1858.] Of two Edicts bestowing Land. 223 



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Translation. 

 Well be it ! 



1. May yours, to your prosperity, be that transport which was 

 S'ri's,* when, in the course of dalliance, her hands wandered over 

 their support, the neck of Vaikuntha, whose desire was as yet un- 

 sated. 



2. The lines of monarchsf sprung from the solar racej having 

 attained the celestial abode, there was born one Yas'ovigraha, by 

 name ; munificent, and manifestly comparable with the sun for ple- 

 nitude of effulgence. 



3. His son was Mahichandra ; whose illimitable fame, resem- 

 bling the lustre of the moon, was spread, by him, beyond the sea. 



4. His son was the auspicious king Chandra Heva,§ whose do- 



* S'ri, or Lakshmi, personifies uoundance, or prosperity, is the wife of Vish- 

 nu, here called Vaikuntha. 



f The equivocal import of the word rajan and its synonymes, which denote any 

 member of the military class, as well as ( king/ has, doubtless, often stood in 

 good stead to successful Kshatriya adventurers, when commemorating their ances- 

 try, in making it appear as if actual royalty had subsisted in their families as a 

 long- standing heritage. That Yas'ovigraha and Mahichandra were nothing more 

 than ordinary subjects, is by no means improbable, as has been intimated above. 



% The word for ' sun,' embodied in the expression here rendered ' solar race,' 

 is, in the original, represented epithetically by a compound signifying ' the not 

 cold-rayed.' 



The solar race comprises the first grand division of the martial class. 



The translation of Jayachandra's grant, contained in this Journal for 1841, p. 

 101, &c, is crowded with errors of the grossest ignorance or heedlessness. The 

 general character of the thing may be inferred from its distortion of the stanza to 

 which this note is appended. It runs as follows : — " The Rajas who were descend- 

 ed from the lunar line having departed for heaven, one, named Yas'ovigraha, by 

 his natural spirits was as the sun himself." 



§ Colebrooke and Capt. Fell write S'richandra Deva. But it seems preferable 

 to regard the syllable *V« as an honorary prefix. See Miscell. Essays, Vol. II,, 

 p. 286; and As. Res., Vol. XV., p. 449. 



