182 Inscribed Slab found near Chhatarpur. [March, 



keepers to dismiss attending kings when he had retired into the female 

 apartments. 



45. " Who art thou?" " The beloved of Ka'shi's lord ;" and thou? 

 " The wife of the king of Andhra;" and thou ? " The spouse of the chief 

 " of Radha ;" and thou ? Cf The bride of the prince of Anga"— Such 

 were the colloquies with the wives of his enemies detained as cap- 

 tives, while their lotus-like eyes were suffused with tears. 



46. " Who art thou? of whom? and for what object art thou 

 " come; thou who art resplendent as the luminary whose emblem is 

 " the hare?" " I am gleaming fame; and wandering over the universe, 

 " I am come, fervently anxious to behold the glory of the monarch 

 " Banga, the sole friend of the learned, which has reached the crest of 

 " the vast mountain of Lokdlofc."C&) 



47. Placed by Banga, after prostration made, that divine symme- 

 trical Linga made of emerald, is victorious in this world. Worshipped 

 by Indra, it was obtained from him by Arjuna, who had pleased him 

 and brought by him on earth, and adored by Yudiiisiitara. 



48. In the fane, a stone god put up by that king shews a second 

 Hara, the remover of the bonds of pain. 



49. By that King Banga was erected this fane of the lord Sambhu, 

 the chief of the gods, with its summit, bright like the autumnal clouds ; 

 of which, by gliding near the golden cupola, (furrowing as it were the 

 sky) Aruna, rendered radiant, abashed the crest of Meru.(29) 



50. For the nice construction of its spire the skill of no mortal could 

 have availed ; Viswa KarmaC 30 ) himself must have turned this arch. 



51. How this vast Vata tree surpasses! — A hundred times were 

 given by him crores of golden coins, in quantities equiponderous with 

 his body, by which they were weighed. 



52. Enthusiastic in the true faith, and delighting to benefit others, 

 seven high born Brahmins were located in palaces, reverenced by gifts 

 of wealth, grain, and lands ; — perfectly pure, though their bodies were 

 tinged by smoke from ever-enduring sacrifice. 



53. Two yavas at Sri-Brahma Kalpa; one in the vicinity. On 

 the south of the snowy mountain, Kalpa gram was another. 



54. Having ruled this earth, girt with waters as if by a girdle, and 

 unsubjected to any other ; when he had lived 109 autumns, with 

 eyes closed, and (as ordained) fervently reciting the name of Rudra, 

 the royal Banga obtained final beatitude by abandoning this mortal 

 coil in the conflux of the Yamuna and Ganges. 



2K The Sun never reaches this mountain. 



29. Aruna is the Dawn, the charioteer of the Sun. 



3U. The celestial architect. 



