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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.

Kalyāna, beloved of the world, and pos sessed of prosperity, is living in virtuous hap piness in Mánya Kheta, where his army is stationed, which is full of beautiful palaces, where the banks are adorned by assemblages of millions of the wives of warriors, and is always

[July 5, 1872.

been caused to be constructed (established), rich, spacious and beautiful, as by ** the crea tor who by his own will has established this

three-fold universe. And this college full of intelligencef is resplendent with Brahmans. Here there are scholars born in various dis

protecting his subjects: when that compas sionate king is giving unnumbered articles to

tricts. For these subsistence is [hereby] pro vided, the details of which as to place and

Brahmans and others, whose lotus-like feet

time shall now be described in order that the

fame of it may be spread. The lord of this village of Pavittage, born in the clan of Kasyapa, the chief of the Vājasaneyas, the flower of the followers of the Kānva Branch, son of Go v in d a b h a t t a, excellent in his conduct as a Brahman, pure and possessing the sacred fire, Chakrāyudh a Budha by name: possessed of forbearance, chief among those who can speak, learned in theology, learned in sacred law, possessed of wisdom, glorious, born to be in the beautiful village which is well known by obeyed, agreeable in his talk, following the the name of Pāvittage. Living in the village dictates of the sacred law, and full of splendour known as Kanchana Muduvol in the prosperous like Pärasara himself-in the currency of the country of Māhisha, belonging to the clan of year mentioned above, and in the good month Kaundinya and the Sākhā (recension or branch of Bhādrapada, on the day: sacred to the of the Vedas) of the Vājasaneyins, and studying Manes, corresponding with Tuesday, at the time the branch of Kanva, is the son of Dāmapūrya,i of a solar eclipse, the sun being in the middle (i.e., rich and liberal, who, full of valour is known on the meridian at noon) on the great river by the name of Ná rà y a na, like another Godavari Ś. . . . . . . . . million Nārāyamaš himself; who, full of learning, is. . . . . sacred places. . . . . which known by the cognomen of Gajānkusa, who is (or who). . . . . by name Pra. . . . . . . the minister of Krish n a rāja, and being village. . . . . ., that resplendent his counsellor is [also] entrusted with the affairs one (Chakrāyudha) of great virtue, accom of War and Peace. [Now] he who was panied by two hundred Brahmans, having stood his (Nārāyana's) assistant, beloved like his and bathed in the great sacred spot, and having right hand, and powerful, employed by him || performed his religious duties, gave land rent in negotiating war and peace, thoroughly free to the scholars of the college, in this versed in the sciences concerning government, village known as Pāvittage, the mine of virtues, dear to the poets, agreeable in his conversation, —rent-free land measured by five hundred and who believing in religion appears like nivartanas.| And the excellent son of Go embodied Dharma" : By him this college has wind a Budh a piously gave twenty-seven rent

receive the kisses of the crown-jewels of many kings, when he is shining in glory resplendent, and possessed of eyes like the lotus—the king who has rendered his own (i.e., brought under his sway) the circle (mandala) of his enemies by means of the exceeding splendour of the power of his arms (lit. hands), and who has achieved" victory over the quarters of the world Krish na rāja [to wit] reigning : Here in the district called Karnapuri,f the best of [all] districts,

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pelled the kings of the earth to pay him tribute, an epi
 * Krita digrijnye. This means that the king had com

confused apparently through a mistake of the engraver.

thet not applied to an ordinary prince, but to an emperor

(ratrayā), which appears to be a mistake for dhatreva srech

like Raghu, one of the heroes of Kãlidasa's poem Raghu

chhaya srishti sthapata bhuranatraya. + Sala manovativºshā brahmay uktá virájate. It is pos

Waln: a.

+ 1 ha karnapurí náma wishaye. Karnapuri would appear literally to be the name of a town, but here it is evidently

reads : dhatreyam srechchhaya spishti sthāpitidisutrayå.

sible that manorati is here used in the sense of Sarasrati, the wife of Brahmadeva.

The sense would then be ‘ I his

applied to a district. This use of the word is not rare in

college shines like Manorati united with Brahmi." The

southern inscriptions and copperplate grants.

plied to the college, the former would mean ‘full of intelli ence, and the latter united with Brahmins, i.e., having

1 10amapārqa-suta. The name Damapārya would ap peir to be a sanskritized form of the Canarese name Da mappā or Dámappayyā, very common in the Karnātaka. Vishnu.

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original is niyuktas tena tena tejasri. The repe tition of the instrumental tena is a slip cf the engraver's

wards Manoratí and Brahma have a double sense ; as ap

rahmins for its students. The translation given above is

on the supposition that the reading may be manorati chaishâ. i Pºtriparrani, i.e., the amarasya, or day of new moon. § Here a chip is broken off from the middle of the stone, and some middle letters of three lines, viz., four syllables

hand.

god Yama who presides over justice.
 * This may be taken to signify either Religion, or the
 * The original though perfectly legible and clear is here

of two lines each and three of one, are destroyed.

two hundred square cubits.
 * A nºrartana is a square measure of land, equivalent to