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1897.] Dr. Hoernle— Gauhati Copper-plate Grant of Indrapala. 
(9.) It was his dynasty, to which belonged king Brahmapala, 
and his son Ratnapala who was known in the world as the mighty 
crusher of enemies. How is it possible to describe the greatness of 
this king, the possessor of priceless virtues, who emulated the renowned 
good deeds of Kama or Krsna : 
(10.) Who studded the earth with white-washed temples enshrin¬ 
ing pambhu, the houses of learned men with, various kinds of wealth, 
the sacrificial courtyards with immolating posts, the skies with the 
smoke of burnt-offerings, the waters of the sea with the dust of his 
marching armies, and all the quarters (of the earth) with the pillar- 
monuments of his victories ? 
(11.) His son was Purandarpala, a ruler of wide renown, liberal, 
jovial, pious, and accomplished in all arts, a hero as well as a poet: 
(12.) Who being passionately fond of tbe chase, gave more than 
once extraordinary proofs of it by the way in which he captured hostile 
kings, like tigers, in nettings of arrows improvised for the occasion. 
(13.) He had the distinction of obtaining for wife the (princess) 
Durlabha, 4 such a one as is truly difficult to obtain in the world, who 
was descended from the royal races of the extensive kingdoms conquered 
by the victorious arms of Jamadagni’s son (Paracurama). 
(14.) As SacI is to fakra (or Indra), fiva (or Parvatl) to fambhu 
(orCiva), Rati to Smara (the love-god), frl (or Lakshmi) to Hari 
(or Visnu), and as RohinI is to Ksanadakara (or Candra, the moon), such 
a loving wife was she to him. 
(15.) Of them was born Indrapala, a king who kept a control over 
himself, and was foremost among the just and righteous, who vanquished 
(all) his enemies, and who like the light of the East (i.e., the sun) 
illumined the (whole) terrestrial globe : before whom, when he sat on 
his throne, the mosaic floor of his audience-hall looked like a fruit- 
covered tree by reason of the strewn-about jewels (that fell) from the 
the wife of the sage Qantanu, was directed by her husband to conceive by the God 
Brahma. Her progeny was born in the form of water, and placed by the sage 
in the middle of four mountains, where it grew into a lake. In its waters Paracju- 
rama cleansed himself from his sin of matricide, which done, be cut with his axe 
a channel, through which the waters flowed into India in the form of a river. 
The presumption is — though the story does not say so — that the lake and river are 
called lauhitya * red,’ ‘ bloody,’ from Paracurama having washed off his bloody 
stains in its waters. It may be noted, however, that, according to our legend, it 
was the slaughter of the Ksatriya kings from which Paracurama cleansed 
himself in the lake. According to the version of the Bhagavat Purina, Paracurama 
formed a dreadful river with the blood of the slain K^atriyas, and afterwards he 
cleansed himself in the Sarasvati, the river of Brahma (see J. Muir’s Sanskrit Texts t 
Vol. I, pp. 458, 459). 
* The meaning of the name is ‘ difficult to obtain.’ 
