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a king- of kings, wealthy, respected, intelligent, and in all respects a 

 hero. His son Bhudeva Deva was born of his wife Laya Devi who 

 loved much her husband. He also was king of kings, a zealous wor- 

 shipper of Brahma, an enemy of Budha Sravana, a lover of truth, 

 rich, beautiful, learned, continually engaged in religious observances, 

 and a person near whom KalI (the yuga) could not approach ; whose 

 eyes were beautiful as blue lilies and quick, the palm of whose hands re- 

 sembled young twigs, whose ears were frequently troubled by the sound 

 of the jewels of the crowns of rajas who bowed before him, and whose 

 great weapon destroyed darkness, whose feet resembled the colour of 

 gold, who granted pensions to his favorite attendants. 



He the remainder defective. 



N. B. — This inscription is supposed to be about 1500 years old, but ? 

 as before stated, the date is conjectural. There are faults of grammar 

 in the Sanskrit, for which the Pandit who drafted the inscription is. 

 answerable. 



VIII. — Mr. Kittoe's tour in Orissa, continued from page 829 of 

 September, 1838. 



On the following morning (the 16th March), I proceeded to Atturva 

 a large village on the banks of the Brahminee river, the greater part of 

 the way was through very dense jungle, with some small patches of 

 cultivation interspersed ; I met with only one village in which there 

 were many large herds of buffaloes, and other cattle ; cultivation is also 

 extensive. I here observed a method of tilling the land quite novel to 

 me ; the fields are dug with long and heavy crowbars, each clod as it is 

 turned up, is bruised with the bar, and thus prepared for the seed 

 without using a plough ; indeed the stiff nature of the soil, would not 

 admit of its being ploughed in the dry seasons. This practice I found to 

 prevail throughout the valley of the Brahminee, which tract is very 

 fertile. 



The distance travelled this morning must have been nearly fifteen- 

 miles. Nothing new presented itself at Atturva, where the bed of the 

 river is about half a mile wide, the water at this season occupying but 

 an eighth of that space: being very shallow it is only navigable for 

 small canoes. 



17th March, Camp Nadurra. This is a large village on the banks 

 of the river about thirteen miles from the last camp ; it may however be 

 much less in a direct line : my guides purposely took me by a very 

 difficult and circuitous route, inland from the river along the banks of 

 which I ought to have travelled ; such is the wiliness of the Ooreyahs, 



