1838.] Vardha and a pillar at Evan near Sdgar. 633 



Translation. 



u He is victorious ! the boar-shaped god, who at the time of deliver- 

 ing the earth whirled round the mountains by thej erk of his tushes ; 

 from the increase of whose body have proceeded the three regions. 



When the great raja Tar A pan I, the very famous and beautiful, the 

 king of kings, governed the earth ; in the first year of his reign, on the 

 tenth day of Phdlguna : — before his time the well known Dhanya 

 Vishnu the doer of many virtuous deeds, follower of the injunctions 

 of the vedas, obedient to his brother the late great raja Matri Vishnu 

 (since departed to heaven) and favored by him — who obtained the good 

 fortune of the regency by public election, and through the grace of God ;— 

 famous as far as the four oceans, ever respectable, and victorious in many 

 battles with his enemies, the devoted worshipper of fihagavdn, — who 

 was the son of Hari Vishnu, resembling his father, — the grandson of 

 Varuna Vishnu, possessor of his father's qualities, — great grandson of 

 Indra Vishnu of the Maitrdyandyakripabha race, the illustrious and 

 distinguished, observant of his religious duties and sacrifices with Sukta 

 (a hymn of the Rigveda) — a regular sacrificer, well read in the vedas, 

 and a rishi among the brahmans. — By him (Dhanya Vishnu) was 

 caused to be erected this new temple of Jagan-Ndvdyana % JVdrdyana, 

 in the form of Vara'ha (the boar incarnation) at his own village of 

 Nerikona, in the reign, year, month, and day aforesaid. 



Glory to the mistress of Brahmanapura and the king to whom all 

 the people belong ! (?)" 



Inscription on a pillar near the same. 



^rraroRrS ^i^tf- ^K%fi?Mr ^fi^cr ^rf%^*nw 

 ^^^fiTT^njf^ itraxn^riM^fa TwNTrifcmrcfir|: ^if^ 

 xi^ xt *ro sN?^ *rref^rcr rare ^wftrcw s^if^rex 

 ^*ffa^rcarre^j§ f3^^re^WTO#^Pw: w^m fxr^^f 



* Or Nar&rayan who is himself the water of the universe. 

 f The word is written corruptly tryordasydn in the original. 

 X In the original it appears, ^^T^[^"1W oa whomis the splendour of Vamund- 

 § In the original corrupted to ^[VJSgfagf. 

 4 K 2 



