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SILIMPUR STONE-SLAB INSCRIPTION.
(V. 22.) Though excessively solicited, he did not, by any means, accept nine hundred gold coins and a sasana (a grant of land) yielding an income of a thousand (cuina) from Jaya pala-dēva, the king of Kamarupa, of unimaginable glory, while (the latter was) making a tula-purushal gift.
(V. 23.) There is indeed for parents after their death no need of the (funeral) service done by their own sons, if they could duly quit their life in the Gauges (lit. the river of the gods). But, wishing to absolve himself from his own debts (to them), he performed for them what ceremonics, concerning the next world, were (enjoined).
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(V. 24.) Making repairs of two temples (which were) in rains in this village, he founded in (memory of) his father an image of Trivikrama, and (excavated) this tank in (mers of) his mother.
(V. 25.) He, always fixed in righteous ways, erected an alms-house, and, having dedimdet with all proper rites a superb image of Amara-natha in this white templo of prest height (surmounted) by a picturesque crest and with all (customary division into) compartments, sought protection only with the god Vasudeva.
(V. 26.) He laid out a beautiful garden in Siyamba for this deity and (dedicated) a piece of land measuring seven drupas in Sirisha-puñija for the celebration of puja (daily worship), etc.
(V. 27.) Then, having passed the fiftieth year, he, with all his desires realised, placed his sons in charge of household affairs, and, beholding the world as a dream and having given up all attachments, resorted to the edge of the Ganges.
(V. 28.) It is only when the poet is himself sought ont by the (poetry) that he shines abidingly; but the excellences of a poem (lit. by his own mouth) perish all at once.
bellishments of his art
ought by the poet himself
(V. 29.) Just as a lover (paints) with rapt attention his own mistress by means of colourdecorations, so also did Sōmesvara, the Magadha artist, incite (with rapt attention) this prasasti by means of a division of letters.
No. 27.-COPPER-PLATE INSCRIPTION OF GOVINDACHANDRA-DEVA; SAMVAT 1186.
BY PANDIT HIRANANDA SASTEI, M.A., M.O.L., LUCKNOW.
The plate which bears this record is single and measures 16" x 13". A slightly raised rim goes all round it and there is a circular hole in the middle of the top end, which measures in diameter and is apparently meant for passing a ring of the seal now not forthcoming. Breept at the proper right upper corner, which is slightly broken and bas taken off a part of the initial letter-probably the symbol for on-the plate together with the record incised on it
A gift of gold, etc. equal to a man's weight. It is one of the sixteen famous kinds of makādāmas mentioned in the Matsya-Purana and in Hemadri's work. King Vijaya-sens's wife, Vilasa-devi, performed a similar sula-purusha ceremony'; see Mem. A. 8. B., Vol. V, No. 3, p. 105.
This tank seems to have been situated near the temple described in the following verse, wherein Proble dedicated, evidently for the increase of his own merits, the image of Amars-natha.
I.e. an artificial poem.
There is pun in the words earga-bhakti and alithat. Varna is both pign ent for painting' and 'letters': bhakti, 'variegated decoration and division. The rost likh means both to paint' and 'to inscribe,"
