1838.] from Girndr in Gujerdt. 341 



(it was) broken down and much damaged, (after which) with 



stones and trees and piles B and massive beams 6 stretched across it was 

 again put into complete repair, with an indestructible embankment 

 having a length of four hundred cubits, and in like manner having 

 a breadth of seventy-five cubits, in a wonderful manner taking out all 



the water and laying dry the bed of the river 7 by Pupya 



Gupta, the territorial treasurer of raja Chandragupta Maurya, 

 (this) was caused to be done : and by the Yavana raja of As ok a Mau- 

 rya, (named) Tushaspa, it was ornamented with cornice and parapet, 

 and with an artificial canal visible there, over which the bridge also ex- 

 tended, in a manner worthy of the approval of the raja (Afterwards) 



by him, who, being predestined from the womb to the unceasing and in- 

 creasing possession of the fortunes of royalty, was invited by all classes 

 waiting upon him for the security of their property — to be their king : — 

 who from clear intelligence has not suffered the sacrifice of animal life ; — 

 who is faithful to his promises — who is courteous in speech, — who in bat- 

 tle opposed face to face with an equal antagonist and threatening to dis- 

 charge his weapons, — compassionates his yielding foe, who 



gives hope to those of their own accord repairing to him to beseech for 

 succour...... preserving the ancient customs of the town uninfringed by 



the proud and insolent ; — who is lord of the countries 8 of Avanti, Anupa 



(? ) Vrija, Anartta, Surashtra, Savara, Kukura, Klrdta, 



Tishat and others, all conquered by his own might, and maintained in 

 their former prosperity, and all their inhabitants both high and low 

 converted into obedient subjects — all these countries, under his majesty 

 (forming one empire) and furnishing every object of desire and gratifi- 

 cation : — who is the powerful leader of an army obeying him fondly as 

 one born with the title of a renowned hero ; — who, after more than 

 one conquest of Satkarni the. king of Dakshinapatha by merely a 



5. ^•Trf^TTT^'JI^^ * ne introduction of Dw6ra here is hardly intelligible, per- 

 haps we should read anutalpat v&ri sarana ucchraya vidhansina— the remover of the 

 impediments to the flow of the current from the beams and materials that had fallen 

 ioto the river. 



6. JTrW^frfT — the distinction of golas and latlas in the modern wood market is 

 that the former are unsquared, and the latter, squared timbers. 



7. I have given to this obscure passage the best sense in which I think it expli- 

 cable, as the breadth, 75, cubits could hardly have been that of the bridge itself. 



8. Most of the countries enumerated here are to be found in the Purdnas. Avanti 

 is well known as Oujein; Vrija is the country about Mathura ; Anartta is mentioned 

 •with. C u n i boj a, Sindhu, and Yavana Margana, (As. Res. VI 11. 339, 341,) and is there- 

 fore probably in the Panjab -.—Kukura is enumerated in the same list with Benares: 

 Sacara is called a wild tribe in the southeast : — there are three Kiratas named — two 

 fChauda and Rujyaj in the northeast and one in the south (pp. 339. 4J) — Tishat 

 may perhaps be read Toshali in Cuttach of which more hereafter. 



