1834.] on the Allahabad Column. 623 



14. Of him therefore, skilled in the due performance of the hundred 

 libations of consecrated ghee to Brahma, who by tbe strength and power 

 of his arm reduces bis foes to bondage, and brandishes for the destruc- 

 tion of their hosts barbed darts and swords and lances* ; — 



15. Of him whose salvation is in tbe guardian of waters [Varuna] the 

 terrible Siva and Visiimu, surpassing the graces of the most adorned 

 recited speech by the rising splendours of a name illustrious for the 

 hundred wounds inflicted on the [rival] tribe by strokes of the flesh-de- 

 vouring arrows of iron, as well as of weapons grasped by the hand and 

 others ; — 



16. Of him, who after the royal insignia had been destroyed by the hand 

 of the [hostile] monarch, as it were the tiger of the forest, the great 

 lord of wild buffaloes, — yet having from the resources of his excellent 

 guardian Giri-kahla'raka the gift of infantry and other soldiers — be- 

 came by the mixture of this benevolent aid with the royal majesty that 

 sprung from it, no longer unfortunate ; — 



17. Of him whose mind was next intent upon the capture of all the kings 



of the South and of the East, as well as of Dhananjaya, protector of 

 the North country, springing from the race of the divine Ugrasena, 

 splendid as the sun, and patron of Hastivarman — a bard equal to the 

 blue sovereign [Siva?] himself; — who therefore is justly worshipped 

 by his ministering lieges, as sole king of all the gods ; — 



18. Of him whose state might be propounded as an object of imitation, in 

 respect of troops, chariots, and other [war-like apparatus] even to the 

 divine Rudra, the wise Nagadatta, to Chandra [god of the moon] to 

 Vahni [or Agni, lord of fire], to Ganesa, to Nriga, [brother of Ixvacu 

 of the solar race], to Nagasena, and to the unmoveable forces of the 

 Nandis [Siva's attendant gods] — and who moreover by Sanh a 'rica ' and 

 all the rest [of the vanquished mothers-in-law] who have the accumula- 

 tive incentive of the wish and prayer for a royal offspring, is approach- 

 ed with all just payment of tribute, with propitiatory gifts, and with 

 reverent prostration ; — 



19. Of him who when his fame penetrated to the friendly province of Pines 



— to Cdmanipa [the present kingdom of Assam] — and to Nepal, did 

 for the sake of procuring a shower of darts to pierce the princes even of 

 the extreme west and other quarters, dispose his soldiers in ambush 

 behind the stations of the cowherds of Madra — and is therefore cele- 

 brated by the poet whom this battle raised up [to commend the strata- 

 gem], as equal in the rapid destruction of his foes to the Lord Siva, or 

 to Cama or Aruni, [the gods of love and fire — thus celebrated] also by 

 Sanha'rica' and all the rest [of the allied princesses] ; — 



20. Of him whose government is invariably strict — who moreover has the 

 glory, a glory pervading the highest heaven, of largesses to destitute 

 persons, invited by him in pursuance of the restitution of a royal race 

 sprung from a kingdom which the [enemies] soldiers had subverted— 



* Or " iron clubs." For the Sanscrit <TWT bears both meanings. 



