158 R. Mitra —Donative Inscription of Vidyadhara Bhanja. [No. 3, 
gions of the threefold world ; which is fair as gold of the purest touch* 
—may the eyebrowless eyef of Hara be victorious ! 
May the waves of the heavenly river of Sambku, which play like 
the hoods of the great serpent, which glisten bright as the light of 
the rising moon, which dance like the crests of the spurs of the snowy 
mountain, which rise like hands at the commencement of a dance, which 
are radiant, and destroy sin—may they protect you ! 
Prosperity. The auspicious dweller of the victorious Valjalvaka, 
the home of fortunate victory * * * the ardent worshipper of Mahes- 
vara, the devoted to the feet of his father and mother, the ornament of 
the Bhanjana race, Maharaja STi Vidyadharabhanja Deva, the great- 
grandson of STi Vranabhanja Deva of manifest merit * * * and 
totally devoid of the sins of the Kali age, the grandson of STi Diva- 
bhanja Deva, the son of STi S'ilibhanja Deva, according to the desert 
of each, welcomes, respects, acquaints and orders the people, inhabitants, 
subordinate chiefs, receivers of income, village officers and others of the 
prosperous district of Vamalabhanja. Everywhere there is happiness. 
It has been our fortune, for the promotion of virtue for our parents and 
ourselves, to present in due form with the usual pouring of water the 
village of Tundurava as it is bounded now in that district, to Bliatta 
Darukhandi, of the Upamanya gotra, Data Pravara, the grandson of 
Gaurichandra, son of S'uri Deva, and a member of the Balivriclia STotriya 
branch, out of respect for his merits, for the period of the duration of 
the sun and the moon. It should be the duty, for the sake of the great¬ 
ness of the merit of charity and our request, for future kings to protect 
this grant. Thus has it been enjoined by the ordinances of religion. 
Earth has often been given away by Sagara and other kings, and the 
merit thereof has belonged to him to whom the earth belonged for tho 
time being. Whoever resumes earth, whether it be his own gift or that 
of another, is, along with his ancestors, born as a worm and rots in 
ordure. Let there be no doubt, O kings, about the merit from (he fact 
of its being another’s gift. The merit of protecting others’ gifts is in¬ 
finitely greater than that arising from one’s own gift. Knowing this and 
# Tho epithet kanaka-nikasha is in froqnont nse in Sanskrit poetry, but tho 
explanation of it is of doubtful propriety. They say it menus tho mark left on tho 
touchstone by gold ; but surely that mark is nothing very bright. 1 take it to 
mean pure gold which line stood tho test of tho touchstone. 
f The word iH vibhrunetra, nn oyo without an eyebrow. Tho object of using tho 
opithot is to indioato tho third or crescent oyo of S'iva over which there is no 
eyebrow. Tho fact of tho word for eye being put in the singular number confirms this 
interpretation. Had tho werrd 1.. babhru the translation would have boon ‘tawny,* 
Imt that would not have boon sufficiently distinctive, as iu art all tho three eyes oT 
S'iva are painted of u tawny colour. 
