The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.128

v2.c16.128

The third line opens with a long compound term of which the elements are—*kaliṅga*, ‘the country so-called,’ *rājavaṁsa*, ‘royal dynasty,’ *puri*, ‘city’, and *sanyugo*, ‘in the battle’. Qualified by the last word of the second line which is in the same case with it the term would mean, ‘in the third battle in the capital of the Kaliṅga royal dynasty’. This compound term is followed by another nearly as long, but of unmistakable import.—*mahārājābhisechanam*, ‘royal anointment’. *māhārāja*, ‘royal’, and *abhisechanam*, ‘anointment’, or ‘sanctification with holy water’. The term is in the objective case, and is followed by the active verb *pāpunāti*, Sanskrit *prāpnoti*, ‘he obtains’, which governs it. The pronoun *sa* is the nominative, and it can have only Aira of the first line for its antecedent. The meaning of the whole sentence according to this interpretation will stand thus : “Having devoted fifteen years to juvenile pastimes, and nine years to the acquisition of writing, painting, arithmetic, civil polity, and laws, he (Aira) wishing to be a king, with a giant’s vigour and an endless army, becoming victorious in the third battle in the capital of the royal dynasty of Kaliṅga, receives royal unction.”