508 ANCIENT REMAINS 



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The following is the translation of the inscription which records the 

 grant of some lands by Tivara Deva, king of Kosala to certain Brahmins : 

 the term Kosala originally designated Ayodhya or Oude, but its applica- 

 bility to the western districts bordering on Gondwana and Berar is con- 

 firmed by other inscriptions. 



TRANSLATION. 



The Seal.- — The engraved edict of the illustrious Tivara Deva} king of 

 Kosala, 2 granted for the enhancement of piety, and authenticated with his 

 seal, bearing the impressed emblems of Garura, the Lotus, the Conch shell 

 and the Discus. 3 May it endure as long as the moon and stars. 



The Plates. — 4 Glory to the illustrious Tivara Deva, a monarch celebrat- 

 ed in (or by) Magaula, 5 the palace of the race of sovereigns, the ornaments 

 of the three worlds, the giver of good to all who bear a worldly burthen, salu- 

 tation be to him with the five auspicious prefixes to his honoured name. 6 The 



1 Tlie name might be here Vara Deva reading Srimatlo Vara, instead of Srimat Tivara but it occurs 

 in another place Mahusiva Tivara which establishes this reading : a more intelligible form would bs 

 Trivara. 



2 The term Kosala is always applied to part of Oude, but its use in this inscription is confirmed by 

 the employment of the term in oilier authorities from the same quarter, and a king of Kosala founded 

 Ratenpur. It should appear therefore that the authority of the Oude monarchs once extended across 

 the Ganges in this direction to the mountains and the sea. 



3 The emblems of Vishnu. 



4 It is very unusual for a grant to begin in this abrupt manner without the benedictory invocation of 

 any deity. The omission might be thought to indicate some secession from the orthodox systems but 

 the seal is positive testimony to the monarch's being a worshipper of Vishnu : the same is asserted in 



the inscription. 



5 fefn^i^^^W^I^X^ ^^ ^HfrT^T^: I The real purport of this passage is quite nn- 

 intelligible, and the original is probably not accurately represented by the Nagari letters. 



(8 The repetition of Sri five times which is frequently thus paraphrastically described. 



