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WEALTH AND PROSPERITY OF KALINGA 355 by causing to be held festivities and assemblies. In the fifth regnal year, brought into the capital from the Tanasuliya road the canal excavated by king Nanda three hundred years before. Next year, he celebrated the Rājaśreya ceremony, remitted all cesses and bestowed many titles and privileges, amounting to several hundred thousand pieces of money, on the people of Pura and Janapada. In the seventh regnal year, he was, in all probability, favoured with a son," which was again an occasion of feasting and merry-making, apart from other gay ceremonies. And all that must have resulted in heavy expenditure to the royal exchequer. Again in the eighth regnal year, he gave away kal pa-trees, horses, elephants, chariots with drivers, houses, residences and rest-houses, and also exempted brāhmaṇas from paying taxes. In the ninth regnal year, he built a great victory palace at a cost of thirty-eight hundred thousand pieces of money. And in the thirteenth regnal year, he erected various religious edifices and got caves excavated on the Kumāri hill for monks to stay, apart from offering them royal maintenance, clothes and other necessities of life.
1. Original :-"Tatiye pune vase gandhave-veda-budho-dapa-nata-gitavadita sardasanahi usava-sam i ja kārů panahi cha kida payati nagarim."
(Lines 4-5). 2. Original :-"Panchame cha däni vase nandara ja ti-vasa-sata oghāțitam tanasuliya-vātā panādiin nagarim pavesayati so.....". (Line 6).
3. Original :-" Abhisito cha chhote vase rājaseyain sandansayanto savakara-vana anugaha-anekāni sata-rahasüni visajati porajanapada."
(Lines 6-7). 4. Original :-"Satamam cha vasaṁ pasisato vujiraghav......... 8a matuka pada......kuma......". (Line 7).
5. Original :-".........yachhati.... palava ...... kaparukhe haya-gaja. ratha saha yati sava-gharivisa......sava gahanaṁ cha karayitun brahmananam jayapariharan dadati.” (Lines 8-9)
6. Original :-'Navame cha vase...., mahüvijaya pasadam karayati alhatisiya sata sahasehi." (Lines 9-10).
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