CONTAINING SANSCRIT INSCRIPTIONS. 4 1 9. 



shoulder* to uphold the burden of the mighty 

 elephants posted at the quarters of the world. 

 10. When his army, in warlike array, performed evolu- 

 tions on the frontier of his dominions, the Turash- 

 an felt their mouths parched ; the Concan'a, terri- 

 fied, apprehended impending death ; the Aturhras 

 fled, in consternation, to the caverns; the Gurjaras 

 trembled ; the Camhojas lost their firmness ; and 

 the Calhigas were quickly discomfited -|-. 



11. * He was a conspicuous monarch, splendid, 

 and a supreme ruler of kings, but acting towards 

 disobedient princes, as the king of birds towards 

 12. serpents ; embraced by the concubines of kings, 

 destroying hostile chiefs, defending the heroes of 

 JlifhI/i Rtiya, endowed with knowledge and other 

 quahties |\ 



• The text appears to exhibit the negative of Dacsh'ma right. 



At the eight principal points of th^e compass, elephants uphold 

 ttie world. 



j This verse is extremely inaccurate in the original : it has heen 

 corrected with the aid of the fac simile of another grant betbremen- 

 tioned. It begins YasyodiV hayayudd he yudcVka range, whicli is un- 

 meaning and contains too many syllables lor the metre. It should 

 be, as in the other inscription, Ydixodyad yudd" harange. A sylla- 

 bic is wanting in Xiinishcdh, written Tushi/d^. Two were deficient 

 in Bhaya b/iar^ hfiaritah expressed Bhava hhar'itali. Both inscrip- 

 tions write Ccw^fy'ii/i for C(WJ^'o/'u//. In one, Sapari is erroneously 

 put for S.ipadi. 



All the names of nations, which occur in this place, have been re- 

 peatedly explained. 



+ These stanzas are very obscure : and I am not confident, that 

 th.ey are rightly tianslated. Hindirayu seems to be similar to the 

 HmdiitdU oi Buiulilkhand: tor so the government of that countrv 

 was df nominated under the chiefs, who ruled it in the last and in. 

 the preceding centuiy. 



The stanzas ai'pear to be similar to two in the.grant preserved at 

 Canjiveram : viz. 25th and 2(>,h. (As. Kes,. vol. 3. p. 47). B^f 

 li^re is some d.fterence in reading as well as in interpretation. 



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