634 Inscription on the Eran pillar. £ July, 



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 vmrvrvrora *r*fo*re [V] Tfa i 



Translation. 

 " He is victorious ! (Vishnu) the four-armed, omnipresent, the crea- 

 tor and preserver of the world, whose bed is the immense water of the 

 four oceans and whose ratha-ketu (chariot standard) is Garuda. 



On Thursday the thirteenth lunar day of the month of A'shadha of 

 the year 165 when the king Bu'dha Gu'pta who was the moon of good 

 administration, and resplendent in fortune and fame, governed the beau- 

 tiful country situated between the Kdlindi (Jumna) and the Narmada, 

 by his good qualities (derived) from the Lokapdlas*. In the afore- 

 said year of his dynasty, in the very month and day aforesaid : one 

 named Vaidala Vishnu who was famous as far as the four oceans, 

 ever respectable, who by public election and through the favor of God 

 obtained the good fortune of the regency, who was devoted to Bhaga- 

 vdn — the son of the father-resembling Hari Vishnu ; grandson of 

 the father's-talent-possessing Varuna Vishnu, — the great grandson of 

 Indra Vishnu, of the Maitt ayanayakripahha race, a strict observer 

 of his religious duties, regular in sacrifices, reader of the veda, a very 

 rishi among brahmansf. By him (Vaidala Vishnu) this banner- 

 pillar was erected at the expense of Dhanya Vishnu, — for the pros- 

 perity of his race, in honor of JanardanaJ the distresser of the 

 Punyajanas ( Rakshas J . 



Glory ! to him who is a patriotic (prince) and to whom belong all 

 the people !" 



Besides the principal inscription on the Eran pillar, there are as usual 

 several names scratched in different hands and at different times ; four 

 of which I have selected as specimens, being the only ones in the more 

 ancient form of Nagari. They are inserted at the foot of Plate XXXI. 



A, the first, wants something at the end : supplying a <r conjectural- 

 ly it will run — 



* Upholders of the universe. 



f These several epithets are almost literatim the same in both inscriptions. 



X Vishnu". 



