FOUND AT TAXNA. 363 



5. A donation of land to good perfons, for holy pil- 

 grimages, and on the (five) folemn days of the moon, 

 is the mean of patting over the deep boundlefs ocean of 

 the world. 



6. White parafols, and elephants mad with pride, 

 (the infignia of royalty,) are the flowers of a grant of 

 land :"t.he fruit is Indra in heaven. 



Thus, confirming the declaration of the-ancient- 

 Jllzm^'i-learned-in-the-dirlinftion-between-juftice-and- 

 injultice, for the fake of benefit to my mother, my fa- 

 ther, and myfelf, on the fifteenth of the bright moon 

 of Cartica, in the middle of the year Pingala, (perhaps 

 of the Serpent, ) when nine hundred and forty years, fave 

 one, are reckoned as pad from the time of King Saca, or 

 in figures, the vear 939, of the bright moon of Cdrtica 

 15; (that is, 1708 — 939 = 769 years ago from Y. C. 

 1787.) The'moon being then full and eclipfed, I 

 -having bathed in the oppofitc fea refembling-the-gir- 

 dles-round-the-waift-of-thc-female-Earth, tinged-with- 

 a-variety-of-ravs-like-many-exceedingly-bright-rubies- 

 •pe&rU-a nd-other-gems, with-water-whofc-mud-was-be- 

 come - mafic -through - the-frequent-batbing-of-tbe-fra- 

 grant-bofom-of-beautiful-GoddefTes-rifing-up-after- 

 having-dived-in-it;-and having offered to the fun, the 

 divine luminary, the-gem-of-one-circle-of-heaven, eye- 

 of-the-three-worlds, Lord-of-the lotos, a difli embel- 

 lifhed-with-fiowers-of-various-forts, (this dim is filled 

 with the plant Darbha, rice in the hufk, different flow- 

 ers, and fandal.) have granted to him, who has viewed 

 the preceptor of the Gods and of Demons, who has 

 adored the Sovereign Deity, the-hufband-of-J?;^icJ,(or 

 JDurgdJ has facnhced-caufed-others-to-facrificc,-has- 

 read-caufed-others-to-read-and-has-performed-the-reft- 

 of-the-fi x(facerdotal) functions ; who-is-eminently-Pxill- 

 ful-in-the-whole-buhnefs-of-performing-facrifices.who- 



C c 2 has- 



