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enemies, an axe in cleaving the trunks of the elephants of (his) enemies, 
by whose radiance like the whiteness of the moon and jasmine were illu¬ 
minated, the caves of Kulacliala frequented by the consorts of the 
kinnaras; his son was Sri Dhanga Deva, the favourite of the Goddess of 
Victory the prowess of whose blade’s edge was famous in numberless battles. 
Wonderfully did he kindle in the hearts of the enemy’s wives the flame of 
separation, which unceasingly spread, though besprinkled with the water 
of tears. [In his undivided reign] there was flight in the wavy curls 
[alone] of the denizens of the antahpura , in amorous dalliance [alone] 
there was seizure by the neck, in female breasts alone was hardness and 
brows [alone] were crooked, on the moon [only] were spots, and in the 
plantain tree [only] was saplessness: the poets spake well, and amidst 
clusters of the Kairava \Nymphcea esculenta\ alone there was enmity 
at the rise of Mitra (meaning both Sun and friend). The king and 
sovereign lord Harsha Deva, the destroyer of the' exultation of enemies, 
succeeded by the king and sovereign lord Yaso Varmma, destroyer of the 
exultation of enemies, succeeded by the king and sovereign lord Dhanga 
Deva, destroyer of the exultation of enemies, ruler of Kalinjar, in the 
Samvat year 1055 at the full moon of Kartik, on Sunday the 15th day of 
the bright half of the month, to-day here in Kasi, when the orb [of the 
moon] which is a joy to the heart of Rohini, and is marked with the form 
of a deer, was seized as a mouthful by the son of Sinhika [i. e., Rahu]— 
to the member of the Bharadwaja gotra, and the threefold pravara of 
Bharadwaja, Angirasa and Varhaspatya, belonging to the Vajasaneya 
saklia , to him originally an inhabitant of Tarkayika residing in the village 
of Durbahara, named Rudra Sri Yasodhara, the son of Rudra Jaya Kumara 
—to him with its waste, streams and tanks, land and water, upland and 
lowland, and mango and mahua trees, the village of Chulli bounded on 
the four sides by Sasaroshara—for the sake of increasing his own and his 
parent’s merit, he the lover of religion gave— # # # # # 
# # # # # , and having given the beloved of the 
people addressed those present saying—Remain happy by continuing to 
pay (the donee) rents in kind and in money and the rest. Om. So the 
writers of Smritis (have said) : Many kings, Sagar and others, have 
enjoyed territory, so long as any retained his lands, so long has his been 
the fruit. He who receives land in gift, and he who bestows it, both these 
are meritorious and assuredly go to heaven. He who filches a single cow, 
a single gold-piece, or one finger’s breadth of land, goes to hell till the end 
of all things. This is the decree of STi Dhanga who is steadfast in the 
practice prescribed by the Vedas and whose ruling prowess pains the circle 
of his enemies. Sri Dhanga. 
