288 •:■:-'> SANSCRIT INSCRIPTIONS 



32. Rebuilt the temple o£ Achaleswara, and consecrated it with the customary holy rites. 



33. By that devout Prince, was Hetiuiji^ village, granted for the perpetual support of 

 the temple of Achalesa. 



34. As well as an annual grant in perpetuity to Achalesa, for the support of the tem- 

 ple, out of his affection and firm faith. 



35. This encomium was written by Mahidhara, the chief of the place, a Brahman, 

 by origin of a pure and holy family, and the city of Agara.* 



f May fortune be propitious ! Samvat 1377. (A. D. 1321,) on Monday the eighth of the 

 light fortnight of VaisciJch/in the reign of Lundhagaka, residing in Buhunda, near to 

 Chandrdvati, the great temple of Achaleswara, on Arbuda mountain, was repaired by 

 Ski Lundhaga, of the imperial race.f 



No. II. This inscription occurs on a Bjjek, or a Slab, below the eight 

 hundred and eight Lingas, in the temple of ^c/i(3/em'«ra. 



It is slightly defective at the commencement : it then proceeds with no 

 interruptions, of any consequence, to the twentieth stanza : from this to the 

 forty-seventh, it is much broken ; and it terminates abruptly : the latter part, 

 comprising the date, being illegible in the original monument. The defi- 

 ciences are, however, of no consequence, as, from what is perfect, it ap- 

 pears, that the Inscription commemorates some public act of Malla Deva and 



* In the original, ■^T^^WSfTSTlT^TTIXW '^'^l ^fffi?^ ^^'SJ^W 11 He is called 

 in the first half of the stanza, a Dwija. 



f Verse 36, which precedes the date, is a perfect riddle, not worth decyphering : it continues the 

 encomiastic Epithets of the preceding. 



J A sentence intervenes here, partly defective and otherwise unintelligible — the name, Mahan- 

 de Sink, and title, Karanadhipa, apparently occur in it. The whole inscription is written in a very 

 defective style, and is full of errors and obscurities. 



