1883.] R. Mitra— SansJcrit Inscription from Lalitpur. 77 
Malava and Palakeska, issued forth with his sword uplifted, followed bj his 
invulnerable army, from the city of Mandapapura in quest of victory. 
The intelligent and methodical (king) built according to rules # # 
delightful as the crown-jewel of S'iva * * for the great Bodhi. (1) 
There was such a lord of the three worlds on earth with a shining 
vessel of fame. 
Line 17. Who obtained all the qualities to make the three worlds 
happy. (2) 
He who had a pure painting of his wide-spread fame * * * * * 
spotless moon * * * with the sounds of elephants trumpeting with 
pride. (3) 
The Lord * * # the mitigator of sufferings * * without pride 
even in good times * * * like clouds watering the creepers of fame 
* * * * # (4^ 
He had a wife named Ambika, pure like lightning # # * * 
devoted to her husband, fortunate like the daughter of the mountain, the 
mother of jewels amongst men, she was like Jagadamba. (5) 
They (husband and wife) got a son named Holi, the delighter, a 
lover of poetry and enterprise, and possessing matchless beauty. 
Line 18. His parents were, like word and its meaning, intimately 
associated with each other. (6) 
Line 19, Holi, by fulfilling the growing desires of the beggars of 
Varddhamana, became as it were the all-granting tree of desire. (7) 
Victory be to Holi, tbe all-granting tree of desire, whose roots are 
firm, whose leaves are beautiful, whose branches are tall, which is full of 
fruits, pure and delicious, shady and beautiful in appearance. 
He is refreshing like the moon even in heat, the punisher of bad men. 
Line 20. A better abode of lustrous fame than the sun and moon. (8) 
By means of continuous showering of high and well-formed clouds 
did he often delight his beautiful wife, a creeper on a princely bed. (9) 
He who * * # his wife * * * good himself, the conqueror and 
giver of wealth named Dhana * * * by tbe name of Ivainala. (10) 
No need of bel fruit, the wealth of females (their busts); no need 
of the younger sons of the family of Galhesha; no need of gold, diamond 
and agallochum ; no need of the earth with jewels and also of gojara. (?)(11) 
Line 21. May the Lord of the congregation, may the lord Holi, 
conquer ****** because * * * they gave * * * being the 
protege, the earth her quality of sustaining everything. (12) 
Line 22. The worlds are wonderstruck by the good Holi, whose fame 
increases the moonlight in the boundless milky ocean, like Vishnu. (13) 
Whose universal fame in Kali (age) is by the spotless Vishnu * * 
he, dwindling down into the moon * * * * (14) 
