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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[OCTOBER, 1878.
this lake,) into which stones, trees, bushes, and tangled creepers had been thrown, was opened down to the bottom of the river. As all its water escaped through the rent (in the embankment) one hundred and twenty ells long, as many (ells) broad, and seventy-five ells deep, it resembled a desert and became exceedingly unsightly... ............. for the sake of ... the Vaisy a Pushya gupta, the brother-in-law of the Maurya king Chandragupta, had caused to be constructed. It had been adorned with conduits that Yavanaraja Tush & spa (the servant) of the Maurya (king) A sok a. With the conduit made by him, the construction of which was worthy of a king, and which was visible in that rent, an extensive embank. ment......
He whom men freely elected their lord for their protection on account of this quality, that from his birth he bore the indelible and greatest (marks of) Royal Fortune; he who took, and kept to the end of his life, the vow to stop kill. ing men except in battle; he who showed a compassionate disposition ....... to slay foes (of) equal (strength) that came to meet him, to surpass.... he who afforded special protection, on account of their submission, to people that came to him of their own free will; he (who is) the lord of eastern and western Akarâ vati, of Anûpadeśa, Anarta, Surâshtra, vabhra, Maru, Kachha, Sindhu, "Sa u vira, Kukura, Aparanta, Nish & da, and other territories, in which the people of new towns (even) and bâzârs are not attacked by thieves, snakes, (wild) beasts, diseases, and the like, which he has gained by his own valour, in which all people are loyal, (in which,) in consequence of his power .... ....... (are found all) objects of enjoy ment; be who annihilated the Yand heyas who had become arrogant and disobedient in consequence of their receiving from all Kshatriyas the title 'the heroes'; he who has obtained glory because he did not destroy Så ta karồi, the lord of the Dekhan, on account of his near relationship, though he twice really conquered him; he who has gained victorious .........; he who has restored
to their thrones deposed kings; he who by raising his hand not in vain (i.e. by giving religious gifts) has earned the affection of Dharma; he who has gained great fame by studying to the end, by remembering, understanding, and applying the great sciences such as grammar, polity, music, logic; (he who)........ the management of horses, elephants, and chariots, fighting with the sword and the shield, &c.; he who easily and fully conquers hostile armies; he whose nature it is to give daily presents to, to confer honours on, and not to slight (his servants); he who possesses large views; he whose treasury overflows with gold, silver, diamonds, lapislazuli, and quantities of (other) precious objects, which he has obtained in a righteous manner as presente, dues, and royal) sbares; (he whose) prose and metrical compositions are clear, (distinguished by) brevity, sweet, admirable, lovely, remarkable for grammatical correctness and embellished by (rhetorical) omaments... ......; he whose beautiful frame is endowed with the most excellent marks and signs, such as proper size (in height and breadth), (proper) weight, (due) proportion (in the limbs), (a pleasing) voice, (majestio) gait, (a beautiful) complexion, strength and prowess; he who himself has earned the title Mahakshatrapa; he who has obtained numerous garlands at the svayashvaras of kings' daughters ;-he, the Mahakshatrapa Rudradáman, for the sake of a thousand years, for the sake of .. ..... cows and Brahmans, and for the increase of his merit and fame, has rebuilt the embankment three times stronger in breadth and length, in a not very long time, expending a great amount of money from his own treasury, with out oppressing the people of the town and of the province by (exacting) taxes, forced labour, acts of affection, and the like,--the whole town ........ (and) has made the lake more beautiful (or more worthy of the name Sudarśana) (than before). When in this affair the Mahakshatrapa's advisers and engineers, though possessed of the qualifications of ministers, lost heart on account of the enormous size of the gap and gave up the undertaking, and when the people, despairing of seeing the em
11 The reading Sindhu has been suggested to me by Dr. Bühler.-Bh. .
I propose to use the sword and the shield, the science of pagiliam, &c.-G. B.
Probably a kind of tax like the modern prítidan ?
18 Insert 'under the superintendence of. I regret that I cannot agree with Bhagvanlal-Bh40 Diji's conjecture tena or tat("that'). I beliove there is some greater oorrap. tion in the original.-G. B.
