340 Examination of the Inscriptions [April, 



18. TPP^faTO^^niNTWrT ^*TO TTrfTOT^ iITCSjpnre 



*RT«ncnsre ^r*nN iri*r lifter ^xn^reiftreraftr^ 



iro5br 

 20. ^faPrecTTO^fef hutT* vr^fi^^crr^;fecrf*rf?r « 



Translation. 

 (Be it) accomplished! 1 This very impassable bank at the foot of the hill 



city, ( Girinagara* J (15 syllables) with wide expansion and with great 



depth of strong masonry 3 carried all along the bottom of the said hill, 

 filling up the interstices or irregularities in even layers up to the height 



of the bank (30) by a chosen (architect?) the 



foundations of the bridge being completed most substantially by em- 

 banking off in various ways the water (50) 



by workmen cheered on by kindnesses, and with a vast abundance of mate- 

 rials was in progress. Then the work continued under favor of the raja 

 Mahakshatrapa (the great patron of the warrior class) who was named 



Swdmi Chastdna (and was completed) in the seventy-second year of 



his son, the Kshatrapa, mindful of the lessons of his instructors, the raja 



named A rid a ma' 4 in the dark half of the month of Margairsha 



(afterwards) by an immense inundation brought on by 



heavy rains converting the whole surface of the earth into an ocean, 



and making a mass of mud of the hill of Urjayata (?) — by the 



tempestuous waves of the Palesini river, and its several tributaries, the 



bridge (was carried away. Subsequently) in conformity with 



the original design (it was) repaired with blocks of stone from the hill, 

 remedying the difficulties of the passage w r ay with numerous long 



beams and trees laid across, — and skilfully uniting them (A 



second time) by the force of the waves in a fierce hurricane and flood 



1. The same invocation, siddham, is used in the Skandagupta inscription, PI. I. 



2. The vowels of the word Girinagar are wanting, but the name cannot be mis- 

 taken, being modern Girn&r. 



3. ^JpSf ^fa=f ? tne joining or cementation of masonry, is now called by a similar 

 name jfor^i. I suppose the piers or foundations to be intended. 



4. «TT*JKfV^sn?sr (sic)— if this is correctly traced it contains a grammatical error 

 in the substitution of ^ for : after "5T. The name might be read Atri ; or Rudra, were 

 the preceding word namno. The date may be read either* varshe dwisaptatita (me) 

 followed by numerals, — or Ari damni nashte dwisaptati vatsare, in the 72nd year after 

 the death of Aridama. As there is a space after dwi, sata may be also supplied, 

 making the date 270. 



