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A PALLAVA INSCRIPTION 
42 # # [mJ^^^qcfT^ [I] 3Tf 3TJT^^ HJT^ 
44 # # # ^TJT^y5^[^ I ^[vj ^^^24 
46 c^^f^ [I] rTfTt[f%]^=^ # # # * 
47 ####### ######## 
Translation. 
(Verse 1.) May the dust of the glorious feet of 
Bhavadvish^^ which tbickly covers the raultitude of brilliant 
crest- jewels of the lords of gods and of demons, for a long 
time show you (the way to) supreme glory ! 
(V. 2.) From the first creator {Brahman) there sprang a 
pure sage called Bharadrdja, who mastered the srutis ; from 
him an ocean (uniting) the rivers of speech, Angiras by name ; 
from him the renowned sage Sudh&man ; 
(V. 3.) From him a sage called Drona, who thoroughly 
knew all dgamas and who possessed terrible might. In 
order to obtain a son who would foimd a race, he strove to 
please the eight-formed (3ica) by austerities. 
(V. 4.) By the favour of SamhJm there arose to him a 
brilliant (son), famed by the name of Ascatthdman, just as 
at morn the brilliant sun rises over the eastern mountain. 
^' Read ° des'anAm. 
^ The letter e is written over dim. 
^ With srtghana compare Pali sirighatia or slrighann in the Btpavathsa, 
I, 11 ; II, 1. 
Literally, " the enemy of worldly existence." The prose passage at 
the end of the present inscription shows that Buddha is meant. 
Literally, "which glitters (or plays) without interstice on,'' etc. 
