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NOTE: 

 The vhv2.Cc rayaraganda occurs both in this, and in the: preceding, fiarrza. Raja means a king, not fa 

 San/crit, but in a popular idiom ; and the whole phrafe may be a title in the vulgar dialed of Garndia. 

 It is here preceded by Muru, which we (hall-find again towards the end of the grant, and which may, or 

 may not* be the name of a country. Not one of the three Pandits, who were confulted on the meaning 

 of the words Mam and Raganda, could throw any light on them 5 except that Mu.ru is a territory, of which 

 die derivative is Maurava. 



.26. He is a deliverer of thofe Hindu princes, who ad like beneficent 

 genii, but a deftroyer of thofe, who rage like fierce tigers : thence he 

 receives due praifes, with the title Vzrapr&dpa or the .glory of heroes, and 

 other fplendid epithets. 



NOTEs 



'"Taz wor'd~"Hinefu' h applied likewifein a verfe of Ca'lida»3 t© the original inhabitants of this eoontry; 

 1 but the Pandits infift, that it is not San/crit. Since the firft letter of it appears 10 be radical, i . cannot be 

 derived from Indu, or the moon ; but, fince a. fibilant is often changed into an afpirate, it has been thought 

 a variation of Sindbu or Indus : to that etymology however we may objed, that the laft confonant alfo mull 

 be changed, and that Sindbu is the name of a river, nfcftisf a f»aple m 



27. He is revered by the kings of Anga, Bengx, Calinga, and others, 

 who exclaim t 4 * Look onus, mighty potentate ! Live, and conquer \ n 



NOTE. 

 Anga was the ancient kingdom of Car n a, including the dirlricT; of Bhagal.apv.ru : to the eaft of Gaura t 

 or the Land of Sugar, to which we give the name of Bengal, lies Benga properly fo named. Calivga, t 

 word known to the Greeks, is the country watered by the G6Jd<veri. 



28. Exalted with praifes by the wife, the king Crishnara'va {its 

 on a throne of gems in Vijayanagar, furpafling in the practice of moral vir- 

 tue Nrig a and other monarchs : from the centre of the eaftern, to thaf of 

 the -weftern, mountain, and from Hemddri to the fouthem bridge, he mines 

 with tranfeendent glory, difpeniing riches and felicity through the world. 



