1835.] Notes on the preceding Inscription. 89 i 



XIX. — This verse is in the same measure, hut preceded and followed 

 by an Anustubh, resembling verse II. There is a considerable obscurity 

 in this stanza, arising apparently from the author's unwillingness to detail 

 the misfortunes of a prince whom he had just celebrated in the two preced- 

 ing verses, as the first benefactor to the Hursha temple, and whose actual 

 Victories over surrounding enemies appear evidently to be the subject of 

 the first three lines of this. But as the relative ^«f in the second line 

 thus evidently relates to king Sinha Ra'ja, the fjcT at the beginning of 

 the fourth must, by the ordinary rules of construction, refer to him also ; 

 (however we might be inclined, from the juxta-position of correlative 

 terms, to apply it to the imprisoned foes of the line preceding:) and 

 consequently he who thus imprisoned others must, after some unrecorded 

 and most unexpected reverse, have needed liberation himself. This is 

 effected, as it appears, by a more powerful monarch, a child of the Sun. Yet 

 no mention is made afterward of the liberated king as acting or reigning : 

 only the acts of the liberator Vigraha Ra'ja are recorded, and by him 

 the place of Sinha Ra'ja is said to be supplied, as though the latter 

 were dead, or in hopeless exile. The truth, as collected from these obscure 

 hints, appears to be, that Vigraha Ra'ja conquered the kingdom, and 

 restored the family of his predecessor to their former wealth and dignity, 

 after their head had been deposed or carried away captive by others. 

 For it is observable, that two sons of Sinha Ra'ja occur in the list of 

 benefactors to the temple after Vigraha Ra'ja, though without any royal 

 dignity attached to their names ; while the latter's alliance to their house 

 seems equally clear from verses XXVI. and XXVII., including him and 

 his brother Durlabha in the royal genealogy that had been traced from 

 verse XIII. 



XX. jJTsfr^TCpfnW. The position of the perfect participle of ^ in 

 the beginning of this compound, as an epithet of Va'sava, or Indra, is 

 somewhat unusual ; but all difficulty as to its meaning is removed by a 

 reference to the legend in verse VIII. The conqueror Vigraha, in his 

 pious devotion to Harsha-deva in this mountain sanctuary, is compared 

 to the Indian Jupiter at the head of the celestials, who first adored 

 Siva under that name, on the same spot of old. 



XXI. — This verse is in a favorite measure of 14 syllables,, called Vasan- 

 ta-tilakam. 



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rav ah.v etr et t« Sv va fiuv tis a. v)]p Ka rdtrxot ; 

 The construction is very involved, but in a degree not unusual in San- 

 scrit poetry ; and is unravelled by appending the whole severally to three 

 principal words, %»r a quo, f'TSTTT'^^^Ji: proprii-regni-fortuna, "?;iX«TT 

 compeltata (est). The first, referring of course to Vigraha, has for its 

 epithet the participle ^^rtt dante, to which belongs the accusative 

 f^ff^HJ dinturnum-domicilium. The second has for its epithets 

 the participles of the first and second lines, to one of which f^rnjcft, 



