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III. 



A Royal Grant of Land in Carnata.— Communicated r by 

 Alexander Macleod, EJq. and tranjlated from the Sanfferif 



by the President. 



Profperity attend you! 

 Adoration to Gane'sa t 



STANZA S. 

 f. yfe BORED be the God Sanjbhu, on whom* the city of thfe 

 t l \ three worlds refted in the beginning as on its main pillar, and 

 whofe lofty head is adorned with a crefcent, that kiflesit,- refembling the 

 point of a waving Chamara } 



N GTE. 

 The companion is taken from the image of an Indian prince, fanned by an officer,, who ftands behind^ 

 him, with the tail of a Chamara,' or wild cow, the hairs of which are exquifkely fine and of a pale ydlow 

 tint. Sambhu is Maha'de'va. 



2. May the tufk of that boar, whofe form was afllimed in fport by 

 Heri, when the raifed earth was his gorgeous umbrella with Hemadri (or 

 the golden mountain) for the ornament of its top, be a ftaff to Jkeep you. 

 fecure ! 



NOTE: 

 Vishnu, in his /£/W incarnation, is allegorically reprefented as a boar, the fymbol of ftrength, {import- 

 ing our globe on his tulk, which is here compared to the ftaff of a Ch'batra, or Indian umbrella. The 

 Ch'hatrat of rich men have an ornament of gold on their fummits, called a Cohja, to which the royal bard,, 

 who wrote the grant, compares the mountain Sutr.eru, or the North-pok. 



