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Three Sanskrit Inscriptions 
[No. 2, 
Those who are interested in the preservation of Indian antiquities 
will he grieved to hear, that, during the last fourteen months, the 
writing on the column lias suffered irreparable injury. The boys of 
the village have invented a new amusement, in throwing stones at it; 
and at least a dozen letters that were complete, when last I was 
here, are now for ever obliterated. 
Camp Fran, Feb. 26, 1862. 
ii il 
sr4'Ct?n?reg: i 
-5t ^ ^IS^TfPi 
1 , “Triumphant is he who, with hid massed net work of rays, lighting up 
space, dispels the darkness, sportive as rain-clouds, and adorns the peaks of the 
Eastern Mountain with his hues, the points of whose tremulous lustre are dis¬ 
tracted with weariness from journeying in alarm. 
2 . May he who, going daily to the Eastern Mountain, removes the distress 
of ruddy geese longing/m the return of day; the illuminator of earth, as it were 
a mansion ; destroyer of night; who, by his rays, in colour like melted gold, in- 
cessantly supplies new embellishment to the water lilies, protect you.” 
These lines come from a temple dedicated to the sun, to whom they are ad¬ 
dressed. Poor in thought, they are also incorrect as to language, rffqfT 
is false Sanskrit for j and is oensurably used for ^Ffqjrtq?U. 
I do not apprehend, that the poetaster designed any the remotest, allusion to 
the Udayagiri hill near Bhelsa. 
The first letter that appears at the beginning of the inscription is a broken 
15 . and nothing of remains except the ^ and the ahauks of the ;jf. 
Put those are distinct. 
To \ 3 «p 3 |f 3 Tf^, in the second stanza, I have added, from pure conjecture, 
oj| as « substitute for stars. The third line shows an wpadhmdniya 
before a xf. In the teeth of all grammar, this, as lately edited, has been turned 
into a repha; and, further on, in. what I do not print, ^IcTTfq^W^ll, 
most legibly photographed, has given place to "STfrfrf^TJ^D'^h Shade of S'aka- 
tjiyana! See last year’s Journal, pp. 275, 276. 
