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[No. 4, 
Rajendralala Mitra —On the Pal a 
his country the expression, “ give, O king.” # Through his fear his sword, 
though dark as a blue lotus, appears flame-coloured to his enemies. He, by 
his wisdom and his own virtues, has kept the helpless earth always in the 
path of justice. Attaining his protection, beggars no longer turn their 
minds to seeking alms. Lord of wealth, doer of no wrong, patron of learn¬ 
ed men, and endowed with great affluence, he is in his glory like unto a 
blazing fire ( anala ), and yet by his conduct he is like Nala.f His fame, 
bright as the rays of the autumnal moon, spread over the three worlds, wears 
a resplendence which even the loud laughter of S'iva cannot rival, and the 
garlands of Ketaki flowers on the hands of Siddha ladies (are so eclipsed 
that their existence can be ascertained only) by the hum of bees (about 
them). ‘ Two persons did say to two others, “ let penance be mine and the 
kingdom thine once to him (Narayana-pala) by Vigraha-pala, and once to 
Bhagiratha by Sagara. 
In his victorious camp in Mudgagiri on the bank of the Bhagirathi 
river, where he has made a bridge of boats, which seems to rival a line of 
rocky hills where the roaming of excessively dense (crowds of) elephants 
has so clouded the glory of day-light, as to produce the impression of an ap¬ 
proaching rainy season, where the dust raised by the hoofs of the countless 
cavalry of the only king of the north, has covered the quarters, where the 
earth has sunk low by the weight of the innumerable kings of Jambudvipa 
who had assembled to serve the great lord, the mighty sovereign, the 
supreme king among kings, the auspicious Narayana-pala Deva, the suc¬ 
cessor of the devout follower of Sugata, the supreme king among kings, 
the auspicious Vigraha-pala Deva, prospers. To subordinate kings (raja- 
ranaka), to princes (rajaputra), to the Prime Minister (rajamatya), to the 
minister of Peace and War (maha-sandhi-vigrahika), to the Chief Justice 
(mahaksha-patalika) to the Generalissimo (mahasamanta), to chief com¬ 
manders (mahasenapati), to the grand warder (mahapratihara), to the chief 
investigator of all works (mahakartakritika), to the chief obviator of diffi¬ 
culties (mahadosasadhasadhanika), to the chief criminal judge (mahadan- 
da-nayaka), to chief minister of the heir-apparent (mahakumaramatya), 
to viceroys (rajasthanino upadhika), to Investigators of crimes (doshapara- 
dhika), to the chief detective officer (choroddharanika), to the mace-bearers 
(dandika), to the keej^er of the instruments of punishment (dandapasika), 
* The words in the original are Deyam me anga-rajan ; and the word anga may he 
taken as an interjection = 0, or an adjective meaning chief, great or principal, or a 
noun, the name of a country including the western part of Bengal. In the last two cases 
the word raj an should change into raja to he in Samasa, the first is therefore the right 
meaning. But it has prohahly been used as a double entendre. 
f Nala, the famous king of Vidarbha noticed in the Mahabharata. The com¬ 
parison is forced for the sake of the alliteration in the words nala and anala. 
