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The Erilcaina Inscriptions. 
Teanslation. 
Triumphant is the god who, in the likeness of a boar, lifted up the 
earth ; who, by blows of his hard snout, tossed the mountains aloft ; 
the upholding pillar of that vast mansion, the threefold world. 
In the first year that the auspicious Toramana, sovereign of great 
kings, of extended fame and wide-spread effulgence, is governing the 
earth ; on the tenth day of Phalguna ; even so, in the year and 
month and on the day of his reign before mentioned, during the first 
watch of the said lunar day as circumstantiated : of the great-grand- 
son of Indravishnu, — a Brahman saint, of the illustrious Maitrayam'ya 
monarchs, who took delight in his duties, celebrated solemn sacrifices, 
and was well-read in the scriptures ; grandson of Varunavishnu, who 
imitated the excellencies of his father son of Harivishnu, who was 
the counterpart of his sire, and derived prosperity to his race ; — that 
is to say, of the great king Matrivishnu, who has departed to 
elysium, — a most devout worshipper of Bliagavat ; who, by the will 
of the Ordainer, acquired, like as a maiden sometimes elects her 
husband, the splendour of royalty ; of fame recognized as far as the 
four oceans ; of unimperfect wealth ; victorious, in many a battle, 
over his enemies, — the younger brother, Dhanyavishnu — who did 
him due obeisance, and was revered because of his favour ; whose 
Line VI.— (*?) VT- 
„ VII.— SIT (vr^O 
„ VIII. — («j x) ft. 
With regard to the ^ which is purely conjectural, it was prompted by the 
succeeding letter, which, however, looks only very dimly like Whatever it 
may be, the appendant vowel is liable to no doubt. Mr. Prinsep at this place 
declined to extract any thing whatever from his facsimile. The only sense 
educible from my reading is most suspiciously far-fetched. 
In the seventh line, the letter which is assumed to be is broken off at the 
left ; and of its vowel there is no vestige. Here, and in what follows, Mr. 
Prinsep appears to have hit the probable substitute for a fraction and a flaw. 
A word for * temple,’ as one cannot but see at a glance, is precisely what is 
desiderated. 
About the symbols missing in the eighth line there can be no diversity of 
opinion. The valedictory blessing is the same, to a letter, in both the inscrip- 
tions ; and, in the matter of legibility, it is everything that could be desired. 
