1837.] in the Asiatic Society's Museum. £3 



Translation. 



Om ! Salutation to (Krishna) the adorable son of Vasu-deva ! 



Verse 1. May Hari (Vishnu), who, desiring to embrace (Sara- 

 swati') with his body stamped with the impress of the leavesf, of 

 the jar-like bosom of the warmly embraced Kama la (Lakshmi'), was 

 bantered thus, " Perish not this fresh garland of flowers," by the 

 goddess of speech (Saraswati) — prosper you ! — 2. O goddess of 

 speech ! since thou hast been daily worshipped from my childhood, 

 let it now yield fruit — be propitious ! I am speaking the excellent 

 words of the praises of the family of Bhatta Bhava-deva. Take 

 thy station on the tip of my tongue ! — 3. The learned brahmans who 

 were born in the exalted and continuous line of Savarna Muni, a 

 hundred villages, lands held by royal grants, became their abode. 

 Among these truly Siddhala alone, the famed, the chief of villages, 

 the decoration of the beauty of Rdrhd\, is the ornament of the 

 regions of Aryd-vartta\\, (the holy land.) — 4. Here this family§ hath 

 happily spread, with excellent sprouts, honored, with firmly compacted 

 roots, whose glory is promoted by brahmans^f, arrived at the extre- 



* From hence to the end of the 24th line there are evident traces of letters, 

 but they are illegible. (See opening remark : the missing sentence consists of 

 nothing more than the month (illegible) and the year, " Samvat 32" distinctly 

 visible. — Ed.) 



f Alluding to the ancient Hindu custom of the females adorning the face and 

 person with colored pigments, such as saffron, sandal, &c. 



X That part of Bengal which lies on the west of the Ganges. 



§ Literally, the country where holy men are constantly produced ; bounded, 

 according to Manu, by the eastern and western seas, and by the mountains 

 Himalaya and Vindhya, (Manu, C. ii. v. 22nd.) 



|| The word ^il also means " the bamboo," and the poet throughout this verse 

 uses such double-meaning epithets as may be made applicable to both senses. 



^[ In applying this epitbet to the bamboo, the word Y^SJ literally, " twice-born" 

 would be rendered " birds" — first born in the egg, and secondly produced from it. 



