious by fuperior fervice; and he remained in the 

 foreft for the fpace of twelve years, feeding upon roots 

 and fruits, and fleeping upon the bare earth ; and he 

 performed the vow of a Moonee, and was without tranf- 



greftion. 



