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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[JULY, 1878.
[] vêdânga-vidushah Sumati-svâminah p utraya vôda-vôdânga-pâragâyah(ya) ["] Priya-svâmine k ula-bila-vritta-sampannaya Komkaņa-vishaye niśre["] yasam=udaka-purvva Kundivâtaka-gråmô dattah [11*] Uktam cha tôna rajña [1] [1] Vô smat-kul-abhyantarô nyô và rấga-dysha-lô-ha-môn-abhibhatô hi(him syl [o] sa pañcha-mahâpâtak-papåtakais=samyuktas=syât [ll*] Dharmma-bastréshv=apy=uktan [1]
Third plate. ["] Bahubhir-yvagudha bhukta rajabhig=Sagar-Adibhiḥ yagya yasya yada ["] bhumiḥ tasya tasya tadà phalam [lo] Sva-dattâm para-dattam và yê harôta vasu[*] ndharam shashtim varsha-sahasrâņi vishthâyâm jấyaté krimiḥ 11 Shashtim ["] varsha-sahasråņi svargge tisbthati bhůmi-dah a chchhêttà ch=anumantâ "] cha tâny=éva narakê vasêt | Svan=dâ tum su-mahach-chhakyam duhkha[*] m=anyasya palanan dânam và palanum vầati dânấchschhrêrô :nupalanam=it[i] Translation.
By that king-when he had driven out king Hail! Born in the family of the Chali. Buddha, who was the son of Sam kar & kyas, who are glorious, and who meditate on gana, and who was possessed of the power the feet of Svâmi-Mahâbêna, and who of elephants and horses and foot-soldiers are of the lineage of Månavya, and who are and treasure; and when he had slain king the descendants of Håriti; conversant with Svâmî, who was born in the family of the the code of laws of Menu and the Puranas and chalik yas, and who had been victorious in the epics of the Ramayana and the Bharata ; eighteen battles, having fasted on the twelfth equal to Brihaspati in philosophy; having day of the month) Kârttika, which is the most his body purified by ablutions performed after worshipful (lunar day) in the year, and having celebrating the Agnishtôma and Vájapéya and done worship to the god) Vis hņu, the village Paundarika (sacrifices) and horse-sacrifices that of Kundivå taka, in the district of the cost much gold ; the favourite of the world on Konkaņas, was piously given, with libations account of his meritorious qualities,-(such was) of water, to Priya s vami, who was thorVallabha.
oughly conversant with the Vedas and Védángas, His son (was) king Mangala, who was an and who was possessed of character and behaviexcellent worshipper of the god) Brah må; who our such as is honourable to a family, the son of devastated the countries of his enemies; who Sumatis vámi, of the Kasya pa gôtra, who adhered to justice in his own country; who was acquainted with the Vedas and Védángas. delighted in worshipping the gods and the | And it was said by that king :-"He shall twice-born and spiritual preceptors; whose pure incur the guilt of the five great sins and the fame pervaded all the countries of the earth; minor sins, who may injure (this grant), being who acquired the wealth of other kings by the overcome by envy or enmity or avarice or folly, strength and prowess of his own arm; who had whether he be born in my family, or whether the gait and the sight and the voice of a bull; he be another person !". who had the actions of a choice elephant in Moreover, it has been said in the sacred furiated with passion; who had the valour of writings :--Land has been enjoyed by many a lion; who was endowed with the wealth of kings commencing with Sagara; (&c.)! He statesmanship and modesty and charity and is born for the duration of sixty thousand years tenderness and sincerity and truth ; who was as a worm in ordure, &c.)! The giver of land possessed of the three constituents of power; and abides for sixty thonsand years in heaven; the who was an excellent worshipper of the god) confiscator (of land), or one who connives (at Bhagav ån.• He was glorious --being pos- such an act), dwells for the same number of sessed of fame that resembled (the fame of) years in hell! It is easy to give one's own Vainya', -with the rays of his virtues, which property, but the preservation of the grant of) dispelled the darkness (of sin).
another is difficult; (&c.)!
The preceptor of the gods.
• Vishnu.
Vninya, or Vainya, - patronyurio of the Parlnic king Prithu.
