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ON THE GANGA KINGS. 



No less a eaptivator of the glances of young women the 

 most skilled in the joyful art of love than a subduer of the 

 world, laden with spoils of victory gained in many most 

 arduous wars, a lion to the herd of elephants his enemies, 

 was Rdja KesarL 



Moreover, a sun greatly illumining the clear firmament of 

 the Ganga race, a terror to his enemies, bestower of happiness 

 protector of good ways, the possessor of a prosperous kingdom 

 shining like a sun over all the lines of kings, the husband of 

 fortune may he ever be victorious, a head ornament of kings 

 with his bow resembling Kama or Rama the son of Dasaratha, 

 in bravery a Parasu Rama, in royal wealth Balari, and in 

 great splendour Ravi, in government Dhanesa, of a mighty 

 and splendid energy, the most glorious all in all, to all things 

 living Brahma himself, he whom poets daily praise as the 

 universal father, by him, the middle of whose palace 

 continually echoed the sounds of the holy ceremonies which 

 accompanied his daily rich gifts, among the favourites of 

 fortune named the first (or having the first name of Sri 

 Purusha), Prithuvi Kohgani Maharaja. 



By him, considering that all things in this world are as 

 transient as a bubble, the Saka year 684 having passed, from 

 his victorious camp established in Mdnyapura, in the month 

 Vaisakha, during an eclipse of the moon, under the constella- 

 tion Visakha, on Friday, to Madhava Sarmma, the son of 

 Mara Sarmma of the Kasyapa gotra, a resident of Tathur, 

 learned in the Vajasaneya veda, is given in the (?) seven 

 Gtidalur . . . ., in the GudaMr . . . ., in the four 

 villages of Sripura, twelve khandika in each village, with 

 seed for sowing, of land fit for the cultivation of rice and 

 other grain, with power of three mortgages ; a store-house for 

 seed-grain only, with power of three mortgages; two 

 khandika of garden land having (?) paths, with seed for 

 sowing ; thirty khandika of forest fit for the cultivation of 



