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abandoned the fort for some days ; only (presents) having been given 

 (to the enemy, according to usage.) 



X. (But once more) to protect his own people did the noble king 

 Svami Ra'ja, the crusher of the pride of alien heroes in fight, (ascend his 

 chariot)* surrounded by applauding heralds : but (having perceived) the 

 great Turkish warrior surnamed CSata) dos [or him of the hundred 

 arms], at the approach of the hateful one in battle, he again left the 

 fort of his own accord. 



XI. Thence having approached Bhagavati [the goddess Anna 

 Purna Devi at her city Benares,] having abode there, and meditated 

 on her benevolence, thence returning with care, he established his 

 kingdom here free from all thorns of trouble. 



Samvat 1 390, in the month Bhadra, fifth day of the waning moon, 

 [Aug. 5, O. S. A. D. 1333,] on Thursday, was the kingdom set free 

 from Malic Shahab ud-din, acting under the protecting favor of 

 Sairaja Deva aforesaid. 



Remarks on the Sanscrit text. 



Verse I. The Benares Pandit's reading ^TT^t^5fT^^T ^T«IT ' s much worse in 

 sense, beside being inconsistent with the evident letters of the inscription, which 

 are as exhibited above. The fjj is required in Sanscrit construction by the •jf-jr 

 of the next line. 



II. The B. P.'s reading ^rifexT. ^r ^ t>^TWT f^rTT ^^rt>^: though 

 somewhat smoother in metre, is inferior in every other respect to this, 

 which (except for the indistinctness of the xj in f^WT^T an d of the sylla- 

 bles ^'•rrfV * s clearly marked on the stone. 



In the second half, the B. P.'s reading "gr^TTT^ is inconsistent with the cha- 

 racters on the stone. 



III. In the last quarter of this verse, I wish I could read with the B. P. 

 fV^irCT^qT^TSff: i Q °ae compound ; Visv^sa-pura being a well-known name of 

 Benares. — But the visarga is too clear on the stone to admit of that reading. 



IV. In the second half of this verse only the beginning $j^r and the end 

 jj-^ with the exception of an t in the middle, is clearly legible. My conjectural 

 reading of the rest in small characters is accommodated to this— whereas the B. 



prudence, to the fourth i^ giving battle ; and our prince Sva'mi Ra'ja seems to 



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have been of the same mind. The meaning here is however that to the first, pacifi- 

 cation, he preferred the second, of buying off the enemy. lffor«r«r we read ^pr 

 it would mean that he abstained from both of these methods: if we read cTj.Tr, 

 it would mean, on the contrary, that he was profuse in his presents while he 

 abstaiued from making peace. The first seems to me the best reading of the 

 three: and all of them more probable than ^jcj which is the reading of the 

 Benares pandit. 



* I find no Moghul or Afghan warrior to whom this name can be considered as 

 r ecesearily applying. The syllable -jr-fT sata is conjecturely supplied to fill a 

 i iatus on the stone. — W. H. M. 

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