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18. Sanctity leads to knowledge. v. 1382. The man who every sin forsakes, Whose breast with love of goodness glows,
He Nature's primal essence knows, And all the changing forms she takes.
So other sense-perceptions, too, Which else might cheat, should first be
tried ; And those which every test abide Should only then be deemed as true.
19. The true Bráhman. xii. 9667. The man who Nature knows, and all
The changing growth that from her springs,
And all the fates of living things, - That man the gods a Brahman call.
21. Desire insatiable. xii. 6713. When men grow rich, for something else they
pine. They would be kings; were kingly rank at
tained, They fain would gods become; were godship
gained, They'd long to rule o'er all the iace divine. But should'st thon wealth and royal power
acquire, And, soaring higher yet, become a god,
Yen, rule ail Svarga by thy sovereign nod, E'en then unsated, thou would'st more desire.*
20. Appearances not always to be trusted.
xii. 4148f. A bounded vault the ether seems,
With fire the firefly seems to shine;
And yet no bounds the sky confine, Tis not with fire the firefly gleams.
SANSKRIT AND OLD CANARESE INSCRIPTIONS.
BY J. F. FLEET, Bo. C.S.
(Continued from p.76.) No. XV.
elder brother and the reigning Mahåråja-the This is another Pallava copper-plate inscrip- | Palla, a genealogy will stand for the present tion, in the Cave-alphabet characters and the thus:-- Sanskrit language, from Sir W. Elliot's facsimile
Skandavarma I. collection. The plates are six in number, and in
Viravarma. this instance, again, contrary to the usual practice, the insctiption, to judge by the numerals on the
Skandavarma II. plates, commences on the outside of the first plate and ends on the outside of the last, plate.
Simhavarma 1. Vishnugopavarma, The seal connecting these plates seems to bear no
Vishnugopa, (or device; at least, none is given in the facsimile. The inscription records the grant of the vil
Vishņuvarmat). lage of Mânyadür, in the country of Vengo.
Simhavarma II. rashtra, to certain Brahmans, in the eighth At the time of this second grant the capital year of the reign of Simh a var mâ. In this is stated to be Dasana pura&; the locality of case, also, the date is not referred to any era. this town is not known to me. As regards
If my suggestion be accepted, that, Vishnu. Palakkad a, which in No. XII of this series g ô på varmâ being styled 'Yuvamahâråja't
is given as the capital, I see that Dr. Burnell in No: XII of this series, the Sinhavarma, in
gives Palakkadu' as the old form of Palghat' the eleventh year of whose reign the copper-plate
in the Cochin territory; perhaps the two names recording Vishņug ô pavarma's grant was may be one and the same, but in the first line of bestowed, must have been Vishnugopavarma's No. XII the last letter is distinctly 'a', not 'd'
• Compare the Phenisse of Euripides, pp. 503 et seqq., I See note*, page 50. where Eteocles says: "For, I, O mother, will declare, concealing nothing: I would go to the place where the
9 Possibly only a Sanskpit translation of some such stars and the sun rise, and beneath the earth,-if I were
Canarese name as Hallúr, the village of the tooth'. See able to do these things, in order to possess royal power,
the remarks on the Sankritizing of Dravidian names at p. the greatest of the deities."
vii, note 5, of Dr. Burnell's South Indian Palæography. t Also 'YuvarAja' in line 9 of the present inscription. | South Indian Palæography, p. 36, note 1.
