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26. Devaguna, son of Sri Ratna Sifiha, whose wealth consisted of 
the pure knowledge of the Shastras, whose genius in poetry was vast, 
who was proficient in logic and renowned for versification, rhetoric, 
lexicography, the art of love, and other branches of learning, who 
was like the son of Bhrigu, (S’ukra,) in the administration of the 
criminal law, even he composed this chaste eulogium. 
27. He who was like unto the moon in developing the lily* of 
poetry, he who was the store-house of intelligence, and the pleasure- 
ground of learning,—even he, the auspicious Kumarapala, son of 
Avanipala, wrote this chaste eulogium. 
28. And the charming composition was engraved in beautiful 
letters and lines, by the intelligent carpenter (stone-cutter?)+ Sampula. 
29, * * * * Vagana, the two great manifestoes of forms, erected 
this temple of Pinaki, the holder of the Bilva, 
30. As long as the sun and the moon will hold the earth envelop- 
ed in their beams * * * * as long as the elephant, of the quarters 
will—* * * * and the heaven will be embellished with—* * * * so 
long and for ever shall the memory of his deeds last under pretence 
of this temple to the enemy of Cupid{—Samvat 1207. 
* The Kumuda a lily that opens at night. 
+ Sutradhdra in Sanskrita, from which comes the modern Bengali word, 
chhutdr a carpenter. According to the dictionaries it is never used to imply a 
lapidary, an engraver or a sculptor, those being indicated by the terms manikéra, 
takshaka or Mudrakara and Bhashkara respectively. 
< Verses Ist, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 11th, 18th, 23rd, 26th, and 30th, are in 
the Sardulavikridita measure, which reckons 19 syllables to the foot with a 
cesura after the 12th, the long and short syllables being arranged thus — — — yu 
mee Narr g ee = Sat) ee 
Pinte 7th, 8th, 10th, 17th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 24th, 28th and 29th are iu the 
well known octosyllabic anustubh. 
Five verses, viz. the 18th, 14th, 15th and 27th are in the Vasantatilaka, a 
measure of 14 syllables to the foot, with a ceesura at the 8th, thus: 
a re oO NO in aaa ORE 
The 8rd verse is in the Sragdhara of 21 syllables with a cesura at every 
seventh syllable, thus —— — — Fh VY YO IS VS SU SS 
the 12th in the Indravajra of 11 syllables, —— Vv —— vu uv — yu — — ; the 
16th in the Rathoddhata of 11 syllables, thus —- vu — vu uu —Uu — uu —, “and 
the 25th in the measure of the Meghaduta, the mandikranta, thus, — — — — 
MNES LNA et ere NA Te ee NA! ire eye 
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