184/.] Translation of the Inscription in the Nagarjuni Cave. 595 



lish version, together with the Deva Nagarl transcript prepared by the 

 Society's librarian, Babti Rajendra Lai Mittra. 



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1. The auspicious Sree Yajna Verma, whose movement was as the 

 sportive elephant's in the season of lust, was like Manoo,* the 

 appointer of the military station of all the chiefs of the earth. By 

 whose divine offerings, the God with a thousand eyesf being constantly 

 invited, the emaciated PoulomiJ for a long time sullied the beauty of 

 her cheeks with falling tears. 



2. Ananta Verma by name, the friend of strangers ; renowned in 

 the world in the character of valour ; by nature immaculate as the 

 lunar beams, and who is the offspring of Sree Surdoola : By him this 

 wonderful statue of Bhootaptjti and of Devi§ the maker of all things 

 visible and invisible, and the granter of boons, which hath taken 

 sanctuary in this cave, was caused to be made. May it protect the 

 universe ! 



* The first legislator of the Hindus. 

 t Eendra, a deification of the Heavens. 

 X The wife of Eendra. 



§ Siva, or Mahadev, and his consort in one image, as a type of the deities, Genitor 

 and Genetrix. 



