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શિલાલેખ અને અનુવાદે. English Translation
( Lines 1-2 ) Be it accomplished. This lake Sudarsana, from Girinagara ( even a long listance ? )..................of a structure so well joined as to rival the spur of a mountain, because all its embankments are strong, in breadth, length and height, constructed without gaps, as they are of stone, ( clay )........ ............furnished with a natural dam, (formed by ? )..............., and with well-provided conduits, drains and weirs (? )........ ........... three sections............... by...............and other favours is ( nour) in an excellent condition,
(LI. 3-6) This same ( lake )-on the first of the dark half of Margasirsha in the seventy-second-72nd-year of the king, the Mahākshatrupa Rudradāman, whose name is repeated by the venerable, the son of.............( and ) son's son of the king, the Mahakshatrapa Lord Chashtana the taking of whose name is auspicious........... when by the clouds pouring with rain, the earth had been converted as it were into one ocean, by the excessively swollen floods of the Suvarnasikata, Pulsini and other streams of mount Urjayat the dam......, though proper precautions ( were taken ), the water churned by a storm which, of a most tremendous fury befitting the end of a mundane period, tore down hill-tops, trees, banks, turrets, upper stories, gates and raised places of shelter-scattered, broke to pieces, (tore apart )....... with stones, trees, bushes and creeping plants scattered about, was thus laid open down to the bottom of the river.
(L. 7. ) By a breach four hundred and twenty cubits long, just as many broad, ( and ) seventy-five cubits deep, all the water escaped, so that (the lake ), almost like a sandy desert, ( became ) extremely ugly (to look at ).
(L. 8. ).........for the sake of.........ordered to be made by the Vaisya Pushyagupta, the Provincial Governor of the Maurya King Chandragupta ; adorned with conduits for Asoka the Maurya by the Yavana king Tushaspha while governing; and by the conduit ordered to be made by him, constructed in a manner worthy of a king ( and ) seen in that breach, the extensive dam...........
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