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Bajendralala Mitra —Two Copper Plate Inscriptions. 
[No. 4, 
Translation. 
1. Lot this be auspicious. May that agitation at the commencement of his 
dalliance with S'ri, when her hands rolled about on the neck and shoulders of eager 
and lustful Vaikuntha, be to your prosperity ! 
2. When the line of protectors of the earth, born of the race of the ungenial- 
rayed orb (the sun), had departed to heaven, there lived one of the name of 
Yasovigraha, the munificent, who, in the plenitude of his effulgence, was like the sun 
himself. 
3. His son was Mahichandra, whose glory, resembling the light of the moon, 
was spread wide by him beyond the sea. 
4. Unto him was born a son, the king Shi Chandradeva, the lover of polity, 
the discomfiter of hosts of enemies, the dispeller of the gloom of impatient, heroic 
warriors, by whose glorious majesty was repressed the revolts of the subjects of the 
unrivalled great kingdom, of auspicious Gadhipura,* * * § which was earned by the valour of 
his aiuns. 
5. Repairing, as a protector, to Hash, Kusika, Uttara Kos'ala, Indrasthana, and 
other places of pilgrimage, he marked the earth by the performance of a hundred 
tula rites, in course of which he repeatedly gave to the twice-born his own weight in 
gold.f 
6. His son was Madanapala : that crest-jewel of the lords of the earth flourishes 
as the moon of his race. By the waters, which sparkled in jars at his coronation, 
the earth was washed clean of all the sinful dust of this iron age. 
7. When he went forth to conquer, on the earth sinking under the over-powering 
weight of the foot-falls of his maddened and careering elephants, high as lofty 
mountains, the serpent Sesha, crushed as it were by it, and having its crest-jewel 
fractured and thrust down into its bleeding mouth, for a time hid its face in its 
folds.! 
8. Erom him descended the king Govindachandra, even as the moon issued 
forth from the ocean. His long arms, extending like creepers, tied and checked all 
elephant-like upstart kingdoms, and he was the source of thick fiuid-nectar-sprink- 
ling eloquence.§ 
9. His numerous elephants could nowhere in the three quarters find worthy 
tuskers that could fight with them, and so they repaired to the quarter of the wielder 
* Ancient name ofKanauj. 
f The ceremony is a very costly one, but it is not uncommon. Within the last 
ten years it has been several times celebrated in Calcutta, and in course of it not only 
gold, but silver, rice, paddy, sesamum seed and other articles were weighed against 
the donor, and presented to Brahmans. The Danakhanda of Hemadri, now in course 
of publication in the Bibliotheca Indica, contains a full description of the details of this 
rite. 
! It is commonly believed that certain species of serpents bear veiy bright 
jewels on their heads ; S'esha, the king of serpents on whose head rests the earth, 
according to Pauranic cosmogony, has the largest jewel. 
§ If the word gavaya be taken in its ordinary acceptation of kine, the meaning of 
the phrase would be “ the source (whence men obtained) kine which gave thick, sweet 
milk.” 
