1S75.1 E. V. Westmacott — A Copperplate grant hj Lakshman Sen. 13 



M. J{ for ^T, M. C. C. 



3S". M. 0. C. reads hemdscharathfl for hemdsyadatha. 



0. sarbbai for sarbbai, M. C. C. 



P. Dharmmdnusdscmah slolcdh for dharmmdnugasinah gloJeah. The engraver's blun- 

 der is obvious. 



Q. Insertion of :, M. C. C. 

 E. saha for sdha, M. C. C. 



Translation. 



Om ! Salutation to Narayana ! 



1. May the germ of your prosperity be developed by the cloud which is the clus- 

 tered hair of Sambho, by whom the sorrows and pains of the world are done away, the 

 cloud whose lightning is the flash of the jewel of the serpent king, whose Ixdra-bow 

 is the crescent moon, whose water is the river of heaven, and along which a row of 

 herons fly, the necklace of white skulls, and whose collected air is constant meditation ! 



II. May you rejoice in the light of the moon, full of nectar, at whose appearance 

 the sea is glad, partridges cease to fear, and the husband of Eati* boasts himself peerless, 

 the moon, which, after long series of meditations, has been proved to be always full ! 



III. The kings of the race of AusnoDHiNATHf neutralize the sharp fever-poison of 

 their enemies by the lustre of the nails of their feet, as with the juice of creepers, nur- 

 tured (as plants with water) by the lustre of the diadems of numbers of kings, pro- 

 strate in homage. 



TV. Of that race sprang Hemaxta, in the fame of whose arms, resplendent on all 

 sides from his infancy, the faces of the kings of his foes withered as the lotus blossom 

 shrivels with frost, and in whose qualities the virtues of the house of Sen reached their 

 highest development, as autumn matures^ the rice in the fields. 



Y. Then Bijay Sex, the victorious, whose mighty arms to this day clothe the four 

 quarters of heaven with the light of the fame that attends them, became lord of the 

 earth which the waves of four oceans girdle as with an undulating zone. 



VI. Next was Ballal Sex, an active foe to the influence of the Iron Age, walking 

 in the path of the Vedas, an incarnation of war, who by means of his victorious heroism 

 in a moment brought into his own hands the wealth of his enemies, undiminished. 



VII. Lakshmax Sex, the King, formed by contributions of parts of the Lords of 

 the quarters of heaven, who longed for the love of the Nymphs of the quarters, by the 

 power of his arms quelling the tone of war in his enemies, holding to the virtue of the 

 Eoyal race, became a standard of courtesy. § 



Vm. His enemies again and again freed themselves from the ties of the world, 

 in the same way withdrew themselves from worldly matters, and in the shade looked 

 on him as a god and in fear of him trembled at every berry that dropped and every 

 blade of grass that rustled. 



* Kandarpa. 



t The Moon. 



i The name of Hemanta suggests the season so called, the autumn months of Kartik 

 and Agrahayan. 



§ The heaven is divided into ten quarters, each embodied in a nymph, and each 

 having its Lord, of whom Indra is one. It is a popular fiction that kings are made 

 up of parts of these Lords. 



