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shaking hills, and panting from his thousand hoods with impatience, 

 would without sustenance have fainted, and died. 



He, the glorious Jaya Chandra, whose feet were adored by the cir- 

 cle of Rajas, and who was like Vachaspata* in discussing on various 

 Vidyds, (sciences,) the lord of the three Rajas: viz., Aswapati, Goyapati, 

 and Narapati, very rich, king of kings, learned and superior to all, and 

 who was devoted to the feet of (his father) Vijaya Chandra, who also 

 was like Vachaspati in discussing, &c. and devoted to (the feet of his 

 father) Govinda Chandra, who also was, &c. and devoted to the feet 

 of (his father) Madanapdla, who also was, &c. and devoted to the feet 

 of (his father) Chandra Deva, who was also very learned, king of kings, 

 &c. &c. and who gained the kingdom of Kanyakubja by the power 

 of his arms. That proclaims and orders to all the inhabitants of 

 Kemali, the village situated at Ashureshapattand, to all the rajas, 

 princes, ministers, priests, attendants, chiefs of assemblies, warriors, 

 ( akshapdlalikas ) physicians, and servants, who were occasionally to 

 attend to the female apartments, superintendents of elephants, horses, 

 mines, cows, &c. 



Be it known to all of you, that this day, the seventh day of the moon, 

 in the month of Ashddha of Samvatsara 1243, we, for promoting the 

 virtue and fame of our parents and ourselves, having performed 

 ablution in the Ganga at Benares, — satisfied as usual, the Gods, 

 Munis, men, together with deceased ancestors, with offerings of water, 

 adored him whose fervid beams dispel darkness, worshipped him who 

 wears the crescent on his forehead (Shiva), and Vdsudeva (Vishnu), 

 offered oblations to Hutdshana (Fire) with Pdyasha\ and performed 

 Achamana with water, then granted with water in hand to Alonga 

 Ouda Rdyuta, who belonged to the Bharaddaja line, and was possessed 

 of three Provaras, viz. Bharaddaja, Angirasa, and Vdrhaspatya, and 

 who was the son of Indra Rdyuta, and grandson of Atala Rdyuta 

 with a Sdshna, (grant) village above-mentioned (Kemali) which was 

 enriched with water and earth, with mines of iron and salts, with 

 ponds full of fishes, with caves and fertile farms, mountains and 

 forests, with gardens of modhu and mango trees, and which extends 

 as far as Trinayuthi, and the four boundaries of which were undispu- 

 table. It is ever to be enjoyed so long as the sun and moon will 

 endure. Its revenues, as settled, or are to be settled, are duly to be 

 discharged by the tenants. 



* The Guru of the Gods. 



f Rice boiled with milk and sugar. 



