1863. | Sanskrita Inscriptions from Central India. 283 
Qe) trae fawuiiatuatfaa: | atari qurcifafe 
[tz BTA ATT TA, Ve | aaa fafessaaaae- 
aratfeatet feratarmadtstacaaqgegaiog aarat (a) 
(ac) ateiqefacsar §«faafaaucadawiemcamaraai 
aad unantwacsau wala yea = famemaqg- 
Safe Aaya wat wuargfsaat wie (a) 
(22) St? <wweiat aa | erry laws ABA G w- 
wufasn eaam: yntaaaa wt) Beale eas | RZ 1 
aq: argacafanrmantacimaciag(efasarsa 
(2x) (fa) wien | fagfasreqefafaast  onie 
Sataat qacasay feta |) R01) oaelafeaqailar 
afaciaca lata: | Hlaat SawMeU Tiss AAA | RE | 
(x3) * * * qumrgar uate farcry | waqucat yar 
famufwteattaa: || ee || wea fecutastasfad ata- 
feuniguies atagucwmafeara waagisa ? * 
(aa) * * * qagacremafaanegicate aTTait- 
fimcuteatecfasratattst Feq) go || TAA wReo| 
Translation. 
1. Om; salutation to S’iva. The king of snakes hears by his eyes ; 
how can he fail to see the moon* * * * * * May Rudra, thus 
awakening the daughter of Salya for dalliance, protect you. * * * 
2, With his frontal globes besmeared with a profusion of powder- 
ed pure red-lead, and his pliant trunk covering all space with its 
dancest * * * *** May the great among the Ganas prove propi- 
tious to you! 
3. The god whose nectar, flowing from his numerous arms, covers 
all space, aud whereupon the army{ of Eros (Madana) sallies forth 
* * * * the moon which is like a jewelled ear-ring of the ladies of 
* The stanza is incomplete and therefore the connection of the’ sleeping 
goddess with the visual organ of snakes which is supposed by the~ Puranics 
to be the seat of their hearing, cannot be ascertained. 
+ An allusion to the elephantine head of Ganes’a. The stanza is incomplete. 
{ The bhramara, a large black bee noted for its sweet murmuring hum, and 
snpposed, from its appearance in the commencement of spring, to heighten the 
pangs of separation in love-sick maidens, 
