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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY,
[AUGUST, 1878.
it is right that you should succeed to the crown, to the indigent. These benevolent distributions never restore the splendour of the kingdom. If you fill cease. Wherever the Saint (Buddha) had left the your heart with affection and compassion, if your mark of his feet, he erected Kia-lan (Sanghårdmind sympathize with distress, before long you will mas). Every five years he convokes an assembly rule over the five Indies. If you wish to prolong called Wu-che-ta-hoel (the great assembly of Deliv. the duration of your dynasty, it will be necessary erance-Móksha mah& parishad). He empties the to follow my instructions. Through my secret treasury and state stores to do good to everybody; protection I will obtain for you distinguished he only reserves the arms, which are not suitable honour, and no neighbouring king will be able to to give in alms. Every year he collects the Sharesist you. But do not ascend the Siñhâsanamen (Šramanas) of the various kingdoms. On the (throne), nor take the title of Mah & rå ja." third and seventh day he makes the four offerings.
Having received these instructions he returned. He decorates richly the Chair of the Law, and He then accepted the inheritance of royalty, called causes seats of exposition to be arranged in great himself by the name of prince royal (Ku må numbers. He orders the monks to argue together, raraja), and took the title of Shi-lo-'o-t'ie-to and judges of their force or weakness. He rewards (siladitya). Thereupon he gave the following the good and punishes the evil, degrades the ignoorders to all his subjects :-" The death of my rant and promotes men of ability. If any one brother is not yet punished, and the neighbour- faithfully observes the rules of discipline, if he is ing states are not obedient to my laws; I do distinguished by the purity of his morals, the king not know when I shall be able to eat in peace. makes him ascend the Siñhdsana (lion's seat of Let all you magistrates unite your hearts and his throne), and himself receives from his lips the arms."
precept of the law. If any one, however, who leads Immediately he collected all the troops of the a pure and irreproachable life be deficient in knowkingdom, and caused the soldiers to be exercised. ledge and learning, he is pleased to give him He had an army of five thousand elephants; the proofs of his esteem and regard. cavalry numbered twenty thousand horse; and If a man forget the rules and discipline, and the infantry fifty thousand men. He marched allow his vices to appear in open day, the prince from west to east to punish the insubordinate expels him from his kingdom, and wishes to see or kings. The elephants did not put off their hear no more of him. When the petty kings of the housings, nor the men their cuirasses. Finally, neighbouring states, their ministers and their in the middle of the sixth year, he made himself principal officers, unweariedly practise good, and master of the five Indies. After increasing his strive after virtue with unabated zeal, he takes them dominions, he still further added to his army; the by the hand, makes them sit on his throne, and elephant corps was raised to sixty thousand, and calls them his "good friends. As for those who the cavalry to a hundred thousand. At the end pursue a different course he scorns to speak to them of thirty years the war ceased, and, by his wise face to face. If he require to consult any one about administration, he spread union and peace every. a matter, he puts himself in connection with him where. He applied himself to economy, cultivated by means of a continual exchange of couriers. virtue, and practised doing good at the risk of Often he himself visits his dominions, and exaneglecting food and sleep. He forbade through- mines the manners of the inhabitants. He has no out the five Indies the use of meat, adding that if fixed residence; wherever he stops, he causes a any one slew a living being he should be con- cottage to be constructed and there stays. Only demned to death without hope of pardon. Near the in the three months of the rainy season (Varsbás) banks of the Ganges he caused to be raised many he suspended his excursions. Daily at his travelthousands of Stúpas that were each a hundred feet ling abode he caused choice victuals to be prepared high. In the cities, large and small, of the five to support men of different creeds, namely, & Indies, in the villages, in public places, and at the thousand monks and five hundred Brahmans. He crossing of roads, he caused almshouses to be divided the day into three parts: in the first he built, where are placed food and drink and medicines was engaged with public affairs and the governto be given in charity to travellers, the poor, and ment; the second he devoted to meritorious deeds,
In Chinese Kiar-jt, 'sun of moral conduct.' Hall China in A.D. 648, when Harsha was dead and a usurper had remarks that he has not found this title in Bana's Harsha. seized on the government, this very slight alteration in the charita, and questions its accuracy, because the titles of
translation removes all difficulty. Kshatriyas only end in aditya, whilat Hiwan Thang informa us that Harsha wasa Vaisy-Vasav. pp. 53, 54.
10 In Chinese, T'sing-lin ' pure rooms' PunyasAlde. Bat in Renaud's Mémoire sur l'Inde the first sentence of 11 We may bere understand the seat of the president this extract is translated this "The actual king is of the charged to expound the Late (or teaching), and the seats Vaisya caste; the late) king bore the honorific title of of the clergy who should saint or take part in the exposition Harsha-Vardhana (the increaser of joy); he reigned over of the texta. In Chinese these are i-yen, 'the mats of that country." As Hiwan Thaang wrote after his return to sense' (vulgo justice).
