42 A Royal Grant: o,p 



tigfcwnth Incarnation ofVisnNu in the form of Ra'm a. This «/*/£. couplet, is written in, a Angular raetree 

 with rhinvts in the middle of each divifion : 



Vividha fucritol dame rame fwara pramuc'he muhur,.. 

 Mouitatiridayaft'&aneJi'Mne vyadhatta vat'ha vidhi • 

 Vibudhaperito nana d'ana niyah bhuvi (hodafa, 

 Tribhuvanajanod gitamfp'kfcam yafah punaiFuddhayan. 



If fnanlht the correct reading, it means a facred bathihg»plaee ; and if Jborafa be properly written afc: 

 the end of the third lias, it may imply, that the royal donations were made to Jixtsen. temples j or that ths- 

 priicipal donations were Jixicen. 



io. Hs fhone forth confpicuoufly, having rapidly bound the Cav&ri,.bys 

 failing a bridge over that receptacle of tumultuous waters; and having, by 

 the ftrength of his arm, mide Jl'vagra'ha captive in battle, he appointed 

 that kingdom, of which the name begins with $riranga y as the feudal ter- 

 ritory of his prifoner, but fubjecT: to his own dominion paramount y. he 

 was praifed, even to the end of his career, by the three peopled, worlds,, 

 who heard the whole extent of his fame* 



NOTE, 

 Ji'vagraha feems to be the proper name of a prince, wh^fe dominions lay beyond the Casverh the 

 word means the Seizer cf Life. . Among the many epithets of the god Siva we find Ranga ; and 

 Sriranga pattan, or a city dedicated to him, is the capital of Mahefwar, fo called from another name of the - 

 deity. Thofe appellations are in force meafure preferved to this day ; but the ancient name of Travancer^ • 

 was Mallara. 



ii. Having conquered the regions of Chira, Chola, Pdnjya, fubdue&i 

 the kingMADHimiVALLABHA, whofe chief ornament was His loftinefs of 

 mind, taken Vi'ryo'd agra prifoner, vanquished the king Gajapeti, or 

 Lord of Elephants, and other fovereigns, he became univerfally celebrated 

 from the northern banks of Ganga to Lanca (the equinoctial point),, 

 from the verge of the firft, or ealtern, to that of the laft, or weftern, 

 mountain, and placed his awful beheift, like a chaplet of flowers, over-trie, 

 heads of the rnightierl: potentates* 



