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(5.) qj^r frfrf^TW: II ^ II ^T^^T^f^T ^TTW * ^racTnjT«P 



(6.) ^r^n^f^t <ft^ ^tT^rrfl^^^aii^ n 33^^* 



Auspicious. This flight of steps to Manikarnika was prepared by Narayanadasa 

 Gupta for the service of S'iva, rathe fortunate year of sky, eight, six, and moon = 1680, 

 in the month of Sitchi (Jyeshtha), on the 2nd (brahma) day of the moon. 



2. There was born on the earth a king named Vasudeva, valiant as Indra, and of 

 the lunar race. Narenu a dependant of his, made this flight of steps for Manikarnika. 



3. Narenu, a minister of Vasudeva and son of Eavata, caused the repairs of the 

 Chakratirtha tank to be made. May it prove propitious ! 



Babu Bajendralala Mitra said, the great antiquity of the tank being 

 well-known, this inscription was of no use in illustrating its history. The 

 date too being given without any mention of the era, it served no useful 

 purpose in determining the date of the repairs. It was nevertheless of im- 

 portance, as affording an instance of the use of the word chahdra = " made" 

 in the sense of " repaired." In the first two stanzas the word occurs twice, 

 and in both places the clear and unquestionable meaning is, that the ghat 

 was made by Narenu, but in the last verse this is explained to mean repairs 

 (Jvrnoddhdra) only. In several inscriptions particularly some of Buddha- 

 gaya, much confusion had been caused by taking the word in its primary 

 sense, and not as implying repairs. The use of technical terms along with 

 the ordinary names of numerals was also remarkable. 



No. 2. From the Panchagangd ghat at Bandras. Inscribed on the Marhi 



of Shes'as'di. 



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Translation. — Auspicious. This was consecrated by Eaghunatha, son of Madhava- 

 dasa of the Tandana family on the 1 0th of the wane in the month of A'shadha, Samvat 

 1637, in the year named. Sarva (of Jupiter's cycle)." Vansagopala. 



Babu Bajendralala Mitra observed that the marhi or domed temple is 

 an insignificant one, but the Panchaganga being a place of great sanctity, 

 is largely frequented. The image in it is of Vishnu sleeping under the 

 expanded hood of a cobra. 



No. 3. From the Draupadi-hunda at S'ivapura, being the fourth stage in 

 the Panchakuss'a Ydtd, a village three miles from the city of Bandras. 

 (1.) ^ Jiw^T^^T«: I — — — — — — — — 



(2.) _ - _ _ 



(3.) 11 ^ 11 ^f^f^fcr^T^r^^r^w^^fa^iT 1 ^i^- 



* Panditas Sftala Prasada and Bichanarama, of the Banaras Sanskrit College, huvo 

 very much assisted me in reading this. 



