1858.] Of two Edicts bestowing Land. 245 



duced from the main ;* a king by whom, with his far-reaching creep- 

 ers of arms,f elephant-like upstart governments]: were seized and 

 coerced ; and who was a fountain of eloquence copiously distilling 

 the essence of rhetorical nectar : 



In the sixth stanza, ^f^fT^: Xf^ f the accumulated dust,' &c. is substituted 

 for ^ff^Sj: ^^T^ ' all the dust,' or < the dust, wholly,' &c. Capt. Fell is too 

 general to suggest what expression was here employed in his original just alluded 

 to. The other giant of Jayachandra's has ^J^ftjjj. 



The same stanza, in this inscription, as in the last, in extolling Madanapala, 

 exhibits f^jjpj-^ * bears sway,' a present tense; though an indication of past time 

 is here indispensable. It should seem that, notwithstanding the exigency of a new 

 reign, the later poetical conveyancers entertained by the kings of Kanoj, were 

 either unwilling or unable to mend the verses of their predecessor under Madana- 

 pala. Capt. Fell puts " was a victorious prince;" but without comment. " Was 

 glorious" is the rendering given elsewhere ; and likewise unaccompanied by any 

 remark. Journal of the As. Soc. of Bengal, for 1841, p. 101. 



* The more popular origin of the moon is from the ocean of milk, at the time 

 it was churned by the immortals and the demons. Mahdbhdrata, A'di-parvan f VI. 

 1145. 



According to other accounts, the moon was son of Atri. " The Yayu says the 

 essence of Soma — somatwa — issued from the eyes of Atri, and impregnated the 

 ten quarters. The Bhdgavata says merely that Soma was born from the eyes of 

 Atri." Translation of the Vishnu-pur ana, p. 392, foot-note. 



The history of the moon, prior to its extraction from the milky sea, in a legend 

 which has a very Pauranika air, but which I have not been able to authenticate, is 

 thus told by Capt. Fell : " A ray of glory from the eye of the holy saint Atri was 

 so effulgent, that the Eastern quarter could not endure it. It was, accordingly, 

 thrown into the ocean, where it became the moon." As. Res. Vol. XV., p. 455. 



In the Puruska-sukta of the Rig-veda, the derivation of the moon is stated still 

 differently. See Colebrooke's Miscell. Essays, Vol. I., p. 168. 



f Long arms, or l arms reaching to the knees,' are reputed, among the Hindus, 

 a token of high lineage. The arm is, further, frequently compared, by them, to a 

 vine, or to a staff. 



% Capt. Fell ineptly explains the compound here translated ' upstart govern- 

 ments,' — or nava-rdsktra, — as intending " Navarashtra, a country in the South of 

 India ; mentioned in the chapter of the Mahdbhdrata, detailing Sahadeva's con- 

 quests." As. Res., Vol. XV., p. 455. 



But a king would, most assuredly, be much more likely to boast of successful 

 subjugation, than of being endowed with bone and muscle sufficient to overmaster 

 a wild beast, however powerful. 



