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TWO GRANTS OF RANABHANJADEVA.
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8 वासुदेवं जगद्दासमप्रमेयमजं विभुम् [॥ ११*] मित्रभृत्यातसत्कर्ता खकुलस्यथ' AT: *] te faoi T ATVIŲ
TAI'[:] [11 P**] 9 महाकारुणिक: सत्यो धर्माज्जितमहाधन: [*] सत्युत्रो वर्स डेस्तु सत्यौत्रोथ
Ayer & [ p**] gregor [:*] HattuthToT[:] [1*]
TRANSLATION. (Verse 1.) Success! salatation to that Purusha with thousand heads and immeasurable sonl, who sleeps on the waters of the four oceans as on a bedstead.
(V. 2.) On the arrival of the auspicious year four hundred increase! y sixty-one named Krita and repeatedly used by the illustrious Mälava tribe; (V. 3) the approach of the auspicious rainy season which delights the minds of men, the festival of Sakkra having commenced as then allowed by Krishna, (V. 4) the earth garlanded by corn shines with lustre to a great extent, being adorned by Kāśa flowers and growing up paddy and fodder. (Vv. 5-7). On the 5th day of the waxing moon in the month of Āśvina, in this delightful. and auspicious time, which is a matter of congratulation to all, while the illustrious Maharaja Naravarman, the raler of the Earth, was governing the world, the virtuous son of the king Sinhavarman, and the grandson of the king Jayavarman, whose prowess was like that of the king of Gods, whose gait was as powerful as that of a lion, and whose desires were increasingly fulfilled owing to the repeated accumulation of merit in previous (births); (vv. 8-14) with the object of exemplifying the merit of that administration, Satya, the virtuous son of Varnțavriddhi the virtuous grandson of Jaya, the virtuous son of Jayamitrā, (who was the daughter of Balaśūra, bestirring himself for the acquisition of merit, his mind being forcibly drawn to (such a course) owing to the habit acquired in previous existences, whose efforts were intensified by the weight of his merit and fame, who honoured friends, servitors and those in distress, who was as the moon in his own family, whose w.ealth and even whose life was made over to the Gods and the Brahmans, who was endowed with great compassion, who acquired his great wealth by lawful means, and who finding this living creation to be transitory like the water of the mirage, like a dream, like the lightning and the flame of the lamp, took refuge in Vasadeva, the grantor of protection, the habitat of the creation, the immeasurable, the unborn, all pervading, (who is compared to a tree) which gives heaven as its noble fruit, whose charming young shoots are the celestial damsels, whose many branches are the heavenly cars, which drops honey in the shape) of rains from clouds .....
No. 36.-TWO GRANTS OF RANABHANJA DEVA.
BY R. D. BANERJI, M.A.
The discovery of these two grants were announced by Bāba Nägēndra Nath Vasu, the Honorary Archæological Surveyor to the Mayarabhañja State, Orissa, in the first volume of The Archeological Survey of Mayurabhanja. One of these grants was edited by him in the same publication with plates, which, though clear, are not reliable as the scess of reproduction
Read Pity. ? Read atce .
Read aziat:. + TR. D. Bhandarkar renders the phrase Sinha-vikranta-gimin, as the tributary prince of Singhavikrants (i.c. Simhavikrams or Chandragupta II); Ind. Ant., 1913, p. 162.] The Archæslogical Survey of Mayurabhanja by Nagendra Nath Vasu, Vol. 1, pp. 129 1.
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