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(V. 19.) The monarch Bijjanadēva would say "what can this Yama do P"; boldly he would knock out the serpent Kulika's teeth; if he confronted him, he would strike to earth even Rāvana; if he were to meet in battle the figure of Ugra, he would lop his arms into fragments with his bright sword-edge.
(V. 20.) When one looks, the place where the monarch Bijjanadēva has won victory by blows is demoniac and frightful by reason of the decapitated heads of warriors uttering song while there arise sweet sounds from the headless trunks whose wounded limbs move in concerted action, (wounded limbs) from which drink snorting the troops of foemen's elephants whose marrow, over which streams gushing blood, and loosely out-bursting entrails swing about and dangle down.
(Ll. 34-37.) When the victorious reign of-hail !--the asylum of the whole world, favourite of Fortune and Earth, great Emperor, supreme Lord, lord of Kalanjana best of cities, attended by the sound of damaruga drums and (other) musical instruments, terrible to other realms, the Kalachurya Emperor strong of arm, Tribhuvanamalladēvs, was advancing in a course of successively increasing prosperity, (to endure) as long as moon, sun, and stars :
(Ll. 37-38.) On Monday, the 2nd of the dark fortnight of Pushya in the cyclic year Chitrabhanu, the 1084th (year of the blessed Saka era, at the uttarāyaṇa-samkrānti, on the holy lunar day with which coincided a vyattpåta;
(LI. 38-43.) For the purposes of religion, the sheriff Dāsiraja, having adored with (offering of) money the divinely blest lotus feet of the Thousand Mahājanas, headed by the mayor, of the great agrahara of Päli, granted as a sarua-namasya holding for the restoration of broken, burst, and worn-out (masonry) of the Nagas' Well, which is equal to Benares, and for the dharmēta of that place, and for the management of the fire-hearth six mattar within the waste-land hasuge of Kokkuligêri. The bound of this is on the east the fata of Kattiyagéri ; the southern bound is the land of the temple of the god Kēšava of Nāgarakhandi; the western bound is the land of the sheriff Sankarayya-Nāyaka's choultry; the northern bound is the land granted as a substitute to Erandagēri. So whatever claims may arise, the Thousand shall religiously preserve this pious foundation. Happiness! Great fortane!
(61. 44-47.) On the same holy lunar day, having adored the Thousand Mahājanas, headed by the mayor, and the votaries, headed by the bazaar-mayor, he purchased (from them) and granted for the purposes of the eightfold worship of the temple of the god Agastyèśvaras at the western gate of the town two mattar within the waste-land hasnge of Kokkuligëri as a sarva-namasya holding. The bound of this is on the east the land of the god Melasēsvara, on the south the road of Jannavegere, on the west the black (?) land, on the north the land of the god Meļasčśvara.
(Vv. 21-22 : identical with verses 16-17 of inscription L. above.) No. 23.-DON BUZURG PLATES OF GOVINDACHANDRA: [VIKRAMA).
SAMVAT 1176.
BY DATA RAM SAHNI, M.A., RAI BAHADUR. These copper-plates were lent to me for examination and decipherment by the Maharaja of Majhauli in the Gorakhpur district of the United Provinces in 1906 when I toured in the Gorakhpur and Saran districts under the orders of the Director General of Archæology in India, to co Hect notes on certain places for the use of the late Dr. Fleet. At my suggestion, these plates were deposited in the Provincial Museum at Lucknow where they are now preserved. The plates were unearthed by a Chamår cultivator in a field near the village of Don Buzurg situated 7
[See foot-note 1 on p. 215.-Ed.]
* Namely by offering of water, scent, flowers, rice-grains (akshata), incense, lamps, oblations (naivedya), and betel.
* See above, p. 170.
