CONTAINING SANSCRIT INSCRIPTIONS. 4]^ 



Major Mackenzie forwarded a translation of this 

 inscription made by his interpreter Cavelly Boria. 

 The original is, in some instances, read differently by 

 the Pandits whom I have consulted : not however mak- 

 ing any chanjje in the purport, nor in any material pas- 

 sage. The following translation is conformable to their 

 interpretation : and the copy, which is subjoined, ex- 

 hibits the text as read by them. 



TRANSLATION. 



I. ' Salutation to GaneVa. I bow to Sam- 



BHu, graced with the beautiful rnoon crowning bis 



. lofty head ; himself the pillar, which upholds the 



2. origin of the three worlds *. May he, whose head 

 is like an elephant's, the son of Hara -f-, the cause 

 of uninterrupted supremacy, the giver of boons, and 

 the luminary which dispels darkness 1^, preserve us. 



3. May the auspicious primeval boar'^, by whom 



* Siv\, or Mahadeva, is figured with the moon as a crest. 

 According lo mythology, he upholds the creator. 



This, and the two following stanzas, seem to be the same which 

 are found, but in a different order, at the beginning of the inscrip- 

 tion on the plates preserved at the tempi" oi Conjeveram : (As. Kes. 

 vol. 3. p. 39.) with some diiierence, however, in the reading and 

 interpretation. 



t Ganesa, figured with an elephai>t's head, ^-cckoned son of 

 Hara or Mahadeva and of his wife Parvvt^. 



X The original is here inaccurate : it exhibits Turaf ikra timira 

 gihiro; which means nothing, and in which a syllable is delicieni; 

 for the metre. In the fac simile of another grant, the same passage 

 is correctly written /a)\:a.7i i'r^ra timira mihiro. ' 



§ The incarnation of Vishnu, as a bo^r, who upheld the earth 

 submerged by the ocean, is well Vi,nown to all who are cooyersaut. 

 with hidian mythology. 



Noh, IX. 2 e 



