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linga families, who were deprived of their Dharmadwajja (flag of virtue) 

 which was white as pure pearls, and the people of the three regions shed 

 tears of joy. The other name of Dharuva Sena was Dharmaditya ? 

 a name given to him only for his virtue. 



The said prince* (Dharuva Sena) inheritor of his father's fortunes, 

 whose dalliance is with fame as with a wife, and whose crown jewel is like 

 the crest of a peacock, who adorns the royal Lukshmi as a lion adorns 

 the forests on the mountain side, and scatters his enemies as the rainy 

 season dissolves clay; whose friends' countenances expand for joy like 

 water-lilies, while the flags of his enemies are dispersed like clouds ; 

 powerful, diligent, of spirit like the rising sun, the destroyer of his 

 enemies, son of Siladitya, the elder brother of Ishwara Guha, who 

 enlightens the earth with his fame like a moonbeam, and who, smearing 

 his body with sandal-wood dust, is beautiful like the Vindhya cloud-capped 

 mountain, proclaims to all : Be it known to all of you, that for his father's 

 and mother's virtue's sake, he, the said son of Siladitya, has presented 

 to the brahman Ladhulla, son of the brahman Sanda, a religious 

 student, venerable, acquainted with the four Vedas, who lives in the 

 villages situated near the hill fountains, the fertile field called Varunam 

 Bilika Vakkara Kadciraka, situated near another field, and on the 

 road, southwest of the village named Dya Palli, having had the same 

 measured by Hipidaka with a measuring rope. The field is divided 

 into six portions. 



(Here follows a minute description of the boundaries, which need not 

 be given.) 



The above land, with its tanks and hillock s,being of the measure of half 

 a kshetra, is to be enjoyed in full property as a perpetual inheritance by 

 the said Ladhulla, his sons and posterity for ever, so long as the sun, 

 the moon, the earth, the rivers, and the mountains shall endure. It is 

 productive land and capable of rearing valuable grain. 



Let not the hands of the king's servants touch it, nor let any one 

 claim it on the part of the gods and brahmans by whom it was hereto- 

 fore possessed. 



" To give land," &c. &c, (here follows the usual quotation in favor 

 of donors and in execration of resumers of grants.) 



This grant is executed by order of Dharuva Sena, son of the 

 king Siladitya, by his faithful servant for peace or war, keeper of his 



* The word for prince in the original is Sailaditya, which I am assured is a 

 legitimate patronymic from Siladitya. It is evident that Dharuva, the sou 

 of Siladitya, is meant from the closing sentence of the grant. 

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