210 A Donative Inscription of the Tenth Century. [No. 3, 
and with vomitings. What right man, pray, would take them 
again ?* 
7. By those who recite the traditionary munificence of our family, 
and by others, may this gift be approved. Donation, and preservation 
of the fame of others, one's predecessors, are the fruit of fortune, 
inconstant as lightning, or as the water-bubble. f 
8. Again and again does Ramabhadra thus sue to all these and to 
future mighty kings : ‘ Universal to princes is this bridge of virtue, 
safeguard, and to be conserved, by you, in successive ages.’ 
9. When, therefore, men consider, that riches and human life are as 
uncertain as a bead of water on the petal of a lotos, and when they 
understand all this which has been propounded, of a truth it behoves 
them not to annul the repute of others. J 
Saugor, May 30 th, 1861. 
* For a relative note, see this Journal, for 1858, pp. 238 seqq. 
f Misled by indistinct engraving, Colebrooke lias made sad work of these 
lines. See his Miscellaneous Essays, Yol. II., pp. 311, 313. lie really had be- 
fore him, no question, the same reading as mine, with the sole exception of 
valaya for salila. 
Colebrooke has : “ This donation ought to be approved by those who ex- 
emplify the hereditary liberality of our race, and by others. The flash of light- 
ning from Lakslimi swoln with the rain drop, is gift ; and the fruit is preserva- 
tion of another’s fame.” Taking to signify ‘ exemplifying’ is very 
natural for one off one’s guard. The verb being understood in one of its accepta- 
tions, the force of ' 3 ‘ bringing as an example.’ ‘ To follow an example, 
is expressed thus : 01 -' 
The idea of ‘ setting an example’ is rarely worded, by the Hindus, 
otherwise than periplirastically. Yet here is an exception, in a couplet quoted in 
the Kdvya-pralcds'a, p. 150 : 
SpfifSrlT ll 
11 Though one even had to lose one’s manhood, or had to descend, or had to 
abase oneself by mendicancy, while making the endeavour, still one should not refuse 
to rescue the world. An example in point has been exhibited by a certain 
preeminent person, i. e., Vishnu." 
+ Here, once more, the admirable Colebrooke, though all but unrivalled on the 
score of accuracy, has gone astray, and at the cost of the measure, the Pushpita- 
grd. See his Miscellaneous Essays, Yol. II., pp. 311 and 313, with two foot- 
notes ; and the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Yol. VII., p. 45, notes 
47 and 48. 
