1898.] Dr. Hoernle —Tivo Gopper-plate Grants of Ratnapdla. 
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the jewelled mirrors used in their coquetries by the numerous females 
{i.e., the Apsarases) of the lord of heaven (i.e., Indra). It is an 
object of respect to merchants who are the owners of numerous (kinds 
of) wares. Such is the town in which the lord of Pragjyotisa 
took up his residence and which he called by the appropriate name of 
the ‘ Impregnable one ’ ( durjaya ). Here dulness might be observed in 
necklaces, but not in the senses (of the inhabitants) ; fickleness in apes, 
bnt not in their minds ; changefulness in the motions of the eyebrows, but 
not in promises; accidents (happening) to tilings, 19 but not to the subjects. 
Here capriciousness might be seen (only) in women ; reeling (only) in the 
gait of women excited with the (tender) intoxication of spring-tide 20 ; cove- 
tousnous (only) in evil-doers ; safe addiction to the sipping of honey (only) 
in swarms of bees; exceeding devotion to love (only) in Brahniany ducks 
{Anas Gasarca ) ; and eating of flesh (only) in wild beasts. 21 In that town, 
which emulated the residence of Vasava {i.e., Indra) 22 , the king, who 
resembles the moon in that he makes his virtues to wax, as the moon 
makes the tides of the encircling ocean to wax, and in that he causes 
his enemies to experience the deprivation of their wealth, as the moon 
causes the ponds to experience the deprivation of their lotuses 28 ; and 
who resembles the sun in that he makes his feet to rest on the heads of 
his enemies, as the sun makes his rays to rest on the summits of the 
mountains, 24 ' and in that he delights in making his copper-mines 
lucrative, as the sun makes the lotus-ponds brilliant 25 : who, being 
a Parameyvara (or paramount sovereign), takes pleasure in (the country 
of) Karaarupa; who, though being of the Bhauma {i.e., of Naraka’s) 
race, delights in being the enemy of the Danavas (or demons); who, 
being a Purusottama or ‘ perfect man,’ does not act as a Janardana 25 
19 There is a double meaning in s-opasurgatd dhdtusu which may be also trans¬ 
lated ‘the prefixing of prepositions (upastrga) to verbal roots ( dhdtu ).’ 
20 Madhu-mada might also mean ‘ intoxication with wine.’ 
21 I have inserted “ only,” because probably oppositions are intended here 
just as in the preceding passage. Thus “ capriciousness in women but not in men;” 
“reeling in love-drunk women but not in wine-drunk men;” “covetousness in 
evil-doers bub not in other citizens; ” “ eating of flesh in wild beasts but not in 
men; ” etc. 
22 I propose to read Vdsav-dvdsa-sparddhini. The SnalkucI grant reads Vdsav- 
dsparddhini. 
23 Padma is the lotus which closes at night, but it also signifies the wealth of 
Kuvera, and hence ‘ wealth ’ generally. 
24 Puda means both ‘ a foot 5 and ‘ a ray ; ’ and bhu-bhrt means both ‘ a king * 
and ‘ a mountain.’ 
23 Kamal-dJcara means both ‘a lotus-poud ’ and ‘a copper-mine.’ 
23 There is here an untranslateable play on the words purusottama and janardana. 
Both are epithets of Visnu, who is called purusottama or ‘ the best of men,’ bnt also 
