1837.] Udayagiri and Khandgiri in Cuttack. 1033 



Pachachaddnivase Nandardja tivasata ughatitam tannisaraliya vaja 



panadi nagara pasesa " afterwards (xf^ji^ ^TfsrTS! :) 



inclining to charity — the hundred houses (?) of Nanda raja (fin"!'? STrf 

 ^3f Tf?n0 destroyed, and himself expelled (rffsf^T^?), all that was in 



the city of Vajapanddi (?)". . . . here we may fill up ' he converted 



the plunder to the charitable purposes alluded to ;' and this sense is 

 borne out by the beginning of the following or seventh line. 



Anugaha anekani sat a sahasani visajati ; — ' he munificently distri- 

 butes in charity many hundred thousands (panasj — pora janapadam 

 satamanchatisam pasdsato vajaragharavedham satam gharini savata kaha 

 dapanna narapa 



Here the sense is too much interrupted to be well made out, and 

 the want of the concluding verb leaves us to guess the object of the 

 repetition of satam, a hundred, with paurajanapadam, the town territory 

 and ghara " house." At the conclusion of this line we find a few 

 known words : . . . . thamevase manam. . . . ta. . . . ge. . . . giri " hill." — 



The eighth line is again but partially intelligible : — ghdtdpayitd rdjd 

 gabham upapidapayati : dhatinam cha kammupddana panddena pambdta- 

 sena vdhayati : pammuchitamadhuram apanata . . mora daddti. 



" (To) the prince who caused (its) destruction, he ordains the pain of 

 the cavern (imprisons in one of the caves ?) — and causes the murderer 

 to labour (dhatinam for ghdtinamj by a generous requital. (Pambdta- 

 sena the pandit would read parbattisanam ' seated on the hill') and 

 lavishes bland speeches and obeisance. . . ." 



The ninth line opens with a catalogue of further gifts : — kapamukha 

 haya gaja (lulapa?) sahdya sesa chagharavdsdya, anatika-gana nirdsa- 

 sahanancha kardyitun, ba imandnamjatapa (jatiya ?) paradaddti : 



" Apes, (cjffq - ) bulls, (^^T) horses, elephants, buffaloes (?) and all 

 requisites for the furniture of the house ; — to induce the practice 

 of rejecting (farre) improper persons, he farther bestowed (or ap- 

 pointed) attendants of the batman caste (brahman ?) 5rnU**!T«Tf ^fnffa 

 ^ft^TfH — the rest of the line is irrecoverable. Henceforward the 

 commencement also is lost, so that it is only in our power to string 

 together such detached sentences as can be gleaned from what remains. 



Line 9 mdnatirdja pandardsa mahdvijaya pdsddam kdrayati ; — 



"... raja causes to be made the palace (or fort) of fifteen victories." 



Line 10. . . . puva raja nivesdtam pithu-ddga-dambha-nagare nakdsayatta 

 janapade, bhdvand did teresa vase satake: — ' finding no glory in the country 

 which had been the seat of the ancient princes, — a city abounding in 

 envy and hypocrisy, — and reflecting in the year thirteen hundred' — 

 a break follows and leaves us in the dark as to what era (if any) is 

 here alluded to. The Sanskrit of this passage would be : 



