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It. Mitra —Inscription from Gaya. 
4. has found an asylum from the dreadful fear of Kali in this age. 
With highly-prized social qualities, exquisitely beautiful, the noble Brah¬ 
man — 
5. He, who was the noblest of Brahmans, because stainless, (or who 
bears on his head a stainless moon,*) who was adorned with various orna¬ 
ments, (or profusely smeared with ashes,) who was the adorer (or beloved) 
of the daughter of the mountain king (Durga), was named-With 
many unrivalled lofty temples the source of three-fold blessings dispersed in 
various parts 
G. of the earth, and resplendent as the nectariferous light of the 
autumn, his glory was enveloped. Of him was horn S'udraka, the de¬ 
light of Brahmans and his dependants, himself dependent on none, (or 
master of the twice-born (bird), the son of Vinata, and (the possessed of 
Lakshmi,) the protected of Lakshmi, who was like unto the enemy of 
Mura (Krishna). 
7. By his fame, white as the Kunda flower seen in a distant garden, 
in the autumn season, the surface of the three regions was filled as with 
camphor, or smeared as with sandal-paste, or inundated as with the waves 
of the milky ocean. 
8. True religion-good sense, as that of the priest of the gods, 
-resplendent with glory. These were his qualities. Visvaditya was 
born his son. 
9. And in him every thing found an asylum,--manly glory like 
the rising sun- 
10 to 15. (Illegible except a few words here and there.) 
1G. Pressing down the majesty of the (highest) peak of the Kailasa 
mountain, his glory was ascendant, his fame was spotless as the driven 
snow, his body was comparable to the moon. Where, by the spotless rays 
of the autumnal moon on the top of the lofty peak- 
17. The treatise of Sahadeva, the veterinary surgeon, his work on the 
saving of life, which is like a mistress in the heart of a good man who is 
perfect in love, friendship, and pleasure. The self-earned glory of tho king 
Sri Soma 
18. was made manifest by the clever artist Saththasoma. When the 
weight of the empire of the whole earth was borne by S'ri Nayapala 
Deva, in the year ten and five (fifteen) of his reign (samvatasare) this accom¬ 
plished noble deed was recorded. 
* The matter of this and the following line is very obscure owing to the epithets 
used having been designed to serve as double entendre applying once to S'iva and Yishnu 
and next to the founder of the family and his son. 
