272 Notes on Gupta Inscriptions from Aphsar and Beliar. [No. 4, 



if my reading be correct, is new. In the 18th line there is mention 

 made of Bhatta Guhila Swamin, whose name does not occur in the 

 Bhitari column. The conclusion therefore that I come to is, that the 

 two documents were put up by the some race and very likely by the 

 same king, but on different occasions, and to record different occurences. 

 There is nothing in the record to justify the positive opinion of General 

 Cunningham that it belongs to Skanda Gupta, son of Kumara Gupta. 



Translation of an Inscription from Aphsar. 

 There lived S'ri Krishna Gupta, a king, whose army was crowded by 

 a thousand tuskers, who was served by men of great learning, whose 

 lineage was noble, and who was firm and ascendant as the mountain 

 peak. His arms, which had overcome the ardour of numberless 

 rivals, were even as those of the lion; for thereby he had pounded 

 the bulging skulls of hosts of maddened elephants of his inveterate 

 enemies. 



2. Even as rose the moon from the ocean so from him descended a 

 son, S'ri Hashka Gupta Beva, possessed of many digits, (arts,)* spot- 

 less and free from (the) clouds (of ignorance), 



3. He was the holder of the hard-stretched bow which cared not 

 for the fit time of death (for his enemies). He could pour showers 

 of dreadful arrows, and was looked upon with tearful eyes by those 

 who had been deprived of their homes, their wealth and their masters. 

 His glorious success in fierce warfare was as it were recorded in his 

 breast in the form of innumerable scars, as prominently and as in- 

 delibly as the perforations of insects in the knots (of trees). 



4. His son was S'ri Jivita Gupta, the crowning jewel of kings, 

 who was like the moon in the forest of water lilies represented by the 

 faces of the wives of his murdered opponents. 



5. The dreadful fever of his glory forsook not his adversaries, 

 whether they sought shelter in the sea-shore washed by the waves 

 of the water where dwell the pearl shells, and strewn over with 

 stems of plantain trees cast around by the trunks of elephants which 

 roam amidst lofty palms ; or on the mountain top cooled by the 

 water flowing from eternal snow. 



6. This superhuman act of his — the leap from the shore of the 



* The word in the original is hold, which means both an art as well as the 

 digits of the moon, hence applicable both to man and the moon. 



