842 Examination of the Inscriptions [ApRifc, 



threat (of attack), concluded a peace (with him) for the security and 



protection of his country, and again set up his royal banner ; — 



who has a natural taste for exercising and improving the strength of 

 his hand, according to the rules* ; — who is renowned for his skill in the 

 practice of all the celebrated sciences, of grammar, of polity, of singing, 

 of expedients (mechanics ?) and the rest, the theory of which he has 

 gone through and thoroughly retained; — who powerful in horses, 



elephants, chariots, oxen, weapons, and armour exceedingly 



clever in breaking down the strongholdsf of his enemies; — who is 

 every day happy in the bestowal of alms and mercy ; — who is affa- 

 ble in manners ; — whose treasury is abundantly filled with gold, 

 silver, tin, and the lapis lazuli jewel, brought as tokens of his great- 

 ness, offered to him as his just and proper measure of tribute ; who 

 (understands) the precise etiquette of (courtly terms,) their sense, 



measure, sweetness, rarity, who is of correct bodily proportion, 



excellent in gait, color, vigour, and strength, &c. ; in form and limb 

 of most auspicious aspect ; — who of his own (merit ?) has the title of 

 * patron of warriors and king of men ;' — who is crowned with the garland}; 

 of flowers won in the Swayamvara ceremony (or tournament) ; — by 



this great patron of the warriors (or Satrap) RudarDa 'ma' 



zealous for the increase of his religious fame and in kindness and 

 compassion for females and the lame and sick : and with a most liberal 

 expenditure from his own treasury (for the people ?) ; — consenting at 

 once to the petition of the chief citizens ;— ■ the construction of this 



bridge with threefold strength... after due inspection was 



ordered to be done ;-~-thus. 



By the dignified in virtue, the chief minister of the great Satrap 



the road was also lined with trees conferring pleasure (on the pas- 

 sers by). — 



Further, by him who out of favor to the inhabitants of town and 

 country restored with substantial repairs the excellent condition (of the 

 bridge) to the good subjects of this metropolis, — -who made it impregna- 

 ble to the torrents of water ? by the descendant of the Pahlavdn 



tribe, Ma vya, the contractor, who has finished his work precisely on the 

 terms of his estimates and plans, so as to give satisfaction, — the strong 



* By inadvertence I have omitted the repetition of the word arjita ^grfafrnf^f rf 

 at the beginning of the 13th line in the lithograph. 



+ Reading "RTaRTT^ra, but the text may be read ^?T^I making it* destroying 

 his enemy's force,' or again it may be "*nW^n$TT^T^ , B7£3f^T^r 5 r> we n skilled in 

 diminishing the power of his enemies. (The Nagari text has been altered thus). 



X In former times, Hindu maidens cbose their favorite among a band of suitors 

 toy throwing a garland over his neck. A play on the name D&md is intended. 



