102 Note on a Copper Land Grant [No. 109. 



7. At the time of his expedition for conquests, when the earth was 

 as it were crumbling under the over-passing of his furious elephants, 

 as well as his mighty army, the mouth of Sesha,* smeared with blood 

 gushing from the palate pierced by the pressure with his head jewel, 

 was for sometime bent down even to his breast. 



8. From him was born Gobinda Ckundra, like the moon rising from 

 the sea, who by his arms, long and like the creeping plant, kept the 

 newly, acquired kingdom — stubborn as the elephant in confinement ; nay, 

 who granted a great many cows yielding sweet milk. 



9. His elephants, rivals to that of Indra, having sought in vain in 

 the three quarters of the world for elephants, capable of bearing their 

 burdens, came at last in the quarter of Indra, (east,) and wandered 

 there-along.f 



10. From him was born Raja Vijaya Chandra, who like Surapati, 

 (Indra,) cut off the Pukshus of all the Bhubhrit\. He at his easy con- 

 quest of the world, has extinguished the heat of the earth by the abun- 

 dant tears of * * * * * 



11. His renown challenging the three regions of creation des- 

 cribed by eminent poets, and which reached as far as the Vishnu 

 loka, (region of Vishnu,) has been ever the terror of Vali Rajd.\ 



12. The earth, at the expedition of Vijaya Chandra to conquer the 

 whole world crushed by his furious elephants, ascended, as it were, 

 in the dust caused by his numerous army, to solicit refuge from 

 Prajdpati, (Brahma. J 



13. From him who was possessed of wondrous power, sprung one 

 named Jaya Chandra, the lord of all Rajas, who was as the Ndrdyana 

 himself, born only for the deliverance of the world ; and whom the 

 Rajas humbling themselves ceased from contemplating hostilities with, 

 and putting a stop to their designs, submitted to. 



14. At the preparation of his warlike affairs, the Phanindra (the 

 chief of serpents,) wearied with falling down and again rising from the 

 hard shell of the Kurma,\\ under the pressure of his elephants the ichor 

 from whose temples dropped into the streams, running from the 



* The chief of serpents, supporting the earth on his head. 



f With the view of finding there the rival elephants of Indra. 



X The word paksha means when relating to Indra the "peaks of mountains;" and 

 " allies" when referring to the Raja. The word Bhubhrit has also a double meaning, 

 "the mountain" and " the (other) Rajas." 



§ Vali Raja, v. the Srimat Bhdgavata. 



|| The tortoise supposed to reside underneath the earth. 



