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Sanc^hyanayam^ ©r chief teacher of the Sdnchya philofophy (thus men opera* 

 !y declare his name ? his race, and his virtue).; 



35. Him the king has appointed the difperrfer of neetareous food evera 

 here below, to thofe pious Undents, and, in like manner, his fons and 

 fan's fons to an age without end. 



wo r e. 



Agastya was an ancient fags, now believed to prefide over, the fiar Canopus* 



%6. The land called Srijayacunda by the inhabitants of the diftricT: of 

 Cbola, that named Meyitcota in the principality of Chandragirii that known- 

 in Ambindri by the name of Malaca £ 



n o.r b. 



The couplets, containing a defcription of the land, are fo indiftinclly written, that the grammatical 

 conftruftion of them can hardly be traced. The firft letter of '.Meyitcota may belong to the preceding word?, 

 and'an entire hemiiKch feems in this place to be omitted. 



It may here be remarked, that this whole grant is conformable to the rules of Ya'gyawalcy s, la. 

 whofe work we find the following verfes : 



Datwd bhUmin nibandban <va critwa Ut'hyantu carayt't. 

 agamibhadra?iripati perijnydndya part , bi<viab ;, 

 Pateva tamrapatte <va fwamudropericbihnitan 

 abhiUc'hyatmanb vanfjdndtmdnancbemahtpetib. 

 Pretigrubaperitndndn ddnacb ' bedopaiverna/iaT^ 

 /•voabaflacalafampannan fajanan carajitJPhiran, 



Let a king, having given land, or affigned revenue, eaufe his gift to be written, for the information oi 

 ' good princes, who will fucceedhim, eitheron prepared filk, or on a plate of copper, fealed aboveivith his 

 1 own fignet : having defcribed his anceftors amd himfelf, the dimenfions or quantity of the gift, with Its 

 * metes and bounds if it be land a and fee his own haod to it, and fpecified the time*. let hir* render his 

 3 donation firm. 



