104 Trrrc tntuajt antiquaby. [Aran* 187*. brought am offering to tin? goddess, and her husband bid gone out ai daybreak to pluck flowers, an attendant of hers concealed henwh? hy way ol • behind the pedestal i garden. She was chewing i*&» at the time, and when the cowherd aw usual carau to pray - « 3 1 ■ - handed him u piece of thn herd she was chewing, which ho took and swell lowed!, b ing that the goddess herself had really It. There (Hid Hum bo attained un unlimited iitfcllentual power, and became an eminent authority in logic, in trmmmar, and in pastry, be happened to huM in ibe right hand ■ day- lotus (padma) und in the left a night -lotus (nlftala), Vfiamnti asked him whii'h he pre- ferred, the baantiful day-Iota* with Eta ihick stalk, or tho little night-lulus with it* deJicat© stalk ; ho replied: ' In my right Land the day- , iik ray left the night-lotus ; whatfai COftZM or delicate stalk, take whiuh tlnm uilt, O lotiw-ryed!' As the • ? that he hail gained intelligence, ihu l»M him lienor forward in high honour, and a* ho luul shown ao much reverence to thn goddess K fi 1 i ho obtained the name of K a 1 i d a s a, or the slave Of 1 lu k dnrlr goddess. After this ho became th© crown -jewel of all poets, and composed the i Messengers, thn Glouditessetigev (Jf< and the others, the Knout, ■ :uul the other poetical ^fistras. Both he and S a p t n - r a r ni n n belonged t»> the sect of tliu Hetero- dox [i.e. non-Buddhist*]." tV. — AuthnrU'*. ('■'■ Irtsion.) " if tiiiy one auk un what acn her' wotrk iis r let liiia know that although many faujmnnturr histories nf tin* origin of tin- < lhid- dhtst) religion, and stories, have been composed ■i, 1 have no* met with any complete and conseeutiv I have therefore, with the exception of a few passages, the ca*cdil' ; Jity uf which proves their troth, r. . ' king from Tibetan sources. As, however, I hat* seen and heard the eommpnts of Q uru-P ami i - las on a work in two thousand dotal composed hy K drubliadru, aPandita of HagudUa, which narrates! he history an fur an king R a m a p il 1 a, 1 have taken this as my founda- tion, and have eompleft I i bo history by means workjf, namely the liutltlluquitlint com- posed by Paodita 1 n d r a 4 a 1 1 a of a KaluLnya, family, in which nil Hie events np to the four Sena kings am fully recorded in 1200 iloktu, and the fcnotenl Ettstor* of the Soocesaii r (iloblryfla) composed hy the Brahman Pandtta flhataghat i. In chronology too I have followed iheHo three works, which agree except in tvniu minor particulars. Their rtnrre have, as is obvious, a special reference to tho rise of religion in the kingdoms of A pa rii n - taka [India proper 1, hnt I have not been ttbloti i h/ftn% [SwatJ/rubhara, Koki [tlw lndo-Chin«pnim. mi la], and un the dlfloroni hdanns, nx I hove never ■ean f «&r boo Its on the A GB P KING DUHIVASKN-A I OF VALABHf.
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The gnwil. of D h r n v a« en a I, a tran.ti'ript and translation of which aru given below, waft fowid a f*>w weeks ngo by the Kotw at W a 1 1 n ujue into m I r with niiothor iaVuna isiand by Dhnrasena 11, Like nil do* onmuntfl of the Yalabhi kingvi, it ii written <in the inner aides of two copper plates, which a^o joined by copper rnifrs. 3Sw pUdbe* in -j 1 1. • -tii>n vhrn I received them, only one rin^ lea; the eeeond, which pnihahly bore the seal, had been I The sixu of the pistes is 1 1 indie* by eight. Their proftenra,tion is tolembly good, Thn left-hand npper corner of the first plate htt, lniv.i-vrr beM Hniawhod— probably by an unlucky blow of the Hindu rV» piukaxe. A piece four inches in length and oiu incti in breadth has boon broken up into fonr frag- men (a, Fortnnntely thc«e havo Ijeon pn-^. The Heoond plate is slightly damaged at lower end, — it would seem, by Lhosamnn£< whioh injured I plate. This more serious than I because it prevent* irtmt from making not several words. When I received the platea, they were covered in aomo parts wi tl n „d for thn greater purl uiil, n ihick layer of brill n HgruL At Oai edges tlie copper is dishifajgratod tanged imuiersien in lime j nice mmoved the dill and vcrdigrwfto far that the tfettnn exceptions, ,are plainly rraDgniiuible, Ihepubliahnd 7a lab h I >iaV««»maice it possible to determine thn mine of the characters which hava natnaiuod
