3G0 Pratapachandra Ghosha —The Buddal Bala Inscription. [No. 4, 
(lay) the world, which by his (S'ri Darbha Pant’s) policy Prince Sri Deva 
Pala rendered tributary. 
The text after mentioning u from the source of the Reva” parenthetically describes 
the place, and similarly, after mentioning the Himalaya, describes its peaks. Wilkins 
confounds the two parenthetical sentences and applies them both to the Himalaya. 
The glory and greatness of the minister Shu Darbha Pani is enhanced by stating 
that Prince Sri Deva Pala being advised by him made the vast country described 
above tributary to himself. From this and the following stanzas it will appear that 
the descendants of S'anclilya family were always ministers of the Pala rajas and their 
greatness was dependent upon the greatness of the princes they served. It is noteworthy 
that the text has the setting and the rising oceans instead of the usual rising and 
setting hills. Another transcript has the following reading for the last part of line I of 
this stanza—ITTHH- 
YI. At whose (S 'ri Darbha Pain’s) gate stood waiting prince S'ri Deva 
Pala, having received the dazzling moving army of the multitude of assemb¬ 
led chieftains from surrounding quarters where the prospect was filled with 
(bending P) advancing waves of thick dust arising from the earth and 
moistened by the exudation of liquor gushing from the mouths of various 
lustful big elephants. 
Wilkins has not noticed, it appears, the participle verb vjyiq =: “ having received”; 
and hence the confusion of meaning and sense. His rendering, however, gives a much 
better sense; but it must be noted that the ideas belong to him rather than to the text. 
= is not hidden, but difficult to be gazed at, i. e. dazzling bright, = 
waves, = bending, ’EJ«r= thick, — dust,^RcT=: filled with, = 
(^jTSIT = quarters of the globe) -{- = expansion) = prospect. 
It is said that a kind of venous liquid flows from the head of lustful (mast) elephants. 
This sweet liquor attracts lots of bees who are seen to buzz round the heads of such 
elephants. = The liquor exuding from the head of elephants. = the 
circle of the quarters or points of the compass, circus of all sides. = moving. 
VII. At whose throne in earlier days he used to pay down no small 
sum of pith as, bright as the moon, the ruler of mankind, the image of the 
lord of the gods, and the dust of whose feet was marked with the diadems 
of sundry chiefs of people, gloriously possessed himself of his own throne. 
fq’s*’ = a small silver coin. = moon (xg^g - = star xj = lord), and hence 
the pithas were as bright as the moon, and not “ as the lunar rays,” as Wilkins has it. 
Lord of men who was like the image of Indra, and whose feet, &c.,_ in earlier days 
having given pithas to whose throne assumed his own. The phrase appears to 
be a mistake for 
VIII. To him was born of the princess S'arkara the fortunate Some- 
s'vara, twice-born like Soma, the son of Atri and favourite of the supreme 
God. 
IX. Who was neither elated nor tyrannous for having attained a 
power equal to that of Arjuna, who would not listen with a vain-glorious 
