1837.] on the Allahabad pillar. 979 



13.... The lustre of his skill in well-directed learning (causes exclama- 

 tions) ' Who is there that is not his ?' (he is a fortress) and they are as it 

 were grass upon his ramparts, and much wealth is locked up within him. 



14. Of him, who is able to engage in a hundred different battles, whose 

 own arm's strength is his only ally : he with the mighty chest... 



1.5. Whose person is become beautiful from the marks of wounds 

 received, and the scratches caused by his wielding the battle-axe, the arrow, 

 the poniard, the elephant spike, the cestus, the scymitar, the javelin, the 

 club, the iron dart, the dagger* and other weapons : — 



16. The sovereign of Kausala, the tiger-king of the forests, the manta 

 raja of Kaurddri, the sovereign of Arghdshtapura, the lords of Miri and 

 Uddydra, the just prince of Dattairanda, the Nila Raja of Sdpdvamuktaf. 



17. The king Hastivarma of Vinga, Ugrasena of Pdlak, Kuvera 

 of Devarashtra, Dhananjaya of Kausthalapura, &c. and all the kings of 

 the southern roads (dakshinapatha) : — from his favors to all these (I say) 

 becoming more dignified and prosperous. 



18. Whose power increases by the force or clemency respectively ex- 

 ercised towards Rudra Deva, Matila, Nagadatta, Chandra varma, 

 Ganafati, Naga, Nagasena, Achyitta, Nandi, Ballavarma, and the 

 other rajas of Aryavarta : — who has made serving-men of all the Deva- 

 rdjas : — 



19. The magnitude of whose authority takes pleasure in exacting at- 

 tendance, obedience and tribute from the kings of the neighbouring 

 hilly countries of Samata, Taravakra, Kdmarupa, Nepdla, Kartripura, 

 and from all the rajas of Malava Arjundyana, Yaudheya, Mddraka, Abhira, 

 Prdrjuna, Sanakdnika, (or Sanaka Anika,) and Kdkakhara. 



20. Who is famous for his great aid in restoring (to their thrones) the 

 royal progeny of many deposed rajas. 



21. Whose most powerful dominion over the world is manifest in the 

 maidens freely offered as presents, the jewels, the money, the horses, the 

 produce of the soil, the ornaments of the precious metals brought as tribute 

 by the heaven-descended monarch, the Shdhdn Shdhi (of Persia), the Scy- 

 thians, the Huns, by him of Sainhddri, and of other places ; by the kings 

 of all the isles, &c. : — who mounted on his war chariot has no competitor 

 in the world. 



22. Whose majesty exults in the princes endowed with hundreds of 

 virtues and good qualities prostrate at his feet: — a man inspiring fear as of 

 instant annihilation : — altogether incomprehensible ; — yet tender-minded 

 to those who are submissive and bow before him ; and extending mercy to 

 hundreds of thousands whom he has subdued : — 



23. Who lends a willing ear, and a consoling tongue to the case of the 

 poor and destitute, the orphan, and the sick : — is very kind to the brave of 



* Parashu, Shara, Shanku, Srini, Prdsa, Asi, Tomara, Vatsapdla, Naracha, Vaitasti, 

 &c. I have translated them as described to me, rather than on dictionary authority, 

 for in Wilson, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, and 9 are all given as varieties of arrows ; vatsapdla, 

 and vaitasti, I do not find, the latter is probably derived from vaitasa a ratan. 



t A country lately freed from a curse, — perhaps some physical calamity. 



