128 Dr. Hoernle —Gauhati Copper-'plate Grant of Indrapala. [No. 2, 
Translation. 
(First Plate : line 1) Flail! 
(Verse 1.) “ Having won to-day the whole of thy property, (viz.) 
club, axe, bull, crescent and the rest, oh gamester ! I return it to thee 
again: only let me retain Graqga to serve me as a water-carrier.” 1 At 
this speech of Gauri, (Jambhu’s head bowed for shame at his defeat in 
the game of dice. May he be glorious ! 
(2.) May Pa^upati be glorious, the lord of the creation, (who is) 
the famous great Boar of a wonderful bodily form : and she also, the 
Earth, who is the residence of innumerable kings, and the mother of 
him (i.e. f Naraka), whose son is Bhagadatta. 2 
(3.) That king of rivers which is born of the body of Brahma 
and is called Lauhitya (or bloody), because its waters were stained with 
the copious blood ( loliita ) that was washed off Kama’s axe after it 
had cut off heaps of necks of kings,— may it also wipe off your stains 
(contracted) in this sinful age. 3 
(4.) Hari, in the shape of a boar, disturbing and frightening the 
abode of the Snakes with his bounding hoofs, uplifted the Earth which 
was stuck fast in the depths of the mire of the nether-world, after 
having sunk in the seas cleft asunder on the day of universal dissolution. 
(5.) Of him, whose mind was faint with pleasure obtained from 
the embrace and sexual enjoyment of the Earth as she was borne up on 
the points of his tusks, there came to be an excellent son, the king named 
Naraka, the soles of whose feet were adored by all the world. 
(6.) He, in boundless glory and with every circumstance of pomp, 
held court in the town of Pragjycffisa, which was (to him) like a second 
bosom of his father, and which, in its fine environment of delightfully 
dense woods, appeared like Laksml’s seat brilliant with luminous jewels. 
(7.) His son was Bhagadatta, full of goodness, who was the reposi¬ 
tory of all the virtues of his father, and, being strong himself, always 
took the side of the weak. 
(8.) His son was Vajradatta, who widely upheld, among the con¬ 
quering princes, the prestige of the Kaumra dynasty, 
(Second Plate, obverse) in that he pleased Vajrapani by the 
adamantine strength of his arms, and gathered fame by his raids on 
his enemies. 
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1 Gauri and Gaqga are the two wives of (yiva, and so they are jealous of each 
other. 
2 See below verses 5-7. 
3 Lauhitya is another name of the river Brahmaputra. The story of its birth 
is quoted in the new edition of the Qabdakalpadruma, from the Kalika Purana 
(84th Adhy&ya of the Jamadagnya Upakhyana), under the word lauhitya . Amogka, 
