6 Decipherment of a Sanskrit Inscription. [No. 1. 



6. In the auspicious town of Undapura* there lived, in time past, 

 a person by name Dhosin ; renowned, in the world, for every virtue, 

 and highly considered by the saints in heaven.f 



7. His lawfully begotten son was the fortunate Bilhana ; pure of 

 purpose, and, in form, the peer of Ananga.J And his son was the 

 fortunate Dhalla, so called ; high-souled among merchants, and of 

 repute challenging respect. 



8. His younger brother, who bore the appellation of Kes'ava, 

 was a man of guileless mind in affairs of traffic, kind to the people, 

 an abode of merit, ever devoted to the gods of the earth,§ and 

 warmly attached to his own relatives. 



4. Eegarding his perishable body as like a drop of water on the 

 leaf of the lotus, the w ell-starred || Kes'ava applied his heart to 

 pious observances. 



10. In the neighbourhood^ of Harshapura he constructed a 

 superb* temple to S'ambhu, and a reservoir like the sea. 



5. 



Gara. 





Bhu, the earth. 



6. 



Vanija. 





Rama. 



7. 



Vishti or Bhadra. 



Invariable Karanas. 



Yama. 



1. 



S'akuni. 





Kali. 



2. 



Chatushpada. 





Ukshan. 



3. 



Naga. 





Naga. 



4. 



Kinstughna. 





Maruta. 



* This is not to be mistaken for what is now vulgarly called Indore ; a corrup- 

 tion, it is said, of Indravara. 



f Viloka, ' the other world ;' heaven, or hell, according to circumstances. In 

 the acceptation of paraloka, this word has no place in our dictionaries. 



X 'The bodiless;' an appellation of the Hindu Eros, whom S'iva reduced 

 to ashes. 



§ A magnificent epithet of Brahmans. 



|| To translate su-janman, conformably to its etymology, by 'well-born.' would 

 convey a wrong impression in our idiom. 



^[ So I render des'a-vibhdge, at a venture. c In a section of the place' would be 

 a strict translation. The fifth case after this term may be accounted for by the 

 particle vi which it embodies. But the Sanskrit is impure. 



* Closely, ' pleasing to the people.' 



