484 Notice of a Grant engraved on Copper. QJune, 



8. Of that lord of the world, the principal ministers placed on the 

 throne his son Kokalla, whose expanded armies (consisting of four 

 arms ( 9 )) were stopt by conflict with the four seas ; — 



9. Of whom going forth afar, the glory shewed like a forsaken woman, 

 far surpassing white sandal wood ; it reproved the lustre of the moon, 

 and eclipsed a string of pearls. 



10. Whose son was Gangeya-Deva, the lord of the fortune of the 

 bold, — a falling thunder-bolt on the heads of his enemies, — by his arm, 

 surpassing the length of a city bar. He whose face was decked with 

 smiles, and whose broad chest shewed like an emerald tablet. 



11. To whom was dear the abode at the root of the holy fig tree 

 at Prayag. When he had obtained emancipation in a better world 

 with his hundred wives, his son Kama-Deva reverenced the various 

 quarters by pearls extracted from the frontal orbs of elephants, rent 

 by his sword. 



12. By whom was created a pillar in honor of Brahma, called 

 Kurnavati, as if the mansion of that divinity in this nether world, — the 

 foremost abode of the virtuous, — the root as it were of the twining plant 

 of theology, and the diadem of the stream flowing from heaven. 



13. By that lord of the Kuluchuri race, on his wife Avalla Devi, 

 another Laxmi produced from the ocean of the race of Huna, was 

 begot Yasaskarma Deva, adorned with glory co-extensive with the 

 billows of the ocean, swelling as they did in the doubt of the rise of the 

 luminary who cherishes the hare.C 10 ) 



14. Of whose enemies, for an instant, the condition was as if they had 

 repaired to the banks of some lake in the cavity of some great hill, and 

 there perceiving their images in the water like a confronting enemy, 

 they hear the echo of the words " he is come," interchanged in their ter- 

 ror. What beyond this ? 



15. His son was Gaya-Karna, of great renown ; whose mistress 

 was the earth stained(H) as if replete with the blood, from the throats 

 of his powerful enemies wounded in war. 



1 6. Eager to expand the canopy of his glory in all quarters, adorned 

 with virtue and robed in majesty, — by whom planted, the thorn of grief 

 rankles in the hearts of the beloved of his enemies. 



17. On his Rani, Arhana Devi, he begat a son, Nara Singha, lord 

 of men : — as if a sentient effort on volition. 



(9) The four angas or arms of an army are elephants' cavalry, cars, and infantry. 



(10) The play on the words is lost in the translation. The damsel separated from 

 her lover in Hindu Poetry reproaches the moon. This is a strong hyperbole. 



(11) A pun is lost. 



