122 Three Sanskrit Inscriptions. [No. 2, 



^WT %T Tpsgeffi?T§r fTOcf W3TTf?f^T II ^<£- || 

 STf^TT^ f^lf^ WWHcTcT TRI 5 ^ II 8 ° II 



* " Whatever lung may be born in this my race, or in another race, I clasp 

 his hands ; fraying that he will not -violate this patent." 



f "To those future kings, on earth, — whether born of my stock, or born of the 

 stocks of other rulers, — who, with minds free from sin, protect, in their realms 

 the lands of the gods and of Brahmans, I clasp my hands above my head." 



In the second quarter of this couplet, the plate has Tn^T^C«T?n}«?%T. ^ ue 

 old decipherment, hazarding a correction, gives : ■q"F^rp^ K Sf^«r^iT. 



The metres of the foregoing stanzas are as follows 



No. of stanza. 





Name of metre. 



1, 10, 13, 25. 



2. 





Mdlini. 

 Aupachliandasika. 



3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 

 18, 22, 36, 42, 43. 



} 



Vasantatilalcd. 



6. 





A'rya. 



9. 





Smriti. 



12, 27. 





S'dlini. 



14, 23. 





S'drdulaviJcrtdita. 



15, 19, 38. 





Indravajrd. 



16, 37. 





S'ubhd. 



17, 20, 21, 24, 26, 28, ") 



29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, V Vahtra. 



35, 39, 40, 41. J 



% That is to say, the instrument was issued by the lord of Chedi's das' a mulin, 

 Vatsaraja, son of Dharma, and grandson of Abhyadhara. In the original is 

 %fs"ST, which I have not scrupled to alter. No doubt the original was metri- 

 cal, when it was placed in the hands of the engraver. A change of the third 

 syllable of it to a double consonant, and the insertion of ^ before ^^j «TT 



