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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA.
(V. 15.) What need is there to describe her, unsurpassed for pleasing conduct (and) well-known the earth over for her pure fame, -her, who by truthful speech has at once surpassed that world-renowned lord of justice (Yudhishthira)?
(16.) To some Vabishtha's wife is an object of reverence; others indeed adore the splendid daughter of the mountain who is the half of Siva's body; some again have glorified Ganga, (and) others take pains to praise the beloved of Kama. They all can. not have set eyes on the unblemished Kalyåņadevi, who for truth and other excellent qualities is famed in song.
(17.) Having perceived that life, fortune, and the charms of youth stay no longer than the water which glitters on a lotus-leaf, that widely praised beautiful women() bave fallen into the gross darkness of delusion, (and) that the creeper of good fame alone is everlasting, Kalydnadevi, to make that (oreeper of fame) grow, ..... the qualities of truth and generosity.
(18.) Then, having ascertained that (this) spot is guarded by the arms of strong men (?), she, full of compassion, made this Nirjara well, filled with nectar-like water. to sustain lifo.
(19.) She, of great renown, gave for the Nirjara (well) one drinking cup (?) and she built this pure, bright hall for the supply of water (?).
(20.) She, who has brightened the earth with her fame, has made at Nandipura a tank which resembles the ocean, (and) & hall with a lofty top (P).
(21.) The intelligent Ratnapala, a son of the poet Haripala and grandson of the poet Vatsaraja, has composed this pure eulogy.
(22.) In the Vikrama year measured by the seas (7), the moon (1), the fires (3), and the moon (1), has the pure-minded, skilful Rama engraved it.
In the year 1917, during the office of the Rauta, the illustrious Jetana (), in the reign of the illustrious Viravarman, on Thursday, the 18th of the bright half of Vaikkha.
II. ROCK INSCRIPTION OF THE TIME OF BHOJAVARMAN. This inscription is on a rock near the "Tarhaoni" or "Tirhawan" gate of the fort of Ajaygadh: It contains sixteen lines of writing which cover a space of about 6 101 broad by 2' 3' high. The first fifteen lines extend over the whole breadth of the inscribed surface; the last line measures only 1' 4' in length, and is engraved in very small characters close below the beginning of line 16. With the exception of about ten akaharao at the commencement of line 15 which either have gone altogether or are greatly damaged, and the whole of the short line 16 which is illegible in the rubbing, the writing is well preserved. The size of the letters in lines 1-16 is about 17. The characters are the peopliar kind of Nagart which we find also in several Mahob and KAlañjar inscriptions of the 13th and 18th centuries, and the special features of which
Arundhatt. * i. .,'not growing old, never failing.'
Boo Bir A. Cunningham's Arolaslegiool Survey of India, vol. XXI, pp. 47, 68, and 88. The inscription bu not be presional edited, but photo-litbograph of it ww Dablished by 81r A. Conningham. ib.. plate xv. I aditi Cunningham's own rabbing, kindly placed at my disposal by Mr. Flest.
