1082 Note on Inscriptions from [Dec. 



" Upon his accession choosing the brahmanical faith (f^rsp^fr^: ?) 

 he causes to be repaired (^^RK^f^r) the city, walls, and houses (that 

 had been) destroyed by a storm ("^TTrf^jrnT:)" and further, proceeding 

 sentence by sentence, in the same strain : 



Kalinga nagari khidhira sitala tadaga party o cha bathupayani sava ydni- 

 pati santhapafnamjcha kdrayati. 



" For the poor (or ascetics) of Kalinga (r%f^) a reservoir of cool 

 water and a ghat (?) also presents of every necessary (^"*3T5jf<n) and 

 equipages he makes permanent endowment of," (^^JT^'T SFK^fw). 



The next sentence is equally capable of explanation with a very 

 few alterations — panaiistrdsihi satasahasehi pakdtiyo ranjayati : — ' with 

 eighty-three hundred thousand panas he gains the affection of his peo- 

 ple' (sr^fft- ^si^lfw.) Then follows, — datiya cha vase, dchitayitd sotekdri 

 pachhima disdm, hay a gaja nara radha bahula darin pathdpayati : ' and in a 

 second house (which) the architect has prepared (^Tf^rff^JfTT'g^nTt) 

 on the western side, (for) horses, elephants, men, carriages, a number 

 of chambers he caused to be established' (or he transferred them thither) 

 S^Jf^f^T — bahula darin is altered to thahula dandi in the corrected 

 copy : — the sense is therefore doubtful. 



Kansabandgatdya-dasandya vdtdnam saka-nagara-vdsino punavase 

 gandhava-veda-budho dampana-tabhata-vdditd sandasandhi usava samaja- 

 kdrdpandhi cha kidapayati nagari. 



1 For those coming from Kansa forest to see ; the balcony (vdtayanam, 

 or vd tdnam and of them) . . of the inhabitants of Sakanagara ; he, in-, 

 dining to virtue, 3^3"^: skilled in the science of music, causing to be 

 sounded the dampana and the tabhata (drums ?) with beautiful and 

 merry dancing girls (nagari) causes diversions/ ( 5 FJ^¥C«ftfar ^(U^r 



Tathd vivuthevase vijddharddhivdse afrajhata pubakalinga puvardjaniva 



sati 



* In like manner turning his mind to law (^r^^5fT^T?t0 in an establish- 

 ment of learned men, he (called together ?) the Buddhist priests of 

 eastern Kalinga who were settled there under the ancient kings . . . . ' 



The sense is here interrupted by abrasion of the stone but the 

 words vata dhama (acn**T acts of devotion) bear out the conclusion 

 that at this age the young prince began to study religion and the 

 laws : the rest of the line is unintelligible. 

 — (a) bhigdrehi taratana sdpatena savarathika bhojakepd devam ddpayati. 



This passage has much perplexed the pandit — the word ratna, jewel, 

 savarathika, all equipages, — and devam ddpayati, he gives to god, the 

 concluding verb, are plain, but the meaning is still obscure. 



