784 Translation of an Inscription from Bareilly. [Sept. 



6. He, Viravarma, in noble qualities well resembled the kings of the 

 solar line ; he was powerful, pious, beautiful, famous, pure, serious, vene* 

 rable, veracious, moral, surrounded by the educated, attended by virtuous 

 men, his court was the seat of heroism, integrity, patience and other virtues. 



7. From him descended Ma'nschandaprata'pa, a man of warm spirit, 

 who annihilated his foes as mud dried up by his rays ; who was the orna- 

 ment of all people, nay of the whole world ; before whose armies, the mul* 

 titude of heroic enemies depressing the earth with their heavy tread, 

 retreated gasping into the abode of serpents ( Pdtdla) and bore it down 

 with their weight. 



8. The juice exudi.ig from the temples of his odorous elephants, in 

 moon-like crystals, so spread over the forest-tanks that neither the wild 

 elephants nor those of his enemies dare quench their thirst therein. 



9. His footstool was worn by the crowns of the numerous princes 

 crowding to do him homage. He was the lord of the earth whom the 

 three great oceans encircle as a waistband (rashond). He dried up the 

 ocean by the continual intercourse of foreign princes, as Rama of old. He 

 occupied the ocean like the mountain on the sea-shore. 



10. His kingdom rivalling the habitation of the chief of gods by its 

 magnificent buildings, shining bright and beauteous as the moon-beam 

 with its white tenements, and charming with its nandana-like gardens 

 abounding in pleasant trees of dark emerald hue, — is become white with 

 the high temples of the anointed gods. 



11. His younger brother the stout-armed Malhana, a devoted wor- 

 shipper of Siva, willingly received charge of the world, his kingdom, filled 

 with a multitude of princes proportionate to his kindness, — from his elder 

 brother. 



12. Though gaining such a vast prize as Lakshmi', he always retained 

 his devotion to the gods, his spiritual parents and the brahmans. He was 

 born for the joy of his friends, intimates, and kinsmen, and spread delight 

 among his subjects by destroying the wicked. 



13. His wife Chuluki', adorned with shining qualities was the non- 

 pareil of her day, and was like the new moon to the lotus faces of his 

 other wives; she was descended from the royal line of Iswara. 



14. From her was born a moon-like heroic prince named Lalla, who 

 soon mastered the world. On all sides shone the purity of his virtues as 

 the white kumuda flower, the moon, or ivory. He was the Sumeru among 

 the circle of the mountains of his military officers. On his arm Lakshmi' 

 cast a fond glance as she quitted the house of his enemies. He was the 

 root of the Chhindu line. 



15. Strange was it that at his birth flowers were strewed from heaven 

 on the palace of Malhana, and bees swarmed to sip their honey ; seeming 

 by their hum to announce his future greatness*. 



16. His words were full of pleasantness, exceeding far the full blown 

 lily, or the company of the wise men, or the shrubs bowing with the load 



* So Cicero of Plato : « dum in cunis apes in labellis consedissent.' 



