The Ruins at Kopari. 
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salt of contentment! For tlie world and all its glory is but a 
spectacle. Yet even to the worldly is not this warning sufficient, 
that to the king who had conquered Hind, and arrived victorious, 
and crowned with honour, at his capital, was it not given to see 
the faces of his family, but he passed at one breath from a throne 
to the bosom of the earth, exchanging a palace for a grave. 
A man shall ask—Where are gone those famous ones ? Behold ! 
The womb of the Earth is for ever pregnant with them. 
The Earth is drunken, because she hath tasted of wine : 
In the cup of the skull of Hurmuz, hath she drunk the heart’s 
blood of Naushirwan.* 
The Rums at Kopari , Balasore District.—By John Beames, b, c. s., 
Magistrate of Balasore. 
(With two plates.) 
Two years ago I found at Kopari a small image with an in¬ 
scription on the back, a copy of which I sent to the Society. 
The people worshipped the image asLakshmi, but Babu Kajendra- 
lal having pronounced it to be Maya Devi, the mother of Buddha, 
they have now come to the conclusion that the u deo” has gone out 
of it, and made no objection to my removing it, which I have 
done on the occasion of my recent visit to the place. 
On this visit I have been able to make a more minute inspection 
of the ruins and the surrounding country, and send you the fol¬ 
lowing notes, with a few rough sketches and plans. 
The place is interesting not only from its singular physical 
appearance, but as being the only place in northern Orissa where 
distinct traces of Buddhism are still observable. It is situated in 
lat. 20° IT, long. 86° 30'; 42 miles south-west of the town of 
Balasore and close to the point where the three native tributary 
States of Moharbhanj, Nilgiri, and Keonjhar meet. It is a level 
plain surrounded on three sides by low rocky hills. The soil is 
sterile and in many places consists of nothing but large slabs of 
laterite rock, as flat and regular as a London street pavement, 
* The text edition (p. 453) has two couplets more; but they convey no 
meaning. 
