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Translation. 



Of the seal. The irresistible edict (sasanam) of the illustrious 

 prince of hereditary lineage, the ornament of Vdkdtaka, Raja Pravara 

 Sena. 



Of the copper plates. Drishtamasi nama*. The illustrious Maharaja 

 Pravara Sena of the race of Vishnu-rudra the rishi, performer of the 

 several sacrifices of Agnishtoma, Aptoryamekta, Shorasyatirdtra, Vdjapi, 

 Vrishpati, Sadyaskra, and the Chaturasvamedha, ruled over the entire 

 (province of) Vdkdtaka. In his place (succeeded) the superlative lord, 

 devoted to Bhairava — happy in being the vehicle of the moon-liket Siva- 

 linga, — the great king of Vdkdtaka, Sri Rudra Sena, grandson of 

 Gotami', the daughter of the great king Bhavana'gaJ who was descend, 

 ed from a race of conquerors entitled to be inaugurated with the unsullied 

 water of Bhagirathi, (the Ganges,) and who had bathed in the sanctified 

 water of the Dasasvamedha sacrifice, — the Bharasiva race. To him 

 succeeded the diligent worshipper of Mahesvara§, the just, upright, 

 benevolent, brave, heroic, moral, humble, high-minded, strict in religious 

 observances, victorious through faith, of a soul free from blemish, — en- 

 dowed with all these virtues ; — (who was) blessed with a century's store 



* This might possibly be an invocation in the usual form, but no divinity 

 of the name of Drishtamasi, of which the letters are quite distinct, is known. 

 + White. The epithet signifies a devoted worshipper of Siva. 

 X Or Bhavanatha ? § Siva. 



