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paternal kingdom, which had been snatched away by people who had no claim to it, placed his lotus-like feet on the heads of kings.
(Verse 12). From him, in consequence of his religious merits, was born the fortunate prince, Naya-pala. Renouncing attachment to sin, patting down his foot on the heads of princes, eagerly encouraging all hopes, annulling darkness, beloved by his subjects and sole home of Affection, he was like the sun, which, when it rises above the eastern mountain, moves away from the twilight, touches with its rays the tops of mountains, opens up quickly all the quarters, drives away darkness, and is pleasant and red.
(Verse 13). Through the merits of the people was born the king, the illastrions Vigrahapāla dēva, full of majesty. Drunk in (or yellow) by the eyes of pious men, always attached to the worship of iddha (or red in the worship of Siva), expert in battle more than Hari (or expert in battle as well as green in colour), a god of death (or black as night) in the families of his enemies, (thus) a supporter of the four castes (coloure), he pleases the world with the masses of his white fame.
(Verse 14). His cloud-like war-elephants, having drank clear water in the eastern country, which abounds with water; after that having roamed at will in the sandal forests of the valleys of the Malaya (country); (and) having caused coolness in the wastes (maru) by dense sprays (of water emitted from their trunks), enjoyed the slopes of the Himalayas (Prāleyadri).
From his great victorious camp pitched at Haradhăm.a (?), where the illusion of a Satubandha (bridge built for Rama between India and Ceylon), with a chain of mountain tops placed in the sea), is produced by docks of ships of various kinds proceeding along the path of the Bhagirathi; where exceedingly dense arrays of rutting elephants darken (ie. obscure) the beauty of the day (and) suggest the illusion of the beginning of a perpetual rainy season; where the cardinal points are made grey by the dust dug up by the sharp hooves of the countless army of horses presented by many kings of the north ; where the Earth bends under the weight of the endless infantry of all kings of Jambudvipa, come to serve (their) overlord, he, the great Buddhist, the Paramēśvara, Paramabhattāraka, great over-king of kings, the illustrious Vigraha-pala-dēva, who meditates on the feet of the great overking of kings, the illustrious Naya-pāla dēva, being in good health, honours according to their rank, informs and orders the following persons, in part of Vishamapura, (which is) included in the mandala of Brāhmaṇi-grāma, (which again is) included in the vishaya of Kötivarsha, in the bhukti of Pundravardhana, all the royal officers assembled (here follow names of officers mentioned in 11. 27-31) and other royal dependants not mentioned, neighbours, first Brahmanan, then Mahattamas, superiors, relations, down to Médas, Andhras and Chandalas ; Be it known to you tbat this village mentioned above, as far as its houndaries and with grass lands and pasture lands, with low lands, with assignments, with mango and Madhuka trees, with land and water, with pits and highlands, with the ten offences, with the right of extirpating robbers, with exemption from all interference, not to be entered by regular or irregular troops, not to be interfered with by anybody, with all shares, rights of
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? The construction is defective, as the flasha is not quite clear. It is a onse of dhdani, the author intending to show that the distinctive colours of the four great castes, white, red, yellow and black, were present in the king. Hat harita (green) is not the colour of any caste, and it is difficult to find the alternative explanation of sita. yafah-punjaih; ef. Kielhorn, op. cit. note. [The white fame contrasts with the four colours.--Ed.]
• [The country of Mārwar is evidently intended.-H. K. S.)
. This portion of the record is partly illegible. The land granted consisted of a part of the village of Vishamspara, with place called Dandatrahēśvara (?), measuring six kulyas with two dronas ........ It was worth
................ two minas and three kakinis. It was low land which had recently been brought into cultivation (tal-opēta adhuna hala-kalita).
